Welcome to Meg Greenwood’s Web Pages

Here you will find Extracts from the records of the Free Churches of Scotland
for births in the parishes of Orphir and Stenness in Orkney
prior to compulsory registration beginning in Scotland in 1855.
Also included are some Extracts from the Orphir Kirk Session Records .
They make interesting reading.

Meg has also posted some older family photographs.

To keep the pages manageable, they have been split into
Births for Orphir, Births for Stenness, Orphir Free Kirk Sessions  
Orphir Death Registrations 1876-1880
North Ronaldshay Free Kirk Sessions and Stromness Free Kirk Sessions
Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire Free Kirk Sessions 1886-1902
and click below to see Meg's Photographs
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To download Memories of an Orkney Family click here.
This is a short book, in .RTF format about one branch of the Groundwater family.
It was written by Henrietta Groundwater and published in 1967 and is now out of print.
It is made available here so that it can be appreciated by a wider readership.

Just click on the link you want and the page should open immediately.
To come back to this page, you will have to use your “Back” button on your browser.

Meg Greenwood / Oklahoma, USA

Click on the E-Mail button above to send an E-Mail to Meg Greenwood in Oklahoma, USA
to obtain scan of original source material. If your browser does not support this type of link
then you will have to manually send her an e-mail at scotquester@bartnet.net
with FREE CHURCH REQUEST as the subject.