Apologies for not responding to this query when appealed to - I've been off up to Lunnon Town getting some Culture. I agree with what Ian and Anne have said about Banff, Banffshire and Moray/Elginshire. Poor old Banff (the town) has been kicked around, rather, in successive local government reorganisations, as has its county. The current query does seem to refer to the Town of Banff. But one additional point I would make is that some "sources" (notably the IGI) really haven't got their heads round the distinctions which have to be drawn between Banff (the town), Banff (the parish) and Banff (the county). I have tried, in the pages I maintain for GENUKI (at www.abdn.net/genuki/BAN/), to chart the history of the boundaries of the various parishes of Banffshire, and their likely implications for finding ancestors in some of the main sources. Gavin Bell