For the Parish of Muiravonside in 1768 I have encountered a page entitled "Register for the Seceders Children" which registers children born between 1761-1768. Another single entry in 1750 on the line naming witnesses to a birth, records "Unknown the parents being seceders". Some of the people involved originated in the neibouring parishes of Linlithgow, Torphichen, Bathgate.
I have read that Linlithgow and Torphichen, especially, were seceder congregation hotbeds at the time.
I am not interested in the "politics" of the seceder movement but rather in their day to day affairs. For example, did a seceder congregation, on some particular Sunday, haul its children off to Muiravonside to be registered in a sympathetic parish? Did the official church in Torphichen and Linlithgow refuse to deal with them or they with it? I have encountered only birth records for seceders and not, so far, marriage or death records.
Can anyone clarify the picture?
