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People Connected to Banffshire
Historic County of Scotland
Image right - Banffshire within Scotland in 1890
See also
Banffshire - Main Page
Banffshire - Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards
Historic Buildings of Banffshire
How to use this Page
- Please link any GENI Profiles with links to Banffshire to this project.
- You can ALSO add the earliest heads of families to the list of Banffshire Families on Geni below (don't forget to link their profiles to the project as well). These would usually be male! Please restrict people added to the list to the earliest head of family!
Note People with links to Banffshire can be linked to the project but not necessarily added to the list below.
People connected to Banffshire can also be linked to the following projects.
Clans
Historical and Political people
- accommodated by the project Historic Banffshire (Link to follow) which covers the History of Banffshire and historical/political people. Some of these are also listed in the Famous people category.
Famous or Notable People
Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown! Please visit Banffshire - Famous People and add them to the listing there.
Emigrants
People from Banffshire who went to the "New world" and were early progenitors in those countries. Where the earliest ancestor is known please add them to the list of "Banffshire families on Geni" below if that was their roots, or to the appropriate county project.
Where the earliest known ancestor is the emigrant add them to the list below. In some cases if there is a project that covers them in detail please link the project.
Getting Involved
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Heads of Banffshire Families on Geni
Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Other links take you to external biographical web pages.
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Emigrants from Banffshire
Please add the names of people from Banffshire who settled in the "New World"
Americas
South America
United States
- James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795 - 1872) Scottish Immigrant USA founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American newspapers.
Australia
Canada
- Alexander Paterson (1839 Keith - British Columbia)
Jamaica
New Zealand
South Africa
1820 British Settlers in South Africa
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