Dear Ray, very pleased that the Bozzays have got some useful stuff out of the Auchnaven - Auchnavaird conundrum! The name crops up as the place where our Margaret Youngson's parents were from in 1790. I have the baptismal entry, so it wasn't a problem sitting with it - and a whisky - one evening, and attempting to make out the ( beautiful but sometimes impenetrable ) handwriting. Margaret was born to William Youngson and Isabel Shirar and baptised " before the congregation " in Old Deer on 17th March 1790. She married John Barron in August 1810 in Old Deer but by the census in 1841 John and Margaret were farming at Brucehill, New Deer, with their family. I have not been able to find a marriage for William Youngson and Isabel Shirar. There are entries of baptism in the IGI for William Youngson in 1762 in Slains, son of another William Youngson, and for Isabel in Bonnykelly or Borneykelly in New Deer in 1772 to an Adam Shiran and a Margaret Davidson, but I am in no way certain that these are the correct parents for them......... they are not on Scotland's people, and 1772 would have meant that Isabel was only 13 when she had her first child. Perhaps a wee bit young?!! Many thanks for the very interesting information regarding the families in Auchnavaird in the later census, the names in our families in Old & New Deer would have been: YOUNGSON, SHIRAR, BARRON, SIMPSON, DANIEL, & DELGAMO. And so the chase goes on....... Mary On 18 Nov 2009, at 08:01, aberdeen-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Auchnaven - Auchnavaird (Ron and Laura Bozzay) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:16:42 -0500 (EST) > From: Ron and Laura Bozzay <rbozzay@earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Auchnaven - Auchnavaird > To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <2780436.1258510602319.JavaMail.root@mswamui- > backed.atl.sa.earthlink.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Ray, great link! I found the family farm! It was quite fun! > Thanks for sharing it! > > Laura > > -----Original Message----- >> From: Ray Hennessy <ray@whatsinaname.net> >> Sent: Nov 17, 2009 7:09 PM >> To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Auchnaven - Auchnavaird >> >> Hi Mary >> >> A final fling on this topic: >> >> There are two photos of Auchnavaird farm and the approach to South >> Auchnavaird on the Geograph website which also has a map of the >> surroundings. >> See http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ9440 >> >> For completeness, I offer one apology from me and one for FreeCEN. >> Gavin has >> produced more detailed information. >> >> Firstly, I missed the Auchnavaird entries on my1881 CDs. There are >> five >> families named STOTT, OGSTON, STUART, THOM and WALKER. William STOTT >> is 57. >> >> Secondly FreeCEN seems to have missed the 6 families at Auchnavaird in >> 1851. These are named STOTT, ALLAN, CONNAN, McKAY, WHYTE and WATSON. >> William STOTT is 27 so almost certainly the same guy who was still >> there in >> 1881. >> >> I have had a look at Thomson's 1832 map. Auchnavaird is present but >> not >> named, south of Elrick and east of Burngrains. So unfortunately we >> can't see >> how it might have been spelled then. >> >> This is all probably irrelevant now as you have revised the >> interpretation >> of the 1790 OPR entry in line with Auchnavaird! >> >> -- >> Best wishes >> >> Ray >> >> ********************************************************** >>> From Ray Hennessy >> Forenames website: www.whatsinaname.net >> Preferred Email address: ray@whatsinaname.net >> Hints for Scotland's People at http://bit.ly/WIAN-SCP >> ********************************************************** >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ABERDEEN list administrator, send an email to > ABERDEEN-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ABERDEEN mailing list, send an email to > ABERDEEN@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ABERDEEN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 499 > **************************************** >