Edzell (Angus)

Introduction

The former parish of Newdosk in Kincardineshire was annexed to Edzell ca. 1658. It was transferred to Fettercairn KCD in 1889.

There was a mediaeval parish of Dalbog, now part of Edzell.

Please also visit the page of general information applicable to all of Angus & Kincardineshire.

Abbreviations

NLS	National Library of Scotland
NRS	National Records of Scotland, formerly called the National Archives of Scotland [NAS] and, before that, the Scottish Record Office [SRO] HM General Register House, Edinburgh EH1 3YY (Tel: +44-131-535-1314)
OPR	Old Parish Registers of Births/baptisms, Banns/marriages & Deaths/burials (pre-1855)

Books & articles

• See also, for history of the parish:
  • The Statistical accounts of Edzell
  • General histories listed on the page for Books about Angus & Kincardineshire, in particular Warden, vol. 3, pp. 214-231.

• David Herschell Edwards - Historical guide to Edzell and Glenesk Districts (Brechin: 1876 and later eds) - there are also later editions with the title Historical Guide to Edzell, Fettercairn and Glenesk, etc.

• James Inglis - Oor ain Folk: being Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack aboot Auld Times (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1894). The author was son of Mr Robert Inglis, minister at Edzell

• W. Douglas Simpson (revised C. Tabraham) - Edzell Castle and Garden (Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, 2007: ISBN 978-1-904966-34-0 booklet)

Statistical accounts of Edzell

• Old Statistical Account of the 1790s - vol. 10, p. 100
• New Statistical Account of the 1840s - vol. 11, p. 621

Maps of Edzell

• 1:25000 Ordnance Survey map - published 1957 (Edzell is in the top right corner)
• 1:10560 (Six inch) Ordnance Survey map - surveyed 1862-3, published 1868[?]

For the full range of maps of Edzell, see National Library's Maps.

Photographs of places

Geograph.org: Edzell - recent photographs of Edzell. National Grid ref. NO6068.

Geograph.org: Dalbog - recent photographs of Dalbog. National Grid ref. NO5871.

Geograph.org: Newdosk - recent photographs of Kirkton of Balfour, Newdosk. National Grid ref. NO6073.

Edzell parish church

Above: the present parish church of Edzell, at the north end of the village of Edzell

The Lindsay Aisle, which is all that remains of the former parish kirk of Edzell that was demolished in 1818, is located at National Grid ref. NO582687.

Above: the Lindsay Aisle

The kirkyard of the former parish kirk of Newdosk is at Kirkton of Balfour, NO602735.

Parish ministers of Edzell 1560-1931

adm.: admitted, ass.: assistant, bapt.: baptised, contr.: contract, dem.: demitted, dep.: deposed, ind.: inducted, lic.: licensed, mar.: married, min.: minister, ord.: ordained, pres.: presented, rel.: related, res.: resigned, suc.: successor, test.: testament, tr.: translated

