Blair Collection > Place names in Strathbogie, with notes historical, antiquarian and descriptive

Place Names in Strathbozie.
generally as a matter of convenience land re-
served for this purpose would be not far distant.
In the present case, the name most likely origin-
ated at an early period, and within the range of
our records I have not been able to trace any-
thing peculiar about the occupancy of the place.
For a time it appears as a separate property, and
is occasionally mentioned in the old records as
belonging to different families. Thus, Robert
Innes appears as proprietor in 1502. John
Gordon, designed 'of Brodland,' died in 1533, and
was buried in Mortlach Church (Jervise). William
Gordon ' de Brodland ' is named in the remission
for the field of Glenlivet, of date 1603. These
Gordons of Brodland were descended from John
of Scurdarg.
Various other places in Cairnie appear from
time to time as separate and independent pro-
perties, as Drumdelgie, Pitlurg, Davidston, Cairn-
whelp, Bad, Auchanachie, and Dauch, several of
these being merely ' wadsets,' that is, they were
held as securities for debts contracted by the
actual owner. The nominal owners, holding dis-
positions of the land until its redemption, figured
as landed proprietors, but they are of exceedingly
little interest to us. They had no influence in
the district, and have left no record behind them,
except the simple fact that they possessed a few
thousand merks, which they invested on good
security, and thereby had their names entered in