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Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« on: Friday 08 November 19 17:22 GMT (UK) »
In a previous thread on the Murdoch family, I mentioned a John Murdoch as Tenant of Invermossat:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=806276.0
I found this plan of Invermossat at the University of Aberdeen Special Collections:
https://ibb.co/Tvr4YTf
I need help to understand it.
Invermossat is the terrain delimited in red?
The divition marked in the terrain delimited in red, are differents crofts?
What is the meaning of the numbers in those divitions?
Many thanks!

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Re: Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« Reply #1 on: Friday 08 November 19 17:25 GMT (UK) »
I think the divisions are fields and the numbers are the areas of each field.
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Re: Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 12 November 19 15:14 GMT (UK) »
I think the divisions are fields and the numbers are the areas of each field.
Like always, thanks Forfarian!

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Re: Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 12 November 19 15:37 GMT (UK) »
I have fished that stretch of Don several times, when Sir Ewan was alive. Very nice person.

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Re: Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 12 November 19 16:19 GMT (UK) »
I haven't read all the threads so may be repeating stuff you already have been told - but if the map is a tracing from an OS map I suspect that the number above the area will be the OS field number. And on the rental sheet on https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=806276.0 the situation column refers to the OS 25 in to the mile sheet number LI [or 50] section 16 in the SE corner. THese maps do not appear to have been digitised by nls yet.

Just to add that if John was a tenant, he probably only had right up to the river bank, the superior or landlord would have retained the fishing rights in the river.  Thee is no red boundary either at the bank or the centre of the river [medium filum].
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 12 November 19 16:28 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Josey, probably this is the map you mentioned:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/74425403

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Re: Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 12 November 19 16:55 GMT (UK) »
Yes, that is sheet LI of the 1:10560 or 6 inch to the mile, which never has field numbers on. It is the 1:2500 or 25 inch to the mile which does but has not been scanned; these sheets are divided into 16 portions in 4 horizontal rows i.e. 1 - 4 top, 5 - 8 then 9 - 12 middle & 13 - 16 bottom.   

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And these are referred to as (say) LI.1 etc.
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON