Deasbrake Birsay does still exist although in a fairly ruinous condition being uninhabited for many years. Im not so sure about Quoy of Holland . I know the area and there is a ruin there which possibly could be the house. -----Original Message----- From: sue hamilton <sue_hamilton@hotmail.com> To: ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com <ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 02 October 1999 11:22 Subject: [ORKNEY] RE: Deasbrake, Birsay > > > >>My great-grandfather, John Cutt, was an 'agricultural laborer', living with >>his family at "Quoy of Hollands", Mirbister, Harray, between 1869 and 1882 >>when he moved to Edinburgh. >My searches for the deaths of his wife's parents (John and Mary Ann >Findlater), who came from Aberdeen, were not productive -- until I found >their deaths recorded at Birsay. They must have come from Aberdeen to stay >with/near their daughter. However, they died there AFTER the John Cutts had >gone to Edinburgh. (They both died in 1887 at Deasbrake, Birsay.) Do these >addresses mean anything to anyone? Both families must have been very poor. >sue hamilton > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >