Cullen Kirk Session Minutes, 17th April 1814

The Moderator reported, that he had caused summon Alexander Watson in Portsoy & Jean Pirie in this Parish to attend the meeting of Presbytery at Portsoy on the 6th inst. and that they had both accordingly attended but that the Presbytery had remitted that case to this Kirk Session, to do in it as they might see for edification, & he reported also that he had ordered them to attend the Kirk Session this day: upon being called they both compeared, but pleaded their inability to pay the penalty of Three Guineas demanded of them, upon which for the present they were dismissed.  Closed with prayer.

Cullen Kirk Session Minutes, 1813 (NAS Reference: CH2/1113/7)

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Cullen Kirk Session Minutes, 30th January 1814

Session being met & constituted - Compeared ultroneously Isobel Guthrie confessing herself with child in fornication, & declaring John Rose at Cullen House to be the father of it, & he being present confessed the same.  They were both suitably exhorted to repentance by the Moderator, & having paid One Pound eleven shillings & six pence as their penalty, were at their request absolved.  Closed with prayer.

Cullen Kirk Session Minutes, 1813 (NAS Reference: CH2/1113/7)

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Cullen Kirk Session Minutes, 14th November 1813

Session being met & constituted.  Compeared ultroneously Ann Geddes acknowledging herself to be with child in fornication & declaring William Brodie in Farskan to be the father of it.  William Brodie likewise compeared & acknowledged the charge, & having paid the penalty of one Guinea & an half, they were after a suitable rebuke & admonition from the Moderator absolved.  Closed with prayer.

Cullen Kirk Session Minutes, 1813 (NAS Reference: CH2/1113/7)

Kirk Session Registers are available to search at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh and at local archives throughout Scotland.