Lumphannan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Genealogy

Parish #220

History
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Condition of Original Registers—
Index: For an index to these records, see the Scottish Church Records Index available on computers at the Family History Library and family history centers. The records may be indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Births: Births and marriages are intermixed until November 1780. Births are irregular circa 1803–1807. There is a duplicate of portion 1783–1804. Mothers’ names not recorded until 1803. Marriages: There is a separate record after September 1781. There is only one entry September 1793–August 1796 and no entries August 1797–June 1799. Records are blank October 1799–June 1803. There is a duplicate of the portion 1783–1836 and one entry of marriage 1836, after duplicate of births 1804. Deaths: Mortcloth Dues to March 1781, they are not continuous; then blank to 1851, when a burial register commences. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Minutes and Accounts 1740–1797 Discipline Minutes 1847–1864 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/782.

Lumphanan Free Church
History— This congregation was formed immediately after the Disruption, and a preacher was put in charge. The charge was sanctioned in October 1843. Church and manse were erected in 1844. A new manse was built in 1869, and a new church in 1870. Membership: 1848, 110; 1900, 143. Source: Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843–1900, ed. Rev. William Ewing, D.D., 2 vols. pub. 1914. Film #918572. More details are given in the source.

Records— Minutes 1845–1865 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH3/737.

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