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Subject: Re: [SCT-KKD] Parton Parish Registers
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:38:08 -0000
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I saw the Parton OPR in Edinburgh a number of years ago - sparse, indeed !
It seems that for many years they just were not completed. Bad news for me
and for you, it seems, but that is how it goes with non-statutory documents.
Keep searching :)
Don
Donald Craig
Liverpool UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathryn" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [SCT-KKD] Parton Parish Registers
> Dear Erica,
>
> Do you know why the registers are so minimal? Was there a fire or a flood
or
> something that destroyed them? Or were they never 'sent in' or whatever is
> done with parish registers? Sorry for such ignorance, but I am curious,
just
> grateful it is forty years and not more.
>
> Kathryn
>
> All messages to and from this address protected and checked by Norton's.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erica Johnson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [SCT-KKD] While we're on the subject of Wilson's...
>
>
> > There are huge gaps in some of the Parish Registers in
Kirkcudbrightshire.
> >
> > No marriage registers exist for Parton Parish between 1784 to 1832, so
if
> > they married in Parton you will probably never find a marriage.
Registers
> > exist for Balmaclellan and Kells for that time, but most Parish
registers
> > for Kirkcudbrightshire are very patchy and do not contain every baptism,
> > marriage or burial that took place, loads were never recorded in the
> > registers.
> > If the entry says their children were "Lawful" then they will have been
> > married.
> >
> > Erica
>
>
>
>
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