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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 03 March 11 08:32 GMT (UK) »
Oh, I can't believe it  :-[ :-[ :-[  Why didn't I realise it was a place name?!  What a silly so-and-so I am!  ;D

Thanks everyone for all your input and ideas.  I really appreciate it.

Adrian, I don't know much about Charles or his occupation - he was my g-g-g-grandmother's first husband, before she married my g-g-g-grandfather, so I haven't concentrated on him much until now.  I'll see what I can find out about him now, though.

Thanks all, again, for your help!  :D

Prue

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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 03 March 11 08:33 GMT (UK) »
What a silly so-and-so I am!  ;D

Prue

You said it  ;D ;D ;D

Carol  :-*
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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 03 March 11 12:48 GMT (UK) »
The Girnoc(k) burn fed several mills.  I  lived at Littlemill for some years, and was told by an old lady whose family came from further up the glen, that it was once a barley mill.  Upstream was Mill of Cosh which another former meal mill, and downstream, between Littlemill and the Dee, was a modern sawmill and also the remains of the old water-driven one. 
GRAY - Inveresk; Lanarkshire
LINDSAY - Lanarkshire
PURDIE - Lanarkshire; W. Lothian
POZZI - Elgin; Lancashire
MACKENZIE, MORISON - Stornoway
ARCHIBALD, HAY, HUNTER, SNADDON - Clackmannanshire
COXON, HALL, JACKSON, SHOTTON - Northumberland

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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 03 March 11 19:15 GMT (UK) »
THat's interesting, Isabel, thank you - perhaps he worked at the downstream sawmill?  I might never know, but it's a possibility. 

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Prue