Thurso
Principal Sources
OSA Vol 20 No 21 1798 (This includes a parish map).
NSA Vol XV 1845 (written in 1840)
RMS II (2506) 1499
RMS III (2047, 2048) 1539, (3164-5) 1545, (3215) 1545-6
RMS IV (1635) 1565, (1669) 1565 on original of 1564, (2578) 1576 on original of 1560
RMS V (277) 1581 on original of 1580, (1088) 1586 on original of 1583, (1766) 1590 on original of 1587, (2078) 1592, (2346) 1593 on original of 1582
RMS VI (1729) 1606
RMS VII (1508) 1616
RMS X (532) 1656 on original of 1642
RMS XI (53) 1661
RSS I (3649) 1526-7
RSS III (1570) 1545-6, (2353) 1547
RSS IV (1374) 1551, (3060, 3067) 1555
RSS V Part II (3465) 1567
RSS VI (2536) 1574
RSS VII (987) 1577
RSS VIII (1551, 1552) 1583
GD96/38 1546, GD96/199 1583, GD96/204 1583
GD112/9/4/3 1692
GD112/58/8/37 1639
GD112/58/14/5 1660, GD112/58/14/8 1660
GD139/74 1743, GD139/104 1663
NLS Dep.313/3312/1 1577
RS36/2/96r 1606
RS36/2/188v 1607
RS36/2/266r 1607
RS36/2/282v 1607
RS36/2/305v 1607
RS20/1/p 10 1646
RS20/1/pp 10-11 1647
RS20/1/p 159 1662
RS20/1/pp 175-6 1663
RS20/1/p 181 1664
RS20/1/p 191 1664
RS21/1/327r 1701
Records of the Parliaments of Scotland (online), 19/4/1567 – NAS PA2/10, II, ff 22v-23r
SC14/90/4 1698-1716
RHP 1217 Achnavast etc.
RHP 1219 Brims, 1769
RHP 1222/1 Crosskirk, 1840
RHP 1223, Forss, 1800
RHP 2791, Scrabster, 1831
RHP 2792, Scrabster, 1848
RHP 2793, Lythmore, 1807
RHP 2794, Lythmore, 1831/1837
RHP 2795 & 2796, Lythmore, 1848
RHP 2951, 3907, Forss Common
RHP 3908, Thurso, 1833
RHP 4418/1 & 3, Forss, 1919
Retours (Caithness) (6) 1605, (19) 1632, (24) 1654, (26) 1661, (27) 1667, (29) 1672, (35) 1693, (37) 1655
The Accounts of the Great Chamberlains of Scotland, Vol I, Edinburgh, 1816 (sometimes simply called ‘Compota Camera’).
Book of Thanes of Cawdor pp 54-5 1472
Sutherland Book Vol III No 97 1557
Macfarlane’s Geographical Collections Vol. I, SHS, Edinburgh, 1906 pp 169-174: Description Thurso Parish in Catness Jun. 1726
Henderson, J., General View of the Agriculture of the County of Caithness, London, 1815 (hereafter, ‘Henderson, Agriculture’)
Henderson, J., Caithness Family History, Edinburgh, 1884
Hay Shennan, Boundaries of Counties and Parishes in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1892 (hereafter ‘Shennan’).
Bangor-Jones, M., Ouncelands and Pennylands in Sutherland and Caithness, in MacGregor & Crawford (1987), pp 13-23
MacGregor, L., & Crawford, B., (eds), Ouncelands and Pennylands, University of St Andrews, 1987
The land-assessment record for Thurso is very incomplete but it must have been at least 149⅜d or c. 24 davachs.
Dorrery was a detached part of Thurso parish which was transferred to Halkirk in 1891. (Shennan p 129). I have treated it under Halkirk.
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