Cemetery at Killin, Perthshire.....

Stuart MacDiarmid · Post by **Stuart MacDiarmid** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:29 am

In my genealogical search into the M(a)cDiarmid family I have been frustrated, probably like many other people, by the missing records the 1700s for the Killin, Perthshire, parish.
I have a cousin who is to visit Killin to try reading gravestone inscriptions, with the objective of filling in some gaps in our records.
I also know that there were M(a)cDiarmid burials at Cladh Dobhi, Morenish.
Depending on replies I receive, I might try to persuade her to visit nearby Morenish to.
How practical is this exercise? Are there readable gravestone inscriptions or any records at these sites or elsewhere?
Stuart MacDiarmid. 4 May 2006

Post by **marilyn morning** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:03 am

Hello Stuart

Welcome to TalkingScot! Have you tried any of these links?

http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

http://www.findagrave.com/forums/showfl ... ain=626115

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/PER/Killin/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/mcnaughtonofdu ... record.htm

http://freereg.rootsweb.com/parishes/per.htm

scots-origins : Messages : 37801-37913 of 38831 Hi All, I ordered, and just received, the Central Scotland FHS West Perthshire Burials Index. It includes the Parishes of Aberfoyle, Dunblane, Killin, ...

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/ ... sMay06.pdf

http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/fhi/fhi_all.htm

https://secure.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ ... ?LR=800001

http://www.larfhc.org/cenquicklook.htm

KILLIN, a village and parish of Perthshire, Scotland, at the south-western extremity of Loch Tay, 4 m. N.E. of Killin Junction on a branch line of the Callander & Oban railway. Pop. of parish (1901), 1423. It is situated near the confluence of the rivers and glens of the Dochart and Lochay, and is a popular tourist centre, having communication by steamer with Kenmore at the other end of the lake, and thence by coach to Aberfeldy, the terminus of a branch of the Highland railway. It has manufactures of tweeds. In a field near the village a stone marks the site of what is known as Fingal's Grove. An island in the Dochart (which is crossed at Killin by a bridge of five arches) is the ancient burial-place of the clan Macnab. Finlarig Castle, a picturesque mass of ivy-clad ruins, was a stronghold of the Campbells of Glenorchy, and several earls of Breadalbane were buried in ground adjoining it, where the modern mausoleum of the family stands. Three miles up the Lochay, which rises in the hills beyond the forest of Mamlorn and has a course of 15 m., the river forms a graceful cascade. The Dochart, issuing from Loch Dochart, flows for 13 m. in a north-easterly direction and falls into Loch Tay. The ruined castle on an islet in the loch once belonged to the Campbells of Lochawe.

Regards
Marilyn

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:10 am

Hi Stuart
..and a warm welcome to Talking Scot

A book of pre-1855 MIs has been published which includes Killin:

Perthshire MI - Perthshire South (Upper Strathearn and Trossachs). Vol.2. Pre-1855.
Aberfoyle, Balquhidder, Blackford, Callander, Comrie, Dunblane, Killin, Kilmadock (Doune), Kincardine (Thornhill), Lecropt, Monzievaird & Strowan, Muthill, Port of Menteith.

If you are not able to view this at a local library, it is available from the Scottish Genealogy Society
www.scotsgenealogy.com
http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/acatalog/ ... re_MI.html
If you've not already seen it, this would certainly be worth checking though of course not everyone had a stone, and of those who did, not all stones have survived.

Best wishes
Lesley