Trying to track down a birth in Scotland - help please!

[Doug-Mini]

Thank you for your reply and explanation about 3-posts before accessing the PM system.  Thanks also for giving me a valid reason to make a second post.  Two down, one to go.

I think you are combining my post with questions about the church posted by others.  It never even occurred to me until reading the posts above that there were Anglican church records for the area around Airdrie.  To date I have not explored what information is available in church records.

Doug L.

[Annie65115]

Hello @ Doug-mini! It was quite a surprise to see this thread from so long ago pop up again!

You need to make 2 more posts before we can exchange PMs. It doesn't have to be profound, just put "ok" or something in two posts and we're off.

I'll wait to hear from you -----

[Forfarian]

Not really relevant to the thread topic, but it illustrates the point the the Scottish Episcopal Church is indeed in communionion with the Anglican Church worldwide is the little known fact that the first American Episcopal Bishop was consecrated in Aberdeen.

Samuel Seabury was unable to be consecrated in the US (since there were no Anglican Bishops in the US) and could not be consecrated into the Anglican Church in England since after the Revolution he could not (as an American citizen) take the Oath of Allegiance to the King. Hence they went to Scotland where the Episcopal Church was not the Established Church, and Seabury was consecrated in  Aberdeen by Robert Kilgour, the Bishop of Aberdeen, Arthur Petrie the Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness and John Skinner coadjutor Bishop of Aberdeen on 14 Nov 1784 (Episcopal Bishops, obviously).

And the 'Seabury Chair', on which Bishop Kilgour sat during the consecration, is in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Keith.

[Doug-Mini]

Thanks Annie.  I will write soon.

Doug L.

[Istrice]

There was an Episcopal Church in Coatbridge, "St John the Evangelist" in John Street, Coatbridge.  The building still exists at the junction of John Street and Muiryhall Street, but no longer appears to be in use as a Church

I understand that St John's may now be a joint charge with St Paul's, Airdrie.

North Lanarkshire Archives apparently hold the Church records from 1843 to 1992.  The following link may be of assistance in your search https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F159697

Istrice

[bleckie]

Hi All

I found this book a few years ago

Muthill Register of Baptisms, 1697 - 1847
Ref. GB1097

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This is from the Epicopal church at Muthill Perthshire there may be other books out there

Yours Aye
BruceL