Peeblesshire FreeCENsus Project

Parish Numbers

The numbering of parishes was carried out following the establishment of the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) in 1855. This numbering was then applied retrospectively to the records from the 1841 and 1851 Censuses. There were around 900 parishes existing in 1855. However, a few of these parishes had only been created after the 1841 Census had taken place, and often this accounts for there being unused numbers in the sequence of parishes for a particular year and county.

In this case, however, we have the reverse situation. Three parishes that were combined before 1800 were each given their own number in 1855: Broughton (758), Glenholm (761) and Kilbucho (763)

The parishes of Glenholm and Kilbucho were annexed into Broughton in 1794. However, sometimes they were treated as a single parish for the census returns, other times as two or three separate parishes.