307_Some Aberdeen Parishes

The Parishes of Medieval Scotland - Presbytery of Garioch

Clatt (Aberdeen, Mar) [31]

The church was confirmed to the bishop of Aberdeen in 1157, along with authority to erect his chapter (Abdn. Reg., I 5-7) By 1256 the church with all its fruits had been erected into a prebend of Aberdeen, with which both parsonage and vicarage teinds remained, while a vicar pensioner served the parish (Ib. I. 448-9;ii.40, 379; Assumptions, 384).

Culsalmond (Aberdeen, Garioch) [41]

Granted to Lindores by its founder, David, earl of Huntingdon (1191x95), the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III (Lind. Cart., nos iii, xciii) A perpetual vicarage was ratified in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey (Abdn. Reg., I 25; Assumptions, 38; Thirds of Benefices, 225).

Insch (Aberdeen, Garioch) [87]

Also known as Inchmabanin the church was granted to Lindores by its founder David, Earl of Huntingdon 1191 x 5, and confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III (Lind. Cart. Nos iii, xciii). The erection of a perpetual vicarage was ratified in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey (Abdn. Reg. I 24; Assumptions, 38, 381).

Kinnethmont (Aberdeen, Garioch) [115]

Granted to Lindores by its founder, David, earl of Huntingdon (1191x 5), the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III (Lind. Cart., nos iii, xciii) The erection of a perpetual vicarage was confirmed in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey, the church at the Reformation also having annexed to it the church of Rathmuriel (q.v.) (Abdn. Reg., I 25; Assumptions, 38; Reg. Of Pres., ii. 176).

Rathmuriel (Aberdeen, Garioch) [168]

Known also as Christ’s Kirk the church was granted to Lindores by its founder, David, earl of Huntingdon (1191x95), the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III in 1195 (Lind. Cart., nos iii, xciii) A perpetual vicarage was ratified in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey, the church itself by the Reformation has become a pendicle of Kinnethmont, which also pertained to Lindores (Abdn. Reg., I. 24-5; Assumptions, 38).

Leslie (Aberdeen, Garioch) [130]

Granted to Lindores by Norman, son of Malcolm, later known as Leslie (1199 x 1207), this was confirmed by David, earl of Huntingdon (Lind. Cart., nos lxxxi-iii). A perpetual vicarage was erected in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey (Abdn. Reg., i, 25; Assumptions, 38, 388).

Premnay (Aberdeen, Garioch) [166]

Granted to Lindores by its founder, David, earl of Huntingdon (1191x95), the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III in 1195 (Lind. Cart., nos iii, xciii) The erection of a perpetual vicarage was ratified in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey (Abdn. Reg., 25; Assumptions, 38; Aberdeen-Banff Illustrations, iii. 399-400).

The above are believed to be the original parishes of the Garioch. Clatt was removed and the following parishes added.

There may have been a royal decree with words similar to:- Garioch is now defined as the area drained by the River Urie.

Bourtie (Aberdeen, Garioch) [21]

Granted to the priory of St. Andrews by William de Lamberton, the church was confirmed to the uses of the priory by Matthew, bishop of Aberdeen (1172-99) (St.A. Lib., 266-7, 299). Inspite of many further confirmations at the beginning of the thirteenth century, it was not until a further confirmation of the church to the uses of the priory by Randulph, bishop of Aberdeen in 1240 that the annexation became finally effective. A vicarage settlement took place in 1244, and the parsonage thereafter with the priory. The identification of this church, with a prebend of Aberdeen cannot be substantiated (Ib. 303-6;NLS. MS 15.1.18 no. 34; Assumptions, 20; RSS xxxiv. 37; Cameron, Apostolic Camera, 200).

