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Re: 1851 census birthplace help
« Reply #9 on: Monday 26 May 25 10:08 BST (UK) »
The person filling in the census form doesn't appear to know which county it was, as he wrote Scotland

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Re: 1851 census birthplace help
« Reply #10 on: Monday 26 May 25 19:14 BST (UK) »
It couldn't be a mangled version of Eddleston, could it?
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Re: 1851 census birthplace help
« Reply #11 on: Monday 26 May 25 19:54 BST (UK) »
I think it ends in 'y'

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Re: 1851 census birthplace help
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 27 May 25 07:57 BST (UK) »
I know, but I was clutching at a straw.
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Re: 1851 census birthplace help
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 27 May 25 08:17 BST (UK) »
We've all been there  :D

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Re: 1851 census birthplace help
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 27 May 25 11:21 BST (UK) »
I think it could be a phonetic version of Elderslie. As far as I know, it is pronounced as Elders-lay by the inhabitants, so, back in 1851 when spelling was mostly guesswork, it would be logical to write it as Elderslay.
Sancti, was the Ferguson from Motherwell related to the Ferguson family who were tailors? They had a Hamilton connection.
Paterson, Torrance, Gilchrist - Hamilton Lanarkshire. 
McCallum - Oban, McKechnie - Ross of Mull Argyll.
Scrim - Perthshire. 
Liddell - Polmont,
Binnie - Muiravonside Stirlingshire.
Curran, McCafferty, Stevenson, McCue - Co Donegal
Gibbons, Weldon - Co Mayo.
Devlin - Co Tyrone.
Leonard - County Donegal & Glasgow.

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Re: 1851 census birthplace help
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 27 May 25 22:10 BST (UK) »
Not as far as I know

James married in Coatbridge and emigrated soon after 1851 census
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