Hi
I'm looking at where my deeply interconnected relatives who were fisherman in Arbroath lived.
Names like Cargill, Swankie, Spink, Shepherd, Smith, Pert, Coull abound.
There is often mention of the 'fit o the toon' - an area initially made available to fishers moving into Arbroath. Has anyone seen a definition of the area?
It'll likely be informal, and include Ladybridge, South St, John St, Union St East, Old Shore Head. But how far was the area understood to reach?
[Some are obvious: in 1901, of the 40 households in South St, 31 included fishermen. Some of the others were one-person households, being widowed women.]
Slainte
Gordon