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From: "J A Olsen" <>
Subject: Re: [EDB] Culross/Calross
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:10:23 +0100


Your searches are probably turning up references to Culross on the northern
shore of the Firth of Forth.

Its pronounced "queue-russ" and there is some historic property there - in
the care of the National Trust for Scotland or Historic Scotland, not sure
which.

I think it was one of the Scottish Kings who referred to Fife as a "Beggars
Mantle fringed with gold" because of the relatively wealthy trading
communities on the coastline.

Impossible to tell if any one individual came from Culross - the name could
have started as something else entirely, written as CULROSS because it was
the best guess of a local priest.

Leuchars is a fair distance away but in the early 19thC the sea would
probably have been the easiest way to travel, so in those terms Culross,
Leuchars and Edinburgh are pretty close together.



Judy


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>From: "Marlene Pointer" <>
>To:
>Subject: [EDB] Culross/Calross
>Date: 25, Mon Aug, 2003, 8:14 pm
>

> I am looking for families named Culross or Calross living in Edinburgh
> during the 1830-1880's. There are very few Culross/ Calross families
> anywhere, most in Fife Scotland. A search for that name or word finds
> mostly places in Scotland or Canada.
>
> Amanda Culross/Calross was born somewhere around 1835 in Edinburgh and
> emigrated to the US. I can find no trace of her in Scotland.
> The only Culross/Calross I can find in Edinburgh Census, during that
> time frame was Margaret Culross b October 1810 in Tayport, Leuchars, Fife,
> Scotland but in the Edinburgh census of 1881, living with a sister and her
> sister's husband, Mary and James Anderson.
> My thoughts were that Amanda may have been born out of wedlock and left
> for the US when in her 20's?????
> Marlene
>
>

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