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Please note that the Archive Searchroom is closed on Fridays BUT the Family History Centre is open. High Life Highland is a company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland No. SC407011 and is a registered Scottish charity No. SC042593
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Highland Archive CentreFriday, September 20th, 2019 3:54pm
This Valuation Roll for the Parish of Kincardine from 1922 contains a list of addresses with names of the proprietor, tenant, and occupier for each, alongside a yearly rent or value. As with many rural communities in Scotland, many instances of nicknames, known as by-names or tee-names, can be found in Kincardine. This parish is located in the heart of Ross country and we can see in this valuation roll an example of the many names used to distinguish between the multitude of Ross families in the area, such as, “Watt”, “Eyre”, “Gow”, “Macconachie”, “Callum”, and “Roy”.
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Highland Archive CentreWednesday, September 18th, 2019 4:47pm
In many rural areas across the Highlands side schools were set up to accommodate the needs of children where geography made it difficult to attend the parish school. This log book was kept at Croick Farm Side School during WWII. The below entries detail some of the happenings at the school towards the end of 1943.

“September 3 Fourth anniversary of the outbreak of war and recognised as a day of national prayer. The children and teacher attended a short service held in the Public School at 3.30pm.”
“October 22 School closed to-day for one week for potato-lifting. There has been perfect attendance in October.”
“November 1 School re-opened with same two pupils on the roll.”
“November 11 School closed for observance of the annual Harvest Thanksgiving Fast Day. Pupils attended divine service in Hall.”
“December 12 The name of Virginia M. Moffat was added to the register as the weather is now too stormy for her to attend Croick Public School, three and a half miles distant.”
“December 10 There has been perfect attendance since Nov. 28. This school closes to-day as the pupils are in future to attend Croick Public School where the teacher of this side school is to take over the teaching of the pupils now attending Croick Primary School in addition to the pupils of this side school in the near future. This side school was closed at 3.30pm by the singing of the Christmas Paraphrase number 19; a prayer was offered by Rev. W R Craig and the children joined in repeating our Lord’s Prayer.”
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Highland Archive CentreMonday, September 16th, 2019 4:31pm
This week we move our focus on to the Parish of Kincardine in Ross and Cromarty. Kincardine is situated in an area west of the Dornoch Firth. “The bounding parishes are Edderton on the east, Rosskeen, Alness, Fodderty and Contin on the south, Assynt on the north-west and Creich (Sutherland) on the north and north-east.” 3rd Statistical Account of Scotland Vol. XIII

A census taken in 1755 gave the population as 1,743, and this number fluctuated over the following century, rising to a high of 2,108 in the 1841 census. The population then declined so sharply that by 1951 only 743 people resided in the parish.

This second edition OS map, published in 1907, shows the village of Ardgay. According to W. J. Watson’s Place-Names of Ross and Cromarty the name Ardgay is derived from the Gaelic “ard gaoith”, meaning “windy height”.
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Highland Archive CentreFriday, September 13th, 2019 3:51pm
We are now half way through our current block of Family History for Beginners classes. These will be followed by our Archives for Beginners classes, starting on Friday 4th October and there is still time to book your place. Both sets of classes will be running again in the New Year; to put your name on the list or for more information please feel free to contact us, 01349 781130 or archives@highlifehighland.com
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From Thursday 14th February 2019 HARCs telephone number has changed to  01349 781130, we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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