The dataset comprises a transcription of information relating to Parish Ministers of the Church of Scotland as at May 1843 (the month and year of the Disruption), from two sources: the Hew Scott volumes of Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae (1923), and James McCosh's 'The Wheat and the Chaff Gathered into Bundles.' Transcription from the former source covers both geographical and biographical information. Geographical information includes synod, presbytery and parish names. Biographical information includes ministerial names, dates of birth and ordination, and binary variables indicating marital status and whether they joined the Free Church. Transcription from the latter source identifies through binary variables ministers who adhered to the Church of Scotland (Class 1) and those who previously supported the non-intrusion party, but ultimately adhered to the established church (Class 2).

Transcription from published sources (out of copyright).