RICHARDCFF wrote:Could it be Forfarshire's Friockheim's Flemings wanted a home in their home?
Seems to fit some of the clues at any rate: 'Friockheim' means 'heathery home', combination of gaelic and german. Named as such due to imigration of flemish spinners in the 1820s. Forfarshire became Angus in 1928.
However, no idea regarding the N from O!
Spot on!
In the early nineteeth century Flemish spinners and weavers settled in the village then called Friock (heather). They asked for heim (= home) to be added to the name, so that it would mean "heathery home", indicating their new home in Scotland.
Friockheim is a few miles
North of Arbroath Abbey and its "Round
O" -
"The distinctive round window high in the south transept was originally lit up at night as a beacon for mariners. It is known locally as the 'Round O', and from this tradition inhabitants of Arbroath are colloquially known as 'Reid Lichties' (Scots reid = red)." (Wikipedia).
I referred to it as a place of declaration and discovery - to refer to the Declaration of Arbroath, and to the discovery of the Stone of Destiny at the Abbey in 1951.
Over to you!
Tim