On 03/02/2014 04:54, Jo-Anne HUBER wrote: > ... > Can anyone tell me what and where Haddoleys Troup is. The address might be more correctly given as "Haddoleys, Troup, Gamrie." "Gamrie" is the name of the parish, under which almost all important earlier records are catalogued. "Troup" is the name of an area towards the eastern end of the parish: "Troup Head" is the name of a promontory on the coast, "Hill of Troup" lies about 3 mile south, and in the intervening stretch of country are sundry placenames which include "Troup". The family of Garden of Troup was formerly a major landowner, with its headquarters at Troup House. "Haddoleys" (which does not appear on modern maps) lay towards the southern end of this area, near the "Tore of Troup" which is a noticeable gorge through which the Tore Burn makes its way to the sea just west of Pennan. > Also any suggestions on finding a birth record would be appreciated. If the birth was illegitimate, the matter may well have come to the attention of the Kirk Session of the parish of Monquhitter. The KS records can be viewed onscreen at various archives within Scotland, but are not available online. And while absence of a baptism from the Kirk of Scotland registers could mean that the family belonged to a different denomination, it is also quite possible that, while the child was baptised into the Kirk, no record was made in the Register - there was generally a fee to be paid to have an entry made, and a single mother would probably have other things to do with what little money she had. Gavin Bell