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From: "bruce.mcnair" <>
Subject: [SCT-STIRLINGSHIRE] Registers
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:52:45 +0200


Catherine,

The income did not go to the session clerk but to the church. Originally, the Established Church of Scotland paid the minister's stipend, and administered the buildings, graveyard, Poor Law and so on.

The dissenting congregations had to pay their minister's stipend, their church building, and were understandably reluctant to support the Established church as well. Ultimately there was lay (as opposed to church) parish administration, which took over Poor Law and graveyards.

The Mormons seem to mix up banns and actual weddings, as I have one case where the IGI did this, and have "recorded" a wedding which never took place.

Possibly it boiled down to what the parishioners could get for nothing. I am only speculating, but possibly the parishioners could argue that having paid for the ceremony once, they weren't going to pay again, and perhaps the session clerk accepted the arguement, and put in his register, free, an event which had taken place somewhere else. But I do not think there was an established procedure of double entries, and it is safer to consult OPRs directly rather than IGI lists.

Bruce

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