1700's (1700 -1749)
| 1704
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Start
of birth records in the Parish of Gamrie. Watt, Wiseman and Nicol
surnames already well established in Gardenstown, with "Watt"
predominant in Crovie. The Mohr Parish Church at the time, like
most churches in the north east of Scotland, was probably Episcopalian. |
| Collection
at the Mohr Parish Church for a harbour at Pennan. |
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| 1707 | Two
schools appointed in Parish. One in Down and one at Middleton farm. |
| 1716 | Alexander
Keith of Northfield, after taking part in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion,
surrenders at Banff. |
| John
Innes, minister at Gamrie Church, deposed for "Praying for the
Pretender". The Rev. John Innes was minister at Gamrie from 1675 - 1716. He had Episcopalian sympathies and had read the proclamation of the "Old Pretender" from his pulpit and prayed for him as King James VIII of Scotland. With the collapse of the rebellion he was deposed for this act on 13 June 1716. In St Fergus Churchyard there is a gravestone which reads "Here lies the corps of Mr John Innes, late minister of Gamrie, who departed this life on 14 June 1731, aged 82 years. |
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| 1719 | The
small stone bridge at the foot of Dubstan Brae near Nethermill farm,
at the border between Gamrie and Aberdour, is built as a joint effort
between the Laird of Troup and the Laird of Auchmedden. |
| 1721 | Village of Powieston renamed Gardenstown after Lord Gardenstown the Law Lord. |
| 1732 | James
Wilson (1694 - 1791) becomes minister at Gamrie Church. |
| 1739 | Old
Parish Records - "Owing to a fair in the area, no-one at church". In the "Annals of Banff", it is stated that an annual fair, which used to be held in Gamrie Parish, was at some time moved to Banff. Could this fair have been situated at "Logie", which is about the centre of the Parish? |
| 1746 | Redcoat
soldiers, veterans of Monros Regiment of Culloden fame now based at
Banff, appear at the Old Gamrie Church as witnesses at christenings. They were probably billeted in the village to prevent the escape of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" from this area. |
| Day
of Thanksgiving on 22 June 1746 for our deliverance from the late
unnatural and unhappy rebellion. |
|
| Alexander
Garden kidnapped from Troup House by a party of Jacobite rebels on
Sunday 31 August and held at ransom. |
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| 1747 | John
Watt, son of John Watt, fisherman, Crovie, born 1 February 1724 -
Jacobite rebel. Held prisoner first in the Canongate, Edinburgh then
in Carlisle. Transported 22 April 1747 from Liverpool to Virginia
in the vessel "Johnston". |
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