MISS ADELINE MARTIN wrote: > Hi In the 1851 Census for my Gt-Gt-Grandmother she is listed as > Proprietor of Land and her address is Woodside, > Inverurie-Aberdeenshire so I am just curious as to the other > Woodside,Aberdeenshire that Mary wondered if it was a Farm, Village > or a Hamlet or was it the right answer from Gavin explaining the area > of what is now the Woodside distrct of Aberdeen City. Our ancestors were often not very original when they gave names to their settlements, so there are at least 25 instances of "Woodside" in Aberdeenshire, not counting variants like "East Woodside" or "Woodside Croft". The "Woodside" in the parish of Inverurie seems to have disappeared between the 1851 Census and the publication of the 1st Edition of the Ordnance Survey large-scale maps in the 1860s. In 1851, it is enumerated as part of the town, rather than of the "landward" or rural part of the parish. To judge from the names of neighbouring places in the enumeration, it seems to have lain to the west of the town centre, and may have been swallowed up by the town's expansion in the later 19th century. But there only ever seems to have been one "Woodside" in the parishes in or near the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, and that was the industrial village on the Don which was the subject of my previous post. Gavin Bell