Liff, Benvie & Invergowrie, Angus, Scotland Genealogy

Parish #301

History
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With Fowlis Wester, Invergowrie, and Logie. Logie and Invergowrie have been joined to Liff since the mid seventeenth century. Liff and Benvie were united in 1758.

Condition of Original Registers—
Indexed: 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: Liff births are intermixed with marriages and other matters prior to 1655. 1655–1664 births are recorded in parallel columns with marriages. The records are blank, except for four entries 1691, May 1690–May 1696; also January 1703–September 1704, and February 1717–April 1718. After 1773, the record appears to be substantially a duplicate of the previous record September 1704–March 1721. Fowlis and Benvie birth records consist only of period from April 1655 to August 1658. There are fragments of six pages for Benvie 1667–1677. Marriages: Liff marriages are intermixed with births and other matters prior to 1655. 1655–1664 marriages are recorded in parallel columns with births. Records are blank 1660–1664, 1694–1704, except three pages containing entries June 1737–February 1739, and May 1769–October 1772, March 1721–August 1811. Fowlis and Benvie marriage records consist only for the period November 1655 to August 1660, except for January 1657–January 1660 which is blank. Benvie marriage records only for 1633–1642, which is also mixed up with other matters. Burials: Benvie burials are Mortcloth Dues 1750–1753. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Minutes 1667–1669; Benvie; 1671–1677, 1681–1689; Liff; 1786–1892 Minutes and Accounts 1673–1690. Liff; 1704–1721, 1726–1736, 1750 Note: Available at the Dundee City Archive and Record Centre, Dundee, Scotland, record CH2/497.

Liff United Presbyterian Church
History— Ten persons residing in the parish of Liff petitioned the Associate Presbytery to be taken under their inspection, which was granted, 1739. They afterwards helped to form the congregation of School Wynd, Dundee, with which the survivors and their families remained connected until 1785, when, along with other persons of the same communion who had settled in the place, they were disjoined from it, and formed into a separate congregation, with its seat in Liff. 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.

Records—  The extent of records is unknown.

Liff Free Church, later Lundie and Muirhead of Liff Church
History— A congregation of those who adhered to the Free Church was formed here at the Disruption. They met at first for worship in a tent. The church was built in 1843, and the manse in 1844. The manse was considerably altered and enlarged in 1890. The population greatly declined throughout the district served by this congregation. Membership: 1848, 246; 1900, 156. 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.

Records— Minutes 1843–1983 Communion Rolls 1843–1964 Other post–1855 records Note: Available at the Dundee City Archive and Record Centre, Dundee, Scotland, record CH3/1348.

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