tfaU. 2*2. i m HE MOR CTORY. * i e^ % / X BLACKS MORAYSHIRE DIRECTORY, INCLUDING THE UPPER DISTRICTOF BANFFSHIRE. 1863^ ELGIN : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JAMES BLACK, ELGIN COURANT OFFICE. SOLD BY THE AGENTS FOR THE COURANT; AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. : ELGIN PRINTED AT THE COURANT OFFICE, PREFACE, Thu ''Morayshire Directory" is issued in the hope that it will be found satisfactorily comprehensive and reliably accurate, The greatest possible care has been taken in verifying every particular contained in it ; but, where names and details are so numerous, absolute accuracy is almost impossible. A few changes have taken place since the first sheets were printed, but, so far as is known, they are unimportant, It is believed the Directory now issued may be fully depended upon as a Book of Reference, and a Guide for the County of Moray and the Upper District of Banffshire, Giving names and information for each town arid parish so fully, which has never before been attempted in a Directory for any County in the JTorth of Scotland, has enlarged the present work to a size far beyond anticipation, and has involved much expense, labour, and loss of time. It is hoped, however, that the completeness and accuracy of the Book, on which its value depends, will explain and atone for a little delay in its appearance. It has become so large that it could not be sold at the figure first mentioned without loss of money to a large extent, The price has therefore been fixed at Two and Sixpence, in order, if possible, to cover outlays, Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/blacksmorayshire1863dire INDEX. PAGE Elgin—(Continued). PAGE Archiestown, 75 Law Library, 101 Baronets connected with the County, 1.9 Literary and Scientific Asso- Bank Holidays, 142 ciation, 101 Baptist Churches, 23 Ladies' Benevolent Associa- Bishopmill, 117 tion, 103 Burghead Railway, 29 Mortifications managed by Burghead, 53 Guildry Fund Society, ... 97 County of Moray (description), ... 1 Mechanics' Institute, ... 100 Commissioners*of Supply, 10 Medical Practitioners, ... 103 Commissary Court, ... 14 Markets, 107 Commutation Roads, 16 Morayshire Battalion of Rifle Congregational Churches, 23 Volunteers, 107 Cathedral, 107 Newspapers, 100 Cummingstone Village, 57 New Cemetery, 103 Distances, 143 Old Maids' Charity, 97 Elgin (City and Royal Burgh), ... 89 Police Board, 98 Academy, 94 Public Offices, 99 Asylum, 97 Property Investment Com- Auctioneers, 104 panies, 102 Appraisers, 104 Post Office, 103 Burgh Court, 91 Public Works, 104 Burgess and Guild Brethren, 92 Petty Customs, 106 Banks, 99 Reading Room, 100 Bible Society, 101 Registrar, 104 Charities, 92 Railways, 104 Corn Merchants, 104 Savings' Bank, 99 Curling Club, 106 Servants' Register Offices, ... 103 Cricket Club, 106 Shambles Maills, 106 Carriers, 106 Town Council, 90 Coach, 107 Trinity Episcopal Church Druggists, ... 104 Girls' School, 96 Educational Bequests, ... 94 Trades' School, ... ... 96 Emigration Agents, 104 Trades, 98 Fine Art Associations, ... 102 Trinity Lodge Masons, ... 101 Friendly Societies, 105 Town Criers, 104 Guildry Court, 92 Teachers of Music, 104 Girls' School, 96 Telegraph Office, 104 Gray's Hospital, 96 Weston House School, ... 96 Guildry Fund Society, ... 97 Water Company, 102 Gas Company, 102 Fiars Court, 14 Hotels, 103 Findhorn Bridge Trust, 17 Institution, 96 Findhorn Railway, 29 Insurance Agencies, 105 Findhorn, . ... ... 71 Inland Revenue, 105 Fochabers, 36 Kilmolymock Mason Lodge, 101 Forres (Burgh), ... 118 Ladies' Seminaries, 95 Academy, ... 121 Library, ,.. 100 Auctioneer, ... .,, 126 vm. 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PAGE PAGE Bible Society, 121 Moray Firth Mutual Marine Insur* Bathing Club, 123 ance Association, ... 28 Banks, 125 Morayshire Railway, 28 Coal and Clothing Society, ... 122 NewDuffus, ... 57 Corn Merchants, 125 New Elgin, 118 Carriers, ; . 126 Parishes of the County, 9 Druggists, 126 Population of the County, 9 Emigration Agents, 125 Property and Income Tax, 14 Friendly Society, 121 Prison Board, , 15 Female Society, 122 Police (R ural), ... ... ... 15 Fine Art Associations, 124 Peers connected With County, .., 18 Guildry Society, 122 Pluscarden and Mosstowie, ... 68 Gas Company, . ; . 123 Parish of Alves, 31 Hotels, ,., 126 Abernethy and Kincardine, 32 Insurance Agents, 125 Birnie, 34 Justice of Peace Court, 121 Bellie, 34 Literary Debating Clubj 122 Boharm, 38 Literary Periodical Heading Cromdale, 40 Club, 123 Dallas, 45 Mortifications and Bequests, 119 Drainie, 46 Mechanics' Institute, 122 Duffus, l4 . 52 Medical Practitioners, 126 Duthil, 57 Markets, 126 Dyke and Moy, 61 Newspaper, 123 Edenkillie, , 62 Police Board, ... 121 Elgin, 65 Petty Customs, 124 Forres, .. ; 69 Public Offices, ... 125 Kinloss, 71 Public Works, ... 125 Knockando, 73 Post Office, 126 Rafford, 75 Small Debt Court, 121 Rothes, , ... 76 Savings' Bank, ... 123 Rothiemurchus, 60 St Lawrence Mason Lodge, .. 