Gask
Findogask is a parish in the centre of the south-eastern half of Perthshire. It is bounded by Methven, Tibbermore, Forteviot, Dunning, Auchterarder, Trinity-Gask, and Madderty. (1867: The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, by John Marius Wilson).
Clathy or Clathey, Findogask or Gask, Laighdoors, Nether Gask
PRE-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
POST-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
The church of this parish was dedicated to St Findoch. It belonged to the Abbey of Inchaffray.
Includes ministers, licentiates, assistants, readers, and clerks.
(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 |
| 1669-1854 | Findogask | 352 | OPR |
| 1855-1960 | Findo Gask | 352 | RD |
| 1861-1968 | Gask | 352 | RD |
| 2009 | Perth and Kinross, Perth | 390 | RD |
| 2026 | Perth and Kinross Council; Auchterarder 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
Brough, Brown, Douglas, Ewing, Gardiner, Graham, Menzies, Penny, Robertson, Taylor
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 David Kemp.
"In 1790, there were in the parish 486 individuals, of whom 141 were under ten years of age; and of the 345 above that age, 164 were males, and 181 females. Of the total number, 335 belong to the established church, 140 were seceders, and 11 of the Episcopal persuasion. There are 110 inhabited houses dispersed over the parish, of which 1 is occupied by a heritor, 22 by farmers, 41 by carpenters, wrights, masons, shoemakers, and tailors, 12 by perpendiclers*, 13 by day-labourers, 15 by single women, 4 by married servants, the remaining 2 by the minister and the schoolmaster. The number of male servants is 48, and of female servants 40.
The parish produces wheat, barley, pease, potatoes, turnips, sown and pasture grass; and supplies itself with all sorts of grain, beside selling considerable quantities to Perth, Crieff, &c."
* Perpendiclers: Cottagers, who hold a small piece of ground of the tenant.
(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 1, p. 479
New Statistical Account of Scotland (1834-1845), Volume 10, p. 281
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