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| DAVIOT [continued] | Parish of Daviot Parish of Daviot Parish of Daviot Parish of Daviot Parish of Daviot |
Mr. Peter Cruickshank, Daviot Mr. Rough, Newton Mr. MacKenzie, Glack. Statistical Account Fullarton's Gazetteer |
036 ; 045 | Continued [from page 2] "observable. The remains of a third were to be seen within the last twenty years in the grave yard, but the stones were some time ago removed and employed as materials in building the walls of a dwelling house. There is a small enclosure on the lands of Fingask, which appears to have been used formerly as a burial ground, And in this enclosure were to be seen the remains of what was believed to have been a Roman Catholic place of Worship, from the Circumstance of a Silver Crucifix being found by the workmen in digging for the foundation of a mausoleum, erected by the late proprietor on the spot about forty years ago; and of there being a well in its immediate neighbourhood which still bears the name of the "Lady's" or "Our Lady's Well" Two Quoad Sacra annexations were made to Daviot by Act of Assembly in the end of the Seventeeth Century; vizt. part of the parish of Fyvie lying on the north East, and part of the parish of Chapel of Garioch on the South, so that ecclesiastically its extent of Surface is now about 84 Square miles." Extracts from Statistical Account of Aberdeenshire 1843. page 821. [Signed] R Dickson Sapper R.E [Royal Engineers] Note - There is no portion of this parish detached, nor portion, or portions, of any other parish inclosed within the boundary of this parish. |
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