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Re: Robert and Christina Armit, Kirkwall
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 29 May 25 17:24 BST (UK) »
Do these maps help?

The screenshot is from a large-scale modern map and shows Rosebank next door to Highland Park House.

This https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.3&lat=58.96796&lon=-2.95192&layers=257&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 is from the Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1880, and shows only Rosebank on the same site.

And this https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.3&lat=58.96796&lon=-2.95192&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=100, surveyed in 1900, also shows Rosebank, but on the site now labelled as Highland Park House.

It looks as if the house now called Highland Park House was originally called Rosebank, though it looks as if it has been extended. The present Rosebank is where some of the peripheral buildings of the original house were.

Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.
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