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| Name | Aboyne and Glentanner |
| Alt names | Aboyne and Glentanar | source: alternate spelling | | Aboyne | source: village in parish | | Charlestown of Aboyne | source: another name for Aboyne | | Glentanner | source: settlement in parish | | Glentanar | source: alternate spelling | | Dinnet | source: settlement in parish |
| Type | Parish |
| Coordinates | 57.077°N 2.78°W |
| Located in | Aberdeenshire, Scotland ( - 1975) |
| Also located in | Grampian Region, Scotland (1975 - 1996) | | Aberdeenshire (council area), Scotland (1996 - present) |
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Scottish Record Office Number: 170
(used by ScotlandsPeople, see Research tips, below)
Churches: St Thomas, Aboyne, Scottish Episcopal
Aboyne-Dinnet Parish Church, Aboyne, Church of Scotland
St Margaret, Aboyne, Roman Catholic
Cemeteries: list available from the Aberdeen & NE Scotland FHS (link under Research tips)
Old Parish Register Availabilty (within FamilySearch):
Baptisms: 1744-1854
Marriages: 1744-1854
Deaths: 1744-1809
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NOTE: Civil registration of vital statistics was introduced to Scotland in 1855. Prior to that date births, marriages and deaths had been recorded in local churches in the Old Parish Registers (OPRs). The OPRs were collected by the Registrar for Scotland in Edinburgh as civil registration started. Although local churches continued to record bmd after 1855, these registers were not collected and stored by the Registrar for Scotland. Some may have found their way into local archives. FamilySearch and ScotlandsPeople both keep records prior to 1855, but only ScotlandsPeople retains microfilms of the original parish books.
Missing intervals in OPRs dates may be due to non-collection of volumes (possibly through loss or damage), or the events being recorded in another book held in the parish.
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| The present parish is a union of two, Aboyne and Glentanner, which occurred before 1763. The village of Aboyne (sometimes known as Charlestown of Aboyne) is located on the River Dee west of the parish of Kincardine O'Neil. Until 1966 there was a railway station on what was the Great North of Scotland Railway. Glentanner is a settlement to the south of the river. Dinnet is another settlement located in the west of the parish.
The parish is bounded on the north and east by the parishes of Logie Coldstone, Coull, Lumphanan, and Kincardine O'Neil. The parish is also bounded by the parishes of Birse (to the east) and Lochlee (in Angus or Forfarshire) on the south, and by the united parish of Glenmuick, Tullich and Glengairn on the west.
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The parish is 12 miles from northeast to southwest and 11 miles from east to west. The area to the south of the river is very mountainous; that to the north less so but still hilly.
Aboyne Castle, the seat of the Marquis of Huntly, is near the village of Aboyne.
For more details see the various gazetteers listed below.
Population Growth
| Area | acres | sq mi | hectares
| | 1801-1900 | 36,150 | 56.48 | 14,629
| | 1901-2001 | 24,891 | 40.89 | 10,075
| | Year | Population | Density per sq mi | Density per hectare
| | 1801 | 916 | 16.2 | 0.06
| | 1851 | 1,108 | 19.6 | 0.08
| | 1901 | 1,477 | 36.1 | 0.15
| | 1951 | 1,651 | 40.4 | 0.16
| | 2001 | 2,635 | 64.4 | 0.26
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Populations 1801-1951 from A Vision of Britain through Time (http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk).
2001 population from Scotland’s Census (https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk).
Research Tips
There was formerly a note on this page that the parish was linked to the Presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil, Synod of Aberdeen, Scotland. It would appear that since 1975 the organization of the presbyteries and synods within the Church of Scotland has been revised. Readers are reminded that the Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in nature rather than Episcopalian as is the Church of England. (See Wikipedia)
- official civil (from 1855) and parish registers (from when first produced) for births, marriages and deaths for all of Scotland
- original census images for all years available (1841-1911).
- references to wills and property taxes, and
- an extensive collection of local maps.
This site is extremely easy to use. There are charges for parish register entries and censuses. The charges are reasonable and payable by online transfer.
- The Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online provides access to digitised and fully searchable versions of both the Old Statistical Account (1791-99) and the New Statistical Account (1834-45). These uniquely rich and detailed parish reports, usually written by local Church of Scotland ministers, detail social conditions in Scotland and are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Scottish history.
- Scotlands Places
- Gazetteer of Scotland includes descriptions of individual parishes from F. H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4)
- The FamilySearch Wiki
- GENUKI which provides, amongst other data, complete quotations from A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1851) by Samuel Lewis, John Bartholomew's A Gazetteer of the British Isles (1877), and A New History of Aberdeenshire edited by Alexander Smith (1875)
- A list of Burial Grounds in Scotland is now available on the website of the Scottish Association of Family History Societies.
- Aberdeenshire and Moray Records. Town Council minutes, accounts, letters, plans and harbour records provided by Aberdeenshire Council plus other local records.
- Aberdeen and North-East Scotland Family History Society is one of the largest and most reputable family history societies in Scotland and has a long list of publications referring to individual parishes.
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