Parish Number - 107
Births: (Film # 990716) 1739 to 1854
Marriages: (Film # 990717 ) 1743 to 1854.
[A catalog of LDS Films notes that birth entries prior to 1783 are very irregular and sparse. Likewise, marriage records prior to 1800 are spotty.]
Census: 1841 (Film # 101850), 1851 (Film #103688), 1861 (Film #103835)
1871 (Film #103999), 1881 (Film #203425), 1891 (Film #208640)Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, 1868
URQUHART and GLENMORISTON, an united parish in the north-west division of Inverness-shire. It contains the post-office stations of Urquhart and Drumnadrochit, the post-office village of Invermoriston, and the villages of Milntown and East and West Lewiston. It is bounded on the north by Kiltarlity, Kirkhill and Inverness; on the east by Loch Ness, which separates it from Dores and Boleskine; on the south by Boleskine and Kilmonivaig; on the south-west by Ross-shire; and on the west and north-west by Kilmorack and Kiltarlity. Its length from east to west is 30 miles; and its breadth is, in general, from 8 to 12 miles. The peopled districts are the narrow slopes along Loch Ness and the glens of Urquhart and Moriston. These glens extend nearly parallel to each other, in a westerly direction, at a mean mutual distance of about 7 miles; they are respectively about 9 and 12 miles long; they are separated by lofty heath-clad heights, terminating, on the east, in the vast and soaring mass of Mealfourvounie; and, in combination with their screens, they exhibit beauty, picturesquesness and grandeur of scenery, which is nowhere surpassed in the Northern Highlands, and which presents a rich variety of towering heights and waving declivities, bare rocks and wooded precipices, lofty crags and level and fertile plains. The chief landowners are the Earl of Seafield, Grant of Glenmoriston, Grant of Lakefield, and Ogilvie or Corriemony. The principal residences are Balmacaan, Glenmoriston and Corriemony. The parish is in the presbytery of Abertarf, and synod of Glenelg. Kirk Session Records
The Kirk Session of a parish consists of the the minister of the parish and the elders of the congregation. It looks after the general well-being of the congreation and, particularly in centuries past, church discipline within the parish. These records can sometimes provide invaluable information that is available nowhere else. An example would be the case of an illegitimate child. In many cases, the fornication resulting in the birth of the child would be a matter of church discipline and would thus be recorded in the minutes of the Session. It has been known ot occur that the parish register recorded the name of the mother of an illegitimate child in error, such error being brought to light by examing the Kirk Session records dealing with the birth of the child. There is also a possibility that other valuable information concerning the parents might be contained in the Kirk Session records. Kirk Session records are generally held at the Scottish Record Office in Edinburg. These records have not in most cases beeen microfilmed by the LDS Church.
