Elizabeth Murray birth certificate decipher - help please - COMPLETE - thanks

[MonicaL]

Always leave something something to come back for Steve  Pity though...!

Monica

[Forfarian]

baptd the 8th [...] (doesn't look like 'inst' but probably the only thing that fits).

It's currt, short for 'current', i.e. 'this month'. Means the same as inst.

The dates are a bit weird - not sure how 28th May 1802 fits in 

I think it relates to the next entry.

[Forfarian]

Looking at an old map of the area I came across a place near Bishopmill called Ardgye. Could this be what we're looking for?

No. You're looking for somewhere in the parish of Duffus, and Ardgye is in the parish of Alves.

[Forfarian]

I will try to visit the (former) East End Primary School when they open again for the summer.

The Moray Local Heritage Centre in East End Primary School is open all year round. It is closed only on Wednesdays in winter.

[stuartroxy]

Forfarian,

Thanks.  I can accept 'currt' and I agree that it's not Ardgye - still can't find it though!  I have also been to the Heritage Centre.

Stuart

[Forfarian]

I agree that it's not Ardgye - still can't find it though! 

I went right through the places in the 1841 census transcription and there is nowhere which looks even remotely like it. Nor in Matheson's 'Place Names of Elginshire', or the Statistical Account of Scotland. I did wonder if it could be Airydykes or similar rather than Armydykes, but it's a bit academic, really.

[stuartroxy]

Thanks again.  I don't think that I am destined to find Armydykes.

Never mind.

Stuart