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Scottish Record Office Number: 198
(used by ScotlandsPeople, see Research tips, below)
Churches: Chapel (remains), Gartly, Church of Scotland
Gartly Parish Church, Gartly, Church of Scotland
Cemeteries: no information provided by GENUKI
Old Parish Register Availabilty (within FamilySearch):
Baptisms: 1709-1854
Marriages: 1716-1854
Deaths: 1775-1819
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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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Gartly (Scots: Gairtlie, Scottish Gaelic: Gartaidh) is an inland parish in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is five miles south of the town of Huntly, and includes the village of Gartly which sits on the River Bogie, a tributary of the River Deveron. The River Bogie flows from south to north and used to divide the parish into a part to the west called "the Barony" which was in Banffshire and "the Braes" to the east which was in Aberdeenshire. In 1891 a law was passed prohibiting parishes from overlapping county boundaries. Since then, the whole of Gartly has been in Aberdeenshire. (Ref: Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1851), available on the GENUKI website.
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The parish is bounded on the north by the parishes of Huntly and Drumblade, on the east by Insch, on the south by Kennethmont and Rhynie, and on the west by a small portion of Cabrach and Glass. Prior to 1891 the parishes of Cabrach and Glass had also been split between Banffshire and Aberdeenshire. In 1891 the whole of Cabrach went to Banffshire and Aberdeenshire acquired the whole of the parishes of Gartly and Glass.
Further notes on Gartly can be found in A New History of Aberdeenshire, Alexander Smith (Ed), 1875], also available on GENUKI, and
F. H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4), available on the Gazetteer of Scotland website
Population Growth
| Area | acres | sq mi | hectares
| | 1801-1900 | 18,126 | 28.32 | 7,335
| | 1901-2001 | 18,038 | 28.18 | 7,300
| | Year | Population | Density per sq mi | Density per hectare
| | 1801 | 958 | 33.8 | 0.13
| | 1851 | 990 | 35.0 | 0.13
| | 1901 | 862 | 30.6 | 0.12
| | 1951 | 611 | 21.7 | 0.08
| | 2001 | 451 | 16.0 | 0.06
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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 Strathbogie, Synod of Moray, 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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