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NOTE: There is also a former mining village named Cluny further south in the parish of Auchterderran in Fife.
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Scottish Record Office Number: 181
(used by ScotlandsPeople, see Research tips, below)
Churches: Cluny Church, Cluny, Church of Scotland
Cemeteries: list available from the Aberdeen & NE Scotland FHS (link under Research tips)
Old Parish Register Availabilty (within FamilySearch):
Baptisms: 1736-1854
Marriages: 1772-1854
Deaths: 1772-1853
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NOTE: Civil registration of vital statistics was introduced to Scotland in 1855. Prior to that date births, marriages and deaths had been recorded in local churches in the Old Parish Registers (OPRs). The OPRs were collected by the Registrar for Scotland in Edinburgh as civil registration started. Although local churches continued to record bmd after 1855, these registers were not collected and stored by the Registrar for Scotland. Some may have found their way into local archives. FamilySearch and ScotlandsPeople both keep records prior to 1855, but only ScotlandsPeople retains microfilms of the original parish books.
Missing intervals in OPRs dates may be due to non-collection of volumes (possibly through loss or damage), or the events being recorded in another book held in the parish.
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Cluny is a parish in the southern part of Aberdeenshire 20 miles west by northwest of Aberdeen. It is about 10 miles in width from east to west and stretches about 2 miles from north to south. Since 1743 it has included the old parish of Kinnerny which was annexed in that year. It is bounded on the north by the parish of Monymusk; on the east by Kemnay and Skene; on the south by Echt and Midmar; and on the west by Kincardine O’Neil and Tough. The surface of the parish is sufficiently level and well-watered from streams flowing into the Rivers Don and Dee to make it suitable for crops.
F. H. Groome in his Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland of 1882-4 available online on the Gazetteer for Scotland website states:
"In the western half of the parish, [are] the ruins of Tilliecairn Castle, once held by Matthew Lumsden, who died in 1580, and who was author of A Genealogical History of the House of Forbes. Cluny Castle, rebuilt (1840-72) on the site of the 15th century stronghold of a Huntly Gordon, stands 1½ mile south of Monymusk [railway] station, and is a stately castellated pile of grey granite, with central quadrangle, high parapets and corner turrets, a richly decorated oratory, and a pinetum comprising 400 varieties. Its owner [is] the widow of John Gordon, Esq. of Cluny (1822-78), who held 20,395 acres in the shire, ... [and who] in 1880 married Sir Reginald Cathcart, Bart. of Killochan. Other mansions are Castle Fraser and Linton House, the latter 3 miles south-southeast of Monymusk station." [Within the parish] 4 proprietors held each an annual value of more, and 6 of less, than £100.
In addition to Cluny village there are settlements at Ordhead and Sauchen (neither mentioned in 19th century gazetteers), but two of the estates mentioned above employed sufficient people that they had schools for the children of those who worked on the estates.
Population Growth
| Area | acres | sq mi | hectares
| | 1801-1900 | 9,752 | 15.24 | 3,946
| | 1901-2001 | 10,045 | 15.7 | 4,065
| | Year | Population | Density per sq mi | Density per hectare
| | 1801 | 821 | 52.3 | 0.21
| | 1851 | 1,149 | 73.2 | 0.28
| | 1901 | 1,207 | 76.9 | 0.30
| | 1951 | 869 | 55.4 | 0.21
| | 2001 | 640 | 40.8 | 0.16
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Populations 1801-1951 from A Vision of Britain through Time (http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk).
2001 population from Scotland’s Census (https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk).
Research Tips
There was formerly a note on this page that the parish was linked to the Presbytery of Kincardine O’Neil, Synod of Aberdeen, Scotland. It would appear that since 1975 the organization of the presbyteries and synods has been revised. Readers are reminded that the Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in nature while in England the Church of England is Episcopalian. (See Wikipedia. )
- official civil (from 1855) and parish registers (from when first produced) for births, marriages and deaths for all of Scotland
- original census images for all years available (1841-1911).
- references to wills and property taxes, and
- an extensive collection of local maps.
This site is extremely easy to use. There are charges for parish register entries and censuses. The charges are reasonable and payable by online transfer.
- The Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online provides access to digitised and fully searchable versions of both the Old Statistical Account (1791-99) and the New Statistical Account (1834-45). These uniquely rich and detailed parish reports, usually written by local Church of Scotland ministers, detail social conditions in Scotland and are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Scottish history.
- Scotlands Places
- Gazetteer of Scotland includes descriptions of individual parishes from F. H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4)
- The FamilySearch Wiki
- GENUKI which provides, amongst other data, complete quotations from A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1851) by Samuel Lewis, John Bartholomew's A Gazetteer of the British Isles (1877), and A New History of Aberdeenshire edited by Alexander Smith (1875)
- A list of Burial Grounds in Scotland is now available on the website of the Scottish Association of Family History Societies.
- Aberdeenshire and Moray Records. Town Council minutes, accounts, letters, plans and harbour records provided by Aberdeenshire Council plus other local records.
- Aberdeen and North-East Scotland Family History Society is one of the largest and most reputable family history societies in Scotland and has a long list of publications referring to individual parishes.
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