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From: "Janet" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-KKD] Parton Parish Registers
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:07:56 +1000
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There was an Act of Parliament (which effected the whole of Scotland)
effective 1st October 1783 imposing a tax of 3 pence on each birth or
baptism, each marriage and each burial that was recorded. This was
repealed in 1794. At that stage some families approached their Church
with their Family Bible, and asked that the family information then be
recorded in the Church Records. So if your family were labourers or
gardeners who could not afford to pay this tax, any births, deaths or
marriages for your family would not have been recorded at this time.

I have read many LDS OPR Films and there is a notation in most of them,
explaining the absence of records during this period of time.

Janet
Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia

Researching: GORDON / GRIER / GRIERSON / HANNAH / HENDERSON / CAMPBELL
/ McILWRAITH / McNAE / ROXBURGH / WHANNELL

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