Kirk Session & Heritors' Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
There are 344 records.
| Date | Entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 1767 | Depursements from the communion collection: to the clerk £3; to the beddal £3; to the bedall half year's fie due at Whitsunday last £3-7-0; to David Younger £2-8-0; to David Rollow £2-8-0; to Stephen Dauny £2-8-0; to Mgt. Patersone £2-8-0; to Eliz. Tulloes £2-8-0; to Ann Ramsay £2-8-0; to Wm. Walker £3; to Andrew Shipherd £3-12-0; to Daniel Pride £3; to James Smith for setting up the table and tent £12/-; to John Weems for presenting in the tent 12/-; to Thos. Millar which he supper expended to the poor £5-14-9; to Mr Andrew Meldrum which he super expended to the poor £6-14-9 | CH2/160/3 p.222+2 |
| July 1767 | To David Rollow £1-4-0; to David Younger £1-4-0; to Stephen Dauny £1-4-0; to Mgt. Paterson £1-4-0; to Eliz. Tulloes £1-4-0; to Ann Ramsay £1-4-0 | CH2/160/3 p.222+2 |
| Aug 1767 | To David Rollow £1-4-0; to David Younger £1-4-0; to Stephen Sauny £1-4-0; to Mgt. Paterson £1-4-0; to Eliz. Tulloes £1-4-0; to Ann Ramsay £1-4-0 | CH2/160/3 p.222+4 |
| 13 Sep 1767 | To Andrew Johnstone by appointment of session £4-4-0; to Eliz, Tulloes £3; to David Rollow £1-4-0; to David Younger £1-4-0; to Stephen Dauny £1-4-0; to Mgt. Paterson £1-4-0; to Eliz. Tulloes £1-4-0; to Ann Ramsay £1-4-0 | CH2/160/3 p.222+4 |
| Oct 1767 | To David Rollow £1-4-0; to David Younger £1-4-0; to Stephen Dauny £1-4-0; to Mgt. Paterson £1-4-0; to Eliz. Tulloes £1-4-0; to Ann Ramsay £1-4-0 | CH2/160/3 p.222+4 |
| 1767 | Dr Johnstone's account for Agnes Scot [amount not stated]. | CH2/160/3 p.6 |
| 11 Nov 1767 | To the Prebty. Officer 18/-; to the clerk for filling up the minutes one year £1; to ditto for peaper to writte the sessions minutes 5/-; to the beddal half a years fie £3-6-8; to ditto for shoes £1-10-0; given to Andrew Meldrum out of the box to give to Dr Johnstone as the expence of a second operation on Agnes Scots breast £21-9-0; to Eliz. Tulloes by appointment of session £3; to David Rollow £1-4-0; to David Younger £1-4-0; to Stephen Dauny £1-4-0; to Mgt. Paterson £1-4-0; to Eliz. Tulloes £1-4-0; to Ann Ramsay £1-4-0 | CH2/160/3 p.222+4 |
| 6 Dec 1767 | Minister read a letter from the Society for propagating Christian Knowledge for a collection for Mr Wheeler's Academy in North America. Collected: £5 sterling | CH2/160/3 p.222+3 |
| 1767 | Receipt for money collected for Mr Wheeler's Academy in North America | CH2/160/3 p.7 |
| Dec 1767 | To David Rollow £1-4-0; to David Younger £1-4-0; to Stephen Dauny £1-4-0; to Mgt. Paterson £1-4-0; to Eliz. Tulloes £1-4-0; to Ann Ramsay £1-4-0 | CH2/160/3 p.222+4 |
| Jan 1768 | To Eliz. Tulloes £1-4-0; to David Rollow £1-4-0; to David Younger £1-4-0; to Stephen Dauny £1-4-0; to Mgt. Paterson £1-4-0; to Ann Ramsay £1-4-0; to Mary Dick by appointment of the session £5 | CH2/160/3 p.222+6 |
| Feb 1768 | To David Rollow £1-4-0; to Stephen Dauny £1-4-0; to David Younger £1-4-0; to Mgt. Patersone £1-4-0; to Ann Ramsay £1-4-0; to Isobel Swan by appointment of session £3 | CH2/160/3 p.222+6 |
| Mar 1768 | To David Rollow £1-4-0; to David Younger £1-4-0; to Stephen Dauny £1-4-0; to Ann Ramsay £1-4-0; to Mgt. Patersone £1-4-0; | CH2/160/3 p.222+6 |
| 29 Mar 1768 | To synod clerk for two half years £3; to prebty. clerk for two half years £3; paid to James Walker his account amounting to £1-10-0 for articules [sic] done about the church; to Mary Dicksone having been long distressed £3; to Mary Dick distressed £3 | CH2/160/3 p.222+6 |
