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Aboyne and Glentanar 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/1367/1Minutes and accounts1754-1809Request lookup
CH2/1367/2Minutes and accounts1810-1871Request lookup
CH2/1367/4Baptismal register1882-1935Request 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:
  • £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)
We have indexed these records, and list the cases for this parish below. Just click on the Order images link to order images of the relevant minutes. Please note that as these minutes may need to be filmed specially, it may take up to a week before we can supply them.

Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes		Order imagesDeliverance
George CROMAR 1860 (1)Order imagesRefused
John GORDON Claggans By Ballater1846 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Janet MIDDLETON or REID 1862 (1)Order imagesRefused

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Robert William ABERDEEN19 June 1874Mary ABERDEENFind the father
Isabella BEATTIE3 August 1866Margaret BEATTIEFind the father
Frederick BEGG4 October 1869Ann BEGGFind the father
Isabella BEGG29 June 1858Margaret BEGGFind the father
Walter BEGG1 August 1859Ann BEGGFind the father
Alexander BERRY22 April 1865Mary BERRYFind the father
William BIRSS24 September 1862Mary BIRSSFind the father
Charles Robert Simpson BLACK10 August 1865Ann BLACKFather found
George BLACK30 January 1858Catherine BLACKFind the father
Robert BLACK30 May 1857Elizabeth BLACKFind the father
Walter BROWN22 July 1868Jessie BROWNFind the father
Fanny BURNETT1 January 1857Jane BURNETTFind the father
Mary Ann CAMERON20 April 1865Jessie CAMERONFind the father
George CAMPBELL19 August 1859Catherine CAMPBELLFind the father
Ann CATTANACH22 January 1864Jane CATTANACHFind the father
James CATTANACH12 April 1867Jane CATTANACHFind the father
Jessie Stewart Thomson CHRISTIE9 December 1874Mary CHRISTIEFind the father
Mary Ann CHRISTIE12 September 1869Mary CHRISTIEFind the father
Alexander CLARK17 March 1867Helen CLARKFind the father
James CLARK1 February 1859Ann CLARKFind the father
John CLARK9 April 1855Ann CLARKFind the father
Margaret COOPER29 March 1861Isabella COOPERFind the father
Isabella Jane COUTTS29 January 1871Jane COUTTSFind the father
James COUTTS21 April 1865Fanny COUTTSFind the father
Thomas COUTTS24 April 1863Jane COUTTSFind the father
Jane Gray DURWARD22 July 1858Christian DURWARDFind the father
Isabella EDWARDS22 August 1873Emma EDWARDSFind the father
Ann EWAN22 July 1856Elizabeth EWANFind the father
Donald EWAN14 September 1860Margaret EWANFind the father
John EWAN7 October 1859Christina EWANFind the father
Mary Ann EWAN27 November 1859Elisabeth EWANFind the father
Isaac EWEN8 April 1856Isabel EWENFind the father
John Mc Ghee EWEN30 November 1872Isabella EWENFind the father
Catherine FINDLAY18 June 1873Catherine FINDLAYFind the father
Margaret FORBES9 May 1863Isabella FORBESFind the father
George GILLANDERS5 September 1870Elizabeth GILLANDERSFind the father
Alfred Stewart GRANT24 March 1874Margaret GRANTFind the father
John GRANT4 February 1864Eliza GRANTFind the father
William GRANT20 February 1867Isabella GRANTFind the father
David Stuart JOLLY28 September 1866Ann Grace JOLLYFind the father
Mary Ann KEMP7 May 1856Ann KEMPFind the father
John KENNEDY17 January 1857Margaret KENNEDYFind the father
Christina KNOX12 June 1856Margaret KNOXFind the father
John Milne KYNOCH20 May 1867Jane KYNOCHFind the father
William MARTIN21 December 1869Jane MARTINFind the father
Helen MASSON13 April 1864Jane Masson Or SHANDFind the father
Hugh MCCONDACH15 October 1860Ann MCCONDACHFind the father
Ann MILNE13 December 1860Janet MILNEFind the father
James MILNE13 March 1869Janet MILNEFind the father
Susan Gray MILNE14 December 1866Janet MILNEFind the father
Alexander NICOL20 February 1868Fanny NICOLFind the father
Thomas OGG5 November 1871Elizabeth OGGFind the father
Eliza Ann PETRIE22 December 1873Ann PETRIEFather found
Ann RAE5 May 1869Mary RAEFind the father
James RAE5 May 1869Mary RAEFind the father
Robert RAE12 January 1863Jane RAEFind the father
James RITCHIE27 May 1857Jane RITCHIEFind the father
John RITCHIE26 November 1866Isabella Ritchie Or WALKERFind the father
Ann ROSS20 May 1855Isabel ROSSFind the father
Isabella ROSS7 May 1872Jane ROSSFind the father
Alexander SIMPSON8 August 1867Jane SIMPSONFind the father
Hugh Glennie SIMPSON26 February 1874Fanny SIMPSONFind the father
Isabella SIMPSON21 April 1859Ann SIMPSONFind the father
Charles SNOWIE27 September 1873Elizabeth SNOWIEFind the father
Roderick Williams STEPHEN6 January 1874Catherine STEPHENFind the father
Ann Bowman TURNER19 June 1868Mary Ann TURNERFind the father
William Alexander WALKER10 March 1871Jane WALKERFind the father
Andrew WATT3 January 1864Jane WATTFind the father
Helen WATT15 November 1861Jessie WATTFind the father
Margaret WATT31 October 1860Douglas WATTFind the father
Robert WATT19 October 1860Elizabeth WATTFind the father
John YOUNG31 December 1868Isabella YOUNGFind 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.

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.