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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SOUTH KIRKTON South Kirkton
South Kirkton
South Kirkton
A Boyd Esq Factor Peterhead
Mr C. Brand occupier
Mr A. Stewart Noth Kirkton
015.10 Applies to a large farm steading with dwelling house, garden &c Situated about one mile South east of the village of St Fergus & the property of Coln. [Colonel] Ferguson Pitfour
MASON WELL Mason Well
Mason Well
Mason Well
Mr A. Stewart North Kirkton
Mr J. Taylor Inverquinzie
Mr A. Park St Fergus
015.10 Applies to a well situated close by the graveyard of St Fergus & supposed to have got its name from a mason who worked close by it
CHURCH (Remains of) Church. (Remains of)
Church. (Remains of)
Church. (Remains of)
Rev. [Reverend] John Mitchell St Fergus
Mr A. Stewart North Kirkton
Mr A. Park St Fergus
Statistical account by Rev. [Reverend] J. Craigie Minister St Fergus 1795
015.10 Applies to the remains of the old parish church of St Fergus of which at present there is only a piece of the old walls remaining it is not known at what date the first church was erected but supposed to have been in the 11th Century
"This parish was anciently named Inverugie, & often Longley, the church being situated not far from the old place of Inverugie, on those pleasant & extensive downs called the Link of St Fergus. The Church was removed from this site anno 1616, when the church & parish assumed the name of its patron saint, to whom the 17th Novr. [November] according to the Scotch callender was sacred".

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St. Fergus Parish

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