Help finding this place in Scotland please

[Joan of Archives]

Class: RG9; Piece: 318; Folio: 109; Page: 67; GSU roll: 542613.

1861 census David ROSE b approx 1805-1816 in Scotland, I can't read where though! I also can't find any marriage for him to Matilda either, she was born in Bermondsey in 1816 approx. Can anyone help please?

[kiterunner]

Well, his age is definitely given as 56 which would mean he was born 1804-5, but I haven't figured out the placename yet!

[kiterunner]

I'm wondering whether the first bit is an attempt at Morayshire, but if so then the nearest parish name I can find to the second bit is Rafford. The first letter looks like an N rather than an R, though, but I suppose the enumerator could have copied it out wrong.

[Joan of Archives]

Kite here they are in 1851:
Class: HO107; Piece: 1561; Folio: 138; Page: 6; GSU roll: 174794.

He seems to have lost a few years off his age by then lol! Does that help at all?

[kiterunner]

Ancestry isn't loading for me on the laptop at the moment, Joan, so I can't look at that page at the moment, but I have managed to find a baptism on the IGI for a David Rose, born 22 June 1806 and baptised 28 June 1806 at Rafford, parents David Rose and Christian Macintosh. Did your David have a daughter called Christian at all?

[Joan of Archives]

Hi Kite

Not that I can find at the moment, sorry

I wonder if that one could be him then?

[kiterunner]

Maybe, but it would seem more likely if he named a daughter Christian!

[Joan of Archives]

Kite his place of birth on the 1851 looks more like Burnsford rather than Rafford?

What do you think?

[kiterunner]

Looks like N Burnsford, but at least the county is definitely given as Morayshire on that one. From what I can make out from Google, Burnsford is near (or in?) Deskford, which isn't very near Rafford. I'll have another look...

[kiterunner]

I can't work out what parish Burnsford was in around 1810, might have to return to it later, sorry.