Another Inverness-shire town name

[nickgc]

I get a distinct feeling that a lot of small Scottish town/villages have simply disappeared in the past 100-200 years.  Is that correct?  I look at Scotland's Place website and usually can't find them.  Nor are they found through a Google search.

The first one is in Kilmorack parish  (1808) and is the name of the place that Hugh Munro's wife, Margaret Calder is from.  Looks to me like "Teanaalan".  Other names on this page that have the same initial letter seem to be "Teanafsie", "Torrogormack" and "Teachnuick".

The next image is just me complaining... I am quite sure it is a multi x greats gma's birth, but don't you love how the recorder just refers to the mother as "his spouse"?  "This day... bapt. Catherine, daughter of Hugh Munro, Tenant Kilcoy, and his spouse..."

Thanks,

Nick

[Ruskie]

I love these Scottish place name searches. I will have a better look later (am doing this on my phone atm) but might what you think is a T be an I or a J? That probably won't help but it might give a few other search possibilities. Sometimes the smallest little places such as farmsteads were noted as places of birth in Scotland. I like to have a dig around some old maps to see if Ican find these places. There are some wonderful maps on the NLS site. If you can't find them I will provide a link later when I am on the desktop.

[Ruskie]

In the second one, I love "...in presence of some women". 

[Geoff-E]

Map
Teanassie http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=247287&Y=843960&A=Y&Z=115
Torgormack http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=248457&Y=845030&A=Y&Z=115

[Ruskie]

So far I have found Teandalloch and Teanluick Croft ... (NE of Torgormack).

[Ruskie]

I found Kiltarlity Cottage (south of Kilmorack, south of the river) ... 

+Teanassie (further 'downstream") ... Teanalick ... Teanroit .... 

[nickgc]

Teanassie... of course!  After all these years you'd think I would would consider that 200 yr old records could well be using 1 or more "long esses".

So it looks like the one I am looking for (Teanaalan) does have an initial "T".

Here is another bummer:  this couple had 5 children from the time they were married until they immigrated to Nova Scotia:  1807, 1809, 1811, 1813, and 1815.  I've shown you the 1809.  The 1807, 1813, and 1815 all have the child and both parents listed.  The other one I bought (1811), with more hope than forethought had both parents, but didn't give name or sex: "... had a child bapt named __________."

Nick

[nickgc]

Great Ruskie ... I'll go look at the NLS maps.  At least we know the prefix "teana" was a logical name.  I'll try to determine how far it might have been from Hugh's location in Kiltarlity.

If I can find NLS that is - haven't had to look at these maps for a long time.

Nick

[danuslave]

"This day... bapt. Catherine, daughter of Hugh Munro, Tenant Kilcoy, and his spouse..."

In the second one, I love "...in presence of some women". 

I've never been able to understand how men got this attitude about women.  Did they seriously think that they arrived on the planet fully formed and their mothers had nothing to do with it?  Credit where it's due please   

Linda