Hi Pam
Thanks - I will try to get to NAS again. I meant to write tht I'd looked in the NAS rather than the GROS. I couldn't find anything in the index when I was in Edinburgh earlier in the year. I can't understand why they are not indexed on the NAS website! Various other KS records are. Certainly Annan Presbytery records are there and sometimes cases from individual KSs were referred to the Presbytery. I need the to check individual KS as they are useful for tracing parents of illegitimate children. The mothers were hauled up to be "admonished" and asked to say who the father was etc...
I will keep looking I'm really interested in the mid 19C when my gg grandfather was the first of two illegitimate sons of an Anne Johnston/e. If you can point me to the correct reference numbers from the NAS index I'd be grateful. I know they usually begin with CH/
With thanks
Maggie
Maggie