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23-505: Panbride is a village and civil parish in the council area of Angus, Scotland . It is situated 0.5 miles (1 km) north-east of Carnoustie and 6 miles (10 km) west of Arbroath . The name Panbride may be Pictish in origin, and derived from the element *pant meaning "a hollow". The first recorded owners of the Barony of Panbride was the Morham family, whose ancestral name

46-518: A year, until the appointment of Sir Stair Agnew KCB. The last person to hold the combined posts was Sir James Patten McDougall KCB, in office from May 1909 to March 1919. Originally, this was the supervision of birth, death and marriage registration. It was expanded to include the conduct of the 1861 Census and all subsequent ones (working closely with the Registrar General to ensure consistency) and other statistical functions. In 1920

69-703: The Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) used to administer schemes within the Common Agricultural Policy . According to the website of the General Register Office for Scotland , there are now 871 civil parishes. Civil parish boundaries originally corresponded with the ecclesiastical parishes of the Church of Scotland . As parishes used for religious functions diverged from civil parishes,

92-498: The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 , with powers being transferred to county councils in landward areas of counties and burgh councils where they were within a burgh. Their boundaries continued to be used to define some of the local authorities created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and they continue to be used for census purposes. They are used as part of the coding system for agricultural holdings under

115-776: The Privy Council of Scotland , following the suggestion of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland enacted that all parish ministers should keep a record of baptisms , burials and marriages. This situation continued until 1854, when Parliament passed an Act transferring responsibility to the State. The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1854 created the General Register Office of Births, Deaths and Marriages, headed by

138-598: The Registrar General (Scotland) Act 1920 was passed which provided for the appointment by the Secretary of State for Scotland a whole-time Registrar General, Dr James Craufurd Dunlop , (previously Medical Superintendent of Statistics ) was appointed. On the formation of National Records of Scotland, the positions of Registrar General and Keeper of the Records of Scotland were initially kept separate, but on

161-596: The Scottish National Health Service Central Register . On 1 April 2011 it was merged with the National Archives of Scotland to form National Records of Scotland . All the former department's functions continue as part of the new body. Initially ministers of the Church of Scotland were responsible for keeping parish records of baptisms and marriages , but only for their own church members. Later

184-816: The General Register Office Scotland (GROS), and the registers for the years 1820–1855 to the custody of the local registrars. These registers were to be retained by the registrars for 30 years, after which they were to be sent to the GROS. On 1 April 2011 GROS was merged with the National Archives of Scotland, with which it already had close ties and shared management of the Scotland's People Centre in Princes Street , Edinburgh , to form National Records of Scotland. From 1855

207-699: The General Register Office had been located in General Register House. The building was erected on its present site near the Old Register House. The site was acquired in 1856 and the building was opened on 30 March 1861, though not completed until 1864 at a total cost of £40,000. GROS had two other main buildings: Ladywell House, in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh, where population, household and vital statistics data (including Scotland's census) are housed; and Cairnsmore House on

230-529: The Registrar General with the appointment of registrars in every parish. It also provided that the Registrar General should produce an annual report to be forwarded to the Home Secretary to be laid before Parliament, containing a general abstract of the numbers of births, deaths and marriages registered during the previous year. The first general abstract (relating to 1855) was submitted in 1856. The parochial and burgh divisions in Scotland were adopted as

253-655: The barony (at least in part) to the Boyce family in 1341. The lands of Panbride were fragmented and passed through a number of hands from that point, and were gradually acquired by the Carnegie family , later to become the Earls of Northesk , in the 16th century. The lands were forfeited following the Jacobite rebellion but were bought back by James Carnegie in 1764. Carnegie used the lands to purchase lands near his main estate and

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276-469: The barony of Panbride passed to William Maule, linking Panbride with Panmure. Panbride church's minister in 1717 was father of the next minister who was the father of the next - and he was the father of Rev. David Trail who was also the minister. A record for one family in the church of Scotland. David Trail died in 1850 but his daughter Ann Agnes Trail went on to found a convent in Edinburgh . Between

