Watten Text Summary

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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