Illigitimate Macleod in Muckairn.....

[utrecht003]

I Wonder if any one could advise me.I cant get past a Catherine Macleod
born abot 1846.She had a son (Illigitimate)Alexander born 25 May 1868 Muckairn,Clascarraig,Argyll.His Mothers name was given on his BC as Kitty.No Father was given
He later married 28 April 1893 Maggie Anderson in Glasgow. His Father was Malcolm Macleod and his Mother Catherine Mckenzie,Previously Macleod, MS Macleod
On his death cert. His Father is Malcolm Macleod and his Mother is Catherine Macleod subsequently Mackenzie,MS Macleod
Does anyone know this Family or where I can Find any thing about Malcolm
PS. On the BC Mary Macleod (Grand mother was present) It's possible her maiden name was Lamont.
I@m really snookered on this and where to go next.

[LesleyB]

Hi Utrecht
Did you ever get around to checking the Kirk Session? Any joy?
http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

Any leads in the census?
Best wishes
Lesley

[utrecht003]

Hi Lesley, someone at Scotlands Family Offered to look,but came back saying that part of Kirk sessions was missing or lost

[LesleyB]

Hi Utrecht
What a disappointment... Kirk session stuff can be a great source of info, especially on that sort of issue.

Best wishes
Lesley

[bluebell2go]

Excuse my ignorance as a beginner, but how and where do you access the Kirk Session records?

Bluebell

[LesleyB]

Hi Bluebell
You'd mostly need to go to NAS in Edinburgh:
http://www.nas.gov.uk/doingResearch/NASrecords.asp
NAS have digitised some of them and they are available as "Virtual Volumes" on the PCs there.
But some others are held in archives more local to their own area (e.g. some in the Stirling area) & as far as I remember I think some may still be held by their own church.

If you go to the NAS catalogue http://www.dswebhosting.info/NAS/
& put in a search similar to Kirk Session Inverkeithing, (or whatever other parish) chose AND rather than PHRASE and see what turns up for the parish you are interested in.
Best wishes
Lesley

[AndrewP]

You'd mostly need to go to NAS in Edinburgh:
http://www.nas.gov.uk/doingResearch/NASrecords.asp
NAS have digitised some of them and they are available as "Virtual Volumes" on the PCs there.
But some others are held in archives more local to their own area (e.g. some in the Stirling area) & as far as I remember I think some may still be held by their own church.

On the recent "DoorsOpen Day", I visited Thomas Thomson House in the outskirts of Edinburgh, an outpost of the National Archives of Scotland (NAS). That building is not normally open to the public. In there, one of their activities is the photographing of the records for the Virtual Volumes. They are digitising the records they hold and the records held in the many archive repositories, diocese offices and (I think) some churches around Scotland. So upon completion of this project, it will not only be the records they hold within NAS, but those which would be much harder for people to access due to their locations. This is done in co-operation with these various archive holders. If any of them were unwilling to lend their archive material to NAS for this project, NAS do have a statutory right to take the archives in. However, in practice they have not had to invoke this statutiory right, co-operation has worked for them.

This is a long term project that still has a long way to go. I believe that the long term aim is for them to become available on the internet, but they are not at that stage yet.

All the best,

AndrewP

[garibaldired]

Following Lesley's link (thank you Lesley!) I see the Kirk Sessions I'm interested in run from 1651 - 1849. Does this mean they were discontinued at this point or are the records after this held elsewhere?
If elsewhere how would I find out?
Thanks,
Meg

[LesleyB]

Hi Meg
A look at Genuki www.genuki.org.uk might be helpful, or try a Google for kirk session wherever and see what turns up!

Try also:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec/h ... r-cov.html
Appendix 2: Kirk session and other material found in the OPRs.

Which parish was it you wre interested in?
Best wishes
Lesley

[garibaldired]

Lesley,

It's Cleish.
Following all those links just gives me the ones at The National Archives at Edinburgh so presumably that's my lot!
Thanks very much for the suggestions though.
While on this topic (well vaguely!), were I to look at the original OPR for Cleish might I find my gt grandmother's birth and her siblings' whose births do not appear on the IGI or SP? Or are those too lost in the mists of time?
Meg