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Scottish Record Office Number: 208
(used by ScotlandsPeople, see Research tips, below)
Churches: Kildrummy Church, Kildrummy, Church of Scotland
Cemeteries: no information provided by GENUKI
Old Parish Register Availabilty (within FamilySearch):
Baptisms: 1681-1854
Marriages: 1678-1800, 1823-1854
Deaths: no file in FamilySearch
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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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Kildrummy (Scottish Gaelic: Cionn Droma) is a parish in Aberdeenshire, Scotland near the River Don, 7 miles west of Alford.
The church, located in Kildrummy hamlet, was built in 1805. Kildrummy Castle, now a ruin, has a long history dating back to at least the 14th century. The site of Brux Castle which belonged to the Forbes family is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away.
The parish is a peculiar shape. It wraps around the Kearn portion of the parish of Auchindoir and Kearn which is also its northern boundary. Other bounding parishes are Tullynessle and Forbes on the southeast, Leochel-Cushnie on the south, Towie on the southwest; and Cabrach (in Banffshire since 1891) on the west. The parish has a length of 7 miles north to south and a width of six miles east to west, notwithstanding its meandering boundary. The whole area was computed to be 10,396 acres until the end of the 19th century and 10,349 following some boundary changes in 1891. The Banffshire boundary as shown on the map above is that of prior to 1891.
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Population Growth
| Area | acres | sq mi | hectares
| | 1801-1900 | 10,396 | 16.24 | 4,207
| | 1901-2001 | 10,349 | 16.17 | 4,188
| | Year | Population | Density per sq mi | Density per hectare
| | 1801 | 430, | 26.5 | 0.10
| | 1851 | 643 | 39.6 | 0.15
| | 1901 | 574 | 35.5 | 0.14
| | 1951 | 300 | 18.6 | 0.07
| | 2001 | 193 | 11.9 | 0.05
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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).
Kildrummy Castle
The castle, high on a hill 1½ mile southwest of the village, began as a property of David, Earl of Huntingdon, and a seat of King Robert the Bruce. It was originally an extensive edifice (covering more than an acre) and strongly fortified with six towers, one of which was 5 storeys high. It was besieged by Edward I in 1306, when Isabella of Mar, the wife of Bruce, his daughter, his two sisters, and the Countess of Buchan, had fled to it for refuge. It is supposed that they made their escape by a subterraneous passage. Although partly destroyed by fire, early in the 14th century it became the principal residence of the Lords Erskine, the Earls of Mar, until the rebellion of the earl in 1715 (first Jacobean rebellion), after which the whole building was gradually allowed to fall into decay.
The region of Mar and the Earldom of Mar
- the text in this section is based on several articles in Wikipedia
Since 1996 Aberdeenshire has been divided into six "committee areas" each handling the very local needs of their area. One of these committee areas is named Marr.
Marr was named after Mar, one of the historic provinces of Scotland, which extended from north of the River Don southward to the Mounth, a range of hills on the southern edge of the valley of the River Dee (the border between Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire). Like other such areas, it was under the rule of a mormaer in the Middle Ages. In the 12th century an earl (the Earl of Mar) took his place, but no definite succession of earls appears until the 13th century, nor has any genealogical connection been established between them and the mormaers. (Note the use of the suffix "of Mar" in naming the wife of Robert the Bruce in the section above.)
The title evolved into a peerage title, and was made particularly famous by John Erskine, the 23rd/6th Earl of Mar (1675–1732), who was an important Jacobite military leader during the 1715 Jacobite rising. Owing to a 19th-century dispute, there are currently two Earls of Mar as both the first and seventh creations are currently extant. The first creation of the earldom was originally the provincial ruler of the province of Mar.
The Earldom of Mar, which is one of the seven original Scottish earldoms, is thought to be the oldest peerage in Great Britain, and even Europe.
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Further notes on Kildrummy can be found in Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1851) and A New History of Aberdeenshire, Alexander Smith (Ed), 1875], both available on GENUKI, and in
F. H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4), available on the Gazetteer of Scotland website
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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