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I searched BNA for Hilton Cottage and filtered for Inverness.

This is the earliest newspaper reference I have found:
19 April 1855: Inverness Courier

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TO LET, FURNISHED,

From Whitsunday next, pleasantly situated about a Mile from Inverness,

HILTON COTTAGE and GARDEN, containing Dining and Drawing-rooms, five Bed-rooms, and every necessary convenience for a Family, with Water and and Gas.

Apply to Colonel Inglis, Kingsmills.

The first article with a Fraser connection is
27 August 1880: Inverness Advertiser and Ross-shire Chronicle

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DEATHS
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At Hilton Cottage, Inverness, on the 19th inst. Helen Fraser, eldest Daughter of Donald Fraser, carter, aged 27 years.

In 1885 there is a death notice for Alexander Fraser aged 27 years.

Then this:
15 March 1892: Inverness Courier

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At Hilton Cottage, Inverness, on the 11th inst/ ANN FRASER, widow of the late DONALD MACPHAIL, Farmer, Dell, Daviot, Inverness-shire (Australian and New Zealand papers please copy).

An 1897 advert for a dog that has been found.

An 1897 advert mentioning a gold brooch lost "between Canal Steamer and Hilton".

1906 death of Elizabeth Fraser

1912 a mention of a Miss B Maclennan, so the end of the Fraser connection?

Wow! that's a lot of information, and names for me to sift through - I can't thank you enough.
I have to add, that I thought Hilton cottage would be a tiny wee place - 5 bedrooms? That's impressive.

I have just discovered the death certificate of a family member, Elizabeth Fraser, who died on 26 February 1906, in Hilton Cottage, Hilton Village, Inverness.

I can only remember Hilton as being as a housing estate, but wonder if anyone out there has any photos of Hilton Village, with maybe Hilton Cottage.

Thank you, in advance.

on modern maps Glackour is on the A835 in Strath More south of Loch Broom : postcode IV23 2RT

I think this is the most likely.
Thank you for your help.

Quote from: heilanlassie on Saturday 23 December 23 21:29 GMT (UK)

Would number 43 be a flat through door number 42?

Extremely unlikely. It is customary for streets to be numbered with even numbers on one side and odd numbers on the other.

Having looked at several maps, I see that Budhill Avenue wasn't on the second edition of the 25-inch-to-the-mile Ordnance Survey maps, surveyed in 1897, so it must post-date that.

Budhill Avenue first appears in the Valuation Rolls in 1905, when there were eleven houses, three works and an office at No 43. See screenshot.

Looking at a more recent map, the odd numbers in Budhall Avenue are on the south side of the street, and Nos 11 to 51 appear to be missing. This is corroborated by the Post Code Directory, which lists odd numbers 1 to 9, 53 to 93h, and 101a to 229.

So I think that 43 Budhill Avenue must have been on the south side of Budhill Avenue, where there is a park shown on the current maps. On the 1897 map, all of the area north of the railway and south of where Budhill Avenue now runs is shown as the Acme Machine Works. See https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.2&lat=55.85422&lon=-4.16020&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld and https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/A/Acme_Tube_Works/

Budhill Street is south of the railway line and not connected directly to Budhill Avenue. I don't think it exists any longer. It is listed in the 1905 Valuation Roll but not in 1915, so its name may have been changed.

I have yet to find Budhill Road. No such street is listed in the Valuation Rolls available online, or in the Post Code Directory.

Sorry, Budhill Road, was a typo - I should have written Budhill Avenue both times.

My grandmother gave birth on 06 June 1906 in 43 Budhill Avenue, the baby then died on 13 January 1907, again in 43 Budhill Avenue.

It would have been good to see what sort of building the family were living in - especially as the book I am reading names the same avenue.

My grandparents came from Glasgow, and I know families from Glasgow went to Dunoon on holiday, so I wasn't too surprised to find my family in Dunoon on the 1921 census. My grandmother, grandfather, my mother and one of her sisters at Struan Bank, Victoria Road, Dunoon.
But then I got a surprise, because on the valuation roll for 1925, my grandfather is listed as a tenant for Struan Bank, as well as 9 Taymouth Street, Glasgow.
Again, on the valuation roll for 1930, he is again listed for the two properties.
What was all that about?