Morayshire Family History Sharing

Links.....
...to other sites that have in some way a connection to
Morayshire, Banffshire and Nairnshire, Scotland, either a surname, village, occupation connection

add a link if you think it may be of use to others

 

The links are in subject order and cross references - the same link may appear more than once if there is a connection to more than one link header.

To add a link you may think of interest to others email   moraylinks[at]wakefieldfhs.org.uk  please replace the [at] with an @ when copying into your email programme.

Broken links - if you find one let me know


Archives

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Banffshire Archives are covered by the Aberdeenshire City Archives

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The National Archives of Canada. On-line search databases include library of holdings + database of soldiers and nurses who fought in South Africa.  There is also a section for family historians with Canadian connections

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National Archives of Scotland. Holds public and legal records of Scotland plus many local and private archives.  There is information on the collection plus  fact sheets.

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National Library of Scotland. This site gives details of the collections, online resources which include Scottish bibliographies, indexes + the digital library and this  includes maps and other material.

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Nairnshire - Archives that cover this area

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ScotlandsPeople. The official government source of genealogical data for Scotland and has  acess to 37 million names. It also offers, for a fee, searchable indexes to Scottish births (1553-1903), marriages (1553-1928) and deaths (1855-1953) plus census data (1881-1901). Images of many of the original documents are available to purchase on-line.

Army, Navy & Airforce

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93rd Highland Regiment history

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Land Forces of the Commonwealth, history etc

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Scottish people at war

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Officers who died in India ( to search for other surnames replace the 'offzdieda' with 'offzdiedb' and so on

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Victoria Cross recipients in Scotland

Cemeteries

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Gordon Troup has transcribed the MI's for Banff Old Cemetery

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Elgin Cathedral

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Spynie Kirkyard - selection of photographs

Census

Census - out of County

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Churches and their records

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Excerpts from Banff Parish Registers

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Bellie & Speymoth churches- includes history, ministers etc

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Catholic genealogy guides etc

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Elgin High Church

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Elgin St Giles and St Columbia

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Gordon Chapel, Fochabers

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Pluscarden Abbey

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Pluscarden Church

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Keith Churches

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St Geradines, Lossiemouth

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The Scanlan Trail

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Civil Registration

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Birth, marriage and death records in Scotland

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The Births, marriages and deaths for Scotland are housed at the General Register Office for Scotland which offers paid online access to the site.

Clans

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History of the Clan Cameron

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Clan Chiefs

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Scottish Clans, history, tartan etc

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Septs and Clans

Correctional Institutions including punishments

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Convicts that were sent to Australia

Demography

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The Highland Clearances

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Stories, database of people going overseas etc

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Information regarding crops, demography, prices and weather

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Economics

Education

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Gordonstoun School, Elgin

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Old school mates, similar to Friends Reunited

Elginshire

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A site of interest to those with a connection to the Duffus parish, surname or Barony

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Duffus Castle

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Famous people from Elgin

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Famous and from Fochabers

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Forres

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Lossiemouth - the fowk and other information

Emigrants, Immigrants

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Emigration information for Canada in the 19th C and lists of ships they came on

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The Ellis Island website is a good place to look if your family member went to America

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Passenger lists to Australia

Family History Societies

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The Aberdeen & North East Scotland Family History Society - this society covers Moray

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The Ayrshire Family History Society

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For family in the Caithness area try the Caithness Family History Society

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The Highland Family History Society covers the Inverness Region

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The Lanarkshire Family History Society

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The Scottish Genealogy Society

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The Tay Valley Family History Society

Famous and from Morayshire

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Those that were born in Moray and are now famous

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Famous people from Elgin

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Famous and from Fochabers

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Ramsey McDonald - local lad and MP

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Ramsey McDonald

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William Marshall, one of Scotlands most famous fiddle composers born in Fochabers

Gazeteer

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Gazeteer for Scotland including maps, description of place

Geography

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Banffshire border farms located by Stuart Mitchell († 2001)

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Blervie  Castle, nr Forres

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Burghead, situated on a narrow promontory projecting into the Moray Firth.

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Clava Cairns, 11 mile from Nairn

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Culloden - a National Trust for Scotland site

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Goodwood, the English seart of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon

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Knockando Woollen Mill, a Grade A listed building  is the winner of the Scottish regional heat of the “Restoration” programme on BBC2.

