Mary McLeod (abt 1771-) Tarbat, ROC

[Forfarian]

I agree that it looks like Assint. Nothing to beat checking the original.

However it does say Ross, and the parish of Assynt is in Sutherland.

Could it be the other Assynt, which is in the parish of Alness in Easter Ross?
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.67146&lon=-4.35756&layers=5&b=1
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NH5967

Quite a lot closer to Tarbat, and in the right county.

[Gadget]

It's not unusual to get counties mixed up up there  and I can't think of any other places that look like that

As you know I lived up there for many years 

There is a baptism in Assynt for a Donald McLeod - parents William and Christian, 4 April 1799 - that might be worth considering.

[Gadget]

The Horse Tax Rolls for Alness does mention an Alexander Barclay of Assint*, so it might be worth looking in Alness parish or could he be an absentee 

* 1797-8

[Gadget]

Sildeag ~

Do you have the family on the 1861?  I've had a broad sweep but I can't identify them at the moment.

[Sildeag]

Thank you so very much.  I really appreciate knowing that.  It really helps. 

I have a number of McLeod families that moved from Lochbroom, Coigach, ROC and some from Achmelvich and Assynt in Sutherland.  They are sometimes cattlemen and shepherds.  I am guessing they went to work on the Arboll Estate, which at the time was run by Donald MacLeod of Geanies who married the Ross heiress of the Balnagowan Estate.     

[Sildeag]

Thanks again to everyone. 

Besides downloading several death certs. for Tarbat.  I downloaded the 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, and 1901 censuses but downloads are for individuals and it creates a mess of files.  Bringing forward the information wasn't too bad but some people were missing or confusing.  Rather than being stuck or confused, I either downloaded a death cert. or asked for help.

Some of the censuses showed a birth location in Kincardine, ROC for some McLeod families.  I didn't know Assynt also existed in ROC so will have to consider that too.

My main interest was going back to show the perceived migration from west to east or any other pattern to explain who my ancestors were and where they came from. 

[Gadget]

Assynt is in Sutherland.

I recall that the N - S boundary between R&C and Sutherland on the west side is at Inverkirkaig. The single track road crosses a burn ( river kirkaig) running down from Suilven.  I have walked up the track beside the burn to the loch below Suilven many times. A simplified map of the parish boundaries are given here:

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct

If a person is born close to the borders of the two counties, it might well be confusing.

[Sildeag]

This is the other McLeod family group I found living in Tarbat.  Alexander McLeod in this case was born in Kincardine, ROC in 1781.  The death cert. had father unknown and mother unknown.

[Forfarian]

The Parish of Assynt is in the county of Sutherland. According to https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//research/list-of-oprs/detailed-list-of-old-parochial-registers-of-scotland.pdf its registers of baptisms start in 1798, so the record of Mary's baptism in about 1770, if it was in that Assynt, has not survived.

Assynt House with associated farms etc is in the Parish of Alness in the county of Ross and Cromarty. Also spelled Assint and Assaint. The same source says that the Alness register of baptisms starts in 1783, so it isn't going to be there either.