Towns & Villages / Lonmay

Lonmay has been thrown into the spotlight after it was discovered by Scottish author, Allan Morrison, to be the ancestral home of Elvis Presley - where Andrew Presley and Elspeth Leg married in the Parish of Lonmay on August 27, 1713. 

The last service in Lonmay's first church was held in 1607 and a new church was built in the cemetery near the present manse. Lonmay's current church was built in 1786. The present church's roof slates came from the hold of a cargo ship, which became land-locked near Rattray Head. 

Stretching from St. Combs to Crimond, the parish of Lonmay supports around 40 farms and its fertile land allows it to produce Lonmay potatoes and Buchan Beef. 

The Presleys in Scotland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with few exceptions, mostly lived in Aberdeenshire, either in the town of Lonmay or the nearby villages of New Deer, Old Deer and Tarves.