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Hill Head / Kiln head
« on: Tuesday 28 September 10 19:55 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone
I have a birth that I am trying to trace.  It is either Hill Head or Kiln Head Scotland please could anyone tell me which board to place it on
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Re: Hill Head / Kiln head
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 28 September 10 21:22 BST (UK) »
Hillhead is an area of Kelvinside in Glasgow.  The only Kiln head I know of is in Cumbria in the Lake District.
Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman

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Re: Hill Head / Kiln head
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 29 September 10 07:47 BST (UK) »
Hi All

there is also a Hillhead between Ayr and Cummnock

Yours Aye
BruceL

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Re: Hill Head / Kiln head
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 29 September 10 12:54 BST (UK) »
There are Hill Heads all over the place!  Is there anything which would narrow it down?

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Re: Hill Head / Kiln head
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 29 September 10 13:06 BST (UK) »
The source of the information is the 1871 English Census.
I think it says Kiln Head.
All the other censuses show just Scotland.

Links to some associated posts are given here http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,485924.msg3441416.html#msg3441416

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Re: Hill Head / Kiln head
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 29 September 10 13:58 BST (UK) »
Hmmm, wonder where it is then?  It's so frustrating when it just says 'Scotland' without a county or parish! 

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Re: Hill Head / Kiln head
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 29 September 10 15:37 BST (UK) »
There is a place in Dumfriesshire called Kilnhead

Kilnhead, a village in Cummertrees parish, S Dumfriesshire, 4 miles WNW of Annan
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/gaztext_page.jsp?u_id=10076328

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Re: Hill Head / Kiln head
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 29 September 10 16:09 BST (UK) »
Oh well done Jennifer!  I think that is very likely.   ;D
Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman

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Re: Hill Head / Kiln head
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 29 September 10 16:40 BST (UK) »
I have discovered another tenuous link back to Dumfriesshire. I hope you can follow my reasoning  :-\

The person busybea is looking for is a Mary Anderson, who married James Arkless in County Durham in 1835, The witnesses to the marriage were James Anderson and Mary Anderson.
see http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,485618.msg3438741.html#msg3438741

There is a marriage of a James Anderson and a Mary Sanderson in County Durham in 1834, and one of the witnesses was a Mary Anderson.

In 1851 Mary and James Arkless were living in the same small town as a James and Mary Anderson and the 1851 and 1861 censuses show James being born in Scotland.

However, the 1871 census shows him as having been born in Dumfriesshire.

I admit the whole thing is unsubstantiated but it's a possibility.

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