Evie and Rendall is a united parish in Orkney. It comprehends the north-eastern part of the mainland and the contiguous island of Gairsay. Evie is the northern section, and Rendall the southern, and to the latter belongs Gairsay. (1867: The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, by John Marius Wilson).
Dale, Evie
Burgar
PRE-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
POST-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
Evie was a prebend of Kirkwall. Its church was dedicated to St Mary. Towards the end of the sixteenth century the parishes of Evie and Rendall were united. Rendall was severed again quoad sacra on 15th March 1894.
Includes ministers, licentiates, assistants, readers, and clerks.
Evie and Rendall (QO)
Rendall (QO)
(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 |
| 1725-1854 | Evie and Rendall | 16 | OPR |
| 1855-1971 | Evie and Rendall | 16 | RD |
| 1972-1973 | Evie and Rendall | 139 | RD |
| 2009 | Orkney Islands, Kirkwall | 144 | RD |
| 2026 | Orkney Islands Council; Evie and Rendall 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
Chalmers, Leask, Marwick, Miller, Mowat, Rendall, Robertson, Scott, Wood
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 Hugh Ross, Preacher of the Gospel.
"There are different tradespeople in the parish, sufficient to serve its purposes; but no manufactory carried on deserving the name, except that of linen-yarn; a very considerable quantity of it is spun for sale, besides what is wrought up into coarse cloth for the use of the inhabitants, and for annual exportation to Shetland, Newcastle, &. There are also some woollen stuffs manufactured for sale, besides stuffs, coarse blankets, and woollen cloths, for the use of the inhabitants, but there is not one mill for cloth, nor a person who can dress it up after it is wove, in this parish, nor even in the county. The fishing appears to be very much neglected. As there are no merely professional fishers, and no ready markets, every man fishes for his own family use only, when he can spare time from his other avocations. The people of these parishes are in general decent and well disposed: gross crimes are unknown. They are free from profaneness on the one hand, and, hitherto, from fanaticism on the other."
(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 20, p. 247
New Statistical Account of Scotland (1834-1845), Volume 15, Section III, p. 196
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