St Martins is a parish in the Strathmore district of Perthshire. It is bounded by Cargill, Collace, a detached section of Forfarshire, Kilspindie, Kinnoul, Scone, Redgorton, and Auchtergaven. (1867: The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, by John Marius Wilson).
Balbeggie, Cairnbeddie, Caroline Place, Guildtown, Kinrossie, Newmiln, St Martins, Saucher, Wolfhill
Kirklands
Kinnoull detached No. 3 was annexed to St Martins. This detached part includes the whole of the village of Balbeggie, as to which it would serve no good purpose to detail the subjects and proprietors. It is sufficent to state that the village of Balbeggie is now situated wholly within the parish of St Martins. See affected properties and landholders. (1892: Boundary of counties and parishes in Scotland as settled by the Boundary Commissioners under the Local Government Act, 1889, by Hay Shennan)
PRE-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
POST-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
The parishes of St Martins and Cambusmichael were united before 1693.
St Martins, or Meginch. The church of Meginch was dedicated to St Martin of Tours. It belonged to the Abbey of Holyrood.
Cambusmichael. The church of this parish was dedicated to St Michael. It belonged to the Abbey of Scone.
Includes ministers, licentiates, assistants, readers, and clerks.
St Martins (QO)
Cambusmichael (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 |
| 1686-1854 | St Martins | 393 | OPR |
| 1855-1877 | St Martins | 393 | RD |
| 1878-1968 | St Martins | 393a | RD |
| 1878-1960 | Stanley | 393b | RD |
| 1961-1965 | Stanley and Kinclaven | 393b | RD |
| 2009 | Perth and Kinross, Perth | 390 | RD |
| 2026 | Perth and Kinross Council; Stanley and District Community Council | ||
(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
Bruce, Clark, Donaldson, Drummond, Murray, Robertson, Ross, Stewart, Watson, Young
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 Mr David Bannerman.
"About 30 years ago there were 800 examinable persons above 10 years of age in this parish, and the population has not increased since that period. There are in the parish about 200 weavers, 12 carpenters, 3 smiths, 20 masons, 12 tailors, 6 shoemakers; a good many employed about the 3 corn and lint mills, and the remainder occupied in the purposes of agriculture.
The people are generally decent, industrious, and humane, regular in their attendance on ordinances of religion, and much more showy in their dress, and expensive in their living, than they were 12 years ago. There are few or no dissenters of any denomination among them, and these only of the more ignorant and inferior classes. Upon the whole, they seem well contented with their different situations, and enjoy in a reasonable degree the comforts and advantages of society."
(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. 500
New Statistical Account of Scotland (1834-1845), Volume 10, p. 873
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