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Need help with 1720's crofting site name near New Deer
« on: Tuesday 24 December 24 03:49 GMT (UK) »
Hello. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me. I'm looking for the crofting site name that looks like it starts with Ach or Aut? It's near to New Deer in about 1720. I included two examples of it from the same doc. James Dalgarno is the top one i'm interested in but the lower George Walker seems to be from the same place.

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Stewart. Scott. Bruce. McPherson. McMurray. McKibbin . McKay. McCann. Mckrinkine. McClewnan. McCallum. Joss. Ross. Morrison. Chapman. Middlemiss. Robinson. Conlon. Duffy. Dalgarno. Crookshank. Gammack. Ramsay. Mutch. Crawford. Orr. Galbraith. Kerr. Fergusson. Campbell.

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Re: Need help with 1720's crofting site name near New Deer
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 03:53 GMT (UK) »
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Stewart. Scott. Bruce. McPherson. McMurray. McKibbin . McKay. McCann. Mckrinkine. McClewnan. McCallum. Joss. Ross. Morrison. Chapman. Middlemiss. Robinson. Conlon. Duffy. Dalgarno. Crookshank. Gammack. Ramsay. Mutch. Crawford. Orr. Galbraith. Kerr. Fergusson. Campbell.

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Re: Need help with 1720's crofting site name near New Deer
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 05:40 GMT (UK) »
There appear to be a number of properties beginning with Ach on this 1747-55 Military Map?
 https://maps.nls.uk/geo/roy/#zoom=14.0&lat=57.51560&lon=-2.17952&layers=0

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Re: Need help with 1720's crofting site name near New Deer
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 06:09 GMT (UK) »
I was thinking it might be one of the many Auch's.

Aucheoch or similar. Can't quite place it.
Stewart. Scott. Bruce. McPherson. McMurray. McKibbin . McKay. McCann. Mckrinkine. McClewnan. McCallum. Joss. Ross. Morrison. Chapman. Middlemiss. Robinson. Conlon. Duffy. Dalgarno. Crookshank. Gammack. Ramsay. Mutch. Crawford. Orr. Galbraith. Kerr. Fergusson. Campbell.


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Re: Need help with 1720's crofting site name near New Deer
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 06:41 GMT (UK) »
I think it starts with “Ach”. It has a “t” in it, and possibly finishes with a “y”, or “g”.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Need help with 1720's crofting site name near New Deer
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 07:00 GMT (UK) »
If I could see a d I keep thinking it might be the earlier name of New Deer  -  Auchreddie :-\

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ABD/Newdeer/description

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Re: Need help with 1720's crofting site name near New Deer
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 09:42 GMT (UK) »
maybe Auchmunziel, spelled here Achmunzel (with el in superscript)

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Re: Need help with 1720's crofting site name near New Deer
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 11:57 GMT (UK) »
I agree with Zefiro although I'd suggest the superscript is ll.

It is understood that ea or ie or similar has been contracted before the ll.

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Re: Need help with 1720's crofting site name near New Deer
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 24 December 24 19:56 GMT (UK) »
Definitely Achmunz[ie]ll. It is now usually written Auchmunziel. You pronounce it Ach'mingl.