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[Jonathan589]

Thank you for letting me in: your site is very clear and easy to follow and when I eventually put up a site for my own non-landed non-royal family I could do well to follow your pattern.

In your places index is Argyllshire – Dingwall. While there are several Dingwalls around, this one is in Ross & Cromarty. (Etymologically the same name as Tinwald in the history of 101053!) An example of the wrong county is no 43521 Duncan HCR Davidson of Tulloch. The Tulloch estates, starting with the descendants of William Davidson 345017, were headquartered in Tulloch Castle in Dingwall.

Currently, I’m getting a 404 error when I click on any of these placename links, but they worked for me a little while ago.

You also have several places in the county of Ross & Cromartie. That’s an old spelling of Cromarty and while it is the usual spelling in the Earl of Cromartie’s title it isn’t in the county of Ross & Cromarty. An early Cromartie managed to take his estate lands out of the county of Ross to form the county of Cromarty, and later they were glued back together as Ross & Cromarty. I daren’t be over-prescriptive here because the county boundary (like the spelling) has changed over the centuries and really ceased to be in the re-organisation of 1975. Here we normally refer to it as Rossshire or Ross-shire, but I try to be consistent with my own local family tree records.

In passing, I notice you have Ardguy as well as Ardgay in Ross-shire, I’d assume these to be the same place as Ardgay is pronounced Arguy.

I hope this helps…

[darryl]

Many thanks for all of these place corrections.