Orkney

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Orphir

• Bibliography
  
• Church Records
  
• Civil Registration
  
• Description and Travel
  
• Gazetteers
  
• Genealogy
  

Bibliography

Church Life in Orphir Two Hundred Years Ago: by Rev. Victor C. Pogue. Published 1954 in Orkney Miscellany ii, pp24-33.
Several parishioners mentioned.

The Church in Orkney: edited by Alfred W. Johnston. Published in The Orcadian October 1889-February 1993, Kendal 1940.
Includes excerpts from the Kirk Session Minutes for Orphir 1709-1819.

Church Records

Old Parish Registers

• Baptisms, 1708-1854. Except for three fragments, the first thirteen pages are lost. Incomplete 1747-59 (pp. 117-158 of original records were lost, but there are some entries made in a more modern hand.)
• Marriages, 1709-1854. No entries July 1763-Feb 1764 (one page lost).
• Burials, 1817-1854. Seven entries, 1748-51, on the flyleaf.

• Ref: OCR/KC/16: St. Nicholas Kirk, Orphir: Baptisms 1855-1944, Proclamations of marriage banns 1879-1942, Proclamation certificates 1912-1973, Communion Roll 1865-1878, 1897-1910, and 1916-1964, Certificates of transference 1944-1953, List of inhabitants of the parish in 1821.
• Ref: OCR/FC/18: Orphir Free Kirk/North Kirk: Baptisms 1844-1943.

Meg Greenwood's website lists a number of births in Orphir from 1844-1854. The site also contains numerous extracts from the Kirk Session records of the Orphir Free Kirk, listing many names and addresses.

Civil Registration

The Registrar of births, deaths, and marriages for the parish of Orphir.
The Registrar's records extend back only as far as 1st January 1855 when registration became compulsory in Scotland.

Description and Travel

Orknet has a page which contains a description and pictures of Orphir

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Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

Orkney Family History Researchers are engaged in researching family histories in Orphir and all other parishes in Orkney. All of them are willing to share the results of their research with others.

Alan Clouston has an interest in the histories of all families from the parish of Orphir, including Ballantyne, Clouston, Findlay, Groundwater, Gunn, Halcro, Tait, and Wishart, and is willing to assist others with their research. He is also interested in the place-names of the parish.

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