Kirk Session & Heritors' Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
There are 344 records.
| Date | Entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1849 | [Heritors Records] Money in trust for orphans McIntosh | HR388/1 |
| 1850 | [Heritors Records] Dr Hill shall attend at the infant school at Newport to vaccinate the children of the parish. | HR388/1 |
| 1850 | [Heritors Records] One quarter's board paid for 2 lunatics at the asylum. | HR388/1 |
| 1850 | [Heritors Records] Heritors are meeting the cost of 2 lunatics at the asylum £95-13-7 1/2d. Total other parochial expenditure is only £5-8-6 | HR388/1 |
| 1851 | [Heritors Records] One quarter's board paid for 3 lunatics at the asylum. | HR388/1 |
| 25 Sep 1853 | Ellison Gulland, Causewayhead, mother of illegitimate child - father is David Smith at present residing in London. | CH2/160/5 |
| 1853 | Session consists of minister (Rev Dr Thomson), Messrs Buist, Foggie, Conacher, with the clerk (the schoolmaster at the time) | CH2/160/5 |
| 1855 | [Heritors Records] no other deaths are recorded from 1850 to 1855 | HR388/1 |
| 11 Sep 1855 | [Heritors Records] Advanced by order of the P Board of Flisk: 23 Jan 1855 to Christian Just for her illlegitimate child 2/-; 15 Feb 3/-; 17 Mar 6/-; 10 Apr 6/-; total 17/-. Repaid 11 Sep by the Inspector of Flisk 17/-. | HR388/1 (inside back cover) |
| 12 Nov 1855 | [Heritors Records] [Paid] Washing the communion table linen 2/6; grease for hearse 1/- | HR388/1 |
| 31 Mar 1856 | [Heritors Records] Mr Matthew, present schoolmaster, is to retire due to ill health. He retains his salary of £34. Assistant teacher to be appointed to take the whole charge of the school and occupy the schoolhouse - appoint Mr James Spence Smith. | HR388/1 |
| Jul 1858 | [Heritors Records] Mr James Spence Smith resigns as assistant teacher. Appoint Mr Wm. Jamie presently assistant teacher at Leuchars parish school. | HR388/1 |
| 1859 | [Heritors Records] Price of a chalder of oatmeal for all of Scotland £13-15-10 1/2d. Forgan paid its schoolmaster 2 chalders i.e. £27-11-9 (a reduction), therefore agreed to pay the former salary (£34). | HR388/1 |
| Jan 1860 | [Heritors Records] [No further minutes of the Parochial Board in this volume.] | HR388/1 |
| 1860 | [Heritors Records] Repairs to flooring of school. | HR388/1 |
| 1861 | [Heritors Records] Mr Matthew Smith deemed to have retired, Mr Wm. Jamie appointed schoolmaster. Provision for the girls attending the parish school to be instructed in the industrial branches by Miss Jamie (his sister). | HR388/1 |
| May 1863 | [Heritors Records] Miss Jamie resigns, Mrs Bartlett appointed female teacher. | HR388/1 |
| late 1860s | [Heritors Records] Arguments as to whether feuars or superiors (especially in Newport) should be liable for repairs to church and school | HR388/1 |
| 6 Nov 1869 | [Heritors Records] Appoint James Johnston assistant to Geo. Whyte in the discharge of his duties at the parish graveyard [charged at 3/6d above the ordinary burial charge] | HR388/1 |
| Aug 1871 | [Heritors Records] Mr Jamie resigns | HR388/1 |
| Sep 1871 | [Heritors Records] Mr Andrew Scott, presently at Hillside Sessional School, Montrose, appointed schoolmaster. | HR388/1 |
| Nov 1871 | Mr Wm. Jamie resigned Martinmas 1871 as session clerk, owing the session £59-12-2 1/2d - action for recovery | CH2/160/5 |
| 1872 | [Heritors Records] Right of sepulture of heritors inside the old church - diagram. Extension of St Fort burying ground at west end of old church. | HR388/1 |
| 1872 | [Heritors Records] Election of School Board. No further discussion of school matters, only church and churchyard. Extension to churchyard? | HR388/1 |
