Sent from my iPhone On Feb 6, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Gordon Johnson <gordon@kinhelp.co.uk> wrote: > Peter - long time no hear! > Dunkeld was indeed a Commissary Court, and so he would have held that > post. Commissioners were the old name for representatives who sat in the > Scottish parliament up to 1707, but there never was a Pitcairn who sat > in the Scottish parliament as a commissioner. > Have you consulted "The History of Fife Pitcairns, with transcripts from > old charters", by Constance Pitcairn, published 1905? I have a copy on > CD-ROM from Archive CD Books. > Gordon Johnson. > > Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:22:47 EST, Peter wrote: >> One of my ancestors, an Alexander Pitcairn, was commissioner, or even >> commissary of Dunkeld in the 1740s. Does anyone know what this was? >> >> thanks >> >> Peter (de Loriol) >> > > When replying to a message or a digest, please delete everything except the portion to which you are replying. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PERTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message