Place name in Kilsyth Family History Local History

	Welcome, Guest. Please login or register for free. Did you miss your activation email? Sunday 06 December 09 04:40 UTC (UK)

RootsChat.Com

Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901)

Scotland - General

Stirlingshire (Moderator: RootsChat)

Place name in Kilsyth

« previous next »

Pages: [1]

Author

Topic: Place name in Kilsyth (Read 686 times)

LindsaySiam
RootsChat Veteran

Posts: 533

Place name in Kilsyth
« on: Sunday 28 December 08 18:27 UTC (UK) »

Can anybody help with reading this and/or identifying the place please? It is from an OPR baptism in Kilsyth in 1745.

thanks,

Lindsay

Kilsyth_placename.rtf (179.91 KB - downloaded 82 times.)
	Logged

MORRISON - Dunbartonshire, Stirlingshire
STIRLING - Stirlingshire
LINDSAY - Perthshire
MELDRUM - Fife, Angus
GIBSON - Lanarkshire
HEWITT - Wigtownshire, Lanarkshire
MEIKLE - Dunbartonshire

All census information Crown Copyright

daval57
RootsChat Marquessate

Posts: 3087

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 28 December 08 18:42 UTC (UK) »

Looks to me like CraigenCurr

As far as I know, a Curr is a hill.

I can't find anything about CraigenCurr but there are a number of photos not too far away with a similar name here... http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=4717156

Dave


	Logged

-------------------
FORREST (Glasgow, Stirlingshire, Dunbartonshire)
BORTHWICK (Midlothian)
ROONEY (Glasgow and Co Down, Co Antrim)
ANDERSON (Moray, Caithness, Glasgow)
FORTUNE (East Lothian)
BARKER (Midlothian / East Lothian)
SIVES / SIBBES and variations (East Lothian)
ROCHEAD /ROCHEID and variations (Dunbartonshire)

OR VISIT MY SITE FOR MORE NAMES
http://daval57.tribalpages.com/

LindsaySiam
RootsChat Veteran

Posts: 533

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 28 December 08 21:43 UTC (UK) »

Thank you Dave, I will have a look at the link. I also thought it could be Craigen but wasn't really sure, basically because the "i" isn't dotted and checking through the rest of the OPR, the obvious "i"'s are ...

Lindsay


	Logged

JulzDS
RootsChat Member

Posts: 172

Census information Crown Copyright, from www.natio

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #3 on: Monday 12 January 09 04:32 UTC (UK) »

This could be absolutely nothing at all, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. There is a nursing home on Tak Ma Doon Road in Kilsyth called Craig en Goyne. It's such an unusual name I think it must come from an old name for the area or something so perhaps your Craig en Curr was also around that area?

Julz


	Logged

Seenan's - Glasgow
Delargy's - Glasgow (Possilpark);
Lennons - Motherwell, Hamilton, Glasgow (Gorbals & D/Toun) & Pennsylvanua;
Gallachers - Bellshill & High Church.
Borland & Summers - Glasgow & North
Baxters & Walls - Glasgow & Dungannon
Munro - Avoch
Patrick Delargy - Australia
McPhersons - Fort William & Abernethy
Hamilton - Caithness & Inverness
Thomson - Caithness

pricech2
RootsChat Extra

Posts: 14

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 03 February 09 12:25 UTC (UK) »

Hi Lindsay,

I agree with you and Dave that it's CraigenCurr. I've just been looking at the transcriptions my husband and I did last time we were in the Mitchell Library. I have one from 1737 which is recorded as "Craigencur" and one from 1738 which is "Craigencurr, Easter Baronnie". As you probably know the East Barony is the Banton/Kelvinhead end of the parish. I suspect this name has disappeared as I haven't seen it mentioned in later OPRs and neither has my mother (born and bred Kilsyth) heard of it.

Afterthought - I wonder if it was anywhere around the area of the Craigends.

Regards...........Christine


	Logged

Banffshire/Moray:
BURGESS, DUSTAN, GEORGE, GORDON,
HUTCHEON/HUTCHESON/HUTCHISON, M(a)cLEOD, MANN,
PATERSON, PIRIE
Stirlingshire:
BURNS, CAMPBELL, COMRIE, MATHIESON, MILLAR/MILLER,
STIRLING, WALLACE, WHITE/WHYTE

LindsaySiam
RootsChat Veteran

Posts: 533

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 03 February 09 12:39 UTC (UK) »

Thank you Julz and Christine, I haven't got any further with it than that, I will have a look at the areas that you suggest Christine. May I ask 'who' your Stirlings in Stirlingshire are??

regards,

Lindsay


	Logged

pricech2
RootsChat Extra

Posts: 14

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 04 February 09 12:06 UTC (UK) »

Hi Lindsay,

"My" Stirlings are from Kilsyth as far as I know - this is one of my least researched lines. My great x3 grandmother was Jane/Jean Stirling (b1827, Kilsyth) who married a Peter Comrie in 1845 in Kilsyth. Her parents were David Stirling and Margaret Anderson (m1824, Kilsyth). Any connections?

