Hi, I have recently obtained the birth an death registration details of Janet Scott who was born in Boharm on 20th December 1825 and died in Rathven on June 19th 1892. The birth registration states William Scott, Rushes had a child in fornication with Margt. Milne. I have been unable to find Rushes on Libindex or various web sites and maps. Does anyone know of a way of finding were Rushes might be? In the 1841 census there is a William Scott at Mossend and I am hoping that this is Janet's father but I can not find any evidence to link them besides the fact that one of the witnesses at the baptism was Janet Gordon of Malcolmburn. Malcolmburn and Mossend are very close. regards Graham

Wright Graham wrote: >Hi, >I have recently obtained the birth an death registration details of Janet Scott who was born in Boharm on 20th December 1825 and died in Rathven on June 19th 1892. > >The birth registration states William Scott, Rushes had a child in fornication with Margt. Milne. I have been unable to find Rushes on Libindex or various web sites and maps. Does anyone know of a way of finding were Rushes might be? > I can find no sign of "Rushes" either. Could the entry actually say "Rothes"? The reason I ask is that, until the great boundary realignment of 1891, the county boundary between Banffshire and Moray (or Elginshire) did not coincide with the boundary between the parishes of Boharm and Rothes. There was a narrow strip of territory on the east bank of the river Spey which, until 1891, belonged to Boharm, but lay in Elginshire. The situation was rectified by transferring this area, in 1891, to the parish of Rothes, but it may well be that, before this official transfer of territory, the area was locally considered to belong to Rothes. The "List of Placenames" which accompanied the 1st Edition of the Ordnance Survey large-scale maps in the 1860s and 1870s lists "Rothes" as a placename in Boharm, but as there is, on the relevant sheet, no single place thus named, I rather think this means that the label applied to the whole of this small area, which comprised the estate of Aikenway, including Brockholes and Sheriffhaugh. Gavin Bell