| 1769 | Paid to Wm. Feathers for making a new gate to the church stile and a box to hold the bell toal and mending the seats in the common loft £5-19-0; for iron work about the church stile and bell to be repaid by the heritors - to James Walker £1-16-0 | CH2/160/3 p.15 |
| 1 Jul 1770 | The necessitous circumstances of John Duncan at the East Water having been represented … agreed to give 10/- sterling | CH2/160/3 p.23 |
| 3 Sep 1770 | [Boatmen's loft] Heritors meeting: Alexr. Walker, St Fort; Dr John Gillespie, Kirktown; Mr Dalgleish, Scotscraig; Mr Hay, Morton; Mr Walker younger, St Fort; Mr Wm. Syme, Woodhaven; Robt. Sime, Little Friartown; Mr Scrimsiour, Birkhill; - it was understood that the east loft was to be properly furnished, with a convenient staircase leading thereto, by the sailors and boatmen on Dundee Waterside; heritors do agree to an omission and agree that said loft shall be the proper place of accommodation for the sailors they being always obliged to keep the same in good and decent repair. | CH2/160/3 p.23 |
| 17 Jun 1771 | … the distress and destitute circumstances of Widow Scot and Widow Mackie who in a sudden and unexpected manner lost their husbands in the passage betwixt Newport and Dundee … public collection to be made for them at the kirkstile on 16th June … amount collected £4. [Session kept this money and gave it out to them at intervals - see p.31 where 10/- is given out to each of them, and p.33 for a final list.] | CH2/160/3 pp.28-33 |
| 23 Jul 1771 | Heritors select Mr John Gordon as schoolmaster in the parish, also session clerk and presentor. Repairs to church by David Just. Peggie Glass - daughter of late session clerk. | CH2/160/3 p.29 |
| 9 Dec 1772 | Resignation of John Gordon, appointment of George Hutton as schoolmaster and session clerk | CH2/160/3 p.34 |
| 6 Jan 1773 | Paid to Mrs Lermond a doctorix in Dundee for curing of James Louden's thumb £2-2-0 | CH2/160/3 p.36 |
| 24 Oct 1773 | 18/6 sterling is amount of collection according to act of General Assembly for bridge over North Esk near Montrose | CH2/160/3 p.45 |
| Nov 1773 | Two guineas taken out of the box to change them, supposing them to be too light; lost 1/7d. on the change over. Half year's salary retained from Mr Gordon for not having filled up the minutes. | CH2/160/3 pp.47 & 49 |
| 16 Aug 1774 | To Wm. Walker smith for making one thousand one hundred and thirty tokens £1. The session gave to the minister to change a guinea supposed to be too light. | CH2/160/3 p.54 |
| 20 Dec 1774 | Given in by the minister the acct. of the guinea given to him to change for which he only received 17/6d. sterling | CH2/160/3 p.56 |
| 1 Jan 1775 | The minister read an act of the General Assembly for a collection to be raised for the behoof of the charity schools in the highlands. The minister after exhorting the congregation to be liberal to so laudable a design appointed next Sabbath for said collection after sermon in the afternoon. | CH2/160/3 p.57 |
| 6 Feb 1775 | Christian Higgie, servant to Mr Sime of Woodhaven was with child, said the father was Wm. Greig, late servant to Mr Murray at Woodhaven. Greig denied it. Thos. Jamison and Mgt. Christie also questioned [another case]. | CH2/160/3 p.58 |
| 19 Feb 1775 | John Younger and Ann Roger had made an irregular and clandestine marriage. On 5th March produced 'marriage lines' - proved irregular and were married in front of the congregation. | CH2/160/3 pp.59-60 |
| 4 May 1775 | Amount collected for highland schools was £2-0-2 | CH2/160/3 pp.61 |
| 7 May 1775 | Robt. Harley and Jean Younger, both servants of John Scot tennen in Morton. Harley admitted being father of illegitimate child. They appeared 3 Sundays before the congregation and were rebuked. | CH2/160/3 p.63 |
