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Records -> Ross and Cromarty

Alness 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.
We do not currently have any lookups available for this parish.


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
James AIRD 1848 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
George CAMPBELL 1873 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
George CAMPBELL 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused
Murdo MACKENZIE 1874 (1)Order imagesRefused
Murdo MACKENZIE 1875 (1)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Margaret MCGREGOR Glenglash1846-1847 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Donald MUNRO 1867 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Esther MUNRO 1848 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Janet MUNRO 1846 (3)Order imagesRefused
Ann URQUHART or MACKENZIE 1846 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed


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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Margaret BAIN
Alness
William ROSS6 Sep 1855Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/7
Helen FRASER
Coulhill, Alness, Ross-shire
Simon INNES2 Apr 1879Order nowEdinburgh
SC39/8/48
Elspet MACKENZIE
Alness, Ross
Alexander MACKENZIE8 Apr 1891
Alness, Ross
Order nowTain
SC34/3/6
Isabella MACKENZIE
Boath, Alness
Alexander URQUHART25 Oct 1859Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/7
Rebecca MACRAE
Alness
Alexander MACKENZIE1 Apr 1875Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/10
Catherine MATHESON
Court Hill, Alness, Ross-shire
James ROSS18 Jul 1879Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/11
Isabella MUNRO
Alness
William ROSS5 Mar 1878Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/10
Jessie MUNRO
Dalnavie, near Alness, Ross
John MACRAE21 Jan 1906Order nowTain
SC34/3/6
Helen READER
Balnacraig, Alness, Ross
Alexander ROSS11 Jul 1891
Balnacraig, Alness, Ross
Order nowTain
SC34/3/6
Mary ROSS
Bridgend, Alness
Thomas STEWART10 Dec 1858Order nowTain
SC34/3/4
Maggie STEWART
Bridgend of Alness, Ross
Hector ROSS22 Aug 1889Order nowTain
SC34/3/6


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Jane ALLAN2 October 1874Ann ALLANFind the father
Mary Anne ALLAN10 August 1868Anne ALLANFind the father
Alexander BAIN16 October 1870Margaret BAINFind the father
John CAMERON20 December 1870Margaret CAMERONFind the father
Helen CAMPBELL17 January 1867Catharine CAMPBELLFather found
James CAMPBELL9 October 1867Margaret CAMPBELLFind the father
Margaret CAMPBELL2 June 1872Margaret CAMPBELLFind the father
Donald FORBES1 October 1874Margaret FORBESFind the father
John FORBES26 February 1870Margaret FORBESFind the father
Mary FORBES30 January 1865Margaret FORBESFind the father
Kenneth JACK7 March 1870Mary JACKFind the father
Mary MACGILLORAY16 March 1863Mary MACGILLORAYFind the father
Margaret MACINTYRE4 January 1860Catharine MACINTYREFind the father
Alexander MACKENZIE1 November 1860Mary MACKENZIEFind the father
Anne MORRISON7 June 1862Anne MORRISONFind the father
James MUNRO4 April 1865Catharine MUNROFind the father
Margaret MUNRO18 June 1874Margaret MUNROFind the father
John ROSS18 October 1864Christina ROSSFather found
William ROSS13 February 1867Catharine ROSSFind the father
Alexander SIMPSON19 November 1866Christina SIMPSONFind 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.


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