Parish Number - 117
Births: (Film # 990672 - Item 3 ) 1823 to 1854.
Marriages: (Film # 990672 - Item 3 ) 1823 to 1854.Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, 1868
SNIZORT, a parish, containing the post-office village of Uig, in the island of Skye, Inverness-shire. It is bounded on the north by Kilmuir; on the east by the sound of Raasay; on the south by Portree; on the south-west by Bracadale; and on the west by Duirinish and Loch-Snizort. Its length from north to south is 12 miles; and its greatest breadth is 6 miles....The coast, except at the head of the loch, is bold and rocky. The surface of the interior is a broken rugged expanse of green and heathy heights, cloven by the three considerable glens of Haltin, Hinistil and Uig, and by several minor openings. The only properly mountainous ridge - the rest of the heights being merely hills - runs from north to south at a distance of between 1 mile and 2 miles from the east coast....Much of the parish is irreclaimable waste; and most of the remainder is occupied in the rearing of black cattle...Lord Macdonald is the principal landowner...In an islet formed by the water of Snizort, and now used as a cemetery, are the ruins of an old cruciform church, which probably was once the cathedral or parent-church of all Skye. In various localities are cairns, tumuli, and vestiges of Druidical temples.... 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.
Kirk Session records are available from 1844.