Can anyone read this placename in Boharm parish?!

[PrueM]

Hi all,
This baptism from 1732 has a placename that I can't decipher.  To me it looks like "Steellbow" or "St Eelbow"    I can't find anything like it in the GENUKI Gazetteer, so wondered if anyone could suggest something?

Thanks!

Prue

[Jinxy]

Looks like St. Hallbon or Haldbon.  Not sure of the middle bit but the  bit that looks like to small case g's. Could be an H. If you look at the other capital H's this seems to be similar.

[Gadget]

Hi Prue

It certainly looks like Steellbow to me, if you compare the letters with the others with the others on the page.  I can't find it on any of the maps though. have you tried

http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/


Gadget

[PrueM]

Thanks both for the extra pairs of eyes   

I've searched on the suggested names and not found anything, and have just spent an hour poring over the old maps in Gadget's link, and have now gone crosseyed    I certainly can't see anything that looks the remotest bit like "Steellbow" or "St Hallbon" etc.

 

Prue

[JAP]

It looks like Steellbow to me too - though the 'e's are very tall ...

My searches turned up the following - irrelevant, I'm sure, but sort of interesting.

Steelbow: "A condition of land-tenancy whereby a landlord provided the tenant with stock, growing grain, straw and implements under contract that the equivalent in quality and quantity should be returned at the end of the lease"
The above from the online Dictionary of the Scots Language.

JAP

[PrueM]

Thanks for that JAP.  I wonder if the mysterious Steellbow was a place such as is described in that dictionary entry, and was also known locally by that name?  It certainly doesn't seem to be an 'officially' recognised place name.

Thank you all for your help 

Prue

[Gadget]

That's really interesting, JAP. Just wondering if there was something going on with leasehold agreements at that time and it was inserted for a reason.

I passed by at a distance on the A9 today, Prue, and thought of you.

Gadget 

[Isles]

Just a suggestion as to the name. If you go to
www.abdnet.co.uk/genuki/BAN/Boharm/indexhtml
and click on 'Names, Geographical' you'll see that there is a place/farm in Boharm Parish called STARRYHOW.

[PrueM]

Hi Gadget 
Thanks for the thoughts - I hope they were good!    I have to say I was feeling a bit wistful yesterday while looking at all those old maps, having visited the area last year - I was recognising all the place names and remembering how lovely it was in that neck of the woods...

Hello Isles 
That is certainly an interesting possibility - I will have to look into that further 

Thank you all 

Prue