1 Mile Map of
Thornhill in Perthshire Scotland
1" = 1 Mile Topo Map of
Thornhill in Perthshire Scotland
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| revised 1954, major roads revised 1971
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Legend
Tumulus "an artificial hillock, such as was raised over graves in
ancient times; a barrow, or artificial burial mound of earth."
Motte "a grove of trees growing on a prairie."
MP Mile Post
P Post Office
...... Civil Parish Boundary
Heights are in feet above Mean Sea Level.
Contours are at 50 foot intervals.
Nationl Grid Reference System
To give a grid reference correct to about 100 meters, locate the spot on
the map for which you want to give the coordinates. Let's use
Springfield in Thornhill as our example. Scroll to the left edge of
this map and determine if Springfield is in the upper part of this map
labeled NN7... or the lower part of this map labeled NS6.... Notice
that Springfield is in the part labeled NN so write down NN for
Springfield. Next, return to Springfield & scroll up to the grid
labels at the top of the map to determine how far east Springfield
is. Ignore the leading 2. Notice that I have not labeled every
grid line & have abbreviated the label of some lines. Springfield is
east of the line NN66. Estimate how many tenths Springfield is east
of the NN66 grid line. It seems to be about 4/10 of the way from NN66
toward NN67 so append 4 to NN66. Now we have Springfield is at
Easting of 664. Now look at the labels of grid lines along the left
edge of the map to see how far north Springfield is estimating how many
tenths it is above the line. It is 7001. Drop the 7 & append
001 to the Easting and we have 664001. Add the easting & northing to
the grid letters NN & we have NN664001 is the location to the nearest 100
meters, since the grid lines are 1,000 meters (1 kilometer) apart.
This is the accepted method of telling someone where something is on
modern British maps.
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The above is a 248,431 byte gif scaned at 150 dpi & reduced to 14 colors.
The above map & the 2 maps linked below, show John Marjoribanks' church
(Kincardine parish) & his wife Helen Murdoch's church (Kilmadock parish)
penciled in, in the east part of the maps. The scale of miles on the
paper map is one inch = one mile. The grid lines are one kilometer
apart (approx. = 3,280.839895 ft. = 0.62137 of a mile) (.62137" apart on
the published map).
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Click within the black corners on the map or
here to see the area within the corners enlarged double (a 299,503 byte
gif scanned at 300 dpi & reduced to 15 colors)
I have labeled Springfield House on this map. It was the home of
John MARJORIBANKS. I colored the rivers and lakes blue & cleaned
up the yellow along the fold in the map.
- Click here to see the area within the
corners enlarged double (537,565 byte jpg scanned at 300 dpi & having
269,236 colors). I hope this map does not need
doctoring since it is a jpg (full color).
The map below is a 50% reduction of a 150 dpi scan
of part of a 1:100,000 Topo Map
This map was added to this web page to show parish lines & to show my best
guess as to where the Middleton was that the Marjoribankses owned.
That Middleton (below) is SW of Thornhill in the NW corner of the parish of
Kippen, but this turns out to not be the Middleton that the Marjoribankses
owned. It turns out that the Middleton that the Marjoribankses owned
was Middleton of Boquhapple which is on the circa 1866 map below.
This map shows a wider area than the above map in hopes that
this map will be found to cover all the locations that we find were owned
by the Marjoribankses of this area. This map goes well with the
research report's description of the parishes that were searched for these
Marjoribankses (q.v.). This map also shows
the location of the Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715 in the upper right
corner. George Marjoribanks of Teviotdale joined the Scottish Army
after this battle and was deported to Viriginia in 1716.
I emboldened the parish lines with red spray on either side of the boundary
(shown originally merely as a string of dots). When the parish lines
followed creeks, the map below did not show dots along the creek as the
above map did, so to locate the parish lines in places, I looked at the
older 1954 map above. Where the two maps differed on the location of
parish lines, I followed the location shown below, except in eastern
Kincardine. It looks like this map (below) is showing that Kincardine
parish had land in 1980 east of the River Teith between the River Teith &
Allan Water, but I emboldened the east border of Kincardine as shown on
the 1954 map along the River Teith rather than embolden the parish lines
east of the River Teith, since they are not shown clearly below & since I
did not initially notice the difference.
1980
Click on the above 223,409 byte jpg to see it at its full 150 dpi size.
