Shankerry farm near Elgin

[Fordyce]

An Andrew GEDDES is recorded as a farmer at Burnside, Elgin in 1841, newspapers report his death in 1850 at Bruceland, near Elgin, age 87 (where his son, dau and widow Margaret DUFFUS were in 1851). But records of his Will, and a Deed of Settlement record him as farmer at Shankerry, Elgin, yet I cannot find any reference anywhere to this place under any spelling variation.

The backstory is that his brother John GEDDES was proprietor of Elgin plantation, Manchester, Jamaica, and it seems that his Will leaving everything to his slaves, mistress and his 'reputed' children was eventually overturned, so brother Andrew as sole next of kin became the owner/proprietor. If so (I'm finding the documents difficult to read), it must have been a bit of a do for a farmer in one Elgin to become the owner of another Elgin!