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