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Your are here: / / Books The following are a selection of historical books about the village and surrounding area: Annals of an Angus Parish "Some years ago (1881) the writer of the following notes upon an old Angus Parish delivered several lectures upon the past history of the parish of Auchterhouse - copious extracts from which appeared at the time in the Dundee press. At the request of many of the parishioners and others to whom they proved somewhat interesting, the writer has consented to their publication 'in entenso'. They are the result of careful and laborious reading and research into many quaint and interesting departments of historical and ecclesiastical literature." (second hand price around £35) An Angus Parish in the Eighteenth Century
"This volume is practically a sequel
of an earlier work, "The Annals of an Angus Parish" which dealt
chiefly with the 17th century, and is written mainly with the view
of describing and illustrating the many quaint and curious phases
of old parochial and ecclesiastical life in Angus as are to be gleaned
from the Parish Records of the 18th century." Auchterhouse Old and New :An Historical
and Social Record "Last year the Executive of the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes suggested that the branches should undertake the work of collecting all the available information possible concerning the respective parishes. In sympathy with this movement the story of Auchterhouse has been compiled. This little book, the making of which
has been a labour of love, is now published in the hope that it
may be found of interest to the people of Auchterhouse, to sons
and daughters of our parish in many lands, and to a wider circle
of readers" On the Slopes of the Sidlaws "Here I have not attempted to cover anything like the whole field. Nothing whatever is said, for example of three of the Sidlaw parishes - Eassie and Nevay to the east, Lundie and Fowlis in the centre, and Kinnaird further to the west.. What I have done is to try to recapture something of the rich and varied contribution which this lovely area has made to the life, work and thought of the Church of Christ in Scotland through the centuries. That contribution has been a rich one for a district whose population can never have numbered more than a few thousands." A History of Auchterhouse "Some years ago, I wrote a history of the Thomson family... In so doing, as background I included a few paragraphs on the history of Auchterhouse ...My interest was aroused. Further research resulted in a booklet published by the Tay Valley Family History Society 'Life in the parish of Auchterhouse in the 18th Century.' This booklet 'A History of Auchterhouse' is the result of my recent studies. I have included those elements of Scottish history that affected Auchterhouse directly."
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