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Title: Larkhall - Secession Churches - baptism & marriage registers
Post by: dgcrouch on Sunday 05 August 12 08:08 BST (UK)

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know of any existing baptism or marriage registers for secession churches in the Larkhall area before 1855?

The Larkhall entry from GENUKI states:

Larkhall has a post office, with money order, savings bank, and telegraph departments, a branch of the Union Bank, a gaswork, a quoad sacra parish church (1835), renovated and extended in 1889, a Free church, a U.P. church (1836), an Evangelical Union chapel (1876), St Mary's Roman Catholic church (1872), a public library, baths, public halls, bowling club, cemetery, etc.

I have searched the catalogue at the National Archives of Scotland without success.

Thanks!

David

Title: Re: Larkhall - Secession Churches - baptism & marriage registers
Post by: RJ_Paton on Sunday 05 August 12 11:34 BST (UK)

If the Secessionist churches later reunited with the Established Church of Scotland Congregation their records would have gone with them - St Machan's may be a place to start


Added - just checked and saw a reference to the United Free Church recombining with the Church of Scotland in Larkhall in 1929.