> I'm not quite sure where you're leading to in your posting. I had > mentioned > Knockando and was speculating on why all of Anne's syblings were noted as > being from Cromdale Inverallen and Advie. You mentioned "the nearest big town". I was trying to point out that (a) when your Anne and her siblings were born there were no "big towns" and (b) that even if there had been, people would have been more likely to name the parish rather than the town as their birthplace. This did change over the 19th and 20th centuries as more and more people became 'townies' and parishes became less significant. > The point being that all of this information does not seem to be > "documented" > and the "web source" I located some time back (which is the > mentioned "for > retrieval" item) may have assumed that they were all from Cr-Adv_Inv which > is > what they had shown. Indeed. But if they were in fact born in Knockando, they would have said so, rather than saying they were born in the next parish, Cromdale Inverallan and Advie (CIA). > I have my "Anne" changed to Knockando (now the only one there) as per our > family "record" which I expect is at least as good as anyone's (anyone > with no > documents that is). Yes. It is a great disaster that the older Knockando parish records were lost in a fire. > Just how you got to Granton-on-Spey I don't know. As above. Grantown-on-Spey is the only village of any size in the parish of CIA. > You mention "she" but I > don't know who the "she" is that you talk about. Please clarify. Your Anne. > I will send a "family list" to your e-address. Thank you. I look forward to receiving it. > As for Edinkillie and Aachindoir, let me assure you that they are not > anywhere > near the location you describe I know exactly where they are. I live about half an hour's drive from Forres. and I have often driven past the kirk at Edinvillie. > (perhaps there are two of each???) Edinkillie is > at the "fork" where the > Findhorn joins the Divie, about one mile west towards > Ferness (and on > the > opposite shore of the Findhorn is Auchindoir (various spellings) Edinvillie *Kirk* is situated as you describe. The *parish* of Edinvillie extends south to Lochindorb, where is meets the northern boundary of CIA. It includes all the places along the Dorback Burn, such as your Auchindoir. As for the other Auchindoir, I specifically mentioned the possibility that the parish in Aberdeenshire merely has the same name as your one by the Findhorn. I also put this mention in brackets because I know that it isn't the same one. > We are definitely not on the same page here I can assure you that we are on exactly the same page <G> > - let us sort this out over the next while by direct e-mail, where > "attachements > may flow". Next will come the "mixed salad" of discussion about this > family > and who begat whom! Indeed. Both CIA and Knockando have a large population of Cruickshanks, and it would be wonderful if they could all be sorted out! I have no doubt that people moved back and fore between the two, and would not be surprised to find that they are all related. Proving it, of course, is a very different matter, as you say. I look forward to a fruitful discussion <g>. Best wishes. Anne Anne