The above 50% reduction was put on the web so one could see the shape of
the parishes & see most of the map on one screen. The full size map
(linked from the above map) is 677,647 byte jpg & shows the placenames
clearly. The full size map had its contrast increased to 40 & was
darkened -40. After emboldening the parish lines, a copy of the map
was reduced 50% to make the above map. I then pasted the reduced map
into a larger blank jpg & labeled the longitude, latitude, finished words
that were cropped off & redid the distances to Lochearnhead & Muthill
along the top edge of the map.
Click on scale (below) to zoom IN or OUT
First Edition 1:10,560 County Series (circa. 1866) Map of Thornhill Area
Scroll to the middle of this gif (below) to see Thornhill.
Just east of Thornhill (on this map) is Middleton of Boquhapple (home of
Marjoribankses).
The above map is an 87,014 byte 2 color gif of a First Edition 1:10,560
County Series (circa. 1866).
Click here or on map above to see more of this
map at this 50% magnification.
Recommended Reading
10 Jan 2002
From: James Long
To: "James W. green"
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:14:45 -0500
Subject: Thornhill book
Dear James,
I just received 'Thornhill and Its Environs, a Social History by Stuart
J. McCulloch ISBN 1-900489-40-6. I bought mine from
www.amazon.co.uk the british version
of Amazon. I urge you to get the book there are three mentions of
Marjoribanks. I can only find one in the text. Pretty poor
community. Murdochs seem to have been minor landholders. Ah a
little said about whisky industry-one legal still implies a number of
illegals---hmmm maybe John was an 18th century bootlegger.
Allen
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From: Allen Long
To: ROGER ,
"JamesWGreen@Juno.Com"
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 13:57:59 +0000
Subject: AUTHOR OF 'Thornhill and Environs'
Dear Roger,
Good news! I've found the author of 'Thornhill and Environs' Mr Stuart
McCulloch is Headmaster at Belmont School, a boarding school in Perth. I
just e-mailed him about some of the references in his book. His e-mail
address is headmaster@belmontschool.co.uk
Allen
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From: Allen Long
To: James W Green III
Cc: MARJORIBANKS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:33:03 +0000
Subject: Re: [Marjoribanks] Sams: Thornhill book
Hi Janet et al.
The bibliographical info on the Thornhill book is as follows;
I bought mine through www.amazon.co.uk
This is the UK version of www.amazon.com
The Title of the book is "Thornhill and Its Environs" author Stuart J.
McCulloch publisher Stirling Council Libraries, ISBN 1900489406.
The current price is 7 pounds (about 10 dollars). If you have
trouble getting it in America or outside the Uk, send me an e-mail.
Allen
James W Green III wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:01:26 -0600
> "Janet Johnson" writes:
> >James,
> >
> ... Did you ask Allen how to get the
> Thornhill book? Remembering you asked about buying
> it, I looked up the letters Allen wrote about the
> book & put them at the bottom of my Thornhill page
> just now, which is found via
> http://Genealogy.Org/~green/Mbanks.html or
> http://members.FortuneCity.Com/jgreen/Mbanks.html
> Then click on 1, then 28 Thornhill.
> --
> James W. Green III/285 Agnew Rd/Winnsboro SC 29180 CSA
> home: 803-635-9236 http://members.FortuneCity.Com/jgreen
> http://Genealogy.Org/~green & working on:
> http://freepages.genealogy.RootsWeb.Com/~jwg3
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Click here to read about John Marjoribanks' house.
Click here to see John Marjoribanks' house.
The url of this page is
http://Genealogy.Org/~green/Mbanks/thorn1.html and
http://millennium.FortuneCity.Com/byker/362/Mbanks/thorn1.html
(
http://members.FortuneCity.Com/jgreen/Mbanks/thorn1.html)
This page was put on the web 30 August 1999.
This page was last Modified 27 June 2002.
This is the Bottom of this Web Page (End of File).
Click on the above 223,409 byte jpg to see it at its full 150 dpi size.
The above 50% reduction was put on the web so one could see the shape of
the parishes & see most of the map on one screen. The full size map
(linked from the above map) is 677,647 byte jpg & shows the placenames
clearly. The full size map had its contrast increased to 40 & was
darkened -40. After emboldening the parish lines, a copy of the map
was reduced 50% to make the above map. I then pasted the reduced map
into a larger blank jpg & labeled the longitude, latitude, finished words
that were cropped off & redid the distances to Lochearnhead & Muthill
along the top edge of the map.