123 Speymouth, 80 St John's do., 123 Spynie, 84 Servants' Register Office, .. 126 St. Andrews-Lhanbryd, ... 85 Shipowners, 126 Urquhart, 86 Town Council, 119 Registration of Voters, 12 Tract Society, 122 Roman Catholic Church, 24 Total Abstinence Society, . 122 Rothes, 79 Town Crier, 124 Sheriff Courts, 13 Volunteers, 126 Synod of Moray, , 19 Water Company, 123 Synod of Moray (Free), 21 Writers, 124 Scottish Episcopal Church, 23 Grain Tables, , 24 Strathspey Railway, 29 Grantown, 42 Spey Bridge Trust, 17 Garmouth, 81 Turnpike Roads, 16 Hopeman, 55 United Presbyterian Presbyteries, 22 Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Valuation of Lands, 25 Railway, , 29 Wesleyan Methodist Church, ... 23 Inverness and Nairn Railway, 30 Inverness and Ross-shire Railway, 30 PARISHES IN BANFFSHIRE, Inverness and Perth Junction Aberlour, 131 Railway, 30 CharleBtown, 132 Justices of the Peace, 11 Botriphnie, 142 Kellas, 46 Inveravon, 132 Kingston, 81 Glenlivet and Morange, ... 133 Lieutenancy of the County, 10 Keith, ... 134 Lunacy Board, 15 Kirkmichael, 137 Lossiemouth, 48 Tomintoul, 138 Lossiemouth Harbour, 28 Mortlach, 139 Members of Parliament, 19 Dufftown 140 Morayshire Farmer Club, . 26 Glenrinnes, , 141 DIRECTORY, &c. THE COUNTY OF MORAY. The ancient Province of Moray extended along the north-eastern shore of the Moray Firth, from the mouth of the river Spey to the river Beauty, and,, included within its boundaries the whole course of the Spey even to Lochaber. The breadth of the Province, according to Shaw, from the Firth at Inverness to the Braes of Glenfeshie in north-east Badenoch, was fifty-seven miles ; and from south-west to the length was one hundred and four miles, and the sea-shore of Moray from the mouth of the Spey to the river Farar, or Beauty, was sixty miles. This large Province, famous in the history of Scotland, was cut up into counties or shires. A part of Banffshire and of Inverness- shire, and the whole county of Nairn, was taken from it, thus leaving Morayshire only a part of the great Province that gave titles to powerful barons and ecclesiastics. Morayshire, like all other Scottish counties, is of a very irregular form—so much so, indeed, that one portion of the county is entirely detached from the rest by a part of Inverness-shire, that cuts through Moray in Strathspey, a little above Ballindalloch. A traveller in going up Strathspey, after passing the mouth of the river Avon a short way, finds that he is into Inverness-shire, but, near Grantown, he is again in Moray, which extends along the Spey to Aviemore. The Spey forms a boundary line of Morayshire only at intervals, for por- tions of the county would almost seem to have been thrown down at random on both sides of the river. A large tract of country, of a tri- angular form, with the Spey at Fochabers as a base, and reaching nearly to Keith, belongs to Morayshire, and, as the saying goes, one- half of Gordon Castle is in Banffshire and the other in Moray. Farther up the Spey, in Inveravon, we may see again several farms belonging to Moray on the right bank of the river. A straight line, from angle to angle, along the north side of the county, measures twenty-four and a-half miles, but everywhere cuts off a belt of seaboard, which, in general, is narrow, but a little west of the Lossie has a breadth of four and a-half miles ; a straight line along the south-east side measures twenty-five and a-half miles, and, except for cutting off a projection beyond the Spey of six miles by five, everywhere falls on or near the boundary ; and a straight line along the south-west side measures twenty-four and a-half miles, but over seven miles falls slightly beyond the boundary, and over eleven falls slenderly within it. The smaller division of the county, as already mentioned, is separated from the larger by the intervention of a detached district of Inverness-shire, and by two very small detached districts of Nairnshire ; and lies to the south-west at the distance of from three and a-half to five miles. Except for a connecting neck of less than a mile, upon the Spey, a little below the Church of Abernethy, this division would consist of two detached parts. Its western part lies on the left bank of the Spey, is bounded by that stream for seven miles, and measures twelve miles from north to south, and nine in the opposite direction ; and its eastern part forms the largest of the county's sections on the right bank of the Spey, and extends nine miles north- west and south-east, with a breadth of from four to six and a-half miles. The superficial contents of the county are, in all authorities, so very variously and loosely stated, that they seem never to have been even proximately ascertained. Leslie's "View of the Agriculture of Nairn and Moray" assigns, as the area of these counties conjoined, about 800 square miles, or 512,000 English acres ; the author of "The Beauties of Scotland" assigns 800 square miles to Morayshire alone ; and Oliver and Boyd's Almanac says that the area of Morayshire is 840 square miles, or 537,600 acres.