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From: "Caroline Wilkins" <>
Subject: Re: Birth records
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 08:27:18 +1000


Dear Gordon,

I have ordered the Foveran PR's for my own research. When it arrives I'd be
more than happy to look for your Henry's. In the meantime, are you able to
look at the Scottish Old Parish Records? Most LDS libraries would have
them, they're a set of fiche similar to the IGI.

Regards,

Caroline Wilkins
Melbourne Oz

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> From: Gordon Johnson <>
> To:
> Subject: Birth records
> Date: Friday, 2 October 1998 2:42
>
> >David Henry asked:
> >Where could I find birth or christening records for someone born in
> >Aberdeenshire during the late 1600s or early 1700s? Is Scots Origins
> >the only source for such records over the internet? I am searching for
> >a record of the children of Alexander Henry and Jean Robertson Henry who
> >may have lived in Foveran during the early 1700s. One of their sons,
> >John, was the father of American patriot, Patrick Henry.
>
> ***** The Scots Origins site uses the same index entries as the OPR Index
> and SCR cd-rom, and is as complete an index to Church of Scotland
Registers
> as we acan expect to see.
> What you don't get are the registers of the Scottish Episcopal church and
> other churches, but in the 1600s there was only the one national church,
> apart from the Roman Catholics who were few and far between.
> Your basic problem is probably that registers have been lost or
destroyed,
> and only if your family were landowners, were well off, or left a will
> will there be any definitive record of parentage. The Aberdeenshire
sasines
> from the 1600s and the national annual indexes of registers of deeds may
> identify persons, but only the better-off are likely to appear.
> I forgot one possibility: the published Sheriff Court Records of Aberdeen
-
> they may have done something illegal!
>
>
> Gordon Johnson,
> KinHelp Historical & Genealogical Searches.
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