its a cATHOLIC MARRIAGE IN 1837 on Scotlandspeople. Angus Morrison and Flora Patterson.
Catholic archives suggest grooms place of birth is StPeters Iona. I think it reads Parish of Small Isles, Invernessshie. Can you see this?
No, I can't see it.
But Iona isn't in the parish of the Small Isles, which includes Eigg, Rum, Canna and Muck. The Statistical Account says that Eigg is in Inverness-shire and the other three islands in Argyll, but I am fairly sure that all four were in Inverness-shire later on, after some boundary revisions. Iona is in the parish of Kilfinichen in Argyll. So there's a contradiction there.
I looked at the New Statistical Account (1830s) of Kilfinichen, and the author states that all the parishioners are of the established church (i.e. Church of Scotland) except 40 Baptists and Independents and just two Roman Catholics on Iona. The Statistical Account (1790s) says that all the parishioners belong to the established church. No mention of Roman Catholics.
The Statistical Account of the Small Isles (1790s) says that 'a great number of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics' and laments that no proper parish register is kept. The New Statistical Account (1830s) is silent on the subject.
Besides the Abbey, which is dedicated to St Mary, the only other church on Iona is St Ronan's. And there is the chapel of St Oran. So I am rather at a loss to know what and where St Peter's might be.
