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Title: Place name
Post by: chrisdyer on Friday 01 March 19 12:30 GMT (UK)
Can you read where William Dyker was born please in 1846?  Looks like Crannah or Crannal or?

The family name was changed between the census 1861 & 1871, from DYKER to DYER is there any way of finding out why?
Title: Re: Place name
Post by: PaulineJ on Friday 01 March 19 12:35 GMT (UK)
We dont know what document you are looking at.
Attach the image
Title: Re: Place name
Post by: Gadget on Friday 01 March 19 13:12 GMT (UK)
Can you read where William Dyker was born please in 1846?  Looks like Crannah or Crannal or?

The family name was changed between the census 1861 & 1871, from DYKER to DYER is there any way of finding out why?

Was it the 1861 census?
Title: Re: Place name
Post by: chrisdyer on Friday 01 March 19 13:51 GMT (UK)
Can you read where William Dyker was born please in 1846?  Looks like Crannah or Crannal or?

The family name was changed between the census 1861 & 1871, from DYKER to DYER is there any way of finding out why?
Can you read where William Dyker was born please in 1846?  Looks like Crannah or Crannal or?

The family name was changed between the census 1861 & 1871, from DYKER to DYER is there any way of finding out why?

Was it the 1861 census?
I thought I had attached it.  Is it attached now?  It was a list of the 5 children on the Scotlands People Site (Old Parish Registers) but all added together by the Registrar. It has Birth & baptism dates.  Does say at the top Marnoch.  The 1861 census has Dyker in Marnoch & the 1871 census says Dyer in Turriff
Title: Re: Place name
Post by: Gadget on Friday 01 March 19 14:17 GMT (UK)
It looks like Crannah to me.

I thought I'd found him in 1861, b. Marnoch but wasn't sure.

Gadget
Title: Re: Place name
Post by: Gadget on Friday 01 March 19 14:23 GMT (UK)
The OS name books have Crannah (and mid -) as

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A small mound or hillocK hollowed out in the centre. it is now partly filled up and defaced, by a ditch being cut through it. The local tradition respecting it, is that it was made and used as a place of shelter by a person of the name of 'Tam' during the time of religious persecution in Scotland. It is also a well Known point on the boundary of MarnocK & Forglen

https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/banffshire-os-name-books-1867-1869/banffshire-volume-22/65
Title: Re: Place name
Post by: *Sandra* on Friday 01 March 19 14:30 GMT (UK)

Does look like Crannah...........

Sandra
Title: Re: Place name
Post by: Gadget on Friday 01 March 19 14:32 GMT (UK)
Map

https://maps.nls.uk/view/74426501#zoom=5&lat=6060&lon=7022&layers=BT

Add - It fits the description on SP as on boundary of Marnoch and Forglen
Title: Re: Place name
Post by: chrisdyer on Friday 01 March 19 14:49 GMT (UK)
Map

https://maps.nls.uk/view/74426501#zoom=5&lat=6060&lon=7022&layers=BT

Add - It fits the description on SP as on boundary of Marnoch and Forglen
Map

https://maps.nls.uk/view/74426501#zoom=5&lat=6060&lon=7022&layers=BT

Add - It fits the description on SP as on boundary of Marnoch and Forglen
The OS name books have Crannah (and mid -) as

Quote
A small mound or hillocK hollowed out in the centre. it is now partly filled up and defaced, by a ditch being cut through it. The local tradition respecting it, is that it was made and used as a place of shelter by a person of the name of 'Tam' during the time of religious persecution in Scotland. It is also a well Known point on the boundary of MarnocK & Forglen

https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/banffshire-os-name-books-1867-1869/banffshire-volume-22/65
Thank you