Inverness census Parishes

[xrchris]

I too am having a problem with trying to determine which parish a certain village/area is in.

I can see that Culcabock is in modern day Inverness but i am trying to determine which of the Inverness parishes it belongs too as Inverness itself appears to be subdivided particularly around 1859.

Anyone have any ideas?

[farmer]

Hi xrchris
Some sources, Am Baile, Groome Gazetteer, give Inverness (and Bona) as the parish.
With my own searches re Kilmonivaig, I was lucky in that I started with the sub-parishes, or registration districts (whatever the nomenclature is) from Rootsweb Free Pages . I've searched for a list of sub districts for Inverness , and came up with zilch.
Plenty of mentions of Culcabock or Fluke Fields as it may also have been called, heck, the area  even gets a mention in MacBeth.
Perhaps one of the more experienced researchers on Rootschat can come up with a list?
I'm finding it strange that there is not a searchable list for the UK census, by counties and shires, then parishes, then sub districts (with old and new names).
A basic tool?
Maybe there is, and I've not found it?
I had the same problem with Irish Townlands, and I dread the day I will have to look for American counties.
Pete

[ADP]

...I can see that Culcabock is in modern day Inverness but i am trying to determine which of the Inverness parishes it belongs too as Inverness itself appears to be subdivided particularly around 1859.

Culcabock seems to have been in Inverness Parish in the 1850s, but was close to a detached part of Croy and Dalcross Parish. So depending what extent was described as Culcabock, then you have two parishes to consider. You need to compare a modern map such as www.streetmap.co.uk to the 1850s map below.

http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/os_scotland_county_series_index.html

There may have been Quoad Sacra parishes within Inverness Parish, but for OPRs and the like, normally it was the mother parish that was used.

For statutory registration birth, marriage and death certificates, Inverness Registration District was only divided for 1855 and 1856. For these two years, there were Inverness Burgh and Inverness Landward.

ADP