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P is for Poor Law, paupers and payments

19/4/2016

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In January 1843, the Conservative government under Sir Robert Peel established a Commission of Enquiry to study the Scottish system of poor relief. There had been growing concerns about the effectiveness of poor relief in Scotland, which at the time was in the hands of the Kirk Sessions of the Church of Scotland. A few months after the Commission was set up, the Church of Scotland split in the Disruption, with around 40% of ministers leaving to form the Free Church. This further eroded the position of the Church of Scotland, and made substantive reform inevitable.
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The earliest record of poor law in Scotland dates back to 1425 (not 1424 as is sometimes incorrectly stated). Those aged between 14 and 70 who were able to earn a living themselves were forbidden from begging, on pain of branding for a first offence and execution for a second offence:
Of thygaris nocht to be thollyt
Alsua it is ordanyt that na thigar be thollyt to thyg nor bege nothir in burghe nor to lande betuix xiiij and iij score [and ten] of yheris of age bot thai be seyne be the consall of the toune or of the cuntre at thai may nocht vyne thar leyffing othir vays. And thai that sa beis fundin sall have a takin to land of the schera and in bwrowis off the aldirmen and baylyheis, and that undir the payn of birnynge on the cheyk and bannyssing of the cuntre.

Translation:
Of beggars not to be suffered
Also it is ordained that no beggar be suffered to thig or beg either in burghs or in the land between fourteen and seventy years of age, unless it is seen by the council of the town that they cannot make their living in other ways. And they that are so found shall have a token from the sheriff in the land, and from the aldermen and bailies in the burghs, and that under pain of burning on the cheek and banishing from the country.
[The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2016), 1425/3/22. Date accessed: 17 April 2016.]
Three years later, the king decreed that officials who failed to implement this act would be fined.

In 1535, the system was further formalised. Poor relief was only to be granted to individuals in their parish of birth, and the “headmen” of each parish were to award tokens to eligible paupers, thereby introducing the concept of a licensed beggar. People caught begging outside of their parish of birth were subject to the same harsh penalties as before.
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An Act for punishment of the strong and idle beggars and relief of the poor and impotent was passed in 1579. This established the basic system of poor relief which was to continue for hundreds of years.
Sic as makis thame selffis fuilis and ar bairdis or utheris siclike rynnaris about, being apprehendit, salbe put in the kingis waird and yrnis salang as they have ony guidis of thair awin to leif on
[​RPS, 1579/10/27]
​If they had no means of sustenance, their ears were to be nailed to the tron or any other tree, and they were then to be banished. The penalty for repeat offenders was death. As for able-bodied beggars:
​all personis being abone the aige of xiiij and within the aige of lxx yeiris that heirefter ar declarit and sett furth be this act and ordour to be vagabundis, strang and ydle beggaris, quhilkis salhappyne at ony tyme heirefter, efter the first day of Januar nixtocum, to be takin wandering and misordering thame selffis contrarie to the effect and meaning of thir presentis salbe apprehendit; and upoun thair apprehensioun be brocht befoir the provest and baillies within burgh, and in every parochyne to landwart befoir him that salbe constitutit justice be the kingis commissioun or be the lordis of regalities within the samyne to this effect, and be thame to be committit in waird in the commoun presoun, stokkis or irnis within thair jurisdictioun, thair to be keipit unlettin to libertie or upoun band or souirtie quhill thai be put to the knawlege of ane assyse, quhilk salbe done within sex dayis thairefter. And gif they happyne to be convict, to be adjuget to be scurget and brunt throw the ear with ane hett yrne
[​RPS, 1579/10/27]
​So “strong and idle” beggars were to be captured, imprisoned or put in stocks or irons, and brought before a court within 6 days. Upon conviction, they were to be burnt through the ear with a hot iron. The law puts in this caveat:
exceptit sum honest and responsall man will, of his charitie, be contentit then presentlie to act him self befoir the juge to tak and keip the offendour in his service for ane haill yeir nixt following, undir the pane of xx libris to the use of the puyr of the toun or parochyne, and to bring the offendour to the heid court of the jurisdictioun at the yeiris end, or then gude pruif of his death, the clerk taking for the said act xij d. onlie. And gif the offendour depart and leif the service within the yeir aganis his will that ressavis him in service, then being apprehendit, he salbe of new presentit to the juge and be him commandit to be scurgit and brunt throw the ear as is befoirsaid; quhilk punishment, being anys ressavit, he sall not suffer the lyk agane for the space of lx dayis thairefter, bot gif at the end of the saidis lx dayis he be found to be fallin agane in his ydill and vagabund trade of lyf, then, being apprehendit of new, he salbe adjuget and suffer the panes of deid as a theif.
​[​RPS, 1579/10/27]
In other words, the convicted idle beggar would be spared this punishment if someone offered him a job for a year. If he were to leave such employment without his master’s approval, he would be burned through the ear, but if convicted a second time, he would be put to death as a thief.
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The law then moves on to detail who should be subject to punishment. Not just beggars, per se, but also:
all ydle personis ganging about in ony cuntrie of this realme using subtill, crafty and unlauchfull playis, as juglarie fast and lowis, and sic utheris, the idle people calling thame selffis Egyptianis, or ony utheris that fenyeis thame selffis to have knawlege of prophecie, charmeing or utheris abusit sciences, quhairby they persuaid the people that they can tell thair weardis deathis and fortunes and sic uther fantasticall imaginationes
​​[​RPS, 1579/10/27]
​So people claiming to use witchcraft, self-styled “Egyptians” (i.e. Gypsies or Romanies), those claiming to have the gift of prophecy, charms, or fotune-telling. Other people to be punished include those with no visible means of support, minstrels, singers and storytellers not officially approved, labourers who have left their masters, those carrying forged begging licences, those claiming to be itinerant scholars, and those claiming to have been shipwrecked without affidavits:
​utheris nouthir having land nor maister, nor useing ony lauchfull merchandice, craft or occupatioun quhairby they may wyn thair leavingis, and can gif na rekning how they lauchfullie get thair leving, and all menstrallis, sangstaris and tailtellaris not avowit in speciall service be sum of the lordis of parliament or greit barronis or be the heid burrowis and cieties for thair commoun menstralis, all commoun lauboraris, being personis able in body, leving ydillie and fleing laubour, all counterfaittaris of licences to beg, or useing the same knawing thame to be counterfaittit, all vagabund scolaris of the universities of Sanctandrois, Glasgw and Abirdene not licencit be the rectour and deane of facultie of the universitie to ask almous, all schipmene and marinaris allegeing thame selffis to be schipbrokin, without they have sufficient testimoniallis
​​[​RPS, 1579/10/27]
Those hindering the implementation of the law would be subject to the same penalties. Having established the penalties, the Act requires all poor people to return to their parish of birth or habitual residence within 40 days of this act. Parishes were to be responsible for supporting their native-born paupers or those who had been habitually resident there for seven years, and were to draw up rolls of the poor. Aged paupers could be put to work, and punished if they refused. Children of beggars aged between 5 and 14 could be taken into service until the age of 24 for boys or 18 for girls, and could be punished if they absconded.

An Act of 1597 on “Strang beggaris, vagaboundis and Egiptians” explicitly transferred responsibility for poor relief to Kirk Sessions. The 1649 Act anent the poore introduced a stent or assessment on the heritors of each parish to pay for poor relief.

The 1672 Act for establishing correction-houses for idle beggars and vagabonds ordered the opening of 
correction-houses for receaving and intertaining of the beggars, vagabonds and idle persones within their burghs, and such as shall be sent to them out of the shires and bounds aftir specified
in Edinburgh, Haddington, Duns, Jedburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, Glasgow, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Ayr, Dumbarton, Rothesay, Paisley, Stirling, Culross, Perth, Montrose, Aberdeen, Inverness, Elgin, Inveraray, St Andrews, Cupar, Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline, Banff, Dundee, Dornoch, Wick and Kirkwall.

By the time the Commission of Enquiry was set up, it was clear that provision was inadequate. The Commission’s exhaustive report (nearly 6000 pages in total, including evidence; even the index is 300 pages long!) made a series of recommendations:
  • Establishing a Board of Supervision to monitor implementation of the Act
  • Appointing a Parochial Board in all 880 parishes, with responsibility for implementing the Act, and deciding whether to raise funds voluntarily or through a compulsory assessment
  • Each Parochial Board would appoint an Inspector of the Poor to examine all applications for relief
  • Poor relief should be limited to the sick or destitute, and should not be given to the able-bodied poor
  • Parishes could combine to form Combinations to administer relief
  • Poorhouses could be founded by parishes or combinations of parishes with a population of more than 5,000
These recommendations were enacted by the 1845 Act for The Amendment and better Administration of the Laws Relating to the relief of the Poor in Scotland, ​more commonly known as the Poor Law (Scotland) Act. From this point on, poor relief was at least theoretically in the hands of civic rather than ecclesiastical authorities. However, Section 22 of the 1845 Act stipulated that:
​in every such Parish as aforesaid in which the Funds requisite for the Relief of the Poor shall be provided without Assessment the Parochial Board shall consist of the Persons who, if this Act had not been passed, would have been entitled to administer the Laws for the Relief of the Poor in such Parish; and in every such Parish as aforesaid in which it shall have been resolved, as herein-after provided, to raise the Funds requisite for the Relief of the Poor by Assessment, the Parochial Board shall consist of the Owners of Lands and Heritages of the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds and upwards, and of the Provost and Bailies of any Royal Burgh, if any, in such Parish, and of the Kirk Session of such Parish, and of such Number of elected Members, to be elected in manner after mentioned, as shall be fixed by the Board of Supervision
This meant that where a mandatory assessment was used to raise funds for poor relief, the Kirk Session no longer controlled the system, although it was still entitled to appoint up to six members of the Parochial Board. When the Act entered into force, 230 of 880 parishes were subject to statutory assessment. Within a year, that almost doubled to 448 (compared to 432 using voluntary contributions). By 1853, 680 parishes were using statutory assessments, compared to just 202 relying on voluntary contributions. The number of parishes relying on voluntary contributions continued to decline steadily, with only 108 doing so in 1865, and just 51 by 1890.

For genealogists, the implications are clear: after 1845, records of the poor will mostly be found among local government records, mostly held in local council archives around the country. That said, there are significant post-1845 poor records found among the Kirk Session records, not least because as we have seen, in many cases responsibility for poor relief remained with Kirk Sessions long after the Poor Law was enacted.

However, the records of the Board of Supervision, being a national body, are held at the National Records of Scotland. One of the responsibilities of the Board of Supervision was to hear appeals against inadequate relief. These appeals are an excellent source for family history – they will tell you much about the individuals, as well as their families. They often include medical reports, information on the earnings of applicants and their families, names and details of children and the like.

Before 1845, records of poor relief are more often with Kirk Session records. We saw in a previous post how it was possible to trace individual paupers in for instance Kirk Session accounts and other church records. Some of these records can provide excellent detail - we've seen examples of church poor relief records giving names, relationships, occupations, details of payment in kind, poor children being lodged out with other families and so on. They can be therefore be an excellent source for family historians, and should not be neglected.

We are currently working on a national index to a particular set of Poor Law records from 1845 to 1894, which we plan to release later this year.
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O is for Obituaries and old age

18/4/2016

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Two days ago, I wrote about death (in the guise of mortcloths), and yesterday's blog was about newspapers. So I thought I'd continue with a morbid approach to blogging by writing about obituaries. Obituaries have a long tradition, and most newspapers have at the very least carried what is often jocularly referred to as Hatches, matches and dispatches (Births, marriages and deaths).

In historic Scottish newspapers, these notices are usually fairly brief, and generally only mention the great and the good - either national figures, or prominent local figures. Ordinary people usually didn't get a look in. One instance in which ordinary people would be mentioned was if they lived to a ripe old age. Even today, centenarians are relatively uncommon, but in the 19th century, they were sufficiently rare as to be reported in newspapers often far removed from where they lived.

Our first centenarian is Isobel Taylor or Alice/Ellis, whose death was reported in 1818:
Died in Old Assembly Close on 23d ult, Mrs Isobel Taylor, aged 105. She was born in the parish of Crieff, county of Perth, on the 4th of March 1713, in the reign of Queen Anne. Her memory remained nearly unimpaired, and she would converse on the events of 100 years since, with surprising correctness. Her hearing and sight were good to the last day of her life, and her recollection continued till within an hour of her death.

​Aberdeen Journal, 6 May 1818 p. 4
Old Widow Ellis was a well-known figure in Edinburgh, sufficiently so that the celebrated caricaturist John Kay (about whom we've written before) produced a caricature of her:
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Old Widow Ellis
This print was taken from a painting by Mr William Donaldson of this city, by whom it was exhibited and sold to the late Earl of Buchan. From a card, in the hand-writing of his lordship, we observe in addition to the information conveyed by the inscription on the Engraving, that Widow Ellis was married in 1745 to Francis Ellis, shoemaker in Keltie, Kinross-shire, who died next year of an iliac passion.

At the time the portrait was executed (December 1816), Widow Ellis lived in Rose Street, where she had resided for many years. The particulars of her life are few and uninteresting. She was a sensible, shrewd person; had been active in her youth, and retained even in old age an unusual degree of freshness and vigour.

​Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. Edinburgh, 1877. New Edition. p. 154
Our next centenarian, Thomas Adamson, was a weaver from Pittenweem. Unsurprisingly, his death was reported in the Fife newspapers:
​Pittenweem. Longevity. Thomas Adamson, weaver in Pittenweem, died on Saturday week at the advanced age of one hundred years, five months, and two days; having been born on the 1st of May 1746. Throughout the whole course of his lengthened pilgrimage, Thomas was never peculiarly distinguished as an instrument by whom the simple denizens of earth were excited to wonder or admiration. In the literary world, he was only characterised by the “noiseless tenor of his way”. In the commercial world, by means of his industrial apparatus, he made as much noise as any other wabster of the last century. In the political world, he was merely a silent observer of the election hubbubs, for which his burgh was so eminently distinguished in days of yore, having never been invested with the franchise, either under the old or new system. In the religious department of society, he created considerable stir and noise, having for many long years occupied the precentor’s desk in the Old Kirk, where he conducted the sacred music, and gave the people line upon line according to the fashion of the good old time. In this he always aided the devotion of the sincere, and sometimes supplied fuel to the fire of waggery that through all ages has been found smouldering even in the kirk itself. Through all the vissicitudes [sic] of the commercial horizon to which this nation has been subjected, Thomas managed to rear a numerous family, and keep himself beyond the pale of starvation by tossing the shuttle, harmonising the kirk, and polishing the cheeks and chins of his fellow mortals who could not perform that duty for themselves. Being a member of a respectable society in Pittenweem, called the Trades’ Box, he in his latter years derived much benefit from the funds thereof, when the infirmities of age began to cramp his energies. We are not aware, now that Thomas has departed from the stage of time, that he has left his equal in age on this coast.
Fife Herald 15 October 1846 p. 3
His death was also reported further afield in Dundee:
​Death of Thomas Adamson, the patriarch of Pittenweem - This event took place on Saturday morning last, October 3, at ten o'clock. He was born on the 1st of May, 1746, and on the 1st of May last, had completed the extraordinary long life of one hundred years. Mr Adamson was a weaver, and continued to ply the shuttle until within a very few years back. He was what most long livers are, an early riser; six o'clock scarcely ever found him in bed; he was generally up and at work by five. He had a strong clear voice, and was for many years precentor in the parish church. He had a perfect recollection of seeing Paul Jones sail past Pittenweem, on his way to Leith, about 70 years ago, and of the tempest which providentially arose and drove the pirate out of the Firth. He never was what may be called really sick, and never complained of a head-ache. For the last six months he was confined to bed, but felt no pain or sickness. He retained his senses to nearly the last day of his life, and during harvest he was every day inquiring about how far the different farmers had got in their crops. The failure in the potato crop gave him much uneasiness. During the whole of his long life, he was only three weeks absent from Pittenweem. His fortune was not chequered with ups and downs; he always continued to plod away at work. Perhaps the most remarkable event in his whole life was the meeting which was held in the Town Hall on the 1st of May last, in commemoration of his having on that day completed his hundredth year. His body was laid in Pittenweem Church-yard on Wednesday last, and the attendance at his funeral was numerous and respectable.
Dundee Courier 20 October 1846
The Dundee obituary adds a few more details, such as his recollection of seeing John Paul Jones and his flotilla in the Firth of Forth (this would have been in August 1779), and the fact that he'd only spent three weeks out of Pittenweem in his entire life. This obituary - possibly reprinted from one of the other Fife papers - was reproduced more or less verbatim in M F Conolly's Supplement to his Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife some twenty years later.

Our third centenarian was the daughter of a soldier, apparently born in Edinburgh Castle. Her death was reported in Dumfries, where she'd lived most of her life:
At Maxwelltown, on the night of Sabbath last, Catherine M’Donald or Hutchison, at the extraordinary age of one hundred and four years. She was born in the castle of Edinburgh early in the ’45, a year memorable for the last attempt of the Stuart family to regain the throne which they had so long tilled. Her father, a private soldier, was stationed in the garrison at the time, and being ordered to repair to Dumfries, brought his daughter along with him. Soon after her father obtained his discharge, and with his wife and child settled in the Brig-end, and thus became one of the early colonists of the now thriving burgh of Maxwelltown. Here Catherine, best known as Mattie Hutchison, resided as girl, wife, and widow, for a hundred and three years, during which she lived under seven British Sovereigns. Through her long life she conducted herself with propriety, and showed great respect for the ordinances of religion. She was somewhat eccentric in her manners, and her dress to the last was of the primitive cut, fashionable eighty or ninety years ago. She was a little deaf, but with this exception, retained the full use of her faculties up till the day of her death. She was a widow for thirty years, and had one son, who died a few years before her. Latterly she was partly dependent for her support upon parish aid, but the path of life’s decline was smoothed by the benevolence of several charitable ladies, who were very attentive to the grateful centenarian.

​Dumfries and Galloway Standard 24 May 1848 p. 4
Once again, her age was considered sufficiently newsworthy to be reported further afield, this time in Dundee:
Death of a centenarian - On Sunday night last, Catherine M'Donald or Hutchison, residing in Corbelly Hill, Maxwelltown, departed this life, in the one hundred and fourth year of her age. She was born in Edinburgh Castle in the early part of 1745, when her father, a private soldier, was stationed with his regiment. Part of the force was ordered to Dumfries at the time of its occupation by Prince Charles Stuart in the ill-fated rebellion of the '45. Catherine, then a child at the breast, was brought by her parents to this town, and her father, having obtained his discharge, settled at the Brig-end, in which, now become the burgh of Maxwelltown, she has resided, girl and woman, for fully one hundred and three years. She wore her dress in the same fashion which prevailed when she was a young woman, and indeed, in all things was a thorough Conservative. With the exception of a slight deafness she preserved her faculties unclouded to the very last. Dumfries Herald.
Reprinted in the Dundee Courier 14 Jun 1848
Catherine appears to have had two children with her husband William Hutchison - Martha baptised 8 August 1784, and Thomas baptised 2 July 1787, both in Troqueer parish. The first obituary suggested she had been at least partly dependent on support from the parish. A quick look at the 1841 census for Troqueer shows Catherine living at Corberry Hill aged 100, where she is described as a pauper.

​Records of some of the payments from the parish that Catherine received are recorded in the Troqueer Kirk Session Accounts (NRS Reference CH2/1036/20):
Date Name Amount Page
Feb 3 1817 Widow Hutcheson 4s 68
May 1 1817 Widow Hutcheson 4s 70
Aug 4 1817 Widow Hutcheson 4s 73
Nov 9 1817 Widow Hutcheson 6s 75
Jan 4 1818 Widow Hutcheson 5s 77
Feb 2 1818 Widow Hutcheson 8s 79
May 4 1818 Widow Hutcheson 7s 82
Aug 3 1818 Widow Hutcheson 8s 85
Aug 6 1821 Widow Hutcheson 5s 125
Feb 4 1822 Widow Hutcheson 6s 134
Apr 29 1822 Widow Hutcheson 5s 137
Aug 5 1822 Widow Hutcheson 5s 140
Nov 2 1822 Widow Hutcheson 5s 144
Dec 30 1822 Widow Hutcheson 4s 147
Feb 3 1823 Widow Hutcheson 5s 150
May 2 1823 Widow Hutcheson 5s 153
Our final centenarian was evidently another local character in Edinburgh. His death was recorded in the Caledonian Mercury:
On the 16th current, in the Old Fleshmarket Close, Canongate, William Wilson, commonly called Mortar Willie, at the advanced age of 106 years. He was taken from the plough in the rebellion of 1745, to serve in the Royal army, where he remained for several years. After being on the Continent he came home to this country, where he has since been employed in the capacity of druggist-man, 40 years of that time in this town. He has left an infirm old widow, aged 73, to whom he has been married 50 years, in very poor circumstances.

​Caledonian Mercury, 31 July 1815 p. 3
Mortar Willie's death was widely reported - in the Scots Magazine, in The Examiner, printed in London, and even in the Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser on August 10. He was also described in Kay's Portraits:
William Wilson, or Mortar Willie
This venerable personage was a native of Perthshire, and born in 1709, to use his own words, “within a bow shot of Castle Huntly”, parish of Longforgan. The first thirty years of his life were devoted to agricultural employment. He then enlisted, fought against the Pretender, and afterwards served for nineteen years in the army – the greater portion of which was spent in the German and American wars. (1) After obtaining his discharge, he wrought for nearly twenty years in a bark mill in the neighbourhood of London.

About 1778 he returned to his native country, and settling in Edinburgh, found employment in the capacity described in the Print. He was a long time in the establishment of Dr Burt of this city, who generously continued to pay him his usual allowance of two shillings daily for his labour, after he had attained the long age of a hundred years, and although unable to work more than a small portion of the day. Willie was gratefully sensible of the Doctor’s kindness in this respect – “Eh, man,” he would remark, on occasions when he had done little, “ye’ve got a bad bargain the day.” He was remarkably honest and attentive. He occasionally nursed the children; and as he sat by the fire, used to tell them amusing stories. He always rose about four in the morning; and, at this early hour, seldom failed to rouse the domestics of his employer, in order to gain admission to the laboratory. He lived in the Old Hard-Well Close, Canongate, where he died on the 16th July 1815, in the hundred and sixth year of his age. It is supposed that, but for a hurt he received by a fall, he might have lived several years longer. He left an infirm old widow, aged seventy-three, in very poor circumstances, to whom he had been married fifty years.

(1) He was for many years servant to Lord John Murray, eldest son of the Duke of Atholl, who in 1745 was appointed Colonel of the 42d Highlanders, and fought at the battle of Fontenoy.
(2) He had previously been in the employ of Mrs Macdonald, who kept a laboratory shop in the Lawnmarket, with whom Dr Burt served his apprenticeship, and to whose business he afterwards succeeded. Indeed the labours of Mortar Willie were not confined to one or two employers, his important services having been rendered, at various periods, to almost every drug establishment of any extent in town.

​​Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. Edinburgh, 1877. New Edition. p. 101
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N is for newspapers

16/4/2016

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Strictly speaking, there is a difference between genealogy and family history. Genealogy is the study of ancestry, of biological relationships. Family history on the other hand is about people, and their stories. One of the best sources for family history stories is historical newspapers.

The first newspaper is generally considered to be the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien produced in Strasbourg in 1605. It was another 55 years before the appearance of the first Scottish newspaper, the Mercurius Caledonius, although it only ran for 12 issues before closing in 1661. Newspaper production really took off in Scotland in the 18th century with the first appearance of the Edinburgh Courant in February 1705. Newspapers have continued in Scotland since then.

The oldest daily newspaper in Scotland still in print is the Press and Journal, originally published as a weekly newspaper under the name of the Aberdeen Journal in 1748. The name is perhaps slightly misleading, as it always covered national and international news, albeit with a strong local element. While newspapers may sometimes be useful for genealogy, they are often much more useful for family history.

In the Aberdeen Journal of 21 July 1800 is the following short, but horrific, story:
​We hear from Buchan, that on Sunday the 29th ult. Margaret Keith, in Auchtydonald, was barbarously murdered. She was seen that morning with a man to whom she was supposed with child, who decoyed her to the river Ugie, and threw her in. she was scrambling to the other side, when the villain went across by a small bridge a little higher up, and ere she could reach the brink, he knocked her on the head by repeated blows of a bludgeon, when she sunk and perished. The murderer immediately absconded.
[Aberdeen Journal 21 July 1800, p. 4]
The next issue of the Journal contained the following, to modern readers rather bizarre, poem, entitled "​On the melancholy death of Margaret Keith, a widow in Auchtydonald in the parish of Longside, who was barbarously murdered on Sunday, 29th June, 1800"
​O’er scenes of woe, where common griefs prevail
Where pity melts at sorrow’s mournful tale
Death’s solemn call in peaceful hope obey’d
No law transfress’d, no innocence betray’d
Oft has the muse pour’d forth her doleful lay
And wept the just effects of Heaven’s dread sway.
And shall no muse be found to wield the rod
And vindicate the injured laws of God?
No friend of truth to scan the murd’rous mind
And rouse the virtuous feelings of manking?
O say, thou impious wretch! What fiend posses’d?
What dire delusion steel’d thy hard’n’d breast?
Hadst thou no fear of God, no fell remorse
No dread of angry Heaven’s avenging curse?
No thought of that blest day – the first of seven
Ordain’d to life the souls of men to heaven?
Could nought awake thee, nought make thee relent
Or lay aside thy murderous intent?
No – nought avail’d, thy hardy soul enchain’d
Fix’d in its purpose to the last remain’d.
That sacred day, when mortals find release
And leave their toils to seek th’ Almighty’s peace
On that blest day the impious deed was done;
No covert sought, but brav’d the mid-day sun;
When all the neighbours to God’s house repair
And pour out all their souls in fervent prayer;
In pious adoration bend the knee
And leave the world to Satan and to thee.
Methinks I see thee bold, yet still afraid
Through all thy mien, thy purposes betray’d:
Now hurrying rapid on, now moving slow
As thy just fears impel thy feet to go;
On ev’ry hand thy guilt creates a spy
And dread detection trembles in each eye;
Till all the threat’ning ddangers having pass’d
And all thy guilty fears dismiss’d at last
Th’ infernal worker gives the needful aid
And crowns th’ intent his own devices laid.
But see the guileless object of thy hate
The hapless victim of a dreadful fate!
See her advance in homely, trustie guise
Thoughtless of aught thy malice might devise;
Perhaps deluded by some tale of love
Perhaps some proffer’d marriage vow to prove;
Mean was the conquest o’er such poor defence;
Unguarded, easy, heedless, see her come
With careless step, to meet her certain doom.
Perhaps no time allow’d, no respite given
No power to use the trembling lungs beneath
See her resisting, struggling hard for breath
And striving oft to shun the double death;
Till faint and languid in th’ unequal strife
She courts thy strangling grasp, scarce feeling life
And from that fatal brink where late she stood
Is thrown resistless sinking in the flood.
Yet she revives, and panting seeks the shore
And rears her head, thy mercy to implore;
Mercy, a boon thy ruthless soul deny’d.
Again, she plunges in th’ o’erwhelming tide.
Thy ready bludgeon ply’d with brutal force
In deepest gulph to sink the hated corse.
But say, what first impell’d thee? What the train
That brough thee under this relentless chain?
Where was thy manhood, where thy better sense
What the temptation to this foul offence?
Thy feelings though couldst not at once forego
And be the thoughtless worker of such woe.
No – thou hadst motives, motives worth such fruit
Motives, of all our ills the baneful root;
False pride, false shame, a sordid love of self
Fear of abridging thy well hoarded self
These were thy guides, these urg’d thee to conceal
By this black deed, what time would soon reveal;
These steel’d thy breast, and in the fatal hour
Mark’d thee a proper tool for hell’s dark power;
Crush’d all thy tender feelings, left thee blind
To every nobler impulse of the mind;
To all th’ inhuman guilt, the monstrous shame
The horrid action would in end proclaim;
A woman murder’d in deliberate mood
Thy savage hands imbru’d in human blood!
No provocation given, no passion try’d
But ineffective, merk, the victim died!
A mother too! A widow! Once the ward
Of manly feeling, virtuous regard;
A widow, reft of her protector’s arm
To shield her breast from ev’ry dire alarm;
A mother torn from all her wedded joy
Two little daughters and a smiling boy;
Torn from her house, her home by guileful art
Of unprepared for death to feel the smart;
Sent to her last account in trembling dread
With all her imperfections on her head.
Here, let us pause, and drop a silent tear
O’er this poor widow’s sad untimely bier
And hope, that mercy she from God will gain
Which, from relentless man, she fought in vain.
Her infants, may th’ Almighty shield from ill
And bend their tender hearts to do his will;
Preserve them in his ways till life be o’er
Then take them to himself to die no more.
And thou, ill-fated man! Whose impious deed
Has made each heart on Ugie’s banks to bleed;
If doom’d a wanderer o’er the world to roam
And ne’er in peace to hail thy native home
Thy greatest, only curse, O! May it be
In blackest dye thy heinous guilt to see;
The pangs of deep remorse still mayst thou know
And let thy conscience be thy greatest foe;
That, if no earthly doom thy crimes await
Thou may’st in wringing sorrow expiate;
With contrite heart thy Savior’s wrath remove
And flee the vengeful judgment from above.
And let the tale to youth this rule convey
To shun th’ approach of sin’s imperious sway.
From flight beginnings, mighty crimes arise
And little faults indulg’d, inure to vice;
The lesser sins, the greater always claim
To ease the anguish, and to hide the shame.
This awful truth the horrid tale declares
And youthful minds for wisdom’s paths prepares
Shewing in sin the progress of disgrace
And of forbidden roads the rapid downward pace.
[Aberdeen Journal 28 July 1800 p. 2]
Newspapers not infrequently published poems from their readers, although this particular example is longer and a little more morbid than most. But as well as news, newspapers carried adverts to cover their costs. The next issue of the Aberdeen Journal carried the following:
​A Reward Offered
Whereas, upon Sunday the 29th day of June last, Margaret Keith, in Auchtydonald, was barbarously assaulted and drowned in the Water of Ugie, where her body was afterwards found – and whereas, there is the strongest reason to suspect, from some investigation already made, that this most atrocious deed was committed by JAMES CARLE, in Auchtydonald, who has absconded and fled from justice; these are offering a REWARD of TEN GUINEAS, to be paid by Chares Keith, in Pitcow of Kininmonth, to any person who will give such information to William Burnett, advocate in Aberdeen, procurator fiscal for the county, as may enable him to cause apprehend and incarcerate the said James Carle in the tolbooth of Aberdeen – or to any person whatever, who will procure the said James Carle to be confined within any jail in Scotland, upon intimation thereof being given to the said William Burnett.

