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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LONGFORMACUS [parish] Longformacus Parish County Map
Fullerton's Gazetteer of Scotland
New Statistical acct. of Scotland
Chalmers Calledonia
003 ; 009 ; 010 ; 015 The derivation of the name of Longformacus is obscure - Little more light can be thrown upon it than what arises from the spelling of the name at different periods -

In 1384, in a charter by the Earl of Moray to his cousin, "James de Santae Clairo" the name occurs in the form of "Longfordmakehous" - In 1395, in a charter by the Earl of March to James Sinclair of Lochirmakehous, the lands of "Lochirmackehous" are conveyed. and the same spelling of "Lochirmakehous" is observed in the charters of that time - In 1505 the spelling varies "Lochirmacus" and in 1556, and downwards, the name is usually spelt as it now is - It is worthy of remark, that at present the ordinary appellation corresponds with the old spelling of "Lochirmacus" - The spelling of the name of the parish of Ellim, often varies in the same writings - thus Ellim, Ellem, Elm -


The parishes of Longformacus & Ellem were, on account of their general contiguity, united by decree of annexation, on the 18th February 1712. At that time the relative proportion of the two parishes so far as population is

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