Aberdour, Fife, Scotland Genealogy

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Condition of Original Register—
Index: For an index to these records, see the Scottish Church Records Index available on computer at the Family History Library and family history centers. Some information may be indexed in the International Genealogical Index. Births: There are no birth entries January 1689–February 1691. Mother's names are not regularly recorded until about 1763. Marriages: There are only transcribed entries of contracts prior to December 1669 and no entries July 1682–October 1702. Deaths: Except for burial entries of the Earl of Morton family, 1739–1848, on one page after the marriages for 1819, the record is blank from October 1669–April 1790. There are Mortcloth Dues, 1790–December 1816, after which deaths and burials are recorded. Source: Key to the Parochial Registers of Scotland, by V. Ben Bloxham, pub. 1970. FHL British Book 941 K23b.

Established Church—Kirk Session Records
Minutes 1649–1682, 1697–1930 Accounts 1790–1866 Register of Distribution to the Poor 1658–1676 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH2/3.

Aberdour Free Church
History— This congregation was organized immediately after the Disruption in 1842. Membership: 1848, 318; 1900, 117. Source: Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843–1900, ed. Rev. William Ewing, D.D., 2 vols. pub. 1914. Film #918572. More details are given in the source including list of ministers.

Records— Various Minutes 1843–1940 Note: Available at the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, record CH3/784.