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Aberdeen City Archives - Catalogue Information

Aberdeen City Archives holds a vast amount of records relating to both Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.  Though our catalogues are not available online, we do have a number of guides and lists available for download.  You may need to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these documents.  The items listed below are held at either our Town House office or our Old Aberdeen House branch, where they can be viewed.  Please contact us to make an appointment or to find out further information on how to access the archives.  The guides and lists available are:

1.  Cemetery Records 11.  Photographs Collection
2.  Poor Relief Records 12.  Town's Clerks' Scrapbooks
3.  School Records 13.  Garden of Troup Records
4.  Valuation Rolls 14.  Alexander MacDonald of Keppleston
5.  Church of Scotland Records 15.  Menzies of Pitfodels
6.  Congregational Church Records 16.  Deposited Records
7.  Methodist Church Records 17.  General Band of Relief, 1639
8.  Hall Russell Records 18.  New Street Trustees
9.  NORCO Records 19.  Shipping Records
10. AAPCA Records 20.  Assessed Taxes

New records and catalogues are being added and updated so please do not hesitate to contact us if you cannot find what you are looking for.

The Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) contains collection level descriptions of some of our holdings.  Please see the Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) website website for further information. 

Descriptions of the George Bennett Mitchell and Duncan & Munro Architectural Collections can be accessed through the website of RCAHMS, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

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