Thomas Ramsay	1563, 1567-1571	reader
John Duncanson	1571-1573	pres. 23 Apr 1571; dem. 9 Jul 1573
John Fullarton	1573	[error for James? same as following?]; pres. to parsonage and vicarage on dem. of John Duncanson 9 Jul 1573
James Fullarton	1573-1590[?]	min. of Navar 1567; pres. 14 Aug 1573; also had Dunlappie, Lethnot, Lochlee and Navar in his charge 1574; d. 31 Dec 1599 Tillibirnie; mar. Isobel Graham, who survived him; issue: Chas, and others
Henry Stirling	1590-1597	M.A.; min. 1590 with Lochlee also in his charge then, but separated 1591; tr. to Aberlemno 1597
Richard Merchiston	1597-1611	M.A.; adm. 1597; tr. to Bower CAI 3 Apr 1611
David Wood	1613-1639[?]	M.A. Kings Aberdeen 1608; adm. bef. 6 oct 1613; d. bef. 25 Nov 1640; mar. a sis. of John Guthrie of that ilk; issue: Andrew, bishop of Caithness
George Fogo	1639-1644	M.A.; adm. bef. 16 May 1639; tr. to Stracathro 16 Jan 1644
David Fullarton	1644-1659	M.A. Glasgow 1620; adm. 28 Jul 1644; d. Apr/May 1659; mar. 1647 Anna Lichton; issue: John
John Keith	1660-1663	ord. 13 Dec 1660; tr. to Kirriemuir 30 Dec 1663
George Dempster	1665-1682	ord. 16 Sep 1664; adm. 10 May 1665; dep. 5 May 1682; reponed 3 Sep 1684; d. 23 Jan 1694 Edinburgh
William Irvine	1682-1683	M.A. Marischal 1673; chaplain to David Lindsay of Edzell; adm .1682; d. bef. 5 Jun 1683, prob. unmar.
John Balvaird	1684-1699	M.A.; adm. 1684; deserted charge 1699; intruded at Glamis
Robert Lindsay	1701-1709	prob. son of David L., min. of Rescobie; M.A. St Andrews 1680; intruded here ca. 1701; forbidden to act as min. 8 Feb 1709; gave up charge 6 Jun 1710; intruded again; dep. 3 Oct 1716; d. bef. 1720; mar.; issue: Hercules, advocate & prof. of Law, Glasgow
Robert Gray	1714-1717	tr. from Cabrach; adm. 26 Aug 1714; tr. to Brechin 8 May 1717
George Leslie	1717-1718	son Peter L., Fyvie; M.A. Marischal 1683; ord. to navar 23 Sep 1714; tr. & adm. 19 Sep 1717; d. Dec 1718; mar. 1715 Janet Keith, who survived him
James Thomson	1721-1729	ord. 22 Mar 1721; d. 30 Jan 1729; mar. Ann Thomson
James Murison	1729-1743	M.A. (7 Apr 1721 King's Aberdeen); ord. 17 Sep 1729; tr. to Kinnell 13 Oct 1743
George Wilson	1744-1748	ord. 25 Apr 1744; tr. to Kinnaird (beside Farnell) 5 Oct 1748
George Blair	1749-1773	b. 1707; ord. to Abernyte PER 31 Oct 1733; dem. thence 16 Nov 1738 when appointed master of Dundee Grammar School; adm. here 8 Mar 1749; d. 19 Jun 1773; mar. Kath. Fairweather; Agnes; James, apprenticed to a W.S.; Eliz.; Margaret; Kath.; Robt
David Millar	1774-1788	ord. 2 Feb 1774; d. 24 Mar 1788
Andrew Hutton	1788-1842	b. 1763; ord. 25 Sep 1788; d. 5 Jun 1842
Robert Inglis	1841-1843	b. 4 Dec 1803 Glamis, son of David I., min. of Lochlee; schoolmaster Lochlee 1819; M.A. Kings Aberdeen 1821; ord. to Lochlee 8 Jun 1837; tr. & adm. (ass. & suc.) 20 Oct 1841; joined Free Kirk 1843; min. of Edzell Free Kirk 1843-76; d. 19 Jan 1876; mar. 1830 Helen, dau. of Alexr Brand, shipmaster, Montrose; issue: David, coachbuilder, Montrose; Jane; Robt; Cath.; Alexr Brand, merchant, India; Wm Panmure; Lt-col. Sir Robt Wm, stockbroker, London; James, politician, N.S.W.; Thos Chalmers, tea planter; John Knox, M.A.; Wm Burnett, banker; Geo. Brown, min., N.Z.; Henry, stockbroker
Charles Smith Adie	1843-1869	b. 28 Oct 1815 Tealing, son of Chas A.; ord. 21 Sep 1843; tr. to Tibbermore PER 25 Mar 1869
David Stuart Ross	1869-1905	b. 21 May 1839 Old Machar ABD, son of Alexr R., tailor; M.A. Aberdeen 1859; ass. Alloa CLK; ord. 28 Jan 1868; adm. 2 Jul 1869; d. 12 Mar 1905; mar. 1888 Jemima, dau. of William Carnegie of Dunlappie; issue: Elgin [f.]
David Williamson	1905-1927	b. 21 May 1877 Greenlaw BEW, son of John W., schoolmaster; M.A. 1900 B.D. 1903 St Andrews; ass. Wallacetown Dundee and Lady Glenorchy's Edinburgh; ord. 17 Aug 1905; tr. to Plean STI 12 Oct 1927; tr. to Garvock 29 Nov 1935; dem. 31 Dec 1943; d. 24 Sep 1948 Coupar Angus; mar. 1908 Emily Mary, dau. of James Shanks, engineer, Arbroath; had issue
John Copeland	1928-1931	b. 1 Aug 1865, Co. Down; M.A., Ph.D.; ord. 1894; adm. St Andrew's, Hebburn, Newcastle-on-Tyne 1915; tr. to Livingston WLN 7 Apr 1920; tr. here 23 Feb 1928; d. 14 Dec 1931 Brechin unmar.

