Deskford

Aberdeen And North-East Scotland FHS (ANESFHS) hold some unpublished MIs for Deskford. Members may request lookups

These are included in the Online Index to the MIs

Aberdeen And North-East Scotland FHS (ANESFHS) have published a name Index to the 1851 Census for Banffshire. Deskford (together with Fordyce and Cullen) is published as code AA214.

ANESFHS also hold unpublished indexes and transcriptions of the 1861 Census for most Banffshire parishes (including Deskford).

Kirk of Scotland

• OPRs held by the General Register Office, Scotland.

  GROS	Baptism	Marriage	Death
  151/1	1660-1819	-	-
  151/2	-	1659-1819	-
  151/3	1820-55	1819-55	-

• LDS Film numbers:

  Baptisms	Marriages	Deaths
  6901975(2)	6901976(1)	-

• Batch numbers (for FamilySearch)

  Baptisms (C)	Marriages (M)
  C111511 C111512 C111513	M111511 M111512 M111514

Kirk Session Records

Kirk Session records generally include records of Discipline, which often include information on illegitimate births, and Accounts, which may mention persons on Poor Relief. The surviving Deskford Kirk Session records are listed on a separate webpage.

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

There is a wide range of maps available for Deskford, historical and modern, on paper and online. Many ancient placenames continue in use, and will therefore appear on modern maps, but as parishes ceased to be of any significance for Local Government in Scotland in 1974, parish boundaries will be found only on historical maps.

Maps on Paper

• The best general-purpose modern printed map is the Ordnance Survey "Landranger" Series, which has a scale of 1:50000 (about one-and-a-quarter inches to a mile). Deskford will be found on "Landranger Sheet 29".
• Reproductions of late-19th century Ordnance Survey maps are published by Caledonian Maps, and are also available via Family History Societies. Deskford will be found on sheets 86 and 96.

Maps Online

• The small location plan at the head of this page is based on an 1845 map included in the Banffshire volume of the New Statistical Account of Scotland. View a fully-detailed version of this map.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NJ501609 (Lat/Lon: 57.63554, -2.837062), Deskford 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.

You can view a comprehensive Gazetteer list including placenames culled from the Ordnance Survey "Explorer" (1:25000) map, the 1896 Ordnance Survey 1" map, the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census and Thomson's "Atlas of Scotland" (1832).

Under the "Poor Law Amendment Act, Scotland" (1845) responsibility for Poor Relief was taken from the Parishes of the Kirk of Scotland, and vested in new Parochial Boards, whose territories largely coincided with the old parishes. The Parochial Boards were not (as in England) grouped into Poor Law Unions, and there were few Poorhouses outside the cities and large towns.

Day-to-day administration of the Poor Law was in the hands of the Inspector of the Poor for each parish, and these Inspectors were obliged by law to maintain detailed records of applications and of relief supplied. The most valuable of these are the "Record of Applications" and the "General Register of the Poor". The "Minutes" are very variable, but on occasion can also contain information on named individuals.

The following Poor Law records have survived for the Parish of Deskford:

• Minutes

These are held by Aberdeen City Archives. The records are available for viewing, subject to the 100-year rule.
Items marked * are included in a name index compiled by Aberdeen And North-East Scotland FHS (ANESFHS), and held by both ANESFHS and Aberdeen City Archives.

• according to Statistical Account and New Statistical Account:

  Year	1790	1811	1821	1831
  Population	752	634	693	828

• according to Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1895):

  Year	1801	1831	1861	1871	1881	1891
  Population	610	828	1031	972	849	745

• Aberdeen & NE Scotland FHS

You can also see Family History Societies covering the nearby area, plotted on a map. This facility is being developed, and is awaiting societies to enter information about the places they cover.