Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Genealogy

Strathdon #240 (formerly Invernochtie)

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: There are no entries December 1701–November 1702. It is defective 1706–1712, and then blank to May 1731. From this date to May 1740, births and marriages are intermixed with other matters. After 1748, there are five imperfect leaves containing separate record of births 1740–1743, and 1745–1747 which are very much wasted. Except irregular entries of three families 1727–1760, births are blank May 1747–October 1753. After the record for November 1761 occurs a separate register of births for Corgarff, 1753–1762. This is followed by a record for Strathdon from August 1741, which is blank August 1743–September 1745, and August 1747–October 1753, except for two entries. There are only five entries July 1758–July 1762 and no entries for 1765; and only three entries December 1766–February 1768. Mothers’ names are recorded after January 1787. Marriages: Marriages are blank April 1710–May 1731, December 1747–September 1753, and September 1761–1783. Only three entries for 1793, one for 1804, one for 1809, two for 1814, and one for 1819, recorded from December 1791–November 1830. Deaths: Two or three entries of Mortcloth Dues about 1743–1747 are among the marriages for the same. Notes: The parish name of Strathdon appears for the first time in the title page of the register of baptisms from 1741 and in that of the register of marriages from 1783. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Cash Book 1753–1763, with a few minutes, 1767–1815, 1826–1843 Baptisms 1752–1758, 1762–1765, 1834–1847 Proclamations 1845–1847 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/343.

Nonconformist Church Records
A Free Church here, known as Strathdon and Glenbuchat, was not sanctioned until 1866. No Records.

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