What does this say: Lochmaben Quarry name?

[Jamjar]

Great site Emma 

Flag house could be Quarry House, Gadget. It's worthy of further investigation.

Jamjar

[Gadget]

Hi Jamjar

Yes - looks as if Sancti found a good hit on the 1861 map   

Well done 

Think it's up to Pam now.


Gadget

[JAP]

Hi Emma,

Yes, Boongie Pam suggested the possibility of Flagg Quarry in her initial post.

I mentioned 'ff' for 'F', and flags/flagstones in reply #11.  Gadget (#12), however, found that the clerk normally used 'F' for upper case (rather than 'ff'); and she subsequently posted an example (#16).  That didn't rule out 'ff' in the initial query example but also suggested that it might just have been a scrawled 'F'.  Sancti found a Flag House (#23) in a 1861 map.
But I guess the jury is still out on the precise location of Flagg Quarry where Alexander JARDINE was living in 1797 when James was baptized.  And also whether it's the same place as Quarryhouse where he was living in 1795 when a daughter was baptized.

Hi Jamjar,

I wonder if you are know about the RootsChat Reference Library at:
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/index.php
It includes a useful Lexicon of Genealogical Terms, Phrases and Abbreviations

The Index to the Lexicon includes
*Old English in Wills
*Old Handwriting
and cross-references from
*Handwriting
*Palaeography
*Scottish Handwriting
*Secretary Hand     

These link to RootsChat threads where the Scottish Handwriting site in mentioned, and where a couple of other excellent sites are also mentioned:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/
www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc

Regards,

JAP

[Jamjar]

Thanks for those.

I'll add them to my 'to be viewed list'.

Jamjar

[sancti]

On the 1881 census there is a Quarry Cottage occupied by the Craig family



1881 CRAIG Mary Female age 69 Dwelling: Quarry Cottage Lochmaben, Dumfries, Scotland
1881 CRAIG William Male age 61 Dwelling: Quarry Cottage Lochmaben, Dumfries, Scotland 
1881 CRAIG William Male age 15 Dwelling: Quarry Cottage Lochmaben, Dumfries, Scotland

[MAGGIE D]

The James Jardine you refer to is my GGGGrandfather. James Jardine married to Jean Jeffrey and was buried at Torthorwald, Dumfriesshire along with his parents. Don,t think I have looked at his birth certificate before .

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