​The said JAMES CARLE is by trade a weaver, aged 30 years or thereby, about 5 feet 8 inches high, stout made, has duskish hair, grey eyes, a sour look, and a swelling on one side of his neck. He left the part of the country where he resided, upon the 3d day of July last, and is said to have passed through the town of Aberdeen. He usually wore, when dressed, a dark green coat and a hat.
August 2, 1800.
[Aberdeen Journal 4 August 1800 p. 1]
Clearly the advert had the desired effect, because 4 weeks later, we can read the following:
Aberdeen
On Wednesday last, James Carle, who was lately advertised on suspicion of the murder of Margaret Keith, Auchtydonald, was brought into prison here.
[Aberdeen Journal 1 September 1800 p. 4]
Three weeks later, the Journal reports - disappointingly briefly - on the trial before the Circuit Court
​Aberdeen
On Saturday morning, the Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here by Lords Craig and Armadale, with the trial of James Carle, accused of the murder of Margaret Keith in Achtydonald. The trial lasted till near 7 in the evening, when the jury inclosed, and are to return their verdict this morning at ten o’clock.
[Aberdeen Journal 22 September 1800 p. 4]
The next issue is even more sparing with regards to the verdict:
Aberdeen
On Monday Morning, the Circuit Court received the verdict of the jury, on James Carl, unanimously finding the libel not proven, on which he was dismissed from the bar.
[Aberdeen Journal 29 September 1800 p. 4]
The same issue also includes an appeal for the three orphan children of the victim, Margaret Keith.
​It having been suggested, that a small fund should be established for the future support of the THREE ORPHAN CHILDREN of the late Margaret Keith, in Auchtydonald, who was recently found murdered in the Water of Ugie – the smallest sum, for this purpose, will be thankfully received at Mr Ewen’s, Castlestreet.
[Aberdeen Journal 29 September 1800 p. 4]
We have some more details of the case, courtesy of James Bruce in his Black Kalendar of Aberdeen published in 1840:
​James Carle
On a Sunday morning, towards the end of June, another barbarous murder, equalling in atrocity that of Elspet Imlach, was committed at Auchtydonald, in Banffshire. Margaret Keith, a widow, living there with her children, had been courted by a man called James Carle, a weaver, to whom, at the time, she was supposed to be with child. Her body was found in the river Ugie. She had been decoyed out of her house on that Sunday morning, and had walked with Carle to the banks of the river, when he seized her, and threw her into the water. The poor creature contrived to scramble to the other bank, when her inhuman murderer seeing her likely to escape, ran up the side of the water, and having crossed it by a bridge, came again on his victim, and, as she was struggling in the water, gave her several blows on the head till she sunk and perished. Carle absconded, but in July following, he was committed to jail in Aberdeen on suspicion of the murder, and was tried at the September Circuit. Mr Gordon of Craig was counsel for the prisoner. We understand that Carle was not identified completely to the satisfaction of the Jury, who brought in a verdict of Not Proven. The evidence was in substance, that, on the Sunday morning, the woman was enticed out of her house by Carle; this fact was proved by the evidence of her children. Her body was afterwards found in the Ugie. A lad, who was keeping sheep on a hill, saw a man, whom he could not identify at the distance, struggling to keep something down in the water, but he did not pay much attention to this, as he thought that it was a person drowning a dog. The verdict of the Jury was unanimous, but, we believe, that it did not give satisfaction to the public at the time.
[Black Kalendar of Aberdeen, [by James Bruce]. Aberdeen, 1845. p. 182-183]
Of course not all newspaper stories will be so dramatic, or tragic. The same issue of the Aberdeen Journal that carried the long reader's poem about this terrible murder, also contained the following snippet:
Marriage – At Fintray the 21st cur. Ann Ferguson, after a courtship of ten days, presented herself before the Altar of Hymen, and gave her hand to Robert Porter. The age of this venerable and happy pair amounts to about 150 years. So large was the company who honoured them with their presence, that it was judged expedient for the clergyman to perform the ceremony in the Grand Temple of Nature. That the scene of festivity might not be too soon interrupted by Sunday, the marriage was solemnized on Monday afternoon. In the evening there was an elegant ball, attended by many Ladies of the first rank in that corner of the country. From one family were present no fewer than 30 persons. An assembly so numerous, so chearful, and so elegant, has not been remembered at Fintray for 50 years past.
[Aberdeen Journal, 28 July 1800 p. 4]
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M is for Mortcloth, Money and Morbidity

15/4/2016

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As a genealogist I've long identified with Haley Joel Osment's famous line in the film The Sixth Sense: "I see dead people". To non-genealogists, family historians can sometimes seem obsessed with death. Death comes to us all, in the end, and ultimately much of genealogy involves not seeing but researching dead people. Friends and family have come to accept that I can't pass a graveyard without wanting to pop in for a quick - or not so quick - look around.

Of course, most of our ancestors are dead, and as genealogists we want to know when they met their end. In Scotland there has been a legal requirement since 1855 to register all deaths, and statutory registers of death are excellent sources for family historians. In most cases, they record the name of the deceased, their spouse(s) if any, their parents, the cause of death and so on. Before 1855, however, the records are less helpful.

There are gravestones, tangible reminders of the existence of our ancestors. Many graveyards have been recorded by enthusiasts and their inscriptions published (usually referred to as Monumental Inscriptions or MIs). More recently, the rise of digital photography has made collections of photographs of gravestones popular. But not everybody could afford a gravestone, and not all gravestones survive in a legible condition.

A few years ago, Scotland's People made available the burials recorded in the Old Parish Registers (OPRs). These are a great resource, but they are far from complete. There are some OPR burials for around two-thirds of Church of Scotland parishes, but in some cases there are very few burials recorded - there are only two for Fearn in Angus, and only nine for Galston in Ayr.

So if there is no gravestone, and no OPR burial, does that mean we can't find out when our ancestor died? Not necessarily. There is another type of record that can help: mortcloth accounts.

A mortcloth (from the Latin mors meaning death) was a ceremonial cloth draped over a coffin (or a corpse if the family could not afford a coffin) at a funeral. Most families didn't have their own mortcloths - not unreasonable when you consider that any one person only needs it once! - instead hiring them for the occasion. In burghs, the individual trades might have their own mortcloths which were lent to members for the occasion. But in most cases, mortcloths were available to hire from the Kirk Sessions.

In many cases, the Kirk Sessions owned more than one mortcloth - smaller ones for children, or more elaborate ones for a higher fee. (Even in death, not everyone was equal.) The money raised from renting out the mortcloth was generally used for poor relief, and as a result, the Sessions often kept good records of payments received. While they may not necessarily contain a great amount of detail, mortcloth accounts may be the only way to identify when an ancestor died. (See for instance Aberlady accounts 1826-1846, Forgandenny minutes 1783-1836 and Dalmeny Accounts 1736-1779.) They should however be treated with a degree of caution, as the date recorded for payment may be some time after the death and funeral. ​

We've extracted some entries from Dalmeny [NRS Reference CH2/86/8 p. 294-295] below.
Account of Mortcloth money for Dalmeny parish
Aprill 15th 1751 Thomas Ponton the best large cloath £3
26th Isabel Miller a child the best little cloath £1 16s
May 1st William Smith the best large cloath £3
25th James Livinston the best cloath £3
26th Mrs Borthwick the best large cloath £4 16s
27th Hellen Anderson the best large cloath £3
31st Mrs Wilkie the best large cloath £3
August 24th John Riddel the best little cloath £1 16s
Septr 19th Alexdr Ponton the best large cloath £3
Decr 28 James Hamilton the best large cloath £3
Janry 20th 1752 Anna Ramsy a child the best little cloath £1 16s
22d Robert Lang the best large cloath £3
Febry 1st Adam Mcauly the best large cloath £3
11th Helen Kay the best large cloath £3
28th William Broun the best large cloath £3
Idem Janet Page the Sexton's large cloath £2
Aprill 15th Christian Henderson a child the best little cloath £2 8s
26th Anna Bunton the best large cloath £3
June 15th Janet Thomson the best large cloath £3
August 15th William Hill the best large cloath £3
Octr 9th Isabel Lourie the best large cloath £3
Novr 16th Alexander Mcauly the best large cloath £3
Decr 23d Janet Bruce the second large cloath £2
23d Susan Ross the best large cloath £3
23d Walter Miller the best large cloath £3
January 22d 1753 Agnes Parish the best large cloath £3
Febry 2d Christian Riddell the best large cloath £3
3d Walter Ponton a child the best little cloath £1 16s
14th Ninian Forrest the best large cloath £3
March 13th Hugh Steuart the second little cloath £1
15th Alexander Mcally a child the best little cloath £1 16s
17th Isabell Miller a child the best little cloath £1 16s
April 3d John Mure the second large cloath £2
15th a child of John Morrisons the second little cloath £1
25th George Ponton a child the best little cloath £1 16s
May 7th Walter Gogar the best large cloath & bigg Bell £4
Octr 15 Gilbert Candlemass the best large cloath £3
Novr 21 Marjory Prap the best large cloath £3
Decr 18 William Anderson the best large cloath £3
March 30th Jean Shade the best large cloath £3
Aprill 29 a child of Thomas Anderson's the best little cloath £1 16s
April 30th James Forrest the best large cloath £3
June 11th Isobel Collin the best little cloath £1 16s
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L is for Lookups

14/4/2016

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​A couple of months ago, while doing some eighteenth-century research for a client in the Carrington Kirk Session records, I came across a much later letter which had evidently been bound in with the accounts at a later date:
[Blind-stamped address]
Vogrie
Gorebridge, N[orth] B[ritain]
Aug 27th 1902

Dear Sir

I understand that a register of the Kirk discipline of Carrington is in existence dating from 1653 also Minutes of the Kirk Session of Carrington from 1695 to 1698,

I do not know whether they will be in your possession or not but if they are I should be greatly obliged if you would be so kind as to examine them & let me whether they contain any references to Dewar. My G. G. G. G. grandfather resided in the parish & his 2nd marriage is duly noted in the Register of Baptisms & Marriages under date 1658.

He died in 1699 & is buried at Carrington. The period I should like the two registers examined is from 1653 to 1699.

Very truly yours

J Cumming Dewar
​In a different hand – seemingly that of William Granville Core, minister of Carrington, who at this time was also acting as session clerk for the parish – the following two entries are extracted:
1695 Febry 10 Received from James Dewar in Capilaw & his wife being th[ei]r collection for the building of Kinkell harbour 7 shillings by reason they were not here the day if was gathered.
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1696 April 26 This day given in by Wm Cunningham as he & Robt Tait had received it from Sir John Ramsay of Whitehill & James Dewar in Capilaw £2-10 as their collection for the harbour of Queensferrie.
This is an example of what is known in genealogy circles as a lookup – a request for somebody to inspect a particular record set and to report back any entries that match the requester’s requirements. Instances are scattered throughout the Kirk Session records. There was a particular flurry of them following the enactment of the Old Age Pensions Act 1908, which for the first time granted the right to a pension to people aged 70 and over. Claimants had to prove their age, and often this would involve the pensions committee contacting the parish of birth to request confirmation of the information provided by applicants. Diligent clerks in some parishes incorporated copies of these lookup requests into the original Kirk Session records, sometimes providing useful information about what happened to parishioners.

