Cockburnspath parish records
Lookup searches – Access records in Scottish archives for ancestors in this parish (e.g. Kirk Session Records). Available from £1 a name a year.
Poor Law appeals – Indexed Poor Law appeals with the option to order images of records.
Birth records with no father’s name – Hit a brick wall with no father named in a birth record? Help is at hand: see our list for this parish below.
Male Heads of Families – Free transcripts of rolls of male heads of families from the 1830s
Kirk Sessions Index – Free extracts from Kirk Session records
Lookups
The records of the Kirk Session contain a variety of documents which detail many aspects of the daily lives of all types of people throughout Scotland from the 16th century onwards. We are pleased to be able to offer a search service in some of the records available for this parish. We will search for a given name in any of the record sets in the table below, and provide you with transcripts of any matching entries for just £1 per name per year.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/68/1 | Cockburnspath, St Helen's Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes | 1844-1936 | Request lookup |
| CH2/68/2 | Cockburnspath, St Helen's Church of Scotland - Marriages | 1869-1904 | Request lookup |
| CH2/68/3 | Cockburnspath, St Helen's Church of Scotland - Baptisms | 1869-1905 | Request lookup |
Board of Supervision poor relief appeals
The Board of Supervision was established under the 1845 Poor Law Act. One of its tasks was to hear appeals by paupers against inadequate poor relief granted by Parochial Boards. These appeals were recorded in the Board of Supervision minutes. Cases were often heard over an extended period. The minutes may contain a variety of information, including about other family members, medical conditions and other circumstances. For more information about these records, see here.
We are pleased to be able to offer to obtain images of the minutes for each appeal, at the following rates:
We are pleased to be able to offer to obtain images of the minutes for each appeal, at the following rates:
- £3 for a single minute
- £6 for up to 3 minutes for a single case
- £10 for any single case with more than 3 minutes (some cases have as many as 8 minutes)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William CARR | Coldingham | 1847 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| William CARR | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Isabella GLASS | 1869 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| William KERR | 1855 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| David NICHOL | 1849 (2) | Order images | Refused - see 187 and 428 1848 | |
| David NICOL | 1848 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed, on the understanding that he is to receive 2s a week |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
Your research hit a brick wall when you discovered a birth record missing this vital name? Choose Find the Father by any birth below to start breaking down that barrier today with our FREE search service. For births outwith this period, click here.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter ALLISON | 18 September 1872 | Agnes ALLISON | Find the father |
| Charles ANDERSON | 5 October 1867 | Sarah ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Elisabeth ANDERSON | 16 November 1861 | Agnes ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Janet ANDERSON | 20 September 1861 | Elisabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Janet Cockburn ARMSTRONG | 4 January 1855 | Jemima ARMSTRONG | Find the father |
| John BESSET | 7 September 1872 | Elizabeth BESSET | Find the father |
| William BLACK | 7 August 1871 | Elizabeth BLACK | Find the father |
| Richard BLAIR | 16 August 1873 | Jemima Jane BLAIR | Find the father |
| Jane BRYDEN | 15 March 1867 | Jane BRYDEN | Find the father |
| John CHAPMAN | 3 September 1871 | Susan CHAPMAN | Find the father |
| James COWE | 7 December 1869 | Isabella COWE | Find the father |
| Annabella CRAIB | 20 September 1870 | Bathia CRAIB | Find the father |
| John DARRIE | 10 September 1861 | Elspeth DARRIE | Find the father |
