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"PREMNAY, a parish, in the district of Garioch, county of Aberdeen, 3½ miles (S. S. W.) from Old Rain; containing, with the village of Auchleven, 691 inhabitants. . . The surface is considerably diversified. A chain of beautiful little hills or undulations extends along the centre from east to west: it is entirely cultivated except on the summits. . . The crops consist of oats, bear, turnips, potatoes, and grass; the cultivation of which, with the rearing of black-cattle and a few sheep and horses, constitutes the chief employment. . . Licklyhead, a castellated mansion, long the family seat of the proprietors of Premnay, was erected about 200 years since, and is still inhabited. Overhall is a modern residence, built in a plain manner, and in pretty good repair. The village of Auchleven contains about twenty houses, and also one of the three corn-mills in the parish, which is turned by the water of the Gady. . . There is also a small manufactory at Auchleven, where two spinning-jennies, two carding-engines, and two or three hand-looms are employed in the manufacture of woollen cloth. . . Ecclesiastically the parish is within the limits of the presbytery of Garioch, synod of Aberdeen, and in the patronage of Sir Andrew Leith Hay, of Rannes: the minister's stipend is £159, with a manse, and glebe valued at £12 per annum. Premnay church, built in 1792, has 36 sittings, all of which are free with the exception of sixty in a gallery erected in 1827 by the Kirk Session. . . More"
[From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1851) - copyright Mel Lockie 2016]
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Premnay Church, Premnay, Church of Scotland |
Presbytery of Garioch - Synod of Aberdeen
Here are details of the Birth, Marriage and Death records for this parish, available on the OPR films.
Film | Births | Marriages | Deaths |
234/1 | 1718-46 | 1718-46 | |
234/2 | 1746-1819 | 1746-1815 | 1784-94 |
234/3 | 1820-54 | 1824-54 |
Here is a detailed description of the parish, written in 1875.
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This parish appears on sheets 37 & 38 of the OS Landranger Series, and on sheet 214 of the OS Pathfinder Series.
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Here is a list of place names in the parish.
A booklet containing extracts from the 1696 Poll Book for this parish is available from the Aberdeen & NE Scotland FHS.