VKf VV^^WWV^.W%WVW^%V»VV%VVV»WWNWV>VWW^%AAAAA.WA.>AA.W< &0 REFERENCE DEPARTMENT. iSn- ISl£SS:m Class "OLD DUNDEE" COLLECTION. This Coli.kction, brought together by the late Mr A. C. LAMB, F.S.A. Scot, (died 1897), who devoted many years to the collecting of MSS., BOOKS, and PICTURES illustrating the history of Dundee, was acquired in 1901 by EDWARD COX, Esq., M.A., of Cardean, and presented to the Free Library. \ coo 572 891X LOCAL HISTORY coo 57a 8=i\x THE DUNDEE POST OFFICE DIEECTORY FOR Si ^ 1845 DUNDEE: PRINTED AT THE ADVERTISER OFFICE. Digitized by the Internet Arciiive in 2010 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/dundeepostoffice184445pri NOTE. In presenting the " Dundee Post Office Directory" to their Subscribers and the Public, the Publishers have to apologize for the length of time that has passed between the announcement and the appearance of that Work; but a number of unforeseen circumstances, inseparable from the preparation of a new Work, coupled with an anxious desire to be as correct as possible, in connexion with deference to the opinion of many friends as to the time of publication, will, it is hoped, be accepted as an excuse for the delay. That the " Directory" will contain mistakes is readily admitted ; but these will be carefully remedied, and all unneces- sary delay avoided, if the Public shall be so indulgent as to call for another Publication next year, which, in so large a community as Dundee contains, and from the termly shifting of residences and places of business, would seem to be annually necessary. Post Office, Dundee, March 1845. ,^,/^ t/^ CONTENTS. Dundee Post Office Dikectoky Dundee and Union Whale-Fishing Company, Fairy, do. Dundee Banking Company. Union do. Eastern Bank of Scotland Bank of Scotland ..... British Linen Company .... National Bank of Scotland .... Security Savings Bank Forfarshire and Perthshire Insurance Company Scottish (Widows' Fund) Life Assurance Company Scottish Equitable ..... Dundee Sea Insurance Company Dundee Marine do. do. Tay Marine do. do. Union Association of Underwriters Libraries and Reading Rooms Newspapers ...... Forfarshire Chamber of Commerce Joint Stock Building Company Incorporation of Writers Religious Tract Society. Monthly Visitor Society City Mission Association Floral and Horticultural Society Cras Light Company .... New Gras Light Company. Water Company Tay Ferries ..... Dundee and Arbroath Railway Company . Newtyle do. do. Public Seminaries ..... Watt Institution .... Dundee Cemetery Company Foreign Consuls at Dundee Masters Extraordinary in Chancery Commissioners of Supreme Courts in England Ancient Hospital ..... Royal Infirmary ..... .„,„„ Lunatic Asylum .... Orphan Institution Female Society. Indigent Sick Society Clothing Society. Highland Society Kirk Treasurer ..... Webster's Mortification. Bailie Roger's Mortification Henderson's do, Clark's do. Graham's do. Hughe's do. G-uthrie's do. Brown's do. Ramsay's do. Ferguson's do. Mrs Bailie Roger's do. Bruee's do. Constable's do. Anderson's do. ..... Provost Brown's do. Hallyburton's do. Guild's do. I;avvson's do. Paton's do. Stephen's do. > . Whyte's do. Gibson's do. Marshall's do. Mrs M. Petrie's do. Webster's do. Panmure donation Coaches ...... Page Carriers . • • 219 Post Office ...... 222 Delivery of Letters .... 222 Mails. Postage Stamps . 223 Scale of Inland Rates .... 224 Registration of Letters—Money Orders 225 Post Towns and Sub Offices in Scotland 225 English Post Towns . ... 232 Post Towns and principal places in Ireland 238 Mails for British Colonies and Foreign Countries 241 Government Packets from London and Dover 241 By the French Boats from Marseilles 242 By the Closed Mail through France 242 From Falmouth, Liverpool, and Southampton 242 Alphabetical List of Foreign Countries, despatch from Dundee, Postage, and Routes of Mails 243 Letters to and through France 253 Paid and Registered Letters—^Newspapers 254 Periodicals and Parliamentary proceedings 255 Leghorn, Civita Vecchia, Naples, Malta, Syra, Athens^ Smyrna, Constantinople, and Alexandria 255 Letters to and through Belgium . 256 Instructions to Postmasters 261 Appendix ..... 