Schani Biermann wrote: > to all listers > > on the 1851 census (transcribed by Ancestry > not the original image) > i have an ancestor, John GARDENn whose place of birth has been > transcribed as "Chierry, Aberdeen" [sic] Leaving aside the question of Ancestry transcriptions, go back to what the entry in the relevant columns in the Census was meant to be. This was "Parish of Birth", so what ever the entry actually says, it shouldn't be the name of a street. And "Aberdeen" in this context would normally mean "AberdeenSHIRE", so I would expect "Chierry" to represent a blind guess at the name of an Aberdeenshire parish, by someone who (like most of Ancestry's transcribers) knew little or nothing of the placenames he/she was dealing with. Nothing immediately springs to mind - except possibly "Cairnie" (or "Cairney", or other variants) which is a parish in the northwest of Aberdeenshire, near Keith (in Banffshire) - but I would bite the bullet, spend 1 GBP or equivalent on Scotlandspeople, and view the original. Gavin Bell