Hello Sharman The parish of BUCHANAN is in Stirlingshire. It is the parish which occupies the east shore of Loch Lomond. It is very beautiful and hilly. Ben Lomond is in Buchanan Parish. I suspect that the surname BROWN in a Highland parish (which Buchanan mostly is) would be an Englished form of something else in Gaelic (MacBrayne?), or an assumed name for MacGregor dating from the time of proscription of that surname. Some of these assumed mames stuck. The most common surnames in Buchanan parish are probably MacFarlane and MacGregor, though there are lots of McAdams and other surnames, including Buchanan itself. "Monach" is the Gaelic for "moor" or "muir". Hope this is of interest. Best wishes Arthur Arthur F. Jones afjones@mailhost.sol.co.uk At 12:39 29/04/1999 EDT, you wrote: >Hello listers! > >I just discovered yesterday a new ancestor, Anne Brown from the parish of >Buchanan who married John Monach in 1765 (my first ever Brown). Does anyone >know where Buchanan parish is and whether it is in Dunbartonshire, Renfrew or >somewhere else? (I have ancestors who've lived in both places. . .) > >Thank you! >Sharman Badgett-Young >Researching Turnbull, Roy, Monach and Rough in Dunbartonshire > > >==== DUNBARTONSHIRE-GENWEB Mailing List ==== > *************To subscribe or unsubscribe:******************* > *****DUNBARTONSHIRE-GENWEB-D-request@rootsweb.com***** > DUNBARTONSHIRE-GENWEB-L-request@rootsweb.com > > >