Tag: burial ground

  • Kirkton of Aboyne and Environs in 1696: a new old map

    Kirkton of Aboyne and Environs in 1696: a new old map

    Time is the Space that may not be seen. — William Emerson From Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon, p. 326 At the beginning of my last post, Mapping 1696: Cromars and Robbs in the Poll Book, I imagined what an incredible map could be produced by synthesizing historical map information and place-name orthographic study with the…

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  • Kirkton of Aboyne burial ground: a Rosetta Stone for Cromar mysteries

    Kirkton of Aboyne burial ground: a Rosetta Stone for Cromar mysteries

    Author’s Note: New research has clarified conclusions detailed in this post, in particular the location of Peter Cromar’s memorial on the map. Please visit the following related posts for the full story: Because this journal is about the real-time process of researching and developing a family history hypothesis, and not the hypothesis itself, I have decided to keep…

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