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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Roxburghshire => Topic started by: Ken S on Sunday 27 March 22 19:42 BST (UK)
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On Scotlands people a birth entry reads .... Thomas Douglass.. Herd? in Shotton & Oliver Young his spouse had a son born and baptised 21 first James ... May 10 1805 Yetholm because of the old hand writing some of this is hard to read .. what I am thinking is 'herd' might mean (and I know he was a shepherd) that he lived in or near Yetholm but his sheep herd was in Shotton Northumberland ????
He moved (with his family) up to Sutherland in about 1819 and is buried up there.
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'Herd' is the usual Scottish word for shepherd. I think he lived and worked at Shotton, but as it is not much more than half a mile from the border and from the nearest farm on the Scottish side, Yetholm Mains, the church in Kirk Yetholm is by far the nearest, compared with about 7 miles to Kirknewton
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Worth noting, too, that Douglas and Young are among the most common names among the Yetholm gypsies. See
http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/articles/gypsies.html#.YkHuySjMKUk
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Sunlaws .. thanks for that .. I did not know that Herd was scotish for shepperd. My Thomas Douglas married Oliver Young )Oliver died in Sutherland in 1855 and there is quite a long record on that death. Their oldest son William came to Canada in about 1839 ... and I am descended from that William (William married Hellen Paterson at Tongue Sutherland in 1824.
Hence my Moms maiden name was Douglas