New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Genealogy

Scotland

Dunbartonshire

New Kilpatrick

Parish #500

Guide to New Kilpatrick ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type	Quoad Omnia Parish
Parish Number	500
Civil Jurisdictions
Historic County	Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire
Council Area	Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire
Registration District	New-Kilpatrick (or East)
Records begin
Parish registers: 1691
Kirk Sessions: 1693
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Presbytery	Dumbarton
Synod	Glasgow & Ayr
Judicial Jurisdictions
Sheriff Court	Dumbarton, Falkirk, and Stirling
Commissary Court	Glasgow, Stirling, and Edinburgh

History

KILPATRICK, NEW, or EAST, a parish, partly in the county of Dumbarton, and partly in the county of Stirling, 6 miles (N. W. by N.) from Glasgow containing the village of Milngavie in the latter county, and in the former the villages of Blue-Row, Cannesburn, Craigton-Field, Dalsholm, New Kilpatrick, Knightswood, and Netherton-Quarry. This place occupies the eastern portion of the ancient parish of Kilpatrick, now called Old or West Kilpatrick, from which it was separated in 1649, and erected into an independent parish by the civil and ecclesiastical authorities. The church, erected in 1808, is a neat plain structure centrally situated. There is a place of worship in the village of Milngavie for members of the Relief.

New Kilpatrick is a northwestern suburb of Glasgow.

For more information about New Kilpatrick's geography, economy, history, education, and people, see the parish reports in The First and Second Statistical Accounts of Scotland, or the Third Statistical Account for Dunbartonshire 941 B4sa 3rd.

Census Records

Scottish Censuses were taken every 10 years beginning in 1801. Beginning with the 1841 Census, each individual in the nation was enumerated at the location they slept on a particular day. For more information, including which day each census was taken, read about Scottish Census Records.

Click here for a list of the FS Library microfilm numbers for the census records of New Kilpatrick.

Below is information for any known surname indexes:

Years	Surname Index
1841
1851	CD-ROM no. 3816
1861
1871
1881	6086556 ( 4 fiche)
1891

Indexes and images for the 1901, 1911, and 1921 censuses of Scotland are found on ScotlandsPeople ($). Registration is required and there is a small access fee per image. All available censuses, 1841-1921, are indexed on this website.

Church Records

The Established Church in Scotland is the Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian denomination of Christianity. Church of Scotland records generally cover the period of time prior to 1855, when Civil Registration began. Unlike in England, Scottish law never mandated that vital events be registered with the established church. For more information, read about Scottish Church Records.

Here are the pre-1855 records that exist for this parish.

Established Church—Old Parochial Registers

Event type	Years Covered	FS Library Film Number
Births:	1691-1854	1042000
Marriages:	1693-1854	1042000
Deaths:	No entries

Condition of Original Registers—

Index: For an index to these records, see Scotland’s People website, a pay-for-view website. The Scottish Church Records Index is also still available at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City. Some records may also be indexed in other FamilySearch collections for Scotland.
Births: Birth records are blank October 1691–September 1693, October 1694–January 1696, December 1698–February 1700 and April 1704–June 1713; excluding two imperfect entries. They are also blank January 1714–January 1715, November 1719–November 1720, November 1724–May 1727. Leaves prior to 1722, and 1746–1753 are much injured by dampness and want of care. There is one entry for 1825, on the page before August 1805. Irregular entries 1785–1799 are found after 1809.
Marriages: Marriage records are blank October 1705–June 1713, excluding five entries October to December 1710. The leaf at 1713 is much wasted, and entries are imperfect. Records are blank August 1721–May 1727and after 1803 the fact of marriage is not added to the entries of Proclamation.
Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records

The kirk session was the court of the parish. The session was made up of the minister and the land owners and businessmen of the parish, chosen to serve on the session. It dealt with moral issues, minor criminal cases, matters of the poor and education, matters of discipline, and the general concerns of the parish. Kirk session records may also mention births, marriages, and deaths.

Here is a list of surviving Kirk session records for this parish:

Minutes 1693–1706, 1708–1709, 1713–1721, 1765–1783
Mortcloth Accounts 1758–1769
Poors' Fund Accounts 1774–1797
Notes relating to Kilpatrick are taken from records of the presbytery of Dunbarton, 1581, 1639–1649
Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/889.

Nonconformist Church Records

A nonconformist church is any church that is not the established church (the Church of Scotland). For more information, read about Scottish Nonconformity.

According to the New Statistical Account for New Kilpatrick for 1839, the population of the parish was 3090. Of that number, 1104 belonged to the Seceders or Dissenters, 31 Episcopalian, and 112 Catholic. The only nonconformist place of worship in the parish was the Relief Church, so the others attended services in neighboring parishes including Old Kilpatrick.

Milngavie Relief Church

Located in the Stirlingshire portion of the parish

History—
In 1787, the church and parish of New Kilpatrick became vacant, and a new minister, presented by the patron, was very much objected to by the parishioners. A previous similar occurrence had resulted in a considerable number of parishioners seceding from the Established Church and joining the Associate Secession Congregation of Craigs in Old Kilpatrick. This time, a petition was presented to the Relief Presbytery of Glasgow for forming a congregation, which was granted. Unsuccessful attempts to build a church, including in the village of Milngavie, and irregular supply of sermon, resulted in the cause faltering. Some of the families attended services in Glasgow while others connected themselves with the Associate Secession Congregation of Craigs. The building of a new cotton factory in Milngavie, and an accompanying increase in population, led to a revival of the cause. Supply of sermon was again applied for and obtained, and the church was completed in 1799. This congregation became United Presbyterian in 1847, United Free Church of Scotland in 1900, and finally returned to the Church of Scotland in 1929.
Source: Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church, by Rev. William MacKelvie, D.D., pub. 1873. Film #477618. More details may be given in the source including a list of ministers.

Records—
Manager's Minutes 1809–1845
Treasurer's Accounts 1796–1853
Sunday School Minutes 1814–1850
Sunday School Accounts 1815–1837
Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH3/401.

Kelvindock and Knightswood Branch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

History— Unavailable.

Records— FS Library Film Number
Record of members 1848–1856 0104154 item 2

Civil Registration Records

Government or civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths is called Statutory Registers in Scotland. The system began 1 January 1855, and each parish had a registrar's office, with large cities having several. Over time, districts merged and split due to changing populations and technological advancements. The system has largely stayed the same over time, with records being created by local registrars and copies sent to the General Register Office in Edinburgh. Initially annual indexes were published, but now these indexes are available online as soon as an event is registered. Many of these records are only available on ScotlandsPeople ($), however the years 1855-1875, 1881, and 1891 are available through FamilySearch(*). For more information, read about Scottish Statutory Registers.

Probate Records

New Kilpatrick was under the probate jurisdiction of the Commissary Court of Dunbarton until 1823, and since then has been under the Sheriff's Court of Dunbarton. Probate records for 1513- 1901 are indexed online at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. You must register on the website but use of the index to probate records, called 'Wills & Testaments,' is free. You may then purchase a copy of the document or, if the document is before 1823, it will be on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library. To find the microfilm numbers, search in the library catalog for the 'Place-names' of New Kilpartick and the subject of 'Probate records.' Then click on the link to the records of the Commissariat of Dunbarton.

The library also has some post-1823 probate records for Dunbarton. Look in the library catalog for the 'Place-names' of Dunbarton and the subjects of 'Probate Records' and 'Probate Records - Indexes.'

Read more about Scotland Probate Records.

References

Return to the Dunbartonshire parish list.