> I am looking at a record on Libindx that says: > Father's Name: James McQueen Drummore Glenferness > I see Glenferness House and Glenferness Mains, near Dulsie. But when I > put > Drummore in Streetmap.uk, the only Drummore I see in the Highlands are > Drummore of Clava and Drummore of Cantray. They are over near the Nairn > River. Why would a listing have these two locations like this? > Holly It depends on what places happen to be marked on modern maps, and how they are spelled on the map. Drummore is a fairly common sort of place name - Drum is from Gaelic 'druim' meaning a ridge, and More is Gaelic 'mor' meaning big. So Drummore (or Drumore) means 'big ridge'. Try searching on www.streetmap.co.uk for 'Drum' and 'Druim' and see how many results you get! Drummore of Clava and Drummore of Cantray are two farms, one at each end of the same ridge, as it happens, and called 'of Clava' and 'of Cantray' to distinguish them from one another; and your Drumore of Glenferness is yet another. (If you search for 'Drumore' you'll find that there are three in the area called 'Highland'; the one at Glenferness, one on the Black Isle and one near Evanton.) HTH Anne