west plean

[janequeen]

hi iam looking for help about west plean ,1841 cecus for stevenson say,s plean moor,can anyone help.``

[still_looking]

if you're trying to find west plean then go here:

http://geo.nls.uk/os6inch/google.html

click on Map and find Stirling, south of stirling you'll find the M80 and M9 separate, follow the M80 down and you'll see a road next to it (A872). If you look across from that you'll see some roads which join to form what looks like a lopsided gr, centre that gr shape in your view and then click on historic

when you zoom in you should find west plean

on a modern map
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=281500&y=687500&z=120&sv=west+plean&st=3&tl=Map+of+West+Plean,+Stirling+&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf

also the statistical account from 1834-35 gives an idea of what the parish it was in was like (mentions Plean but not West Plean)

http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/link/1834-45/Stirling/St%20Ninians/

[janequeen]

hi ty very much for your help can you tell me if there is a graveyard in west plean

[still_looking]

you need to look at this

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=lrhrq1qb5fcgq0m7piisevolq3&topic=374509.0

no graveyard at West Plean as such, if this relates to the 1841 census entry then it's very likely the body would have been taken to a nearby graveyard such as Plean

[apanderson]

'Still_looking' is quite correct in saying that any burial at that time would be in a Churchyard rather than a cemetery as most of those weren't established until the 1880's.

To save you time reading through the above Rootschat thread, have a look here: http://www.memento-mori.co.uk/52.pdf which will take you directly to Plean Churchyard on the site.

I had a quick look through the index, but there's no Stevensons listed in Plean Churchyard.

Anne

[janequeen]

thank you very much for taking the time to look for me .
jane

[janequeen]

hi after looking at 1841 cencus it say,s plean muir camp can you tell me any thing about it please
ty jane

[still_looking]

google books makes it clear

http://books.google.com/books?id=n4MDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA319&lpg=PA319&dq=plean+muir+camp&source=bl&ots=6AXBRFWovD&sig=M-zF6hT3HFycH_BeYXfHPu6HHJI&hl=en&ei=QwyDS4SBDpW04Qa6xvyBBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=plean%20muir%20camp&f=false

"He will thus traverse the Plean Muir, by the back of the Plean Hill, and passing a small line of houses, still called the camp"

Apparently named after local tradition which said that King Edward encamped there before the battle of bannockburn.

On the old map I mentioned earlier go very slightly south and east of west plean, you'll see 'site of old roman road' and on that road 'the camp'

and a little more...
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/sct-stirlingshire/2001-03/0984602221

[janequeen]

thank you for all the infomation , on the 1841 census it say,s plean muir springvale glenmoro.iam still looking for the death,s of john and agnes stevenson.
ty jane