| August 1775 | Sacrament of the Lord's Supper on the first Sunday in August. Tokens were issued for this. | CH2/160/3 p.66 |
| August 1775 | Wm. Feathers paid 3/- for setting up the tent and tables for 3 years | CH2/160/3 p.67 |
| 11 Dec 1775 | Given out for 1 boll of meal to John Duncan, being four months pension … 16/- | CH2/160/3 p.70 |
| 1 Apr 1776 | Paid to Wm. Feathers wright an account for glass and mending the kirk windows 3/6. | CH2/160/3 p.72 |
| 9 Nov 1778 | Dr John Gillespie of Kirktown offered to take £10 stg. of the poor's money upon loan and give 4 pr ct of interest for the same … agreed. | CH2/160/3 p.93 |
| 13 Aug 1779 | [Dr Gillespie's total loan is £60] | CH2/160/3 p.98 |
| 15 Jul 1781 | Election of new elders: Thos. Just, mason in Justfield; James Young, weaver in Muir Houses; Wm. Feathers, wright. | CH2/160/3 p.120 |
| 5 Nov 1783 | To advertising the sentiments of the parish against patronage in the Advertizer, Mercury and Evening Courant £2-2-0 | CH2/160/3 p.149 |
| 13 May 1784 | [Boatmen's loft] These are extracted out of the minutes of said meeting this 13 May 1784 by Wm. Innes, session clerk: That the stair case and other repairs to the said loft was done by the sailors and boatmen of Dundee Waterside and especially at the expenses of James Muir, And. Ogilvie, Thos. Mackie, David Mackie, Wm. Feathers, John Hutton, Wm. Gilchrist, Wm. Feathers younger, Peter Farmer, John Kennedy, James Foreman, Wm. Patrick, Andrew Johnstone, And. Adam, Robt. Mackie, Alexr. Patrick, David Greig, James Adam, David Adam, Wm. Rollo, Wm. Lanceman and Alexr. Watson and that therefore they and their heirs are the lawfull proprietors of the said loft from the above minutes. | CH2/160/3 p.23 |
| 17 Jun 1787 | Robt. Hay miller at Hay's Mill and Christian Hay - irregularly married at Edinburgh | CH2/160/3 p.181 |
| 15 Feb 1788 | Write to Henry Scott tenant in Morton requiring him to pay in to Dr John Gillespie the money left to the poor of the parish by his brother John Scott tenant in Morton or legal action will be taken. | CH2/160/3 p.191 |
| 29 Jul 1788 | £20 received from Henry Scott tenant in Morton [see 15 Feb 1788] | CH2/160/3 p.197 |
| 4 Aug 1789 | Payments to pensioners for coals: 6/- each | CH2/160/3 p.204 |
| 9 Aug 1789 | Mgt. Hutton, unmarried, Newport, with child by Robt. Patrick, boatman, Woodhaven, also unmarried. Guilt was committed at the Waterside on 23 March last. Appeared before the congregation 3 times and were rebuked each time. | CH2/160/3 p.205 |
| 17 Feb 1790 | Janet Deuchars eight months with child by David Wilson, servant to Mr Gordon at Woodhaven - extract from Kirk Session, Dundee. At the time she was serving at Woodhaven. Wilson denied being the father. | CH2/160/3 p.207 |
| 3 Aug 1790 | Money is earning interest at Bank of Cupar. | CH2/160/3 p.210 |
| 24 Aug 1791 | [Boatmen's loft] Note that on 24 Aug 1791 Vilote Clark relict of Thos Mackie sold the right her husband had to the said loft to James Kennedy, Peter Mitchel, James Ogilvie, Peter Kennedy, Wm. Hutton, Peter ogilvie and James Hutton who are all thereby intitled to the said loft. | CH2/160/3 p.23 |
| Oct 1791 | Janet Deuchars appeared 3 times and David Wilson is named as the father. | CH2/160/3 p.214 |
| 11 Dec 1791 | Banns for Isabel Clark and Charles Macintosh - banns stopped - she is reputed to be married already | CH2/160/3 p.214 |
| 14 Aug 1792 | Paid 1/5d. for advertizing against the slave trade. | CH2/160/3 p.218 |
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