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From: Gavin Bell <>
Subject: [SCT-BANFFSHIRE] Cross-slacks/Crossford
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:26:33 +0000
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As part of an ongoing scheme to provide a complete (some hope!)
Historical Gazetteer of Banffshire, Ray Hennessy and I have recently
completed a fairly detailed survey of placenames in Gamrie*. It may be
significant, that while "Cross-slacks" appears in the 1841 Census, it
does not figure on our earliest map, published by John Thomson in 1832
as part of the "Atlas of Scotland". Of course, absence of evidence does
not constitute evidence of absence, and Thomson does not name every farm
and croft for which he shows a blob on the map, but he actually shows no
settlement at all where Cross-slacks should be. None of our sources
mention Crossford.

In view of what has already been posted, I would tend to think that
Crossford was abandoned some time in the later 18th or early 19th
century, and that Cross-slacks was a new settlement dating from around
1835-40.


Gavin Bell



* which you will find at:

http://www.abdnet.co.uk/genuki/BAN/Gamrie/locations.html

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