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Wester Auchlee, Peterculter - were was it?
« on: Friday 30 June 23 11:45 BST (UK) »
Hi, I'm trying to track down where Wester Auchlee, Peterculter, Aberdeenshire is, please?
I've got various LAWSON relatives living there in the 1840s. Any help for an as-near-as-exact location on a map would be lovely  :) :)
Many thanks
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Re: Wester Auchlee, Peterculter - where was it?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 30 June 23 12:21 BST (UK) »
According to FreeCEN, Wester Auchlee is in Enumeration District No 1 Peterculter in the 1841 census. It is listed after Cadgerford and Bishop Dams and before Craigluge and Gairn. Other places in the same ED include Backhill of Auchlee, Hoggin, Rotten of Gairn, Blacktop, Fifeshill, Kingshill, Longside, Bloomfield, and Lo(a)nhead.

Therefore it is somewhere on this map https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15.1&lat=57.14171&lon=-2.25804&layers=5&b=1 but isn't separately named.

This https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ8405 is the modern version of the map and you can see there a photograph labelled West Auchlea. This is on the site of the farm marked as Reekitlane on the old map.

The photographed house might be the one your Lawsons lived in, but if it is it has been so altered that they would probably not recognise it.
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