A HISTORICAL INDEX FOR THE PARISHES OF THE STEWARTRY OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT

This is a new website for 2010. It will build into a resource containing a variety of information to assist people researching their family trees where their ancestors came from the Stewartry (or County) of Kirkcudbright, or the local history of the county, as it existed prior to 1975 when county boundaries were removed and it became part of Dumfries and Galloway.

Monumental Inscriptions (M.I.'s)
During 2001 and 2002 all inscriptions on gravestones in the following parishes were transcribed and the gravestones photographed; Borgue, Buittle, Colvend, Parton, Rerrick, Tongland and Twynholm. These inscriptions can be viewed and searched by selecting the relevant parish from the drop-down list on the left.

Placenames
The links on the left will also give an index of as many place-names within the parish as we could find on the 1st Ordnance Survey maps from around 1850. The index already contains over 7,500 names. Place index cards then link to the old OS map, to the modern OS map of the same area, to Satellite views of the area and, in some cases, to Google's Street Views of the places themselves. This is an on-going work in progress but has many valuable resources already included.

References
Extensive historical information, particularly in the form of scanned books, is becoming available on the Internet. Links to this historical information are listed for each parish.

Copyright.
A great deal of work has been put into obtaining the information on the site and is copyright the author, James Bell. It's intended use is to assist private individuals in their research. Information contained here may be copied and used to illustrate and publish such research, but may not be copied or published in any other way. In particular the publication of large sections of the information in any complete form is expressly prohibited. Information contained on third-party sites linked to are subject to their owner's restrictions.

Publication on the Internet.
Should you be fortunate enough to find information on your ancestors here and use that information on your website, blog, forum, Facebook etc, or even if you just found it interesting, then a link back to this website - http://www.kirkyards.co.uk/ would be very welcome.