Judy, Thanks for your help, and yes it looks like the religious set-up in Scotland in the 1800's was rather complicated. I'll have a look at the Statistical Accounts and see if there is any leads, alos I might just try a letter to Camphouse farm and see if they can help. A list of Chapels in the vicinity in 1760 would also be worth investigating. Mike Temple, Spain. ----- Original Message ----- From: "J A Olsen" <[email protected]> To: "Joy and Mike" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [BORDER] Fw: TEMPLE/JEDBURGH PARISH. > Aaah. You may come to regret asking that! > > The Church of Scotland is the established church in Scotland, and is > Presbyterian ie no bishops. > > Unfortunately for genealogists, the Scots tend(ed) to take religion rather > seriously. So over the centuries various groups have broken away from the > Church of Scotland to form all sorts of smaller presbyterian churches. Some > of those then splintered again, and some joined up with each other - the > whole thing is very hard to follow. There is a chart somewhere on the web - > try googling St Nicholas Buccleuch and Dalkeith - put together by a Church > of Scotland minister I think. It looks like the London Underground map. > > The biggest split was the Disruption of 1843, which formed the Free Church > of Scotland. One of the main objections people had to the Established Church > was the system of patronage - people thought that they should have the right > to choose their minister. > > All this is VERY relevant for Jedburgh, which was a hotbed of 'secession'. > With so many people in other churches your chances of finding a baptism > diminish. Marriages should be OK, as the banns would be called in the parish > church regardless, and sometimes these records are quite detailed because > the minister has noted who married the couple and in which chapel. There is > also one chink of light in that there are some surviving registers for other > churches in Jedburgh - usually one is left with looking at the kirk session > records. Again, you can find out more by looking at the Statistical > Accounts. > > Cheers > > > Judy > > PS I have a list of Churches in England in Communion with the Church of > Scotland, in 1827. A bit late but it does list Birdhope Cragg (Thomas > Hope, minister) If you know who baptised the children you might be able > to work out whether it was a Church of Scotland chapel. But then you have to > remember that they may have gone there because the church of their choice > was not available. > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- > >From: "Joy and Mike" <[email protected]> > >To: "J A Olsen" <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [BORDER] Fw: TEMPLE/JEDBURGH PARISH. > >Date: 17, Sat Jan, 2004, 3:11 pm > > > > > By the way, not being too well educated on the churches of Scotland, is the > > Church of Scotland the same as a Presbyterian chapel ?