Has anyone heard of Auchinbody?

[Sindy919]

Hi everyone.  I have an ancestor 'Mortimer of Auchinbody'.  He lived in the 1500's - 1600's and his descendants settled mainly in Aberdeenshire, in Craigston, Idon and Cromarty and Balthangie.  He is only a name on an ancient family tree.  No other documents or information is available.  I would dearly love to know where theseplaces are of if anyone else has Mortimer in their family tree?  Hi daughter Beatrice married a Mackie.
Helen

[still_looking]

Cromarty and balthangie can be easily found via google maps, for craigston search for craigston, turriff (it is near balthangie)

Couldn't find an entry for Auchinbody or Idon with those spellings on the scotlandsplaces website but depending on what the places are they may not be listed.

S_L

[still_looking]

for auchinbodie, try auchenbadie

http://geo.nls.uk/os6inch/google.html

click on maps, find Banff (on the first 'flat' bit of coast), follow the river down from Banff until you reach the 'pole of itlaw', keep it near the bottom of your screen and zoom in about half way (you use the scale at the side).

then click on historic

you should now be able to find auchenbadie

if you've zoomed in on a colour map then zoom in again to see a more finely detailed map

hope that helps

S_L

[still_looking]

p.s. I'm assuming Auchenbadie is right based on this mention of auchinbody:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bOpbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA143&dq=auchinbody&hl=en#v=onepage&q=auchinbody&f=false

I believe that what's being described are lands in the earldom of buchan (but I haven't checked)

[heedrapper]

Try this link

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0d0h/

[heedrapper]

And another

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0d0i/

[heedrapper]

Balthangie

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0d0j/

[GR2]

Idon is probably Eden in the parish of King Edward. One of my ancestors farmed there in the first half of the 18th century and his will gives the spelling Iden.

Between 1503 and 1711 Eden was owned first by the Meldrums then the Leslies.

Be very careful of accepting family trees other people have produced, especially ones which go back very far. They can be correct, but you often find a great deal of guesswork and even fiction. You have to work back from yourself and check the documentation at each stage. Even books such as Burke's publications contain large numbers of errors when checked.

Graham.

[Forfarian]

Balthangie http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ8351
Auchenbadie http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ6858
Eden http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ6958
Craigston http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ7655