Thursday 9 July 2009

Kirk session papers to return to Inverness

Various Highland presbytery and kirk session records from the presbyteries of Inverness, Ross, Sutherland, Lochcarron-Skye and Abernethy are are to return north to Inverness to be housed in the new part-Lottery funded Highland Archive Centre at Bught, upon its completion.

Other documents to be housed at the centre will include papers relating to the Clearances (na Fuadaichean) and papers pre-Culloden, as well as the Highland photogrpahic archive, containing some 150,000 images.

The BBC has more at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8140753.stm

Chris

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