MARION MCLEOD wrote: > Hi Norman > > I have come across reference to Hill Head in Holm too but it was actually > the Hill Head in St Ola. Could the St Ola and Holm boundary have changed > over the years? > > Marion Marion, I've been having a look for an oldish map of Orkney showing parish boundaries and this is the best I can find so far: http://tinyurl.com/9deys The parish boundaries are marked with red lines and, though the map isn't as detailed as I'd like, it looks to me as though the St Ola/Holm boundary is just where it is today. The little puzzle over the location of Hillhead, Holm remains, I think. The Hillhead you're talking about is the one not far from the north-east shore of Scapa Bay, isn't it? The one shown roughly in the middle of this map? http://tinyurl.com/7lhb9 Norman Tulloch

Hi Norman, Yes that's the one I was meaning. I can't remember where it was that I saw this HillHead, Bendigo and Gaitnip mentioned as being in Holm. On the other side of Kirkwall at the airport area some of the places were mentioned as being either in St Ola or St Andrews/Tankerness too and that's why I wondered if the St Ola boundary had changed at some time. Maybe the person writing down the data didn't know where the boundary was of course?? Marion Web pages at www.btinternet.com/~marion.mcleod http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/l/Marion-A-Mcleod www.photobox.co.uk/[email protected]