263 Advertisements ..... -267 ERRATUM. " On page 243, and in lines 16 and 38 from the top, for " Glasgow read " Dundee." THE ^' DUNDEE POST OFFICE DIRECTORY FOR 1844-5. Abbot, Thomas, town officer, Town House; house, 2 Vault Aberdeen Marine Insurance Company, Samuel Brodie agent, 3 King Street Aberdein, James, becklemalier, 14 West Harbour Aberdein, John, 36 High Street ; h. 5 Church Lane Aberdein, Mrs James, North Lindsay Street Addison, Mrs S., 6 Perth Road Adam, Andrew, feuar, Hospital Park Adam, David, teacher, Scott's Close, Nethergate ; h. 26 Hawk- hill Adam, John, bookseller and stationer, 60 Murraygate ; h. 62 do. Adam, John, boot and shoe maker, 122 Nethergate Adam, John (of Halket and Adam) ; h. Thomson Street, Perth Road Adam, Thomas, spirit-dealer, 7 Brown Street. Adam, William, agent, 30 George's Place ; h. Hospital Park Adam, William, 5 Nethergate; ^.13 Mid Street, Chapelshade Adam, Mrs Isabella, grocer, 225 HiUtown Adam, Mrs, 30 Nethergate Adams, A., bookseller, 11 Lindsay Street. Adams, Alexander H., teacher, 2 South Tay Street ; h. Hawk- hill Adams, Alexander, spirit-dealer, 2 West Port Adams, Andrew, tidewaiter. Customhouse; h. 14Lowden's Alley, HawkhiU Adams, George and Elizabeth, china and stoneware merchants, 54 Overgate ; h, 22 do. Adams, William, teacher, 12 Peter Street ; h. HawkhiU Adams, Mrs, 52 St Andrew's Street Adamson, John (of Leadbetter, Adamson, and Co., Cowgate Port) ; h. St Andrew's Place Adamson, Rev. John L., of St David's, 6 Milnbank Road A Adamson, Robert, merchant, Constitution Road Adamson, Robert, shipmaster, 43 Exchange Street Adie, Rev. Charles, D.D., 46 Bucklemaker Wynd, Forebank Advertiser Printing and Publishing Offices, 3 Overgate Agency Office, 49 Reform Street Agnew, John, broker, 199 Overgate Aikin, George, spirit -dealer, 175 Overgate Aikman, Mrs, 30 Nethergate Aimer, David, smith, 9 Hilltown ; h. 19 Bucklemaker Wynd Aimer, James, fishing-tackle maker, 4 Dallfield Walk Ainslie, James, grocer and spirit- dealer, 12 Union Street, Max- welltown Ainslie, J. G., clerk, 13 Nelson Street, Forebank Air, Alexander, tailor, 31 Murraygate Aird's Shoe Warehouse, 7 Union Street Airth, James, shoemaker, 62 Nethergate Airth, Misses J. and E., staymakers, 62 do. Aitken, Rev. Robert, of Willison Church ; h. Strawberry Bank, Perth Road Aitken, William, surgeon, 19 Nethergate ; h. 67 Murraygate Aitken, William, smith, Speed's Close, 19 Overgate Alcock, Mrs R. H., 22 Barrack Street AUardice, Archibald, Seacraig Cottage, Newport, Fife Alexander, Alexander, grocer and spirit-dealer, 42 Scouringburn Alexander, Charles, tailor, 43 Overgate Alexander, David, do., 61 West Port Alexander, Donald, portrait painter, 66 Murraygate Alexander, George, agent, 6 Shore Terrace ; h. 218 Perth Road Alexander, George, grocer and spirit- dealer, 87 Hilltown ; h.^Q do. Alexander, James, bookseller and stationer, 17 Overgate; h. Guillan's Close, do. Alexander, James, shoemaker, 2 Blinshall Street Alexander, John Walker (of Baxter and Alexander, writers, 20 Castle Street) ; h. 43 Nethergate Alexander, Joseph, grocer, 83 Prince's Street Alexander, Joseph, tailor, 2 High Street Alexander, Mrs H., grocer and spirit-dealer, 47 Wellgate Alison, John, distributor of stamps, and collector of taxes, Stamp and Tax Office, 36 Castle Street ; h. Springfield, 170 Nether- Alison, Robert, 101 Nethergate Alison, Robert, junior, merchant, 36 Castle Street Allan, Alexander (of M'Donald and Allan, messengers-at-arms, 62 High Street) ; h. Gibb's Land, Small's Wynd Allan, Alexander, baker, 47 Murraygate ; h. 49 do. Allan, Alexander, writer, 16 South Tay Street Allan, James, hairdresser and wigmaker, li Crichton Street Allan, James, shoemaker, 43 Overgate Allan, John A., haker, 66 Nethergate Allan, John, vintner, top of Hilltown Allan, John, mason, 27 Prince's Street Allan, John, grocer, 42 Hilltown Allan, Thomas, hairdresser, 25 Narrow of Murraygate ; h. Camp- hell's Close, 65 High Street Allan, William, pianoforte seller, 6 Victoria Square, Nethergate Allan, William, Blue Bell Tavern, 9 Seagate Allan, William, grocer, 76 Dudhope Crescent Allan, Miss, 16 South Tay Street Allatt, Mrs, silk dyer, 38 Perth Road Ambrose, Andrew, spirit-dealer, 21 Nelson Street, Forehank Ancient Mason Lodge, 39 Murraygate Anderson, Alexander (of Patterson and Anderson, auctioneers, 2 High Street) ; h. Arthur Street, Forebank Anderson, Alexander, merchant, 23 St Andrew's Street Anderson, Alexander T., clerk (James Taylor and Co.) ; h. Morton's Square, 31 Wellgate Anderson, Ann, broker, Butcher Row Anderson, Andrew, tobacconist, 76 Overgate Anderson, Archibald, hairdresser, 85 Hilltown Anderson, A., grocer, 4 Blackness Road Anderson, Betsey, dressmaker, 66 King Street Anderson and Cathcart, merchants, 13 St Andrew's Street Anderson, David Dow, merchant, 23 do. Anderson, David, 57 Scouringburn Anderson, David, writer and notary-public, 1 South Union Street Anderson, David, clerk to George Milne, writer, 11 Reform Street ; h. Wighton's Land, Bucklemaker Wynd Anderson, David, cashier. Branch of Western BanJi of Scotland Office, 105 Murraygate Anderson, David, surgeon, 17 King Street Anderson, David, cabinetmaker, 154 Nethergate ; h. Morgan's Buildings, 125 do. Anderson, Ebenezer, wright, Anderson's Entry, Hawkhill Anderson, Francis, cabinetmaker, 2 Baltic Street Anderson, George, wright, Morton's Square, 31 Wellgate Anderson, Graham, tailor and