From "Scottish Parochial Registers" published in 1849 by Thomas
George Stevenson, composed and edited by W B Turnbull.
"It is annoying to find that no fewer than 130 Parishes appear
in the Statistical Account,
to which no return on the head of Parochial Records has been made by the
incumbent." He wrote to various clergymen, amongst them the
incumbent at Monikie, who replied, -
"Our sessional records commence in the year 1613.
Registers of baptisms and proclamations seem to have been regularly and
carefully kept from 1613 down to the present time, with the exception of
about thirty years in the middle of last century, when the registering
of proclamations appears to have been neglected, or more probably, the
entries had been made in some book which had since been lost. From
1613 down to about 1720, minutes of session, baptisms, proclamations,
accounts of monies received and expended, have all been entered in one
volume, without assigning separate places to each. From 1720 to
about 1838, different places were assigned in the second volume to each
of the above records. Since about 1838, when the present session
clerk was appointed, separate volumes have been kept for minutes of
session, register of births and baptisms, register of proclamations and
marriages, and also for registering deaths and burials. No
register of deaths and burials was ever kept in the parish until the
present volume was begun."
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