I have received some information that an ancestor came from "Thruiss" in Aberdeenshire, however, I am unable to find any reference to it, except for old message board posts referring to the same ancestor. Has anyone come across Thruiss before - either as a farm or small hamlet or, possibly, in another country? Fiona
That's a highly unlikely sequence of letters in Scots and I would strongly suspect a transcription error which has been repeated. Maybe some of those with expertise in place names might recognise it as a mangled version of something? Alison On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Tiamat <tiamat2250@gmail.com> wrote: > I have received some information that an ancestor came from "Thruiss" in > Aberdeenshire, however, I am unable to find any reference to it, except > for old message board posts referring to the same ancestor. Has anyone > come across Thruiss before - either as a farm or small hamlet or, > possibly, in another country? > > Fiona > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >
On 10/01/2014 02:47, Tiamat wrote: > I have received some information that an ancestor came from "Thruiss" in > Aberdeenshire, however, I am unable to find any reference to it, except > for old message board posts referring to the same ancestor. Has anyone > come across Thruiss before - either as a farm or small hamlet or, > possibly, in another country? I can think of no placename in Aberdeenshire that is even vaguely like that. I suspect we are dealing with a name that was misheard or misread by someone who was unfamiliar with Aberdeenshire and who scribbled down as best he could what he thought he heard or read. What form does your information take? The bulk of early sources for info on our ancestors is tied to a specific parish (e.g. Old Parish Registers, or Census). If we could trace the reference back to a contemporary parish-based source we might be better able to guess what the name really was. Gavin Bell