Durnach - Logie-Durno (Aberdeen, Garioch) [137]

Also known as Durnach. The church was granted to Lindores by its founder, David, earl of Huntingdon (1191x 5), the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III in 1195 (Lind. Cart., nos iii, xciii) The erection of a perpetual vicarage was ratified in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey, and containing within its parochial bounds the Chapel-of-Garioch (Abdn. Reg., i, 24; Assumptions, 38, 390).

Fintray (Aberdeen, Garioch) [66]

Granted to Lindores by its founder, David, earl of Huntingdon (1191x95), the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III (Lind. Cart., nos ii, xciii) A perpetual vicarage was erected in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey (Abdn. Reg., I 24; Assumptions, 38; Reg. Of Pres., I. 56v).).

Inverurie (Aberdeen, Garioch) [90]

Granted to Lindores by its founder, David, earl of Huntingdon (1191x95), the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III, the church appears to have been a chapel of Rothket. However, with the early disappearance of this church, Inverurie became the church of the parish, including within its bounds the chapel of Monkegie (Lind. Cart. Nos iii, xciii, cxxxviii). A perpetual vicarage was ratified in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey (Abdn. Reg., I 25; Assumptions, 38, 379v, 384v; RSS, lx. 57).

Monkegie (Aberdeen, Garioch)[149] {https://maps.nls.uk/view/00000546 ? Caskieben ?}

Granted to Lindores by its founder, David, earl of Huntingdon (1191x 5), the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III. The church was originally only a chapel of Rothket and with the disappearance of that church a pendicle of Inverurie. It apparently remained as such, in spite of fifteenth century references to the parish kirk of Monkegie. (Lind. Cart., nos iii, xciii; Assumptions, 38; Aberdeen-Banff Coll., 569v).

Rothket (Aberdeen, Garioch)[174]

Granted to Lindores by its founder, David, earl of Huntingdon (1191x 5), the church was confirmed to the uses of the abbey in 1195 by Pope Celestine III, the parish, which included within its bounds the chapel of Inverurie (q.v.) disappears from record shortly after these grants, the chapel then becoming the parish church (Lind. Cart., nos ii, xciii-xciv).

Oyne (Aberdeen, Garioch) [160]

Confirmed to the bishop of Aberdeen in 1163, the church does not appear in an earlier confirmation of 1157, and may have been acquired between these two dates (Abdn Re., I.7, cf. 5-7). By 1256, the church with all its fruit had been erected as a prebend of Aberdeen Cathedral, this possibly occurring during the episcopate of Peter Ramsay (1247-56). Both parsonage and vicarage were thus annexed, as they were at the Reformation, while the cure was a vicarage pensionary (Ib., ii. 40, 252;Assumptions, 380; Reg of Pres., I. 54).

Various Parishes in Other Presbyteries

Cluny (Aberdeen, Mar) [32]

A pendicle of the parsonnage of Kincardine O’Neil, the church appears to have passed to the hospital of that name by the grant of Alan Durward in 1233-4 of the chuch of Kyncardin in Marr with its pertinents (Abdn. Reg., ii, 268, 274). Cluny was certainly only a vicarage in 1274, while the hospital master was . . . .??

In 1330 the hospital with its annexed chapels was erected, with consent of Duncan, earl of Fife, into a prebend of Aberdeen cathedral by Bishop Alexander de Kynnimond (Abdn. Reg., I. 51, 64, 65, 83;ii. 252). The patronage of the church of Cluny passed to William earl of Sutherland and his wife in 1346, although in the sixteenth century patronage was undoubtedly exercised by the prebendary with consent of the crown, who held the patronage of Kincardine O’Neil (Maitland Misc., I. 361; RSS I. No 2885, v no 827).

Both parsonnage and vicarage teinds pertained to the prebend of Kincardine at the reformation, the charge apparently being served by a curate, although a vicarage appears to have existed in 1516/ 17 (Assumptions, 386; GRH Chrs., nos 1721, 1825; RSS I. No 2885; Pro Book Cristisone, 19, 65).

