Place:Kintore, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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NameKintore
Alt namesKintore (burgh)source: from redirect
Kintore (town)source: from redirect
Kintoresource: from redirect
TypeParish, Burgh
Coordinates57.233°N 2.346°W
Located inAberdeenshire, Scotland     ( - 1975)
Also located inGrampian Region, Scotland     (1975 - 1996)
Aberdeenshire (council area), Scotland     (1996 - )


Scottish Record Office Number: 213
(used by ScotlandsPeople, see Research tips, below)

Churches: Kintore Parish Church, Kintore, Church of Scotland

Cemeteries: no information provided in GENUKI

Old Parish Register Availabilty (within FamilySearch):
Baptisms: 1717-1854
Marriages: 1718-1854
Deaths: 1765-1793, 1822-1854

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.

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Kintore (Gaelic: Ceann Tòrr) is a parish and former royal burgh immediately south of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, now bypassed by the A96 road between Aberdeen and Inverness. It is situated on the banks of the River Don. The Town House dates from 1747.

Established in the ninth century AD as a royal burgh, Kintore had its royal charter renewed by King James IV in 1506. Nearby are the remains of Hallforest Castle, former stronghold of the Earls of Kintore.

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In 2001 Aberdeenshire Council's figures gave the population of the town as 2,170, with a predicted 2,521 in 2006. The 2011 census recorded the population of Kintore at 4,476. The parish of Kintore also contains the village of Port Elphinstone.

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Local geography

[Condensed from A New History of Aberdeenshire by Alexander Smith (Ed), 1875], available in full on GENUKI]
The parish is bounded on the north and east by the River Don and the parishes of Inverurie, Keithhall, and Fintray; on the south by Kinellar and Skene; and on the west by Kemnay. The maximum length of the parish from south to north is 5¾ miles, and the maximum breadth east to west is 4½ miles. The whole area of the parish is computed to be 9,187 acres.

The surface of the parish is uneven, but far from hilly with the highest hill rising to 480 feet. The lands lying along the banks of the Don are flat, and (including the town of Kintore) are liable to be inundated by the river in time of floods. Agriculture is the main occupation.

Landowners of previous centuries

[From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1851) - copyright Mel Lockie 2016] (available on GENUKI)

The place was formerly remarkable for its castle, said to have been built by Robert Bruce for a hunting-seat, and which was the occasional residence of several of the Scottish kings. who enjoyed the pleasures of the chase in the royal forest adjacent. This castle, called the Castle of Hall Forest, was granted, with surrounding lands which are supposed to have extended from the west part of the parish to Dyce church, a distance of five or six miles, to Robert de Keith, great marischal of Scotland, by Bruce, after the battle of Inverury, or, as is more generally supposed, after that of Bannockburn, for eminent services rendered to the king. Upon this, it became the seat of the family; the son of Robert de Keith was created Earl of Kintore, and it continued to be inhabited so late as the seventeenth century by the same family, who hold the property at the present time. The castle appears to have been of considerable strength, and its vicinity was the scene of various conflicts: here Bruce is said to have completed the destruction of the army of Edward I., after the defeat of Cumyn, Earl of Buchan, near Inverury.

Sir Andrew Mitchell, ambassador to the court of Prussia in the time of Frederick the Great, resided at Thainston House; and Arthur Johnston, the celebrated writer of Latin poetry, attended the parish school. Thainston is the only mansion; and its owner divides with the Earl of Kintore the greater part of the parish. (From F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland website]

Population Growth

Areaacressq mihectares
1801-19009,18714.353,718
1901-20019,107 14.23 3,685
YearPopulationDensity per sq miDensity per hectare
180184659.00.26
18511,34293.5 0.36
19012,553179.4 0.69
19512,379167.2 0.65
20014,148291.5 1.13

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

  • 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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