Social Work

Times were still hard, however, and the Kirk Session of Kenmore Kirk continued its social work during the ministry of John Hamilton. Extracts from the Session Minutes tell of money having been given at various times; for “a poor blind girl called Janet MacLean — 3 shillings”; “for poor
idiots”; “to a poor boy at Lawers to buy a bible” (he had to return it when he had read it); “for a poor paralytic man in Fearnan”. The Elder in charge of the Poor’s Box was now known as the Box Master and hardly a session meeting took place, without some help being given to
those in need. Other records speak of another aspect of life on the lochside. The Session is shown in its judicial role when Elspeth McGorrie complained “of being accused of witchcraft by John Maclntyre. Both rebuked”.

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