... sorry if you all know this but information on deaths can also be obtained from the session clerk's accounting records where a payment is made for a mortcloth; this type of record, however, does not give extensive family relationships, moira Alistair Cameron wrote: >Sally Taylor wrote, mainly for Kylie: > > >>I don't think paying the GRO to search a pre-1855 death will be of any use, >>since there was no official death registration in Scotland prior to 1855. >> >> > >That is a wee bit fatalistic [pun not intended] IF the >parish where probably died, is known. > >Some parishes had Burial records in that period, five of the >Edinburgh parishes list pre- 1855 burials for example. The >records were maintained by the churches and while most of >these were rather lean on details, there were some more >informative. > >Unfortunately most Burials in the OPR and other Churches' >registers are not Indexed. Reading of the microfilms >[images] can be a slow chore. > >For Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Free, Jewish >etc congregations the records are not at NRH, not available >in LDS libraries but are accessed in the NAS collections in >General Register House. There are probably dupes at Salt >Lake City tagged as Not To Be Circulated, and (maybe) Not to >be Photocopied. > > >