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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Midlothian => Topic started by: lanarman on Friday 20 November 20 02:03 GMT (UK)
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Trying to find location of "Easter Houses" in Pentland/Dalkeith/Lasswade area in 1620 time frame. Any ideas?
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You will find 'East Houses' on the Edinburghshire OS maps available on MLS Scotland. It's east of Lasswade, near an area called 'Newbattle'.
I hope this is the Easter Houses you are looking for.
The OS map is from 1800's though, so please bare that in mind.
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I don't really know, but there is an Easter Cowden in Dalkeith. Easter Cowden farm (being East of Cowden I guess) shows on this 1852 map (under the "H" in DALKEITH).
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55.8883362, -3.0489448
I think this may be the village you are looking for?
It's in the right area. Near Dalkieth and Lasswade. The pentland hill range is there too.
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There is a settlement "Easthouses" just south of Dalkeith.
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This is a 1644 Map to the east of Dalkeith
https://maps.nls.uk/view/216547821
Don
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This area is now a large housing estate but I believe it was mostly farm land owned by the Marquis of Lothian at the time you are looking at. The Lothians family name is Kerr.
Over the centuries it has obviously changed greatly but I remember a farm there called D'Arcy Farm - a childhood memory from living in the area.
In the 17th Century there were probably numerous small farms in this area - tenanted but owned by the Kerr's.
In the 20th Century there was also a Coal Mine at Easthouses.
Dorrie
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Thanks for all the great responses. East House near Dalkeith makes sense as it is in the old parish of Lasswade. I have transcriptions for 3 baptisms in this parish for 3 brothers between the years 1627 and 1634 that name one of the witnesses as being from the "Easter House". But I will have to go to SP and download the originals to see if this is actually "East House" or "Easter House". It would not be necessary (in my opinion) for a witness to a baptism to be living in the same parish. I say this because 25 miles or so east of the Dalkeith area there is an "Easter House" which appears to be in either East Lothian or Berwickshire. Thanks to DonM and that great 1644 map, I can see both "East House" and "Easter House". I also found, online, a reference to the "Easter House" in the Wills and Testaments, Commissariot Records of Lauder, Parish of Bassindane (Bassindean). This could be the "Easter House" on the 1644 map (?)
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The answer to my question is EAST HOUSE. I downloaded the original baptism from SP and had it transcribed, here, on Rootschat. Easter Houses did exist but East House near Dalkeith in the Parish of Lasswade is the correct location.
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It would not be necessary (in my opinion) for a witness to a baptism to be living in the same parish.
No, but in that case the record would normally say which parish the witness lived in.
In my opinion it is much more likely that in this context East House(s) and Easter House(s) and Easterhouse(s) are simply alternative versions of the same place name.