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Hi. I also asked this question to scotlandspeople as i am  very curious
The government website has records starting in 1553. I realise  at the time the reformation was beginning.
What about records of baptisms and marriages before that ? I’m sure they were recorded somehow. They were so  interested in illegitimate births and bigamy.  Shouldn’t there  be something ?
Where would they be found ? Or kept ?
Just asking
Thanks
Donna

Hello: thank you for your response when I looked up the name it said that Liverance in Scotland was assumed meaning it came from the job.  Also I was able to use Scotland’s people to go back to James Liverance as the father of Lilias Liverance who married James Murray. Of course I can only use what I find as to the patents of James.  The only James being born/ baptised at a date to be old enough to be a father was the one I found in SP.
Yea I know I would have to keep going back and back. But I was just wondering if there was a source which would give the identities of those men who had worked in that capacity. I found a couple but well out of range
The surname Liverance first appears in that 1610 record. It is not a common name.  And given that the reformation was still in its infancy I also wondered if they could have been catholic previously and lost that job.  Maybe a fall  from grace if you will. The Linlithgow family appear in other data bases related to their occupations, land grants  and hearth taxes.
   There is also mention of Liverance being friends of the Covenanters at some point in the 1600s.
But my idea was it was going to prove difficult if not impossible to research if indeed it was not their original name, without some kind of alternative record perhaps indicating whether or not there was this change of name.
Just fishing as SP isn’t much help related to that
Donna

Thank you.  Cost a lot though.  I don’t just copy info off trees without going to scotlandspeople for confirmation.  And even then I’m aware that  it may be incorrect due to a variety of issues.

H everyone: I have managed to trace loads of branches in my tree using online resources and the Mitchell. Do professionals have access to collections that an ordinal person like me would not? Or are there other sources on Scotland for example other than scotlandspeople? 
  I have managed to trace my Liverance surname to James born 1610 and have the paperwork, which includes his parents. However the trail stops there.  I also found a paper written by a man living in one of the small towns belonging to me who checked gravestones and church sessions before writing his  paper. However some of his data contradicts data from cousins who have done research as well.   I am also aware that many people were less than honest ( or just ignorant)  about their parents , birth dates , names, whether or not they are married  etc.  So sometimes a physical search in some records are a good idea.
My question is -if I hire a professional will they have access to records that I do not, especially for dates before 1600.

Thanks

Donna

I don’t know.  I saw that The new wife  was also from Kelso so he may have gone back home. Or to England. He may have hired somebody.  They had money.