299-826: The basis of registration, and the session clerks of the Church of Scotland were, in most cases, appointed as the first registrars under the Act. Where the parish or burgh was too large for a single registrar, the sheriff was empowered to divide it into districts. Registers were to be produced in duplicate, and one was to be sent to the Office of the Scottish Registrar General in Edinburgh. Compulsory civil registration began in Scotland on 1 January 1855, and coverage seems to have been complete for marriages and deaths. Birth registration took rather longer to bed down, but by

322-451: The burgh was termed the landward area. Until 1891 some parishes lay in more than one county . In that year, under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 , the boundaries of most of the civil parishes and counties were realigned so that each parish was wholly within a single county. In 1894 the parochial boards were replaced by more democratically elected parish councils. Parish councils were in turn abolished in 1930, under

345-564: The census years of 1801 and 1831, the parish's population fell by some 20% from 1,583 to 1,268, due largely to the removal of several villages in the name of Agricultural improvement . Civil parishes in Scotland Civil parishes gained legal functions in 1845 when parochial boards were established to administer the poor law . Their local government functions were abolished in 1930 with their powers transferred to county or burgh councils. Since 1975, they have been superseded as

368-579: The former became known as quoad sacra parishes . Since 1975, Scotland has been divided into community council areas which are often similar to civil parishes in their boundaries. These community council are not equivalent to English parish councils and Welsh community councils and do not have legal powers of their own but in some cases local authorities have a legal obligation to consult them. General Register Office for Scotland The General Register Office for Scotland ( GROS ) ( Scottish Gaelic : Oifis Choitcheann a' Chlàraidh na h-Alba )

391-570: The retirement of Duncan Macniven in August 2011, George Mackenzie was appointed Registrar General in addition to his existing role as Keeper. New Register House , which houses the registration side of the former GROS's business, is close to the east end of Princes Street in Edinburgh. It was designed by Robert Matheson , the Clerk of Works at the Office of Her Majesty's Works in Scotland . Initially,

414-603: The role of accumulating and publishing statistics from data has fallen to one person. These people were: The Registrar General was also Deputy to the Lord Clerk Register . The Deputy Clerk Register had to be an Advocate of not less than ten years standing. William Pitt Dundas was the first holder of the combined post of Deputy Clerk Register and Registrar General from September 1854 until April 1880. His successor, Roger Montgomerie , died six months after his appointment, and Mr Pitt Dundas resumed office for around

437-468: The sections of the 1854 Act. The original Act had placed considerable burdens on the sheriffs of the Scottish counties, who had already played a role in the taking of decennial censuses. The amending Acts reduced their responsibilities by appointing registration district examiners to inspect the registers. They also made revised provision for the transmission of the parochial registers up to the year 1820 to

460-400: The smallest unit of local administration in Scotland by community councils . Civil parishes in Scotland can be dated from 1845, when parochial boards were established to administer the poor law . While they originally corresponded to the parishes of the Church of Scotland , the number and boundaries of parishes soon diverged. Where a parish contained a burgh , the area of the parish outside

483-504: The time of his first annual detailed report, published in 1861, the first Registrar General for Scotland, William Pitt Dundas, claimed that: "there is good reason for believing that very few births indeed now escape registration." In 1855 and 1860, two Acts, the Registration (Scotland) Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict., c.29) and the Registration (Scotland, Amendment) Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict., c.85), were passed which amended some of

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506-575: Was Malherbe. They are first mentioned in relation to Panbride in the registers of Arbroath Abbey in a charter of John Morham made in the mid 13th century. It is thought that they had possession of the land until 1309 when Robert I conferred the land to his Brother in Law, Alexander Fraser , Lord Chamberlain of Scotland . Fraser died at the Battle of Dupplin Moor in 1332 and it is thought that David II conferred

529-536: Was a non-ministerial directorate of the Scottish Government that administered the registration of births , deaths , marriages , divorces and adoptions in Scotland from 1854 to 2011. It was also responsible for the statutes relating to the formalities of marriage and conduct of civil marriage in Scotland. It administered the census of Scotland's population every ten years. It also kept

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