Lonside, Westerugie, Wester Ugie
Longside is a parish in the district of Buchan, Aberdeenshire. It is bounded by Lonmay, St Fergus, Peterhead, Cruden, and Old Deer. (1867: The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, by John Marius Wilson).
Longside, Mintlaw
Cairngall, Faichfield, Inverquhomery
PRE-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
POST-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
The parish of Wester Ugie was disjoined in 1620 from Peterugie, now called Peterhead.
Disjoined Quoad Sacra Parishes:
Ardallie. The parish of Ardallie was disjoined from Deer, Longside, Ellon, and Cruden on 11 July 1862. The erection of Ardallie was largely the work of William Yeats of Auquharney, and John Morrison, minister of Old Deer.
Blackhill. The parish of Blackhill was disjoined from Peterhead, Longside, and Cruden on 13 January 1879.
Kininmonth. The parish of Kininmonth was disjoined from Lonmay, Longside, Deer, Strichen, and Crimond, on 9 March 1874. There was a Well of St John at Kininmonth.
Includes ministers, licentiates, assistants, readers, and clerks.
Longside (QO)
Ardallie (QS)
Blackhill (QS)
Kininmonth (QS)
(1928: Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, by Hew Scott, D. D.)
Parish registers turned over to the Registrar-General, as a result of the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scotland) Act of 1854. The letters B. D. and M. indicate Births (or Baptisms), Deaths (or Burials), and Marriages (or Proclamations of Banns) respectively. Numbers indicate separate volumes or books. Note: These records are by no means complete or without damage; consult the Detailed List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland (1872) to learn more about the condition of the records.
| OPR and RD Numbers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Range | Name | Number | Type |
| 1621-1854 | Longside | 218 | OPR |
| 1855-1967 | Longside | 218 | RD |
| 2009 | Aberdeenshire, Peterhead | 313 | RD |
| 2026 | Aberdeenshire Council; Buchan East Community Council | ||
(2009: Parishes and Registration Districts of Scotland - Old and New, National Records of Scotland)
Local community councils (2026) are provided as a potential source of additional information for settlements within the original boundaries of the parish. (Source)
Statistics from informal and official censuses
Davidson, Mackie, Milne, Mitchell, Reid, Rennie, Robertson, Scott, Smith, Thomson
Note: Names appearing in research materials, other than censuses. Simple names (First name, surname only) have been omitted unless they appear associated with large properties. All women's names, and men's names with occupations, military ranks, or peerage titles are included.
By the Reverend Mr William Greig, Minister.
"The parish contains, according to a very accurate list, taken by the writer of the present article, in the end of the year 1790 and beginning of 1791, 1792 inhabitants. Of these 817 are males, and 975 are females. They are divided into 473 families.
Of these families, about 100 are employed in farming, 60 as weavers, 100 as spinners of flax, and wool-combers, &c, from 40 to 50 as day-labourers. The remainder are masons, tailors, &c. Almost all have a few acres of ground, which they cultivate, at the same time that they pursue their other occupations.
The inhabitants are peaceable and good subjects; and the spirit of our religion is, in general, understood and felt to be, what it ever ought to be, a support to sound morality. The character of the inhabitants of Buchan, in general, seems to differ considerably from that of the inhabitants of the other counties, and even of the other districts of the same county. They have not their liveliness of imagination, nor their warmth of feeling."
(This section contains excerpts, at times restructured or paraphrased, from an article appearing in Statistical Account of Scotland, Sir John Sinclair, 1791-1799)
Primary Sources:
Statistical Account of Scotland (1791-1799), Volume 15, p. 282
New Statistical Account of Scotland (1834-1845), Volume 12, p. 859
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