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Renfrewshire / Re: find
« on: Thursday 11 December 25 18:35 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: WILLIAM 1 on Thursday 11 December 25 16:38 GMT (UK)
i was thinking along the lines of getting the last 2 peoples death certificate and seeing if the address on there and going from there. or if there was another way of doing this.
I think that would be a very good way to tackle this.

The death certificates should also tell you who registered the deaths, and where they lived, and it's always possible that the informants are still living.

Why not book a day in the Scotland's People Centre in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow? You should be able to find lots more than just the last two death certificates in a day, and the staff will be able to help you with how to go about it. It would also be cheaper than ordering two certificates from SP.

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Sutherland / Re: Specifics of Marriage: Farr, Sutherland - Wm DOUGLAS & Helen DOUGLAS (m.1846)
« on: Thursday 11 December 25 16:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hmmm, yes, I see that the Rev Alexander Macleod was translated to Rogart in May 1846, so maybe he was breaking his journey at Farr.


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Sutherland / Re: Specifics of Marriage: Farr, Sutherland - Wm DOUGLAS & Helen DOUGLAS (m.1846)
« on: Thursday 11 December 25 09:36 GMT (UK)  »
What about Clebrig? https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NC5834 - it's just west of the mouth of the Klibreck Burn on Loch Naver.

There's some correspondence on the Strathnaver Museum Facebook account about Clibrig, Corrynafearn and the Douglas family.

Among other details it says that Corrynafearn is east of Loch Naver. I wonder if it is Coire nam Feuran https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NC6634 or https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.0&lat=58.28449&lon=-4.28282&layers=257&b=ESRIWorld&o=100

If so, then both places are about as far from the village of Farr as it is possible to be and still be in the parish of Farr.

'Tea Tree' Manse is obviously a misreading. Could it be 'The Free'? 1846 is just three years after the Free Kirk split from the Church of Scotland.

Rev Alexander MacLeod is a bit of a mystery. The minister of the Free Kirk in Farr from 1843 was the Rev David Mackenzie. Comparing the 1851 census and the historic map, I reckon that the Free Kirk manse was in Bettyhill, on the coast, so they had a long journey to get married - about 25 miles each way.

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Inverness / Re: Local Place-Names (Houses, Hills, Fields et al)
« on: Wednesday 10 December 25 16:45 GMT (UK)  »
Isn't Pettycur in Fife? Nowhere near Inverness.

See https://stataccscot.ed.ac.uk/static/statacc/dist/parish/Inverness/Pettie

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Inverness / Re: Local Place-Names (Houses, Hills, Fields et al)
« on: Tuesday 09 December 25 19:07 GMT (UK)  »
It looks like Pretty but it's Petty. It's a parish between Inverness and Nairn. The largest village in the parish is Ardersier. 

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The Common Room / Re: Cortland??
« on: Saturday 06 December 25 09:50 GMT (UK)  »
I would never say anywhere was of no interest, so thank you for that.

It was just bizarre to be asked if I was looking for somewhere quite so obscure when I was searching for somewhere rather well known.

There seem to be several places called Courtland or Courtlands:
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST0931
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST0705
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST1926
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SX9983
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST8869
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/TQ3040
https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/TQ3832
all but one of which are in counties on the English Channel coast. There may of course be others that didn't come up in my search.

Doing a similar search using England produces an even more peculiar result. See attachment. And when I click on the suggested alternative there are no results!

The weird and wonderful ways of the internet :)

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The Common Room / Cortland??
« on: Friday 05 December 25 14:09 GMT (UK)  »
Has anyone ever heard of Cortland? (No, I didn't mean to search for it!)

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Caithness / Re: Margaret jack and her parents.
« on: Thursday 04 December 25 11:10 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: trish1120 on Tuesday 02 December 25 10:22 GMT (UK)
From FreeREG
Just put Jack, all, Caithness;
452 entries come up
The 1st 14 dont have dates on index including the Marriage of Murdoch/Margaret
EG
A Marriage of ANDREW Jack of Bower to Margaret THOMSON of Canisbay
Interestingly there is a John JACK/Margaret ROSIE Marriage also with no date
The first and third of those are indexed, complete with date, at SP, with the surname indexed as Jock. See screenshot.

What has happened is that FreeReg has not listed the date because the original record gives the date of the contract or proclamation rather than the date of the wedding ceremony. If you click on any of the 14 listings without dates it tells you this.

SP indexes whatever date is in the original. I prefer this method to the blank in FreeReg because at least it tells you the year, even if the actual wedding date isn't in the original, without having to click separately on the index for every missing wedding date, of which there must be tens of thousands in the surviving records!

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Fife / Re: Margaret Ballantyne 1882 -
« on: Thursday 04 December 25 08:36 GMT (UK)  »
Ah, I wondered why I couldn't find that. His name is indexed as Wacker, which is a variant of Walker that hadn't occurred to me - or a mistranscription.

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