When the first Statistical Account of the parish was written, about 1790, the best land in the parish was let at from five to fifteen shillings the acre, generally on leases of twice nineteen years and

CLICK HERE for some transcription of Statistical Accounts (c.1799 and c.1845) for a few Angus parishes (also for Skirling Parish in Peeblesshire). Graphical representations of the pages of the Statistical

find that no fewer than 130 Parishes appear in the Statistical Account, to which no return on the head of Parochial Records has been made by the incumbent." He wrote to various clergymen, amongst them

As late as 1842, the Statistical Account states that out of 300 house-holds in the Monikie Parish, 135 were weavers. A prosperous business it was too, as a song puts it: We weaver lads were merry blades

Click HERE to read early Statistical Account of several Angus parishes AND of Skirling parish.) The early Stirling families of Forfarshire present interesting problems of their own, as they are not

rebound volume also includes all pages from the Second Statistical Accounts for Scotland (c.1843) for several Angus County parishes (not Monikie which is HERE, with others) and for the Scottish Border

New Statistical Account." 2. Ibid. 3. The stone bridge, which spans the river Dean as it crosses the north avenue, was fortunately left intact. On a panel fixed to the parapet, a coronet appears with