Cummertrees and Trailtrow
Cummertrees is a parish in the district of Annandale, Dumfriesshire. It is bounded on the south by the Solway Firth, and on other sides by the parishes of Ruthwell, Dalton, St Mungo, Hoddom, and Annan. (1867: The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, by John Marius Wilson).
Bridekirk, Cummertrees, Kelhead, Kilnhead, Moorbeck, Powfoot
PRE-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
POST-REFORMATION GOVERNANCE:
The parishes of Cummertrees and Trailtrow were united 24 June 1609. On 21 May 1743 the united parishes were disjoined from the Presbytery of Lochmaben, and included in the new Presbytery of Annan then erected. There was an ancient hospital at Trailtrow.
Includes ministers, licentiates, assistants, readers, and clerks.
(1928: Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, by Hew Scott, D. D.)
Parish registers turned over to the Registrar-General, as a result of the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scotland) Act of 1854. The letters B. D. and M. indicate Births (or Baptisms), Deaths (or Burials), and Marriages (or Proclamations of Banns) respectively. Numbers indicate separate volumes or books. Note: These records are by no means complete or without damage; consult the Detailed List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland (1872) to learn more about the condition of the records.
| OPR and RD Numbers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Range | Name | Number | Type |
| 1733-1854 | Cummertrees | 817 | OPR |
| 1855-1968 | Cummertrees | 817 | RD |
| 2009 | Dumfries and Galloway, Annan | 839 | RD |
| 2026 | Dumfries & Galloway Council; Cummertrees and Cummertrees West Community Council | ||
(2009: Parishes and Registration Districts of Scotland - Old and New, National Records of Scotland)
Local community councils (2026) are provided as a potential source of additional information for settlements within the original boundaries of the parish. (Source)
Statistics from informal and official censuses
Beattie, Bell, Carruthers, Edgar, Graham, Irving, Murray, Rae, Roddick, Thomson
Note: Names appearing in research materials, other than censuses. Simple names (First name, surname only) have been omitted unless they appear associated with large properties. All women's names, and men's names with occupations, military ranks, or peerage titles are included.
By a Friend to Statistical Inquiries.
"The examinable persons, above 8 years of age, amount, by a late account taken of them, to 845, amongst whom are included some transient people, who are employed in the lime works at Kilhead. Twenty-five years ago, about 40 people, some of them farmers, but mostly labourers and tradesmen, emigrated from this parish to America, enticed by advertisements, sent from thence by persons who had acquired large tracts of country, and wished to have it peopled. The emigrants, upon their arrival, were miserably deceived and disappointed, and those of them who had money enough to pay for their passage home, returned, bewailing their credulity. There is no town or village in the parish."
(This section contains excerpts, at times restructured or paraphrased, from an article appearing in Statistical Account of Scotland, Sir John Sinclair, 1791-1799)
Primary Sources:
Statistical Account of Scotland (1791-1799), Volume 7, p. 304
New Statistical Account of Scotland (1834-1845), Volume 4, Section I, p. 244
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