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Scottish Record Office Number: 184
(used by ScotlandsPeople, see Research tips, below)
Churches: Crimond Parish Church, Crimond, Church of Scotland
Cemeteries: list available from the Aberdeen & NE Scotland FHS (link under Research tips)
Old Parish Register Availabilty (within FamilySearch):
Baptisms: 1731-1854
Marriages: 1784-1789, 1851-1854
Deaths: 1784-1790, 1822-1851
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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 text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Crimond is a village in Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland, located northwest of the port of Peterhead and just over from the coast.
[From A New History of Aberdeenshire by Alexander Smith (Ed), 1875] provided online by GENUKI
The parish is bounded on the north and west by the parish of Lonmay, on the east, partly by the loch of Strath-beg, and the German Ocean [North Sea], along which it has a sea-board of 2½ miles; and on the south by the parish of St. Fergus.
The greatest length of the parish, from east to west, in a direct line from Rattray Head to the Loch of Logie, is 6½ miles; and its greatest breadth, from south to north, also in a direct line, from Tillydaff to Mill of Crimon-mogate, is 2½ miles. The whole area is estimated to be about 7,420 acres.
From the promontory of Rattray-head, the land rises by Stobhall to an elevation of about 165 feet above sea level, and then descends into the valley which is formed by the streamlet of Longley, and the church, which is only about 50 feet. From Longley, and the Turnpike-road bridge on the burn of Logie, the land rises gently to the south-west point at Loch-hills, and to the south-east boundary, near the mansion house of Kininmonth, which is in the parish of Lonmay.
Rattray House is the principal mansion, and there is another one named Logie Crimond. Places named Haddo and Bilbo are also mentioned in 19th century gazetteers. Rattray House was the forerunner of a village of the same name.
Population Growth
| Area | acres | sq mi | hectares
| | 1801-1900 | 7,420 | 11.59 | 3,003
| | 1901-2001 | 5,914 | 9.24 | 2,393
| | Year | Population | Density per sq mi | Density per hectare
| | 1801 | 862 | 74.4 | 0.29
| | 1851 | 893 | 77.0 | 0.30
| | 1901 | 735 | 79.5 | 0.31
| | 1951 | 693 | 75.0 | 0.29
| | 2001 | 793 | 85.8 | 0.33
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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).
The alteration in area between the 19th and 20th centuries may have been due to a redrawing of boundaries after the neighbouring parish of St. Fergus was transferred from Banffshire in 1891.
Research Tips
There was formerly a note on this page that the parish was linked to the Presbytery of Deer, 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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