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Place name in 1794 Sandwick, Orkney Marriage
« on: Sunday 28 June 09 23:22 BST (UK) »
Hi -

Just copied this marriage from scotlandspeople and I can't make out the final word. 
It states:  "Decbr 4, 1794 was lawfully married Thomas Wishart and Mary Broun both residenters in ??? "

Can anyone decipher the place they lived?  I have checked a Sandwick map without success.

McLellan - Inverness
Greer - Renfrewshire
Manson - Aberdeen & Orkney
Simpson - Hereford, Devon, etc.
Flett - Orkney
Chisholm - Scotland
Wishart - Orkney
Shand - Aberdeen
Pirie - Aberdeen

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Re: Place name in 1794 Sandwick, Orkney Marriage
« Reply #1 on: Monday 29 June 09 06:52 BST (UK) »
Could it be Bursey?

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Re: Place name in 1794 Sandwick, Orkney Marriage
« Reply #2 on: Monday 29 June 09 07:15 BST (UK) »
Is the first letter of the place name "R"?

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Re: Place name in 1794 Sandwick, Orkney Marriage
« Reply #3 on: Monday 29 June 09 20:35 BST (UK) »
Breckness, with old double "s" at the end?

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Re: Place name in 1794 Sandwick, Orkney Marriage
« Reply #4 on: Monday 29 June 09 21:22 BST (UK) »
Could it be Kirkness?

Isabel
GRAY - Inveresk; Lanarkshire
LINDSAY - Lanarkshire
PURDIE - Lanarkshire; W. Lothian
POZZI - Elgin; Lancashire
MACKENZIE, MORISON - Stornoway
ARCHIBALD, HAY, HUNTER, SNADDON - Clackmannanshire
COXON, HALL, JACKSON, SHOTTON - Northumberland

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Re: Place name in 1794 Sandwick, Orkney Marriage
« Reply #5 on: Monday 29 June 09 22:27 BST (UK) »
Thank you all - I think Isabel has it with "Kirkness".  Still can't find it on a map, but orkneyjar.com, in a story on the Kirkness family, states their name derived from " the name of a tunship in the parish."

So aye, Kirkness it'll be.

Nick
McLellan - Inverness
Greer - Renfrewshire
Manson - Aberdeen & Orkney
Simpson - Hereford, Devon, etc.
Flett - Orkney
Chisholm - Scotland
Wishart - Orkney
Shand - Aberdeen
Pirie - Aberdeen

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Re: Place name in 1794 Sandwick, Orkney Marriage
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 30 June 09 12:57 BST (UK) »
Go to http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/2nd_ed_list.html

Sheet 119 - Kirkwall shows the parishes, and Kirkness is near the "K" of Sandwick.

Isabel
GRAY - Inveresk; Lanarkshire
LINDSAY - Lanarkshire
PURDIE - Lanarkshire; W. Lothian
POZZI - Elgin; Lancashire
MACKENZIE, MORISON - Stornoway
ARCHIBALD, HAY, HUNTER, SNADDON - Clackmannanshire
COXON, HALL, JACKSON, SHOTTON - Northumberland

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Re: Place name in 1794 Sandwick, Orkney Marriage
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 30 June 09 21:58 BST (UK) »
Thank you!  I can see where I am going to be spending much of the day, tracking the travels of my Orkney and Aberdeen ancestors.

Nick
McLellan - Inverness
Greer - Renfrewshire
Manson - Aberdeen & Orkney
Simpson - Hereford, Devon, etc.
Flett - Orkney
Chisholm - Scotland
Wishart - Orkney
Shand - Aberdeen
Pirie - Aberdeen

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