To add to the burgeoning controversy, can I point out that, at the material time, large parts of the bit of country under discussion was not even in Moray (or Elginshire)? This is well illustrated by another map on the National Library site: www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/566.html Unfortunately, this particular sheet from Thomson's "Atlas of Scotland" (1828) does not show parish boundaries, but does illustrate the odd arrangement which then applied to the southern part of what we now think of as Moray. This muddling of the parishes and counties was partly resolved by an Act of Parliament in 1870, and further tidied up in the big reorganisation of 1891. The other pebble I would drop into the pool is to point out that, just as there are multiple "Auchindoirs", so too do you find "Knockando" (and variants) in various parishes. Gavin Bell