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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: PrueM on Thursday 03 March 11 04:38 GMT (UK)
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Hello all,
I wonder if you can help me to determine what this word is, please.
The entry in question is the second one on this clipping, for FORBES. Charles (the father) is a Saw Miller in the 1841 census. This baptism entry is for March 1841 and his occupation looks like GIRNAE or GIRNAC. Is this some local term for Sawmiller?
The baptism was in Crathie and Braemar parish, Aberdeenshire.
Thanks for looking :D
Cheers
Prue
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Only thing I can find that's even close it this - and I bet you've found it too!
Girnalman - Man in charge of meal store or granary
Couldn't be short for that could it :-\ - unlikely I suppose
Wiggy :)
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Hi Wiggy :)
Thanks, yes I did find that one. I'm not sure because it's so different from his census occupation but I suppose anything's possible.
Cheers
Prue :)
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This may be a stupid comment - is it definitely his occupation? Could it possibly be a middle name, as i notice there is no "comma" between "Charles" and the ?? Girmac... or whatever it is? Just a thought, most likely I am totally wrong.
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This may be a stupid comment - is it definitely his occupation? Could it possibly be a middle name, as i notice there is no "comma" between "Charles" and the ?? Girmac... or whatever it is? Just a thought, most likely I am totally wrong.
The one above doesn't have a comma either. Going by the entry above and below it is definately an occupation of some kind....but what? Doesn't make sense.
Jon
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Hi
Girnac is a placename in Glenmuick, Aberdeenshire, also the name of a river there (at least it was so in 1845 - see http://www.electricscotland.com/history/statistical/glenmuick.htm)
Diana
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I think it's a place name,as the other two have their name,job AND where they come from.
I suspect they didn't know what Charles Forbes did,so just put down where he lived.
Carol
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Yes, you are right, i realised after typing my comment, that the other one didnt have a comma...
I just Googled "Girnac" and found a link to the following
http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-549-455-C&scache=3gzv01yztl&searchdb=scran&PHPSESSID=qbo62s8tv85i9m1rvj6mmeuas7
- Hmmmm... not sure if that is "linkable"... anyway, it is one of those sites where it wants you to buy the info / booklet / document?... but it relates somehow to the following ...
Title: Scottish Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge
Scran ID: 000-000-549-455-C
Resource Rights Holder: National Archives of Scotland
and then gives a link to -
•National Archives of Scotland [website]
Sorry, don't mean to bombard you with "red herrings" - but sometimes the strangest bit of info is a help.
Cheers - good luck.
Ooops just saw the other two posts - so you could be right about it being a place name.
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There's a Girnock Burn running into the River Dee at Ballhalloch, according to
http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst2682.html
and if you enter "Ballhalloch" in Google Earth, it takes you to "Ballhalloch Cottage, Girnoc, Ballater, AB35 5SR, UK". Just down the road is a place called Littlemill. Was Charles's sawmill water-powered?
Adrian
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Oh, I can't believe it :-[ :-[ :-[ Why didn't I realise it was a place name?! What a silly so-and-so I am! ;D
Thanks everyone for all your input and ideas. I really appreciate it.
Adrian, I don't know much about Charles or his occupation - he was my g-g-g-grandmother's first husband, before she married my g-g-g-grandfather, so I haven't concentrated on him much until now. I'll see what I can find out about him now, though.
Thanks all, again, for your help! :D
Prue
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What a silly so-and-so I am! ;D
Prue
You said it ;D ;D ;D
Carol :-*
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The Girnoc(k) burn fed several mills. I lived at Littlemill for some years, and was told by an old lady whose family came from further up the glen, that it was once a barley mill. Upstream was Mill of Cosh which another former meal mill, and downstream, between Littlemill and the Dee, was a modern sawmill and also the remains of the old water-driven one.
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THat's interesting, Isabel, thank you - perhaps he worked at the downstream sawmill? I might never know, but it's a possibility.
Cheers
Prue