goldie and Lido Doratti wrote: >... >After a baptism 1849 I find this after the record: > "before F.C.C." (Free Congregational Church?) >Other records for bapisms also have (1842) "Before the congregation of the East Church" and (1840)"before the Congregational Church" ... > > The "Aberdeen Almanach" for 1843 gives brief information on the major towns in Aberdeenshire, and for Peterhead, "Places of Worship", with their Ministers, are listed as: Establishment: William Donald and J. Yuille [this is the Kirk of Scotland, which then had two congregations] United Associate: R. Campbell Scotch Episcopal: Charles Cole Congregational: [blank - presumably they were between Ministers] The equivalent volume for 1860 lists: Establishment: James Mitchell [only one congregation - but see below] Scotch Episcopal: Gilbert Rorison Free Church: J. Yuill [slight variation in spelling, but this is presumably the same man who had the "second charge" in 1843, and who must have "come out" at The Disruption] United Presbyterian: James Frame Congregational: R. H. Smith Methodist: N. F. S. Peet Roman Catholic: [blank] Congregational (not in the Union): 'various' [which suggests that the Congregationalists had their own "Disruption" at some point] Reference to the intervening volumes (a set of which is held by the Aberdeen Public Library) would help establish the dates at which the various congregations came into being or split off from each other. Gavin Bell