1900 No NICOL but James Bell NICOLL at Tynecastle - chapel of ease for St Michaels. Ordination date 1891. Church of Scotland. Still there in 1911 And in 1921, when it seems to have become a Quod Sacra Parish (and no, I dont know what that means! But someone else will) I only checked Church of Scotland and the United Free Church. The ordination date, I have always taken to mean the date the man became a minister, but others have suggested it is the date he was ordained to the parish. If your man is Church of Scotland he should be in a book called the "fasti' which will give full details. You could phone up the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh too, they are in the BT phonebook. Judy ---------- >From: "John Noden" <jderek@noden99.freeserve.co.uk> > Could someone tell me where I might find a list of ministers in the > Edinburgh area from around the 1900's- 1940's? > > My great-great aunt spoke of a Rev. NICOL from Edinburgh and I believe he > would have been a relative. She was Elizabeth NICOL (Lizzie) from > Lanark. >