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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Supposed site of St. John's Chapel | 021.06 | [Continued from page 31] his son the master of Gray, of all the lands in which they were infeft, among others the lands of Kinneff, with the tower thereof and the patronage of the chaplainry of the Chapel of Barras." (Acts of Parliament of Scotland Vol 5. P. 625 [Volume 5. Page 625] ) "The Chapel was probably that of St. John which stood at Barras, near places called the Mort-hill and Templelands - at least the advowsons of the Chaplainries of Kinneff and Barras were long united, and, so late as 1641, were given to William Gray of Pittendrum, together with the kirklands of Kinneff. But there was at least another chapel in the district, for in a deed of reversion of Kinneff, granted by Alexander Straiton of the Keym, to Andrew, Lord Gray, in 1493, mention is made of a croft of land 'lyand at the bridgend beside Saint Martin's Chaple' betwixt the lands of Dullachy and Disclune." (Memorials of Angus and Mearns P [Page] 438) There is no vestige of this Chapel remaining and the only person whom I have been able to collect any information from regarding it is Mrs. Jane Marshall, an old woman who resides at Roadside. She states that she has resided in the parish about 67 years, and that she has heard her mother say that she saw the Duke of Cumberland's army on its march to Culloden in 1746, and she has always understood from her mother that a Roman Catholic Chapel stood at this place, and that it was burnt and destroyed by part of the above mentioned army in 1746. The site marked is a very likely place for a chapel, and the people state that when the ground is under Crop that Corn &c. grows very luxuriantly on this portion of ground, the cause of which is supposed to be the rich nature of the soil which formed the grave yard surrounding the Chapel. [Signed] B. Render Corp. R.E. [Corporal Royal Engineers] 14/12/63 [14 Dec. 1863] |
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[Page] 32Parish of Kinneff and Catterline.
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