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Title: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: Mamsoth on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:27 BST (UK)
Need some help deciphering this birth place in a Glasgow 1861 census. I can make out Leith, but not the other word. Any Ideas? Something-Land?

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Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: josey on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:44 BST (UK)
?Settlement  ???
Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: shanghaipanda on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:48 BST (UK)
Maybe Scotland?
Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: josey on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:50 BST (UK)
Ah yes maybe shp.

Had a look round here but nothing jumps out
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=55.9751&lon=-3.1851&layers=6&b=1
Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: JenB on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:51 BST (UK)
Is this from an English Census?

I also think it says Leith Scotland.
Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: Mamsoth on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:53 BST (UK)
Quote from: JenB on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:51 BST (UK)
Is this from an English Census?

I also think it says Leith Scotland.

It isnt, its a glasgow census. Nowhere else on the page is scotland listed. It really does look like scotland tho, now its been said.

Thanks for all the input so far everybody
Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: rosie17 on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:53 BST (UK)
Looks like leith Scotland
Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: JenB on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:55 BST (UK)
Quote from: Mamsoth on Wednesday 18 October 17 17:53 BST (UK)
Nowhere else on the page is scotland listed.

The enumerator just copied what the head of household wrote. So if no-one else put Scotland it wouldn't appear on the page.
Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: shawsboy on Wednesday 18 October 17 19:42 BST (UK)
agree Leith Scotland just outside Edinburgh
Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: Johnnie Murchison on Friday 20 October 17 13:37 BST (UK)
Leith, Scotland, which is on the opposite coast to Glasgow, adjoining Edinburgh.
Title: Re: Birth Place in Leith
Post by: Mamsoth on Friday 20 October 17 13:50 BST (UK)
Thank you all for the clarification

Cheers