Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Genealogy

Oyne #230

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: Records are blank March 1725–January 1727. Entries are out of the order of time after 1790. Mothers’ names are recorded after 1812. Marriages: There is no entry for 1763. Records are blank October 1765–July 1770, and August 1811–November 1818, except one entry. Annual number of entries varies very much. Deaths: Records are of deaths until 1719. They are blank January 1719–December 1783, after which they are burials. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b. Note: Earlier registers appear to have been lost.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Minutes 1663–1688 - with accounts 1701–1706, 1714–1720, 1777–1888 Burnet’s Mortification 1846–1879 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/293.

Oyne Free Church
History—  The minister of the parish and the majority of his congregation “came out” in 1843. They met with much opposition, and endured many trials. At first they met in a barn. The sister of the local blacksmith gave her own garden to the congregation, and here church and manse were erected in 1848. Church hall and vestry were gifted by James Horn of Petmethan House, who also gave endowments for the poor of the congregation, and for augmentation of the minister’s stipend. Membership: 1848, 230; 1900, 154. 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— Session Minutes 1843–1917 Cash Book, Deacon’s Court 1843–1867 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH3/434.

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