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Parish Records for Reay, Thurso, Caithness

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Re: Parish Records for Reay, Thurso, Caithness

Posted: 4 Jun 2013 1:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 25 Sep 2013 8:19PM GMT
Surnames: Watson
Addendum September 25, 2013: We found Syster, on an Ordnance Survey map, and drove to where it was. There are two farms there now.

This is what I'm talking about; this was written in 1840: And I know a lot of these names don't exist today. But was wondering if anything is left to even see.

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The name Dunnet is apparently derived from the Gaelic Dun, signifying hill. The names of many places in the parish are, however, of Danish extraction, as Ratter, Syster, Reaster, Sunnigoe, Ashigoe, Getterigoe, etc. It is bounded on the north and north-east, by the Pentland Firth; on the east and south-east, by the parishes of Canisbay and Bower; on the south, by Bower and Olrig; and on the south-west and west, by Olrig and Dunnet bay.

Thurso and Wick are the market-towns. There is nothing that can be called a village in the parish.
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My husband's great-grandmother's mother died there and we have a book the ggmother owned with "Margaret Watson, Syster" written on the flyleaf.

I found Syster. It was in the 1841 census a small holding (not sure what the proper name should be) which had its own page in the census, 5 families with a total of 25 people. Margaret's father David was the miller at Forss. Or at least A miller. Sorry to sidetrack this thread...
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