Ladykirk Church on the Tweed c.1830's records

[Jan Renee Rowe]

Were these records lost to time or fire or church splitting does anyone know? If someone was Presbyterian around 1830 rather than Church of England, are they less likely to have records of birth and marriage?

[AndrewP]

Hi Jan,

Welcome to TalkingScot.

Ladykirk, being on the Scottish side of the border is more likely to have had a Church of Scotland rather than Church of England.

The Old Parochial Registers (OPRs) for Ladykirk are listed as holding records within the following year groups.

746/1
B 1697-1822
M 1698-1817
D 1784-1814

746/2
B 1819-1854
M 1820-1854
D -

These years make no implication of completeness of the records within these years, merely the first and last years of any records within. As registration was not statutory until 1855, there is no claim of completeness for these years up to 1854. As these records were made and maintained by the Established Church of Scotland (a presbyterian church), your best chance of finding your people in these records is if that was their church.

These OPRs can be found indexed online on the IGI and ScotlandsPeople. At some stage in the next few months, images of the pages from the OPRs should become available on the ScotlandsPeople website on a pay per view basis.

All the best,

AndrewP

[Jan Renee Rowe]

Thank you for replying. I need to delve into records sent me by a family contact introduced to me by Linda Bankier, a town archivist for Berwick on Tweed. We both wrote her looking for Jane Tait; his granddad and my great granddad were brothers. He may have written a letter and found that the Ladykirk records had a lapse for Jane's birth period. Right now, I need to prepare for a storm fast approaching the East coast of the USA. Our temps are supposed to plummet (we broke a record for warmth yesterday made in 1881), wind and thunderstorms. I live in a very old house with raccoons in the attic that sometimes knock over buckets catching water up there.

[marilyn morning]

I need to prepare for a storm fast approaching the East coast of the USA. Our temps are supposed to plummet (we broke a record for warmth yesterday made in 1881), wind and thunderstorms. I live in a very old house with raccoons in the attic that sometimes knock over buckets catching water up there.

Hi Jan,

Greeting from your neighbor down the road in Rhode Island. Unless those raccoons are paying you rent, I would suggest calling 'Critter Control" at 401-738-7378 and have them removed, before they find their way into the house.

Regards
Marilyn

[Jan Renee Rowe]

Actually a couple of months before my landlord died, when he tried to raise the rent, I suggested that he get it off the raccoon tenants and that he tell them to keep the noise down. One morning when I had not yet put the correctly fitted screen into the window, I sleepily made my way to the bathroom at dawn. Returning, I glanced at my desk and saw a very young raccoon sitting completely immobile on the edge of my desk (a door top) with another one standing upright with paws on top of the screen getting ready to come in. I threw a pair of sweatpants at the one on the desk and he left as he had entered, without a trace that he had been sitting on my desk. With the adrenaline, my husband and I quickly moved all stuff blocking the window and put the giant fitted screen in.
We won't be here much longer but it's been worth living on 3/4 acre 10 minutes by train from downtown Boston. My ancestors, the Jobsons, were farmers in northern England and the Duffs and the Flints were coal miners. I grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania and came here via the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware