"Moray, Scotland"

"Tottenham and Queensland Area"

"The area was occupied in prehistoric times by the Picts and suffered from Norse invasions in the 10th and 11th centuries.   The county comprised the eastern end of the much larger medieval province of Moray and was absorbed into the Scottish kingdom by the end of the 11th century.   Along the sea-coast the surface is mostly low and sandy; inland it consists of fertile valleys, divided by low hills, which gradually rise to the mountains on the S. border.   In the S. a large portion of the surface is still covered by forest.   The principal rivers are the Spey, Lossie, and Findhorn; the Spey and the Findhorn have salmon and grilse, and in the lochs there is abundance of trout; large quantities of haddock, cod, and ling are caught in the Moray Firth.   In the lower part of the Co. farming and stock-raising are prosecuted with great success.   The principal crops are wheat, oats, potatoes, and turnips.   Granite occurs in the South, and red sandstone in the North.  There are large quarries of freestone and a few slate quarries; whisky is distilled; and there is some ship-building at the mouth of the Spey; but otherwise the industries, besides agriculture and fishing, are unimportant.  Corn, timber, salmon, and whisky are the chief experts.  The County comprises 15 parishes and 7 parts, the parliamentary seat and royal burgh of Elgin (part of Elgin Burghs - 1 member), and the parliamentary seat and royal burgh of Forres (part of Inverness Burghs).   It unites with the County of Nairn in returning 1 member to Parliament.   [Bartholemew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887]

Comment: This family left Dundee, Scotland aboard ship for Sydney, Australia circa 1842.  They settled in Tottenham in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.  The Branch is directly linked to branches 29Q, 29S, 36 77.

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