Edderton
Principal Sources
OSA Vol 11 No 38
Books of Assumption p 652 c. 1561
Calendar of Writs of Munro of Foulis (4) 1350, (8) 1370-1
RMS II (147) 1429-30
RMS IV (446) 1550
RMS V (1971) 1591
RMS VII (1995) 1619
RSS VII (486) 1575-6
RSS VIII (1554) 1583
GD71/43 1628, GD71/26 1622, GD71/69/3 1657
GD93/4 1350, GD93/8 1370-1
GD297/173 1351, GD297/175 1350, GD297/189 1529, GD297/190 1350×1364
GD297/217 No 23 1560, No 24 1544, No 36, No 53 (Retour) 1658
GD297/217 No 60 1609
GD305/1/86/97 1617, GD305/1/97/207 1629, GD305/1/97/208 1641, GD305/1/112/378 1673
RS36/2/142r 1607
RS36/2/258v 1607
RS36/2/259v 1607
RS37/1/124r 1619
RS37/1/141v 1619
RS37/3/332r 1627
RS37/4/233v 1630
RS37/5/71v 1633
RS37/6/159v 1638
RS37/6/326r 1640
RS37/6/378v 1641
RS37/6/399r 1642
RS37/7/116v 1651
RS38/3/43v 1666
ALI No 90 1467
SC29/1/1 f40r & f40v 1558
RHP 13299/16-36, 41-42, 1808
Retours (Ross) (89-90) 1642, (108) 1655, (111) 1657, (121) 1666, (150) 1691, (181-2) 1623, (187) 1664
Our most comprehensive picture of land-assessment data in Edderton comes from the Books of Assumption c. 1561. Either 6¼ or, more likely, 6½ davachs are listed. However it may have been as much as 9½ davachs if we include Moyblairie for which we only have two late valuations (Retours (Ross) (111) 1657 & GD297/217 No 53 (Retour) 1658). I have no valuation for Ardmore but would expect it to be a davach.
Westray was the old district name and included (RS37/4/233v 1630, Retours (Ross) (121) 1666, GD305/1/112/378 1673):
Milntoun
Ballinliech or Lichestoun
Meikle & Little Dallas
Edderton
(Little) Daan
Dounie
Westray is likely to have been a 5-davach unit if we assume that the whole of Daan was included at 1 davach.
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