Occasionally you will come across a request from someone researching their ancestry. We also recently found a letter to the session clerk of Dumbarton requesting a lookup about the writer’s grandfather, who was born in 1854. The letter was sent from Tasmania in 1973 – a fantastic discovery if you happen to be researching Robert Brown Ballantyne.
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In the modern age, however, you don’t have to find the name and address of the parish clerk, send off a speculative letter and wait for a response by post, which might never come. (It would seem Robert Brown Ballantyne’s grand-daughter may never have received a reply, as her international reply coupon is included with her letter in the Dumbarton records!). We have recently launched a service offering lookups in Kirk Session records for a very affordable price, which we are gradually rolling out across the whole of Scotland. Those parishes currently available are shown below. If you don’t see the parish you’re interested in listed, let us know and we’ll have a look for you.
Lookup parishes currently available
Parish County NRS Reference
Aberdeen St Nicholas Aberdeenshire CH2/2
Aberdour Fife CH2/3
Aberlady East Lothian CH2/4
Alford Aberdeenshire CH2/9
Alva Stirlingshire CH2/10
Alves Morayshire CH2/11
Anwoth Kirkcudbrightshire CH2/14
Arbuthnott Kincardinshire CH2/16
Athelstaneford East Lothian CH2/18
Auchtergaven Perthshire CH2/22
Ayton Berwickshire CH2/26
Beith Ayrshire CH2/31
Bolton East Lothian CH2/37
Cambusnethan Lanarkshire CH2/48
Canisbay Caithness CH2/52
Carmichael Lanarkshire CH2/57
Carmunnock Lanarkshire CH2/58
Carnock Fife CH2/59
Carriden West Lothian CH2/61
Carrington Midlothian CH2/62
Carstairs Lanarkshire CH2/63
Castleton Roxburghshire CH2/64
Ceres Fife CH2/65
Cleish Kinross-shire CH2/67
Coldingham Berwickshire CH2/69
Colinton Edinburgh CH2/123
Corstorphine Edinburgh CH2/124
Coull Aberdeenshire CH2/71
Craigie Ayrshire CH2/73
Cranstoun Midlothian CH2/74
Crichton Midlothian CH2/75
Culross Abbey Perthshire CH2/77
Cumbernauld St Ninian's Dunbartonshire CH2/79
Cumbrae Bute CH2/80
Currie Midlothian CH2/83
Dalkeith St Nicholas Midlothian CH2/84
Dalmellington Ayrshire CH2/85
Dalmeny West Lothian CH2/86
Dalrymple Ayrshire CH2/87
Dalton Dumfriesshire CH2/88
Delting Shetland CH2/90
Deskford Banffshire CH2/91
Dron Perthshire CH2/93
Drumblade Aberdeenshire CH2/94
Drumelzier Peeblesshire CH2/95
Duddingston Edinburgh CH2/125
Dumbarton Dunbartonshire CH2/97
Dunbarney Perthshire CH2/100
Dunblane Perthshire CH2/101
Dunbog Fife CH2/102
Dundonald Ayrshire CH2/104
Dunkeld Perthshire CH2/749
Dunnichen Angus CH2/108
Dunnottar Kincardinshire CH2/110
Dunrossness & Fair Isle Shetland CH2/112
Dunscore Dumfriesshire CH2/114
Dyce Aberdeenshire CH2/117
Dysart Fife CH2/390
Eastwood Renfrewshire CH2/119
Edinburgh Greyfriars Edinburgh CH2/126
Edinburgh New Street (Canongate) Edinburgh CH2/132
Ellon Aberdeenshire CH2/147
Fettercairn Kincardinshire CH2/152
Forgandenny Perthshire CH2/161
Fossoway Kinross-shire CH2/163
Garvald and Bara East Lothian CH2/167
Glamis Angus CH2/170
Glenelg Inverness-shire CH2/966
Kilmartin Argyll CH2/793
Kilmichael Glassary Argyll CH2/1029
Kilwinning Ayrshire CH2/591
Lethendy and Kinloch Perthshire CH2/240
Little Dunkeld Perthshire CH2/107
Old Cumnock Ayrshire CH2/81
Redgorton Perthshire CH2/883
Riccarton Ayrshire CH2/1014
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K is for Kirk Session

13/4/2016

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The Church of Scotland is a Presbyterian church. Although the term Presbyterian is now often associated with a stern, austere form of Christianity, strictly speaking the term refers to the Church's hierarchical organisational structure. The supreme body of the Church of Scotland is the General Assembly, which meets annually in Edinburgh. The next level down from the General Assembly are the Synods, which are organised on a territorial basis. Synods are further subdivided into Presbyteries (whence the word Presbyterian). Finally, presbyteries are in turn divided into parishes. The parish is the basic unit of church governance.

Each parish had its own governing body, known as the Kirk Session. Each Kirk Session was convened by a Moderator, who in practice was the parish minister. The Session also had a Session Clerk who, in addition to his (until relatively recently, all members of the Kirk Sessions were men) duties as minute taker and record keeper, also had a significant role as an intermediary between the minister and the congregation. Parish schoolmasters often served as Session Clerks to supplement their meagre teaching incomes. The other members of the Kirk Session were the elders, generally chosen by the congregation. Elders were ordained for life, or until they resigned their position (usually through ill health, but occasionally elders were effectively forced out by scandal).

Perhaps the best way to understand the role of Kirk Sessions is to consider them as a combination of court and management body. In some parishes – particularly larger urban parishes – the administrative functions of the Session were hived off to a separate management committee, responsible for such matters as maintaining the church buildings, secular business and the like. Before 1845, and to some extent afterwards, Kirk Sessions were also responsible for provision of support to local paupers – often including members of other denominations – and Kirk Session records contain a great deal of information about payments to poor people. These records can be particularly informative where a dispute arose as to which parish was responsible for supporting paupers. Parishes would often make interim payments to poor people, and then claim the money back from the responsible parish. We will consider Sessions' role in poor relief in a future post.

But perhaps the most useful role of the Kirk Session was its quasi-judicial role. Kirk Sessions were notoriously inquisitive about what were considered sexual improprieties – particularly children born outwith marriage – and records of their interrogations of unmarried mothers are among the most interesting and useful of the Kirk Session records (see for instance here, here and here). Even if your ancestors were not cited to compear before the Session for sexual misdemeanours, they may have been cited as witnesses, or for other “scandals”, such as Sabbath breaking and irregular marriage.

Other records produced by the Kirk Session include Communion Rolls (see here for an example from Kinclaven), accounts (which can include payments for mortcloth hire, which can serve as a substitute where no burial or death registers survive), testificates (the system used when parishioners moved from one parish to another, certifying that they were members of the Church), registers of marriages and baptisms (which continued after the introduction of civil registration of births and marriages in 1855, and as we have seen, can sometimes contain important information not included in the statutory registers), as well as many other records.

Kirk Session records are a fantastic resource for genealogists and family historians. Unfortunately, unlike birth, marriage and death records, they have for the most part not been indexed, and are therefore much harder to access, particularly if you don’t live in Scotland. That is why we have started offering a lookup service, to make them accessible to Scottish genealogists around the world. To see which records we are currently able to lookup, browse our parish pages starting here. If we haven’t yet listed the available records for your parish, let us know and we will be glad to do so.
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J is for Jamaica

12/4/2016

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There have long been links between Scotland and Jamaica. As early as 1656, 1200 prisoners of war were deported to Jamaica by Oliver Cromwell. Later, many Scots migrated to Jamaica in search of their fortune. Famously, Robert Burns was set to sail for Jamaica before the success of the Kilmarnock Edition of his Poems Chiefly in a Scottish Dialect persuaded him to remain in Scotland.

Many Scots became plantation owners and wealthy merchants in Jamaica, frequently based on the exploitation of slaves. Often they would return to Scotland, having made their fortune. Others would leave money to the poor in their home parishes. One such was William Duffes (or Duffus), from Deskford in Banffshire.

The Kirk Session records of Deskford include a list of the recipients of £15 left to the poor of the parish:
​List of the Poor of the Parish of Deskford nominated by the Revd Walter Chalmers Minister of Deskford & George Duffes in Knappycawset in terms of the will to receive the Legacy bequeathed by the late Mr William Duffes of Jamaica 17th November 1826
Christina Huie 4/-
Janet Keir 7/-
Isobel Nicol 8/-
Ann Currie 5/-
Elisabeth Dougal 8/-
Jane Riach 8/-
Margaret Cruickshank 6/-
Girrel Dunbar 6/-
Ann Whyte 7/-
Margt Taylor 7/-
Margt Huie 7/-
Isobel Ingles 8/-
Elspet Duffes 1
Jane Mcintosh 8/-
Isobel Duffes A Duffes' sister 1
John Wright's Relict 6/-
John Milton 8/-
Isobel Duffes 1
Elspet Longmore 5/-
Helen Fraser 9/-
Isobel Smith Craibston 6/-
Elspet Henderson 6/-
James Ritchie 9/-
George Taylor 8/-
Isobel Ross 10/-
James Craib 6/-
Jane Leg 6/-
Isobel Mess 6/-
Jane Ball 6/-
Alexr Wilson 8/-
Elspet Huie 4/-
Andrew Morison 8/-
Isobel Smith Kirktown 10/-
Janet Robertson 10/-
Ann Dawson 8/-
Elspet Keir 8/-
Margt Hunter 4/-
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You can find more information on the records of Deskford - including nearly 700 heads of families from 1834 to 1840 - here.
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I is for Illegitimate

11/4/2016

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Historically, illegitimacy – being born outwith marriage – often carried a great social stigma. It was considered something to be ashamed of – as if somehow the child was responsible for the actions of his or her parents. In my own family, my paternal grandmother was born before her parents were married, a fact that she kept hidden from my dad. She’d even gone to the length of consistently lying about her age to cover her tracks. It wasn't until about ten years after she died that I discovered the truth – much to the amusement of my dad, who had endured years of his mum putting his dad down because his father was illegitimate!
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This social stigma was incorporated in law: the Registration (Scotland) Act 1854 [Link] required that all illegitimate births be marked as such in the original register (a requirement which wasn’t removed until 1919). Section 35 of the Registration (Scotland) Act stated:
​In the Case of an illegitimate Child it shall not be lawful for the Registrar to enter the Name of any Person as the Father of such Child, unless at the joint Request of the Mother and of the Person acknowledging himself to be the Father of such Child, and who shall in such Case sign the Register as Informant along with the Mother
​Consequently, unless the father acknowledged paternity and agreed in person to be registered as the father, it was illegal to record his name in the birth register, with one proviso:
​Provided always, that when the Paternity of any illegitimate Child has been found by Decree of any competent Court, the Clerk of Court shall, within Ten Days after the Date of such Decree, send by Post to the Registrar of the Parish in which the Father is or was last domiciled, or in which the Birth shall have been registered, Notice of the Import of such Decree in the Form of the Schedule (F.) to this Act annexed, or to the like Effect, under a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings in case of Failure; and on Receipt of such Notice the Registrar shall add to the Entry of the Birth of such Child in the Register the Name of the Father and the Word "Illegitimate," and shall make upon the Margin of the Register opposite to such Entry a Note of such Decree and of the Import thereof
In other words, the father’s name could be added to a birth record after initial registration if paternity was proven subject to a court order, although the stigma of the word illegitimate would remain.

​Section 36 of the Registration (Scotland) Act also illustrates an unusual feature of Scots law which distinguishes it from English law:
​In the event of any Child, registered as illegitimate, being legitimated per subsequens matrimonium, the Registrar of the Parish in which the Birth of such illegitimate Child was registered shall, upon Production of an Extract of the Entry of such Marriage in the Register of Marriages, note on the Margin of the Register opposite to the Entry of the Birth the Legitimation of such Child per subsequens matrimonium, and the Date of the Registration of such Marriage
Under Scots law, a child born outwith marriage could be legitimated after birth per subsequens matrimonium – literally “by subsequent marriage” – if the parents later married, provided that they were free to marry at the time of the child’s birth.

From a genealogy perspective, the main import of illegitimacy is that it can prove a significant obstacle to tracing the child’s paternal ancestry. However, it need not always prove to be a brick wall.

