Anne Burgess wrote: >>baptism at >>"Achyndachy, probably Banffshire"? >>The placename itself is also a little problematic, as it is >>one that >>crops up, in various spellings, in various places. There are >>examples >>in the Banffshire parishes of Botriphnie, Fordyce and Keith >>(where >>there may actually be two such places - the evidence is >>ambiguous) and >>also in the Aberdeenshire parish of Cairnie. >> >> >Also, was it Achynachy or Achyndachy? As Gavin says, these bits >of information look a bit odd. Is there an Achyn(d)achy in >Marnoch? > > No. At least, when Ray Hennessy and I did our survey of placenames in Marnoch, covering maps from 1832 to 2000, and the 1841, 1861 and 1881 Census, we found nothing resembling "Achyn(d)achy". Gavin Bell