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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| LOGIE BUCHAN | Parish of Logie Buchan Parish of Logie Buchan Parish of Logie Buchan Parish of Logie Buchan Parish of Logie-buchan |
Revd. [Reverend] James Rust Logie Buchan Mr. Donaldson, Cornhill Mr. George Clark, Girnel Collections of the Shires New Stat. [Statistical] Account - 1842 |
038 ; 039 ; 047 ; 048 | A parish in Aberdeenshire bounded on the North by Cruden Parish East by Slains, South by Foveran and on the West by Ellon and Udny Parishes. It extends in a semi-circular curve from North East to South West to about nine miles and averages from 1 1/2 to 2 miles in breadth the surface is slightly undulating and is chiefly cultivated. The name Logie is understood to signify a low lying place and the word Buchan is an addition made to the name from its lying wholly or in part in that district. The Ythan enters the parish through a barrier of rocks (gneiss) which in a calm evening reverberate short sentences very distinctly. On the south side are some considerable indentations in the rocks, and adjoining these is an opening through the superincumbent masses called the ("Needles Eye") the threading of which is rather a dangerous amusement for young people, that the sea has made, if any) a very slow and almost imperceptible repeat of late years in this quarter is very certain. For in a very accurate plan of the Estate of Tarty, drawn in the year 1762, the contents of a small island called (Inch Geke) situated about a mile and a half from the sea, are 3 Acres 1 rood and 11 falls, and now but 3 acres, 2 roods and 10 falls, the addition of 39 falls being off the River side, where from the increased cultivation on its banks of late years, it is not wonderful that some additional soil should be deposited. Dr. [Doctor] Anderson, in his report, before quoted states that he had observed the "Sleek of Tarty" a glossy space of 92 acres on the south side of the Ythan, surrounding Inch Geke on three sides, and overflowed every tide by the sea, to have risen some feet during the thirty years he resided at Monkshill, in the neighbouring parish of Foveran. Upon the 23rd February 1644, every estate was compelled to raise a certain number of men to recruit the Scottish Army, then in England, the Committee in Aberdeen sent forty musketeers to plunder the lands of the lairds of Rainieston, Tipperty, Tarty, and the goodwife of Artrochie, non subscribers of the Covenant in this parish. Nor were the proprietors of the above named Estates the only heritors of Logie Buchan who opposed the Covenanters; for Spalding farther informs us, that upon the 27 April of the same year, forty four soldiers belonging to Mr. William Seton of Shethin, Mr. James Buchan of Auchmacoy and Mr. James Seton of Pitmedden, who then had lands in this parish [Continued on page 2] |
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