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Identifier: gazetteerofscov11838cham (find matches)
Title: The gazetteer of Scotland. (With plates and maps.)
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Chambers, William, 1800-1883 Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871
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Publisher: Glasgow
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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acturesin this part of Scotland, or, more particularly,to the employment afforded for the last centuryand a half to the women of the lower ordersby those merchants of Aberdeen who deal inhosiery. A taste for literary and scientificpursuits is at present only in the course of dis-semination. Aberdeenshire, as well as theadjacent districts, differs in its religious sta-tistics from counties more to the south.Presbyterian dissenting communions have fewof their body in this part of Scotland. Fromthe reign of Charles I. to the present day therehas been a strong leaning towards episcopacy;and, what is singular in Scotland, this has beenthe case not only with the higher orders, butwith a great number of the lower classes. Inthis quarter therefore religious dissent assumesthe character of a large and respectable episco-pal communion. In the diocese of Aberdeen,which extends only a little beyond the county,there are upwards of twenty episcopal chapels,under a bishop resident at Aberdeen. Withm
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■* e *» « tn 1% •o ^ # si p; * -Sf S Ki ABERDEEN. these few years the Roman Catholics of Aber-deenshire have heen increasing in consequence.At Blairs, on Dee side, a few miles aboveAberdeen, there is an important eleemosynary-institution for the education of young personsin this faith; and it is remarked that the greaterproportion of Scottish Roman Catholic priestsare natives of the district. The chief seats of nobilitv and gentry inAberdeenshire are Ellon Castle, Hon. W.Gordon; Huntly Lodge, Duke of Gordon;Slains Castle, Earl of Errol; Keith Hall,Earl of Kintore ; Aboyne Castle, Earl ofAboyne ; Mar Lodge, Earl of Fife ; Phil-orth House, Lord Saltoun; Castle Forbes,Lord Forbes; Monymusk, Grant, Bart. ;Fintray House, Forbes, Bart. ; Fyvie Cas-tle, General Gordon ; Pitfour, Ferguson;Craig, Gordon; Cluny, Gordon; Stricken,Frazer; Cairness, Gordon; Mormond;Invercauld: Logie Elphinstone ; LeithHall ; Freejield ; Abergeldie ; SkeneHouse ; Straloch ; Halton ; Clova ; Gor-don Lodge; Casgazetteerofscov11838cham

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  • bookauthor:Chambers__Robert__1802_1871
  • bookpublisher:Glasgow
  • bookcontributor:National_Library_of_Scotland
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