Parish ministers of Newdosk

Patrick Bonkill	1563	min.; also at Fettercairn and Fordoun
William Chalmers	1565	M.A.; parson 3 Apr 1565
David Straton	1574-1580	reader
Thomas Stewart	1586	reader

Ministers of Edzell Free Church; later, United Free Church

Robert Inglis	1843-1876	see above list of parish ministers
William Gordon Lawrence	1879-1889	M.A.; b. 21 Jul 1852 Strathdon ABD, son of John L., policeman; schoolmaster, Duffus 1871; ord. 31 Jul 1879; dem. Nov 1889; went to Johannesburg; ass. Paisley High Free Ch.; Hope Street Free Ch., Glasgow; Broad Street Presbyt. Ch., Birmingham; proprietor of Civil Service & Commercial College, Putney, London in 1911; d. 16 Aug 1911 Putney; mar. 1901 Jessie Nidray or Barron; issue: Mary C. G.; Douglas C.
Charles Martin Scott	1890-1890	M.A.; b. 1860 Kirkden, son of John S., Friockheim; ord. 18 Feb 1890; d. Nov 1890 Kirkden
Thomas Chapman Sturrock	1891-1934	B.D.; b. ca. 1865 Dundee, son of John S., factory overseer; ord. 1891; d. 1959 Edinburgh; mar. 1899 Isabella Duke Monro; issue: John; Thomas C.W.

Monumental inscriptions

There are no monuments at the present parish church in the village of Edzell. Monuments in the kirkyard of the former parish kirk (ca. 70 stones) bearing pre-1855 information, and in Newdosk Kirkyard (18 stones), are listed in Alison Mitchell (ed.), "Pre-1855 Monumental Inscriptions in Angus, Vol. 1: Strathmore" (Edinburgh: Scottish Genealogy Soc., 1993), which can be bought from the Scottish Genealogy Society. (It's listed as "Angus MI - Vol. 1. Pre-1855 Strathmore" in their online shop.)

Andrew Jervise recorded some monuments at Edzell in his "Epitaphs & Inscriptions", vol. 1, pp. 307-11 and at Newdosk on pp. 311-2 of that work.

For a complete listing of monuments at Newdosk, see Newdosk MIs.

The following are a few of the inscriptions in the kirkyard of the former parish kirk of Edzell:

In memory of GEORGE MITCHELL and his wife ELIZABETH MIDDLETON

In remembrance JAMES ALEXANDER WILSON farmer Westside who died 19th April 1937. His youngest son EDMUND HALL who died 14th October 1921. And of his wife MARY REID who died at Westside 11th Feb. 1956. Also their eldest son JOHN WILLIAM who died at Westside 5th July 1978 beloved husband of MARY GREGOR

In memoriam JOHN EADIE WILSON late farmer Burnside Alva died at Westside Edzell 29th Aug 1931. JAMES ALEXANDER MILLAR WILSON Hilton of Fern and Vayne 28.12.08-1.10.72.

