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Aberlady 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.
Asylum records – Index to the General Register of Lunatics in Asylums
School records – Index to School Leaving Certificate Examination results
Anatomy Registers – Index to the records of the Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland
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.
Asylum records – Index to the General Register of Lunatics in Asylums
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/4/4 | Aberlady kirk session: Minutes | 1835-1936 | Request lookup |
| CH2/4/5 | Aberlady kirk session: Accounts | 1711-1758 | Request lookup |
| CH2/4/6 | Aberlady kirk session: Accounts | 1758-1783 | Request lookup |
| CH2/4/7 | Aberlady kirk session: Accounts Including proclamations and baptisms, 1828-1848 | 1826-1846 | Request lookup |
| CH2/4/13 | Aberlady kirk session: Communion rollbook | 1862-1877 | Request lookup |
| CH2/4/14 | Aberlady kirk session: Communion rollbook | 1880-1885 | Request lookup |
| CH2/4/15 | Aberlady kirk session: Communion rollbook | 1886-1904 | Request lookup |
| CH2/4/11 | Aberlady kirk session: Minutes | 1983-1990 | 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
- £9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgina NAPIER | 1881 (2) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief |
Sheriff Court paternity decrees
Single mothers often took the fathers of their children to court for child support. Such cases were known as filiation and aliment cases. The court could order the father to provide maintenance payments to the mother. If the mother won her case, the court would issue a decree, which would allow the mother to enforce payment of aliment. We have indexed all the records of such cases held by the National Records of Scotland from at least 1855 to 1880, and can provide digital images of the records. To order your copy, simply click on the Order now link in the table below.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann BROWN Aberlady | James WHITE | 22 May 1858 | Order now | Haddington SC40/7/36 |
| Margaret PURVES Aberlady, East Lothian | John DEMPSTER | 15 Dec 1875 Aberlady, East Lothian | Order now | Edinburgh SC39/8/44 |
| Jane TAYLOR Aberlady Mains, East Lothian | Alexander SINCLAIR | 13 Jan 1887 | Order now | Edinburgh SC39/8/55 |
School Leaving Certificate Exams
This is an index to the registers of school leaving certificate examination results (NRS Reference ED36). We do not currently have any records for this parish.
Anatomy register
This is an index to the registers of the Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland (NRS Reference MH1/1-MH1/30). We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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. Where we've already identified the father, click on the Father Found link to order a copy of the record naming the father. For births outwith this period, click here.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary AMOS | 4 July 1867 | Mary AMOS | Find the father |
| Anne BAPTIE | 20 October 1872 | Wilhelmina BAPTIE | Find the father |
| Henry BARRIE | 23 January 1864 | Elisabeth BARRIE | Find the father |
| Bridget CASSADY | 1 October 1864 | Bridget CASSADY | Find the father |
| Allan Munro COWAN | 25 August 1870 | Elisabeth COWAN | Find the father |
| James DOBSON | 12 September 1873 | Janet DOBSON | Find the father |
| John DUDGEON | 8 May 1864 | Margaret DUDGEON | Find the father |
| John DUDGEON | 13 July 1868 | Helen DUDGEON | Father found |
| Thomas Alexander FORBES | 8 April 1872 | Jessie FORBES | Father found |
| John GALBRAITH | 17 March 1871 | Maryanne GALBRAITH | Find the father |
| Joanna HERRIOT | 30 March 1871 | Robina HERRIOT | Find the father |
| George HOWDEN | 8 April 1872 | Margaret HOWDEN | Find the father |
| Elisabeth HUME | 16 August 1872 | Beatrice HUME | Find the father |
| James HUNTER | 3 November 1855 | Mary HUNTER | Find the father |
| Mary Jane JOHNSTON | 6 April 1871 | Margaret JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| James KEEGAN | 17 January 1874 | Mary KEEGAN | Find the father |
| Jemima KIRKALDY | 5 June 1862 | Elizabeth KIRKALDY | Find the father |
| William KIRKCALDY | 17 June 1865 | Elisabeth KIRKCALDY | Find the father |
| John KNOX | 30 June 1861 | Ann KNOX | Find the father |
| Isabella Jane Cooper LAMONT | 21 August 1866 | Jane LAMONT | Find the father |
| John LEARMONTH | 22 October 1866 | Mary LEARMONTH | Find the father |
| William LEARMONTH | 17 April 1872 | Elisabeth LEARMONTH | Find the father |
| John LESLIE | 16 June 1870 | Barbara LESLIE | Find the father |
| Margaret LESLIE | 25 May 1866 | Barbara LESLIE | Find the father |
| William Robert LESLIE | 4 December 1868 | Barbara LESLIE | Find the father |
| Beatrice Tait MCADAM | 4 December 1855 | Jessie MCADAM | Father found |
| Catherine MCKINNON | 17 August 1872 | Jessie MCKINNON | Find the father |
| Mary MCNAB | 16 September 1863 | Helen MCNAB | Find the father |
| John MCNEIL | 1 August 1868 | Agnes MCNEIL | Find the father |
| Ann MOONIE | 4 December 1862 | Margaret MOONIE | Find the father |
| David Spence MOWAT | 29 June 1873 | Barbara MOWAT | Find the father |
| Anne MURRAY | 15 July 1870 | Helen MURRAY | Find the father |
| William MYLES | 18 May 1856 | Anne MYLES | Find the father |
| William PATERSON | 14 June 1868 | Margaret PATERSON | Find the father |
| Alexander Edward SINCLAIR | 21 May 1863 | Caroline SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| Marion SINCLAIR | 13 October 1866 | Marion SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| Jemima SMITH | 6 May 1874 | Catherine SMITH | Find the father |
| John Samuel WIGHTMAN | 11 January 1872 | Mary WIGHTMAN | Find the father |
| Mary Johnstone WIGHTMAN | 26 September 1867 | Helen WIGHTMAN | Father found |
| John Gordon WILSON | 19 November 1864 | Mary Brown WILSON | Find the father |
| Jane Galbraith WOOD | 2 February 1867 | Ann WOOD | Find the father |
| Isabel YOUNG | 20 June 1859 | Isabel YOUNG | Find the father |
General Register of Lunatics
This index shows patients from this parish admitted to asylums. We have not yet identified any patients from this parish.
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.
No Roll of Male Heads of Families has yet been found for this parish
Kirk Session Records Index
Use the name links below to go to the entries for the person you are interested in. We have selected 1832 as an example year for parishes across Scotland. If you would like more information about the existence of Kirk Session minutes for this or another parish or would like to search for particular people in the minutes please contact us.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
