Alistair, I have looked at Groomes Ordnance Gazetteer (1903), there are a lot of "Auchter-somethings", but no other Auchterhouse, or anything lilely to be confusded with it. Dave Howie > > Subject: > RE: David Bell 1776 Strachan > From: > "Alistair Bell" <alibell@tiscali.co.uk> > Date: > Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:55:45 +0100 > To: > PERTHSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com > > >I'm looking for David Bell b.1776. > >But the only info I can find is the following: > > 18 24 Jul 1776 BELLDAVID PATRICK BELL/ANN THOMSON M AUCHTERHOUSE 273/00 0002 > > 19 29 Sep 1776 BELLDAVID ROBERT BELL/JANET WOOD M LARGO 443/00 0003 > > 20 16 Mar 1776 BELLDAVID THOMAS BELL/ M BARR 580/00 0001 > >I think I can safely reject the Barr David,(Strathclyde), is Largo near to Strachan (or is it Fife)?? > >I know that Auchterhouse is in the county of Angus near to Newtyle. >But is there an Auchterhouse near to Strachan as well?? > >Alistair Bell. > >