Glamis

All census returns for the parish of Glamis are held at New Register House, Edinburgh and can be consulted there. The census returns have been microfilmed by the LDS church and the films numbers are:

  An enumeration of the heads of family within the parish in communion with the Church of Scotland was taken in December 1834.

Church History is dealt with in the following books.

• "Glamis, A Parish History"
  by John Stirton,
  Forfar, 1913, W Shepherd,

• "Glamis Castle, its origin and history: with a brief account of the early church of the parish"
  by John Stirton,
  Forfar, 1938, W. Shepherd

• "Glamis: Its History and Antiquities,"
  by Andrew Jervise,
  Edinburgh, 1861.
  (This book is very rare with only 12 copies printed, 1 copy located in Forfar Public Library and 1 copy in Dundee University Library, Kinnear Local Collection.)

Old Parish Records for the parish of Glamis (289) are located in New Register House, Edinburgh. These have also been microfilmed by the LDS Church (Film number 0993434). The records contain:

Births and marriages have been indexed and the deaths will eventually be included in the National Burial Index.

The Kirk Session records of Glamis are held in the Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh. They have been microfilmed and copies of these can be bought from them. Three volumes are at the SRO:

All records of Civil Registration are held at New Register House, Edinburgh. Microfilm copies of births, deaths and marriages for the years 1855-1875, 1881 and 1891 have been filmed by the LDS church and can be ordered to any family history centre worldwide. Microfilm numbers for Births, Deaths and Marriages in Angus can be found on the Civil Registration page. It is necessary to know the parish number and this can be found on the list of Angus parishes. PLEASE CHECK FILM NUMBERS BEFORE ORDERING.

Details of Wills and Testaments can be found in Commissary Court Records. Persons from Glamis can be registered in the Commissary Courts of St Andrews, Brechin, Dunkeld or Edinburgh. Indexes to these records have been published by the Scottish Record Society until 1800. Glamis was in the Sheriffdom of Forfar and details of these records can be found on the Forfar Sheriff Court page. Records of the Commissary Courts and Sheriff Courts are held at the Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh.

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Population movement can often be very difficult to trace. There are a number of publications which can help trace individuals who may have emigrated from the county of Angus such as "Tay Valley People in North America", and "Tay Valley People in Australia" both published by Tay Valley Family History Society along with "The Scots Overseas: emigrants and adventurers from Angus and Perth" by David Dobson, 1996, St Andrews.

The transcription of the section for Glamis from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Glamis to another place.

Tay Valley Family History Society, based in Dundee which promotes genealogy in Angus, Perth, Fife and Kinross has published a number of books about genealogy in Angus, including regular Members Interests of research.

General History is dealt with in the following books:

• "Glamis, A Parish History"
  by John Stirton,
  Forfar, 1913,

• "Glamis Castle, its origin and history: with a brief account of the early church of the parish"
  by John Sirton,
  Forfar, 1938,

• "Glamis: Its History and Antiquities",
  by Andrew Jervise,
  Edinburgh, 1861.
  (This book is very rare with only 12 copies printed, 1 copy located in Forfar Public Library and 1 copy in Dundee University Library, Kinnear Local Collection.)

Additional information can also be found in the three Statistical Accounts.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NO392454 (Lat/Lon: 56.596424, -2.992574), Glamis which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Information regarding the nobility in Glamis can be found in "Glamis, A Parish History", by John Stirton, 1913, Forfar. Covering mainly the Bowes-Lyon family but with references to others.

There has been a Lodge of Ancient and Free Masons in Glamis since 1738. There was a Society of Free Gardeners which no longer exists.