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clarkcw
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19th Century parish and burgh maps of Whithorn
« on: Friday 24 February 06 08:53 UTC (UK) »

I have lots of information about my ancestors who lived in Whithorn (and may still), lots of street names and farm names.

Is there a county map or parish map of farms, streets etc that I could look at to place my ancestors exactly for the period 1841 - 1901?

Thanks

Charles


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Boongie Pam
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Re: 19th Century parish and burgh maps of Whithorn
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 February 06 18:27 UTC (UK) »

Hiya Charles,

A very warm welcome to Rootschat to you Grin

I have 2 different sites that I use for looking up locations.

Firstly I use multimap.

http://www.multimap.com/

Even though this is the modern day map many places have the same name or are near features that have a similar name therefore leading you to find locations on the older unindexed maps.

The best scale to use is the 1:25000 view as this is the Landranger series of ordnance survey maps - you can view farm names at this scale.

Old ordnance maps can be found here...
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

The 1850 Whithorn map is available. If you are on broadband it's a lot easier to scoot around the zoomed map - I'm dial up - it is possible but sooooooo sllllooooowww Grin

I use these maps in conjunction with the census (1851 is online free)

http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/historicalindexes/census.aspx

That way you can keep a note of the neighbours house names looking for 3 or 4 places is easier than 1.

Hope this helps,
Pam
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Boongie Pam
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Re: 19th Century parish and burgh maps of Whithorn
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 26 February 06 18:32 UTC (UK) »

I should of added there are parish boundarymaps at these pages here...

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/maphelp.html

They won't be at the farm scale but may help locate areas to look in detail.

All the best,
Pam
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clarkcw
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Re: 19th Century parish and burgh maps of Whithorn
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 26 February 06 22:08 UTC (UK) »

Thanks Boongie Pam,
These are a great help. I have already spotted several farms where ancestors were born or worked.

Charles


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