Durness Parish Register - Part 2

[MonicaL]

This is a new and continuation thread for a long running thread here www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,45412.0.html

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Monica

[wini]

Is there a reason why my ancestors from Durness do not appear on the Parish Register.
They are in all the Census returns and BMD's
Andy Smed did check and they couldn't be found
wini

[IanB]

wini, they may have belonged to the Free Church, which maintained its own register. The Free Church was a break-away movement, referred to as "the Disruption", which occured in 1843.

I have a copy of a transcription of it's Durness register by Angi Lamb. If you give me some names and dates, I will take a look.

IanB

[wini]

Ian, I am sure you are correct, the descendents of the family were all Free Church.
John Gunn b. Lanark never been able to find his birth his age changed constantly in the records, died 1894 age 87 approx
Married Isabella Ross 1835
Children\Mary, Peter, Thomas, Margaret,  Dolina, John
Isabella died and he remarried
Betsy Gunn 1851
Children
Isabella, Catherine, Helen or Ellen, Euphemia, William my Great Grandfather.
Poor Isabella is  described as Imbecile, or lunatic although her family looked after her until she died
in1908 age 56
will be interesting to see if you find their names among the free church records

Thanks

wini

 

[IanB]

wini, I can only see three entries:

Marriage: Nov 14, 1851 - John Gunn, widower,Leathad (Laid) & Bessie Gunn, Portnacon

Baptism:  Nov 3, 1852 - Isabella to John Gunn, Leathad, & Bessie Gunn. Born July 15.

Baptism: JUl 14, 1845 - Dolina to John Gunn, Leathad, & Isabella Ross

The register goes from Jun 30, 1843 to May 1956 so perhaps their other children were born after 1856.

The mystery continues.

Ian

[wini]

Thanks Ian,
At least I now know why they didn't appear in the Durness Parish  Register.
I was unaware the Free church was excluded.
wini

[rupparti]

wini, they may have belonged to the Free Church, which maintained its own register. The Free Church was a break-away movement, referred to as "the Disruption", which occured in 1843.

I have a copy of a transcription of it's Durness register by Angi Lamb. If you give me some names and dates, I will take a look.

IanB

The transcript I made of baptisms and marriages can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/rupparti/family-history/durness-fc

regards
Angi

[rupparti]

...The register goes from Jun 30, 1843 to May 1956 so perhaps their other children were born after 1856.

The mystery continues.

Ian

I stopped transcribing at 1856 as a) the statutory register starts at 1855 and b) I ran out of time in the archives!

Angi

[wini]

Thanks Angi

wini