Grow Your Family Tree
Jul 06, 2022
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Search old Scottish kirk sessions
ollowing the 1560 Scottish reformation, the Church of Scotland (also known as the Kirk) was reorganised along Presbyterian lines. Each congregation elected its own minister and elders, who formed a ‘kirk session’ to manage the parish’s daily affairs and oversee discipline. While the churches handled the basic registration of baptisms,
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