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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Wigtownshire => Topic started by: clarkcw on Friday 24 February 06 08:53 GMT (UK)
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I have lots of information about my ancestors who lived in Whithorn (and may still), lots of street names and farm names.
Is there a county map or parish map of farms, streets etc that I could look at to place my ancestors exactly for the period 1841 - 1901?
Thanks
Charles
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Hiya Charles,
A very warm welcome to Rootschat to you ;D
I have 2 different sites that I use for looking up locations.
Firstly I use multimap.
http://www.multimap.com/
Even though this is the modern day map many places have the same name or are near features that have a similar name therefore leading you to find locations on the older unindexed maps.
The best scale to use is the 1:25000 view as this is the Landranger series of ordnance survey maps - you can view farm names at this scale.
Old ordnance maps can be found here...
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
The 1850 Whithorn map is available. If you are on broadband it's a lot easier to scoot around the zoomed map - I'm dial up - it is possible but sooooooo sllllooooowww ;D
I use these maps in conjunction with the census (1851 is online free)
http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/historicalindexes/census.aspx
That way you can keep a note of the neighbours house names looking for 3 or 4 places is easier than 1.
Hope this helps,
Pam
;D
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I should of added there are parish boundarymaps at these pages here...
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/maphelp.html
They won't be at the farm scale but may help locate areas to look in detail.
All the best,
Pam
;D
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Thanks Boongie Pam,
These are a great help. I have already spotted several farms where ancestors were born or worked.
Charles