Drymen, Stirlingshire, Scotland Genealogy

Parish #477                           [Return to parish list.]

= History =

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= Census Records =

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= Church Records =

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. The records may be indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Births: Records are blank May 1678–November 1721. At the end of 1760 is a list of baptisms, bearing to be extracted from the records of the Kirk–Session of Aberfoil, dated between July 1753 and December 1765 (5 leaves). There is a duplicate of the record January 1755–May 1780. Marriages: The record 1728–1756 inclusive is chiefly proclamations. Entries of irregular marriages for years 1734–1737 are on four pages after January 1744. The fact of marriage is often omitted after 1776. Deaths: Mortcloth Dues until 1733; then record is blank until October 1783, after which it is burials. Record ends April 1784. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Minutes 1693–1740, 1743–1744, 1831–1904 Communion Roll 1834 Male Heads of Families 1835–1836 List of Poor 1740 Accounts 1724–1726 - damaged Poors’ Fund Minutes 1743–1840 Stipend Book, Crops 1743–1777 - with gaps; 1779–1803 Communion Roll 1835 Note: Available at the Stirling Council Archives, Stirling, Scotland, record CH2/1229.

Drymen United Presbyterian Church
History— After the parish minister was charged with gross offenses in 1738, several parishioners withdrew from his ministry and acceded to the Associate Presbytery. They were joined in the following year by Seceders from neighboring parishes. Sermon was occasionally supplied by the Presbytery. The people became part of the Holm of Balfron congregation when it was formed in 1742. A place of worship was built at Drymen sometime after, and the minister preached alternately there and at Balfron. Drymen became a separate congregation, with a minister of its own, in 1820. Source: Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church, by Rev. William MacKelvie, D.D., pub. 1873. Film #477618. More details may be given in the source including a list of ministers.

Records— Minutes 1850–1901 Note: Available at the Stirling Council Archives, Stirling, Scotland, record CH3/1226.

= Probate Records =

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