Judy I have had another look at the map I have and have found a place called Minto. It is about 1 to 2 miles from Hassendean in Roxburghshire. Sorry to prolong this but everytime I look at this map I find something else. Regards Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Hall <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 7:36 PM Subject: RE: [SCT-ROX] Minto Kaims > Hi > Thanks to Don, Roy, Andrew & J A Olsen for the help with Minto Kaims. It is > the birthplace of my grandmother - given on her birth certificate. Maybe > there is a large rocky outcrop just near Minto. Is it a farm name or > village name? > > Regards > Judy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Asquith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SCT-ROX] Minto Kaims > > Hi Roy, Judy and Andrew, > > At the risk of adding more confusion to the discussion, it may or may not > help to confirm that, working from my geological dictionary (pub. by AGI, > 1972), kame is both a topographic feature and a geological deposit. As a > topographical feature, it is a "long, low steep-sided hill" originating from > the Scottish variant of "comb", a long, steep-sided ridge. As a geological > deposit, it is a ridge or mound of stratified sand and gravel deposited by a > glacial meltwater stream. All fine and good. However, I have not been > particularly impressed with the use of geological terms on old or new OS > maps of Scotland, and I don't think I have ever seen kame used in the name > of a place. I don't live in Scotland, and I have only been involved with > genealogy for about 12 years, but I do like to pour over maps. > > Alternatively, when I first saw the question, my reaction was that maybe > this word might be a variant of cairn, which is a pile of rocks, often built > by a herder with nothing else to do. With this interpretation, the 'm' > would be 'rn', the 'i' is as normally used, and the 'c' has been switched to > a 'k' which is moderately common with the surname Cairns. > > Maybe it would help to go back to where and on what map is that word? > > Don Asquith > retired geologist, California > > ______________________________ > > > ==== SCT-ROXBURGH Mailing List ==== > Roxburghshire: Home of Hermitage Castle and the Liddesdale 'limmers' > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >