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Burial and death registers of other protestant
churches
The records of churches other than the Church
of Scotland and the Catholic Church, are held by a variety of archives
and by churches themselves. The National Archives of Scotland (NAS)
hold the kirk session records of presbyterian churches (such as
the Free Church, United Free Church, Anti-Burgher Church, etc).
Some kirk session records are held by local authority archives under
charge and superintendence (i.e. under special conditions laid down
by the Keeper of the Records of Scotland). sometimes kirk session
records contain registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. The
surviving records of other churches can sometimes also be found
either in the National Archives of Scotland (NAS) or in local authority
archives. The NAS hold records of the Society of Friends or ‘Quakers’
(CH10), Methodists (CH11), Episcopal Church (CH12), Congregational
churches (CH14), and Unitarians (CH15). However, important collections
of Episcopal, Methodist and Congregationalist church records have
been deposited in local authority archives in recent years, especially
in Glasgow City Archives. The survival of death or burial registers
for these churches is patchy.
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