BOUNDARY AND NAME CHANGES:
Burghs
Old Districts (Before 1929)
New Districts (1930-1975)
Regions and Districts (1975-1996)
Boundary Changes Summary: (See details)
Abernethy - Partly in Fife until 1891
Alyth - Partly in Forfarshire until 1891
Caputh - Detached portion in Forfarshire transferred to Collace, 1891
Culross - Transferred to Fife, 1891
Forgandenny - Partly in Kinross-shire until 1891
Fowlis Easter - Transferred to Forfarshire, 1891
Lecropt - Partly in Stirlingshire until 1891
Logie - Detached portion transferred to Alva, Clackmannanshire, 1891
Tulliallan - Transferred to Fife, 1891
SURNAMES:
Most Common Surnames:
Anderson, Brown, Cameron, Campbell, Ferguson, Robertson, Scott, Smith, Stewart, Young
Common Surnames:
A: Adam, Amos, Angus, Anton, Arnott
B: Baillie, Bain, Bayne, Beale, Bell, Beveridge, Bisset, Blair, Brough, Bruce, Buchan, Buchanan, Butter
C: Carmichael, Chalmers, Christie, Clark, Clayton, Cleland, Clyde, Comrie, Constable, Coyne, Cram, Crawford, Cree, Crichton, Crighton, Cuthbert
D: Dargie, Davidson, Dawson, Dewar, Donald, Donaldson, Dougall, Douglas, Dow, Down, Drummond, Drysdale, Duff, Dunbar, Duncan
E: Eadie, Edmonds, Ellis, Ewing
F: Falconer, Finlayson, Fisher, Fleming, Foote, Forbes, Ford, Fordyce, Forrest, Forsyth, Frame, Fraser, French
G: Galloway, Gardiner, Garvie, Gellatly, Gillespie, Gillies, Gilmour, Goodall, Gordon, Gourlay, Gow, Graham, Grant, Gray, Greenhill, Grieve, Guild
H: Haggart, Harley, Harris, Harrower, Haxton, Hay, Henderson, Heron, Hill, Hobin, Hodge, Hood, Howe, Hunter, Hutchison, Hutton
I: Irvine
J: Jack, Jeffrey, Johnston
K: Kay, Keir, Kemp, Kennedy, King, Kinnear, Kirk
: Lamb, Lamond, Lang, Law, Lawson, Leslie, Lister, Livingston, Lumsden
M: MacDonald, MacFarlane, MacLaren, Malcolm, Marshall, Martin, Menzies, Mercer, Michie, Millar, Miller, Mitchell, Moir, Moncur, Morrison, Munro, Murray
N: Nicol
O: Ogilvie, Oliver, Osler
P: Pate, Paterson, Patton, Pearson, Peddie, Peebles, Penny, Petrie, Pollock, Proudfoot
R: Rae, Ramsay, Rattray, Reid, Robb, Robson, Ross, Roy, Rutherford
S: Sadler, Scobie, Scotland, Seaton, Sellars, Sharp, Shepherd, Sim, Sime, Sinclair, Small, Stark, Steuart, Stirling, Symon
T: Tait, Tasker, Taylor, Thom, Thompson, Thomson, Thornton, Todd, Turnbull
W: Walker, Watson, Whittet, Wilkie, Willes, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Wood, Wright
Y: Younger
POPULATION:
1755: 120,116
1801: 125,583
1811: 134,390
1821: 139,050
1831: 142,166
1841: 137, 457
1851: 138,660
Location of Perthshire
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Note: OPR stands for Old Parochial Registers, which are the earliest records of baptisms, marriages, and burials kept by The Church of Scotland. The OPR number is useful, and often necessary, in tracking down these records. The Church of Scotland kept the records before civil registration was introduced in 1855. Civil registration district numbers (RD numbers) are included in the timelines on the Parish pages. See the All Parishes Index for ancient parishes and parishes created or subdivided from older parishes.