JUst to add -- it is given on the OPR's as well. But likely you are right and it was a small croft which has disappeared or taken into a larger one. On one of the baptism records Bauds was mentioned, so I thought it must be close by, but I couldn't be sure. With thanks for all your help........GOldie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Burgess" <anne.listmail@btinternet.com> To: <moray@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 5:44 AM Subject: Re: [MORAY] Croft of DOULSBURN > pinpointing the croft of DOULSBURN, parish of > Speymouth? I live near there and I have driven, walked and cycled around Speymouth, but I do not recognise the name Doulsburn. However in the 1841 census it is listed with Blackburn and Bads. The latter will be the area including Easter and Wester Bauds, which is south of the main A96 road west of Mosstodloch. Blackburn is a little further south, beside the railway line. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ3059, which I reckon must be pretty close to Doulsburn I can find Blackburn and Easter and Wester Bauds on the 1870s six-inch Ordnance Survey maps, but not Doulsburn. So I think that Doulsburn must have disappeared, perhaps under some of the forest plantations. There is a slim chance that it could be a mistranscription in FreeCen, because the rest of the same enumeration district has some truly weird-looking transcriptions of place names. Hope this helps. Anne ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MORAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message