Place name in Kilsyth

[LindsaySiam]

Can anybody help with reading this and/or identifying the place please?  It is from an OPR baptism in Kilsyth in 1745.

thanks,

Lindsay

[daval57]

Looks to me like CraigenCurr

As far as I know, a Curr is a hill.

I can't find anything about CraigenCurr but there are a number of photos not too far away with a similar name here...  http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=4717156

Dave

[LindsaySiam]

Thank you Dave, I will have a look at the link. I also thought it could be Craigen but wasn't really sure, basically because the "i" isn't dotted and checking through the rest of the OPR, the obvious "i"'s are ...

Lindsay

[JulzDS]

This could be absolutely nothing at all, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. There is a nursing home on Tak Ma Doon Road in Kilsyth called Craig en Goyne. It's such an unusual name I think it must come from an old name for the area or something so perhaps your Craig en Curr was also around that area?

Julz

[pricech2]

Hi Lindsay,

I agree with you and Dave that it's CraigenCurr.  I've just been looking at the transcriptions my husband and I did last time we were in the Mitchell Library.  I have one from 1737 which is recorded as "Craigencur" and one from 1738 which is "Craigencurr, Easter Baronnie".  As you probably know the East Barony is the Banton/Kelvinhead end of the parish.  I suspect this name has disappeared as I haven't seen it mentioned in later OPRs and neither has my mother (born and bred Kilsyth) heard of it.

Afterthought - I wonder if it was anywhere around the area of the Craigends.

Regards...........Christine

[LindsaySiam]

Thank you Julz and Christine, I haven't got any further with it than that, I will have a look at the areas that you suggest Christine. May I ask 'who' your Stirlings in Stirlingshire are??

regards,

Lindsay

[pricech2]

Hi Lindsay,

"My" Stirlings are from Kilsyth as far as I know - this is one of my least researched lines.  My great x3 grandmother was Jane/Jean Stirling (b1827, Kilsyth) who married a Peter Comrie in 1845 in Kilsyth.  Her parents were David Stirling and Margaret Anderson (m1824, Kilsyth).  Any connections?

Regards..........Christine

[LindsaySiam]

I wish I knew  Stirling is one of my least researched lines also, basically because I can't find anything .... is it the same for you or have you just not got around to it yet??

James Stirling and Elizabeth McIndoe married in Killearn July 1801 and had 6 children. Elizabeth is shown on the 1841 census as Widow Stirling living at Blane Toll, so all I really know about James is that he died before 1841.

I really like the name but have to say that looking for a Stirling in Stirlingshire is almost a hopeless task in terms of searching, everything comes back with Stirling (the town). 

regards,

Lindsay

[LindsaySiam]

Christine, forgot to add that I am also interested in Miller/Millars, I don't suppose you have any connection to an Agnes Miller/Millar from Kilsyth?  She married an Andrew Mor(r)ison in Falkirk on 27th Jan 1792, proclamation in Kilsyth on 20th Jan also.

As, we speak, I am looking at Millers in Falkirk so if you have any of those as well ....... 

regards,

Lindsay