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Ayrshire / Re: DUNDONALD
« on: Sunday 30 May 21 04:07 BST (UK)  »
I expect you are referring to a baptismal record from 1778 in Dundonald that states: Baptism of William Watson, son of David Watson, day labourer at the Darlyhall, and Helen Whyte, spouses. As you can see, it says "the Darlyhall." None of the other numerous localities listed on this same page are preceded by "the," so Darlyhall probably refers to a building.
The other commenters here are probably correct in that it was in the vicinity of Darley Plantation, "A large plantation Chiefly Fir trees the property of the Duke of Portland" from the Dundonald O.S. books, vol. 25, from 1855-1857. There was no standardized spelling of place names or even surnames in those days.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Govan Colliery and Uries Row
« on: Saturday 09 January 16 21:37 GMT (UK)  »
Unfortunately most of the links to maps and other resources in the previous posts are dead, but this location was listed as Urrie's Row (not Urie's Row), owned by Govan Colliery, in the Lanarkshire Ordnance Survey Name Books, 1858-1861, and is to be found in the Gorbals district of Glasgow in the 1861 census, Enumeration District 39.

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