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Eastern Scotland - things to do and places to see

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N.E. Scotland - things to do and places to see

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Port Gordon.  History of the community with a family history section, photographs + other useful information

General Research

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Cyndi's listings for the Moray area

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Genuki pages for the counties  of Banff, Morayshire, Nairmshire, Invernesshire, Aberdeenshire

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Starting your research

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Kirks - see churches

Lanaguage

Libraries - see Archives

Local History Societies - see also family history societies

Mailing Lists

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Mailing lists for the area

Maps

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Banffshire historical maps

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Invernessshire historical maps

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Morayshire & Nairn Shire maps

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Nairnshire historical maps

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Maps for Morayshire

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Old maps

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Old maps of England, Scotland & Wales

Military

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Black Watch archive

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Commonwealth War Graves Commision.  Listing the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars.

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Roll of Honour for the Caithness area 1914-1919 Army, Navy

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VC holders grave locations, including those for Morayshire VC holders

Morayshire - see Elginshire

Museums  & Libraries

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Elgin Library - visit this site and check out the search pages

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Elgin Museum

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Lossiemouth Fisheries and Community Museum

Names - surname lists

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Fellow researchers for Banff surnames can be found on this Rootsweb site

Names - personal family histories

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Baldwin family tree - Banffshire names include :- Lumsden, Raffan, Laurance, McKenzie, McLean, Simpson and others

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Baxters of Morayshire

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Burness Family History, including such names as Riach, Davidson, Gordon, Marshall

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Caddell, Calder and Cawdor

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Duncan / Dunbar families from Cromdale

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Duff Family history

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Duffus family information

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The Dumbreck surname research

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Ferguson's from Nairnshire

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Findlater family history in Morayshire

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Hendry of Lennox Palace

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Logie family connections in the area

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McGilvray family in Nairn and Inverness etc

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Daniel Morgan family connections in Banffshire

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Oxford Family from Scotland to New Brunswick

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Patterson family in the Banff region

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Scotty Philip, life of a Dallas man who went to America

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Royan and MacKay family history from Nairnshire, Morayshire and the Hebrides

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Russell, Maver & other surnames from Morayshire & Banff

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The Descendants of Walter Simpsone and Elspet Mann

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Tweedie family information, including pictures

Newspapers

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 The London, Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes are the official publication of record for the United Kingdom.  Several legal notices, including insolvency notices, are required by law to be published in the Gazettes.  Included are honours and awards, plus military promotions, also included in the publications are official change in names by deed pole.

Occupations

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Photography - Walter Cook photographer of Alvah, nr Banff

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Police - the  history of the Northern Constabulary

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The Scottish Railway Police

Overseas

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Did any of your Morayshire people go to India

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Officers who died in India  ( to search for other surnames replace the 'offzdieda' with 'offzdiedb' in the web address and so on

People

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The Scottish Strays Marriage Index collated by the Anglo Scottish Family History Society and hosted by the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society.

Poorhouses and Poor Law

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Inverness Poorhouses

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Poorhouses in Morayshire

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Nairnshire Poorhouses

Photographs

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Online images and histories.  The site is free to use the index but a subscription is need for full access

Probate Records

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ScottishDocuments.com provides free access to the index of over half a million Scottish wills and testaments from 1500 to 1901. If a search proves successful the image of the will or testament can then be downloaded for a fee.

Religious  - see also church records

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Catholic genealogy, maps & guides

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Pluscarden Abbey

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Spynie Kirkyard - selection of photographs

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The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, Family History Centre can be found at Pansport Road, Elgin, Morayshire, IV30. Tel. 01343 546429. Opening hours Monday 1.30pm-3.30pm; Wednesday 7.30pm-9pm; Saturday 9.30am-12pm.  It is advisable before visiting that you contact the centre a) to make sure they are open (the centres are run by volunteers) and b) do they have available what you wish to research.

Repositories

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Local Heritage for Elgin - search the pages for tracing your roots, etc

Shipping including ships lists

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Mariners and ships in Australian waters, including country of birth and list of passengers (no country of origin)

Statistics

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Statistic accounts for many Scottish counties including Banffshire, Elginshire

Towns - see Elginshire

Travel

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If you are planning a special trip why not rent a castle, stately home or some other luxury place to stay.

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Tours around Scotland based on your ancestors famly history

Whiskey

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Malt Whiskey Trail

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Whiskey - the history, the legends and the famous labels

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Whisky - key distilleries in the Moray region

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