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Scottish occupation help please
« on: Thursday 03 March 11 04:38 GMT (UK) »
Hello all,

I wonder if you can help me to determine what this word is, please.

The entry in question is the second one on this clipping, for FORBES.  Charles (the father) is a Saw Miller in the 1841 census.  This baptism entry is for March 1841 and his occupation looks like GIRNAE or GIRNAC.  Is this some local term for Sawmiller? 

The baptism was in Crathie and Braemar parish, Aberdeenshire.

Thanks for looking  :D

Cheers
Prue

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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 03 March 11 05:04 GMT (UK) »
Only thing I can find that's even close it this - and I bet you've found it too!

Girnalman        -      Man in charge of meal store or granary

Couldn't be short for that could it  :-\  - unlikely I suppose

Wiggy   :)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 03 March 11 05:26 GMT (UK) »
Hi Wiggy  :)

Thanks, yes I did find that one.  I'm not sure because it's so different from his census occupation but I suppose anything's possible.

Cheers
Prue  :)

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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 03 March 11 06:34 GMT (UK) »
This may be a stupid comment - is it definitely his occupation? Could it possibly be a middle name, as i notice there is no "comma" between "Charles" and the ?? Girmac... or whatever it is?  Just a thought, most likely I am totally wrong.
McNab, Kenney, Johnstone, Carrigan, (Cargan, Kirgan, Corrigan), Toll, Tracey, McNulty,  Reilly, Maguire, Loughlin, Banks, McGonagle, Forsyth, McDonald, Michael,  Kennedy, Bagnell, Cronan, Dunleavy, McMullan. -  Glasgow, Ireland, British Columbia Canada, Manchester New Hampshire USA.

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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 03 March 11 07:02 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: maggbill on Thursday 03 March 11 06:34 GMT (UK)
This may be a stupid comment - is it definitely his occupation? Could it possibly be a middle name, as i notice there is no "comma" between "Charles" and the ?? Girmac... or whatever it is?  Just a thought, most likely I am totally wrong.

The one above doesn't have a comma either. Going by the entry above and below it is definately an occupation of some kind....but what? Doesn't make sense.

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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 03 March 11 07:13 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Girnac is a placename in Glenmuick, Aberdeenshire, also the name of a river there (at least it was so in 1845 -  see  http://www.electricscotland.com/history/statistical/glenmuick.htm)

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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 03 March 11 07:17 GMT (UK) »
I think it's a place name,as the other two have their name,job AND where they come from.

I suspect they didn't know what Charles Forbes did,so just put down where he lived.

Carol
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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 03 March 11 07:20 GMT (UK) »
Yes, you are right, i realised after typing my comment, that the other one didnt have a comma...

 I just Googled "Girnac" and found a link to the following
 http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-549-455-C&scache=3gzv01yztl&searchdb=scran&PHPSESSID=qbo62s8tv85i9m1rvj6mmeuas7

 - Hmmmm... not sure if that is "linkable"... anyway, it is one of those sites where it wants you to buy the info / booklet / document?... but it relates somehow to the following ...

Title: Scottish Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge
Scran ID: 000-000-549-455-C
Resource Rights Holder: National Archives of Scotland
and then gives a link to -
•National Archives of Scotland [website]

Sorry, don't mean to bombard you with "red herrings"  - but sometimes the strangest bit of info is a help.
Cheers - good luck.

Ooops just saw the other two posts - so you could be right about it being a place name.

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McNab, Kenney, Johnstone, Carrigan, (Cargan, Kirgan, Corrigan), Toll, Tracey, McNulty,  Reilly, Maguire, Loughlin, Banks, McGonagle, Forsyth, McDonald, Michael,  Kennedy, Bagnell, Cronan, Dunleavy, McMullan. -  Glasgow, Ireland, British Columbia Canada, Manchester New Hampshire USA.

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Re: Scottish occupation help please
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 03 March 11 07:35 GMT (UK) »
There's a Girnock Burn running into the River Dee at Ballhalloch, according to
http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst2682.html
and if you enter "Ballhalloch" in Google Earth, it takes you to "Ballhalloch Cottage, Girnoc, Ballater, AB35 5SR, UK". Just down the road is a place called Littlemill. Was Charles's sawmill water-powered?

Adrian
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