Parish Number - 101
Births: (Film # 990710) 1714 to 1854
Marriages: (Film # 990710 ) 1812 to 1854.
[A catalog prepared by the LDS notes that, concerning births, there is only one entry for the periods Dec. 1722 to Oct. 1728 and Sept. 1731 to Jan. 1734, and that there are only two pages of irregular entries for the period 1765 to 1780]
Census: 1841 (Film #1042639), 1851 (Film #104066), 1861 (Film #103834),
1871 (Film # 103998), 1881 (Film # 203423), 1891 (Film # 208639)Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, 1868
KILTARLITY, a parish containing a post office station of its own name, and reaching on the east within 2 miles of the post town of Beauly, in Inverness-shire. It is bounded by Ross-shire, and by the parishes of Kilmorack, Kirkhill, Inverness, and Urquhart and Glenmoriston. Its length eastward is about 37 miles; and its average breadth is about six miles. The water course of Strathglass, from the head of Glenaffrick all the way down to within 2 miles of Beauly, forms, with two exceptions, the northern boundary line. The one exception gives the Davoch of Erchless and Annat, on the north side of the river, to Kiltarlity; and the other gives the three farms, called the Crochails, on the south side of the river to Kilmorack. Excepting about 9 square miles of low-lying tract at its eastern extremity, the entire parish consists of hilly and rocky upland, cut into sections by glens, and fringed on the north by one half of the valley-ground of Strathglass. Its heights are generally rounded, and do not anywhere exceed an altitude of 2,000 feet above sea-level, and yet, in the west, are almost a wilderness, and in some places inaccessible by man. There are numerous lakes; some of them grandly romantic. There are also extensive woods, chiefly recent plantations. The principal proprietor is Lord Lovat, whose residence, Beaufort Castle, stands near the eastern extremity of the parish, amid extensive wooded policies, on the site of the ancient fortress of Beautfort or Dunie, which figures in history so early as the time of Alexander I, and sustained a regular siege in 1303 by the troops of Edward of England. Chisholm of Chisholm also owns part of the parish. 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.
According to information in the Miscellany of the New Spalding Club, (vol. 1, Aberdeen: 1890), there are no Kirk Session records for this parish.
