Botriphnie

Aberdeen And North-East Scotland FHS (ANESFHS) have published a name Index to the 1851 Census for Banffshire. Botriphnie (together with Grange, Keith and Boharm) is published as code AA216.

ANESFHS also hold unpublished indexes and transcriptions of the 1861 Census for most Banffshire parishes (including Botriphnie).

You can view a Gazetteer list including placenames culled from the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census.

Kirk of Scotland

• OPRs held by the General Register Office, Scotland.

  GROS	Baptism	Marriage	Death
  148/1	1682-1819	1683-1819	1746-53
  148/2	1820-54	1820-54

• LDS Film numbers:

  Baptisms	Marriages	Deaths
  6901969	6901970	-

• Batch numbers (for FamilySearch)

  Baptisms (C)	Marriages (M)
  C111481 C111482 C111483 C111484	M111481 M111482 M111484

Kirk Session Records

Kirk Session records generally include records of Discipline, which often include information on illegitimate births, and Accounts, which may mention persons on Poor Relief. The surviving Botriphnie Kirk Session records are listed on a separate webpage.

• Botriphnie in 1841

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

There is a wide range of maps available for Botriphnie, historical and modern, on paper and online. Many ancient placenames continue in use, and will therefore appear on modern maps, but as parishes ceased to be of any significance for Local Government in Scotland in 1974, parish boundaries will be found only on historical maps.

Maps on Paper

• The best general-purpose modern printed map is the Ordnance Survey "Landranger" Series, which has a scale of 1:50000 (about one-and-a-quarter inches to a mile). Botriphnie will be found on "Landranger Sheet 29".
• Reproductions of late-19th century Ordnance Survey maps are published by Caledonian Maps, and are also available via Family History Societies. Botriphnie will be found on sheet 85.

Maps Online

• The small location plan at the head of this page is based on an 1845 map included in the Banffshire volume of the New Statistical Account of Scotland. View a fully-detailed version of this map.

You can view a Gazetteer list including placenames culled from the Ordnance Survey "Explorer" (1:25000) map, the 1896 Ordnance Survey 1" map, and the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NJ385451 (Lat/Lon: 57.4916, -3.027255), Botriphnie 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.

You can view a Gazetteer list including placenames culled from the Ordnance Survey "Explorer" (1:25000) map, the 1896 Ordnance Survey 1" map, and the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census.

Under the "Poor Law Amendment Act, Scotland" (1845) responsibility for Poor Relief was taken from the Parishes of the Kirk of Scotland, and vested in new Parochial Boards, whose territories largely coincided with the old parishes. The Parochial Boards were not (as in England) grouped into Poor Law Unions, and there were few Poorhouses outside the cities and large towns.

Day-to-day administration of the Poor Law was in the hands of the Inspector of the Poor for each parish, and these Inspectors were obliged by law to maintain detailed records of applications and of relief supplied. The most valuable of these are the "Record of Applications" and the "General Register of the Poor". The "Minutes" are very variable, but on occasion can also contain information on named individuals.

The following Poor Law records have survived for the Parish of Botriphnie:

• General Register of the Poor 1854-1929 *
• Record of Applications 1855-1929 *
• Childrens' Separate Register 1861-1893 *

These are held by Aberdeen City Archives. The records are available for viewing, subject to the 100-year rule.
Items marked * are included in a name index compiled by Aberdeen And North-East Scotland FHS (ANESFHS), and held by both ANESFHS and Aberdeen City Archives.

• according to New Statistical Account:

  Year	1811	1821	1831	1841
  Population	577	572	721	714

• according to Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1895):

  Year	1801	1811	1831	1861	1871	1881	1891
  Population	589	577	721	867	785	696	729

• Aberdeen & NE Scotland FHS

You can also see Family History Societies covering the nearby area, plotted on a map. This facility is being developed, and is awaiting societies to enter information about the places they cover.