On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:53:39 +0100, "Liz Darby" <[email protected]> wrote: >I was born and lived in Edinburgh until my marriage, so I know it quite well. However, in all my years of research, I have never come across a "Roxburgh Parish" or "Old Greyfriars". I wonder if Greyfriars was an actual street address? There was an Edinburgh Parish and a South Leith one. Old Greyfriars Parish was a small parish which included part of the Cowgate and an area to the south, including Argyle Square (now gone, but at the west end of what is now Chambers Street). There also existed New Greyfriar's Parish to the west, which included Greyfriars Church, Candlemaker Row, George Heriot's Hospital etc. Both Old and New are marked on Kirkwood's map of 1817, and you can browse the map at the National Library of Scotland's fine on-line map collection at http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/416.html Choose the left-hand portion of the map and zoom into the right-hand centre of the portion. The parish boundaries are marked with coloured lines, so look for a red line with the Roman number V inside, which indicates the extent of Old Edinburgh parish. A legend which gives the numbers of each parish is at the bottom of the right-hand portion of the map, where you'll see that New Grayfriar's Parish is VI. >When I first looked at this about two years ago I sent a query to the Edinburgh List about the apparent confusion over parishes. I cannot lay my hands on the reply, but it was to the effect that Roxburgh church/parish was an overflow congregation from St.Cuthbert's. Perhaps the gentleman who replied to my query is still a "Lister" ? If you browse or search the archives of this Mailing List at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/SCT-EDINBURGH.html you will find that it was John Stevenson who replied to your query. You can read his message at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/sct-edinburgh/2004-05/1083871869 and as he posted here earlier this month, he should still be a subscriber. Forrest -- Forrest Anderson, Edinburgh, Scotland. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.military-researcher.com Forrestdale Research - Military Genealogical Researcher