Aberlady 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/4/4 | 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgina NAPIER | 1881 (2) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
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| 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 | Find the father |
| Thomas Alexander FORBES | 8 April 1872 | Jessie FORBES | Find the father |
| 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 | Find the father |
| 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 | Find the father |
| 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 |
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
