Glasgow, Scotland Established Church Kirk Session Records

Scotland Lanarkshire, Scotland  Glasgow

Here is a list of the surviving Kirk session records for the city of Glasgow:

Note: Only churches with pre–1855 records are listed, and in the order of their founding. Some of those listed are in the suburbs of Glasgow.

St. Mungo’s
Minutes November 3, 1583, March 29, 1593, November 28, 1583, October 1592 North Session Minutes 1788–1975 Note: Glasgow City Archives, record CH2/550.

Reference Title Date Access status CH2/550 Records of St. Mungo's (Cathedral, Inner High, North) Kirk Session, Glasgow 1583-1939 CH2/550/1 Minutes 3 Nov 1583-29 Mar 1593

CH2/550/2 Minutes 28 Nov 1583-19 Oct 1592

CH2/550/2a On receipt of nos. CH2/550/1 and CH2/550/2 it was found that a considerable quantity of extraneous matter had been used as binding. This has been repaired and bound into a separate volume 14th century-15th century CH2/550/3 North session minutes 1788-98 Poor relief distributions 1788-97 1788-1797 CH2/550/4 North session minutes 1798-1809 Poor relief distributions 1797-1809 1798-1809  CH2/550/5 North session minutes 1809-1834 Poor relief distributions 1809-1816 List of elders 1779-1832 1809-1834  CH2/550/6 North session (High Church) minutes 1834-1875  CH2/550/7 High church minutes 1870-1886 CH2/550/8 Minutes of General Session 1782-1795

Tron
Formed in 1602 from the original Old Glasgow Parish Church

Minutes 1788–1925 Poor Accounts 1788–1798 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, Record CH2/594.

Reference Title Date Access status CH2/594 Records of Tron Kirk Session, Glasgow 1788-1925 CH2/594/1 Minutes 1788-98; Poors accounts 1788-98 1788-1798

CH2/594/2 Minutes 1900-1925

Alford
Minutes 1717–1809, 1873–1952 Poor Fund 1842–1855 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/9.

Reference Title Date Access status CH2/9 Records of Alford Kirk Session 1717-1968 CH2/9/1 Alford kirk session: Minutes 1717-1740 CH2/9/2 Alford kirk session: Minutes 1740-1791  CH2/9/3 Alford kirk session: Minutes 1792-1809

CH2/9/4 Alford kirk session: Minutes 1873-1900 CH2/9/5 Alford kirk session: Minutes 1900-1927 CH2/9/6 Alford kirk session: Minutes 1927-1952 CH2/9/7 Alford kirk session: Poors' fund 1842-1855  CH2/9/8 Alford kirk session: Collections 1924-1936 CH2/9/9 Alford kirk session: Baptismal register 1874-1900

CH2/9/10 Alford kirk session: Baptismal register 1901-1952 CH2/9/11 Alford kirk session: Proclamations 1879-1922

CH2/9/12 Alford kirk session: Proclamations 1923-1944 CH2/9/13 Alford kirk session: Proclamations 1945-1971 CH2/9/14 Alford kirk session: Intimations of banns 1922-7 1922-1927 CH2/9/15 Alford kirk session: Communion roll 1873-1880 CH2/9/16 Alford kirk session: Communion roll 1880-1881  CH2/9/17 Alford kirk session: Communion roll 1881-1887  CH2/9/18 Alford kirk session: Communion roll 1887-1892  CH2/9/19 Alford kirk session: Communion roll 1892-1895

Down
Minutes and Accounts 1769–1785 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/1052.

Reference Title Date Access status CH2/1052 Records of Down (later Macduff) Kirk Session 1769-1933 CH2/1052/1 Minutes and accounts 1769-1785 CH2/1052/2 Minutes 1898-1933  CH2/1052/3 Baptismal register 1859 Baptismal register 1867-85 1859-1885

St. George’s West Parish
Minutes 1771–1780, 1812–1913 Poor Fund Debursements 1784–1798 Roll Book 1792–1818, 1823 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/818.

Calton
Managers Minutes 1823–1851 Cash Book 1791–1955 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/725.

Brownfield Chapel
Minutes 1839–1848 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/643.

Laurieston
Minutes 1850–1881 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/1216.

Martyrs
Collection Book 1852–1946 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/999.

St. John’s
Various Minutes 1819–1840, 1848–1938 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/176.

Reference Title Date Access status CH2/176 Records of Glasgow, St. John's Kirk Session 1819-1898 CH2/176/1 Minutes 1819-1836 CH2/176/2 Minutes 1848-1862 CH2/176/3 Minutes 1862-1876

CH2/176/4 Minutes 1876-1898 CH2/176/5 Managers' minutes 1822-1825, 1829-1833, 1836, 1840 1822-1840 CH2/176/6 Minutes 1898-1938  CH2/176/7 Baptismal register 1897-1963

Shettleston
Managers Minutes 1825–1903 Accounts 1833–1891 Seat Rent Accounts 1779–1853 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/178.

St. Thomas’s
Minutes 1834–1843 Cash Book 1851–1874 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/635.

St. Peter’s
Various Minutes 1849–1946 Marriage Register 1849–1901 Communion Roll 1850–1858 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow record CH2/665.

Reference Title Date Access status CH2/665 Records of St Peter's Kirk Session, Q.S., Glasgow 1849-1951 CH2/665/1-4 Session minutes 1853-1846  CH2/665/5 Trustees' minutes 1849-1922  CH2/665/6 Baptismal register 1866-1896  CH2/665/7 Baptismal register 1897-1946

CH2/665/8 Marriage register 1849-1901; Marriage register 1933 1849-1933 CH2/665/9 Proclamation register 1935-1947

CH2/665/10-13 Communion roll 1849-1950

CH2/665/14 Marriage register 1906-1951

St. Mark’s
Managers Minutes 1850–1864 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/177.

St. Matthew’s
Minutes 1852–1882 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/645.

Springburn
Minutes 1854–1966 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, record CH2/774.

Stockwell
Constitution of Church 1837 Note: Available at the Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow record CH2/519. Minutes 1842–1843 are in CH3/954.