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In March 1845 a group of around 400 Highlanders residing in the Vale of Leven requested that they be supplied with a Gaelic Free Church missionary. Nothing seems to have come of this request initially, indeed a proposal to build a church in 1856 was opposed on the grounds that a new congregation in Renton was unnecessary, however the Highland Committee took up the case and in 1859 the charge of Renton Gaelic Free Church was sanctioned. In 1900, the year of the union between the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland, a vacancy occurred within the charge and during the same year the majority of the congregation of Renton Gaelic United Free Church adhered to the (continuing) Free Church. In 1904 the remaining congregation was dissolved at its own request. |