Take the case of George Kerr Waterston, an illegitimate child born on October 9 1863 in Dunnichen, Angus. His statutory birth record does not name his father, instead just giving his mother’s name as Elspeth Waterston. As mentioned earlier, the law stated that in cases of illegitimate children, the father’s name could only be included if the father signed the register in person. The following entries from the records of Dunnichen parish demonstrate that the strict rules in force for civil registration did not apply to the Church, and thus how Kirk Session records can often be used to identify fathers of illegitimate children.
At Dunnichen the 18th day of October 1863 years
[…]
Compeared Elizabeth Waterstone Letham and pled guilty of fornication, accusing John Kerr, Junior, Blackhillock as the father of the child to which she had given birth on the 9th day of October last. The said Elizabeth Waterstone being admonished by the Moderator, the Clerk was instructed to cite the said John Kerr and the said Elizabeth Waterstone to compear before this Session on Sabbath the 22nd day of November next immediately after divine service.
[NRS Reference CH2/108/2 p. 35-36]
 
At Dunnichen the 22nd day of November 1863 years
[…]
Compeared also Elizabeth Waterstone but no compearance being made on the part of John Kerr, the Clerk was requested to cite him to compear before the Session next Lord’s day.
[NRS Reference CH2/108/2 p. 36-37]
 
At Dunnichen the 6th day of December 1863 years
[…]
Compeared Elizabeth Waterstone, and the Moderator having produced the following letter from John Kerr Greenhillock
Greenhillock 23 [November?] 1863
Sir,
I have not come as you hopped but I hope you will Baptise the child.
(signed) John Kerr
Your Servant
The Session hold that it was a sufficient acknowledgement by the said John Kerr.
The said Elizabeth Waterstone being suitably admonished by the Moderator was restored to the privileges of the Church.
[NRS Reference CH2/108/2 p. 37-38]
A couple of weeks later, in the Baptismal Register for Dunnichen, we find the following entry:
Kerr, George Kerr Waterston (illegitimate), S[on]. [Father] John Kerr Junior, Greenhillock Tulloes; [Mother] Elspeth Waterston, Letham. Birth 9th October 1863, Baptism 9th December 1863
[NRS Reference ​CH2/108/3 p. 32]
This entry provides another useful lesson - it's always worth checking baptismal registers, even after the introduction of civil registration.
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H is for Heads of families

9/4/2016

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On 31 May 1834, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, meeting in Edinburgh, enacted the Overtures and Interim Acts on the Calling of Ministers. This was the latest instalment in a long-running dispute within the Church about who should appoint the minister when a parish fell vacant. The right of patronage – the right of patrons, usually nobles or major landowners, to appoint ministers – had been controversial since the Reformation. An Act of the Scottish Parliament in 1690 vested patronage in the heritors and elders of each parish. They were given the right to propose a candidate, with the whole congregation then given the right to accept or reject the proposal.

In 1711, the British Parliament passed the Church Patronage (Scotland) Act, which restored the rights of the original patrons. The Church was strongly opposed to this, and made an annual protest to Parliament every year until 1784. Two factions emerged, the Moderates, who reluctantly accepted the Patronage Act, and the Evangelicals, who opposed it in principle.

In 1730, the General Assembly passed an Act removing the right of objectors to have their objections officially recorded. The Evangelicals viewed this as an attempt to silence them. Two years later, the General Assembly granted the right of patronage to heritors and elders where a patron failed to nominate a candidate within six months. Some in the Church – notably Ebenezer Erskine – wanted this right to be transferred to the Heads of Families within a congregation. But the fact that objections could no longer even be recorded led to a schism in the Church, known as the Original Secession.

A hundred years later, in 1834, the General Assembly passed the Overtures and Interim Acts on the Calling of Ministers, more commonly known as the Veto Act. The Veto Act was a victory for the Evangelical party, preventing a patron from presenting a minister if a majority of the heads of households objected to the candidate.

This led to a series of court actions by patrons, and eventually led to the Veto Act being declared ultra vires in the House of Lords. For many this was the final straw, and the main consequence of the annulment of the Veto Act was the Great Disruption of 1843, with about 40% of ministers walking out of the Church of Scotland, founding the Free Church of Scotland and leaving the Church of Scotland as a minority church.

Aside from the consequences for genealogy research of the Disruption itself – less than half of Scots were now members of the Church of Scotland, so researchers often have to look elsewhere than the Old Parish Registers to find their ancestors – the Veto Act is also relevant for family historians. The Act required all parishes to draw up rolls of "male heads of families, being members of the congregation, and in full communion with the Church" within two months, and to insert these rolls into the Kirk Session records.

While not all of these rolls of heads of families survive, hundreds of them do, and they provide a very useful record of inhabitants all over Scotland in the years before the first nominal census of 1841. We have transcribed them (more than 150,000 names), and made them available on our website free of charge. The table below gives a complete list of them, with links to the individual parishes.
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Rolls of Heads of Families
Parish volume County volume
Abercorn West Lothian
Aberdalgie Perthshire
Aberdeen Greyfriars Aberdeenshire
Aberdeen St Clements Aberdeenshire
Aberdeen St Mary's Aberdeenshire
Aberdeen St Nicholas Aberdeenshire
Abernethy Perthshire
Acharacle Argyll
Airlie Angus
Airth Stirlingshire
Alva Clackmannanshire
Alvah Banffshire
Alvie Inverness-shire
Anstruther Easter Fife
Ardclach Nairnshire
Arrochar Dunbartonshire
Auchtergaven Perthshire
Auchterless Aberdeenshire
Avondale Lanarkshire
Ayton Berwickshire
Baldernock Stirlingshire
Balfron Stirlingshire
Ballantrae Ayrshire
Beith Ayrshire
Biggar Lanarkshire
Bolton East Lothian
Bo'ness West Lothian
Borgue Kirkcudbrightshire
Bothwell Lanarkshire
Bowden Roxburghshire
Buittle Kirkcudbrightshire
Cambusnethan Lanarkshire
Canisbay Caithness
Carmichael Lanarkshire
Carmunnock Lanarkshire
Carmyllie Angus
Carnoch in Strathconon Ross and Cromarty
Carnock Fife
Carriden West Lothian
Carrington Midlothian
Carstairs Lanarkshire
Castleton Roxburghshire
Chirnside Berwickshire
Clackmannan Clackmannanshire
Cleish Kinross
Cockpen Midlothian
Coldingham Berwickshire
Colinton Midlothian
Coull Aberdeenshire
Coupar Angus Perthshire
Coylton Ayrshire
Craig Angus
Cramond Edinburgh
Cranstoun Midlothian
Crichton Midlothian
Cromarty Ross and Cromarty
Cruden Aberdeenshire
Cumbernauld Dunbartonshire
Currie Midlothian
Dailly Ayrshire
Dairsie Fife
Dalkeith St Nicholas Midlothian
Dallas Moray
Dalmeny West Lothian
Dalry Kirkcudbrightshire
Dalrymple Ayrshire
Dalziel Lanarkshire
Denny Stirlingshire
Deskford Banffshire
Dingwall Ross and Cromarty
Dirleton East Lothian
Dollar Clackmannanshire
Drumelzier Peeblesshire
Duirinish Inverness-shire
Dull Perthshire
Dumbarton Dunbartonshire
Dumfries Greyfriars Dumfriesshire
Dumfries St Michaels Dumfriesshire
Dun Angus
Dunbog Fife
Dunfermline Abbey Fife
Dunipace Stirlingshire
Dunkeld Perthshire
Dunnichen Angus
Dunnottar Kincardineshire
Dunrossness Shetland
Duns Berwickshire
Dunscore Dumfriesshire
Duror Argyll
Dyce Aberdeenshire
Dysart Fife
Eassie and Nevay Angus
Echt Aberdeenshire
Eday Orkney
Edderton Ross and Cromarty
Edinburgh Greyfriars Edinburgh
Edinburgh Lady Glenorchy's Edinburgh
Edinburgh Old Kirk Edinburgh
Edinburgh Roxburgh Place Edinburgh
Edinburgh St Andrews Edinburgh
Edinburgh St Giles Edinburgh
Edinburgh St Marys Edinburgh
Edinburgh St Stephens Edinburgh
Edinkillie Moray
Ednam Roxburghshire
Edzell Angus
Errol Perthshire
Eyemouth Berwickshire
Fala Midlothian
Falkirk Stirlingshire
Ferryport on Craig Fife
Fetteresso Kincardineshire
Findo Gask Perthshire
Fintray Aberdeenshire
Fintry Stirlingshire
Fodderty Ross and Cromarty
Fordyce Banffshire
Forgandenny Perthshire
Forglen Banffshire
Forres Moray
Forteviot Perthshire
Foulden Berwickshire
Foveran Aberdeenshire
Fyvie Aberdeenshire
Gamrie Banffshire
Gargunnock Stirlingshire
Girthon Kirkcudbrightshire
Gladsmuir East Lothian
Glamis Angus
Glassford Lanarkshire
Glenbuchat Aberdeenshire
Glencorse Midlothian
Glendevon Perthshire
Glenelg Inverness-shire
Glenshiel Ross and Cromarty
Gorbals Glasgow
Gordon Berwickshire
Govan Glasgow
Greenlaw Berwickshire
Greenock West Renfrewshire
Halkirk Caithness
Hamilton Lanarkshire
Heriot Midlothian
Inchinnan Renfrewshire
Innerwick East Lothian
Inverarity Angus
Inverkeilor Angus
Inverkeithing Fife
Keir Dumfriesshire
Kelso Roxburghshire
Kelton Kirkcudbrightshire
Kennoway Fife
Kilbrandon and Kilchattan Argyll
Kilchrenan and Dalavich Argyll
Kilconquhar Fife
Killearnan Ross and Cromarty
Killin Perthshire
Kilmallie Argyll
Kilmarnock Laigh Kirk Ayrshire
Kilmore and Kilbride Argyll
Kilmuir Easter Ross and Cromarty
Kilninver and Kilmelfort Argyll
Kilspindie Perthshire
Kinellar Aberdeenshire
Kinfauns Perthshire
Kingarth Bute
Kingussie Inverness-shire
Kinloch Rannoch Perthshire
Kinloss Moray
Kinross Kinross
Kintail Ross and Cromarty
Kippen Stirlingshire
Kirkbean Kirkcudbrightshire
Kirkcaldy St Bryce Fife
Kirkgunzeon Kirkcudbrightshire
Kirkliston West Lothian
Kirkmahoe Dumfriesshire
Kirkmichael Perthshire
Kirknewton Midlothian
Kirkpatrick Irongray Kirkcudbrightshire
Kirkpatrick Juxta Dumfriesshire
Kirkwall Orkney
Lady Orkney
Ladykirk Berwickshire
Lanark St Nicholas Lanarkshire
Langton Berwickshire
Larbert Stirlingshire
Lasswade Midlothian
Latheron Caithness
Lauder Berwickshire
Legerwood Berwickshire
Lerwick Shetland
Lethendy Perthshire
Lethnot and Navar Angus
Liberton Edinburgh
Lintrathen Angus
Lismore And Appin Argyll
Little Dunkeld Perthshire
Livingston West Lothian
Lochlee Angus
Lochrutton Kirkcudbrightshire
Lochwinnoch Renfrewshire
Logierait Perthshire
Manor Peeblesshire
Maryculter Kincardineshire
Meigle Perthshire
Melrose Roxburghshire
Menmuir Angus
Midcalder Midlothian
Moneydie Perthshire
Monkton and Prestwick Ayrshire
Montrose Angus
Monzie Perthshire
Mordington Berwickshire
Morebattle Roxburghshire
Morningside Edinburgh
Morton Dumfriesshire
Moulin Perthshire
Muckairn Argyll
Muckhart Perthshire
Muiravonside Stirlingshire
Muthill Perthshire
Nenthorn Berwickshire
New Abbey Kirkcudbrightshire
New Cumnock Ayrshire
Newbattle Midlothian
Newburn Fife
Newton Midlothian
Nigg Kincardineshire
Nigg Ross and Cromarty
North Berwick East Lothian
North Leith Edinburgh
North Yell Shetland
Northmavine Shetland
Oathlaw Angus
Old Kilpatrick Dunbartonshire
Ordiquhill Banffshire
Ormiston East Lothian
Orwell Kinross
Peebles Peeblesshire
Penicuik Midlothian
Perth East Perthshire
Perth Middle Perthshire
Perth St Pauls Perthshire
Perth West Perthshire
Peterculter Aberdeenshire
Pettinain Lanarkshire
Polmont Stirlingshire
Polwarth Berwickshire
Portmoak Kinross
Portpatrick Wigtownshire
Prestonkirk East Lothian
Prestonpans East Lothian
Rafford Moray
Redgorton Perthshire
Rerrick Kirkcudbrightshire
Resolis Ross and Cromarty
Rosemarkie Ross and Cromarty
Rosneath Dunbartonshire
Rosskeen Ross and Cromarty
Rothesay Bute
Roxburgh Roxburghshire
Salton East Lothian
Sandwick Shetland
Scone Perthshire
Scoonie Fife
Selkirk Selkirkshire
Skene Aberdeenshire
Skirling Peeblesshire
Slains Aberdeenshire
Slamannan Stirlingshire
Smailholm Roxburghshire
South Queensferry West Lothian
Sprouston Roxburghshire
St Madoes Perthshire
St Ninians Stirlingshire
St Quivox Ayrshire
Stanley Perthshire
Stirling Holy Rude Stirlingshire
Stitchel Roxburghshire
Stobo Peeblesshire
Stonehouse Lanarkshire
Stracathro Angus
Strathblane Stirlingshire
Strathmiglo Fife
Strathy (Farr) Sutherland
Strichen Aberdeenshire
Stronsay Orkney
Symington Ayrshire
Temple Midlothian
Tibbermore Perthshire
Tillicoultry Clackmannanshire
Tingwall Shetland
Tongue Sutherland
Torphichen West Lothian
Torthorwald Dumfriesshire
Traquair Peeblesshire
Trinity Gask Perthshire
Troqueer Kirkcudbrightshire
Tweedsmuir Peeblesshire
Tynron Dumfriesshire
Uphall West Lothian
Urr Kirkcudbrightshire
Weem Perthshire
West Calder Midlothian
Westray Orkney
Whitburn West Lothian
Whitekirk East Lothian
Whitsome Berwickshire
Whittinghame East Lothian
Wick Caithness
Wilton Roxburghshire
Wiston and Roberton Lanarkshire
Yester East Lothian
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G is for Geography

8/4/2016

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It might seem slightly incongruous to be writing about geography in a family history blog, but it's definitely not. Family history - as opposed to genealogy in the narrow sense - is really about people and place. To understand how your family lived, you have to understand the places they knew. Equally, even simply to research your genealogy, you have to have some understanding of geography, if only because most historical records were and are organised on a geographic basis.

Historically, Scotland - like England - was divided into counties. These counties were established in medieval times, and remained the main subdivision of government in Scotland until the reorganisation of local government in 1975. Churches were also organised geographically - in the case of the Church of Scotland, the basic unit was the parish. Parishes were grouped into Presbyteries, which in turn were grouped into Synods.

The significance of this is that most historical records of interest to genealogists and family historians were organised territorially. So in order to find and trace your ancestors, you need to understand geography.

