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Following the Scottish Reformation of 1560, the largest denomination in the country by far was the Presbyterian-based Church of Scotland, also known as ‘the Kirk’.

Registers for baptisms and marriages, known as the ‘OPRs’ or ‘Old Parish Registers’, were previously introduced to the Kirk in the early 1550s,

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