| Archibald DAVIDSON | 21 January 1862 | Thomson DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| William ELLIOT | 12 January 1872 | Agnes ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Mary FAIRBAIRN | 20 November 1865 | Barbara FAIRBAIRN | Find the father |
| William FAIRBAIRN | 9 June 1867 | Alison FAIRBAIRN | Find the father |
| John FORSYTH | 20 December 1863 | Margaret FORSYTH | Find the father |
| Mary Burnet GILLIE | 11 September 1855 | Isabella GILLIE | Find the father |
| Catharine GLASS | 22 August 1861 | Isabella GLASS | Find the father |
| Isabella GLASS | 27 July 1871 | Isabella GLASS | Find the father |
| William GLASS | 28 November 1858 | Elisabeth GLASS | Find the father |
| Joan Brown GRAY | 10 May 1871 | Elizabeth GRAY | Find the father |
| Janet HENDERSON | 1 September 1859 | Jane HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Helen HOULISTON | 23 August 1859 | Agnes HOULISTON | Find the father |
| Gavin HUNTER | 10 September 1867 | Beatrice HUNTER | Find the father |
| John Lamb JAMESON | 23 September 1857 | Isabella JAMESON | Find the father |
| James JOHNSTON | 20 January 1862 | Helen JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Margaret JOHNSTON | 27 January 1862 | Margaret JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| William Johnston KNOX | 27 December 1868 | Isabella KNOX | Find the father |
| Christina LAING | 9 May 1866 | Mary LAING | Find the father |
| Helen LESLIE | 14 October 1860 | Christian LESLIE | Find the father |
| Catharine LINCH | 23 September 1859 | Catharine LINCH | Find the father |
| James LINDORES | 12 February 1866 | Mary LINDORES | Find the father |
| Thomas Scott LINDORES | 10 February 1865 | Agnes LINDORES | Find the father |
| John MACPHERSON | 25 May 1867 | Marion MACPHERSON | Find the father |
| Anne MCLEOD | 19 September 1869 | Margaret MCLEOD | Find the father |
| Robert Johnston PATERSON | 27 March 1856 | Isabella PATERSON | Find the father |
| Helen PATTERSON | 22 November 1874 | Janet PATTERSON | Find the father |
| Isabel King PORTEOUS | 12 March 1864 | Elisabeth PORTEOUS | Find the father |
| Mary King PORTEOUS | 16 August 1869 | Elizabeth PORTEOUS | Find the father |
| Jane RENTON | 29 May 1862 | Jane RENTON | Find the father |
| John RUSSELL | 14 June 1867 | Elizabeth RUSSELL | Find the father |
| Jessie SHIEL | 28 July 1874 | Isabella SHIEL | Find the father |
| Jane SIVES | 9 June 1868 | Marion SIVES | Find the father |
| William SIVES | 10 July 1860 | Mary SIVES | Find the father |
| Andrew STEWART | 28 August 1861 | Elisabeth STEWART | Find the father |
| Robert STEWART | 21 February 1865 | Jane STEWART | Find the father |
| Alison TROTTER | 29 October 1860 | Margaret TROTTER | Find the father |
| Margaret WOOD | 19 September 1856 | Mary WOOD | Find the father |
| George YORK | 12 September 1870 | Mary YORK | Find the father |
| Isabella YORK | 21 April 1874 | Hannah YORK | Find the father |
Rolls of Male Heads of Families
In 1834, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland passed the Veto Act, removing the absolute right of landowners to appoint ministers to their parish. The Act gave male heads of families who were communicants with the parish the right to veto the appointment of a new minister if a majority of them objected. To this end, the Assembly instructed kirk sessions to draw up rolls of the male heads of families in each parish. We have transcribed the surviving rolls, and are publishing them here. They are significant as they pre-date the earliest nominal census, which took place in 1841.
In 1834, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland passed the Veto Act, removing the absolute right of landowners to appoint ministers to their parish. The Act gave male heads of families who were communicants with the parish the right to veto the appointment of a new minister if a majority of them objected. To this end, the Assembly instructed kirk sessions to draw up rolls of the male heads of families in each parish. We have transcribed the surviving rolls, and are publishing them here. They are significant as they pre-date the earliest nominal census, which took place in 1841.
No Roll of Male Heads of Families has yet been found for this parish
Kirk Session Records Index
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish
