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Author Topic: (*Completed with thanks*)Place Names Watten & Halkirk.  (Read 3438 times)

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(*Completed with thanks*)Place Names Watten & Halkirk.
« on: Tuesday 27 August 13 17:03 BST (UK) »
I have certicates where the place names are difficult to read.
One is in Watten and looks like "Dunn", the other in Halkirk and looks like "Dalnagliton".
Have I got the spelling right and are these names in use today?
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Re: Place Names
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 28 August 13 09:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Langwell

The 1861 Census transcription at http://www.freecen.org.uk/ has Dunn as an address in Watten.
There is also a Dalnaclayton in Halkirk.

Before statutory education was introduced spelling could be fluid , and often depended on what was heard.

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Re: Place Names
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 28 August 13 17:42 BST (UK) »
The National Library of Scotland maps website will give you free access on-line to old maps of Scotland. Click on "Series Maps" and go to the 19th century 6" Ordnance Survey map of the area. It should show the places up in some detail.

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Re: Place Names
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 28 August 13 20:03 BST (UK) »
Dunn is a farm south of Loch Watten, the Tomb of Dunn there an old burial vault.

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Re: Place Names
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 29 August 13 16:31 BST (UK) »
Thanks for help.
Have found them on Map.
Langwell
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