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Title: Can anyone decipher this address, please? *Thanks to everyone for their help*
Post by: heilanlassie on Friday 04 January 19 12:45 GMT (UK)
Can anyone decipher the address of the death informant, John Bain, please?

Thanks to everyone for their help.
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this address, please?
Post by: Gadget on Friday 04 January 19 13:25 GMT (UK)
I think the main settlement is North Erradale but not sure of ? house name yet.
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this address, please?
Post by: Gadget on Friday 04 January 19 16:43 GMT (UK)
I think I've found the family of John Bain in 1871, at Lot 1, Gairloch. The two younger children were born North Erradale.


John Bain, 52,crofter, b. Sand
Catherine, 56, b. R & C
Ann, d. 26, general servant, b. Sand
Margaret d, 18, b. North Erradale
Angus, s, 14, b. North Erradale

See also:  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQXC-YMG


Gadget
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this address, please?
Post by: Gadget on Friday 04 January 19 16:50 GMT (UK)

I've search the old maps for a place in the North Erradale area but nothing resembling the writing so it might be just Resting at or Residing at North Erradale.


Gadget
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this address, please?
Post by: Agneshill on Saturday 05 January 19 09:39 GMT (UK)


John Bain

His X mark

Cousin

Residing at North Erradale

(Not Point) ?

The "P" is similar to the "P" in Poolewe in the next column?




Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this address, please?
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 05 January 19 09:52 GMT (UK)
It's

Not Present


A common phrase on Scots certs


 :)
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this address, please?
Post by: Agneshill on Saturday 05 January 19 10:57 GMT (UK)


   

     ;)
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this address, please? *Thanks to everyone for their help*
Post by: Forfarian on Monday 07 January 19 14:23 GMT (UK)
I'd be inclined to doubt that there were individual house names in North Erradale in 1869. There are none on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=57.7641&lon=-5.7924&layers=5&b=1

Or even on the 25-inch map surveyed in 1902
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.7628&lon=-5.7933&layers=168&b=1
Title: Re: Can anyone decipher this address, please? *Thanks to everyone for their help*
Post by: Skoosh on Monday 07 January 19 19:54 GMT (UK)
This land has been squared into crofts, a great deal of work, they will have had names or even numbers as per the rental, including the acreage of each.

Skoosh.