William Graham residing in Craggan??? 1862

[John915]

Good morning,

This is the parish church, Alness. Certainly not a ruin.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kb4/

John915

[josey]

Welcome from me as well 

The Census record is a transcription only - original image not available. Trying to work out what/where is "Corrimuillick (?)".

I suspect sight of the original on ScotlandsPeople [a pay site, Annie in case you did not know] is the only way of knowing...

ADDED: Is this the old Alness church
http://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/899019
Note
4 October 2013: External inspection finds the building remains in much the same condition as seen previously. Security fencing is in place and dangerous building notices posted. The building is engulfed in ivy.

[Rosinish]

The Census record is a transcription only - original image not available. Trying to work out what/where is "Corrimuillick (?)".

SP Entry

GRAHAM THOMAS
1841
40
071/ 6/ 1
Kincardine (Ross) and Croick
Ross and Cromarty

There are no images of any Scottish census records online (unless someone has uploaded any to sites), they have to be purchased at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Annie

[Ruskie]

It looks likely that William Graham would have been baptised in the Old Alness Church in 1827.

I only had a quick look, but I couldn't find a date of construction for the new church.

[Skoosh]

A good site for memorial inscriptions,

https://sites.google.com/site/highlandmemorialinscriptions/home

In addition to the Alness kirkyard there is a ruined chapel/burial ground at Nonikiln north of Alness kirk.

Skoosh.

[Ruskie]

An excellent resource, thanks for posting it Skoosh.

[despair]

The nearest I can find to the 1841 address is Corriemoillie,approx. postcode IV23 2PY,just above/right of the capital "N" on this map:-

http://maps.nls.uk/view/76343818

Regards
Roger

[hanes teulu]

The Census record is a transcription only - original image not available. Trying to work out what/where is "Corrimuillick (?)".

SP Entry

GRAHAM THOMAS
1841
40
071/ 6/ 1
Kincardine (Ross) and Croick
Ross and Cromarty

There are no images of any Scottish census records online (unless someone has uploaded any to sites), they have to be purchased at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Annie

Well aware of non availability of original images of Scottish Census records other than via scotlands.people.

[Forfarian]

Craggan is in Morayshire Scotland

There are lots of places all over Scotland called Craggan, and some in Ireland too. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=73078697&page=1 for photographs of some of them.

One that springs to mind is Craggan in the present local authority area of Moray. However this is in fact in the (historical) county of Banff, also known as Banffshire. This is it on an old map http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.3730&lon=-3.3541&layers=5&b=1

As the 1862 marriage was registered in Kincardine and Croick, County of Ross and Cromarty, the Craggan referred to must indeed be the one in the parish of Kincardine in that county, because if it had been in a different parish it would have said so. (There are also Kincardines in other counties, as well as a county of Kincardine.)

One thing to bear in mind is that baptisms did not necessarily take place in the church itself. It was not unusual for a baptism ceremony to be performed in the parents' home.

This http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1234671 says that the new Alness parish church was built in 1843. There are other photographs of both the old and the new church here http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=73078974

The Corriemoillie found by Roger can't be the right one because it is in the parish of Contin, which is separated by a range of mountains from the parish of Kincardine. 

However I see from the transcription of the 1841 census at https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl that the family were at Corrimuillie, and the other places listed in the same enumeration district were Corimore, Drumvaich, Luibconich and Croick Manse, which is on the mid-Victorian six-inch map at http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.8856&lon=-4.6057&layers=6&b=1.

This raises the fascinating possibility that the family attended Croick Church rather than going all the way to the Parish Church. See http://www.croickchurch.com/index.htm and http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NH4591

I cannot identify all of these places on the map but I think Luibconich must be the one on the old six-inch map called Lubachoinnich http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.9207&lon=-4.6768&layers=5&b=1 which is a few miles up the glen from Croick Church. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NH4195.

As for Craggan, I think this could be it http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2045330 and http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.9411&lon=-4.8062&layers=6&b=1 - I think this is in the parish of Kincardine, but I can't check that for certain as I don't have all my one-inch paper maps to hand. What were the names of any other places on the same page in the original census?

Re that 1871 census. Which parish is it in? It's impossible to overstate the importance of knowing the name of the parish, because all the pre-1855 records, and most of the records in the rest of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century were collected by parish. If Dalfaid is in the parish of Creich, this could be it http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=58.0911&lon=-4.7196&layers=6&b=1 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NC3914