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Title: Somewhere in or around Aberdeen, can you help me decipher it?
Post by: benhc123 on Sunday 25 December 22 16:16 GMT (UK)
It would be really amazing if anyone knows where this is?
I've tried Googling many variants of the way I'm reading it but no luck.

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Somewhere in or around Aberdeen, can you help me decipher it?
Post by: ShaunJ on Sunday 25 December 22 16:19 GMT (UK)
N. Britain

= North Britain
= Scotland
Title: Re: Somewhere in or around Aberdeen, can you help me decipher it?
Post by: benhc123 on Sunday 25 December 22 16:27 GMT (UK)
Quote from: ShaunJ on Sunday 25 December 22 16:19 GMT (UK)
N. Britain

= North Britain
= Scotland

Thanks!
Title: Re: Somewhere in or around Aberdeen, can you help me decipher it?
Post by: benhc123 on Sunday 25 December 22 16:31 GMT (UK)
Quote from: benhc123 on Sunday 25 December 22 16:27 GMT (UK)
Quote from: ShaunJ on Sunday 25 December 22 16:19 GMT (UK)
N. Britain

= North Britain
= Scotland

Thanks!

Would that ever have been used in 1921?
Title: Re: Somewhere in or around Aberdeen, can you help me decipher it?
Post by: gaffy on Sunday 25 December 22 17:01 GMT (UK)
I can't say how common the usage would have been in 1921, but yes, there is a 1921 newspaper reference mentioning a proposal to substitute North Britain for Scotland and South Britain for England.  There is also the likes of this 1929 newspaper reference:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all Persons having any CLAIMS or DEMANDS against the estate of [NAME], deceased... formerly of Geldie Cottage, Braemar, in the County of Aberdeen, in North Britain ...