Help with Location .....

David Lang · Post by **David Lang** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:35 pm

I have added a 2 copies of the 1851 census for Denny Stirlingshire , i am trying to work out where my relatives are living.

I am interested in the Family of Stirling at the top of one page and Agnes Burns at the bottom of the other

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1283
http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1284

Thanks in advance

Gallery URLs added - AndrewP

Post by **AndrewP** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:35 pm

Hi DAvid,

You have uploaded the same census page twice.

That page has households at Bankier in the Quoad Sacra parish of Haggs witthin the Quoad Civilia perish of Denny. That should make it at the southern end of Denny parish, but I have yet to see it on a map. Various results on Google suggest it was the site of a distillery.

All the best,

AndrewP

David Lang · Post by **David Lang** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:41 pm

Im so stupid at times will upload the other one!!!

Post by **AndrewP** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:44 pm

Hi David,

That gave me time to find a map showing Bankier.

www.old-maps.co.uk
insert co-ordinates 273800 and 671900, then [GO]

You may need to select the Stirlingshire map if it comes up with the Dunbartonshire (a mostly blank page) one first.

All the best,

AndrewP

Post by **AndrewP** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:53 pm

Hi David,

Now I see your other census page is uploaded.

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1285

The place is Bonnyhead and that shows up on the same map to the south-east of Bankier Distillery.

All the best,

AndrewP

David Lang · Post by **David Lang** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:34 am

Thanks Andrew now have the location, i just couldnt read the writing

apanderson · Post by **apanderson** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:32 pm

Hi David,

The modern day place completely covering Bankier & Bonnyhead etc. is Banknock.

Anne

apanderson · Post by **apanderson** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:36 pm

David,

I meant to ask . . . .

Would your ancestors have any connection with Kilsyth?

The reason I ask is that there's a stone in Kilsyth Old Churchyard to:
James Lang (died 24.5.1855 aged 62)
Janet Stirling his wife (died 14.2.1880 aged 80)
Their children
William (died 8.2.1835 aged 2)
James (died 20.6.1843 aged 22)
William S. (died 8.5.1845 aged 10)
Margaret (died 26.11.1856 aged 18)
Alexander (died 23.3.1877 aged 46)

There's also another stone with James Lang and Janet Stirling with the date 1833 (I think it's 1833 anyway!)

I thought with you searching for Stirlings and your own name being Lang . . . . . ?

There are quite a lot of folk mentioned in there who came from Auchincloch/Bankier areas, probably because there was no burial areas immediately beside where they lived and Kilsyth was as near as Denny albeit in the opposite direction.

Anne

David Lang · Post by **David Lang** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:00 pm

Sorry Anne my Lang's are from Southend in Argyll via Campbeltown, Greenock to Glasgow.

Name was originally OLoynachan ( and 400 different spelling of it) till about registration then it was changed to Lang.

Stirling's are on my mothers side. I do howeber have Denovan's from Bannockburn/Stirling on my Lang side, a wee bit away but ypu never know!!!

David Lang · Post by **David Lang** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:08 pm

I have another Location problem for the same family (different branch) , they have moved to New Monklands Parish in 1871 and it looks like Dungavel ? to me , i thought Dungavel was in Ayrshire ? ( I did work there once)

I have uploaded the census info.

Also in 1881 the same family were in 4 Russels Row , New Monklands the GROS ref is FHL Film 0203697 GRO Ref Volume 651-2 EnumDist 3 Page 19 with a reference no of 651713