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Old Parish Records
Finding your ancestors and relations

This page currently covers Flotta and Fara/Pharay births 1840-1854, Flotta and Fara/Pharay marriages 1845-1854, and Walls Deaths 1823-1844 and can be searched by name or by date.

I have transcribed the records as written. Entrys marked with a star * are of uncertain transcription, three dots … indicate sentences left incomplete by the minister. I have changed all superscript letters (those letters written half the size of normal letters) to normal case as in: 4th and Mckay and Febry. Comments by myself are in italics. I have assumed that the year, written at the top of every page of the original baptism records is the birth year, and not the baptism year, and have added this to the beginning of every entry to avoid confusion.

 

Deaths

There are no old parish records of death, or burial, for the island of Flotta. Gravestone inscriptions in Flotta's graveyard and obituaries in The Orcadian and The Orkney Herald may provide an alternative source of information.

The following records of Death for the parish of Walls were kindly transcribed by Roslyn Chapman.

 
1823-1829 1830-1834 1835-1839
1840-1844    

 

 

 

 

.... Last updated Mar 2006

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