Colvend and Southwick, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Genealogy

Colvend and Southwick, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland (#861)

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 records may be indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Births: No notation. Marriages: It does not appear that any records were kept until August 1844, although there are one or two entries of an earlier date. Deaths: ''Same as marriages above. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland,'' by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. FHL book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Records— Minutes 1715–1782, 1786, 1788, 1794, 1806 Marriages 1715–1732, 1744–1760, 1775–1780 Baptisms 1715–1750, 1754–1787 - with gaps Deaths 1750–1759 - with gaps Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/1018.

Lochend and New Abbey Free Church
History— From 1843 till 1861 Lochend and New Abbey, six miles apart, were separate Home Mission stations. In 1861, they were united under one probationer. The charge was sanctioned in 1863. When the church was built at the east end of the village of Beeswing in 1857, it was called Lochend. A church was erected in New Abbey in 1878. Membership: 1872, 101; 1900, 106. 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 lists of ministers.

Records— No known pre–1855 records. Note: An 1844 source states that there was a meeting place for members of the United Secession church, but it was ill attended.

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