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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Supposed site of St John's Chapel Supposed Site of St. John's Chapel
Chapel of St. John
Mrs. Jane Marshall (Roadside)
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]
021.06 "In addition to Kinneff, Bervie, and Catterline there seems to have been religious service in Barras at the Chapel of St. John. At what time this Chapel fell into disuse does not appear, but the right of presenting to it, is several times mentioned in the seventeenth century. + That it may have had some connection with the Knight's Templars has been inferred partly from its name (the Chapel of St. John) and partly from other circumstances. In 1632 among the lands in which Sir Robert Arbuthnott was served heir to his father we find 'Terris Templariis de Kinneff infra parochiam de Kinneff'. These 'terrae templariae' would seem to have belonged at some period to the Knights of the Temple. There is still a house in the parish well known by the name of the Temple, and there is the hill of St. John, at the foot of which lies a farm called the Chapel of Barras." (New Stat. Acct. P. 318-9) [New Statistical Account Page 318-9]
+ In 1631 Alexander Stratoun of that Ilk was served heir to his father in the lands of Harbourscheillis, Glassland &c. Cum advocatione (patronage advowson) Capellariae de St. John in Kinneff vocatae Barras." (Inquis. Spec. Kincard. No. 56) [Inquisitionum Specialum Kincardine No. 56] Ten years later is found in the hands of another family, for, in 1641 Parliament passed a ratification in favour of William Gray, and of his
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Parish of Kinneff and Catterline.

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