Old Cumnock Kirk Session Minutes: Van Cooten Genealogy

Source Information

Title	Old Cumnock Kirk Session Minutes
Date	23 April 1818
Location	Scotlands People Kirk session records
Reference Key	CH2/81/7 image 15
SOID	VAN1818002
Source ID	S855
Text	Cumnock 23 April 1818 Constituted with prayer Present the Modr. and all the Elders When Jane McGlashan in the village appeared voluntarily confessing she had brought forth a child in forni- cation and acusing Hilbert Van Cooten lately in Cumnock now a Me- dical Student in Glasgow as the fa- thers of it from whom a letter of acknow- ledgement to the Session was produced. The Session having considered the same agreed to take her on dis- cipline according to her request and she was therefore not ??? admonish- ed to repentance and having paid a Guinea to the poor was absolved from the scandal. The Session al- so elect John Gibb one of their members as their Presbytery and Sy- nod Elder for the curent half year. Concluded with prayer. John Gibb elected Pres. and Synod Elder Jane McGlashan absolved from fornicatn.
Linked to Individuals: 1	Jane Van Cooten

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