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Lady Macbeth
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Hi Karen. When it says a place, then Aberdeen, it often means Aberdeenshire, rather than Aberdeen itself. For example, a lot of mine are Dundee, Forfar. Now, I live in Forfar as it is a town in it's own right, but the area here now known as Angus used to be called Forfarshire.
Anyway, could it be Aberdour House, which is just west of Fraserborough, in Aberdeenshire?
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newsearch.srf?
This shows where it is
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=390500&y=864500&z=3&sv=aberdour&st=3&tl=Aberdour+House,+Aberdeenshire+&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf
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http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=390500&y=864500&z=3&sv=390500,864500&st=4&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=792
I will see if I can find it on an old map of 1880s and send a link.
Hope this helps
Lesley
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Gegan, Geoghegan, Gagan, or any variation whatsoever in Ireland (particularly Co Offaly/Kings Co) and Scotland;
Symons and Symon in Angus, Perthshire and Aberdeenshire, Scotland;
McKenna in Ireland and Scotland;
Wilkie in Kincardine and Angus, Scotland
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kenjo
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Hello my darlen,
I feel it means New Aberdour, which is 36 miles north of aberdeen.
regards
kenjo 
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kenjo
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Hi Karen,
I had better simplify, what jargon I went on with privately.
In 1877 Alexander McDonald Married Mary McGregor in Kent.
Alex's Father was George ,[ Joiner]
and Mary's Father was James, [Superintendent of Police]
From various census Alex was from Aberdeen, born about 1855.
His father, George married Elizabeth Mitchell, in 1846 Old Deer, Ab.
They had children but sadly, the children able to found are from 1857 onwards.
Elizabeth dies in 1876, and George marries again, in 1878 to Margaret Watson a widow.
So there is no connection as we thought at this stage, with Margaret Leslie, that sadly is another family.
I have proof, od your Alexander, being Elizabeth Mitchell's son.
Not what I thought earlier.
kenjo
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Forfarian
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When it says a place, then Aberdeen, it often means Aberdeenshire, rather than Aberdeen itself. For example, a lot of mine are Dundee, Forfar. Now, I live in Forfar as it is a town in it's own right, but the area here now known as Angus used to be called Forfarshire.
Assuming that 'it' means the IGI/LDS online index or the 1881 census CD-ROMs, then the last place name before 'Scotland' is the county. Thus Aberdeen means Aberdeenshire, Lanark means Lanarkshire, and so on.
There are some exceptions, including five ancient counties whose names were altered in the 18th century in line with the 'norm', and then corrected back to their proper old names in 1928/9. These are Angus (Forfarshire), Moray (Elginshire), East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) Midlothian (Edinburghshire) and West Lothian (Linlithgowshire).
Counties which escaped the loss of their old names are Shetland (though for a time it was designated Zetland), Orkney, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty, Argyll, Bute, Kincardine and Fife. Two are named after towns which are not their county town: Berwickshire and Roxburghshire. Then there is Dunbartonshire, named (with a spelling alteration) after its county town, Dumbarton.
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AITKENHEAD, Lanarkshire; BINNY, Forfar; BLACK, New Monkland; BRYSON, Cumbernauld; BURGESS, North-East Scotland; CRUICKSHANK, Rothes; DALLAS, Botriphnie; DAVIDSON, Oyne; HOGG, Larbert; LESLIE, Rothes; LESLIE, Mortlach; MENDUM, England; PATERSON, Larbert; RHIND, Forfar; SANG, Scotland; SCOTT, East Kilbride; STOREY, New Monkland; THORNTON, Shotts; WADDELL, New Monkland; WILKIE, New Monkland; WILKIE, Tannadice; WYLLIE, Lethnot and Navar; YOUNG, Keith
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