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Re: Help to decipher placename?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 11 October 11 17:51 BST (UK) »
Hi Tracey

From the full page, the best that  I can work out at the moment is that the first letter is an F (cf the F in Thomas Fee, previous household). So, all I can find in WL at the moment are ~

Falside (near Bathgate)
Fauldhouse
Foulshiels

There may be more when I return to perusing the maps!

It could be that the Lanarkshire enumerator couldn't understand the writing on the household schedule!

I've found a possible baptism for Elizabeth b.c. 1838 :
3 April 1837, Shotts, LKS.  Parents: Andrew Young and Elizabeth Black.

Would this be them?


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OK, Pels, Get looking again  ;D
 
PS - it might be a long S, which looks like an f but can't find any on the page to compare.
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Re: Help to decipher placename?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 11 October 11 17:56 BST (UK) »
However, if it is Elizabeth Black, then Pels wins a prize:

Baptism - Torphichen 5 Nov 1797 (IGI)

Elizabeth Black. Parents - Peter Black and Mary Paul


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Re: Help to decipher placename?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 11 October 11 18:17 BST (UK) »
I believe it looks like Linlithgow.

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Re: Help to decipher placename?
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 11 October 11 18:19 BST (UK) »
OOh silly me!


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Re: Help to decipher placename?
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 11 October 11 19:23 BST (UK) »
Thanks gnu!

Elizabeth's maiden name was Black. Her husband was James Young and she died 1854 in Omoa, Cleland.

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THOMSON - Shotts, Allanton
DEANS - Lanarkshire, Bathgate, Armadale, Ireland, Ayrshire
PATERSON - Shotts, West Lothian, Midlothian
CAMERON - Motherwell, Kilmallie
WHITEHEAD - Dunblane
BRODIE - Whitburn, Stronsay
DICK - West Lothian
SEDGEWORTH/SIGSWORTH - Lanarkshire, Paisley, Durham
PARVIN/PARVEN - Yorkshire, Lanarkshire
SCOTT - Lanarkshire
GREENWELL - Armadale, Bathgate
HUNTER - Armadale, Bathgate
LISTER - Fife, West Lothian
GRAHAM - Polmont
ROBERTSON - Polmont

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Re: Help to decipher placename?
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 11 October 11 19:24 BST (UK) »
That's the one then, Tracey.

They must have written it Forficane or some such - Pels gets the award, I think  :D

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Re: Help to decipher placename?
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 11 October 11 19:27 BST (UK) »
However, if it is Elizabeth Black, then Pels wins a prize:

Baptism - Torphichen 5 Nov 1797 (IGI)

Elizabeth Black. Parents - Peter Black and Mary Paul


 :D

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Thanks gnu!

Elizabeth's maiden name was Black. Her husband was James Young and she died 1854 in Omoa, Cleland.

Tracey

That's the one then, Tracey.

They must have written it Forficane or some such - Pels gets the award, I think  :D

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Lost for words !  :-X :-X

Thankyou, thankyou, I thank you !  :D :D

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Re: Help to decipher placename?
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 11 October 11 19:30 BST (UK) »
I think she wants me to bring out this  ::)



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