St Cuthbert.....

mallog · Post by **mallog** » Tue May 02, 2006 8:13 pm

Can someone tell me what general area of Edinburgh St Cuthbert's would cover?

Mallog

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:02 pm

Hi Mallog
St Cuthberts is a large parish - see
http://www.hoodfamily.info/misc/miscedinmaplarge.html jsp
I know I've seen is another map somewhere - NLS I think
http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/index.html jsp
but have not found it yet!! Will add the link when I find it, unless Andrew beats me to it!

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **AndrewP** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:29 pm

Hi Mallog,

St Cuthberts was the parish that covered all parts of Edinburgh outside of the "Old Town" which was made up of Edinburgh and Canongate parishes.

http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/ea ... cfm?id=614 jsp

Outwardly it reached out to the village parishes which are now all part of the City of Edinburgh. The surrounding parishes clockwise from north were North Leith, South Leith, Edinburgh, Canongate, Duddingston, Liberton, Colinton, Corstorphine and Cramond.

All the best,

AndrewP

mallog · Post by **mallog** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:36 pm

Thanks that was helpful. I did Google but clearly didn't put in the right key words. I have people I am determined to trace back. Two of the family were down in the 1871 Census as born in St Cuthbert's and I wondered if that could be near South Leith. I can see now that it could be.

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