Parish Number - 106
Births: (Film # 990714, 990715) 1653 to 1819 and 1800 to 1854
Marriages: (Film # 990715 ) 1800 to 1853
Deaths: (Film # 990715) 1800 to 1853
Census: 1841 (Film # 1042640), 1851 (Film # 1042066), 1861 (Film # 103835)
1871 (Film # 103999), 1881 (Film # 203424), 1891 (Film # 208640)Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, 1868
PETTY, a parish partly in Nairnshire, but chiefly in Inverness-shire. It contains the post-office village of Petty, the villages of Stuarton and Connage, and part of the village of Campbelton. It extends along the coast of the narrow or interior part of the Moray frith, from within 4 miles of Inverness to about a mile from Fort George. It is bounded by the Moray frith, and by the parishes of Inverness, Croy and Ardersier. Its length north-eastward is about 9 miles; and its breadth is between 2 and 3 miles. Its surface rises with very gentle undulations, and occasionally with steep and hillocky banks, from the coast, then subsides into a belt of quite level land, and finally makes a regular rise to Culloden-moor along the interior boundary ... The sea is shallow near the shore, and, at low water, retires to a great distance . Kirk Session Records
The Kirk Session of a parish consists of the the minister of the parish and the elders of the congregation. It looks after the general well-being of the congreation and, particularly in centuries past, church discipline within the parish. These records can sometimes provide invaluable information that is available nowhere else. An example would be the case of an illegitimate child. In many cases, the fornication resulting in the birth of the child would be a matter of church discipline and would thus be recorded in the minutes of the Session. It has been known ot occur that the parish register recorded the name of the mother of an illegitimate child in error, such error being brought to light by examing the Kirk Session records dealing with the birth of the child. There is also a possibility that other valuable information concerning the parents might be contained in the Kirk Session records. Kirk Session records are generally held at the Scottish Record Office in Edinburg. These records have not in most cases beeen microfilmed by the LDS Church.
The following information on availability of Kirk Session records for the Parish of Petty was taken from The Miscellany of the New Spalding Club, vol. 1, Aberdeen: 1890.
Minutes: 31 December 1643, to 19 January 1664
Minutes: 12 February 1665 to 14 August 1694
Minutes: 9 January 1704 to 26 March 1739
Minutes: 21 August 1759 to 30 December 1761
Minutes: 8 April 1762 to 3 October 1783
Minutes: 17 May 1853 to 1890