In message <66.67b08ce.26c846a3@aol.com>, Toolelips@aol.com writes Hi Margaret Just to get my penny's worth in, according to some old documents from the thirteenth century there was a castle. It was near or at what is now Connon House and was called David's or Connon Castle. There was also about the same time a chap given land in the lands of Moray (which could have taken in that area at the time) for helping quell some uprising in the area. His name was Connon, Duke of Brittany, he also had to do with lands in Northumbria. He was King William the Lions brother- in - law. Sorry it's the wrong period, there certainly seems to be plenty of Connons' in Aberdeen-shire. -- George D. Christie " Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better "