sct birth cert

[audrey]

I recieved the birth cert for john Sewell today
and must say was very diapionted as it was a scan of the same info I got from the web site  I only sent for it hopeing I was going to get an address for place of birth but it just said Greenbrae Loaning  Dumfries
audrey

[Little Nell]

Audrey,

It is an address - there is a road called Greenbrae Loaning in modern-day Dumfries, found via
www.streetmap.co.uk.
Still trying to locate it on an older map. Pam may be able to help us here.

Nell

Found it - use this link
http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/townplans/dumfries_2.html
then click on the box in the grid near the top right marked
XLIX 15 24.  Zoom in and the Greenbrae Loaning is the orad with the bend in the middle in the top right quadrant.

[audrey]

thanks got it I will now try trace them on the 1881 census
audrey

[eccles]

old-maps.co.uk is a good site for maps from around 1850/60 to the 1920s or 30s

Cottage names are often marked as are hospitals, churches, halls, farms etc.  Useful for finding where precisely under the A74 those little cottages were!

I also use google maps for nowadays - did you know the States , Australia, Japan & various bits of Europe have 'Street view" which allows you to see 360' views of the roads?
Eccles