Hello all, I too have noticed little traffic. The Duncan Sutherland mentioned, any idea of age? As I have observed various translations for place names, does anyone have an English version for Knockarthur and for Dalreavoch? Donald Lee Sutherland, Hamilton, Ontario _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

At 12:23 20/03/03 -0500, L Sutherland wrote: >The Duncan Sutherland mentioned, any idea of age? Sorry. The document is a pay book, so the columns in the booklet are headed Rank, Name, No.of Days Entitled to Pay, Rate of Pay per Diem, Amount of Pay, No.of Miles Marched Going and Returning. The officers were also required to add their signature so I have a copy of this Duncan Sutherland's signature. Presumably if he had reached the rank of Captain he was not a lad of 18 Sue Cardiff

'Knock' is Gaelic 'cnoc' generally pronounced 'krohk' with nasalised 'r' and 'o' and means 'hill', so 'Arthur's hill'. 'Dal' is Gaelic (from Norse) 'dail' = 'dale', pronounced 'dal' (the 'i' isn't sounded, but tells you how to pronounce the 'l'); 'riavoch' looks like 'riabhach' 'grey, grizzled, drab', pronounced rEE-avach (ch as in 'loch') --- so 'grey valley'. Adjectives almost always come after their nouns in Gaelic, as here. Note too how Arhur's hill becomes 'hill Arthur' with no 'the' or 'of'. Sara ----- Original Message ----- From: "L Sutherland" <lsuth27@hotmail.com> To: <SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [SUT] Duncan of the Local Militia List ... > As I have observed various translations for place names, does anyone have an > English version for Knockarthur and for Dalreavoch? > > Donald Lee Sutherland, > Hamilton, Ontario > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > > ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== > Please visit our NEW POSH web site at > www.sutherlandheritage.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >