Hi Melvyn, Some how I must have hit send rather than save and my half finished email to you went whizzing around the world to the Moray site. What I had been about to say, when I went off to see if I could find the Cruickshanks in the 1861 and 1871 census records on Scotlands People ( no luck with either) was that Sarah seems to be living in the area south east of Inverness and then north to Nairn, given that she says she was born in Moy / Daviot , would she say she was of Limehillocks in Banffshire? I wondered if Limekills was supposed to be Limekilns? Would there be many limekilns in that area? In other words was it a common name for a house or dwelling associated with limekilns? However I see that Gavin Bell has just answered the above. Thank you very much Gavin. I have a Phillip's Navigator 3 miles to the inch map and can see Lochindorb Castle and Lochindorb Lodge. Can you tell me any more about Easter Crannich or Wester Limekilns? Or where I can go to look for more information please? Thank you also Melvyn for your contribution, every little bit helps. Thanks to everyone, including Anne, who I see has also now added some more very helpful information. Dorothy

Dorothy Pollard wrote: > >.... I have a Phillip's Navigator 3 miles to the inch >map and can see Lochindorb Castle and Lochindorb Lodge. Can you tell >me any more about Easter Crannich or Wester Limekilns? Or where I >can go to look for more information please? > > I don't have any modern mapping of the area immediately to hand, but the places I listed were on sheet 84 of the Ordnance Survey 1" map (first edition) published in 1876. A more recent version of this (1896) is published in facsimile by Caledonian Maps (http://www.caledonianmaps.co.uk/). Gavin Bell

> However I see that Gavin Bell has just answered the above. > Thank you > very much Gavin. I have a Phillip's Navigator 3 miles to the > inch > map and can see Lochindorb Castle and Lochindorb Lodge. Can > you tell > me any more about Easter Crannich or Wester Limekilns? Or > where I > can go to look for more information please? Dorothy, you need a much more detailed map than 3 miles to the inch. Someone has already pointed you towards the Geograph web site, where you can see both photographs of these places and the 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey map showing where they are, and I think I also saw a reference in this thread to www.old-maps.co.uk where you can see the Ordnance Survey maps from the 1870s at six inches to the mile. It's a bit awkward to navigate on Old-maps, but from the home page click the maps tab and then select Map 2, then entering co-ordinates 300000,834600 will produce a map showing Crannich and 299600,836600 will show Limekilns. You can buy copies of the 1870s maps, and, as Gavin says, of the 1896 one-inch map. The best modern map for the purpose is the Ordnance Survey Explorer 1:25,000 map. Easter and Wester Limekilns and Easter and Wester Crannich are all marked on the very edge (unfortunately) of Sheet No 419 Grantown-on-Spey. If you go to http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/ you can see extracts from the 1:25,000 map. Put NH997359 in the search box to see Wester Limekilns, NH992368 for Easter Limekilns, NH999343 for Wester Crannich and NJ003346 for Easter Crannich. You can also use the map keys to navigate from one map square to the next if you prefer. There's an online map shop on the Ordnance Survey web site; you could think about using their 'OS Select' to get a map centred on Limekilns and Crannich. HTH Anne