WILLIAM MARSHALL MANSON 1919 - 2001 Also his beloved wife MARGARET ELLEN WHITE 1919 - 2007

In loving memory of CATHERINE JANE CLARK INGLIS, widow of WILLIAM MANSON, Huxter, Shetland, who died at St Andrew's House, Brechin, 17th October 1940, aged 88 years. And their daughter MIMIE MANSON died at Edzell 14th October 1953. And their son JOHN WILLIAM MANSON born 1883, died 28th May 1967. Also his beloved wife JANET CHRISTIE CAMPBELL MARSHALL died 27th March 1969. And their daughter MARJORIE HAREWOOD WILLIAMS born 1917, died 1994 MANSON

In loving memory of WILLIAM THOMAS JONES MANSON The Arch Edzell died at Aberdeen 16th February 1940 aged 43 years and his son Sub. Lt. W. INGLIS K. MANSON R.N. killed as the result of a flying accident off Lossiemouth 10th Aug. 1956, aged 23 years. And of his wife ANNIE LEGG BURNESS died 4th Nov. 1970, aged 71 years. Their only granddaughter MORAG JONES died as the result of accident at Mopti Mali West Africa 26th Jan. 1980, aged 27 years. R. DUDLEY JONES died 30th Dec. 2003, aged 87 years. MANSON

In loving memory of JOHN MILNE "Debden" Edzell who died 7th Sept. 1940, aged 78 years. Also his wife JESSIE BUCHANAN who died 10th Aug. 1952, aged 84 years.

In remembrance of ENA FAIRWEATHER LOWDEN who died 13th January 1938, aged 20 years. And AMY LESLIE LOWDEN who died 7th March 1938, aged 27 years. Daughters of JOHN & SARAH LOWDEN Cowiehill Edzell. The above JOHN M. LOWDEN who died 11th March 1957, aged 66 years. And of his wife SARAH T. BUCHAN who died 1st May 1958, aged 66 years.

Erected by JOHN BYARS senr baker, Edzell, in loving memory of his wife MARY ANN REA who died 21st July 1880, aged 41 years. Also of their family, GORDON LAWRENCE who died 7th April 1880, aged 16 days. JOHN who died 4th October 1914, aged 40 years. The said JOHN BYARS senior, died on 27th May 1915, aged 76 years. Also of his wife GEORGINA M. LONGMUIR who died 20th May 1925, aged 67 years. DAVID ADAM BYARS who died 28th April 1946, aged 58 years sixth son of the above. MARGARET ANDERSON BYARS died at Alverton Villa Edzell on 24th June 1948, buried on her 63rd birthday, eldest daughter of the above JOHN BYARS.

Edzell war memorials

Above, at north end of the village: 2nd South African War of Independence.

* William Alexander McNab, yr of Keithock, born 1880 in Morham, East Lothian, eldest son of William McNab of Keithock (by Brechin), who died in 1907 & Jeanette Isabella Beveridge, dau. of the Rev. John Gardiner Beveridge, minister of Inveresk.

Above, near south end of the village: 1914-19 and 1939-45

See also Scottish War Memorials Project: Edzell and Scottish War Memorials Project: Edzell - Boer War

Births, Marriages & Deaths, 1855 to present

Indexes and actual records for Statutory Registers of Births, Marriages & Deaths, beginning 1 Jan 1855, are available online, following registration and the purchase of credits, at the official web-site, ScotlandsPeople.

• Births & baptisms

  Additionally, in the National Records:

  • 1855 - 1895 - for North Edzell Church of Scotland [NRS CH2/627/17]
  • 1843 - 1875 - private register for Edzell Free Church [NRS CH3/543/4]

• Banns & Marriages

  Additionally, in the National Records:

  • 1843 - 1875 - private register for Edzell Free Church [NRS CH3/543/4]

• Deaths & Burials

  Additionally, in the National Records:

  • 1843 - 1875 - private register for Edzell Free Church [NRS CH3/543/4]

Births, Marriages & Deaths, before 1855

Indexes and actual records for all extant Old Parish Registers (OPRs) (pre-1855) of the Established Church of Scotland are available online, following registration and the purchase of credits, at the official web-site, ScotlandsPeople.

