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Single Person record details
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Person Code
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NA20448
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Corporate Name
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Angus Memorial Church Kirk Session
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Dates
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1843-1941
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Activity
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Barr Angus Memorial Church, Ayrshire, originated at the Disruption, when the minister and many of the congregation left to join the Free Church. It became United Free at the union of 1900, but was linked with Dailly UF in 1927, the population having been much reduced by emigration. The link continued after it became a Church of Scotland charge, until 1937. Thereafter it was briefly linked with Crosshill, before being dissolved in 1942. As a Church of Scotland charge it was in the presbytery and synod of Ayr. John Angus was the minister called to the Free Church charge in 1888.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 John Alexander Lamb (ed.), ?Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae? (vol. ix, 1961); William Ewing (ed.), ?Annals of the Free Church of Scotland? (vol. ii, 1914).
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Subordinate
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Barr
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