Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Genealogy

Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland (#876)

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: There are no entries July 1696–December 1699 or October 1709–June 1718. The years 1792–1796 inclusive and 1798 have a number of entries containing only the name of the child and the date, without the parents' names. Mothers' names are seldom recorded after 1793. Marriages: There are no entries July1796–December 1699 and July 1709–December 1736 and December 1771–December 1809, except ten in 1718–1719 and one entry for 1785. There is one entry for 1797 on a separate slip and no entries 1821–1738. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. FHL book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Register of Discipline 1694–1696 Collections and Distributions 1695–1737 Minutes 1694–1695, 1699–1710, 1718–1762, 1780–1781, 1795–1914 Poors' Fund Accounts 1748–1856 Accounts 1829–1840 Mortcloth Accounts 1749–1821 Mortality Register 1823–1903 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/1404.

Nonconformist Church Records
There are no known nonconformist groups.

Note: The Statistical Account of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright 1844, states that there were within the parish 49 members of the United Secession faith who attended at Wigton and Creetown; 43 members of the Reformed church, 26 members of the Relief church, and 81 Roman Catholics who all attended churches at Newton–Stewart. There were also a very few Episcopalians and Baptists. FHL British Book 941 B4sa, Ser. 2, vol. 4 pt. 2

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