Hi Jane, Had a look on Family Search Site for Isabella Ross Brown with the birth date you gave and this is what I found, hope it helps, I have no connection to any of these Browns, just helping a fellow researcher. Alexander Brown married Ann Donaldson 19th June 1851 in Old Machar, Aberdeen Children -- Ann b 26th Dec. 1851 Mary b 26th Sept. 1853 Alexander b 2nd July 1855 James b 27th Dec. 1856 Alexander b 5th Mar. 1859 Isabella Ross Brown b 23rd Mar. 1861 all in St Nicholas, Aberdeen Good Luck Cathy In a message dated 22/10/2005 02:24:48 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hi all, I've found the discussion of Hill Head quite interesting, but does anyone know how to get into the Ordinance site? I did it by accident once, but I can't figure out what I did. The census records for 1881 show a Brown family with James as head, and an 82 year old Alexander as part of the family living at Braehead. Is that in the vicinity of the Hill Head you have been discussing, near St. Olga? It could be the family I'm looking for, the names and ages fit if my great-grandmother Isabella was mistaken, and her father was Alexander Brown, as it says on her birth certificate. Thank you, Jane

See - http://www.orcadian.co.uk/features/articles/motoringhistory.htm http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/7018 [scroll down to Miscellaneous section] 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]

sorry - also http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/PETRIE-SCOTLAND/2002-05/1022433522 mentions Hillhead in Holm. 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]

MARION MCLEOD wrote: > sorry - also > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/PETRIE-SCOTLAND/2002-05/1022433522 > mentions Hillhead in Holm. > Hi Marion, I take it that the Hillhead mentioned in the "Orcadian" article and on "The Modern Antiquarian" page both refer to the Hillhead in St Ola just outside Kirkwall. Incidentally, I don't think that whoever wrote "The Modern Antiquarian" piece is too good at Ordnance Survey grid references. I'd prefer HY447084 as a 6-figure reference for Hillhead. As for the Rootsweb article mentioning Hillhead in Holm that you link to above, yes, I did quote that and give a link to it in an earlier reply to you via this mailing list on Thursday. Maybe that message got lost somewhere in the ether and you didn't see it, though. I think I'll wait now until someone comes up with more definite information. :) Regards, Norman Tulloch