| 26 Oct 1874 | [Heritors Records] Letter from Mr Gillespie: 'get Mr Scott to make a plan and keep a corresponding record of the burying ground for which a fee should be allowed him'. Agreed. | HR388/1 |
| 8 May 1875 | [Heritors Records] Rates for burial to be the same as for Ferryport-on-Craig, with discretion to remit part in cases of poverty. | HR388/1 |
| 29 Nov 1879 | [Heritors Records] order removal of the walls of the old sesion house in the churchyard to obtain additional space for burial | HR388/1 |
| 13 Nov 1880 | [Heritors Records] paid sexton 12/- for removing walls of old session house | HR388/1 |
| 6 Jan 1883 | [Heritors Records] copy minute of Parochial Board of 4 Jan 1883 … to provide a burial ground for the parish of Forgan… arguments over where the new burial ground should be … | HR388/1 |
| 1884 | Names of members to be added to communion roll | CH2/160/5 |
| 14 Nov 1885 | [Heritors Records] Clerk described a plan which he had prepared for in course of time adjusting the arrangement of layers [sic] in the church yard which was adopted … get offers for 120 larch posts for marking the layers 2' x 5" x 3" dressed, painted, lettered and numbered. | HR388/1 |
| 5 Jun 1886 | [Heritors Records] church yard cash book showed a deficiency … | HR388/1 |
| 5 Jun 1886 | [Heritors Records] … erection of a stone for Mr Louden, blacksmith, Tayfield Smithy | HR388/1 |
| 22 Jun 1889 | [Heritors Records] … would require in the near future an extension to the burying ground. | HR388/1 |
| 14 May 1892 | [Heritors Records] need for building a cottage for the church officer etc. | HR388/1 |
| 16 Nov 1895 | [Heritors Records] Property of heritors: fireproof safe containing old plan of the graveyard; ground and gallery plans of the present church; … scroll minute book 17 May 1873 - 25 May 1882; minute book from 16 Sep 1845; graveyard cash book from 29 May 1895; graveyard book recording interments (kept by the sexton) (the 3 latter being presently in use) … | HR388/1 |
| 20 Apr 1901 | [Heritors Records] Sexton's engagement terms: changed from a fixed £12 per annum to £2 for keeping the grounds + interment fees (adult another parish 17/6, adult this parish 12/6, child under 12 years 7/6). Fee of 10/- to erect a headstone to go to the heritors as formerly. | HR388/2 |
| 30 Nov 1901 | [Heritors Records] Walls at graveyard require repairs and several of the pins marking the lairs would have to be renewed. | HR388/2 |
| 11 Jun 1904 | [Heritors Records] 10/- fee for headstone for Andrew Scott schoolmaster and heritors' clerk for 23 years to be waived. | HR388/2 |
| 15 Feb 1908 | [Heritors Records] Resignation of Edward Wishart as gravedigger. Ask the Parish Council of Forgan to authorize their keeper of the parochial cemetery at Vicarsford to act as gravedigger for the heritors. | HR388/2 |
| Jun 1908 | [Heritors Records] Donald MacGregor keeper of the parochial cemetery is to act as gravedigger on same terms as Edward Wishart - 'He has the Gravediggers books in his possession already.' | HR388/2 |
| Jun 1908 | [Heritors Records] Berry enclosure being extended by 8 feet and walls rebuilt (extra ground has been given by Mr Gillespie of Kirkton). | HR388/2 |
| May 1920 | [Heritors Records] Pro rata: Morton 8/9d., Tayfield £2-13-4, Newton £1-14-6, Kirkton £1-14-6, Wormit 11/-, Burnside 5/-, St Fort £6-8-0. Total bills of heritors £13-15-5 | HR388/3 |
| 11 Jun 1921 | [Heritors Records] Heritors Minute Book prior to 1845 has been lost … | HR388/2 |
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