Croy & Dalcross, Inverness-shire, Scotland Genealogy

Parish # 94

History
The precise signification of Croy cannot be determined, as the name is also found in Holland, Belgium. The word most analogous to it in the Celtic language is cruadh (hard). Dalcross, Dealganross, is from the Gaelic words, Dal aig ceann Rois, signifying “the dale at the end of the ravine,”

The only event worthy to be recorded, is the battle of Culloden, fought 16th April 1746, on a bleak moor five miles south-west of the church. The particulars have been so often and so minutely, and by Chambers, so faithfully and circumstantially narrated, that hardly anything farther can be said.

The population in 1801 was 1601; in 1811 it was 1456; in 1821 it was 1536; and in1831 it was 1664.

From 1640 to 1789, the parish records were kept with singular care. The collections for the poor, and texts of Scripture, regularly entered. The names and residences of the various delinquents, with inquisitorial minuteness, are all recorded, from 1640 to 1720, a period looked on by many as the golden age of the church.

This account was written September 1841.

Source: The New Statistical Account of Scotland, FHL book 941 B4sa, series 2 vol. 14.

Also available online at http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/. Browse the scanned pages under ‘For non-subscribers,’ then search for the parish report.

Condition of Original Register—
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 also be indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Births: Records are irregular and defective December 1782–February 1785. There are seven pages of irregular entries, 1812–1854, at the end of record for 1854 Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Minutes 1640–1690, 1718–1775, 1824–1906 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/76.

Croy Free Church
History— The adherents of the Free Church in the parish of Croy at first worshiped at Cawdor; and a proposal to divide their parish between Cawdor and Petty was seriously considered. This was departed from; as was also a plan for building a wooden church on a site for which the proprietor of Cantray would grant only a short lease. At length, in 1851, a suitable site was secured. Source: Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843–1900, ed. Rev. William Ewing, D.D., 2 vols. pub. 1914. Film #918572.

Records— No known pre-1855 records.

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