Death records – Catholic

Registers of baptisms, marriages and deaths kept by Roman Catholic (RC) priests are generally held by RC parish churches or by RC archives (for example some registers for churches in the Glasgow area are held by the Archives of the Archdiocese of Glasgow) In many cases these predate civil registration (1855) and in a few cases date back to the early 1700s.

Digital copies of the RC registers held by the Scottish Catholic Archives are available through the ScotlandsPeople website.

A guide to the RC registers can be found on <https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/catholic-parish-registers > [accessed 26 April 2024].

Photocopies of many of the surviving registers are held by the National Records of Scotland (ref RH21). Other records of the RC Church are held by Aberdeen University Special Collections <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/special-collections/about-79.php > [accessed 26 April 2024].