The residual fruits of the prebend with its four annexed chapels were appropriated in 1501 to the Chapel Royal Stirling, provision being made for vicar pensioners, but it is doubtful whether this was effective, the prebend itself remaining with a canon of the cathedral (Hist. Chapel Royal, cxxxiv, 14-15, 64-66, 71)

Muchall - nothing, a check to see if Castle Fraser was a parish at sometime

Drum - Dalmayock (Aberdeen, Garioch / Aberdeen) [44]

Known also as Drumoak, the church was confirmed to the bishop of Aberdeen in 1157, along with the authority to erect his chapter (Abdn. Reg., I 5-7). It was not, however, erected into a prebend until 1368 when both the parsonage and vicarage fruits were so annexed by Bishop Alexander de Kynnimond (II). It continued as such thereafter, the cure evidently being a vicarage pensionary (Ib., I, 380,II, 253; Assumptions, 390v).

Echt (Aberdeen, Mar / Aberdeen) [58]

Granted to Scone by Thomas, son of Malcolm de Lunden (1214 x 25), the church was confirmed by Pope Honorius III in 1225. The parsonage thereafter remained with the abbey, while the cure a vicarage perpetual (Scone Liber, nos 91, 103; St Andrews Formulare, no. 7; Assumptions, 309v, 383v).

Kinerny (now in parish of Echt) - Arbroath / St Vigeans

Kincardine O’Neil (Aberdeen, Mar)[110]

Granted with all its pertinents to the hospital of Kincardine O’Neil by its founder Alan Durward, before 1231, this grant was confirmed in 1250 (Abdn. Reg., ii. 268, 274) Along with church apparently passed its four pendicles of Glentannar, Lumphanan, Cluny and Midmar (q.v.). The last two of these may, however, have been granted to the hospital independently and were served by vicars in 1274, the hospital master then being taxed “pro omnibus ecclesiis” (SHS Misc., vi. 41-2).

Skene (Aberdeen, Garioch) [183]

One of the six pendicles of Kinkell (q.v.) the revenues of which appear in part to have pertained to the Knights Hospitallers at Torphichen in the fourteenth century, but were lost to that house with the erection of Kinkell and its chapels into a prebend of Aberdeen Cathedral in 1420 at the instance of Henry de Lychtone, before his translation to that see (Abdn. Reg., ii 248, 253). Both parsonage and vicarage continued to be annexed at the Reformation, the cure being a vicarage pensionary (RS, 608, 247. RSS, ii no. 1215; Assumptions, 388v-389).

New Statistical Account - 1845

Synod of Aberdeen presbyteries:-
Aberdeen
Alford
Deer
Ellon
Fordyce
Garioch
Kincardine O'Neil
Turriff

Synod of Moray presbyteries, wholly or partly, in Aberdeenshire 2022 :-
Aberlour
Abernethy
Strathbogie

Synod of Angus and Mearns presbytery in Aberdeenshire 2022 :-
Fordoun

Presbyteries of Alford, Garioch and Kincardine O'Neil parishes as listed in New Statistical Account of Scotland circa 1845.

Garioch

Bourtie
Chapel of Garioch
Culsalmond
Daviot
Insch
Inverurie
Keithhall and Kinkell
Kemnay
Kintore
Leslie, Aberdeenshire
Meldrum
Monymusk
Oyne
Premnay – Auchleven
Rayne - Old Rayne

Kincardine O'Neil

Aboyne and Glen Tanar
Banchory - Banchory-Ternan
Birse
Cluny
Coull
Crathie and Braemar
Echt
Glenmuick, Tullich and Glengairn
Kincardine O'Neil
Logie-Coldstone
Lumphanan
Midmar
Strachan
Tarland and Migvie

Alford

Alford
Auchindoir and Kearn (Lumsden)
Cabrach
Clatt
Glenbuchat
Keig
Kennethmont
Kildrummy
Leochel-Cushnie
Strathdon
Tough
Towie
Tullynessle and Forbes

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