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Title: Yet another question regarding Kirk Sessions...
Post by: Fogmoose on Thursday 15 April 21 05:22 BST (UK)
I frequently see mention of "Tokens" being distributed. What exactly are they talking about?
Title: Re: Yet another question regarding Kirk Sessions...
Post by: wivenhoe on Thursday 15 April 21 06:25 BST (UK)

Can you please identify what parish, and the times.

I am also looking at the Kirk Sessions minutes for one county, and wondering how much consistency, uniformity there is for any one parish over a period of time eg 60 years.  Also all parishes for the same time period eg. early 19th century...mid century.

Administrative matters might be consistent.  Are social matters, rituals eg  financial support for the destitute, births of children out of wedlock likely to reflect the culture of the one parish, one minister.

Fife, 1840s, I see no mention of tokens.  How and where do you see tokens?
Title: Re: Yet another question regarding Kirk Sessions...
Post by: Tickettyboo on Thursday 15 April 21 07:05 BST (UK)
I frequently see mention of "Tokens" being distributed. What exactly are they talking about?

Possibly communion tokens?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_token

Boo
Title: Re: Yet another question regarding Kirk Sessions...
Post by: Skoosh on Thursday 15 April 21 08:53 BST (UK)
Some more info' on communion tokens, there were folk who never took communion, participants were expected to have lived a good life?

https://www.bokonline.org.uk/our-history-communion-tokens/

Bests,
Skoosh.
Title: Re: Yet another question regarding Kirk Sessions...
Post by: Fogmoose on Thursday 15 April 21 21:05 BST (UK)
Thanks Skoosh, that is what I was looking for. Very Interesting!

I am seeing the mention of Tokens in several Kirk records in Aberdeenshire, in the early and mid 19th century. 
Title: Re: Yet another question regarding Kirk Sessions...
Post by: Fogmoose on Thursday 15 April 21 21:07 BST (UK)
Thanks to Boo, as well!
Title: Re: Yet another question regarding Kirk Sessions...
Post by: Skoosh on Friday 16 April 21 08:31 BST (UK)
Communion tokens for sale on eBay etc'.  Kirk elders could actually  be quite young, mebbes 21? so one Session might differ greatly in outlook from the parish next door and from one generation to another, individual ministers might be famed as preachers but the Session ran the parish and indeed the congregation chose the minister. The business of patronage where the parish heritors chose the minister was the main issue which split the Kirk in the 1840's.

Skoosh.