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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Nairnshire => Topic started by: kb0fhp on Sunday 29 January 17 03:54 GMT (UK)
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From SP, I down loaded his death record, but can not decipher his death location. The record says "October 10 (1836) Wm Hay Faviston aged 55 Froie." It is the blded items that I can not make out. I think the last is the cause of death as it is in others on the same page. I just can't make out the location. Any ideas?
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Hi,
I would say CoD, is Fever?
Cheers
AMBLY
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Possibly Maviston:
http://ncap.org.uk/frame/8-1-3-1-44-8?search=keywords/maviston&free-text=yes
Imber
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Agree with Ambly - Fever.
Added - I've looked all over the old large scale OS maps of the Auldearn parish area and the only place that looks like the name is, as Imber has said, Maviston
Map link: http://maps.nls.uk/view/74427806#zoom=5&lat=6541&lon=7262&layers=BT
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If it makes any difference, I'd say his age is either 56 or even 36 - the first number is compromised by the end of the letter above it.
But it's not 55 as the 2 numbers are quite different.
Dawn M
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Once I look at Fever - it is apparent, especially when I bring it into Photoshop and invert the image. Looking at the age (while the image is inverted - not me), it looks like 56.
The location on the other hand, the first letter does not look like other "M" on the page. It is virtually identical to a "T" like in "Taylor" which is down the page.
I have looked at the maps too and older ones than the ordinance survey with no luck. Frustrating
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There's a Taviston in Devon, isn't there? but....
Could he have died there and been brought back to Scotland for burial?
Dawn M
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I really have no idea.
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Hi kb,
Can you expand the image to include more of the text for comparison please?
Letters can look different without a comparison.
The age looks to be either 35 or 36?
CoD looks like Fever
Area of death looks like Fisherton?
Initial on area (Fisherton)? looks like the same initial on (Fever) ?
Annie
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Fisherton can be found on here;
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/os-1-to-10560/nairnshire/003
I took a while to find it i.e. I can't give you precise location, sorry!
Annie
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It looks like Fishertown is a good possibility. Here is a larger excerpt so you can better compare handwriting.
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You will find a lot of places where they were e.g. Fishertown/Fisherton/Fishertoun through time as the spellings can vary for the same place names.
Annie
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May I add, the era for the area you find on a map may differ to how the scribe wrote it down i.e. you need an open mind with the evidence you have.
Annie
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I can see the problem with the M but the rest looks like "aviston" to me. I don't read "Fisherton". Fisherton is about a mile west of Inverness Airport and was in Petty parish rather than Auldearn parish. Hope that helps rather than confuses.
Imber
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Agree with you again, Imber. It's definitely ?aviston and in Auldearn parish - the captial letters on the page vary but I don't see it as an F. I'm still going with Maviston.
(I checked the wills in case there was some info there but nothing for him)