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Hmm, it's a funny one.  Couldn't be 'Drum' written in a bit of a hurry?  The 'r' is in the wrong place for it to be Drum, but we all know that the clerks were quite good at making mistakes!

Edit - just checked the 1696 Poll Book, done by the ANESFHS (The People of Glenbucket, Cabrach & Invernochtie (Strathdon)) and there is a Drumakrie mentioned.  As far as I can tell, it's not on any of the OS maps but should be below Candacraig, near to Belnagauld and Lochans. 

I'm not convinced though!

Edit again - that's cause it is Durn.  No idea where it actually is, but there's a reference to a document held by Aberdeen University Special Collections which refers to "papers re. the rights to cast peats from the Moss of Deuchrie, and tack of the teinds of Skellater and Toldieskinch by Master James Erskine of Grange and Master David Erskine of Durn to George Forbes of Skellater, 19 Jul 1733."

They are held in amongst the Forbes family of Newe papers, MS 3402 and the catalogue can be seen at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Catalogue_online.shtml and an "any text" for Durn can be done.

Just hope that's not the one in Banffshire though...

Have you contacted Dundee City Archives?  They have poor registers for the East Poorhouse, and the Friends of Dundee City Archives have produced an index of names contained in the records.

There is one John Gall listed as entering the poorhouse in 1858 - he can be found on page 2 of the following pdf document, taken from the Friends site at http://www.fdca.org.uk/FDCAPoorIndexes.html

Link to pdf - http://www.fdca.org.uk/PoorListG.pdf

Dundee City Archives themselves can be found at http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/archive/

The register entry might give you further information about his date of birth, family, siblings, children, etc.

You could also try the National Register of Archives for Scotland (NRAS) available through the National Archives for Scotland.  They list catalogues of various organisations including those whose archives are held privately.  Their catalogue can be found here - http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineRegister/

There is also the Scottish Business Archives at Glasgow University.  Much like the NRAS they don't hold records themselves but have lists of various business records.  The businesses do not need to have been Glasgow based to appear on the catalogue.  Their online catalogue and online guides can be found here -
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/collections/scottishbusinessarchive/

Good luck!

I think it says "The quihlk day", rather than the 9th, it's just abbreviated.

Aberdeen City Archives are pleased to announce that they have been putting some of their guides and lists available to view and download online. These can be accessed through their website at www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/archives and selecting the 'catalogues' option from the menu on the right hand side.

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