Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland Genealogy

Renfrew (#575)

History
Available online at http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/. Browse the scanned pages under 'For non-subscribers,' then search for the parish report.

Condition of Original Registers—
Indexed: For an index to these records, see the Scottish Church Records Index on computer at the Family History Library and family history centers. Some of the records may be indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Births: Records are blank May 1687–February 1689, April 1691–August 1694. Mothers’ names are not regularly recorded until 1689. Marriages: Records are blank January 1678–October 1684, and, excluding one entry for 1689, April 1686–January 1691, August 1693–December 1694, December 1697–August 1713, and November 1792–July 1794. The record prior to 1794 occurs on alternate or occasional columns of the register of births. There is a separate record after November 1794. After 1693, the fact of marriage is seldom added to the entries of booking or proclamation until 1716. Marriages are often stated 1716–1750, only occasionally 1750–1792, and regularly after 1794. Besides the regular register, there is an intermixed record containing entries of irregular marriages between 1737 and 1828, and entries of sums paid by parties on occasion of their marriages, 1732–1779. Deaths: Only occasional entries of payments for ringing the bell at funerals, embracing the names of deceased persons. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
FHL Film Number Session Minutes v. 3                  1732–1828      1041326 Church treasury accounts v. 3     1732–1779      1041326 Note: Minutes contain irregular marriages, confessions of transgression, and distributions to the poor.

Renfrew Free Church
History—  The minister of the parish, and many of his congregation, “came out” in 1843. The church was built that year, and the manse in 1845. A new church was erected on the same site in 1882. In later years the population greatly increased. Membership: 1848, 371; 1900, 736. Source: Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843–1900, ed. Rev. William Ewing, D.D., 2 vols. pub. 1914. Film #918572. More details may be given in the source including a list of ministers.

Records— Baptismal Register 1843–1855 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH3/881.

Renfrew Branch, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
See Paisley

Probate Records
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