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Title: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: ColDownUnder on Monday 02 September 19 06:39 BST (UK)
Hi, please see the snippet of my paternal ggggg grandparents' marriage @ Ferintosh in 1761. He seems to have hailed from Newtown & she from Culnagowr. I've found Newtown or Newton, but not Culnagowr (or is it Culnagown) - maybe I'm reading the handwriting wrongly.
Calling placename experts out there for help on this one, please.
Cheers,
Col
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: ColDownUnder on Monday 02 September 19 06:46 BST (UK)
Oops, the image doesn't seem to be supported.
Anyway the names are Newtown definitely & Culnagowr or Culnagown.
Cheers,
Col :)
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: solidrock on Monday 02 September 19 07:31 BST (UK)
Culgower betwen Brora and Helmsdale on the East Sutherland coast of northern Scotland.
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: ColDownUnder on Monday 02 September 19 08:46 BST (UK)
Hi & thanks solidrock.
It doesn't look like the same word as per the marriage record but I can't find anything else. It's a long way from Newton. Some 340 kms.
Nothing else closer?
Cheers,
Col :)
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: solidrock on Monday 02 September 19 08:50 BST (UK)
Can you try to upload the image again, maybe try to change it to jpeg.
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: Flattybasher9 on Monday 02 September 19 10:11 BST (UK)
Coulnagour is 2.2 miles North West of Avoch, 7.2 miles from Newton.


Malky
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: Skoosh on Monday 02 September 19 11:48 BST (UK)
"The goat's back!" mebbes?

Skoosh.
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: ColDownUnder on Tuesday 03 September 19 00:17 BST (UK)
Hi & thanks blokes. That makes more sense distance wise Malky. I'll go with Coulnagour. Is that goat bit Gaelic again Skoosh?
Cheers,
Col  :)
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: Skoosh on Tuesday 03 September 19 07:17 BST (UK)
@ Col, the Gaelic again, the Culgower in Sutherland has probably more to do with Levison-Gower, the family name of their infamous evicting duke, than goats!  ;D

Skoosh.
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: northscot79 on Saturday 26 October 19 19:48 BST (UK)
Coulnagour is just north west of Culbokie . I live there  ;D
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: ColDownUnder on Sunday 27 October 19 01:24 BST (UK)
Hi & thanks northscot79.
Cheers,
Col  :)
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: Forfarian on Sunday 27 October 19 10:59 GMT (UK)
It's a long way from Newton. Some 340 kms.
Where did 340 km come from? According to the AA online route planner it's 56.6 miles from Newton of Ferintosh to Culgower, Helmsdale.

Newton of Ferintosh https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NH5653
Old Ferintosh https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NH5758
Coulnagour/Coulnagower https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NH5858

All within a few miles of one another and all in the parish of Urquhart and Logie Wester.

See also https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=758930.0 for what I hope is useful general advice on this sort of query.
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: northscot79 on Sunday 27 October 19 11:49 GMT (UK)
Yeah there is only 3/4 miles between Coulnagour and Newton of Ferintosh. They would have attended the same church and more than likely worked with each others families at the Ferintosh Distillery which was supplying 2/3 of all whisky in Scotland due to a loop hole the Forbes family who own Ferintosh exploited outrageously and as a consequence most people in the parish worked there
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: ColDownUnder on Monday 28 October 19 19:59 GMT (UK)
Hi & thanks for your replies.

I think I may have initialy confused a Newton down Edinburgh way rather than the Ferintosh location, Forfarian. In any case it was too far, the wrong one to fit my ancestors.

Thanks for the additional info northscot79. 34 miles back then is no inconsiderable distance either.
Cheers,
Col  :)
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: Forfarian on Monday 28 October 19 20:48 GMT (UK)
34 miles back then is no inconsiderable distance either.
I think it is intended to be 3 or 4 miles, not 34 miles.
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: ColDownUnder on Tuesday 29 October 19 05:17 GMT (UK)
Thanks Forfarian. That makes sense.
Cheers,
Col  :)
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: northscot79 on Tuesday 29 October 19 14:16 GMT (UK)
Sorry between 3 and 4 miles! 😀
Title: Re: Where is this place in Urquhart & Logie Wester or close by?
Post by: ColDownUnder on Tuesday 29 October 19 21:02 GMT (UK)
Hi & that's fine northscot79. When I next visit Scotland I'll take a good look at some of these Fraser haunts. Who knows I might catch up with you over a beer.
Cheers,
Col  :)