For family history research, it's usually best to think in terms of the pre-1975 counties, of which there were 32:
Aberdeenshire
Angus (sometimes called Forfarshire)
Argyll
Ayrshire
Banffshire
Berwickshire
Bute
Caithness
Clackmannanshire
Dumfriesshire
Dunbartonshire
East Lothian (sometimes called Haddingtonshire)
Fife
Inverness-shire
Kincardineshire
Kinross-shire
Kirkcudbrightshire
Lanarkshire
Midlothian (sometimes called Edinburghshire)
Moray (sometimes called Elginshire)
Nairnshire
Orkney
Peeblesshire
Perthshire
Renfrewshire
Ross and Cromarty
Roxburghshire
Selkirkshire
Shetland
Stirlingshire
Sutherland
West Lothian (sometimes called Linlithgowshire)
Wigtonshire
Below county level, things get a little more complicated. Most genealogists tend to think in terms of parishes, and indeed that's how we've structured our website. After 1855 - when statutory registration of births, marriages and deaths was introduced in Scotland - many records are organised by registration district. These registration districts often initially coincided with pre-1855 parishes, but over the years, the differences increased, with the result that modern registration districts often bear little similarity to the original parishes. Nevertheless, parishes remain a very useful way of thinking about places.
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The table below lists the Church of Scotland parishes in existence in 1854, the county in which they were located, and the year of the earliest entry in the Old Parish Registers.
Parishes in 1854 with dates of earliest OPR entries
Parish County Earliest OPR
Abbey (Paisley) Renfrewshire 1670
Abbey St. Bathans Berwickshire 1715
Abbotrule (Southdean and Abbotrule) Roxburghshire 1696
Abbotshall Fife 1650
Abdie Fife 1620
Abercorn West Lothian 1585
Abercrombie or St. Monance Fife 1628
Aberdalgie Perthshire 1613
Aberdeen Aberdeenshire 1560
Aberdour Aberdeenshire 1698
Aberdour Fife 1650
Aberfoyle Perthshire 1692
Aberlady East Lothian 1632
Aberlemno Angus 1706
Aberlour Banffshire 1708
Abernethy Perthshire 1690
Abernethy and Kincardine Inverness-shire 1730
Abernyte Perthshire 1664
Abertarff and Boleskine (Fort Augustus) Inverness-shire 1739
Aboyne Aberdeenshire 1752
Acharacle Argyll 1777
Advie (Cromdale, Inverallan and Advie) Moray 1702
Airlie Angus 1682
Airth Stirlingshire 1660
Aithsting (and Sandsting) Shetland 1733
Alford Aberdeenshire 1717
Alloa Clackmannanshire 1609
Alness Ross and Cromarty 1783
Alva Stirlingshire 1655
Alvah Banffshire 1717
Alves Nairnshire 1648
Alvie Inverness-shire 1713
Alyth Perthshire 1623
Ancrum Roxburghshire 1703
Annan Dumfriesshire 1703
Anstruther Easter Fife 1641
Anstruther Wester Fife 1549
Anwoth Kirkcudbrightshire 1727
Appin (Lismore, Appin and Duror) Argyll 1751
Applecross (including Shieldaig and Kishorn) Ross and Cromarty 1797
Applegarth and Sibbaldbie Dumfriesshire 1749
Arbirlot Angus 1632
Arbroath Angus 1653
Arbuthnott Kincardineshire 1631
Ardchattan Argyll 1758
Ardclach Nairnshire 1642
Ardersier (including Fort George) Inverness-shire 1719
Ardgour (Ballachullish and Corran of Ardgour) Argyll 1830
Ardnamurchan (including Strontian (Sunart) and Acharacle) Argyll 1777
Ardrossan Ayrshire 1734
Arisaig (see Ardnamurchan) Argyll 1777
Arngask Fife 1688
Arrochar Dunbartonshire 1759
Ashkirk Roxburghshire 1630
Assynt Sutherland 1798
Athelstaneford East Lothian 1664
Auchindoir and Kearn (and Forbes) Aberdeenshire 1694
Auchinleck Ayrshire 1693
Auchterarder Perthshire 1661
Auchterderran Fife 1664
Auchtergaven Perthshire 1741
Auchterhouse Angus 1645
Auchterless Aberdeenshire 1680
Auchtermuchty Fife 1649
Auchtertool Fife 1708
Auldearn Nairnshire 1687
Avoch Ross and Cromarty 1727
Avondale Lanarkshire 1698
Ayr Ayrshire 1664
Ayton Berwickshire 1743
Baldernock Stirlingshire 1623
Balfron Stirlingshire 1687
Ballachulish (Lismore, Appin and Duror) Argyll 1751
Ballachulish and Corran of Ardgour Argyll 1830
Ballantrae Ayrshire 1731
Ballingry Fife 1669
Balmaclellan Kirkcudbrightshire 1747
Balmaghie Kirkcudbrightshire 1768
Balmerino Fife 1632
Balquhidder Perthshire 1696
Banchory Devenick Kincardineshire 1713
Banchory Ternan Kincardineshire 1670
Banff Banffshire 1620
Barony Lanarkshire 1672
Barr Ayrshire 1689
Barra Inverness-shire 1836
Barrhead (Neilston) Renfrewshire 1688
Barry Angus 1704
Barvas Ross and Cromarty 1810
Bathgate West Lothian 1672
Beath Fife 1643
Bedrule Roxburghshire 1690
Beith Ayrshire 1659
Belhelvie Aberdeenshire 1624
Bellie Nairnshire 1709
Bendochy Perthshire 1642
Benholm Kincardineshire 1684
Benvie (Liff and Benvie) Angus 1633
Bervie (Inverbervie) Kincardineshire 1641
Biggar Lanarkshire 1730
Birnie Moray 1712
Birsay Orkney 1645
Birse Aberdeenshire 1758
Blackford Perthshire 1738
Blair Atholl Perthshire 1718
Blairgowrie Perthshire 1647
Blantyre Lanarkshire 1677
Boharm Moray 1634
Boleskine and Abertarff (Fort Augustus) Inverness-shire 1739
Bolton East Lothian 1685
Bo'ness (Borrowstounness) West Lothian 1648
Bonhill Dunbartonshire 1676
Bonnyrigg Midlothian 1553
Borgue Kirkcudbrightshire 1741
Borthwick Midlothian 1700
Bothkennar Stirlingshire 1623
Bothwell Lanarkshire 1671
Botriphnie Banffshire 1683
Bourtie Aberdeenshire 1709
Bowden Roxburghshire 1697
Bower Caithness 1740
Bowmore or Kilarrow Argyll 1763
Boyndie Banffshire 1700
Bracadale Inverness-shire 1802
Braemar (Crathie and Braemar) Aberdeenshire 1717
Brechin Angus 1612
Bressay, Burra and Quarff Shetland 1737
Broughton Peeblesshire 1697
Brydekirk Dumfriesshire 1836
Buchanan Stirlingshire 1646
Buittle Kirkcudbrightshire 1736
Bunkle and Preston Berwickshire 1704
Burntisland Fife 1672
Burra (Bressay, Burra and Quarff) Shetland 1755
Burray (South Ronaldshay and Burray) Orkney 1657
Cabrach Aberdeenshire 1711
Cadder Lanarkshire 1662
Caerlaverock Dumfriesshire 1749
Cairney Aberdeenshire 1731
Callander Perthshire 1710
Cambuslang Lanarkshire 1657
Cambusnethan Lanarkshire 1634
Cameron Fife 1695
Campbeltown Argyll 1659
Campsie Stirlingshire 1646
Canisbay Caithness 1652
Canonbie Dumfriesshire 1693
Canongate Midlothian 1564
Caputh Perthshire 1671
Cardross Dunbartonshire 1681
Careston Angus 1714
Cargill Perthshire 1652
Carluke Lanarkshire 1690
Carmichael Lanarkshire 1694
Carmunnock Lanarkshire 1653
Carmyllie Angus 1684
Carnbee Fife 1646
Carnock Fife 1643
Carnwath Lanarkshire 1705
Carriden West Lothian 1683
Carrington (or Primrose) Midlothian 1653
Carsphairn Kirkcudbrightshire 1758
Carstairs Lanarkshire 1672
Castleton Roxburghshire 1749
Cathcart Renfrewshire 1690
Catterline (Kinneff and Catterline) Kincardineshire 1616
Cavers Roxburghshire 1694
Cawdor Nairnshire 1716
Ceres Fife 1620
Channelkirk Berwickshire 1651
Chapel of Garioch Aberdeenshire 1763
Chirnside Berwickshire 1660
Clackmannan Clackmannanshire 1593
Clatt Aberdeenshire 1680
Cleish Kinross-shire 1700
Closeburn Dumfriesshire 1765
Clova (Cortachy and Clova) Angus 1662
Clunie Perthshire 1702
Cluny Aberdeenshire 1751
Clyne Sutherland 1782
Cockburnspath Berwickshire 1642
Cockpen Midlothian 1690
Coldingham Berwickshire 1690
Coldstream (formerly Lennel) Berwickshire 1690
Colinton (or Hailes) Midlothian 1654
Coll (Tiree and Coll) Argyll 1766
Collace Perthshire 1713
Collessie Fife 1696
Colmonell Ayrshire 1759
Colonsay (Jura and Colonsay) Argyll 1704
Colvend Kirkcudbrightshire 1781
Comrie Perthshire 1693
Contin Ross and Cromarty 1778
Corran of Ardgour (Ballachulish and Corran of Ardgour) Argyll 1830
Corrie (Hutton and Corrie) Dumfriesshire 1745
Corstorphine Midlothian 1634
Cortachy and Clova Angus 1662
Coull Aberdeenshire 1752
Coupar Angus Angus 1682
Covington and Thankerton Lanarkshire 1772
Coylton Ayrshire 1723
Craig Angus 1657
Craigie Ayrshire 1679
Craignish Argyll 1755
Crail Fife 1655
Crailing Roxburghshire 1708
Cramond Midlothian 1651
Cranshaws Berwickshire 1731
Cranston Midlothian 1682
Crathie and Braemar Aberdeenshire 1717
Crawford (including Leadhills) Lanarkshire 1698
Crawfordjohn Lanarkshire 1693
Creich Fife 1694
Creich Sutherland 1785
Crichton Midlothian 1679
Crieff Perthshire 1692
Crimond Aberdeenshire 1743
Croick East Lothian 1712
Cromarty Ross and Cromarty 1675
Cromdale, Inverallan and Advie Moray 1702
Crossmichael Kirkcudbrightshire 1751
Croy and Dalcross Inverness-shire 1719
Cruden Aberdeenshire 1707
Cullen Banffshire 1640
Culross Fife 1640
Culsamond Aberdeenshire 1735
Culter Lanarkshire 1700
Cults Fife 1693
Cumbernauld Dunbartonshire 1688
Cumbraes Bute 1730
Cummertrees Dumfriesshire 1733
Cunningsburgh (Dunrossness, Sandwick, Fair Isle) Shetland 1731
Cupar Fife 1654
Currie Midlothian 1638
Dailly Ayrshire 1691
Dairsie Fife 1645
Dalarossie (Moy and Dalarossie) Inverness-shire 1788
Dalavich (Kilchrenan and Dalavich) Argyll 1751
Dalcross (Croy and Dalcross) Inverness-shire 1719
Dalgety Fife 1644
Dalkeith Midlothian 1609
Dallas Moray 1742
Dalmellington Ayrshire 1641
Dalmeny West Lothian 1628
Dalry Ayrshire 1679
Dalry Kirkcudbrightshire 1691
Dalrymple Ayrshire 1699
Dalserf Lanarkshire 1738
Dalton Dumfriesshire 1723
Dalziel Lanarkshire 1648
Daviot Aberdeenshire 1723
Daviot and Dunlichity Inverness-shire 1774
Deerness Orkney 1703
Delting Shetland 1751
Denny Stirlingshire 1679
Deskford Banffshire 1659
Dingwall Ross and Cromarty 1662
Dirleton East Lothian 1664
Dollar Clackmannanshire 1700
Dolphinton Lanarkshire 1717
Dores Inverness-shire 1734
Dornoch Sutherland 1730
Dornock Dumfriesshire 1773
Douglas Lanarkshire 1691
Dowally Perthshire 1705
Drainie Moray 1631
Dreghorn Ayrshire 1749
Dron Perthshire 1683
Drumblade Aberdeenshire 1702
Drumelzier Peeblesshire 1649
Drumoak Aberdeenshire 1692
Dryfesdale Dumfriesshire 1732
Drymen Stirlingshire 1676
Duddingston Midlothian 1631
Duffus Moray 1629
Duirinish Inverness-shire 1817
Dull Perthshire 1703
Dumbarton Dunbartonshire 1642
Dumfries Dumfriesshire 1605
Dun Angus 1642
Dunbar East Lothian 1651
Dunbarney Perthshire 1594
Dunblane Perthshire 1653
Dunbog Fife 1695
Dundee Angus 1645
Dundonald Ayrshire 1673
Dunfermline Fife 1561
Dunino Fife 1643
Dunipace Stirlingshire 1708
Dunkeld Perthshire 1672
Dunlichity (Daviot and Dunlichity) Inverness-shire 1774
Dunlop Ayrshire 1700
Dunnet Caithness 1751
Dunnichen Angus 1683
Dunning Perthshire 1691
Dunnottar Kincardineshire 1672
Dunoon and Kilmun Argyll 1742
Dunrossness (Dunrossness, Sandwick and Cunningsburgh, Fair Isle) Shetland 1753
Duns Berwickshire 1615
