Glassford, Lanarkshire, Scotland Genealogy

Glassford (#645)

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 Internation Genealogical Index. Births: The lower portion of the page at January 1715 has been torn off. There are no entries June 1726–February 1731. There is one page of irregular entries, 1765–1794, recorded at October 1783. Mothers’ names were unrecorded until December 1765. Marriages: The first page of marriages contains entries, 1692–1694, of persons in other parishes married at Glassford. There is only one entry December 1707–August 1709; and no entries April 1723–April 1732, and 1745. There is one for 1763, June 1746–December 1783, and two entries June 1784–September 1790, July 1798–December 1801, March1804–September 1816. There is one entry October 1739–December 1741 and only proclamations after September 1816. Deaths: Mortcloth Dues, 1733–1796. There are no entries November 1748–March 1766, August 1779–April 1781 and only one entry July 1791–July 1794. There are burials, October 1783–January 1807 and no entries November 1788–August 1790, November 1792–July 1794. There are only two entries May 1798–January 1802. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
There are none.

Chapelton Free Church
History— The minister of the Chapelton church, in the parish of Glassford, and nearly all his congregation “came out” in 1843. They were deprived of their church and for a time worshiped in the open air and then in the school. A church was built very soon in spite of much opposition from influential quarters. The decline of handloom weaving seriously affected the congregation, no other industry taking its place. The congregation was reduced to a preaching station in 1849. Sanction was restored in 1855. A new church was built in 1888. The congregation was joined by a number from the Relief Church. Membership: 1859, 170; 1900, 132. Source: Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843–1900, ed. Rev. William Ewing, D.D., 2 vols. pub. 1914. FHL Film #918572. More details may be given in the source including a list of ministers.

Records— The extent of records is not known.

Return to the Lanarkshire parish list.