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Aberdeenshire / Re: An occupation as Ground-Officer and a Tenancy passed on to a son-in-law?!
« on: Wednesday 03 February 21 16:01 GMT (UK) »
Dear GR2, thank you so much for your clarification comments. Your message it's very helpfull.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Place in baptismal record
« on: Tuesday 02 February 21 14:28 GMT (UK) »
Thank you very much!! It makes sense, the site (seen on the map) is close to the places and farms where the rest of the family appears 
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Place in baptismal record
« on: Tuesday 02 February 21 13:50 GMT (UK) »
I'm trying to read the name of this place (underlined in blue after Alex. and John Hay¿s?), but can't find anything that matches close to the name in any lists of local places, farms or crofts. Thanks for any help
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Aberdeenshire / An occupation as Ground-Officer and a Tenancy passed on to a son-in-law?!
« on: Tuesday 02 February 21 13:35 GMT (UK) »
Hello, I am from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Not long ago, I found an advertisement of 1801, in which an Alexander Murdoch is mentioned as "ground-officer" on the Estate of Kildrummy (Aberdeenshire). Between my ancestors, I find an Alexander Murdoch who married Elizabeth Callum at Alford in 1771. An Alexander Murdoch is also recorded in the parish of Kildrummy as father of seven children (four sons and three daughters), and at those baptismal records, Alexander is recorded as living in "Moors of Wester Clova", "Moors of Clova", "Muirs" or "Moors". The allusions to "Moors of Clova", "Muirs" or "Moors" probably refer to the same farm: "Muirs of Clova", which is a different farm or croft to that one named "Wester Clova" (both on the Estate of Kildrummy).
Interestingly, I found another advertisement of 1782 with a John Callum in "Muirs of Clova". It does sounds as if he may be Elizabeth Callum’s father or brother (Alexander Murdoch's father-in-law), since I found a baptism records [29/10/1751] of an Elizabeth Callum, daughter of John Callum in Bridgend, Alex. and John Hay¿s? witnesses. I also found a marriage record for a John Callum in the parish of Towie with Elspet Hay. Posibly the same family.
The advertisement of 1782 that mentioned a "John Callum in Muirs of Clova" points the following: "FARMS to lett. That there are to be let, and entered to at Whitsunday next, for such a term of years as can be agreed upon, the undermentioned farms, belonging to Charles Gordon, Esq of Wardhouse, viz. (...) John Callum in Muir of Clova will shew the farms in Kildrummy, and James Strachan in Laighmuir those in Wardhouse. Offers for the above tacks will be received by the proprietor at Aberdeen, or by John Callun, or William Wood, overseer at Gordouhall".
Although John Callum is not mentioned as a "ground-officer", I think it is possible that he was (or possibly a Factor).
Do you agree with my conclusion? Or do you think it is a coincidence? Is it possible that John Callum in Muir of Clova had been a ground-officer (or factor) on the Estate of Kildrummy and that this position/occupation and tenancy over Muirs of Clova passed on to his son-in-law Alexander Murdoch in Muris of Clova?
Not long ago, I found an advertisement of 1801, in which an Alexander Murdoch is mentioned as "ground-officer" on the Estate of Kildrummy (Aberdeenshire). Between my ancestors, I find an Alexander Murdoch who married Elizabeth Callum at Alford in 1771. An Alexander Murdoch is also recorded in the parish of Kildrummy as father of seven children (four sons and three daughters), and at those baptismal records, Alexander is recorded as living in "Moors of Wester Clova", "Moors of Clova", "Muirs" or "Moors". The allusions to "Moors of Clova", "Muirs" or "Moors" probably refer to the same farm: "Muirs of Clova", which is a different farm or croft to that one named "Wester Clova" (both on the Estate of Kildrummy).
Interestingly, I found another advertisement of 1782 with a John Callum in "Muirs of Clova". It does sounds as if he may be Elizabeth Callum’s father or brother (Alexander Murdoch's father-in-law), since I found a baptism records [29/10/1751] of an Elizabeth Callum, daughter of John Callum in Bridgend, Alex. and John Hay¿s? witnesses. I also found a marriage record for a John Callum in the parish of Towie with Elspet Hay. Posibly the same family.
The advertisement of 1782 that mentioned a "John Callum in Muirs of Clova" points the following: "FARMS to lett. That there are to be let, and entered to at Whitsunday next, for such a term of years as can be agreed upon, the undermentioned farms, belonging to Charles Gordon, Esq of Wardhouse, viz. (...) John Callum in Muir of Clova will shew the farms in Kildrummy, and James Strachan in Laighmuir those in Wardhouse. Offers for the above tacks will be received by the proprietor at Aberdeen, or by John Callun, or William Wood, overseer at Gordouhall".
Although John Callum is not mentioned as a "ground-officer", I think it is possible that he was (or possibly a Factor).
Do you agree with my conclusion? Or do you think it is a coincidence? Is it possible that John Callum in Muir of Clova had been a ground-officer (or factor) on the Estate of Kildrummy and that this position/occupation and tenancy over Muirs of Clova passed on to his son-in-law Alexander Murdoch in Muris of Clova?
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Aberdeenshire / Re: Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« on: Tuesday 12 November 19 16:28 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Josey, probably this is the map you mentioned:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/74425403
https://maps.nls.uk/view/74425403
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Aberdeenshire / Re: Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« on: Tuesday 12 November 19 15:14 GMT (UK) »I think the divisions are fields and the numbers are the areas of each field.Like always, thanks Forfarian!
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Aberdeenshire / Help with a Plan of Invermossat (Tenant: John Murdoch)
« on: Friday 08 November 19 17:22 GMT (UK) »
In a previous thread on the Murdoch family, I mentioned a John Murdoch as Tenant of Invermossat:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=806276.0
I found this plan of Invermossat at the University of Aberdeen Special Collections:
https://ibb.co/Tvr4YTf
I need help to understand it.
Invermossat is the terrain delimited in red?
The divition marked in the terrain delimited in red, are differents crofts?
What is the meaning of the numbers in those divitions?
Many thanks!
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=806276.0
I found this plan of Invermossat at the University of Aberdeen Special Collections:
https://ibb.co/Tvr4YTf
I need help to understand it.
Invermossat is the terrain delimited in red?
The divition marked in the terrain delimited in red, are differents crofts?
What is the meaning of the numbers in those divitions?
Many thanks!
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Letter dated 1847
« on: Friday 25 January 19 21:16 GMT (UK) »
Mckha, Goldie and Conahy thanks a lot for your help!! 
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Letter dated 1847
« on: Friday 25 January 19 19:33 GMT (UK) »Perhaps you could type up what you can read and leave blanks for what you cannot?Dear Mckhna thanks! I'm afraid almost nothing! I'm from Argentina and my English is not so good reading handwriting.