The term 'Relief' needs to be used with care. The Relief congregations were one of the breakaways from the Church of Scotland. The term has nothing to do with easing the pressure on a growing parish. What I think you may have in terms of Roxburgh in Edinburgh was a quod sacra church in a larger parish. See this page http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/link/1834-45/Edinburgh/Edinburgh/1/660/ You do get quod sacra parishes but I don't think Roxburgh was referred to in those terms - if it was I apologise for my error. Judy Snip. They were married by the "Minister of the Relief Congregation in South College Street" All these streets are within a stone's- throw of each other, and apparently as St.Cuthbert's grew, various congregations hived off from it, but are still described as being of St.Cuthbert's, and really were "relief" congregations. Although they lived in the same area after marriage the birth of their children appear to have taken place in "Old Greyfriars", "Edinburgh Parish" and "South Leith" variously. snip

Now I very carefully copied the link from the bottom of the page as instructed but now find that if you click on the link in this email you go to a log in page. All you have to do though is choose BROWSE SCANNED PAGES and you get to another page with the link. This is the page with the description of parishes etc but is only a starting point and I do recommend clicking the arrows as there is much of interest in this section of the book - including population figures for the parishes. Judy On 18 Apr 2007, at 19:30, judy olsen wrote: > The term 'Relief' needs to be used with care. The Relief > congregations were one of the breakaways from the Church of Scotland. > The term has nothing to do with easing the pressure on a growing > parish. > > What I think you may have in terms of Roxburgh in Edinburgh was a > quod sacra church in a larger parish. See this page > > http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/link/1834-45/Edinburgh/Edinburgh/ > 1/660/ > > You do get quod sacra parishes but I don't think Roxburgh was > referred to in those terms - if it was I apologise for my error. > > > > Judy > > > > > > > > Snip. They were married by the "Minister of the Relief Congregation > in South College Street" All these streets are within a stone's- > throw of each other, and apparently as St.Cuthbert's grew, various > congregations hived off from it, but are still described as being of > St.Cuthbert's, and really were "relief" congregations. Although they > lived in the same area after marriage the birth of their children > appear to have taken place in "Old Greyfriars", "Edinburgh Parish" > and "South Leith" variously. > > snip > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-EDINBURGH- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message