Watten
Principal Sources
OSA Vol 11 No 19 1794
NSA Vol XV 1845 (written in 1840)
RMS III (1798) 1538
RMS V (1341) 1587
RMS VII (129) 1609, (1508) 1616
RMS XI (558) 1664
RSS VII (1057) 1577
GD1/945/3 1522
GD112/58/14/9 1660
GD112/58/102/31 c. 1696
GD136/184 1801, GD136/336 1830
GD139/11 1643
RS36/2/118r 1606
RS20/1/pp 198-9 1665
RS20/1/pp 155-6 1661
RS20/1/p 206 1665
RS20/1/p 207 1666
RS21/1/327r 1701
RS21/2/232v 1730
Retours (Caithness) (22) 1644
SC14/90/7/2 1690
RHP 2177 1756
RHP 3909 Bylbster Common 1851
RHP 3910 Lynegar, Brabster & Watten Common
RHP 22347 Pennyland 1803
Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections Vol. I, SHS, Edinburgh, 1906 pp 179-181 – Description Parish of Wattin in Cathness Jun 1726
The Coghills of Coghill, Miller, D.B., in Caithness Field Club Bulletin, April 1978
Donaldson, J.E., Caithness in the 18th Century, Edinburgh, 1938
Donaldson, J.E., The Mey Letters, Sydney, 1984
Kirk, J. (ed.), Books of Assumption p 632 ff
The values of parts of Watten elude me. Dunn was probably an ounceland. The table shows 74½d +1/16d.
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