Hello, thank you for posting that information, it is very interesting.
I have been searching high and low for records, because there are several blank spots in our family history prior to the introduction of statutory state records in 1855. Because our family records before then were probably made at the CA Church, they are unfortunately now missing from the records, even though they must have been recorded and may well be out there somewhere! Ironically, we have more complete records for the start of the 19th century, but not for later, following the launch of the CAC.
Here is some of the correspondence I have been involved in:
Dear Sir/Madam
I believe you hold records for non-established churches in Dumfries. I am engaged in family-history research and am interested in locating the birth, marriage and death records of the Catholic Apostolic Church (“Irvingites”) in Dumfries, which functioned over a hundred-year period from approximately the 1830s to 1930.
Do you hold the records of the local Catholic Apostolic Church or, if not, do you perhaps have any idea where they ended up after the church disbanded in the 1920s?
Mr NAME
The ARCHIVE CENTRE
33 Burns Street
Dumfries
DG1 2PS
Tel: 01387 269254
Fax: 01387 264126
Email: libarchive[at]dumgal.gov.uk (replace [at] with @)
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS and MARRIAGES
Dumfries Municipal Chambers
Buccleuch Street
Dumfries
DG1 2AD
Tel:01387245906
Tel 01387245907
Fax: 01387269605
Email: isabeld[at]dumgal.gov.uk (replace [at] with @)
Dear Mr NAME
Thank you for your enquiry regarding the Catholic Apostolic Church
records from 1830 - 1930.
I have made enquiries with our local Archive Centre and they inform me
that they have already checked for these records and have not been able
to find where they are kept. They say they are definitely not in the
National Archives, and wonder if they may be held somewhere in London,
due to the fact that the church has not existed for such a long time.
I am sorry I cannot be helpful in this matter, but wish you well in your
continued search.
Yours sincerely
Isabel Davidson
Area Registrar, Registration Services
Community and Support Services
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Internal: 63359
External: 01387 245909
Fax: 01387 245907 (Internal 63357)
Drop Point: 274
Email: Isabel.Davidson[at]dumgal.gov.uk (replace [at] with @)
Dear Mr NAME
It was the Archivist who mentioned London to me as a possibility. If you have an address for the Church in London I would try that first. If not the National Records Office would be my next try. Any records in Scotland which do not have a ‘home’ seem to end up in the National Records Office or Archive. I am sorry I cannot be of any more use in this matter, it can be frustrating trying to track down some of the rarer records.
Regards
Isabel
From Records[at]gro-scotland.gsi.gov.uk (replace [at] with @)
Dear Mr NAME
I am not sure of national archives records to be certain I am afraid - you could check directly with them at
www.nas.gov.uk - it is certainly not records that we would keep here.
Christine
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