Parish Number - 96b
Births: (Film # 990665 Item 2) 1774 to 1854 [Many irregular entries prior to 1797.]
Marriages: (Film # 990665 Item 2 ) 1775 to 1854 [Many Irregular entries]Census: 1841 (Film # 1042637), 1851 (Film # 1042063), 1861 (Film # 103884)
1871 (Film # 103996), 1881 (Film # 203418), 1891 (Film # 208635)[Duthil and Rothiemurchus have the same parish number 96b and were for civil purposes treated as the same parish. For ecclesiastical purposes, however, Rothiemurchus was treated as a seperate parish (quoad sacra) and maintained separate parish records. In 1870, the portions of the parish of Duthil situated in the county of Elgin were transferred to the county of Inverness. In 1891, the Inverness-shire portion of the parish of Cromdale was transferred to the parish of Duthil.]
Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, 1868
ROTHIEMURCHUS, a quoad sacra parish....its length is about 10 miles; and its breadth is about 7 miles. The river Spey traces its northern boundary, separating Rothiemurchus from Alvie and Duthil; and the culminating points of the Cairngorm mountains are situated on or near the south-western boundary. The surface of Rothiemurchus exhibits great diversity, comprising rich arable tracts of level ground, well-wooded knolly eminences, and isolated hill in the van of the Grampians, clothed all over with wood, a great range of upland, rising to mountainous altitude and extensively sheeted with forest and a deep alpine glen called Glen-Ennich, embosoming a chain of lakes, and flanked by precipitous alpine heights... The only proprietor is Grant of Rothiemurchus. An old castle situated on an islet in a lake called Loch-an-Eilean, is said to have been one of the strongholds of the Wolf of Badenoch. This parish was at one time a distinct quoad civilia parish, but was united quoad civilia to the neighbouring parish of Duthil in Morayshire; and in 1830 it was constituted by the General Assembly; and afterwards re-constituted by the court of teinds, a separate parish quoad sacra. It is in the presbytery of Abernethy and synod of Moray. The Clan Grant formerly occupied all this parish and the districts adjacent to it, cherishing among the alpine fastnesses here the peculiar feeling of clanship. Kirk Session Records
The Kirk Session of a parish consists of the the minister of the parish and the elders of the congregation. It looks after the general well-being of the congreation and, particularly in centuries past, church discipline within the parish. These records can sometimes provide invaluable information that is available nowhere else. An example would be the case of an illegitimate child. In many cases, the fornication resulting in the birth of the child would be a matter of church discipline and would thus be recorded in the minutes of the Session. It has been known ot occur that the parish register recorded the name of the mother of an illegitimate child in error, such error being brought to light by examing the Kirk Session records dealing with the birth of the child. There is also a possibility that other valuable information concerning the parents might be contained in the Kirk Session records. Kirk Session records are generally held at the Scottish Record Office in Edinburg. These records have not in most cases beeen microfilmed by the LDS Church.
There are Kirk Session minutes for this parish are available from 1837 TO 1859 (quoad sacra since 1859).