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[Sherlock]

This has been niggling awat to me - could it be Oathlaw?   

This is a small village about 5 miles north of Forfar and a couple of miles south of Finavon, on the A90.   The area is rural.

[Anjo]

Thanks Sherlock and legs for your help....

Its been bugging me as  to where it is....  nice to have a place mentioned on census instead of just Scotland but for all the good its done me so far... will try the site you suggested legs.  I haven't come across that one before.  Thanks a million everyone.


Angela.

[Forfarian]

List of Aberdeenshire names that start Old

It's missing the most obvious one: the parish of Old Deer. Not to mention the parish of Old Machar. I suspect that your list is too modern to include the names of parishes.

Forfarian

[Forfarian]

This has been niggling awat to me - could it be Oathlaw?   
This is a small village about 5 miles north of Forfar and a couple of miles south of Finavon, on the A90.   The area is rural.

Not if it says Aberdeenshire - Oathlaw is quite a long way from the nearest part of that county. I don't think anyone would get mixed up between Aberdeenshire and Forfarshire.

Forfarian

[AMBLY]

Hi
As you patiently  await getting his father's name & occupation name off marriage record, I wonder have you found Alexander  in the 1881 Census ( if he was in Scotland many folk have the CD set for Scotland C81 - including me, but my CD drive is playing up and won't read). He was a Stonemason so  possibly his father was also and still in the Aberdeen area in 1881....?

The Official 1901 Census, as opposed to Ancestry, transcribes his place of birth as "Old Darn". Bit of fun - Have a look at this site with your best Scots accent and Welsh ears on 
http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/aberdeen.htm

What about these possibilities
There is a locality in Aberdeen called "Bridge of Don". There is also reference to the "Old Don Bridge" here:
http://www.themaphouse.com/specialistcat/tallis/tallis.html

ABERDEEN:
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/aberdeen/
says that the original settlement was referred to as Aberdon and was at the northern end of today's Aberdeen, on the South bank of the River Don. Also says: "This area is now better known as Old Aberdeen or Aulton ("Old Town").

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/oldmaps/landdisplay.jsp
Has an 1869 map showing Old Aberdeen.

Some thoughts for the pot!
Cheers
Anne

[Anjo]

Hi Anne,

              Thanks for replying. Its much appreciated. I have been informed from an aberdeenshire person  that Old Don was a part of the old town of Aberdeen and your explanation of it being near the river Don would all fit in. So I think i'm getting there slowly. Cert hasn't arrived yet. Hopefully before the week is out.

Thanks for all your help those sites are very interesting.

All the best Angela

[Forfarian]

I have been informed from an aberdeenshire person  that Old Don was a part of the old town of Aberdeen

Well, I have to admit that even when I lived in Aberdeen I never heard the term "Old Don". Even the bridge is 'Auld Brig o' Don" and the area around it is "Bridge of Don". More to the point, if he was born in Old Aberdeen, the name of the parish of his birth is Old Machar, not Old Don.

The 1881 census records
Alexander Robertson, aged 10, born Old Machar, mother Jane (father not in huosehold)
Alexander Robertson, aged 11, born Old Deer, in the parish of Deer, parents Alexander Robertson and Eliza
Alexander Robertson, aged 12, born in Old Machar, parents James and Mary
Alexander Robertson, aged 12, born Old Machar, son of a widowed Donald

There are several others aged either 10 or 12 born in Aberdeen with no indication of which parish, and one more born in Belhelvie an living in Old Deer.

There is something odd about the 11-year-old born in Old Deer; I cannot find his birth or those of his siblings in the IGI, which is unusual for 1870ish.

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[Forfarian]

Here's the only likely listing that I can see on the 1881 census

Yes, that is the one I found, but I didn't post it for copyright reasons.