Can anyone tell me where this place is?

[PrueM]

Hi all,
Having just downloaded a marriage registration from Scotlandspeople (very excited about this new service!) I am having trouble reading the place name after the bride's name.  I've attached the entry below.  It seems to say "Ashmades" or "Achmades" but not being familiar with the area (Boharm parish) I can't make sense of it.  Would anyone have any ideas?

Also, does the place name refer to where the bride is from, or the bride and groom, or where they actually married?

Thanks for any help! 

Prue

[PrueM]

Oops, just realised this should possibly have gone on the Moray board....I will post a link there, back to this thread.
Cheers
Prue

[Gadget]

Hi Prue

Like you, I'm having probs finding anything that looks remotely like it in the area. My guess is that it was where the bride lived and that it might well be a house or farm.

I'm so pleased about these new online images - trouble is I got most of the ones I wanted a couple of years ago (£10 a throw, they were  )

Gadget

[PrueM]

Thanks Gadget, I've now downloaded the groom's baptism registration and his parents lived in the same place, still looks like "Ashmades" (in fact the writing looks exactly the same - a long-lived vicar!).  I contemplated "Arhmades" but still nothing.

I guess it is a farmstead or some such place, not an actual settlement. 

My purchases of register extracts were very few and far between before now.  I think I smell my credit card melting as we speak 

Prue

[Gadget]

looking at the Strathdee above it the letters certainly look like Ashmades. It could have just disappeared. I had one like that and eventually found it on a very early map. Might be worth investigating any old maps of the area.

Gadget

[PrueM]

Cheers Gadget, I'll have a shufti around the net and see what maps I can find 

[prophetess]

Try this link you may be luck to find them on here and it will give you the plase clearly if its there,

http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp

[PrueM]

Thanks prophetess, I will try that too  (I really like that site, by the way.  Very useful!)

I just had more of an indepth look at the Boharm pages on GENUKI.  There is a place called "Auchmadies" in the Banffshire part of Boharm - I wonder if that could be it?

Prue

[Gadget]

Thats probably it Prue - Ach = Auch - same thing 

Added - My address contains two Achs and sometimes three