Selkirkshire records

We are adding hundreds of thousands of extracted historical records to our website - including rolls of male heads of families, baptismal and marriage registers, Kirk Session records and Poor Law records. To see the records currently available for each parish, follow the links below. We don't yet have records for every parish, but remember to keep coming back, as we are adding new records every day.

Caddonfoot​
Ettrick and Buccleuch
Galashiels
Kirkhope
Roberton
Selkirk
Selkirk Heatherlie
Yarrow

Common surnames in Selkirkshire in 1841

Rank	Surname	Per 100,000
1	Scott	5993
2	Brown	2100
3	Anderson	2100
4	Turnbull	1535
5	Murray	1436
6	Laidlaw	1412
7	Hogg	1338
8	Thomson	1228
9	Douglas	1203
10	Grieve	1056
11	Ballantyne	1056
12	Johnston	945
13	Beattie	884
14	Smith	859
15	Wilson	847
16	Dalgliesh	835
17	Gray	810
18	Walker	798
19	Little	761
20	Inglis	761
21	Ingles	761
22	Young	749
23	Elliot	736
24	Welsh	724
25	Tait	712
26	Paterson	712
27	Stoddart	712
28	Brydon	700
29	Hall	675
30	Robertson	663
31	Henderson	638
32	Hope	626
33	Currie	614
34	Dobson	614
35	Bell	577
36	Miller	564
37	Davidson	552
38	Lees	552
39	Rutherford	540
40	Stewart	540
41	Watson	540
42	Hume	540
43	Mitchell	528
44	Riddle	528
45	Richardson	515
46	Dalgleish	515
47	Oliver	503
48	Pringle	503
49	Nichol	491
50	Sanderson	491
51	Cowan	478
52	Johnstone	454
53	Melrose	442
54	Dryden	442
55	Fairbairn	429
56	Renwick	429
57	Graham	405
58	Nicol	405
59	Clapperton	405
60	Armstrong	393
61	Hislop	393
62	Reid	380
63	Brodie	380
64	Riddell	368
65	Padkin	356
66	Lambert	356
67	Amos	343
68	Turner	343
69	Brunton	343
70	Leitch	331
71	Govenlock	331
72	Mercer	319
73	Aitchison	307
74	Simpson	307
75	Thorburn	307
76	Cavers	294
77	Burnet	294
78	Patterson	282
79	Clark	282
80	Bryden	282
81	Grive	282
82	Shiel	270
83	Haldane	270
84	Sword	270
85	Kerr	257
86	Chisholm	257
87	Goodfellow	257
88	Rodger	257
89	Cleghorn	257
90	Small	257
91	Dods	245
92	Kutcheon	245
93	Fletcher	245
94	Bathgate	245
95	Hobkirk	233
96	Dalglish	233
97	Dickson	221
98	Linton	221
99	Roberts	221
100	Robson	208
101	White	208
102	Boyd	208
103	Blake	208
104	Park	208
105	Lawson	208
106	Donaldson	208