Cranston Records

[JosiahS]

Hello there

According to Genuki Cranston Parish has births dating from 1682, marriages from 1784 and deaths from 1738, but the earliest burial on Scotland's People in that parish is from 1853.

Can anyone please tell me another source for the records for this parish - event the Society of Genealogists seems to have nothing.

Thank you

[Dundee]

Before 1853 there are only a few years of mortcloth dues. I suppose you would need to ask SP if they have been indexed for that parish.

Deaths: Mortcloth Dues, the entries occur on two pages of the register of baptisms, before births for December 1740 and before births September 1742. Last entry is dated April 1746.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Cranston,_Midlothian,_Scotland_Genealogy

Debra 

[Dundee]

Having said that, there are indexed records on SP under burials starting from 1738, so I am not sure where you are looking that you can't see them.

Debra 

[JosiahS]

Thanks for your help Debra

[Forfarian]

The only records readily available are those held by Scotland's People. See the detailed list (attached) for Cranston. Scotland's People www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk is the principal repository for all pre-1855 birth/baptism, banns/marriages and deaths/burials information in Scotland. If you can't find it on SP it is likely that the records have not survived; and almost every other web site or resource is an index or translation of the records held by Scotland's People.

event the Society of Genealogists seems to have nothing.

The Society of Genealogists is an England-based organisation and it is not the (or even a) main repository of original BMD records for Scotland, so this is not surprising.