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The Index ofScottish Baronies

Barony · Banff

Barony of Yeochrie

County
Banff
Type
Barony
Earliest identified record
1663Not necessarily a date of creation
Variant spellings
Zeochrie, Zochrie

Yeochrie is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony in the county of Banff. The earliest record identified so far is dated 1663. It also appears in the sources as Zeochrie and Zochrie.

The historical record

References identified

Register of the Great Seal

Charter of confirmation dated 24 August 1663, produced at Banff on 1 June 1672 for James Gordon, baron of Zeochrie: published county minute in James Grant, Records of the County of Banff, 1660–1760 (1922), p.16. No RMS volume/entry established;

Retours and Lyon records

Published Retour index, Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis retornatarum abbreviatio, vol. III (1816): Banff, Zeochrie/Zochrie baronia no.158. Nos.50 and 185 are unqualified place/land entries.

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