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Topic: Glebe of Birsay? (Read 238 times)
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nickgc
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GGF J. James McLellan 1864-1908
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Is this a correct way to refer to a specific area in Orkney, or is it simply "Glebe, Birsay"?
I have an old letter that uses the "Glebe of" phrase twice, once referring to a person who moved there, and again for a person who died there.
Trying to get a handle on where my 2xgrt gpa John Manson was between 1901 and 1910. In 1901 he was "farm manager" Hurtisgarth, Sandwick after raising his large family in Deepdale, Stromness. By 1910 he was retired at Firthside Cottage, Finstown, Stromness.
So is Glebe a parish in Birsay, or possibly a farm?
Thanks, Nick
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McLellan - Inverness
Greer - Renfrewshire
Manson - Aberdeen & Orkney
Simpson - Hereford, Devon, etc.
Flett - Orkney
Chisholm - Scotland
Wishart - Orkney
Shand - Aberdeen
Pirie - Aberdeen
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airdlass
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi Nick
Not sure if my reply will help but I have several of my family listed as born at either "Glebe, Barony ,Birsay" or Millers, Glebe, Birsay"
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Mackay,Manson,Morrison - Tongue,Skerray,Farr
Morrison,Mackay,Falconer,MacAskill- Eddrachillis
Bain,Henderson,Levack,Gunn,Sinclair - Caithness
Hourston,Spence,Whitelaw,Banks,Brown,Wylie,Drever - Orkney
and a few more - Revolta,Jobson,Spendlove
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alastairgm
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi Nick,
Glebe land was land owned by the local church which could either be farmed by the Minister himself if he wanted to or else let to another party. Either way it provided him with a bit of extra income.
Most parishes had glebe land for this purpose.
For a description of the Birsay glebe land look at
<http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/sas/sas.asp?action=public&> and enter Birsay as Parish. The second survey of 1834-45 has slightly more on the Glebe land of the parish (See Section V) but the first survey is an interesting read for a picture of Birsay at that earlier time.
Regards
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Moray - (In Rafford) MacDonald, Laing, Younie.
Orkney - (In Evie.) Robertson, Sinclair, Laird.
Herefordshire - Fox, Graty.
Gloucestershire - Price, Spackman, Bourne, Tugman, Burroughs, Brassington.
Cheshire - Fox, Orrett.
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