Hello Julie I had a look at the image of the birth on Scotlands People and agree that the placename looks like "Khime" - most unusual. It was presumably a farm or a small hamlet which no longer exists today. You could have a look at this online book about Penicuik that I found by Googling Penicuik: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/penicuik/index.htm You could also try contacting the Penicuik Historical Society. The only contact details I could find for them were on this page: http://www.penicuikpapermaking.org/contactus.html Rhoda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie McDonald" <jm751802@bigpond.net.au> To: <MIDLOTHIAN@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:37 AM Subject: [MIDLOTHIAN] Help with Placename in Penicuik >I have a record of John Veitch and Janet Crawford from the LDS film of BDMs >in Penicuik - birth of their son John 1787. The father was a workman in a >place called, what looks like, Khima. The writing is very hard to >decipher. It could be Khime or Klime or maybe Kilne.