Port Glasgow, Newark (quoad sacra) kirk session
A Church of Scotland quoad sacra parish. It sat within the presbytery of Greenock and the synod of Glasgow and Ayr. It began as a chapel in Newark as early as 1767, and was disjoined from Port Glasgow in 1855.Records available
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