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From: Gavin Bell <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] SMITH family New Pitsligo Aberdeenshire
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:44:07 +0100
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Louise Park wrote:

>A village is a grouping of houses - like a city but much smaller. A
>parish is an administrative area governed by the church. It may consist
>of a number of villages, even towns or part of a city.
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> wrote:
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>>Gavin,? Yes, the census record is from the Parish of Tyrie.? One of
>>these years I?will get my head around the difference between Parish
>>and Village.?
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All that I would add to that is:

(1) to this day some parishes contain nothing you could call a village,
being completely rural

(2) it is a good idea to get hold of a map which shows the parish
boundaries. By this I mean a historical map on paper - none of the
standard online maps show these boundaries. You can buy a very useful
series of reprints of late-19th century Ordnance Survey maps from:

http://www.caledonianmaps.co.uk/

(also available from ANESFHS)


Gavin Bell

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