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Title: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: tigger_lass on Monday 10 October 11 22:42 BST (UK)
Hi

Can anyone help decipher this placename from the 1851 census? I know its in Linlithgowshire but cant for the life of me make out the place.

Regards

Tracey

I cant seem to attach the file...will keep trying!
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 10 October 11 22:44 BST (UK)
Can we have the details please??
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: tigger_lass on Monday 10 October 11 22:56 BST (UK)
grrrrr still not working. I keep getting a message saying the upload folder is full....help?

Tracey
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 10 October 11 23:03 BST (UK)
You'll need to report it as Admin has to do something .

I'll PM you my e-mail and you could send it to me and I'll try to Imageshack it to get around the problem temporarily.

gnu
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: tigger_lass on Monday 10 October 11 23:11 BST (UK)
Thanks gnu....have emailed you :)

Tracey
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 10 October 11 23:13 BST (UK)
Here's the image  :)

    (http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/8204/1851elizayoungdetail3.jpg)
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: tigger_lass on Monday 10 October 11 23:17 BST (UK)
Thank you!!!!

Freecen has the placename transcribed as Friforne.....

Tracey
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 10 October 11 23:29 BST (UK)
It's a tricky one, Tracey  :-\

I'm now looking at maps but can't see anything at the moment. Can you send me the page so that I can have a look at more of the writing, please.

Have you got the family on other censuses?

gnu
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: Pels. on Monday 10 October 11 23:47 BST (UK)




A long shot - but could it be a mispronunciation of Torphichen :

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/WLN/Torphichen/

I'm sure Gnu will keep me right !  ;D

Pels.
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 11 October 11 17:51 BST (UK)
Hi Tracey

From the full page, the best that  I can work out at the moment is that the first letter is an F (cf the F in Thomas Fee, previous household). So, all I can find in WL at the moment are ~

Falside (near Bathgate)
Fauldhouse
Foulshiels

There may be more when I return to perusing the maps!

It could be that the Lanarkshire enumerator couldn't understand the writing on the household schedule!

I've found a possible baptism for Elizabeth b.c. 1838 :
3 April 1837, Shotts, LKS.  Parents: Andrew Young and Elizabeth Black.

Would this be them?


gnu



OK, Pels, Get looking again  ;D
 
PS - it might be a long S, which looks like an f but can't find any on the page to compare.
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 11 October 11 17:56 BST (UK)
However, if it is Elizabeth Black, then Pels wins a prize:

Baptism - Torphichen 5 Nov 1797 (IGI)

Elizabeth Black. Parents - Peter Black and Mary Paul


 :D

gnu
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: mosschops2 on Tuesday 11 October 11 18:17 BST (UK)
I believe it looks like Linlithgow.
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: mosschops2 on Tuesday 11 October 11 18:19 BST (UK)
OOh silly me!
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: tigger_lass on Tuesday 11 October 11 19:23 BST (UK)
Thanks gnu!

Elizabeth's maiden name was Black. Her husband was James Young and she died 1854 in Omoa, Cleland.

Tracey
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 11 October 11 19:24 BST (UK)
That's the one then, Tracey.

They must have written it Forficane or some such - Pels gets the award, I think  :D

gnu
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: Pels. on Tuesday 11 October 11 19:27 BST (UK)
Quote from: gnu on Tuesday 11 October 11 17:56 BST (UK)
However, if it is Elizabeth Black, then Pels wins a prize:

Baptism - Torphichen 5 Nov 1797 (IGI)

Elizabeth Black. Parents - Peter Black and Mary Paul


 :D

gnu

Quote from: tigger_lass on Tuesday 11 October 11 19:23 BST (UK)
Thanks gnu!

Elizabeth's maiden name was Black. Her husband was James Young and she died 1854 in Omoa, Cleland.

Tracey

Quote from: gnu on Tuesday 11 October 11 19:24 BST (UK)
That's the one then, Tracey.

They must have written it Forficane or some such - Pels gets the award, I think  :D

gnu

Lost for words !  :-X :-X

Thankyou, thankyou, I thank you !  :D :D

Pels.
Title: Re: Help to decipher placename?
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 11 October 11 19:30 BST (UK)
I think she wants me to bring out this  ::)

(http://www.appleandgrape.org/images/design_elements/clapping_audience.gif)