New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Genealogy

Parish #225

History
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Condition of Original Registers—
Index: For an index to these records, see the Scottish Church Records Index available on computers at the Family History Library and family history centers. The records may be indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Births: Early leaves of the record are very much wasted, and many entries have been partially, some entirely destroyed. The record is blank December 1726–January 1729. Mothers’ names not recorded June 1718–1747. Marriages: There is no entry for 1722. Record is blank December 1723–May 1744, except a few entries between April and August 1742. Record is also blank October 1753–May 1765, and August 1670 to 1784 except for two entries 1775. Deaths: Burials are blank from June 1700–1784; after which only the names of deceased persons are recorded. After April 1792 there is only one entry of burial for 1831. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b. Monumental Inscriptions: FHL Book 941.25/N2 V3s.

Auchreddy
Minutes 1705–1727, 1737, one page, 1795–1862 Accounts 1705–1709 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/1119.

Whitehill Secession Church
History— This congregation originated with the secession of “The Four Brethren” in 1732. The minister did not secede but many of his parishioners did, joining with others from Old Deer, Tarves, and Methlick to form the Secession Congregation of Craigdam. With this congregation they remained connected until 1766 when, with the seceders in Old Deer, they were separated and formed into the United Congregations of Clola and Whitehill, with a place of worship at each. After 1777 the minister chose to confine his ministrations solely to Clola, so the congregation split and Whitehill obtained its own minister. First church built in 1770, second in 1823. Source: Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church, by Rev. William MacKelvie, D.D., pub. 1873. Film #477618. More details are given in the source.

Records— No known surviving Records.

New Deer Associate Burgher Presbyterian Church
History— This congregation, known as Artamford from its location in a wood of that name, originated in some difference which took place among the members of the congregation of Whitehill, which led a portion of them to apply for supply of sermon to the Associate Burgher Presbytery of Aberdeen, which was granted in 1803. Church built in 1804. This congregation became United Presbyterian in 1847. Source: Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church, by Rev. William MacKelvie, D.D., pub. 1873. Film #477618. More details are given in the source.

Records— Congregational minutes 1850–1898 Other post-1855 Records Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH3/245.

Savoch of Deer United Associate Presbyterian Church
History— This church was located 6 miles south–east of New Deer. It originated in a system of itineracies by the United Associate Presbytery of Aberdeen soon after the union of the two great branches of the Secession in 1820. Place of worship was two thatched cottages thrown together until a church was built in 1828. Source: Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church, by Rev. William MacKelvie, D.D., pub. 1873. Film #477618. More details are given in the source.

Records— Baptismal Register 1833–1928 Session Minutes 1830–1842 Managers’ Minutes Book 1828–1917 Other pre-1855 Records Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH3/1484.

New Deer Free Church
History—  This congregation was begun as a mission immediately after the Disruption. The services were held at first in a booth in the market–place. A wooden church was erected at Culsh in 1843. The charge was sanctioned in August 1844. A church was erected on the site of the wooden building in 1845. A new church was built in 1885, in the village of New Deer. The growth of a large village at New Maud railway station brought an accession to the congregation. Membership: 1848, 265; 1900, 275. Source: Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843–1900, ed. Rev. William Ewing, D.D., 2 vols. pub. 1914. Film #918572. More details are given in the source.

Records— No known surviving Records.

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