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Re: help with place names in wigtownshire
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 19:48 BST (UK) »
Hope to have some info for you soon, waiting for a farmer
who lives near there to give me a call.

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Re: help with place names in wigtownshire
« Reply #10 on: Monday 01 August 11 08:17 BST (UK) »
Hi Lakay

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, my friend is busy
with the sileage at the moment but will find out what he can for
me/.
Meantime a little map showing whre garcheugh is approx.
The postcode is DG8 9RT maybe you camn google it for now.
Will get back to you as soon as i have more info.
The farm is still there today.
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Re: help with place names in wigtownshire
« Reply #11 on: Monday 01 August 11 08:22 BST (UK) »
sorry about the attachment, did not come out the way i hoped,
will have another look at it

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Re: help with place names in wigtownshire
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 02 August 11 16:00 BST (UK) »
Hi Allan, Have at last had a chance to have a look at the rocks of Garcheugh. I did find some websites and the ROCKS. It looks a very interesting area, but I found on the websites that it's actually spelt GARHEUGH.
If your friend has any information I would still be interested to know how old the farm is and if the name was Garheugh Farm back then.

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Re: help with place names in wigtownshire
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 02 August 11 16:03 BST (UK) »
Hello. This might be difficult but would anyone be able to tell me the correct pronunciation for Garheugh in Wigtownshire and how it might sound with a Scottish accent.

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Re: help with place names in wigtownshire
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 02 August 11 22:11 BST (UK) »
it is pronounced Garkay

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Re: help with place names in wigtownshire
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 03 August 11 06:02 BST (UK) »
OK thanks for that Allan

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Re: help with place names in wigtownshire
« Reply #16 on: Friday 12 August 11 14:22 BST (UK) »
a marriage record has been found in the Old Parish Records of Old Luce in Wigtownshire in 1816 which states that he was from the Village and she was from Penninghame and they were married in D Dee, which is fairly clearly written like that. I believe they then lived in the area of Glenluce.
Does anyone know whether D Dee was a village/town or was it an abbreviation of a town.

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Re: help with place names in wigtownshire
« Reply #17 on: Friday 12 August 11 16:05 BST (UK) »
Hi lackay,
                I know the area pretty well as I have holidayed and researched my family  for more years than I care

to remember and it is not in Wigtownshire it actually refers to Donagadhee in Northern Ireland. I have it on an OPR for the area

in the 1820's . Presumably who ever wrote the entry could not spell or just decided to abbreviate it.

They more than likely came over to Wigtownshire from N. Ireland to Portpatrick known locally as "The Port" this was the route in

the late 1700 early 1800's and  mine were married there .Why they came over and married here I have no idea.

There is a close connection between " The Port" and Donagadhee as both have a lifeboat  I was there a couple of weeks

ago for "Lifeboat Week".


Betsy
PS Why don't you post the names you never know someone might be researching the same family
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