• Births & baptisms

  • 1684 - 1703
  • 1715 - 1854

  Additionally, in the National Records:

  • 1841 - 1843 - private register for Church of Scotland [NRS CH3/543/4]
  • 1843 - 1875 - private register for Edzell Free Church [NRS CH3/543/4]

• Banns & Marriages

  • 1641 - 1703
  • 1715 - 1854

  Additionally, in the National Records:

  • 1841 - 1843 - private register for Church of Scotland [NRS CH3/543/4]
  • 1843 - 1875 - private register for Edzell Free Church [NRS CH3/543/4]

  In the National Records:

  • 1843 - 1853 for Edzell Free Church [NRS CH3/543/5]

• Deaths & Burials

  • None

  Additionally, in the National Records:

  • 1841 - 1843 - private register for Church of Scotland [NRS CH3/543/4]
  • 1843 - 1875 - private register for Edzell Free Church [NRS CH3/543/4]

Marriage contracts

Date	Type	Parties	NRS ref.
23d Jul 1667	-	Lachlan McIntosh of Torcastell [Torcastle] & Magdalene Lindsay, lawful dau. of John Lindsay of Edzell	GD176/511

Church Session Records of Edzell Parish Church (Edzell North)

Nature of record	Dates	NRS ref. CH2/627/...
Minutes	1706-1715	1
do	1714-1737	2
do	1744-1773	3
Minutes & Poors' Fund accounts	1801-1834	4
do	1834-1876	5
do	1737-1744	6
Minutes & accounts	1772-1801	7
Minutes	1877-1939	8
Baptisms	1896-1939	9
Proclamations	1876-1939	10
List of male communicants	1837-1842	11
Minutes of heritors & session	1843-1845	11
Minutes of committee of management of the poor	1843-1845	11
Communion rolls	1869-1907	12 to 15
Communion roll	1919-1936	16
Baptisms	1855-1895	17
Minutes	1940-1971	18
do	1971-1984	19
Marriages	1940-1972	20
do	1973-1977	21
Communion roll	1907-1918	22
do	1940-1960	23

Church Session Records of Edzell Free Church
later, United Free; Edzell South Church of Scotland; united in 1940 with Edzell North

Nature of record	Dates	NRS ref. CH3/543/...
Minutes	1843-1924	1
Deacons' court minutes	1844-1858	2
do	1858-1935	3
Private registration book, baptisms, marriages and burials, including 1837-1841 (Lochlee); 1841-1843 (Edzell Ch. of S.); 1843-1875 (Edzell Free)	1837-1875	4
Register of baptisms	1843-1853	5

Edzell Heritors' records

Nature of record	Dates	NRS ref. HR173/...
Minute book	1859-1929	1

Land owners

There were 2 proprietors of land in the parish in 1842:

• lord Panmure - 6/7 of parish (the part in Angus)
• John Gladstone of Fasque - 1/7 of the parish (i.e. Newdosk, the part in Kincardineshire)

Farmers / Tenants

Farm	Name	Dates
Auchmull	William Reid	-1902-1942-
Bonsagart & Dalhastnie	David Soutar	-1902-
Bonsagart	Hugh Robertson	-1938-1942-
Colmeallie	Representatives of Edward Duke	-1902-
do	John Innes	-1902-1906-
do	Mrs Innes	-1910-1928-
do	David Innes	-1933-
Craigoshina	John Middleton	-1906-1942-
Dalbog	Representatives of Robert Christison	-1902-
do	Arthur G. Smart	-1906-1933-
do	Robert C. Myles	-1938-1942-
Dalfouper	James Nelson Bairner [d. 1921]	-1902-1921
do	David Nelson Bairner	-1928-1955-
Dalhastnie	David Soutar	-1903-1914-
do	Mrs Soutar	-1918-
do	John Manson	-1924-1928-
do	P.F. Pattullo	-1933-
do	Pattullo & Craig	-1938-1942-
Duriehill	James & Joseph Hood	-1902-1918-
do	Representatives of James & Joseph Hood	-1924-1942-
East Mains of Edzell	Peter Smith	-1902-1933-
do	William S. Reid	-1938-1942-
Greenburn	James Donaldson [d. 1849]	-1849
do	James Donaldson	-1906-1918-
do	Representatives of James Donaldson	-1924-
do	James Donaldson	-1928-1942-
Hillock	Andrew H. Middleton	-1883-1906-
do	Mrs Middleton	-1910-1928-
do	Miss Middleton	-1933-1942-
Inveriscandye	David G. Sharpe	-1902-1936
do	Alexander Glennie	-1938-1942-
Latch & Holmhead	William Crichton	-1902-
Latch	David Lamond	-1933-
Little Tullo	David Hampton	-1902-1918-
do	H. Robertson	-1933-1942-
Lochside, Edzell	Mrs A. Smith	-1906-1924-
do	J. Cameron, jun.	-1928-
do	W.S. Glennie	-1933-
Mains of Edzell & Wood of Dalbog	David R. Arnot	-1902-
Mains of Edzell	David R. Arnot	-1906-1928-
do	A. Craighead	-1933-1942-
Margie	W. & W. Fettes	1893-1906-
do	William Fettes	-1910-1933-
do	Scott & Wilson	-1938-1942-
Meikle Tullo	Representatives of William C. Gowans	-1902-
do & Bonsagart	Adam G. Gowans	-1906-
Meikle Tullo	Maj. Adam G. Gowans [d. 1931]	-1910-1918-
do	Alfred Paterson	-1924-1928-
Westside	James Anderson	-1902-
do	Donald Cameron	-1906-1924-
do	Representatives of Donald Cameron	-1928-
do	James Alexander Wilson [d. 1937]	-1933-1937
do	John William Wilson [d. 1978]	-1938-1942-
Wood of Dalbog	David R. Arnot	-1933-
do	John Eddie	-1938-1942-

