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Title: Granock scotland
Post by: Wilson Hunter on Thursday 31 December 15 02:15 GMT (UK)
Hi All,

I am trying to find the place where the ship my uncle landed in WWII  in Scotland but google is of little help it keeps giving me Greenock Scotland when I'm looking for Granock Scotland or at least that is as it is written in He's War Diary.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Wilson.
Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: Yonks Ago on Thursday 31 December 15 02:30 GMT (UK)
Hi there Wilson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenock_Blitz

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=greenock+scotland+ww2&espv=2&biw=1036&bih=611&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiFj7LPhoXKAhWnIKYKHVRiBNAQsAQIIA&dpr=1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_war2/scotlands_blitz/

cheers
Yonks
Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: Rosinish on Thursday 31 December 15 03:41 GMT (UK)
I agree with YA,

Transcription error depending on your uncle's accent & how it sounded was how he wrote it  ;)

Annie
Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: dandalady on Thursday 31 December 15 09:31 GMT (UK)
my stepfather is from Greenock but always pronounces it as grenock. Pronunciation is a key to how it may have been written in the past
Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: Forfarian on Thursday 31 December 15 13:42 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Rosinish on Thursday 31 December 15 03:41 GMT (UK)
I agree with YA, Transcription error depending on your uncle's accent & how it sounded was how he wrote it  ;)

I agree too.
Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: Skoosh on Thursday 31 December 15 15:26 GMT (UK)
 From the Gaelic Grianaig, pronounced Greenock!  ;D

Skoosh.
Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: Wilson Hunter on Friday 01 January 16 01:26 GMT (UK)
Thank you all,

Happy New Year.

Thanks

Wilson
Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: jaybelnz on Friday 01 January 16 02:12 GMT (UK)
Gourock is and  was a port in the West Of Scotland.  Refrewshire  - War time included.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gourock_Times

Writing could perhaps have been mistaken for Greenock??

Just a thought!

Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: Rosinish on Friday 01 January 16 04:28 GMT (UK)
Hi Jay,

I don't see a resemblance in any accent to be honest.

Gourock promounced Goor ock sounds nothing like Green ock

I do understand your thought though.

Annie
Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: jaybelnz on Friday 01 January 16 06:35 GMT (UK)
Sorry Annie, wasn't actually referring to pronunciation, rather a written word that may have been mistranscribed somewhere else back along the line!
Title: Re: Granock scotland
Post by: Skoosh on Friday 01 January 16 13:45 GMT (UK)
There's a hill loch called Grenoch in the SW & a farm called Greenock in Perthshire, an unlikely pair though?  Nothing like Granock that I can find, folk mis-spell names, it's Greenock.

Skoosh.