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Single Person record details
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Person Code
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NA20444
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Corporate Name
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Afton United Free Church Kirk Session
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Dates
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1859-1920
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Activity
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New Cumnock Afton United Free Church, Ayrshire, was originally a Reformed Presbyterian congregation which adhered to the Free Church in 1876. The church building, which replaced an older predecessor, dated from 1867. The congregation, thereafter known as New Cumnock Afton, adhered to the UF Church in 1900 (as Afton), and was thereafter in the presbytery of Ayr and the synod of Dumfries, Galloway and Ayr.The Kirk Sessions of presbyterian churches were modelled on those of the established church. Each presbyterian congregation in Scotland has a Kirk Session, which comprises the minister(s) and the ruling elders, all members of the Session (including the minister) being elders. The elders? duty is care for the spiritual needs of the congregation; each of them has a district of the parish assigned to him/her. The Kirk Session determines the number of elders. The minister is moderator of the Session, and there is a clerk who has custody of all the Session?s records. There may also be a treasurer, and an officer or beadle. The Session must have maintained a communion roll, containing the names and addresses of the communicant church members within the parish. The Kirk Session?s duties are to maintain good order amongst its congregation (including administering discipline and superintending the moral and religious condition of the parish), and to implement the Acts of the General Assembly. The Kirk Session is at the base of the pyramid of church courts, and it is subject to the review of the Presbytery in which it is situated, and to the superior courts of the Church. Each Kirk Session elects one of its number to represent it at the Presbytery (and formerly at the Synod).
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Jurisdiction
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Presbytery of Ayr
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Notes
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See also J T Cox, ?Practice and Procedure in the Church of Scotland? (various editions); A Herron, ?The Law and Practice of the Kirk: A Practical Guide and Commentary? (Glasgow, 1995); William Ewing (ed.), ?Annals of the Free Church of Scotland? (vol. ii, 1914).
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Subordinate
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New Cumnock
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Associated records
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GB1663/CH3/666 | Records of New Cumnock Reformed Presbyterian Congregation / New Cumnock Afton Free Church / Afton United Free Church / New Cumnock Arthur Memorial United Free Church | 1859-c1923 |
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