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Book Selection by Colin Stephen, St Peter's Heritage Trust. |
Why not try some of these suggested titles if you
are interested in more in-depth reading on the local area? Although
many of these will now be out of print, copies are available in local
libraries. Details of current books on local history, monumental
inscriptions and other topics of local interest can be found on the
Aberdeen and North-East Scotland Family History Society website. |
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THE ROYAL DEESIDE LINE "
by
A. D. Farr
published
by David and Charles, Newton Abbot
p48
- photograph
p74
- photograph
p110
- photograph
p128
- photograph
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"
THE CITY OF ABERDEEN OFFICIAL HANDBOOK AND INDUSTRIAL REVIEW "
Fifth
Edition
compiled
and edited by H. Webber
published
by ED. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd, Cheltenham and London
p174
- old advert
p175
- text & two photographs
p176
- text and one photograph
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"
ROYAL DEESIDE "
by
Fenton Wyness
Printed
for historical publications by W. & W. Lindsey, Aberdeen
p18
- text
p19
- drawing illustration
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"The
Queen's Scotland, THE EASTERN COUNTIES, Aberdeenshire, Angus and
Kincardineshire "
by
Nigel Tranter
published
by Hodder and Stoughton, London, Sydney, Aukland & Toronto
p140
-p143 - four pages of text
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"ABERDEEN
COUNCIL LETTERS "
Volume
Five
Transcribed
and Edited by Louise B. Taylor
published
by Oxford University Press, London, Newyork & Toronto 1957
p276
- 281 - six pages of text
p456
- 457 - two pages of text
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"THE
OLD DEESIDE LINE WALK "
by
?
printed
by Langstane Press Ltd, Aberdeen
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"THE
JACOBITE CESS ROLL FOR THE COUNTY OF ABERDEEN IN 1715"
edited
by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler
printed
for The Third Spalding Club, Aberdeen, MCMXXXII.
p225
- p228 - four pages of text
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"THE
DEESIDE FIELD"
2nd
series, No. 1. 1953
edited
by Fenton Wyness
published
under the auspices of The Deeside Field Club, (instituted 1920)
p71
- p75 - five pages of text
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"THE
COMING OF TURNPIKES TO ABERDEENSHIRE"
by
John Patrick
published
by the Centre for Scottish Studies, Aberdeen University
p12
- p16 - five pages of text, one map and one diagram
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"THE
NORTH-EAST OF SCOTLAND"
published
by the local committee of the British Association for the Advancement of
Science, 1963
printed
by the Central Press, Aberdeen
p176
- p179 - four pages of text
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"DEESIDE"
by
Alex Inkson McConnochie
republished
from the 2nd edition published in 1895
by
James G. Bisset, Aberdeen. 1985
p50
- p55 - six pages of text
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"THE
OLD DEESIDE ROAD (Aberdeen to Braemar), IT'S COURSE, HISTORY, and
ASSOCIATIONS"
by
G. M. Fraser
published
by The Aberdeen Natural History & Antiquarian Society, 1921
this
edition published by Robin Callander, Finzean, Aberdeenshire, 1980
p45
- 59 - chapter 5, fifteen pages of text
p60
- p67 - chapter 6 - eight pages of text
four
photographs - fig. 6,7,8&9
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"THE
GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY",
The
History of the Railways of the
Scottish Highlands - Vol. 3
by
H. A. Vallance
revised
by the Great North of Scotland Railway Association
published
by David St John Thomas
one
photograph - fig. 59
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"ROYAL
DEESIDE'S RAILWAY", Aberdeen to Ballater
published
by the Great North of Scotland Railway Association
1999,
ISBN 0 902343 09 2
six
photographs - p10, p22, p27, p48, p49 & p59
three
maps - p64 & p65
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"EPITAPHS
& INSCRIPTIONS,
from
Burial Grounds & Old Buildings in the North-east
of Scotland"
by
Andrew Jervise
published
by Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh. 1875
p16
- p20 - five pages of text
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"THE
STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND, 1791 - 1799
edited
by Sir John Sinclair, Volume XIV Kincardineshire and South And West
Aberdeenshire"
general
editors Donald J. Withrington and Ian R. Grant
published
by EP Publishing Ltd, 1982
pii
- piv - index and two pages of text
p637
- p689 - fiftythree pages of text
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"ANNALS
OF LOWER DEESIDE"
by
John A. Henderson
published
by D. Wyllie & Son, 1892
p107
- p151 - fourtythree pages of text
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"HISTORY
of the VALLEY OF THE DEE"
by
John Mackintosh
published/printed
by Taylor and Henderson, Aberdeen, MDCCCXCV
p45
- p55 - Chapter Five, eleven pages of text
p56
- p67 - Chapter Six, twelve pages of text
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"THE
STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF ABERDEENSHIRE, 1843, Part 1"
by
The Ministers of the Respective Parishes,
under
the superintendence of a Committee of the Society for the Benifit of the
Sons and Daughters of the Clergy.
published
by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, MDCCCXLIII
p105
- 113 - nine pages of text
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"THE
THIRD STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND,
The
County of Aberdeen"
edited
by Henry Hamilton,
published
by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd5, Glasgow, 1960
p
5 - p7 - three pages of text
p121
- p130 - Chapter Nine, ten pages of text
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"FROM
PARISH SCHOOL TO ACADEMY,
The
Story of Education in the
Parish
of Peterculter"
by
Jim Buchan
published
by the Council of the County of Aberdeen, Education Committee, 1967
p1
- p38 - complete publication
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"EDUCATION
IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY,
Parish
of Peterculter, Aberdeenshire"
by
Dr Alexander Allan Cormack
printed
by the Banffshire Journal, 1965
p31
- p37 - seven pages of text
p41
- one page of text, more still to copy
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"HISTORY
OF CULTER PAPER MILLS,
Two Hundred Years of Progress"
by
Alexander A. Cormack
printed
for the Culter Mills Paper Company Limited
by
Aberdeen Journals Ltd, MCMXXXIII
p
5 - p16 - twelve pages of text
one
plan diagram
p57
- p63 - seven pages of text
(
An original copy of the publication is available in the Centre )
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