Hi Sharon Now you are getting me confused! As I understand it Banff has always been a Parish in the North-east of Banffshire which contained a Royal Burgh of the same name. Moray was previously Elginshire with the Royal Burgh of Elgin in the parish of Elgin. That is as I understand it but I bow to the better knowledge of someone such as Anne Burgess or Gavin Bell if I am wrong. Ian A C Scott