Dunscore Dumfriesshire 1777
Dunsyre Lanarkshire 1687
Durness Sutherland 1764
Duror (Lismore, Appin and Duror) Argyll 1751
Durris Kincardineshire 1716
Durrisdeer Dumfriesshire 1758
Duthil and Rothiemurchus Inverness-shire 1766
Dyce Aberdeenshire 1646
Dyke Moray 1635
Dysart Fife 1582
Eaglesham Renfrewshire 1659
Earlston Berwickshire 1694
Eassie and Nevay Angus 1728
East Calder (Kirknewton and East Calder) Midlothian 1642
East Kilbride Lanarkshire 1688
Eastwood Renfrewshire 1674
Eccles Berwickshire 1697
Ecclesmachen West Lothian 1717
Echt Aberdeenshire 1648
Eckford Roxburghshire 1694
Eday and Pharay Orkney 1789
Edderton Ross and Cromarty 1799
Eddlestone Peeblesshire 1713
Eddrachillis Sutherland 1808
Edgerston Roxburghshire 1694
Edinburgh Midlothian 1595
Edinkillie Moray 1702
Ednam Roxburghshire 1666
Edrom Berwickshire 1721
Edzell Angus 1641
Egilshay (Rousay and Egilshay) Orkney 1733
Elgin Moray 1609
Elie Fife 1639
Ellon Aberdeenshire 1638
Enzie Banffshire 1835
Errol Perthshire 1553
Erskine Renfrewshire 1705
Eskdalemuir Dumfriesshire 1724
Essie (Rhynie and Essie) Aberdeenshire 1740
Ettrick Selkirkshire 1693
Evie and Rendall Orkney 1725
Ewes Dumfriesshire 1700
Eyemouth Berwickshire 1710
Fair Isle (Dunrossness, Sandwick and Cunningsburgh, Fair Isle) Shetland 1767
Fala and Soutra Midlothian 1673
Falkirk Stirlingshire 1594
Falkland Fife 1661
Farnell Angus 1699
Farr Sutherland 1790
Fearn (Angus) Angus 1762
Fearn (Ross) Ross and Cromarty 1749
Fenwick Ayrshire 1644
Ferry Port on Craig Fife 1634
Fetlar (Fetlar and North Yell) Shetland 1754
Fettercairn Kincardineshire 1669
Fetteresso Kincardineshire 1620
Findogask Perthshire 1669
Fintray (Aberdeen) Aberdeenshire 1728
Fintry (Stirling) Stirlingshire 1659
Firth and Stennes Orkney 1732
Flisk Fife 1697
Flotta (Walls and Flotta) Orkney 1708
Fodderty Ross and Cromarty 1735
Fogo Berwickshire 1660
Forbes (Tullynessle, Forbes and Kearn) Aberdeenshire 1718
Fordoun Kincardineshire 1693
Fordyce Banffshire 1665
Forfar Angus 1633
Forgan Fife 1695
Forgandenny Perthshire 1695
Forglen Banffshire 1647
Forgue Aberdeenshire 1684
Forres Moray 1675
Fort Augustus or Abertarff (Boleskine and Abertarff) Inverness-shire 1739
Forteviot Perthshire 1710
Fortingall Perthshire 1748
Fossoway and Tulliebole Kinross-shire 1609
Foula (Walls, Sandness, Papa Stour, Foula) Shetland 1783
Foulden Berwickshire 1682
Foveran Aberdeenshire 1658
Fowlis (Lundie and Fowlis) Angus 1667
Fowlis Easter Perthshire 1701
Fowlis Wester Perthshire 1674
Fraserburgh Aberdeenshire 1733
Fyvie Aberdeenshire 1685
Gairloch (with Poolewe) Ross and Cromarty 1781
Galashiels Selkirkshire 1714
Galston Ayrshire 1670
Gamrie (and Macduff) Banffshire 1704
Gargunnock Stirlingshire 1615
Gartly Aberdeenshire 1709
Garvald East Lothian 1694
Garvock Kincardineshire 1703
Gifford or Yester East Lothian 1654
Gigha Argyll 1792
Girthon Kirkcudbrightshire 1699
Girvan Ayrshire 1733
Gladsmuir East Lothian 1688
Glamis Angus 1677
Glasgow Lanarkshire 1609
Glass Aberdeenshire 1736
Glassary Argyll 1750
Glasserton Wigtonshire 1700
Glassford Lanarkshire 1692
Glenaray (Inveraray and Glenaray) Argyll 1651
Glenbervie Kincardineshire 1722
Glenbucket Aberdeenshire 1719
Glencairn Dumfriesshire 1693
Glencoe and Ballachulish Argyll 1751
Glencross Midlothian 1672
Glendevon Perthshire 1710
Glenelg Inverness-shire 1792
Glenholm Peeblesshire 1747
Glenisla Angus 1719
Glenmoriston (Urquhart and Glenmoriston) Inverness-shire 1739
Glenmuick, Tullich and Glengairn Aberdeenshire 1744
Glenorchy and Inishail Argyll 1753
Glenshiel Ross and Cromarty 1785
Golspie Sutherland 1739
Gorbals Lanarkshire 1771
Gordon Berwickshire 1652
Govan Lanarkshire 1689
Graemsay (Hoy and Graemsay) Orkney 1777
Graitney or Gretna Dumfriesshire 1730
Grange Banffshire 1683
Greenlaw Berwickshire 1699
Greenock (East) Renfrewshire 1809
Greenock (Middle) Renfrewshire 1741
Greenock (Old or West) Renfrewshire 1698
Gretna or Graitney Dumfriesshire 1730
Guthrie Angus 1664
Haddington East Lothian 1619
Halfmorton Dumfriesshire 1787
Halkirk Caithness 1772
Hamilton Lanarkshire 1645
Harray Orkney 1784
Harris (Harris and St Kilda) Inverness-shire 1823
Hawick Roxburghshire 1634
Heriot Midlothian 1685
Hilton (Whitsome and Hilton) Berwickshire 1724
Hobkirk Roxburghshire 1726
Hoddam Dumfriesshire 1746
Holm and Paplay Orkney 1654
Holywood Dumfriesshire 1687
Houston and Killellan Renfrewshire 1720
Hownam Roxburghshire 1689
Hoy and Graemsay Orkney 1774
Humbie East Lothian 1643
Hume (Stitchel and Hume) Roxburghshire 1640
Huntly Aberdeenshire 1683
Hutton (Berwick) Berwickshire 1700
Hutton and Corrie (Dumfries) Dumfriesshire 1745
Inch (Wigtown) Wigtonshire 1729
Inchinnan Renfrewshire 1722
Inchture Perthshire 1619
Inishail (Glenorchy and Inishail) Argyll 1753
Innerleithen Peeblesshire 1642
Innerwick East Lothian 1614
Insch (Aberdeen) Aberdeenshire 1683
Insh (Kingussie and Insh) Inverness-shire 1724
Inverallan Inverness-shire 1702
Inverallan (Cromdale, Inverallan and Advie) Moray 1702
Inveraray (and Glenaray) Argyll 1651
Inverarity and Methy Angus 1710
Inveravon Banffshire 1630
Inverchaolain Argyll 1737
Inveresk Midlothian 1606
Invergowrie (Liff and Benvie) Angus 1633
Inverkeillor Angus 1717
Inverkeithing Fife 1676
Inverkeithny Banffshire 1721
Inverkip Renfrewshire 1694
Inverness Inverness-shire 1602
Inverurie Aberdeenshire 1609
Irongray Kirkcudbrightshire 1757
Irvine Ayrshire 1687
Jedburgh Roxburghshire 1639
Johnstone (Dumfries) Dumfriesshire 1734
Jura (Jura and Colonsay) Argyll 1704
Kearn (Auchindoir and Kearn) Aberdeenshire 1694
Kearn (Tullynessle, Forbes and Kearn) Aberdeenshire 1718
Keig Aberdeenshire 1750
Keir Dumfriesshire 1721
Keith Banffshire 1686
Keithhall (and Kinkell) Aberdeenshire 1678
Kells Kirkcudbrightshire 1698
Kelso Roxburghshire 1597
Kelton Kirkcudbrightshire 1717
Kemback Fife 1648
Kemnay Aberdeenshire 1660
Kenmore Perthshire 1636
Kennethmont Aberdeenshire 1728
Kennoway Fife 1638
Kettins Angus 1618
Kettle Fife 1633
Kilarrow Argyll 1763
Kilbarchan Renfrewshire 1649
Kilberry (Kilcalmonell and Kilberry) Argyll 1777
Kilbirnie Ayrshire 1688
Kilbrandon and Kilchattan Argyll 1753
Kilbride Bute 1723
Kilbride (Kilmore and Kilbride) Argyll 1782
Kilbucho, Broughton and Glenholm Peeblesshire 1749
Kilcalmonell and Kilberry Argyll 1777
Kilchattan (Kilbrandon and Kilchattan) Argyll 1753
Kilchenzie (Killean and Kilchenzie) Argyll 1762
Kilchoman Argyll 1821
Kilchrenan and Dalavich Argyll 1751
Kilconquhar Fife 1637
Kildalton Argyll 1723
Kildonan Sutherland 1790
Kildrummy Aberdeenshire 1678
Kilfinan Argyll 1728
Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Argyll 1804
Killean and Kilchenzie Argyll 1762
Killearn Stirlingshire 1694
Killearnan Ross and Cromarty 1744
Killellan (Houston and Killellan) Renfrewshire 1720
Killin Perthshire 1687
Kilmadock Perthshire 1623
Kilmalcolm Renfrewshire 1695
Kilmalie Argyll 1773
Kilmany (Fife) Fife 1706
Kilmarnock Ayrshire 1640
Kilmaronock Dunbartonshire 1686
Kilmartin Argyll 1746
Kilmaurs Ayrshire 1688
Kilmelford (Kilninver and Kilmelford) Argyll 1758
Kilmeny (Argyll) Argyll 1802
Kilmodan Argyll 1737
Kilmonivaig Inverness-shire 1730
Kilmorack Inverness-shire 1674
Kilmore (Kilninian and Kilmore with Ulva) Argyll 1766
Kilmore and Kilbride Argyll 1782
Kilmorich (Lochgoilhead and Kilmorich) Argyll 1692
Kilmory (with Shiskine and Lochranza) Bute 1701
Kilmuir Inverness-shire 1823
Kilmuir Easter Ross and Cromarty 1738
Kilmun (Dunoon and Kilmun) Argyll 1742
Kilninian and Kilmore (with Ulva) Argyll 1766
Kilninver (Kilninver and Kilmelford) Argyll 1758
Kilpatrick, New (New or East Kilpatrick) Dunbartonshire 1691
Kilpatrick, Old or West Dunbartonshire 1688
Kilrenny Fife 1647
Kilspindie Perthshire 1656
Kilsyth (formerly Monyabroch) Stirlingshire 1619
Kiltarlity Inverness-shire 1714
Kiltearn Ross and Cromarty 1702
Kilvickeon (Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon) Argyll 1804
Kilwinning Ayrshire 1669
Kincardine (Abernethy and Kincardine) (Inverness) Inverness-shire 1730
Kincardine (Perth) Perthshire 1691
Kincardine (Ross) Ross and Cromarty 1804
Kincardine O'Neill Aberdeenshire 1706
Kinclaven Perthshire 1726
Kinfauns Perthshire 1624
King Edward Aberdeenshire 1701
Kingarth Bute 1727
Kinghorn Fife 1576
Kinglassie Fife 1627
Kingoldrum Angus 1700
Kingsbarns Fife 1642
Kingussie and Insh Inverness-shire 1724
Kinkell (Keithhall and Kinkell) Aberdeenshire 1678
Kinloch (Lethendy and Kinloch) Perthshire 1698
Kinloss Moray 1699
Kinnaird Perthshire 1632
Kinneff and Catterline Kincardineshire 1616
Kinnell Angus 1657
Kinnellar Aberdeenshire 1677
Kinnethmont Aberdeenshire 1728
Kinnettles Angus 1696
Kinnoull Perthshire 1618
Kinross Kinross-shire 1668
Kintail Ross and Cromarty 1776
Kintore Aberdeenshire 1717
Kippen Stirlingshire 1700
Kirkbean Kirkcudbrightshire 1714
Kirkcaldy Fife 1614
Kirkcolm Wigtonshire 1779
Kirkconnel Dumfriesshire 1742
Kirkcowan Wigtonshire 1788
Kirkcudbright Kirkcudbrightshire 1743
Kirkden Angus 1650
Kirkgunzeon Kirkcudbrightshire 1702
Kirkhill Inverness-shire 1663
Kirkhope Selkirkshire 1851
Kirkinner Wigtonshire 1694
Kirkintilloch (formerly Lenzie) Dunbartonshire 1656
Kirkliston West Lothian 1675
Kirkmabreck Kirkcudbrightshire 1703
Kirkmahoe Dumfriesshire 1720
Kirkmaiden Wigtonshire 1699
Kirkmichael (and Tomintoul) (Banff) Banffshire 1725
Kirkmichael (Ayr) Ayrshire 1638
Kirkmichael (Dumfries) Dumfriesshire 1727
Kirkmichael (Perth) Perthshire 1650
Kirknewton and East Calder Midlothian 1642
Kirkoswald Ayrshire 1694
Kirkpatrick Durham Kirkcudbrightshire 1693
Kirkpatrick Fleming Dumfriesshire 1748
Kirkpatrick Juxta Dumfriesshire 1694
Kirktown (Roxburgh) Roxburghshire 1707
Kirkurd Peeblesshire 1705
Kirkwall and St. Ola Orkney 1657
Kirriemuir Angus 1716
Knockando Moray 1757
Knockbain Ross and Cromarty 1749
Ladykirk Berwickshire 1697
Laggan Inverness-shire 1775
Lairg Sutherland 1768
Lamington (Wandell and Lamington) Lanarkshire 1645
Lanark Lanarkshire 1646
Langholm (formerly Staplegorton) Dumfriesshire 1668
Langton Berwickshire 1728
Larbert Stirlingshire 1663
Largo Fife 1636
Largs Ayrshire 1723
Lasswade Midlothian 1617
Latheron Caithness 1740
Lauder Berwickshire 1677
Lecropt Perthshire 1720
Legerwood Berwickshire 1689
Leith (North) Midlothian 1605
Leith (South) Midlothian 1588
Leochel Cushnie Aberdeenshire 1657
Lerwick Shetland 1706
Leslie (Aberdeen) Aberdeenshire 1699
