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« on: Friday 01 April 16 17:39 BST (UK) »
Ha! I thought you were in Indiana, USA!!
Yes Delachule would just be the actual farm, not an area. I drove slowly past today to have a look. Travelling south with the prefab on my right. There is obvious signs of where the house was on the left - you can see the flat footprint very clearly. There is also a substantial shed type building immediately to the North of it which I guess was part of the farm. I will indeed try to find out about who has been there more recently - although my neighbours have only been there for 17 years, not as far back as the 1989's, but I am sure they will know who to ask in the village.
Thanks for the info about Betty - I will have to look at it again - but I don't think it is 'my' Betty. Although it might be my William Stuart - will have to think it all through. My Betty was a McGregor at Delachule and although her son was James Stuart, he took his fathers name. Maybe she did become Betty Stewart/Stuart, but this was not her maiden name - she was a McGregor. Sadly the 1841 doesn't give relationships to the head of house. I suspect she was probably a servant or a more distant relative.
Will have to check if we were Johnstons or Johnsons - can never remember. They were the female line, marrying my male line 'Grey's'. All over northumberland, tweed mouth, berwick, ord. My mother is still in Berwick, and her cousin did all that side of the family.
Ali