Kirk Session & Heritors' Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
There are 402 records.
| Date | Entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 15 May 1859 | Alexander Hamilton and his wife Helen Thomson, Largo, now residing Forgan parish, - antenuptual fornication. | CH2/160/5 p23 |
| 19 Jun 1859 | Ann Brown - fornication. | CH2/160/5 p24 |
| 31 Jul 1859 | James Chapman - adultery with Mary Jamieson. | CH2/160/5 p26 |
| Jan 1860 | [Heritors Records] [No further minutes of the Parochial Board in this volume.] | HR388/1 |
| 1860 | [Heritors Records] Repairs to flooring of school. | HR388/1 |
| 28 Jun 1860 | David Kay, residing Channel, Ferryport on Craig, and his wife Isabel Watson, recently residing this parish - antenuptial fornication | CH2/160/5 p29 |
| 28 Jun 1860 | Minister exhorts the elders to go about the parish impressing upon the people the necessity of regular attendance at church. | CH2/160/5 p29 |
| 8 Jul 1860 | Elizabeth Melville, preciously at Kinaldy but now resident in Forgan parish - fornication in Cameron parish. | CH2/160/5 p30 |
| 1861 | [Heritors Records] Mr Matthew Smith deemed to have retired, Mr Wm. Jamie appointed schoolmaster. Provision for the girls attending the parish school to be instructed in the industrial branches by Miss Jamie (his sister). | HR388/1 |
| 3 Mar 1861 | Session congratulated James Buist on entering a renewed lease of his farm at Kirkton Barns. | CH2/160/5 p32 |
| 3 Mar 1861 | George Anderson has been executing the duties of church officer for a short while is now unable to do so - about to leave the parish. | CH2/160/5 p31 |
| 12 May 1861 | New communion roll to be made out. Also agree to a portion of the money collected at the church door being used to pay for the new stove erected in Forgan Church. | CH2/160/5 p33 |
| 12 May 1861 | Extract from last meeting of the Heritors in which the Heritors request that the Kirk Session act for them in regulating interments & dealing with applications for burying ground in Forgan Churchyard - agreed to. | CH2/160/5 p33 |
| 27 Oct 1861 | Notice sent to Mr Jamie, Registrar & Session Clerk, desiring the immediate transmission of the old registers of births & baptisms, & proclamations and marriages, to the Sheriff Clerk, Cupar, for onward transmission to the Registrar General. Agreed to. | CH2/160/5 p34 |
| 27 Oct 1861 | Minister had secured the services of [blank] Wilkie as church officer; salary to be paid half-yearly or quarterly. | CH2/160/5 p34 |
| 2 Mar 1862 | Peter Ramsay residing Woodhaven - adultery with Jane Milne five years ago. | CH2/160/5 p35 |
| 4 May 1862 | Henry Ferguson and Janet Heggie, his wife - antenuptial fornication. | CH2/160/5 p37 |
| 22 Feb 1863 | John McPherson and Helen Braid - antenuptial fornication. | CH2/160/5 p41 |
| 15 Mar 1863 | Margaret Shields and George Ewing - fornication while residing in Newport, she now resides in Balmerino. | CH2/160/5 p42 |
| May 1863 | [Heritors Records] Miss Jamie resigns, Mrs Bartlett appointed female teacher. | HR388/1 |
| 7 Jun 1863 | Henry Smith and his wife Jane Smith - antenuptial fornication. | CH2/160/5 p43 |
| 30 Oct 1864 | Catherine Malcolm and John Stewart - fornication at West Friarton. Stewart is now in the service of Admiral Beaton of Balfour House, Markinch. He is the father of the child. | CH2/160/5 p47 |
| 1 Dec 1864 | William Beveridge and Elizabeth Graham his wife - antenuptial fornication. She is a communicant at Balmerino. | CH2/160/5 p48 |
| 30 Apr 1865 | Session received a list of those persons who had benefitted from Hay's legacy [list not recorded]. Also, a certain person's behaviour in the congregation for several sabbaths past - deal with it prudently to prevent a recurrence. | CH2/160/5 p50 |
| 28 May 1865 | John Shepherd and Anne Todd - fornication while residing at Inverdovat. She is at present resident in Dunbog. Also Margaret Berry & William Kidd - fornication while residing at Morton. He is at present in Leuchars. | CH2/160/5 p51 |
| late 1860s | [Heritors Records] Arguments as to whether feuars or superiors (especially in Newport) should be liable for repairs to church and school | HR388/1 |