Leslie (Fife) Fife 1673
Lesmahagow Lanarkshire 1692
Leswalt Wigtonshire 1729
Lethendy and Kinloch Perthshire 1698
Lethnott and Navar Angus 1728
Leuchars Fife 1665
Libberton (Lanark) Lanarkshire 1717
Liberton (Edinburgh) Midlothian 1624
Liff, Benvie, and Invergowrie Angus 1633
Lilliesleaf Roxburghshire 1737
Linlithgow West Lothian 1613
Linton Roxburghshire 1732
Lintrathen Angus 1717
Lismore (Lismore, Appin and Duror) Argyll 1751
Little Dunkeld Perthshire 1759
Livingston West Lothian 1639
Lochalsh Ross and Cromarty 1775
Lochbroom Ross and Cromarty 1798
Lochcarron Ross and Cromarty 1819
Lochgoilhead (Lochgoilhead and Kilmorich) Argyll 1692
Lochlee Angus 1731
Lochmaben Dumfriesshire 1741
Lochrutton Kirkcudbrightshire 1697
Lochs Ross and Cromarty 1831
Lochwinnoch Renfrewshire 1718
Logie (Fife) Fife 1660
Logie (Perth) Perthshire 1688
Logie Buchan Aberdeenshire 1698
Logie Coldstone Aberdeenshire 1716
Logie Easter Ross and Cromarty 1665
Logie Pert Angus 1717
Logie Wester (Urquhart and Logie Wester) Ross and Cromarty 1715
Logierait Perthshire 1650
lona Argyll 1829
Longforgan Perthshire 1633
Longformacus Berwickshire 1654
Longside Aberdeenshire 1621
Lonmay Aberdeenshire 1687
Loth Sutherland 1795
Loudoun Ayrshire 1673
Lumphannan Aberdeenshire 1740
Lunan Angus 1654
Lundie and Fowlis Angus 1667
Luss Dunbartonshire 1698
Lyne and Megget Peeblesshire 1649
Madderty Perthshire 1701
Mains (Mains and Strathmartin) Angus 1635
Makerston Roxburghshire 1692
Manor Peeblesshire 1663
Markinch Fife 1635
Marnoch Banffshire 1672
Maryculter Kincardineshire 1696
Marykirk Kincardineshire 1699
Maryton Angus 1727
Mauchline Ayrshire 1670
Maxton Roxburghshire 1689
Maybole Ayrshire 1712
Mearns Renfrewshire 1756
Megget (Lyne and Megget) Peeblesshire 1649
Meigle Perthshire 1727
Melrose Roxburghshire 1642
Menmuir Angus 1701
Mertoun Berwickshire 1729
Methick Aberdeenshire 1663
Methven Perthshire 1662
Methy (Inverarity and Methy) Angus 1710
Mid and South Yell Shetland 1723
Mid Calder Midlothian 1604
Middlebie Dumfriesshire 1744
Midmar Aberdeenshire 1717
Migvie (Tarland and Migvie) Aberdeenshire 1764
Minnigaff Kirkcudbrightshire 1694
Minto Roxburghshire 1703
Mochrum Wigtonshire 1720
Moffat Dumfriesshire 1709
Moneydie Perthshire 1655
Monifieth Angus 1560
Monikie Angus 1613
Monimail Fife 1656
Monkton and Prestwick Ayrshire 1702
Monquhitter Aberdeenshire 1670
Montrose Angus 1615
Monymusk Aberdeenshire 1678
Monzie (Perth) Perthshire 1700
Monzievaird Perthshire 1697
Moonzie (Fife) Fife 1713
Mordington Berwickshire 1721
Morebattle Roxburghshire 1726
Morham East Lothian 1712
Mortlach Banffshire 1741
Morton Dumfriesshire 1692
Morvern Argyll 1803
Moulin Perthshire 1740
Mousewald Dumfriesshire 1751
Moy and Dalarossie Inverness-shire 1788
Muckairn Argyll 1746
Muckhart Perthshire 1698
Muiravonside Stirlingshire 1689
Muirkirk Ayrshire 1659
Murroes Angus 1698
Muthill Perthshire 1676
Nairn Nairnshire 1705
Navar (Lethnott and Navar) Angus 1728
Neilston Renfrewshire 1688
Nenthorn Berwickshire 1702
Nesting Shetland 1783
Nevay (Eassie and Nevay) Angus 1728
New Abbey Kirkcudbrightshire 1691
New Cumnock Ayrshire 1706
New Deer Aberdeenshire 1684
New Kilpatrick (New or East Kilpatrick) Dunbartonshire 1691
New Luce Wigtonshire 1694
New Machar Aberdeenshire 1676
New Monkland Lanarkshire 1693
New Spynie Moray 1709
Newbattle Midlothian 1618
Newburgh Fife 1654
Newburn Fife 1628
Newhills Aberdeenshire 1700
Newlands Peeblesshire 1677
Newton Midlothian 1629
Newton on Ayr Ayrshire 1780
Newtyle Angus 1685
Nigg (Kincardine) Kincardineshire 1675
Nigg (Ross) Ross and Cromarty 1730
North Berwick East Lothian 1604
North Bute Bute 1844
North Knapdale Argyll 1779
North Leith Midlothian 1605
North Ronaldshay Orkney 1800
North Uist Inverness-shire 1821
North Yell (Fetlar and North Yell) Shetland 1785
Northmavine Shetland 1758
Oa Argyll 1833
Oathlaw Angus 1717
Ochiltree Ayrshire 1641
Old Cumnock Ayrshire 1704
Old Deer Aberdeenshire 1735
Old Luce (or Glenluce) Wigtonshire 1731
Old Machar Aberdeenshire 1621
Old Meldrum Aberdeenshire 1713
Old Monkland Lanarkshire 1695
Old or West Kilpatrick Dunbartonshire 1688
Oldhamstocks East Lothian 1664
Olrig Caithness 1699
Ordiquhill Banffshire 1704
Ormiston East Lothian 1637
Orphir Orkney 1709
Orwell Kinross-shire 1688
Oxnam Roxburghshire 1700
Oyne Aberdeenshire 1703
Paisley (Burgh or Low) Renfrewshire 1738
Paisley (High) Renfrewshire 1788
Paisley (Middle) Renfrewshire 1788
Panbride Angus 1693
Papa Stour (Walls, Sandness, Papa Stour, Foula) Shetland 1772
Papa Westray (Westray and Papa Westray) Orkney 1760
Paplay Orkney 1654
Parton Kirkcudbrightshire 1714
Peebles Peeblesshire 1622
Pencaitland East Lothian 1598
Penicuik Midlothian 1654
Penninghame Wigtonshire 1695
Penpont Dumfriesshire 1728
Perth Perthshire 1561
Peterculter Aberdeenshire 1643
Peterhead Aberdeenshire 1664
Pettinain Lanarkshire 1689
Petty Inverness-shire 1633
Pharay Orkney 1789
Pitsligo Aberdeenshire 1720
Pittenweem Fife 1611
Polmont Stirlingshire 1729
Polwarth Berwickshire 1652
Port Glasgow Renfrewshire 1696
Port of Menteith Perthshire 1697
Portmoak Kinross-shire 1701
Portnahaven Argyll 1831
Portpatrick Wigtonshire 1720
Portree Inverness-shire 1800
Premnay Aberdeenshire 1718
Preston (Bunkle and Preston) Berwickshire 1704
Prestonkirk (formerly Prestonhaugh) East Lothian 1658
Prestonpans (formerly Saltpreston) East Lothian 1596
Prestwick (Monkton and Prestwick) Ayrshire 1702
Quarff (Bressay, Burra and Quarff) Shetland 1755
Queensferry West Lothian 1635
Rafford Moray 1682
Rathen Aberdeenshire 1704
Ratho Midlothian 1682
Rathven Banffshire 1710
Rattray Perthshire 1606
Rayne Aberdeenshire 1672
Reay Caithness 1732
Redgorton Perthshire 1706
Rendall Orkney 1725
Renfrew Renfrewshire 1673
Rerrick Kirkcudbrightshire 1736
Rescobie Angus 1685
Resolis Ross and Cromarty 1731
Rhynd Perthshire 1698
Rhynie and Essie Aberdeenshire 1740
Riccarton Ayrshire 1695
Roberton Selkirkshire 1679
Roberton (Wiston and Roberton) Lanarkshire 1689
Rogart Sutherland 1768
Rosemarkie Ross and Cromarty 1739
Roseneath Dunbartonshire 1722
Rosskeen Ross and Cromarty 1781
Rothes (Dundurcas) Moray 1698
Rothesay Bute 1691
Rothiemay Banffshire 1601
Rothiemurchus (Duthil and Rothiemurchus) Inverness-shire 1766
Rousay and Egilshay Orkney 1733
Row (Rhu) Dunbartonshire 1760
Roxburgh Roxburghshire 1624
Rutherglen Lanarkshire 1698
Ruthven Angus 1744
Ruthwell Dumfriesshire 1723
Saddell and Skipness Argyll 1756
Salen (Argyll) Argyll 1828
Saline (Fife) Fife 1746
Salton East Lothian 1635
Sanday (Cross and Burness) Orkney 1735
Sandness (Walls, Sandness, Papa Stour, Foula) Shetland 1787
Sandsting and Aithsting Shetland 1733
Sandwick Orkney 1727
Sandwick and Cunningsburgh (Dunrossness, Fair Isle) Shetland 1730
Sanquhar Dumfriesshire 1693
Savoch Aberdeenshire 1852
Scone Perthshire 1620
Scoonie Fife 1667
Selkirk Selkirkshire 1697
Shapinshay Orkney 1632
Shotts Lanarkshire 1705
Sibbaldbie (Applegarth and Sibbaldbie) Dumfriesshire 1749
Simprim (Swinton and Simprim) Berwickshire 1697
Skene Aberdeenshire 1681
Skerries (Nesting, Lunnasting, Whalsay and Skerries) Shetland 1787
Skipness (Saddell and Skipness) Argyll 1756
Skirling Peeblesshire 1665
Slains Aberdeenshire 1707
Slamannan (formerly St. Lawrence) Stirlingshire 1681
Sleat Inverness-shire 1813
Smailholm Roxburghshire 1648
Snizort Inverness-shire 1823
Sorbie Wigtonshire 1700
Sorn Ayrshire 1692
South Knapdale Argyll 1771
South Leith Midlothian 1588
South Ronaldshay and Burray Orkney 1657
South Uist (South Uist and Benbecula) Inverness-shire 1839
Southdean and Abbotrule Roxburghshire 1696
Southend Argyll 1768
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Strathmiglo Fife 1702
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Tealing Angus 1599
Temple Midlothian 1688
Terregles Kirkcudbrightshire 1724
Teviothead Roxburghshire 1824
Thankerton (Covington and Thankerton) Lanarkshire 1772
Thurso Caithness 1647
Tibbermore Perthshire 1694
Tillicoultry Clackmannanshire 1639
Tingwall (Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale) Shetland 1695
Tinwald Dumfriesshire 1789
Tobermory Argyll 1830
Tongland Kirkcudbrightshire 1693
Tongue Sutherland 1780
Torosay (and Kinlochspelvie) Argyll 1772
Torphichen West Lothian 1693
Torryburn Fife 1629
Torthorwald Dumfriesshire 1696
Tough Aberdeenshire 1706
Towie Aberdeenshire 1751
Tranent East Lothian 1611
Traquair Peeblesshire 1694
Trinity Gask Perthshire 1641
Troqueer Kirkcudbrightshire 1690
Tulliallan Perthshire 1673
Tullich Aberdeenshire 1683
Tulliebole (Fossoway and Tulliebole) Kinross-shire 1609
Tullynessle, Forbes and Kearn Aberdeenshire 1718
Tundergarth Dumfriesshire 1791
Turriff Aberdeenshire 1696
Tweedsmuir Peeblesshire 1644
Twynholm Kirkcudbrightshire 1694
Tynninghame (Whitekirk and Tynninghame) East Lothian 1695
Tynron Dumfriesshire 1742
Tyree (Tiree and Coll) Argyll 1766
Tyrie Aberdeenshire 1710
Udny Aberdeenshire 1744
Uig (Lewis) Ross and Cromarty 1824
Unst Shetland 1776
Uphall (formerly Strathbrock) West Lothian 1598
Urquhart (Elgin) Moray 1647
Urquhart and Glenmoriston Inverness-shire 1739
Urquhart and Logie Wester Ross and Cromarty 1715
Urr Kirkcudbrightshire 1769
Urray Ross and Cromarty 1756
Walls (Walls and Flotta) (Orkney) Orkney 1707
Walls (Walls, Sandness, Papa Stour, Foula) Shetland 1771
Walston Lanarkshire 1679
Wamphray Dumfriesshire 1709
Wandell and Lamington Lanarkshire 1645
Watten Caithness 1714
Weem Perthshire 1692
Weisdale (Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale) Shetland 1727
Wemyss Fife 1660
West Calder Midlothian 1645
West Kilbride Ayrshire 1691
West Linton Peeblesshire 1656
Westerkirk Dumfriesshire 1693
Westray (Westray and Papa Westray) Orkney 1733
Westruther Berwickshire 1657
Whalsay and Skerries (Nesting, Lunnasting, Whalsay and Skerries) Shetland 1787
Whitburn West Lothian 1719
Whitekirk and Tynninghame East Lothian 1695
Whiteness and Weisdale (Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale) Shetland 1727
Whithorn Wigtonshire 1712
Whitsome and Hilton Berwickshire 1724
Whittinghame East Lothian 1627
Wick Caithness 1701
Wigtown Wigtonshire 1706
Wilton Roxburghshire 1694
Wiston and Roberton Lanarkshire 1689
Yarrow Selkirkshire 1691
Yester or Gifford East Lothian 1654
Yetholm Roxburghshire 1690
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