Scottish Paroichal Records

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Scottish Paroichal Records

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STEVENSTON.
—“ None of the parish registers go farther back than
1700, and many portions of them have been lost. The register of marriages has been regularly kept from April 1701till May 1717 ; and from May 1737 till January 1746, and
from January 1747 till the present time
, February 1837.
The register of baptisms has been regularly kept from July
1700 till November 1718 ; irregularly kept from 1718 till
1737 ; and regularly from 1737 till near the end of the century ; b ut from that time to the present, it cannot beconsidered as regularly kept, as the dissenters do not record the
names of their children. A register o f deaths has been kept
from 1747 till the present time ; but for a considerable time ,
those only whose friends have paid for the mortcloth have
been recorded

ARDROSSAN. From a memorandum in o n e o f the volume s
o f date 1755
it appears that registers of baptisms , from May 28,
1682,till May 23 , 1725, had been regularly kept, but which
have been lost. From 1742 till 1787, lists of baptisms and
marriage s have been regularly kept,
and with a little interruption at this period till 1802
, from which last date till 1816
they are very imperfect ; but they have since been kept with
great accuracy.

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