Bracadale, Inverness-shire, Scotland Genealogy

Bracadale, Inverness, Scotland (#109)

Established Church—Old Parochial Registers
Years Covered FHL Film Number Births: 1802–1854 0990718 item 2 Marriages: 1802–1854 0990718 item 2 Deaths: 1834–1839 0990718 item 2

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. Birth: The record proper begins August 1803, but there is a separate register for Minginish commencing August 1802. There is a draft of the former 1813–1819. Marriage record proper begins January 1803. There is one entry for both 1809 and 1810; two entries for 1812; none for 1813; two for 1815, 1816, and 1818 respectively. There is a separate record for Minginish January 1802–1818. A large portion of the entries dated between January and March of each year. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Old Parochial Registers
Bracadale Kirk session records, 1800-1919 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/783.

Bracadale Free Church
History— The minister of Bracadale, with his congregation, adhered to the Free Church in 1843. He was immediately translated to Musselburgh, but another minister was settled in December 1843. Steps were taken for the building of a new church in the end of 1854. Membership:1855, 400. Source: Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1943-1900, 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— No known pre-1855 records.