Sorry, I seem to have managed to send a half-completed version of this. > Many people belonged to other Christian groups other than the > main churches > Anglican, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic. Not true in Scotland, by and large. There were historically very few people who did not belong to one or another of these groups. > These Dissenters, Non-Conformists, Quakers, Dunkers, > Anabaptists, > Mennonites, Amish, Puritans, Brethren Dissenters, Non-Conformsist and Puritans are all terms applied in England to those who were not adherents of the Church of England, including Presbyterians and Methodists. They do not apply in Scotland where the majority denomination was Church of Scotland. There are a handful of Quaker congregations and several varieties of Brethren in Scotland. I have never heard of Amish or Mennonites in Scotland, and I have never heard of Dunkers. I have come across Antipaedobaptists but not Anabaptists. Scotland had a bewildering variety of home-grown denominations. There used to be a wonderful diagram showing all the various splits and recombinations of the kirks in Scotland, but it is no longer at the URL I had bookmarked, and I cannot now find it. The ministers who compiled the Statistical Accounts in the 1790s were asked to note the numbers of different denominations living in their parishes. Many made no observation, which may suggest that there were no adherents of denominations other than the Church of Scotland. The ministers of Abernethy and Kincardine, Drainie and Edinkillie stated specifically that all the inhabitants of their parishes belonged to the Church of Scotland. Duffus had 'two or three Antiburghers' and a small non-jurant (i.e. Jacobite so probably Anglican) meeting. Rafford had two or three families who belonged to the Secession. Urquhart had 20 Seceders, mainly Antiburghers. In Elgin there were Seceders, Episcopalians, Roman Catholics and Methodists, none of them numerous. Forres had only a few Seceders. So if the ministers are to be believed, those not adhering to the Church of Scotland in Moray in the 1790s were very few and far between indeed, and there were no Quakers, Dunkers, Anabaptists, Mennonites, Amish, Puritans or Brethren. Anne