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Scottish Record Office Number: 178
(used by ScotlandsPeople, see Research tips, below)
Churches: Cabrach, Church of Scotland
Cemeteries: available from the Aberdeen & NE Scotland FHS
Old Parish Register Availabilty (within FamilySearch):
Baptisms: 1711-1854
Marriages: 1722-1854
Deaths: 1784-1794
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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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Cabrach parish was located on the border between Aberdeenshire and Banffshire with the majority in Banffshire. The town of Huntly is 16 miles away; Elgin, the main town in the region, is 30 miles to the north.
The part of Cabrach in Banffshire was known as Upper Cabrach and that in Aberdeenshire, Lower Cabrach. The village of Cabrach and most of the inhabited part of the parish was located in Aberdeenshire.
On 1st May 1891, the Aberdeenshire part was transferred to Banffshire. But while a large part of the parish was involved, there are probably no major implications for genealogy, as the whole of the OPRs [Old Parish Registers], the civil Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and the Census are nowadays catalogued under Banffshire. It may be, however, that transfers of land and land taxes for the relevant places are still listed under Aberdeenshire. (Copied from the Cabrach, Banffshire, page in GENUKI)
GENUKI lists the places (mostly farms) transferred to Banffshire in 1891 as Aldivalloch, Aldunie, Auchmair, Bank, Blackwater, Bodiebrae, Bracklach, Buck, Cabrach (hamlet), Craigencat, Elrick, Gauch, Haddoch, Nether Howbog, Upper Howbog, Kirkton, Largue, Milltown, Powneed, Redford, Reekomlane, Torniechelt, Whitehillock.
There are long descriptions in Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland of 1851 and A New History of Aberdeenshire, Alexander Smith (Ed), published 1875, on the GENUKI website and F. H. Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4) is reproduced in the Gazetteer for Scotland.
Population Growth
| Area | acres | sq mi | hectares
| | 1801-1900 in Banffshire | 17,423 | 27.22 | 7,051
| | 1801-1900 in Aberdeenshire | 16,680 | 26.06 | 6,750
| | 1901-2001 | 34,079 | 53.25 | 13,791
| | Year | Population | Density per sq mi | Density per hectare
| | 1801 | 684 | 12.8 | 0.05
| | 1851 | 750 | 14.1 | 0.05
| | 1901 | 581 | 10.9 | 0.04
| | 1951 | 215 | 4.0 | 0.02
| | 2001 | 64 | 1.2 | 0.00
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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).
All population figures were reported under Cabrach, Banffshire. Whether the population in Aberdeenshire in the 19th century was accounted for or not is unknown.
Research Tips
There was formerly a note on this page that the parish was linked to the Presbytery of Alford, Synod of Aberdeen, Scotland. It would appear that since 1975 the organization of the presbyteries and synods has been revised. Readers are reminded that the Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in nature while in England the Church of England is Episcopalian. (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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