Hi Kathy, Sorry I can not asist with Rioland but I recognise BRAGACH. It is a farm that was originally within the Parish of Aberlour but located in Glenrinnes. It is on the highway about 7 miles south of Dufftown on the B9009 road to Tomintoul. I searched on the streetmap website (See response from Ray Hennesay). Bragach is not marked but is on the 1860 OS map. HTH George in Ottawa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` >From: David Wells <rebeltrumpet@sbcglobal.net> >Reply-To: MORAY-L@rootsweb.com >To: MORAY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MORAY] towns in Banffshire >Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:16:33 -0800 (PST) > >Hello Moray Listers, > I am working on my Murrays from Banffshire. I made copies of the >Alvah and Aberlour Register records showing baptisms and marriages. I >have a John Murray in Rioland, and a James Murray in Braegoch. Now, I >have tried to find these places on the internet and absolutely nothing >comes up. They may be misspelled because the writing back in the 1700s >was not real legible. But that appears to be the way they are spelled >because I have found them numerous times. Has anyone ever heard of >these towns? If so, can anyone give me an approximate location. If >not, could they have been renamed? > Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > thanks, Kathy Wells > > > > >==== MORAY Mailing List ==== >" Reply All " ........Please, please, please, when replying to a posted >message make sure that the reply is sent to the list and not just the >sender of the message. This is done by clicking " Reply All " Thank you >;-) > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

In response to Kathy Wells, George Watt wrote > Sorry I can not asist with Rioland but I recognise BRAGACH. It is a > farm that was originally within the Parish of Aberlour but located in > Glenrinnes. It is on the highway about 7 miles south of Dufftown on > the B9009 road to Tomintoul. I searched on the streetmap website (See > response from Ray Hennesay). Bragach is not marked but is on the 1860 > OS map. Well spotted, George. On the 2.5 OS map there are: Bregach at NJ262322, [note spelling] Glack of Breagach at NJ253320 Streetmap.co.uk [see http://tinyurl.com/6pl6v ] shows Bregach but the Glack isn't named. Similar result on Multimap. As you can see, Kathy, spelling can be very inconsistent so this could easily have been spelt Braegoch by the Minister in the 1700s. Best wishes Ray