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Dear Ronald, I'm afraid I don't have the ideal the answer to your question, but feel that the National Library of Scotland really ought to have a stab at this one! The parishes shown on Thomson's map of Inverness-shire, as with most other county maps, and all later Ordnance Survey maps are the civil or 'quoad civilia' parishes. By the 19th century, these could often be quite different from the ecclesiastical or 'quoad sacra' parishes, which for Scotland would be the reformed Church of Scotland units from the 16th century, not Roman Catholic. I do know of maps we have showing ecclesiastical and civil parishes for Glasgow and Edinburgh in the 1830s and 1880s respectively, but not for coastal Inverness-shire, I'm afraid. The Mormon records and Scottish Record Office (now National Archives of Scotland) records for births, marriages and deaths also focus on the civil, not ecclesiastical, parish. The only volume with maps I know of which could help is the 'Origines Parochiales Scotiae : the antiquities ecclesiastical and territorial of the parishes of Scotland'. 3 vols. (Edinburgh : Bannatyne Club, 1850-1855) which provides a detailed account, comprehensively referenced, of the early history of parishes, their land owners, extent, ecclesiastical buildings and taxations. There are maps at the end of each volume,showing ecclesiastical parishes and their boundaries, and I think Vol.II(2) covers the Diocese of Ross (I'm afraid I don't have the volumes to hand). Obviously, this is covering a period much earlier than 1800, but by that time only the civil parishes were usually shown on maps. Two other volumes which might be useful, but without maps are I.B. Cowan's 'The parishes of Medieval Scotland. Scottish Record Society, vol. 93. (Edinburgh: Neill & Co., 1967). This is essentially a list of parishes at the time of the Reformation with information on the appropration of their revenues. Also the 1st Statistical Account of Scotland, 1791-1799, edited by Sir John Sinclair, has a full alphabetical list of the parishes in Scotland, including their presbytery and county (Vol. XX, pp. 401- 425). It also includes an alphabetical list of "Parishes suppressed, annexed to other parishes, or which have changed their names, with a corresponding list of the Parishes under which they are now included", a useful summary of various parish changes for the years up to 1791 (Vol XX, pp. 426-432). Sorry this is not much help, but if you would like more information on these volumes, or photocopies from them, do let me know. Chris Fleet Christopher Fleet National Library of Scotland 33 Salisbury Place Edinburgh EH9 1SL. Tel. 0131 466 3813 Fax. 0131 466 3812 E-mail: [log in to unmask] > > I'm looking for maps of the Roman Catholic parishes in the coastal region of > Inverness Shire about 1800, specifically the areas of Clan Ranald. The > closest I've come so far is John Thomson's 1831 map. I do not know whether > the parishes shown there are Civil, Protestant or Roman Catholic. I found > no references to such a map in _Early maps of Scotland_ nor has my search > produced references to a book or books concerning such a map or maps. I > would be grateful for any references members of this list might provide, > and, if I cannot turn up a copy of the referenced volume, or volumes locally > would be interested in obtaining a photocopy of same. > > Many thanks, > Ron Whistance-Smith > Edmonton, AB, Canada >