• Extract from Dunrossness Kirk Session Baptism Register, 1795.
  • Account of money laid out on repair of Kirk of Whiteness, 1765.
  • Extract from Fetlar Kirk Session Marriage Register, 1853.

Church

  • Records of the Church of Scotland (1675 onwards)
  • Records of the Methodist Church, Free Church and others (1820s onwards)

The Church of Scotland records include kirk session minutes, with cases of slander, sabbath-breaking and adultery and ‘fornication’! The minutes also have information about help given to poor people. Church records also include some registers of births, marriages and deaths.

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