goldie and Lido Doratti wrote: >Can any Lister help me out pinpointing the croft of DOULSBURN, parish of Speymouth? I'm doing some Innes research in the area and cannot find it on the Land Ranger map #28. I do know Speymouth parish was made up from the parishes of Essil and Dipple, so I think it must be the same general area, but cannot find it. I also know not all crofts are on the map, but I'm taking a chance that someone who lives in the NE of Scotland is on line. > > It doesn't even appear on the ca. 1870 Ordnance Survey large-scale maps. I don't have the 1841 Census to hand, but in the 1851, "Douls Burn" appears as the residence of some 33 souls, in a dozen separate housholds, spread over two separate Enumeration Districts, so I rather think it is the name of an area, not of a single location. The only other "address" which appears in the same Enumeration Districts is "Bauds", a name which is applied on the map to a single "fairmtoun", but which was probably also the name of an area. One thought occurs: there is a watercourse near the farm of Bauds which is labelled as "the Black Burn" - perhaps the "Douls Burn" was an alternative name for it. Gavin Bell