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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Tain area place name
« on: Sunday 25 September 11 13:23 BST (UK)  »
Ash, I suggest you have another look at the image and reassess your interpretation - the smudged part of the word is "ch".  It appears that the recorder tried to fit the complete placename at the end of the line but was unable to do so.  He then added the second part on a new line and tried to wipe out the incomplete "ch....." ending on the previous line.
Hope this leads you on another step.

Crofter

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Inverness / Re: Stumped - can anyone offer any suggestions?
« on: Sunday 17 August 08 10:51 BST (UK)  »
Curious that the Gael did not seem to have a special word for 'the midge', instead simply calling it 'the little fly' !   :)

Alasdair

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Inverness / Re: Stumped - can anyone offer any suggestions?
« on: Saturday 16 August 08 23:18 BST (UK)  »
Either kilts or midgies existed in the Highlands ..........  but no both ! !  ;)

Alasdair

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Inverness / Re: Stumped - can anyone offer any suggestions?
« on: Saturday 16 August 08 22:59 BST (UK)  »
I'm not sure that midgies were a problem back in those days !  Certainly not much to be found in Gaelic literature, poem or song.  Surely a pest of this magnitude, if it existed then as it does now, would have featured prominently ?

Alasdair

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Dewar family, Reiff
« on: Saturday 16 August 08 16:36 BST (UK)  »
Yes Jane, had a check on Mary Dewar and it is the same person I have.

Alasdair

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Dewar family, Reiff
« on: Saturday 16 August 08 15:11 BST (UK)  »
Jane, just seen your posting on Dewar of Reiff.  At this point I have not had time to check it out but there's a good chance that the answer to your query is in my family tree.  :)

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Alasdair



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