Names of farms/crofts ending in "Buie"

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:26 pm

I have come across the following farms/crofts in my research:-

Faebuie
Knockanbuie
Fouranbuie

Does anyone know if the ending "buie" refers to anything?

Jean

Post by **emanday** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:34 pm

Closest I could find was "Buidhe" which means yellow

apanderson · Post by **apanderson** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:06 pm

I think you're on the right track Mary.

I was thinking of Drambuie and although "am dram buideach" means "the drink that satisfies", I believe the 'buie' bit refers to it's golden colour - of course I may be wrong!

Anne

Post by **Ina** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:05 am

Hi Jean,

Where were those farms located? Could those farms have belonged to the Buie family?? Buie was a popular family name on the Isle of Jura.

Ina

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:14 am

Hi Ina

All these places were in Cromdale Moray.

Last year I visited these places. At Faebuie I spoke to a man who thought the name was linked to " a stag" He had "read" about that somewhere!!

That's all I have to go on

Jean

ROY M · Post by **ROY M** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:45 am

Hi Jean
Couldn't find your names in my book but Marys "buidhe" seems to be right, meaning yellow.
Achiltibuie is "field of the yellow stream" or "field of the yellow haired lad".
Achadh(field)-allt(stream)-buidhe(yellow) or Achadh-a-gille-buidhe with gille meaning a lad or young man.
Drumbuie is "yellow ridge" or "yellow hump".
Druim(ridge or hump)-buidhe(yellow).
Hope this helps

alex19canteen · Post by **alex19canteen** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:47 pm

The surname Boyd has the same derivation.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:20 pm

The 1881 place name search facility at http://www.scotsorigins.com/ produces quite a few instances of "buie", - interestingly, a few of them in the counties of Wigtown and Kirkcudbright, thereby neatly illustrating the Gaelic language influence in the deep SW of Scotland.

Searching on "buidhe", however, produces no results, thereby illustrating the Anglification of this term to "buie" by 1881.

David

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:06 pm

Still trying to find a translation for Faebie

I found this today regarding the number of Gaelic speakers in Moray in 1891.

The language was strongest in the western
part of the area around Fèith Buidhe
(Faebuie ) and Am Baile Meadhonach
(Balmenach) with almost 40 % of the
usually resident population still speaking
the traditional language.

Anyone know the translation for "Feith" (Don't know how to make the accent over the "e" on this keyboard!)

Best wishes
Jean
Jean

Post by **emanday** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:26 pm

Sorry Jean, but ma wee blue book doesn't have anything like that in there.