Census records

Records of the official censuses of the parish in 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 and 1921 are held in Register House, Edinburgh and are open to the public on payment of a fee.

Indexes to all the original census records, and the records themselves, can be accessed online at modest charge at ScotlandsPeople.

Microfilm copies are also widely available in libraries. The 1881 census is available on CD-ROM.

The early censuses of 1801-31 do not name individuals.

Population statistics
For 1821, 1871 and 1881, the numbers in the Angus (ANS) and Kincardineshire (KCD) parts of the parish are given separately.

Year	male	female	total	ref.
1755			862	Dr Alexander Webster
1791			963	Old Statistical Account
1801			1012
1811			1057
1821 (ANS)	448	502	950
1821 (KCD)	41	52	93
1831			974
1841			1076
1851 (ANS)			1084
1871 (ANS)	446	483	929
1871 (KCD)	20	27	47
1881 (ANS)	369	419	788
1881 (KCD)	22	13	35

After confinement of parish to Angus:

Year	male	female	total
1891	327	373	700
1901	395	427	822
1911	429	449	878
1921	439	614	1053

Estate & family records

Papers of the Rev. Robert Inglis & family, 1838-1898 [Angus Archives - Manuscripts, ref. MS225]

Testaments & wills

Edzell was in the Commissariot of St Andrews.

Indexes to all extant pre-1926 testamentary records (wills & inventories of moveable property) can be searched free of charge at ScotlandsPeople. Digital (and paper) copies of the documents can be purchased at that site. See further the introduction to Angus & Kincardineshire at Testaments.

Testaments of Edzell people from the Register of Testaments of the Commissariot of St Andrews, 1549-1823

