Jeanette McRobb wrote: > ... > I think you are asking how do you find out the name of the parish > associated with the first number in the sequence. I am sure there are > many ways to find this out, but an easy way is to check out the > following website which details all the parishes, with their > associated numbers. > > http://scotsfamily.com/parish.htm A more detailed list, which shows which RDs/EDs changed and combined, is actually available on the Scotlandspeople site, at: http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files2/family-records/registration-districts-from-1855.pdf If you look up "Aberdeen" on the "scotsfamily" site, you will find just a single entry. Look up "Aberdeen" on the scotlandspeople page and you get 8, plus further entries for "St Nicholas" (the original town parish of Aberdeen) "Old Machar" (site of most of the 19th-century development of Aberdeen) and entries showing when the once separate Parishes/RDs of Nigg and Newhills became incorporated (for Registration and Census purposes) into Aberdeen. More complications to deal with, but like the man said, "the truth is seldom pure and never simple". Gavin Bell
Thankyou everybody for your replies, Ihave downlaoded Gavins pdf file and bookmarked Jeannettes website and digested the other emails. Now the 64 dollar question Whats does Sanitary / Ecclesiastical mean when applied to census data ? Sanitary : Different districts in a town split by drainage and nightcart and planning requirements ? Ecclesiastical : Different districts in a town split by proximity to various churches ? Bill On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Gavin Bell <g.bell@which.net> wrote: > Jeanette McRobb wrote: > > > ... > > I think you are asking how do you find out the name of the parish > > associated with the first number in the sequence. I am sure there are > > many ways to find this out, but an easy way is to check out the > > following website which details all the parishes, with their > > associated numbers. > > > > http://scotsfamily.com/parish.htm > > > A more detailed list, which shows which RDs/EDs changed and combined, is > actually available on the Scotlandspeople site, at: > > > http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files2/family-records/registration-districts-from-1855.pdf > > > If you look up "Aberdeen" on the "scotsfamily" site, you will find just > a single entry. Look up "Aberdeen" on the scotlandspeople page and you > get 8, plus further entries for "St Nicholas" (the original town parish > of Aberdeen) "Old Machar" (site of most of the 19th-century development > of Aberdeen) and entries showing when the once separate Parishes/RDs of > Nigg and Newhills became incorporated (for Registration and Census > purposes) into Aberdeen. > > More complications to deal with, but like the man said, "the truth is > seldom pure and never simple". > > > Gavin Bell > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >