Edinburgh St Marys parish records
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.
Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
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William | Allester | writer | 9 London Street | |
William | Anderson | coach guard | Leopold Place | |
George | Adam | of Sasine Office | Hart Street | |
James | Aitken | At Mrs Dawson's 13 Frederick Street | ||
John | Adam | 6 St James Street | ||
Alexander | Boswell | WS | London Street | |
Peter | Burn | 1 London Street | ||
Henry | Banks | tailor | 22 Duke Street | |
David | Brown | 8 Brandon Street | ||
Bogle | Warriston Crescent | |||
William | Bell | WS | 9 Queen Street | |
Andrew | Bell | shoemaker | St Mary's Place Lothian Road | New address Pitt or Dundas Street [CH2/139/83/17] |
John | Bell | 13 Great King Street | ||
James | Bell | gardener | Canonmills | |
Nicol | Baird | 35 Claremont Street | ||
James | Borthwick | of NB Insurance Coy | 14 Claremont Crescent | |
William | Boyd | WS | Drummond Place | |
William | Brodie | 16 Hart Street | ||
James | Brodie | writer | 16 Hart Street | |
Thomas | Blackwell | grocer | Union Street | |
George | Brown | merchant | 17 Scotland Street | |
John | Barron | wright | 67 Great King Street | |
Walter | Ballantyne | lithographer | 8 Annandale Street | Deleted [CH2/139/83/18] |
William | Bird | 2 East Broughton Place | ||
Campbell | 4 Picardy Place | |||
Thomas B | Campbell | Greenside Place | ||
William | Cooper | teacher | 17 George Street | |
Hugh | Cowan | WS | Scotland Street | |
John | Cowan | Advocate | 30 Drummond Place | |
Cheyne | Inverleith Terrace | |||
Charles | Chisholm | 40 London Street | ||
James | Carstairs | 7 Spences Place Port Hopetoun | ||
John | Craig | Ferniehill Cottage | Deleted [CH2/139/83/18] | |
William | Clark | printer | Canonmills | |
C M | Christie | York Place | ||
William | Cockburn | Broughton Hall | ||
William | Cowan | silk mercer | 1 Bellevue Crescent | |
Hew | Crichton | writer | Nelson Street | |
David | Craig | macer | Nelson Street | |
Craigie | Hanover Street | |||
John | Duff | measurer | 10 Catherine Street | |
John | Dick | mason | Claremont Street | |
Patrick | Dalmahoy | WS | 3 Hart Street | |
James S | Darling | WS | Scotland Street | |
George | Douglas | smith | 4 Old Broughton | |
Alexander | Douglas | WS | Drummond Place | |
James | Dowell | wright | East Thistle Street | 51 Hanover Street [CH2/139/83/18] |
John | Dick | 8 Greenside Row | ||
Thomas | Dick | gardener | 40 Claremont Street | |
Thomas | Dewar | teacher | 40 George Square | |
William | Elliot | 23 Drummond Place | ||
Walter | Ferrier | WS | Albany Street | |
Thomas | Finlay | meal dealer | 16 Scotland Street | |
William | Fraser | WS | 9 Mansfield Place | |
William | Fergusson | merchant | Drummond Place | |
Cosmo | Falconer | writer | James Square | |
Charles | Fisher | writer | 19 London Street | |
Thomas | Fraser | Duncan Street | ||
Henry | Goodsir | of Bank of Scotland | Inverleith Row | |
William | Gallaway | accountant | Elder Street | |
William | Gibson | 27 Haddington Place | ||
Alexander | Gibson | of British Linen Co | 5 Pitt Street | |
George | Gunn | cowfeeder | Allan Street Stockbridge | |
John | Gordon | clothier | Eyre Place | |
James | Gray | ironmonger | 48 London Street | |
Henry | Grey | Inverleith Row | ||
Peter | Graham | wright | 2 Greenside Place | |
Robert | Gilchrist | printer | 9 Crichton Street | |
P C | Gibson | surgeon | 5 Antigua Street | |
William | Howden | Dickson & Sons Nursery | Inverleith Row | |
William | Henry | builder | Scotland Street | |
William | Hunt | WS | 26 Broughton Place | |
John | Hill | of British Linen Co | 28 Scotland Street | |
William | Hamilton | of General Post Office | 9 Brown Street | |
John | Hamilton | WS | 1 Scotland Street | |
John | Hogg | of City Chambers | 7 Scotland Street | |
William | Hogg | Duncan Street | ||
James | Hislop | 33 Union Place | ||
John | Hughes | printer | 6 Mansfield Place | |
John | Hepburn | 1 Shrub Place Leith Walk | ||
J H | Horne | of Longformacus | 13 Inverleith Row | |
William | Innes | Stevenlaw's Close | ||
Hugh | Johnston | St Mary's Church | ||
James | Johnston | tobacconist | 6 Mansfield Place | |
John | Johnston | draftsman | 1 Cheyne Street | |
John | Jackson | painter | 17 Leopold Place | |
John | Kermack | WS | 20 Broughton Place | |
Knox | 8 Annandale Street | |||
Colin | Kemp | grocer | 31 Nelson Street | |
Joseph | Liddle | SSC | 12 Scotland Street | |
William M | Little | SSC | 50 Cumberland Street | Delete [CH2/139/83/20] |
Robert | Logan | 5 Laverock Bank Trinity | ||
John | Marshall | Advocate | Fettes Row | |
Robert | Marshall | Middlefield Leith Walk | ||
David | Manderston | smith | 39 Dublin Street | |
Hector | Mason | ACS | Scotland Street | |
Duncan | Matheson | Sheriff Substitute | Leith | |
Andrew | Milroy | WS | Scotland Street | |
John | Melvin | grocer | 19 Dublin Street | |
John | Manson | Constitution Street Leith | ||
George | Morris | plasterer | Canonmills | |
George | Maule | wright | 58 Broughton Street | |
Henry | Muir | 7 Lochend Close Canongate | ||
James | Morrison | of National Bank | Canal Street | |
Thomas | Moon | tailor | 22 Pitt Street | |
James | Melvin | grocer | 19 Dublin Street | |
James | Mitchell | surgeon | 39 Dublin Street | Delete [CH2/139/83/20] |
John | Macintosh | 10 Jamaica Street | ||
Lachlan | Macintosh | SSC | 35 London Street | |
James | Mackay | goldsmith | 24 Forth Street | |
John | Mackay | pensioner | 2 Old Broughton | |
Alexander | Macaulay | Great King Street | ||
John | Macnair | 5 London Street | ||
Charles | Maclean | grocer | 5 Queensferry Street | |
George | Macbean | policeman | 12 Union Street | |
James | Mcpherson | Improvements Office | 30 Hanover Street | |
Archibald | Mackinlay | 16 Forth Street | ||
Alexander | Mckean | 2 York Place | ||
Gavin | Mcdowall | 2 Mansfield Place | ||
John | Mcdowall | 11 Forth Street | National Bank [CH2/139/83/21] | |
Archibald | Mcrae | 4 Union Street | ||
William | Mckenzie | shoemaker | 40 Broughton Street | |
William | Mackersey | WS | 2 Bellevue Crescent | |
H | Mccallum | of Bank of Scotland | 16 South Charlotte Street | |
Neil | Mclaren | merchant | 7 Hope Crescent | |
Daniel | Mcpherson | printer | High Street | |
John | Neill | builder | 17 Carlton Place | |
Patrick | Neill | printer | Canonmills | |
John | Nichol | agent | 17 James Square | |
James | Nisbet | 17 Fettes Row | ||
Robert | Nisbet | At Mrs Shakerly's 3 Smiths Place Leith Walk | ||
James | Orr | druggist | Forth Street | |
Archibald | Patterson | 7 Annandale Street | ||
Thomas | Paterson | 5 East Register Street | ||
Henry | Paterson | Howard Place | ||
Allan | Paterson | 47 Cumberland Street | ||
Pringle | Warriston Crescent | |||
William | Pagan | 20 Howe Street | ||
David | Pagan | 20 Howe Street | ||
John | Pollock | 16 Jamaica Street | ||
Robert | Paul | WS | 20 Dublin Street | |
John | Ponton | 22 Scotland Street | ||
Patrick | Forth Street | |||
James | Richardson | 40 London Street | ||
Thomas | Richardson | 48 London Street | ||
Andrew | Richardson | WS | Royal Crescent | |
John | Richardson | WS | Fettes Row | |
James | Richardson | 8 Hope Crescent | ||
John | Richardson | 41 Dundas Street | ||
William | Ross | clothier | Inverleith Row | |
Sylvester | Reid | WS | 5 Mansfield Place | |
Robert | Reid | 2 Scotland Street | ||
William | Russell | 11 Scotland Street | ||
George | Russell | merchant | 4 East Broughton Place | |
John | Robertson | 27 London Street | ||
John | Reoch | Pilrig Street | ||
James | Rutherford | 11 Annandale Street | ||
William | Richardson | of Dickson & Co | Leopold Place | |
Alexander | Robertson | turner | 50 Broughton Street | |
John | Ronaldson | wright | 25 East Cumberland Street | Claremont [CH2/139/83/22] |
Alexander | Robertson | servant | 3 Northumberland Street | |
John | Robb | builder | Barony Street | |
Andrew | Scott | 39 London Street | ||
Robert | Scott | druggist | Forth Street | |
Wilkinson | Steele | 1 London Street | ||
Robert | Stevenson | engineer | 1 Baxters Place | |
Thomas W | Shaw | writer | Nelson Street | |
Stoddart | 10 Bellevue Crescent | |||
John | Sinclair | 6 Mansfield Place | ||
James | Sinclair | 4 New Street | ||
Charles | Stewart | SSC | 19 East Thistle Street | |
Stewart | 10 Dublin Street | |||
William | Stark | Canonmills | ||
William | Sommers | Paterson's Court Broughton | ||
George | Smith | architect | Wemyss Place | |
Robert | Shiells | 43 East Cross Causeway | ||
James | Slater | 1 Shrub Place | ||
James | Simpson | Canonmills | ||
Stupart | Claremont Street | 11 Fettes Row [CH2/139/83/23] | ||
Alexander | Seaton | grocer | 168 Cowgate | |
James | Stark | skinner | Canonmills | |
James | Shade | 24 Gayfield Square | ||
James | Sym | writer | 45 Frederick Street | |
James | Scott | merchant | 34 London Street | |
James L | Stewart | landscape painter | 25 East Claremont Street | Delete [CH2/139/83/23] |
Duncan | Stewart | surgeon | 13 Danube Street | "Robert" in original, but corrected as per CH2/139/1/169 |
William | Sutherland | 2 Cheyne Street | ||
Thomas | Thomson | Canonmills | ||
James | Tod | WS | 21 Dublin Street | |
John | Taylor | surgeon | Dublin Street | |
John | Watson | 3 Duke Street | ||
Thomas | Watt | of Allanhill | 11 East Claremont Street | |
Warden | Baxter's Place | |||
William | Wilson | bookseller | 25 Scotland Street | |
Robert | Weir | 41 Moray Place | ||
Archibald | Wilson | Broughton Street | ||
Matthew | Walker | merchant | 48 London Street | |
William | Younger | Drummond Place |
Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
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Walter | Ballantyne | lithographer | 8 Annandale Street | Expunged at this date |
John | Craig | Ferniehill Cottage | Expunged at this date | |
William M | Little | SSC | 50 Cumberland Street | Expunged at this date |
James | Mitchell | surgeon | 39 Dublin Street | Expunged at this date |
James L | Stewart | landscape painter | 25 East Claremont Street | Expunged at this date |
Thomas | Bell | 5 Scotland Street | Added at this date | |
Richard | Baird | 26 Haddington Place | Added at this date | |
William | Brown | clerk | 20 Drummond Place | Added at this date |
Peter | Barclay | gilder | 1 Gilmore Street | Added at this date |
George | Henderson | 3 Duncan Street | Added at this date | |
Alexr | Henderson | shoemaker | 12 Duncan Street | Added at this date |
Charles | Lyon | gardener | 5 Cumberland Street | Added at this date |
James | Sadler | servant | East Broughton Court | Added at this date |
Charles | Hutchison | architect | 18 Bedford Street | Added at this date |
Robert | Forster | 20 James Square | Added at this date | |
Alexander | Strathy | teacher of dancing | 31 Dundas Street | Added at this date |
John | Nairn | SSC | 26 Royal Crescent | Added at this date |