The Succoth in question is actually here.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.408203,-2.9675803,14z
However which farm is it.
Don
Thanks for responding DonM and GR2 - since posting yesterday I have done a little more online research and did find mention of Succoth in Strathdeveron in various land transactions. I was a bit puzzled by the name Succoth appearing twice in the 1832 Thompson map until I realized that the Succoth to the east of the river Deveron refers to the hill (also called The Succoch) and there is a small tributary of The Deveron named the Succoth.
http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/thomson/index.html According to Macfarlane's geographical collections on Scotland, written about 1725, Succoth was one of a few "gentleman's seats" in The Cabrach:
"The parioch of Cabrach is in the diocese of Aberdeen, and partly in that shire, namely, the south side of Doveran ; and partly in Bamfshire, namely, the north side of Doveran. The church lyes upon the river of Royster, twenty-eight miles north-west from Aberdeen. Gentlemens seats here are, Lismurdie, four miles east, The Soccoch, five miles east from the church, both on the north side of Doveran."
The Gordons of Beldorney owned Succoth , complete with the farms of Greenloan and Belcherrie, prior to the birth of Mary Bain (c. 1770). In 1776 Charles Edward Gordon, eleventh and last Laird of Beldorney, sold the lands and castle of Beldorney, with Belcherrie and Soccoch to Thomas Buchan of Auchmacoy ("A Glass Farmer's Diary"), who in 1792 sold them to Sir Wm. Grant, Master of the Rolls.
According to this website on the Cabrach
http://www.threestones.co.uk/books/feerings/chapter2.html"Soccoch and Belcherrie.-These two farms are between the Lesmurdie estate and the boundary between the Lower Cabrach and Glass. They belong, with Greenloan, which is included in Soccoch, to Mr Grant of Beldorney, in Glass. They both came to the Grants in 1792, when "Wm. Grant, Counsellor at Law, London, was seised, Jan. 20th, 1792, in third part of Belcherrie, comp. Succoth, par. Mortlich, now Cabrach, &c". (Register of the Great Seal, Feb. 3rd, 1792.)"
Now that I think I have found where Mary Bain may have been born - Succoth, Strathdeveron area, Aberdeenshire - there seems to be no record of her birth. There were Bain families in this area of The Cabrach from at least the 1740's, in places named Aldivalloch , Ordieton, Powneed, Whitehillock, but there is no mention of Mary Bain born c 1770, at least not in The Cabrach registers - maybe I need to check the Glass registers?
I am just puzzling why a girl from The lower Cabrach would be married to Peter Stewart, a hand loom weaver from Kinclaven, Perthshire - and why their children were born at Strelitz, Cargill parish. I am wondering if there may be a military connection of some sort?
