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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: brochlass on Thursday 27 August 09 13:44 BST (UK)
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Hi, there is a residence name I'm having trouble making out on a birth cert. I know its the parish of Longside if that helps. I can make out "The Lodge" and thats it!
Here is an image:
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last word could be 'Whitehouse' ......
can you post a bit more so that letter comparisons can be made ?
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Hi
THE LODGE WHITEHOUSE for sure
vicky
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Thanks for your qucky reply! :)
Here's a bit more:
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Thanks for your reply Vicky.
Any ideas as to where this might have been within that Parish? According to the birth cert, place of birth was Hill of Mintlaw, Longside. However, the mothers address is given as The Lodge Whitehouse...
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If you google it , most are in Scotland...but if you already know the city then you could look up the district. Could also be in England. Not really sure.
The Gazetteer of Scotland - Google Books Result by John E Wilson - 1996 - History - 475 pages
LONGSIDE, village and parish in Buchan district, Aberdeenshire. ... The parish contains also Mintlaw village, measures about 6 miles by 5, and comprises ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=uQ5KAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA557&ots=AetYmzJ34Y&dq=need%20the%20parish%20in%20Hill%20of%20Mintlaw%2C%20Longside&pg=PA557#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Hill of Mintlaw. 1918 - Fraserburgh Parish
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Hi brochlass
I think the first word might be 'Domicile' ie living at. This probably puts it in Scotland as it is a form of wording more usually found north of the border.
As an aside - when I went to Edinburgh University in the dark ages (well about 1964) from Surrey, my home address was described as 'outwith' Edinburgh. I had to learn a whole new language :D
Linda
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Hi all,
I read the first word as domicile too - domicile means main residence or place you return to. So my theory is:
The mother was a Domestic at Hill of Mintlaw (probably Hillhead of Mintlaw which is just north of Mintlaw on the A952 - I checked the ordnance survey map) which appears to have a single building there - possibly a farm?? The child was born there but the mothers domicile (ie. her main residence) was The Lodge, Whitehouse) - it doesnt say that the Lodge is in the same parish/district as Mintlaw.
There are two places called Whitehouse in Scotland (according to multimap) one is in Argyle which is an awful long way away but the other is closer to Aberdeen and about 40 miles from Mintlaw - so not out of the question to be working that far from home if living in as a domestic........... I suppose thequestionj then would be why was the child born in Mintlaw and not at the mothers home (domicile)
Anyway thats my theory but feel free to shoot me down in flames ::) ::) ;)
DB10
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Thanks for your help.
I think I agree with your theory DB10, as the mother somehow ended up working in Aberdeen as a domestic servant later on. However, the mothers main residence would have been in Strichen at some point prior to that as that is where her parents ultimately settled down as they were fed up with moving around from farm to farm (they were farm servants).
I'll look for Hill of MIntlaw next time I'm on that road.
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I suppose thequestionj then would be why was the child born in Mintlaw and not at the mothers home (domicile)
Anyway thats my theory but feel free to shoot me down in flames
Sounds as good a theory as any. As for the baby being born there, babies have a habit of being born anywhere they d*** well please :D :D
Linda
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Google maps show Whitehouse near Alford.
Mary may have gone, or been sent, away from home to have her baby where she wasn't known.
I think the fact that her Domicile (usual residence/ home address) was stated suggests that she did not usually live at Hill of Mintlaw, as she would have if she was a servant there.