Anyone visiting NAS ?

frances · Post by **frances** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:08 am

If anyone is visiting the NAS I would be very grateful if they could look for the birth record of DUNCAN MACRAE born c 1850 in Petty .I believe his family may have been members of The Free Church.

His parents were DONALD/DAVID MACRAE and SARAH MACPHERSON. Although I have found him on a number of census I have been unable to locate his birth on SP , neither have I been able to find his parents marriage record.

Any help at all would be most welcome.

Thank You

Frances

Post by **paddyscar** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:30 pm

Hi Frances:

Was anyone able to follow-up on this for you? If not, maybe someone will be going soon?

Paddyscar

Post by **AndrewP** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:36 pm

It looks like there are no records in NAS for Petty Free Church for that era.

NAS online catalog wrote:Repository: National Archives of Scotland
Reference: CH3/382
Title: Petty Free Church (later United Free)
Dates: 1875-1925
Access status: Open

consisting of:

NAS online catalog wrote:Reference: CH3/382/1
Title: Session Minutes
Dates: 1875-1925
Access status: Open
Access conditions: This record has been digitally imaged and will not be produced for readers. The digital images may be seen in the NAS Search Rooms on the 'Virtual Volumes' system.
Description: (With Communion Rolls incorporated)

According to information on the NAS website, there was a Free Church in Petty under its various names from 1851 to 1929. As I read it there was probably a Free Church congregation from 1843, but without its own church building until 1851.

See NAS reference to Petty Free Church.

All the best,

AndrewP

frances · Post by **frances** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:56 am

Thanks for that Andrew, seems I am destined not to find the elusive Duncan Macrae.

Frances