Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland Genealogy: Difference between revisions

'''History—'''<br>This congregation originated in unpopular settlements of ministers which took place about the same time in the parishes of Dalkeith and Cockpen. The parties who withdrew from the Established Church on these occasions joined in a petition to the Relief Presbytery of Edinburgh to be taken under their inspection as a congregation, which was granted in 1768. The congregation was organized in 1770 and the church built the same year.<br>'''Membership:''' 1838, 600 (380 communicants).<br>'''Source:''' Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church, by Rev. William MacKelvie, D.D., pub. 1873. Family History Library Film #[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=477618 477618]. More details may be given in the source including ministers.  

Records— Family History Library Film Number<br>Baptismal Register 1839–1911 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=0889478 0889478 items 1–2 X (to 1885)] <br>Various Minutes 1815–1911<br>Cash Book 1799–1808<br>Congregational List and Young Communicants 1834–1847<br>'''Note:''' Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH3/380.<br>The X means records have been extracted.