It's quite possible she went to work as a servant. I think they were quite poor. Another female decendant on the McFarlane side was found in her neighborhood as a servant at age 11. Thank you so much. ~Chere cbeachy <cbeachy@hereintown.net> wrote: Falkland is just south of the city of Stirling so you might find more info from the Stirling email list: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/s/stirling.html#STIRLING They also have a web page. Connie > Louann > > Nuthill house was demolished in 1840 and replaced by "House of Falkland" and > is now a school. I tried to find a mailing list for you but could not. I > also looked for a message board. There is a "general" board for Scotland > that you may post a inquiry to. I decided to try the Genealogy Google site > to locate Nuthill House for you. I am adding some of the URLS I found. > They had copy rights warnings on some of them so I decided not to post what > I found on this site I want to help but did not want to bring a problem to > our board if I copied and pasted the info here. Looks like your relative was > a servant of some well-to-do folks. I'd wished I'd found they owned the > Castle:( > > http://www.searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html > > http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst11854.html > > > http://216.70.105.21/welcome/history-tyndell-bruce-family > > > Are you sure you want Stirlingshire? Looks like Fife to me but I just > touched on the stories...you got me wondering about a place called "Nuthill" > house. There are maps on these URLS. Enjoy your research! > > Carol > > > **************************************** > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MDALLEGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MDALLEGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message