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Logierait

"LOGIERAIT, village and parish in north of Perthshire. The village stands on peninsula between the Tay and the Tummel, nearly in line with railway viaducts across these rivers, 8 1/2 miles north-north-west of Dunkeld; maintains carriage ferries on the two rivers; was long the seat of the Athole family's regality courts; had then a grand court-hall and a prison, the place of Rob Roy's incarceration under sentence of the court; and has now a post office designated of Perthshire, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 166 scholars. - The parish contains also Ballinluig village and part of Aberfeldy town; consists of a number of detached sections, one of them 19 miles west of the village; measures, apart from intersections, about 12 miles in length, and 4.5 in mean breadth; and comprises 37,759 acres. Real property in 1880-81, £18,288. Pop., quoad civilia, 2323. The main body around the village is remarkably beautiful, but much of the detached districts is wild upland. A number of fine mansions are in the main body; and ruins of a castle, said to have been a residence or hunting-seat of King Robert III., are near the village. Established, Free, Congregational, Baptist, and Episcopalian churches, and a large public school, are in Aberfeldy."

Wilson, Rev. John, The Gazetteer of Scotland, 1882.

Biography
Cemeteries
Census
Church Records
History

Biography

Logierait was the birthplace of a number of famous people

• Adam Ferguson (1723-1816): son of the parish minister he became Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University in 1759.

• Alexander Mackenzie (1822-1892): local stonemason who went on to become Prime Minister of Canada in 1873.

Cemeteries

1. Logierait Churchyard
2. Hillhead Cemetery
3. St. Marys, Grandtully
4. Killiechassie
5. St. Andrews Episcopal, Strathtay (See Church Records)
6. Tullymet Chapel
7. Tullymet (Dick family burial ground)

Cemeteries 1, 3 & 4 have pre 1855 inscriptions available in Monumental inscriptions (pre-1855) in North Perthshire. Information on 6 & 7 to follow.

Interment registers for 1 & 2 are available at the local council offices in Pitlochry. Please consult the cemeteries page.

Census

The GRO(S) Ref. No. is 376. (Please consult the county page for general information)

Church Records

(Please consult the county page for general information)

• Church of Scotland (OPR)

  GRO(S) Ref. No.
  376/1	B.1650-1754	M 1650-1754	D -
  376/2	B 1754-1819	M -	D -
  376/3	B -	M 1760-1819	D 1764-1815
  376/4	B 1820-54	M 1820-54	D -

  
  
  
• Cameron, Samuel (1813-1872) Minister of Logierait
  
  journal, notes and parochial roll (1837-61),
  National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division,
  Reference: Acc 3353-54
  
  
• St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Strathtay
  
  1855-1984 : registers incl baptisms, marriages and burials, minutes, accounts and misc papers incl St David's Weem, for other records see Holy Trinity Pitlochry
  Private records, Ref. NRA(S) 2706 - enquiries to:
  National Register of Archives (Scotland)
  HM General Register House
  Edinburgh EH1 3YY
  Scotland

History

• Logierait Pictish Cross-Slab in Logierait Churchyard