Moray (formerly Elginshire), Scotland Genealogy
United Kingdom Scotland Moray (or Elginshire) County
Guide to Moray (or Elginshire) County ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.
Contents
- 1History
- 2ScotlandsPeople: An Important Online Source
- 3Census
- 4Church Records
- 5Civil Registration or Statutory Registers
- 6Parishes
- 7Maps
- 8Poorhouse Records
- 9Societies
- 10Taxation
- 11Websites
- 12References
History
Moray or Elginshire is located in the north-east of Scotland, bounded on the north by the Moray Firth, on the east and south-east by Banffshire, on the south by a detached portion of the county of Inverness, and on the west by Nairnshire. It is about 40 miles in length and 23 miles in extreme breadth, comprising an area of 840 square miles or 537,600 acres.
Moray contains 20 parishes and parts of several others, and for civil purposes is joined with the county of Nairn under the jursdiction of one sheriff. It contains the royal burghs of Elgin (the county town) and Forres, and includes the towns of Garmouth and Lossiemouth and a few villages. It was anciently part of a province that included the county of Nairn and a large part of the county of Banff, and was for many ages distinguished as the 'granary of Scotland.'
The population of the county in 1851 was 35,012.[1][2]