Disruption Defaulters
It may not be immediately apparent why a book entitled The Wheat and the Chaff gathered into Bundles is of relevance to a web-site whose main interest is historical and genealogical.
Ecclegen Have a look!
Expanding the Indexing
Only those who are particularly perceptive or who use this web-site frequently will have noticed that some of the indexes on this site have been improved recently. This was done in three areas
Robert Ross, Troon and St Mark’s, Glasgow
Ewing’s information on him is sparse. There is a birth year, but no birthplace; an awareness that he was married twice but only the name of the second wife is known. We can probably add some flesh to these bones
Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae – Digital Index
The seven volumes of the Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae are a great resource for the researcher; and they are readily available on line. But, as far as I know, up till now, there has been no digital index available.
Bigger Indexes for Small
Anyone who regularly researches Scottish Presbyterian ministers becomes familiar with the two volume work of Dr Robert Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 …
Further Obituaries
By a happy “coincidence”, I came across a couple of dusty volumes of the Free Church’s Monthly Magazine in a church that I was visiting. I borrowed them and have now added to this web-site 12 more obituaries, which had escaped my initial trawl through these Magazines
Update: 7th June. 2016
A further 19 family trees have now been added to the web-site, namely: Anderson (John); Anderson (William); Bannatyne; Brown;
A Moderate Tree
A further tree has been added recently: the Carstairs Hill Tree. This contains the names of about 200 ministers …
Update: 31st March, 2016
A further seven family trees have now been added to the web-site, namely: …
Falling between Two Censuses
Family relationships are easily identified through the use of the ten-yearly censuses. But there are some cases where a minister is ordained for service abroad and never is present in Scotland as a minister in the census year; or a man has a brief ministry in Scotland …
A Clump of Trees
Six more family trees have now been added to this web-site … and they are all inter-related.