which Church in Limerigg?

[dowdstree]

Dear Nerys,

Hi its me again - just had a thought and went on to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and did a search of valuation rolls and it has come up with a hit.

1925  Owner/Occupier - Edward Findlay  - House  -  Lochend Cottage, Limerigg, Slamannan, Parish of New Monkland  -  County of Lanark.

Its a pay site (don't know if you have used it but its the best one for Scottish Records). It costs £7.00 for 30 credits. Unfortunately I don't have any left to look at the full entry.

Hope this helps.

Dorrie

[Forfarian]

My daughter and her colleagues say that the Session Records of the Church of Scotland are held by the National Archives of Scotland  www.nas.gov/about/101101 and this is where you are most likely to find him mentioned. Don't know if they are available online.

No, they're not.

Also, according to the online catalogue at the National Archives Records of Scotland the Slamannan Church of Scotland records are not held by the National Archives Records of Scotland, but by Falkirk Archives. See http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/search.aspx and put CH2/331 in the box labelled 'Reference'. then search.

[dowdstree]

OK Forfarian, thanks for correcting my daughter and her colleagues error on where the Session Records for SLAMANNAN are actually held. They were only trying to be helpful and took time to find out as much as they could. Obviously they are unaware of where  INDIVIDUAL records are actually held.

Dorrie

 

[Forfarian]

OK Forfarian, thanks for correcting my daughter and her colleagues error on where the Session Records for SLAMANNAN are actually held. They were only trying to be helpful and took time to find out as much as they could. Obviously they are unaware of where  INDIVIDUAL records are actually held.

Your daughter and colleagues are perfectly correct in saying that the Kirk Session records are in the National Archives of Scotland, which have recently changed their name to National Records of Scotland. The vast majority of the KS records are indeed there.

However I thought it might be helpful to find the NRS catalogue reference by searching the NRS catalogue, and I too was surprised to find that the Slamannan KS records have apparently escaped the net of the NRS.

I do not see this as 'correcting an error', merely as amplifying the information your daughter and colleagues have helpfully provided.

[Scottish Janealogy]

The situation is even more complicated!! If you look at individual records starting with the reference CH2/331 you will find that some have been digitally imaged and some, apparently, have not. The digitally imaged volumes are viewable at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh. I've found that the NRS catalogue is not always completely accurate about which volumes have been imaged and which have not so I'd advise a phone call to check with Historical Searchroom staff.

Hope this helps.

[mosstrooper]

Dear Nerys,

Hi its me again - just had a thought and went on to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and did a search of valuation rolls and it has come up with a hit.

1925  Owner/Occupier - Edward Findlay  - House  -  Lochend Cottage, Limerigg, Slamannan, Parish of New Monkland  -  County of Lanark.

Its a pay site (don't know if you have used it but its the best one for Scottish Records). It costs £7.00 for 30 credits. Unfortunately I don't have any left to look at the full entry.

Hope this helps.

Dorrie

Lochend Cottage was on the other side of the road from Heatherfield and is marked on maps of that era.
James.