Stronsay

• The Stronsay Meal Mill: by Gail Cooper. Published Kirkwall 1995. 40pp.
  Includes Chalmers family tree.
• Auld Peedie Kirks: by W. M. Gibson. Published Kirkwall 1992. 111pp.
  Local church history.
• Tales of an Orkney Island - Stronsay: by W. M. Gibson. Published by B.P.P., Kirkwall. 1987. 164pp.
  A perceptive history. with lists of inhabitants.
• The Herring Fishing - Stronsay: by W. M. Gibson. Published by B.P.P., Edinburgh. 1984.
  A classic local history on a once great industry.
• Against the Wind: by Douglas Sutherland. Published by Wm. Heinemann. 1966.
  Tales of a childhood spent in Stronsay.

Old Parish Registers

• Baptisms, 1743-1854. No entries Dec 1770-June 1797.
• Marriages, 1801-1854.
• Burials, 1801-1854.

Other church records (held at Orkney Archives in Kirkwall).

• Ref: OCR/FC/32: Stronsay United Presb. Kirk/St. John's United Free Kirk: Baptisms 1800-1818 and 1836-1854, Marriages 1800-1811 and 1837-1854.

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

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference HY655231 (Lat/Lon: 59.093234, -2.604197), Stronsay 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.