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Deciphering Scottish place names of Inverness
« on: Sunday 06 June 21 07:56 BST (UK) »
Hi. Could someone please help me decipher the place names for where both Peter Cameron (miller) and Mary McGillivray were living, on the attached marriage register dated 5th September 1845.

TIA, Amanda

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Re: Deciphering Scottish place names of Inverness
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 06 June 21 08:17 BST (UK) »
GRAY - Inveresk; Lanarkshire
LINDSAY - Lanarkshire
PURDIE - Lanarkshire; W. Lothian
POZZI - Elgin; Lancashire
MACKENZIE, MORISON - Stornoway
ARCHIBALD, HAY, HUNTER, SNADDON - Clackmannanshire
COXON, HALL, JACKSON, SHOTTON - Northumberland

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Re: Deciphering Scottish place names of Inverness
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 06 June 21 08:20 BST (UK) »
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Deciphering Scottish place names of Inverness
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 06 June 21 08:22 BST (UK) »
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Deciphering Scottish place names of Inverness
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 06 June 21 09:30 BST (UK) »
Wow, thank you so much Isabel H and Neale1961 for such a quick reply. It makes so much more sense when you see it now lol. Thanks again :)
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