Okay, this is a new one for me. While this wasn't an occupation of anyone in our lineage, I stumbled across it. Flax heckler. "Hey, flax--you ever catch flak for your name? hahahahahah!"
In other news, made quite a bit of progress today after not finding much yesterday. But one of the few leads we got yesterday turned into gold when the librarian at the Ewart Library here in Dumfries knew how to find which farms we were talking about, and produced an old ordnance survey map showing the locations of both farms, which are just down the road from each other. Also on opposite sides of the parish dividing lines, which explains why we keep finding people in Inch Parish and Mochrum Parish.
Ate a delightful late lunch/early supper at the Old Bank Restaurant and Coffee house. Tonight is our last night at the Glencairn Villa B&B, which is situated perfectly for our needs, near town and VERY near the Ewart Library. Tomorrow it's on to Inch and Stranraer, with a side trip to check out the location of those farms we found on the maps yesterday.
I'll be back driving on the left side of the road, so watch out!
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