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Ormiston Parish Church, Ormiston, Church of Scotland
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Ormiston Parish Church,
Ormiston
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The current church was built in 1937, uniting the Church of Scotland, and the Free Church, however, evidence of a church in or near Ormiston goes back many centuries. A timeline is available from the churches own website. Canmore indicates that the church was "Rebuilt on its present site in 1696".
See also the entry for the nearby St Giles and West Byres churches.
OPRs (Old Parish Registers) are available for Births and Marriages from 1637, although blank from 1649 to 1705. Details are recorded for three deaths in 1642.
Further details of the exisiting records, and blanks, are available from the NRS.
It is located at NT4144269316 (Lat/Lon 55.913359, -2.938375). You can see this on maps provided by:
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