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Title: where is this place
Post by: bozzle on Tuesday 17 July 07 12:05 BST (UK)

Can anyone tell me where Leven is? Somewhere in Scotland but where.?

Bozzle

Title: Re: where is this place
Post by: WHS1899 on Tuesday 17 July 07 12:11 BST (UK)

Hi Bozzle,
Leven is in Fife.....(I have some ancestors from Wester Gospetrie on the bank of Loch Leven)
Beverley

Title: Re: where is this place
Post by: bozzle on Tuesday 17 July 07 12:26 BST (UK)

Hi Beverley

Thanks for that I am looking for a Birth of Isabella Mitchell born about 1907 parents Charles Mitchell and Isabella Donaldson.
apparently she was born in Leven but I've had no luck in finding it will now keep looking in fife

Thanks Again
Bozzle

Title: Re: where is this place
Post by: JAP on Tuesday 17 July 07 14:59 BST (UK)

Bozzle,

A search engine such as Google will reward you if you simply search for:
Leven

There are many good map sites around where you yourself can search for places.
For example:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk
http://www.multimap.com
And for older maps:
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

Not to mention trying a search in Genuki (Genealogy of UK and Ireland) at:
http://www.genuki.org.uk

JAP

Title: Re: where is this place
Post by: ADP on Tuesday 17 July 07 17:12 BST (UK)

To help with the confusion, Leven, the town, is on the coast, quite a few miles from Loch Leven. In terms of genealogy searching, Leven is in Scoonie parish or registration district.

http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/os_scotland_2nd_ed_list.html

Click on Sheet 40 - Kinross.
Scoonie is the pink-coloured parish against the eastern edge of that map, a short distance above the centre line. Click on it a few times until the writing is legible and you will find Leven.

Loch Leven is across the map in Kinross parish (yellow coloured) on the centre line, most the way towards the west side of the map.

As the birth you are looking for is about 1907, you may not find it on the ScotlandsPeople website until next year (for 1907), or later for later years, when its 100 year closure has expired. In the meantime, it can be found in New Register House, Edinburgh, or Park Circus, Glasgow.

ADP

Title: Re: where is this place
Post by: JAP on Wednesday 18 July 07 07:26 BST (UK)

And, bozzle, let's hope that you are quite sure the place you want is in Scotland  ;)  If you enter the word Leven on the Streetmap site and search for a GB place, you will get many hits - including a town called Leven in Yorkshire  ::)

A Google for:
Genuki + Leven
will bring up hits relating to the town in Fife, the town in Yorkshire, to Loch Leven in Kinross-shire, etc ...

The relevant page for Leven in Fife is:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/FIF/parishes/Scoonie/index.htm

The diagrammatic map of the Fife parishes on that page might be a help in placing Scoonie for you in general terms before you look at the excellent detailed map site posted by ADP.

JAP