Volume 13 , Issue 12

Scottish Covenanters Index

We were searching for some Scots in the Scottish Covenanters Index over at Ancestry.com when we find some DUNLOP's and MCGILL's listed in this index. Here is some information concerning the Scottish Covenanters Index, and what, how it came about.

Source Information - Drown, Isabelle McLean, comp.. Scottish Covenanters Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: See bibliography listed in Description.

About Scottish Covenanters Index

In the 17th century conflict arose between Church and State in Scotland. Those who remained steadfast in their Presbyterian beliefs and refused to take an oath to the King saying that he was the head of the church became known as Covenanters. They believed that Christ was the head of the church and were punished for this belief. Many were forced to pay the ultimate price for this by laying down their lives. The Royalists and Dragoons, who were seeking their lives, chased the Covenanters from glen to glen, especially in the Lowlands. If anyone was found hiding them, they suffered imprisonment and/or death as well. This punishment was not just reserved for the strong and healthy -- children and the elderly were subjected to the cruelty as well.

This database is an index, compiled by Isabelle Drown, to the Covenanters whose names are found in books recording their history between 1660 and 1690. The index provides the Covenanter's name, a birth or christening date, a birth or christening place, and a reference to the passage in which information on the individual is found. This reference includes book, volume, and page numbers. The book number indicates which book in the bibliography the information was taken from.

Two of the largest repositories of Covenanter books are Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia, and University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. These are not the only repositories in which Covenanter books may be found.

You can check with your local libraries and use inter-library loan if they are not locally available to you. A glossary of Celtic place names and explanations of certain words and phrases used in the index are available from Isabelle. Questions and comments about this index may be e-mailed to Isabelle at the following address: CovenanterIndex@email.toast.net.

COVENANTER INDEX BIBLIOGRAPHY
1) THE MARTYR GRAVES OF SCOTLAND By J. H. Thomson, Published by Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier. Edinburgh & London

2) MEN OF THE COVENANT By Alexander Smellie, Published by London: Andrew Melrose, 1911

3) SCOTS WORTHIES By John Howie of Lochguin, Published by McGregor, Pulson & Company, MDCCCXLVI

4) LADIES OF THE COVENANT, MEMOIRS By Rev. James Anderson

5) LIVES OF THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS By W.R. McPhun, Published by Glasgow and London: 1862

6) SONS OF ADAM

7) MARTYRS, HEROES AND BARDS OF THE SCOTTISH CONVENANT By George Gilfillan Publishers - Albert Cockshaw, 41 Ludgate Hill, 1853

8) A REGIMENTAL HISTORY OF THE COVENANTING ARMIES, Family History Library, Salt Lake City

9) THE MAKERS OF THE KIRK By Barnett

10) THE SCOTS PEERAGE - A HISTORY OF THE NOBLE FAMILIES OF SCOTLAND; VOLUME I, Published by T & A Constable, London - Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited. Cambridge - MacMillan & Bowes Glasgow - James MacLenose & Sons

11) COVENANTERS FROM SCOTLAND TO NEW JERSEY BETWEEN 1683 - 1685 - ship passenger list for the Henry and Francis

12) A CLOUD OF WITNESSES, Illustrated editon by The Rev. John H. Thomson Published - Johnstone, Hunter and Company - 1871, U.B.C., call number BX9082 C6

13) THE COVENANTERS OF AYRSHIRE: Historical and Biographical By Rev. R. Lawson, Published by J. and R. Parlane, Paisley - 1887

14) FAIR SUNSHINE By Jock Purves, Published by The Banner of Truth Trust - 1968 (The material in this volume consists of two works: Sweet Believing - 1948 and Fair Sunshine - 1957)

15) FATHERS OF THE KIRK By Ronald Selby Wright, Oxford University Press, 1960, Edited by Wright Manse of the Cannnongate, Edinburgh U.B.C., call number BX9099 F38

16) MAKERS OF THE SCOTTISH CHURCH AT THE REFORM'TION By Kirkwood Hewat Published by - McNiven and Wallace - 1920

17) LIGHT OF THE NORTH By Jay D. Douglas, Published : William B Eerdmans - 1964

18) SCOTTISH COVENANTERS - bibliography only By James Taylor, Published - Hodder and Stoughton, MDCCCXCIV

19) MINUTE BOOK KEPT BY THE WAR COMMITTEE OF THE COVENANTERS IN THE STEWARTRY OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT IN THE YEARS 1640 AND 1641, Published - F. Nicholson, MDCCCIV, Family History Library, LDS Church

20) REGISTER OF THE REVERAND JOHN MACMILLAN, Published - 1706 - 1751, (This is available on film at the Family History Library, LDS Church)

21) THE COVENANTERS By David Stevenson - The Covenanters: The National Covenant And Scotland, 1988 - Koerner Library - U.B.C., call number BX9081 578

22) THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS 1660 - 88 By Ian B. Cowan, 1976, U.B.C. - Koerner Library, call number BX 9081 C68

23) REGISTER OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL OF SCOTLAND, Volumes for the years1661 - 1689, U.B.C., National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

24) THE COVENANTERS By James King Hewison, Published Glasgow: John Smith and Son - 2 volumes, 1908, U.B.C. - Koerner Library, call number BX 9081 145   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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