Melvyn Hunter wrote: >Dear Dorothy, > >Not sure exactly where you are, but my great-grandmother was both at the >Crannoch and earlier ancestors lived and worked at Limehillocks: both are in >the Sillyearn region to the north and east of Grange in Banffshire (as was). >If you find Portsoy on a map and go due south until you are east of Keith, >then you are right in the middle of the area. >Hope this helps. > > I suspect it may confuse! The places you mention certainly do exist - there is a Crannach/Crannoch and two different places both called Limehillock in the Banffshire parish of Grange. But there are also Easter and Wester Limekilns and Easter and Wester Crannich in the Moray parish of Cromdale, Inverallan and Advie, a mile or two to the east of Lochindorb. Which illustrates yet again the inconvenient fact that Scottish placenames are seldom unique. Gavin Bell