Regards..........Christine


	Logged

LindsaySiam
RootsChat Veteran

Posts: 533

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 04 February 09 12:18 UTC (UK) »

I wish I knew

Stirling is one of my least researched lines also, basically because I can't find anything .... is it the same for you or have you just not got around to it yet??

James Stirling and Elizabeth McIndoe married in Killearn July 1801 and had 6 children. Elizabeth is shown on the 1841 census as Widow Stirling living at Blane Toll, so all I really know about James is that he died before 1841.

I really like the name but have to say that looking for a Stirling in Stirlingshire is almost a hopeless task in terms of searching, everything comes back with Stirling (the town).

regards,

Lindsay


	Logged

LindsaySiam
RootsChat Veteran

Posts: 533

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 04 February 09 12:24 UTC (UK) »

Christine, forgot to add that I am also interested in Miller/Millars, I don't suppose you have any connection to an Agnes Miller/Millar from Kilsyth? She married an Andrew Mor(r)ison in Falkirk on 27th Jan 1792, proclamation in Kilsyth on 20th Jan also.

As, we speak, I am looking at Millers in Falkirk so if you have any of those as well ....... Grin

regards,

Lindsay


	Logged

daval57
RootsChat Marquessate

Posts: 3087

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 04 February 09 12:42 UTC (UK) »

This is a wee bit off topic but I am in the process of looking at my Forrest / Forest family in
Stirlingshire (1553 to 1854). I'm compiling a database of every Forrest birth and marriage and forming them into family groups.

Miller / Millar are there.
Elizabeth Millar circa 1740
Margaret Miller circa 1778

Both families were in Campsie

I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has Stirlingshire (or Dunbartonshire) links to any Forrest. The smallest detail might help me.

Once I've completed the database, I intend putting a separate post on RC.

Dave


	Logged

LindsaySiam
RootsChat Veteran

Posts: 533

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 04 February 09 12:50 UTC (UK) »

Hello Dave, I have some.

Children of Alexander Forrest (son of Alexander Forrest and Mary Watt) married to Elizabeth Littlejohn, Bonhill, December 1876 - actually descendents of my Stirlings above.

Also have a lady with the unusual name of Veir Forrest - entirely unrelated but her son, James Barlas married one of my XG Aunts Marion Glen, also Bonhill.

Let me know if they are of any interest and I will PM them to you.

regards,

Lindsay


	Logged

daval57
RootsChat Marquessate

Posts: 3087

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 04 February 09 13:15 UTC (UK) »

They are of interest although I haven't reached them yet.
I'm trying to be as methodical as I can so I don't miss any. I'm still working my way through Stirlingshire.
I've got a few links to Dunbartonshire but not many yet.

I'd really appreciate the details but will keep them on hold until I reach Bonhill.

Thanks
Dave


	Logged

pricech2
RootsChat Extra

Posts: 14

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 04 February 09 14:10 UTC (UK) »

Hi Lindsay,

I haven't spent much time researching the Stirlings because like you I can't find much.

I seem to have two separate Millar/Miller lines in Kilsyth. The first I know very little about: Alexander Miller and Marion Fairley (irregular marriage, 1820, Kilsyth). Alexander dies before 1841 so I have no more information on this branch.

The only Agnes Millar/Miller I have found so far was only born in 1793 in Kilsyth. Her parents were Robert Miller and Jean Semple (m1785, Kilsyth). I haven't looked for parents and siblings for Robert yet. Millar/Miller in Kilsyth is challenging, there are so many of them......

Regards............Christine


	Logged

pricech2
RootsChat Extra

Posts: 14

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 04 February 09 14:18 UTC (UK) »

Hi Dave,

I wish I was as far back as 1740 with my tree. I don't have any Forrests in my tree only Forresters (from Kilsyth).

Regards...........Christine


	Logged

daval57
RootsChat Marquessate

Posts: 3087

Re: Place name in Kilsyth
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 04 February 09 14:28 UTC (UK) »

Thanks for the reply.
At some point in the future I may go on to look at Forrester but so far I've not needed to which surprises me.
Dave


	Logged

Pages: [1]

« previous next »

[Copyright] [Shrink Link] [About Us] [Terms of Use]

All Census Lookups are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only
RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. Inline images in messages are the copyright of the respective linked sites.
RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT

In loving memory of Eric George Davies, 1934-2009, the father of RootsChat.com

Powered by SMF 1.0.7 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines LLC

0.067:18