Elizabeth Durran

Little is known about Honeyman Old's mother, Elizabeth or Eliza Durran.  I suppose that seeing her name shortened tells us what she was known as and we do know that she was from Dolphkempt, which we know as Toftkemp and suspect was actually Auchorn but that's about it.

There is an area just west of the Thura/Auchorn region known as Durran and I feel that her family must come from there originally although we don't have the records to confirm it.  Having said that, most of the Durran births in the 1700s are in the Wick parish.