Abernethy and Kincardine is a highland parish, partly in Morayshire, and partly in Inverness-shire. It is bounded on the north by the parishes of Duthill and Inverallan, on the east by Banffshire, on the south by Braemar, and on the west by the River Spey. (1867: The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, by John Marius Wilson).
Grantown or Grantown-on-Spey, Lettoch, Nethy Bridge or Nethybridge, Speybridge
PRE-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
POST-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
The parishes of Abernethy and Kincardine were united about 1560. Each of them still has its own church.
Abernethy. The church of the vicarage of Abernethy was dedicated to St George.
Kincardine-on-Spey. The church of Kincardine was dedicated to St Katherine.
(1928: Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, by Hew Scott, D. D.)
Includes ministers, licentiates, assistants, readers, and clerks.
Abernethy and Kincardine (QO)
Kincardine (QO)
(1928: Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, by Hew Scott, D. D.)
Parish registers turned over to the Registrar-General, as a result of the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scotland) Act of 1854. The letters B. D. and M. indicate Births (or Baptisms), Deaths (or Burials), and Marriages (or Proclamations of Banns) respectively. Numbers indicate separate volumes or books. Note: These records are by no means complete or without damage; consult the Detailed List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland (1872) to learn more about the condition of the records.
| OPR and RD Numbers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Range | Name | Number | Type |
| 1730-1854 | Abernethy and Kincardine | 90* | OPR |
| 1855-1869 | Abernethy and Kincardine | 124 | RD |
| 1870-1970 | Abernethy and Kincardine | 90a | RD |
| 1971-1971 | Nethybridge | 90 | RD |
| 1972-2001 | Nethybridge | 232 | RD |
| 2009 | Highland, Grantown-on-Spey and Nethybridge | 283 | RD |
| 2026 | (Abernethy and Kincardine) Highland Council; Aviemore and Vicinity Community Council | ||
| 2026 | (Nethybridge) Highland Council; Nethy Bridge Community Council | ||
* See: Alvie, Inverness-shire
(2009: Parishes and Registration Districts of Scotland - Old and New, National Records of Scotland)
Local community councils (2026) are provided as a potential source of additional information for settlements within the original boundaries of the parish. (Source)
Statistics from informal and official censuses
Cameron, Cruickshank, Fraser, Gordon, Grant, Murray, Robertson, Ross, Stewart, Stuart
Note: Names appearing in research materials, other than censuses. Simple names (First name, surname only) have been omitted unless they appear associated with large properties. All women's names, and men's names with occupations, military ranks, or peerage titles are included.
By the Reverend John Grant.
"The exact number in this parish at present is 1769, of which 262 are below 7 years of age. The common living language of the people, in which they converse, do their business, and are instructed, is the Gaelic. The size of the people is generally very good; at an average 5 feet 6, 8, and 10 inches, and many above that height; handy and active in their persons; generally sagacious and well informed according to their station; frugal and economical, and in general very sober. There is no whisky still in the parish, because there is no grain for it.
None have been condemned for a capital crime, since the days of the regality jurisdiction. They make hardy, clean, tractable soldiers when in the army; numbers of them are excellent marksmen. Political or religious fanaticism have got no footing here; of course it is very easy to live in peace among them. Their language, their garb, their social situation, their climate and modes of husbandry, have kept them hitherto a people different in character and manners, from the inhabitants of the low country, and from being misled by the doctrines of those itinerant fanatics that infest the coast."
(This section contains excerpts, at times restructured or paraphrased, from an article appearing in Statistical Account of Scotland, Sir John Sinclair, 1791-1799)
Primary Sources:
Statistical Account of Scotland (1791-1799), Volume 13, p. 129
New Statistical Account of Scotland (1834-1845), Volume 13, Section II, p. 92
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