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From: "Nancy" <>
Subject: Union Church Presbyterian Church
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:05:03 -0800

I recently spent an afternoon copying some records at Union Church
Presbyterian, in Jefferson County, MS. The North and South Carolina
Scots who migrated to the area in the early 1800's and established the
"Scotch Settlement," later known as Union Church, founded this church
in 1817. They continued speaking and conducting church services in
their Gaelic language for at least the first generation and many even
longer. The records are a treasure and I am grateful to my cousin,
Mike McCormick, for allowing me to copy them. There were far too
many records for me to scan in one afternoon, but I concentrated on,
besides my own family names, the Scottish Mc's, as well as some
others. I've just finished transcribing the records and have placed
them online. Some of the names included (but not limited to!) are:
Blue, Brown, Buckels, Cato, Dawkins, Buie, Cameron,
Campbell, Clark, Currie, Gilchrist, Galbreaths, Erwin, Fairley,
Godbold, Knapp, Lee, McArn, McBride, McCall, McCallum, McClure,
McCormick, McClutchie, McDonald, McDougald, McDuffie, McIntyre,
McEachern, McLaurin, McLean, McLeod, McMillan, McMurchie, McNair,
McNeill, McPherson, McQueen, Mitchell, Newman, Osborne, Patterson,
Ray, Scott, Smith, Smylie, Torrey, Warren and Wilkinson.
The Record's Index page is at:
http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334/Union_Church_Records.html
Enjoy,
Nancy Brister
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