help reading placename please....

[maclennan25]

i thought it was Tornabreck, but i'm not sure?? 

any suggestions greatly received...

[Gadget]

Hi

would it be possible for you to put up a little more of the sheet - without breaching copyright of course -  I'd like to see some other letters to compare it.

I live up here and don't recognise the place at all - it could be an F or a T


Gadget

[Jane Eden]

Hi

Just in case this helps

Jane

[Gadget]

Thanks Jane but it's no clearer - even a ref to the census would help. I'd use 6 units just to see more 

It's not a parish and I can't find it or anything like it in Gazeteers. Might be Fearnbeg spelt wrongly but I don't think so. They don't have 'brecks' up here - beag, beg, broch, kirk........

Think the last bit is b...K or k...K

Gadget

[Jane Eden]

Hi Maclennan

Where did you get it from? Is it in the highlands? Do you have anymore information? Who are the people? Is it from a census if so which one?

Jane

[Gadget]

I've poured over my maps and can only come up with

Fearnbeg which might be pronounced Fernabeck on the north of the Applecross peninsular

or possibly Tulloch near Dingwall.

Otherwise it's so small that it doesn't show up. But we don't have all that many settlements up here. It's mainly sheep, heather and moorland with coastal settlements and the Black Isle on the East coat.

Gadget

[Jane Eden]

Hi Gadget

Where are you? On your profile it does not give a location but the imagination can always fill in. I thought you were in the midst of industry and city life until now. I now think you are among heather. rocks and tartan.

As for the place name we will crack it eventually.

Jane

[Gadget]

Hi Jane

See my very early postings on 'Pam it's snowing' or the Heatwave thread. I'm in the far flung corner of Wester Ross ovelooking The Minch and I can see the mountains of Harris on a clear day and down as far as the NW peninsular of Skye.

I'm going with a wrongly spelt Fearnbeg, a bit south of me, for the time being. I think I know evey nook and cranny of R & C. I've been here- first holidays and now living  - for 35 years 

Gadget

(I'm a 'townie' really and have to have my city fix every six weeks or so  )

[Jane Eden]

Hi Gadget

Wow. What am I doing in rush hour traffic every morning and evening and not seeing the stars because if pollution? I was in Lanzarote last week and now back at work in Nottingham. And I think I am quite highly educated (MSc).

Why do I not live at the seaside?
Why do I not live in the Canaries?
Why am I still at work?
Why do I live as I live?
Why? Why? Why?

Because it's what I am used to.

May be I need to think!

Years ago when I went to folk clubs there was a song about Bedlam, the asylum in London. It may not be politically correct nowadays but it pointed out how life was pressurised outside and not inside. The bit I remember was 'come inside you silly b*ggers come inside'. I know it was only a song but how much does it ring true.

Or is it routine that I love?

Jane