Stobo 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/423/1 | Minutes, names of heads of families, and Heritors' Minutes Minutes - 1754-1843 Names of Heads of Families - 1835 Heritors' Minutes - 1808 Heritors' Minutes - 1815 Heritors' Minutes - 1817 Heritors' Minutes - 1826 | 1754-1843 | Request lookup |
| CH2/423/2 | Minutes | 1850-1902 | Request lookup |
| CH2/423/4 | Collections and disbursements Includes mortcloth dues and poor payments | 1754-1815 | Request lookup |
| CH2/423/5 | Collections and disbursements Includes mortcloth dues | 1815-1849 | Request lookup |
| CH2/423/9 | Scroll minutes | 1761-1788 | Request lookup |
| CH2/423/12 | Communion roll | 1883-1912 | Request lookup |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
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| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane FOSTER | 21 November 1857 | Jane FOSTER | Find the father |
| Mary Hislop LAWRIE | 15 December 1871 | Mary LAWRIE | Find the father |
| James LAWSON | 3 February 1869 | Margaret LAWSON | Find the father |
| John MERCER | 21 August 1860 | Ann MERCER | Find the father |
| John SMAIL | 28 November 1869 | Agness SMAIL | Find the father |
| Anne TAIT | 22 July 1867 | Margaret TAIT | Find the father |
| John TAIT | 27 September 1861 | Betsy TAIT | Find the father |
| William TAIT | 30 July 1860 | Ann TAIT | Find the father |
| William TAIT | 13 March 1868 | Jane TAIT | Find the father |
| Christina THOMSON | 13 August 1858 | Janet THOMSON | Find the father |
| Joanna WILSON | 26 August 1866 | Marion WILSON | 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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | Nielson | Dreva Muirburn | ||
| Robert | Nielson | Dreva Muirburn | ||
| James | Stewart | Dreva Craigend | ||
| Adam | Ramage | Dreva Midhouses | ||
| Alexander | Shanky | Dreva Midhouses | ||
| Robert | Cunningham | Dreva Sheel | ||
| Daniel | Hunter | Dreva Sheel | ||
| Thomas | Hughes | Slatehole | ||
| John | Scott | Slatehole | ||
| George | Thomson | Slatehole | ||
| Adam | Bryce | Slatehole | ||
| John | Sutherland | Slatehole | ||
| Robert | Thomson | Slatehole | ||
| Robert | Tait | Slatehole | ||
| James | Tait | Slatehole | ||
| Robert | Storey | Alterstone | ||
| Alexander | Ketchan | Alterstone | ||
| Andrew | Shanky | Alterstone | ||
| John | Park | Crownhead | ||
| George | Clark | Crownhead | ||
| Andrew | Ferguson | Newhouses | ||
| James | Burns | Newhouses | ||
| William | Brown | Newhouses | ||
| James | Montgomery | Stobo Castle | ||
| James | Scott | Stobo Castle | ||
| Peter | Macarter | Stobo Striphead | ||
| William | Bartram | Stobo Gate | ||
| David | Bowe | Coshbog | ||
| James | Veitch | Coshbog | ||
| William | Hogg | Stobohope | ||
| Alexander | Mason | Stobo Mill | ||
| William | Veitch | Stobo Mill | ||
| William | Turnbull | Harrow | ||
| George | Walker | Harrow | ||
| Robert | Ferguson | Class | ||
| Robert | Ferguson | Class | ||
| George | Scott | Schoolhouse | ||
| James | Tod | Burnfoot | ||
| James | Alexander | Easterhaprew | ||
| Robert | Brown | Easterhaprew | ||
| William | Grosart | Easterhaprew | ||
| Allan | Smith | Easterhaprew | ||
| John | Robertson | Easterhaprew | ||
| William | Goskirk | Easterhaprew | ||
| James | Penman | Easter Dawick | ||
| James | Veitch | Easter Dawick | ||
| William | Alexander | Torebank | ||
| Thomas | Scott | Torebank | ||
| Andrew | Smeal | Lyne Bridge End | ||
| William | Gray | Westerhaprew | ||
| James | Tod | Westerhaprew | ||
| James | Park | Westerhaprew | ||
| John | Carrick | Westerhaprew | ||
| Thomas | Tod | Westerhaprew | ||
| James | Cranston | Harrowhop |
Kirk Session Records Index
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish
