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Arran Heritage Museum’s archive and genealogy research area is open to the public on Wednesdays, giving people an ideal chance to search their family trees.
Appointments can be made with the museum’s experts who will take people through Arran’s old parish records and monumental inscriptions. This information can be accessed through the museum’s website, but if people visit the museum they have the benefit of the experts’ local knowledge, for the small fee of £7.50 per hour.
The monumental inscriptions (information from gravestones) are so important because pre 1855, before it became compulsory to register births, deaths and marriages, there were no death records on Arran.
When the Arran Banner reporter visited the museum on Wednesday, Colin Clarke from Ayr was looking for information about the great, great, great grandfather of his wife Agnes Whitelaw Stewart, Daniel Stewart. Daniel Stewart was married in Brodick in 1828.
