Parish Number - 99
Births: (Film # 990709) 1730 to 1854 [A catalog of LDS Films notes that the register was begun in 1780, but there are three pages of entries relating to births before this date, the earliest being in 1730. Except for the periods 1795 to 1801 and 1810 to 1819, the records contains many irregular entries.]
Marriages: (Film # 990709 ) 1795 to 1854.Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, 1868
KILMONIVAIG, a Highland parish a little west of the center of Inverness-shire. It contains the post office station of Invergarry; and its west side is adjacent to the post-town of Fort William - the east side, to the post-town of Fort Augustus. It extends quite across the county, from Fortingall in Perthshire to Kintail in Ross-shire; and is elsewhere bounded by the parishes of Kilmalie, Glenelg, Boleskine and Laggan. It's length from south to north is about 60 miles, and its greatest breadth is 20 miles. It contains nearly 15 miles of the Great glen of Scotland, from the west end of Loch Lochy to the east end of Loch Lochy; and comprises the district of Glengarry on the north-west side of that glen, and great part of the district of Lochaber on the south-east side. An enormous aggregate of it is wild lofty mountain. Its south-east side, in particular, is occupied by alpine masses, over a space of nearly 20 miles in length and from 10 to 15 miles in breadth, frequently rising to an altitude of about 4,000 feet or upwards above sea-level, and cloven only by a few narrow, profound, gorge-like glens. The aggregate of arable land is remarkably small. There are eight land owners. The only mansions are Invergarry house and the cottage of Letterfinlay. This parish is in th presbytery of Abertarf and synod of Glenelg. The parish church is situated in the Great glen at the mouth of Glenspean; and was built about 1812. The parish of Kilmonivaig was so prominently concerned in the events of 1745 that it got the name of "the cradle of the rebellion." 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.
