Some notices of the surname of Shand, particularly of the County of Aberdeen

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EXTRACTS
From Parish Registers of the County of Aberdeen
to circa 1750.
Aberdeen City ; Church of St. Nicholas*
13th Feb. 1574. The bannis of marriage betwix Thomas
Schaynd and Nans Reid was thryss lauchfully proclaim] t
by me, Walter Cullen, reder, and na impediment shawin nor
funden for ye time; the saidis partis marrit in Aberdeen
by Mr. John Craig, minister,! the xiii. day of Februar, the
zeir of God 1574 zeirs.
This couple had a family : Patrick, baptized 4th April,
1574, Maister Patrick Ruderfurd and others, witnesses ;
David, 1st March, 1575, Andro Chalmers, David Anderson,
and Isobell Pantin, witnesses ; Elspet, 6th February, 1577,
Elspatt Lindesay, Nans Kiderfurd, witnesses ; Alexander,
* We need not say that the defective state of our Parochial Records has
often heen the subject of just animadversion. Of the three great events in
the Mat Civil of the population — Marriages, Births, and Deaths— many even
of the higher and educated classes were not recorded ; and even in the same
family the names of some of the children were registered and others alto-
gether omitted. Besides, many of the vols, of the Registers are amissing.
See, with respect to the Registers we are now about to refer to, the regrets of
the industrious Kennedy in his useful work, The Annals of Aberdeen, i. 186.
In his Book of Bon-accord, p. 134, Dr. Joseph Robertson complains' that,
while the birth of a sister of Jamesone, the eminent painter, was duly entered
in the Parochial Registers, he had searched in vain for any notice of the birth
of the painter himself. So too with regard to the surname which is the
subject of these notices, the birth of Wm. Shand of Craig's Brother John
(of Rotterdam) does not appear in the Register ; nor indeed does that of
his eldest son and heir, the year of whose birth, however, we can infer
from the old tombstone.
f Originally of the Order of Dominicans. His father fell at Flodden. He
was coadjutor of John Knox for nine years, and is said to have been the
author of the first National Covenant. He was the second Protestant
minister of Aberdeen, having succeeded Adam Heriot, originally an Augus-
tinian Friar, who was the first.