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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Inverness => Topic started by: farmer on Sunday 19 November 06 14:30 GMT (UK)
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Running into the same trouble with Inverness census parishes, MALL, MONI, etc., as I did with Tyrone Townlands. And - googling doesn't really help.
To me what I'm looking for is simple - Inverness Census which includes (and mentions) Spean Bridge.
Anyone help?
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Hi Farmer
Nor sure if this is what you want but here's a parish map of Invernessshire:
http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/parish-map-inverness.htm
Gadget
PS it would be in Kilmonivaig Parish
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Hi Gadget,
Thanks - great website. Kilmonivaig, thanks. As you probably know, the census reads like -
Moni Nevis Bridge, House No, then individuals data.
No indication of where or what Nevis Bridge is, or what No 1 is.
They're all the same. I have a house name in Spean Bridge, I can't pin it down. Generations of my family have lived there.
But thanks for your help Gadget, I have moved a bit forward.
Pete
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Hi Pete
Spean Bridge is not that big. I've passed through it many times and even stayed there once :)
The current road swings in a kind of dog leg over the river as far as I can recall. An hotel is just beyond the bend. This may well be Nevis Bridge. I'd try www.multimap.co.uk if I were you. Put in Spean Bridge and zoom in.
Gadget
PS - here we are:
http://tinyurl.com/yd5kwy
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Thanks Gadget,
I'm getting there now, thanks for the link.
Pete
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Hi again Pete
Nevis Bridge is not part of Spean Bridge. Today, Nevis Bridge seems to be in Fort William itself:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xb/
Gadget
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There is a Nevis Bridge on the 1881 census, recorded in Kilmallie parish in Argyllshire. The 1876 OS map of the Fort William area calls it Bridge of Nevis.
Nell
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Hi Pete
The parish map for Argyll can be found here:
http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/parish-map-argyll.htm
Kilmalie, Argyll is adjacent to Kilmonivaig, Inverness.
Spean Bridge is in Kilmonivaig but Nevis Bridge is in Kilmalie.
I'm now assuming that you have two separate families :-\
Gadget
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Hi folks
I think I misled you there, I was giving an example of the census when I mentioned Nevis Bridge.
I've done as you suggested Gadget, got a good idea of the area now, Roybridge, Inveroy, Blarour.
I'm about ready to go into Scotland's People now, although a few visits to the registrar's office couldn't turn up my mother's birth details, I'm not too sure I can.
So thanks Gadget and Little Nell for your help
cheers
Pete
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I too am having a problem with trying to determine which parish a certain village/area is in.
I can see that Culcabock is in modern day Inverness but i am trying to determine which of the Inverness parishes it belongs too as Inverness itself appears to be subdivided particularly around 1859.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Hi xrchris
Some sources, Am Baile, Groome Gazetteer, give Inverness (and Bona) as the parish.
With my own searches re Kilmonivaig, I was lucky in that I started with the sub-parishes, or registration districts (whatever the nomenclature is) from Rootsweb Free Pages . I've searched for a list of sub districts for Inverness , and came up with zilch.
Plenty of mentions of Culcabock or Fluke Fields as it may also have been called, heck, the area even gets a mention in MacBeth.
Perhaps one of the more experienced researchers on Rootschat can come up with a list?
I'm finding it strange that there is not a searchable list for the UK census, by counties and shires, then parishes, then sub districts (with old and new names).
A basic tool?
Maybe there is, and I've not found it?
I had the same problem with Irish Townlands, and I dread the day I will have to look for American counties.
Pete
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...I can see that Culcabock is in modern day Inverness but i am trying to determine which of the Inverness parishes it belongs too as Inverness itself appears to be subdivided particularly around 1859.
Culcabock seems to have been in Inverness Parish in the 1850s, but was close to a detached part of Croy and Dalcross Parish. So depending what extent was described as Culcabock, then you have two parishes to consider. You need to compare a modern map such as www.streetmap.co.uk to the 1850s map below.
http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/os_scotland_county_series_index.html
There may have been Quoad Sacra parishes within Inverness Parish, but for OPRs and the like, normally it was the mother parish that was used.
For statutory registration birth, marriage and death certificates, Inverness Registration District was only divided for 1855 and 1856. For these two years, there were Inverness Burgh and Inverness Landward.
ADP