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Reference NoED/AC5/184
TitleRecords of Braes of Gartly School (Gartly Parish)
DescriptionED/AC5/184/1 Log Books (1863 - 1959)
ED/AC5/184/2 Admission Registers (1867 - 1959)
Date1863 - 1959
CreatorBraes of Gartly School (formerly Free Church School)
Extent3 volumes
​Open or Restricted AccessRestricted
Access ConditionsThe Data Protection Act may apply to these records. The records can be consulted in person or by a representative following completion of an access request form subject to conditions under the Data Protection Act (1998).
Administrative HistoryPrimary school by 1955
The school closed in 1959, with pupils transferred to Gartly School. The building was sold in January 1961.

Head Teachers:
Donald Reid 28 Dec 1863 - 22 Dec 1875
William Everett (from Dollar) 26 Dec 1875 - 15 Apr 1880 (death)
John McKenzie (from Inverness) 31 May 1880 - 7 Sept 1881
John Douglas (from Sandwick, Dunrossness P. School, Shetland) 8 Sept 1881 - 18 July 1883
Miss Charlotte Ingram 13 Aug 1883 - 1 June 1891
(address at appointment; 27 Church St, Huntly)
Miss Linnie R. Mackie 22 June 1891 - 28 Aug 1891
(teacher, Castletown, Thurso)
(transferred to Gartly Female School then to Central School as female Assistant when the Female School amalgamated with Barony of Gartly School in 1895)
Miss Jessie W. Emslie 29 Aug 1891 - 15 Feb 1905
Miss Esther Sheridan (from East School, Holm, Orkney) 6 Feb 1905 -

Extract from Log Book 1863 - 1931:
23 june 1876: "The School was transferred to the new buildings on Monday"
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