Hello List Members' In reply to Gavin's query regarding the source of the placenames, I have, unfortunately, only ''family lore". What I do know is that our grgrgrandfather was born in Banff, Banffshire abt 1845, he was found on the 1851 Census in Banff, he was found on the 1861 Census in Alvah, Banffshiire at Strath of BYCOCK, He married atg bon the 1871 Census in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Fridayhill, 1881 Census Burnside, Methlick, 1891 Census at Aberdeen, St. Nicholas,