JustJean wrote:
Wow......I knew David was connected....but that was fast
Good to hear you're happy there now....ain't nuthin' worser than a peeved Jean
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Best wishes
Namesake
DWW might or might not be well be connected, but thanks to me in this immediate instance are out of place, since Jean received a response before I'd even got round to contacting SoL on her behalf, - as a concerned member of the User Group, in the particular context of the major problems that Jean had previously with this very problematic parish/registration district.
Cromdale is one of those really awkward parishes. Along with Inverallan & Advie, most, possibly not all, of that quoad civilia parish was a detached part of Inverness-shire in the middle of Moray as of 1729 (Ref:
The Phillimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers 3rd Edition, Cecil R Humphery-Smith, Phillimoe & Co., Chichester, ISBN 1 86077 239 0).
According to
Francis H Groome's 1890s "New" Edition of his Ordnance Gazerreer of Scotland, published by William Mackenzie (I believe that a CD version is now available) Cromdale parish's history is even more complicated according to this extract ....
"
Cromdale, a parish chiefly in Elginshire [i.e. Moray], but partly also in Inverness-shire until 1891 when the Boundary Commissioners placed it entirely in one county by restricting its area to that of the Elginshire portion - the Inverness-shire portion being transferred to the Inverness-shire parish of Duthil and Rothiemurchus".
So, obviously, not exactly straightforward to handle in indexing terms
There aren't that many situations in the 19th century and later which I'm aware of which are just that complicated, but be very careful in the 18th C and earlier. In the fast growing cities, however, as late as the early 1900s, there were major reorganisations involving the renumbering, realigning, creation of new registration districts etc., ... see, for example, the situation in Glasgow
http://www.talkingscot.com/rds/city-rds-glas.htm
Equally, in more modern times, many small registration districts have been amalgamated
The lesson to be learnt in terms of searching is that when a person or family suddenly "disappears" from the records, statutory BMD or census, it may be nothing more complicated that such a reorganisation.
In other words, the family may not have moved at all. So invest time in such a case in studying the detailed administrative history as it has affected the local geography in terms of census and reghistration districts.
David
David
