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Banffshire Burial records
« on: Tuesday 24 March 20 11:02 GMT (UK) »
Hi all,

I was wondering who I would contact to get info regarding places of burial in the county of Banffshire, mainly Whitehills and Banff.

Many thanks

Ryan :)

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Re: BANFFSHIRE BURIAL RECORDS
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 12:12 GMT (UK) »
If you search on Findagrave, under Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Banff, you will get a map with all the locations

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Re: BANFFSHIRE BURIAL RECORDS
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 13:46 GMT (UK) »
I was wondering who I would contact to get info regarding places of burial in the county of Banffshire, mainly Whitehills and Banff.
Go to Deceased Online www.deceasedonline.com. The burial records in the post-1995 version of Aberdeenshire, including Banff and Boyndie (Whitehills), are online there.  See https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch

For other parts of Banffshire, see http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp but be aware that not all burials in this area have yet been indexed online.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: BANFFSHIRE BURIAL RECORDS
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 16:20 GMT (UK) »
If you are looking for earlier burials at Boyndie, search for "Transcripts of all the Monumental Inscriptions in the Churchyard of Boyndie" and you will find a list produced by a local schoolmaster in 1885.


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Re: BANFFSHIRE BURIAL RECORDS
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 16:43 GMT (UK) »
There used to be, an online transcription of the inscriptions (not the burials, just the inscriptions on the surviving gravestones) in Banff's old kirkyard, but I don't have a note of where it was to be found.

There's also an MI index at http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/databank/miindex/miindex.php but neither Banff nor Boyndie has been done as yet.
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Re: BANFFSHIRE BURIAL RECORDS
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 22:18 GMT (UK) »
Thanks everybody for all of your help - will look at all of these websites.

Thanks again  :)

Ryan

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Re: Banffshire Burial records
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 19 November 20 00:13 GMT (UK) »
Dear ryanh315, Did you get what you were looking for on the Whitehills and Banff headstones as there are a few list around including William Crammond Books (around 1886) that he did for Banffshire. nw_whiskers
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Re: Banffshire Burial records
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 19 November 20 07:16 GMT (UK) »
Hi nw_whiskers

No I didnt find them

Ryan

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Re: Banffshire Burial records
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 19 November 20 09:56 GMT (UK) »
Dear ryanh315, I take it that you are looking "specific names and dates" like I have in the attached posts. Yes, William Cramond, Schoolmaster, Cullen did a number of books for the New Spalding Club which may be subject to Copyright as they come up on Amazon.co.uk etc. He certainly did the Old Churchyard at Banff as I was able to borrow a leather bound copy from the Library some years ago but I don't think that option is open these days. Short extracts from such sources are possible as reference material so  that you have a few worthwhile options open to you.
Anyway, if you can be a bit more specific with names, dates and places you might get a bit more help with your research. Best wishes, nw_whiskers   
Stevenson, Marnoch, Scotland