Tain & Daviot & Dunlichity.....

Post by **joette** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:27 pm

I plead total ignorance but my Ross' are doing my heid in.
My GGGrandfather Ross always gives his place of birth on Census as "Tain".Now I know his parentage-Isabella McPherson& William Ross-shepherd.Their are swathes of Ross' around the place & I am trying to pinpoint his siblings.Two signed his Marriage Certificate in 1870-Robert Ross & Isabella Ross.However I have two David Ross's on the IGI to the same parents -one in Daviot & Dunlichity where his apparent sibs are born too& one born in Tain-1837& the Daviot one in 1838 which if it was reversed would presume that the 1837 one had died & they had recycled the name.There could have two Davids I suppose too.
I have peered at the Maps but cannot decided how close they are to each other-miles away?

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:18 pm

You want to know:

how close Davoit & Dunlichity Parish is to Tain Parish?

Put Daviot into http://www.multimap.com and pick the 'Highland' option you'll find it's south of Inverness, just off the A9

Then enter Tain and zoom 'out' about 4 times and they'll appear on the same map.

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Post by **AndrewP** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:53 pm

Hi Joette,

Looking at the map, Tain and Daviot are about 27 miles apart as the crow flies, but by road (the old road, long before the Cromarty and the Kessock bridges were built) it would be about 50 miles.

All the best,

Andrew