INVERNESS-SHIRE
Description in 1910, and map showing location
"Inverness-shire, a highland county of Scotland, bounded N.
by Ross and Cromarty, and the Beauly and Moray Firths, N.E. by the shires of Nairn and Elgin, E. by Banff and
Aberdeenshires, S.E. by Perthshire, S. by Argyllshire and W. by the Atlantic. It includes the Outer Hebrides south of the
northern boundary of Harris, and several of the Inner Hebrides ... and is the largest shire in Scotland. It occupies an
area of 2,695,037 acres, or 4211 sq. m., of which more than one-third belongs to the islands. The county comprises the
districts of Moidart, Arisaig and Morar in the S.W., Knoydart in the W., Lochaber in the S., Badenoch in the S.E. and the
Aird in the N. Excepting comparatively small and fertile tracts in the N. on both sides of the river Ness, in several of
the glens and on the shores of some of the sea lochs, the county is wild and mountainous in the extreme and characterized
by beautiful and in certain respects sublime scenery. There are more than fifty mountains exceeding 3000ft. in height,
among them Ben Nevis (4406), the highest mountain in the British Isles, the extraordinary assemblage of peaks forming the
Monadhliadh mountains in the S.E., Ben Alder (3757) in the S., and the grand group of the Cairngorms on the confines of the
shires of Aberdeen and Banff." - extracted from Encyclopaedia Britannica. 11th ed. Vol. 14. (Cambridge, 1910)
Parishes
- Abernethy
- Abertarff
- Alvie
- Arderseir
- Barra
- Boleskine
- Bracadale
- Cromdale
- Croy
- Dalarossie
- Dalcross
- Daviot
- Dores
- Duirinish
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- Dunlichity
- Duthil
- Glenelg
- Glenmoriston
- Harris
- Insh
- Inverallan
- Inverness
- Kilmonivaig
- Kilmuir
- Kiltarlity
- Kincardine
- Kingussie
- Kirkhill
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- Laggan
- Moy
- North Uist
- Petty
- Portree
- Rothiemurchus
- Sleat
- Small Isles
- Snizort
- South Uist
- St Kilda
- Strath
- Urquhart
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INFORMATION RELATED TO ALL OF INVERNESS-SHIRE
Archives and Libraries
- North Highland Council
Archive at Inverness Library, Farraline Park, Inverness is run by The Highland Council. It "holds and preserves the official
records of not only The Highland Council, but those which the Council inherited from The Highland Regional Council and
District Councils, plus the five Counties which preceded the Regional Council: Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and
Cromarty, Inverness-shire, and Nairnshire. In addition it is responsible for the records of 13 Burghs within the
Highlands." The library includes a Family
History Services. The Council also runs over 100 different photographic archives, the biggest of
which is the Major Collection Photographic Archives
(including the Whyte collection), at The Service Point, 23 Church Street, Inverness.
- Clan Donald Library at Armadale Castle on the Isle
of Skye has archive collections, with the main collection being Lord Macdonald's estate papers c1500-1948(included on
the SCAN site, and listed in detail at the National Register of Archives (Scotland) so the catalogue will be online
when the NRA(S) get their site up and runing). They also have all the usual genealogy sources (census, OPRs etc) plus
very good secondary sources.
Census
General advice on census records and indexes can be found on our Scotland Census page.
General advice on parish registers throughout Scotland can be found on our Scotland
Church Records page.
Civil Registration
Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths began in Scotland on 1st January 1855. For details of these records and
indexes to them, see our GRO tutorial and our Scotland Civil
Registration page.
Court Records
Description and Travel
- The Hub of the Highlands : the book of Inverness and district : the centenary volume of Inverness Field Club,
1875-1975 / [edited by Loraine Maclean of Dochgarroch]. The Albyn Press, 1975 ISBN 0-904505-03-0. (This was
republished in 1990 by Mercat Press ISBN 0-901824-93-3.)
Mailing lists:
Land and Property
- Index to Secretary's and Particular Register of Sasines for Sheriffdoms of Inverness, Ross, Cromarty and
Sutherland preserved in H.M. General Register House. Edinburgh : HMSO, 1966 The first volume covers the years 1606
to 1608 and 1617 to 1660.
- The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire Carl Hj. Borgstrom. Oslo: Norwegian Universities Press, 1941. (A
linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland; v. 2)
- Place-names in Glengarry and Glenquoich and their origin by Edward C. Ellice. London, 1898. A second
edition of this appeared in 1931, and that edition was reprinted in 1999 in a limited edition of 500 copies by the
Glengarry Visitor centre.
- Rum: island place-names P. Morgan. (published by Scottish Natural
Heritage, 1999).
Societies
Statistics
- The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-1799 edited by Sir John Sinclair. Vol. 17. Inverness-shire, Ross
and Cromarty, with a new introduction by Malcolm Gray. EP Publishing 1983, ISBN 0 7158 1017 0.
- The New Statistical Account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the
superintendence of a committee of the Society for the Benefit of the Daughters of the Clergy. Vol. 14. Inverness -
Ross and Cromarty. Edinburgh : William Blackwood 1845.
- Both the first and the second (New) Statistical Accounts have been
digitised and made available online by Edinburgh Data and Information Access,
- The County of Inverness / edited by Hugh Barron. Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press, 1985 (The Third
Statistical Account of Scotland) xvi, 651p., ill. ISBN 0 7073 0359 1
- The description of the Isle of Lewis which appeared in the first Statistical Account is presented separately, along
with the accounts covering the other islands off the west of Scotland, in a compilation volume: The Statistical
Account of Scotland 1791-1799 / edited by Sir John Sinclair. Vol. 20. The Western Isles (of Ross,
Inverness-shire and Argyll, with Bute). EP Publishing, 1983. ISBN 0-7158-1020-0.
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