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=== <br>'''Musselburgh Relief Church, Mill Hill''' === | === <br>'''Musselburgh Relief Church, Mill Hill''' === | ||
'''History—'''<br>About 1783, several members of the parish church of Musselburgh removed themselves due to unhappiness with certain circumstances concerning the minister and his assistant and petitioned the Relief Presbytery of Edinburgh to be formed as a congregation and be supplied with sermon, which was granted. A church was built that year, but they did not obtain a fixed minister until 1786. In 1794, membership was 516. By the mid–1830s membership was counted as 1100 due to an especially popular minister. It dropped somewhat again after he left.<br>'''Source:''' ''Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church'', by Rev. William MacKelvie, D.D., pub. 1873. | '''History—'''<br>About 1783, several members of the parish church of Musselburgh removed themselves due to unhappiness with certain circumstances concerning the minister and his assistant and petitioned the Relief Presbytery of Edinburgh to be formed as a congregation and be supplied with sermon, which was granted. A church was built that year, but they did not obtain a fixed minister until 1786. In 1794, membership was 516. By the mid–1830s membership was counted as 1100 due to an especially popular minister. It dropped somewhat again after he left.<br>'''Source:''' ''Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church'', by Rev. William MacKelvie, D.D., pub. 1873. amily History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=477618 Film #477618]. More details may be given in the source including ministers. | ||
'''Records—'''<br>Session Minutes 1803–1919<br>'''Note: '''Available at the National Archives of Scotland, record CH3/241. | '''Records—'''<br>Session Minutes 1803–1919<br>'''Note: '''Available at the National Archives of Scotland, record CH3/241. | ||
=== <br>'''Mussselburgh Free Church''' === | === <br>'''Mussselburgh Free Church''' === | ||