Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland Genealogy: Difference between revisions

== '''History'''  ==

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The church and village of Inveresk are near the confluence of the the river Esk with the Frith of Forth.&nbsp; The name Inveresk signifires the mouth of the river.&nbsp; Musselburgh is the chief town in the parish and gets its name from an extensive mussel bank which stretches out into the sea.&nbsp; In ancient charters it is almost uniforml written ''muschelburg.''&nbsp; In 1783 during some garden improvements near Inveresk House the foundations of various buildings were exposed at the depth of three or four feet.&nbsp; A Roman bath of two rooms was traced.&nbsp; The smaller was 9 feet by 4 1/2, the larger was 15 by 9.&nbsp; There was a water source and a heat source found. All along the hill of Inveresk, Roman coins have been discovered.&nbsp; Many other Roman artifacts have been found in the parish.&nbsp; The parish registery begin in 1607 and have been kept pretty regularly since that period.&nbsp; The penmanship of many of the early registers is curiously ornate and beautiful.&nbsp; There has been injury to the bindings of several volumes.&nbsp; The population in 1792 was 5392, and in 1831 it was 8961.&nbsp; The land is used for cattle, sheep and the horses commonly used are of the Clydesdale breed. Corn and grass are also grown.&nbsp; In the parish there is a lot of manufacturing including sail-cloth and hair-cloth, a distillery and tanneries.&nbsp; In the Established Church there are 5876 members, in the Espiscopalians 153, the Relief 1468, in the Secession 789, the Independents 144, belonging to other denominations there are 112.<!-- Tidy found serious XHTML errors --> <!-- Tidy found serious XHTML errors -->

== '''Established Church—Old Parochial Registers'''  ==

<br>A Wesleyan Methodist congregation also existed in Musselburgh by 1846, but a history is unavailable and extent of records is unknown. <br>For information about the Methodist Church in Scotland, try this Internet web site:<br>http://www.forsaith–oxon.demon.co.uk/methodist–heritage/index.html