| 6 Nov 1869 | [Heritors Records] Appoint James Johnston assistant to Geo. Whyte in the discharge of his duties at the parish graveyard [charged at 3/6d above the ordinary burial charge] | HR388/1 |
| Aug 1871 | [Heritors Records] Mr Jamie resigns | HR388/1 |
| Sep 1871 | [Heritors Records] Mr Andrew Scott, presently at Hillside Sessional School, Montrose, appointed schoolmaster. | HR388/1 |
| Nov 1871 | Mr Wm. Jamie resigned Martinmas 1871 as session clerk, owing the session £59-12-2 1/2d - action for recovery | CH2/160/5 |
| 1872 | [Heritors Records] Right of sepulture of heritors inside the old church - diagram. Extension of St Fort burying ground at west end of old church. | HR388/1 |
| 1872 | [Heritors Records] Election of School Board. No further discussion of school matters, only church and churchyard. Extension to churchyard? | HR388/1 |
| 26 Oct 1874 | [Heritors Records] Letter from Mr Gillespie: 'get Mr Scott to make a plan and keep a corresponding record of the burying ground for which a fee should be allowed him'. Agreed. | HR388/1 |
| 8 May 1875 | [Heritors Records] Rates for burial to be the same as for Ferryport-on-Craig, with discretion to remit part in cases of poverty. | HR388/1 |
| 29 Nov 1879 | [Heritors Records] order removal of the walls of the old sesion house in the churchyard to obtain additional space for burial | HR388/1 |
| 13 Nov 1880 | [Heritors Records] paid sexton 12/- for removing walls of old session house | HR388/1 |
| 6 Jan 1883 | [Heritors Records] copy minute of Parochial Board of 4 Jan 1883 … to provide a burial ground for the parish of Forgan… arguments over where the new burial ground should be … | HR388/1 |
| 1884 | Names of members to be added to communion roll | CH2/160/5 |
| 14 Nov 1885 | [Heritors Records] Clerk described a plan which he had prepared for in course of time adjusting the arrangement of layers [sic] in the church yard which was adopted … get offers for 120 larch posts for marking the layers 2' x 5" x 3" dressed, painted, lettered and numbered. | HR388/1 |
| 5 Jun 1886 | [Heritors Records] church yard cash book showed a deficiency … | HR388/1 |
| 5 Jun 1886 | [Heritors Records] … erection of a stone for Mr Louden, blacksmith, Tayfield Smithy | HR388/1 |
| 22 Jun 1889 | [Heritors Records] … would require in the near future an extension to the burying ground. | HR388/1 |
| 14 May 1892 | [Heritors Records] need for building a cottage for the church officer etc. | HR388/1 |
| 16 Nov 1895 | [Heritors Records] Property of heritors: fireproof safe containing old plan of the graveyard; ground and gallery plans of the present church; … scroll minute book 17 May 1873 - 25 May 1882; minute book from 16 Sep 1845; graveyard cash book from 29 May 1895; graveyard book recording interments (kept by the sexton) (the 3 latter being presently in use) … | HR388/1 |
| 20 Apr 1901 | [Heritors Records] Sexton's engagement terms: changed from a fixed £12 per annum to £2 for keeping the grounds + interment fees (adult another parish 17/6, adult this parish 12/6, child under 12 years 7/6). Fee of 10/- to erect a headstone to go to the heritors as formerly. | HR388/2 |
| 30 Nov 1901 | [Heritors Records] Walls at graveyard require repairs and several of the pins marking the lairs would have to be renewed. | HR388/2 |
| 11 Jun 1904 | [Heritors Records] 10/- fee for headstone for Andrew Scott schoolmaster and heritors' clerk for 23 years to be waived. | HR388/2 |
| 15 Feb 1908 | [Heritors Records] Resignation of Edward Wishart as gravedigger. Ask the Parish Council of Forgan to authorize their keeper of the parochial cemetery at Vicarsford to act as gravedigger for the heritors. | HR388/2 |
| Jun 1908 | [Heritors Records] Donald MacGregor keeper of the parochial cemetery is to act as gravedigger on same terms as Edward Wishart - 'He has the Gravediggers books in his possession already.' | HR388/2 |
| Jun 1908 | [Heritors Records] Berry enclosure being extended by 8 feet and walls rebuilt (extra ground has been given by Mr Gillespie of Kirkton). | HR388/2 |
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