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From: Gavin Bell <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Newhills
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:27:22 +0000
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Jim Yeoman wrote:

>Hi Listers
>
>My g grandfather, Benjamin YEOMAN, was born in Aberdeen but I am
>having trouble finding where. Two census records give Newhills as
>place of birth but other unconfirmed records give Old Deer. I have
>been searching multimap.com around the Old Deer area but cannot find
>Newhills. My two questions are - is Newhills a town in the Old Deer
>Parish and could somebody please tell me where Newhills actually is?
>

Newhills is definitely not a "town" in New Deer. It is the name of a
parish on the NW outskirts of the City of Aberdeen. See:

http://www.urie.demon.co.uk/genuki/ABD/parishmap2.html

This is part of the Aberdeenshire pages on GENUKI.


Gavin Bell

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