Adam Hay and Isobel Newton

[EdithKennedy21]

Thank you so much

I have been to Ettrick and close to Yetholm

Visited some small hamlets when visiting Jedburgh where I knew Easton Rutherford ancestors lived and were buried

Edith

Interpretation is the key! 👍🏻

[Forfarian]

Thank you so much

You're welcome. Any excuse for a bit of map-related sleuthing is right up my street.

Interpretation is the key! 👍🏻

Indeed.

As is understanding that there can be more than one place with the same name and (even more important) that Google maps, modern road maps and so on are useless for this sort of thing, because they don't show smaller places like single farms or (obviously) places that no longer exist.

[EdithKennedy21]

Good day
Wondering if you can help again re Adam Hay an Ancestor which connects me to my Scottish roots

A contact has sent me an image and trying to decipher area listed against Adam Hay and Isabel Newton

Looks like Bearup but no results if search for this


Many thanks

Edith

[Forfarian]

If you're looking for a place in Scotland you need to know the parish.

See https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=758930.0

I see from the index at Scotland's People that this is in the parish of Hownam. So Bearup is almost certainly Bearhope. Also spelled Berehope, Bierhope and Beirhope. Unlikely to have anything to do with bears, but probably from bere, an old-fashioned cereal crop similar to barley.

See https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.0&lat=55.46790&lon=-2.37968&layers=257&b=1&marker=55.45968,-2.40480

Some photographs of the area https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=199845704

[EdithKennedy21]

Many thanks
That makes sense


Edith