Torthorwald, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Genealogy

Parish #850

Condition of Original Registers—
Index: For an index to these records, see the Scottish Church Records Index on computer at the Family History Library and family history centers. Some records may be indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Births: There are no entries August 1701–November 1730. After the record for November 1745 there are two pages containing entries for 1726–1752. Mothers' names are not recorded until April 1810. Marriages: There are no entries January 1701–1727, February 1741–July 1743, October 1750–April 1752, November 1755–June 1758, 1778, 1787, 1796, and August 1807–October 1821 except two entries for 1812. Deaths: There are no death or burial entries August 1701–January 1734, and January 1808–December 1819 except one, 1733. Entries after 1764 often contain information relating to the last illness of the deceased. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Accounts                          1729–1750, 1762–1769, 1808–1840 Minutes                              1696–1701, 1729–1852 Miscellaneous Documents   1738, 1800 Note: Available at the Scottish National Archives, Edinburgh, record CH2/771.

Nonconformist Church Records
No known nonconformist groups, though in 1833 there were within the parish 28 families of Dissenters who would have attended services in neighboring parishes.

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