Carrington, Midlothian, Scotland Genealogy

Parish #675

Established Church—Old Parochial Registers

	Years covered	FHL Fillm Number
Births:	1653-1820	1066641  item 4
	1820-1854	1066642 items 1-2
Marriages:	1653-1858 - proclamations	1066642 items 1-2
Deaths:	1698-1815, 1826-1854	1066642 item 1-2

Condition of Original Registers—

Index: For an index to these records, see the Scottish Church Records Index on computer at the Family History Library and family history centers.  Some records may be indexed in the International Genealogical Index.  
Births: There are no entries for November 1671–May 1676. After 1730 is a fragment of a page containing only one entry. Two pages after September 1801 contain a supplement to the years 1801–1808.
Marriages: There are no entries for August 1671–April 1676, June 1687–June 1690, August 1730–June 1732, except one, January 1782–October 1790, October 1798–July 1804, 1813 or 1818. The record is mainly proclamations after 1747.
Deaths: The record is deaths and burials. There are no entries for June 1731–February 1744, September 1783–November 1791. The record ends February 1799 except one entry for 1815.
Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records

Minutes 1653–1683, 1691–1757, 1763–1788, 1807–1808, 1818, 1827–1927
Cash and Account Books 1698–1780, 1837–1928
Poor Accounts 1807–1841
Churchyard Society 1822–1842
Communion Roll 1830
Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/62.

Nonconformist Church Records

See Temple parish.

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