Marnoch

Two booklets of Monumental Inscriptions for Marnoch have been published by Aberdeen And North-East Scotland FHS (ANESFHS):

Marnoch (Booklet AA160).
Marnoch Part 2 (Booklet AA168)

These are included in the Online Index to the MIs

Aberdeen And North-East Scotland FHS (ANESFHS) have published a name Index to the 1851 Census for Banffshire. Marnoch(together with Forglen, Inverkeithny and Rothiemay) is published as code AA211.

ANESFHS also hold unpublished indexes and transcriptions of the 1861 Census for most Banffshire parishes (including Marnoch).

Kirk of Scotland

• OPR dates: Baptisms 1676-1854, Marriages 1672-1854, Burials 1713-1818, 1822-1832.
• LDS Film number - 0990988.
• Batch numbers (for familysearch) - C or M 111612.

Free Kirk

The following registers of the Marnoch Free Kirk congregation are held at the National Archives of Scotland with the catalogue numbers shown:

• B: 1843-1851; M: 1843-1850 (CH3/1492/28)
• B: 1871-1911 (CH3/1492/29)

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 Marnoch Kirk Session records are listed on a separate webpage.

A transcript of Parish of Marnoch, (County of Banff.) by the Rev. Mr. James Innes.

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The parish does not appear to have been subject to any boundary changes, but there is one significant naming oddity. At some earlier date (sources are silent on precisely when) the parish was known as Aberchirder. That name is now officially applied to the principal village in the parish - which is known locally (although not recorded on any maps) as "Foggieloan", supposedly after a farm which formerly stood on the site.

There is a wide range of maps available for Marnoch, 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 1976, 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). Marnoch 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. Marnoch will be found on sheets 96.

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 comprehensive Gazetteer list for Marnochincluding placenames culled from the Ordnance Survey "Explorer" (1:25000) map, the 1896 Ordnance Survey 1" map, the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census and Thomson's "Atlas of Scotland" (1832).

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NJ594501 (Lat/Lon: 57.539198, -2.679817), Marnoch 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 comprehensive Gazetteer list for Marnochincluding placenames culled from the Ordnance Survey "Explorer" (1:25000) map, the 1896 Ordnance Survey 1" map, the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census and Thomson's "Atlas of Scotland" (1832).

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 Marnoch:

• General Register of the Poor 1879-1932
• Record of Applications 1892-1914
• Childrens' Separate Register 1914-1928
• Minutes

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.

Year	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861
Population	1687	2018	2210	2426	2691	2994	3289

Year	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1921	1931
Population	3294	3230	3006	2851	2532	2312	2087

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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.