RootsChat.Com
Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Caithness => Topic started by: Rosezi on Sunday 11 March 18 18:33 GMT (UK)
-
According to the old parish records on Scotlandspeople some of my ancestors were from Banks, Caithness, I think it's near the town of Wick, but I am unable to find it on any maps - can anyone else help locate this village on an old map?
-
It looks as if it's on the SW of Wick itself:
http://maps.nls.uk/view/75804213#zoom=5&lat=7059&lon=3588&layers=BT
Gadget
-
and a link to an early map where it's called Rose Bank :)
http://maps.nls.uk/view/74400135#zoom=5&lat=5552&lon=7417&layers=BT
Gadget
-
The south side of the Wick River is Pulteneytown, a creation of the British Fishery Society, as Gadget shows, Banks has been a small estate prior to "Pulteneytoon's" time, which joined the burgh of Wick in the late 19th century. Wick Heritage will help here!
museum@wickheritage.org
Skoosh.
-
Thought you'd know about it, Skoosh :)
I didn't see anything on Scotlands Places but might have missed it.
Poultney as in Ullapool?
Gadget
-
Gadget, I think he was chairman? of the society in the 18th cent. Set up a couple of towns in the west. Wickers used to be a bit disrespectful of Pulteney folk! ;D
Skoosh.
-
Thanks for the useful info, Banks is also my surname and my father came from Wick, perhaps there is a link there somewhere! But it's my ancestors with the surname Farquhar/Fraquhar that all came from Banks. The maps have been so useful in finding all those little hamlets and villages that all my family lived in
-
Every time I've been to Wick, it's been ever so cold.
Love those old maps - we can take a walk around with our ancestors. The NLS should get an award for putting them online.
Gadget
-
Wick can be very cold and windy, I've been there there a few times. And yes, old maps are so useful for family historians, it's like a window into your ancestors lives
-
Stuff on Pulteneytown, herring & whisky!
https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/around-the-world/whisky-travel/17411/wick-whisky-and-the-herring-boom/
Skoosh.
-
Rosebank shown on the Thomson Atlas of Scotland 1832 (http://maps.nls.uk/view/74400135), and also in greater detail on the Wick Town Plan 1872 (http://maps.nls.uk/view/74417060).
Istrice
-
and a link to an early map where it's called Rose Bank :)
http://maps.nls.uk/view/74400135#zoom=5&lat=5552&lon=7417&layers=BT
Gadget
This link is a zoom in of the Thomson Atlas
-
Many thanks to everyone for all the info/maps - I was in Wick about 3 years ago and visited the whisky distillery,
-
Ee Rosebank Hotel in Week, burned doon a short ago! ;D
Skoosh.