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Re: Dingwall
« Reply #9 on: Monday 02 March 20 09:21 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Linda - this might really me and I need to investigate this further.  Best wishes
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Re: Dingwall
« Reply #10 on: Friday 26 June 20 22:05 BST (UK) »
Just to throw something else into the mix -

Weston isn’t/wasn’t common in the Dingwall area. In fact there’s only one appears in 1911 in the whole of Ross and Cromarty and her name is Constance. She is 11 years old and living in Resolis (not too far from Dingwall). I haven’t opened the census to see who she is living with but she marries in Kiltearn in the 30’s to a Charles Fraser (son of William Fraser and Annie Macdonald). She died in Dingwall in 1965.
Her headstone can be biewed online:

http://gravestones.rosscromartyroots.co.uk/picture/number1716.asp?st=Weston

It might be unrelated but I thought I would mention it...

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Re: Dingwall
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 27 June 20 11:19 BST (UK) »


Just to set the record straight, although it doesn't help your research much.....
There was an Albert Place in Dingwall.
Along with Victoria Place and other roads, it was demolished to make way for the Dingwall Relief Road and extension of Council Offices in the 70s.

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Re: Dingwall
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 27 June 20 22:33 BST (UK) »
Thanks Agneshill, I was going to mention that but forgot. Warden street was another that was demolished and Grant street has very few houses remaining, although it is still there.

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Re: Dingwall
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 27 June 20 23:45 BST (UK) »
(Oldmapsonline.org is a great free resource I use frequently).
What does it have for Scotland that isn't available on https://maps.nls.uk/ ?
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Re: Dingwall
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 28 June 20 01:07 BST (UK) »
Possibly nothing, as it is nls maps they open. I suppose it's what I've got used to and I find the user interface good to use for me.

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Re: Dingwall
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 28 June 20 09:47 BST (UK) »
Ah, right, thank you. Too bad - I had visions of lots of 'new' old maps to pore over.
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Re: Dingwall
« Reply #16 on: Monday 29 June 20 19:06 BST (UK) »
Thank you everyone for your help - apologies for replying to you all so late. 

I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with this information and am not quite sure what to do now to take my research further but you definitely given me some new leads.  THANK YOU.
Wright (West Ham, Stratford, Cripplegate)
Widenstrom (Chicago and Minnesota)
Swain (Cripplegate, St Lukes)
Wolfe (St Giles in the Fields)
Willis (Gt. Leighs; Brentford)
Bryant (Bristol, Glos)
Searle (Kent/Surrey)
Keyworth (Yorkshire)
Biggs (Harrow Weald)
Collins (Harrow Weald and Wiltshire)
Langston (Harrow Weald)