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Offline mrs magoo

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Re: Canal Brae, Montrose
« Reply #9 on: Monday 10 January 11 22:37 GMT (UK) »
ok, i just found the cemetery william gillespie was buried in , montrose old cemetery angus.
i googled crancel braes, is it a road?
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Re: Canal Brae, Montrose
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 11 January 11 02:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi Karen,

Yep - Crancel means Council house
Braes - means hill

so council house on the hill!

No doubt it will have been renamed by now though....or redeveloped

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Re: Canal Brae, Montrose
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 11 January 11 21:24 GMT (UK) »
am sure it is still called Mount Road....
Welsh Allan, Wemyss, Caird, McAllister,Gibb, Kincardineshire,
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Re: Canal Brae, Montrose
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 12 January 11 02:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

Oh I had not realised that they were the same place...as Mt Road seems to be very flat!
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