More news! My Mother has spoken to our relatives from Aberdeenshire, who advise Huntly Castle is at Strathbogie where the rivers Bogie and Deveron meet. The "valley" through which the Bogie flows is also known as Strathbogie. "Strath" means a wide valley, and it was once called Strath-huntly. A short step from that to Glenhuntly? Speculation, but perhaps the closest we will get. And not far from W T Laird's Aberdour (about 35 miles). Check out the Huntly Castle website at http://www.castles.org/Chatelaine/HUNTLY.HTM. Yours aye Iain p.s. I should have mentioned in my Lairds of Birkenhead message, that quite coincidentally, I stayed there in 1980/81. I worked at the Pier Head in Liverpool, taking the Mersey Ferry from Birkenhead each day and had a view of the Cammell Laird yard in all weathers. If only I had known then what I know now!