Dron, Perthshire, Scotland Genealogy

Parish #345

History
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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: Births are intermixed with marriages to December 1724 and recorded on alternate pages of the same volume for January 1725–December 1748. The two are in separate registers from 1749 onwards. Mothers' names are not recorded in the entries. Marriages: There is only one marriage entry November 1766–April 1769 and no entries December 1779–June 1783 and March 1786–November 1787. Deaths: The few deaths are burials. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church─Kirk Session Records
Minutes 1632–1750, 1758–1808, 1837–1932 Baptismal Register 1855–1959 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/9.

Greenend Relief Church, extinct
History— Greenend is a hamlet in the parish of Dron. In Aprilil 1835 the parishioners expected to be allowed the choice of a new minister but did not obtain it. On this account several of them withdrew from the Established Church and applied to the Relief Presbytery of Perth for supply of sermon, which was granted in August 1835. They proceeded to erect a place of worship with difficulty. After the resignation of the minister in 1843, the congregation became extinct. Source: Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church, by Rev. William MacKelvie, D.D. pub. 1873. Film #477618. More details are given in the source.

Records— Extent of pre-1855 records is unknown. No records deposited at the National Archives of Scotland.

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