> You can see the location of Ettles on the Roy Military Thanks. I see that there are (H)ogston, Ettles and Newlands, all quite close and all missing from the modern maps. (H)ogston and Ettles are also missing from the 1881 census, but Newlands is listed. Unless one or other of them has been renamed Sweethillock, which isn't named on the Roy map, they seem to have vanished fairly early on. They may even be under what is now RAF Lossiemouth, like Smithfield and North Greens are. > And, Anne, on this map it is spelled Stotfould. Yes. Could even be Stotfauld. Wikipedia has an article citing various spellings and suggesting that its name is of English origin, bestowed on it by Angles who sttled there in the time of King David I. Matheson, who is not regarded as the most reliable authority, suggests that it is a comparatively modern name, from Scandinavian 'stoat', which he says is a general Scandinavian word for an animal. Certainly a stot is a young ox or steer in modern usage. Not quite the same as modern stoat. Interesting. Anne