George Allan	in Nether Diraholl, par. of Edzall	9 Jul 1613
Thomas Anthony	in Mains of Edzell	27 Apr 1636
Isobel Bellie	spouse to Alexander Smyth, in Margie, par. of Edzell	30 Jun 1620
Christian Brock	spouse to John Chapill, in Dunfubert, par. of Edzell	24 Oct 1625
David Chrystieson	in Schannaw, par. of Edzell	7 Mar 1636
David Chrystieson	in Dilforth, spouse to Agnes Will, par. of Edzell	2 Aug 1636
James Chrystieson	tenant in Cornescorn, par. of Edziel	17 Aug 1748
Thomas Christison	residing at Greenburn	14 Apr 1821
George Cramond	late tenant in Peathill, par. of Edzell	3 May 1770
Alexander Duncan	tenant in Margie	4 & 7 Aug 1821
Alexander Durie	in Slateford, par. of Edzell	24 Apr 1777
David Durie of Duryhill	par. of Edzell	3 Jun 1751
James Easton	wright at Slateford, par. of Edzell	24 Jan 1798
Catherin Eattin	in Prestoun, par. of Edzell	30 Jan 1619
John Gellie	in Auchmuill, par. of Edzell	6 Aug 1684
William Gellie	cotter in Edzell	25 Feb 1614
James Gibb	servant to Thomas Wyllie, in Mains of Edzell	6 Dec 1775
Eupham Gibson	sometime in Cottounburne, par. of Edzell	4 Jan 1606
Robert Gold	in Edzell	13 May 1617 and 29 Mar 1621
Janet Jamieson	in Littletune, par. of Edzell	26 Nov 1614
William Kinnear	tenant at Holmhead	17 May 1820
Mr George Leslie	minister at Edzell	7 Aug 1723
John Lindsay of Edzell		5 Aug 1673
David Low	tenant in Sandyhillock, par. of Edzell	17 Aug 1748
James Low	at the Milnetoun of Dalboig, par. of Edzell	29 Jul 1617
John Macker	at Miln of Bag, par. of Edzell	10 Jul 1784
Andrew Martin	in Cottoun of Edzell, par. of Edzell	13 May 1617
Mr David Millar	minister at Edzell	9 Feb 1789
Isobel Mitchell	spouse to Alexander Walker, at Sklaitfuird, par. of Edzell	30 May 1637
David Molison	residing in or near Slateford	29 Mar & 25 Apr 1821
John Pressok	in Sandehillok, par. of Edzell	24 Oct 1625
James Ross	at the Wood of Dalbug, par. of Edzell	29 Jul 1637
James Stephen	sometime at Kirktown of Newdesk, par. of Edzell	21 Jun 1759
William Stewart	farmer in Waterhead, par. of Lethnot, afterwards residing at Inverscandy, par. of Edzell	16 & 17 Jul 1810
John Walker	at the Walk-milne of Edzell	26 Apr 1620
Catherine Will	spouse to John Brok, in Innerskandrie, par. of Edzell	15 Aug 1617
Elspet Will	sometime spouse to John Jamie, in Gallowleys, par. of Edzell	13 May 1617
John Will	in Innerreskie, par. of Edzell	13 May 1617
Mary Will	spouse to David Kinnear, in Sklatfurd, par. of Edzell	24 Oct 1625
Thomas Wyllie	farmer in Mains of Edzell	20 Jul 1795

Testaments registered at St Andrews that have been lost, for which only entries in the minute books are extant.

John Carnegie	at Coalmylie, and James Carnegie, at Mergie, Edzell par.	29 Mar 1769
John Lindsay	brother to Edzell	17 Dec 1739
Euphemia Lyell	relict of John Durie of Duriehill, and Sophia and Jean Duries, their daughters, par. of Edzell	1 Aug 1768
Mr James Thomson	minister at Edzell	25 Jun 1729

Testaments of Edzell people from the Register of Testaments of the Commissariot of Edinburgh, 1514-1600

John Cairncross	in Dilfubar, par. of Edzell in Angus	25 Nov 1590
Mr John Foulis	parson of Edzell	30 Apr 1571
Mr James Fullertoun	parson and minister of Edzell, sher. of Forfar	3 Oct 1595
Dame Helen Lindsay	sometime spouse to Sir David Lyndesay of Edzell, knight	21 Jan 1583-4

Testaments of Edzell people from the Register of Testaments of the Commissariot of Edinburgh, 1601-1700

John Donaldson	in the Sklaitfuird of Edzell in Angus	20 Jul 1605
Cristian Will	sometime spouse to John Brok, in Innerskandie, par. of Edzell, sher. of Angus	8 Aug 1603

Testaments of Edzell people from the Registers of Testaments of the Commissariot of Edinburgh and of Edinburgh Sheriff Court, 1801-1823

Peter Mitchell

soldier in the 74th Regt of Foot, son of the late William Mitchell in Upperhole of Edzell

11 Jun 1814 [SC70/1/10], 8 Jul 1814 [CC8/8/140]

Clock & watch tax, 1797-8

Images of the original records for Edzell:

NRS ref. E326/12/2/47

Farm horse tax, 1797-8

Images of the original records for Edzell:

• NRS ref. E326/10/3/43
• NRS ref. E326/10/9/137

Places of interest

Edzell Castle and Garden

• Historic Environment Scotland: Edzell Castle and Garden

• Historic Environment Scotland: Edzell Castle: Garden, with map

• Gardenvisit.com: Edzell Castle and Garden

• Historic Environment Scotland: Lindsay Aisle, Edzell Old Church