Help with place name

[jillruss]

You beauties!!

What a pair of Highland terriers!! 

Thanks so much for getting me there in the end - it was hard work, wasn't it?!! Phew!!

Jill

[jillruss]

Were you playing Mission Impossible, Gadget?  Did you mean it would self destruct in 15 seconds?

 

Jill

[Gadget]

Bit concerned about copyright Jill. All maps are subject to it.
Gadget

[mitchell]

Well done Gadget and Bill 

Elaine

[Toni]

I couldn't make out what the date on the scan was.  The John REIDFORD in it is most definitely in our family tree.  Not exactly sure which John he is, with those exact parents.  We have several MORISSONs connected to us over the generations since the 1600s. 

Also, one of my 4 x great-grandmothers is a Margaret MILNE.  She was married to John ROSS.  Their daughter Isobel ROSS born 4th October 1809 Forgue Aberdeens, married 20th January 1833 in Marnoch to John REIDFORD born 3rd August 1811 in Marnoch.  John died 12th March 1894 at Barmouchy St Andrew's Lhanbryde.  Isobel died at Culvie Hill Ordiquhill Banffs on 9th May 1889. 

Our first REIDFORDs are found at Corskie Farms Marnoch c1650.  I'm in contact via FB with a 2nd cousin of my Mum's (ms REIDFORD) who was born Mary Joss Fyfe REIDFORD in 1968 Banffs. 

Toni

[Forfarian]

I see that i the Marnoch gazetteer it says that Knowehead http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ5853 is the same as Tillyfaff.

Not strictly correct, because both Knowhead and North Tillyfaff are shown close together on the 1871 Ordnance Survey six-inch map - see http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch/view/?sid=74426499#sid=74426499&zoom=6&lat=6781.34831&lon=12400.89326&layers=BT - the name Knowhead seems to have migrated from the original farm of that name, which has disappeared, to what was North Tillyfaff.