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From: "Les HORN" <>
Subject: Fw: Old Scottish Counties
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:14:31 +0100

Hi List

Ian asked

>For my sins I have just started transcribing the
>1861 and 1871 census records for Mull.
>I'm having a little difficulty with the handwriting
>and could do with a list of the counties in existance
>at that time ie the likes of Haddingtonshie.
The Counties with two names are :

Angus or Forfar
Moray or Elgin
East Lothian or Haddington
Mid Lothian or Edinburgh
West Lothian or Linlithgow
Shetland or Zetland

It should be born in mind that Fife was/is known as the 'Kingdom of Fife.'

For some strange reason when the Chapman Codes were set up they ignored the 'ancient' names of the Counties.

I personally believe we should code these, and NOT change the county name, when we transcribe/extract information from documents:

Forfar FOR, Elgin ELG , Haddington HAD, Edinburgh EDI, Linlithgow LIN and Zetland ZET.

The following web-page is quite useful :

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Traditional%20counties%20of%20Scotland

Best Wishes
Les







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