Please can you help with my GREIG family ?!

[forthefamily]

Oh Kate...I wish I were you...a grandchild. I keep on trying to get rid of encourage my sons to have a more permanent lifestyle   (i.e. get married and have kids!!!!!!!!)

Let us know how it goes.

Mary Ann

[JEANP]

Hello Kate, just to say that the library should get you the Kincardineshire pre 1855 gravestone index if you ask, I've had the Angus one from my library.

Back on the farm name, what is possible is that the modern map only shows the farm as it is now. In times gone by, the farm would have been made up of a number of cottages called "Cotter Touns" hence the name Harriestown and as it seems quite big now, could even have been split into small crofts/farms as you say. Usually called upper. lower, easter, wester etc.

In 1868 the same farm as on the modern ordnance survey, is on the attached map as Harvieston
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/IndexMapPage2.aspx
It's still called Harvieston in 1927, so at some time between 1927 and today the name has been altered.

Thank goodness, we've sorted that out!!

Jean

[Isles]

Just to add my tuppence worth.  Both in William Garden's 1774 map of Kincardineshire and John Thomson's map of 1822 it's called Hervieston.