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Alvie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/1172/1 | Minutes and accounts 1713-21; Minutes and accounts 1729-49; Minutes and accounts 1754-60; Minutes and accounts 1763-7; Minutes and accounts 1784-7 | 1713-1787 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1172/2 | Minutes and accounts 1807-50; Minutes and accounts 1861-1924; Baptisms 1880-94; Proclamations 1880-4 Includes extensive poor rolls | 1807-1924 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James BAIN | 1852 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John DUFF | Lynehat Kingussie | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused; not on roll |
| Christina GRANT | 1874 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Janet KENNEDY or MCBEAN | 1851 (1) | Order images | Refused - informal | |
| Donald MACDONALD | 1872 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Christian MACINTOSH or MELDRUM | 1854 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Elizabeth MANN or MCLEAN | 1868 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Mary MCBAIN | 1857 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| William MCBEAN | 1851 (2) | Order images | Ground 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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jessie FRASER Balnain, Alvie | John REID | 16 Jul 1875 | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/36 |
| Helen MACBEAN Pitchirn, Alvie | Robert GRANT | 10 Dec 1852 | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/32 |
| Margaret Ann MACCASLINE Meadowside, Alvie, Inverness-shire | William FRASER | 26 Mar 1882 | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/38 |
| Margaret Ann MACCASLINE Meadowside, Alvie, Inverness-shire | William FRASER | 26 Mar 1882 Meadowside, Alvie, Inverness-shire | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/38 |
| Ann MACDONALD Easter Delfour, Alvie, Inverness-shire | Angus MACKENZIE | 6 Jun 1883 Abernethy, Strathspey | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/38 |
| Jane MACGREGOR Milltown of Dunachton, Alvie | Donald CAMPBELL | 14 Mar 1854 | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/32 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janet CAMERON | 24 September 1856 | Isabel CAMERON | Find the father |
| John CAMERON | 1 January 1858 | Isabella CAMERON | Find the father |
| Margaret CAMPBELL | 21 July 1868 | Margaret CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| John CUMMING | 15 November 1858 | Margaret CUMMING | Find the father |
| William GORDON | 23 May 1864 | Ann GORDON | Find the father |
| Alexander James GRANT | 11 October 1858 | Grace GRANT | Find the father |
| Elizabeth GRANT | 9 March 1864 | Elizabeth GRANT | Find the father |
| Peter GRANT | 7 February 1873 | Ann GRANT | Find the father |
| William GRANT | 4 April 1871 | Isabella GRANT | Find the father |
| Angus KENNEDY | 26 June 1870 | Ann KENNEDY | Find the father |
| Ann MACDONALD | 25 August 1855 | Janet MACDONALD | Find the father |
| Ann MACPHERSON | 6 April 1856 | Isabel MACPHERSON | Find the father |
| Donald MCBAIN | 23 September 1855 | Mary MCBAIN | Find the father |
| William MCBAIN | 20 April 1860 | Jessie MCBAIN | Find the father |
| William MCBAIN | 15 April 1869 | Ann MCBAIN | Find the father |
| Alexander MCDONALD | 3 June 1869 | Elizabeth MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Alexander MCDONALD | 31 July 1869 | Jessie MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Allan MCDONALD | 6 October 1867 | Jessie MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Donald MCDONALD | 26 June 1868 | Ann MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MCDONALD | 31 December 1872 | Elizabeth MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Jessie MCDONALD | 12 August 1863 | Ann MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Jessie MCDONALD | 1 October 1863 | Isabella MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCDONALD | 8 July 1855 | Betty MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCDONALD | 29 May 1857 | Ann MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCDONALD | 23 April 1860 | Isabella MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCDONALD | 10 April 1870 | Ann MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCDONALD | 2 December 1873 | Christina MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Margaret MCDONALD | 30 May 1871 | Ann MCDONALD | Find the father |
| May MCDONALD | 11 March 1866 | May MCDONALD | Find the father |
| James William MCDOUGALL | 18 July 1864 | Jessie MCDOUGALL | Find the father |
| Georgina MCINTOSH | 10 October 1870 | Annie MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Mary Isabella MCINTOSH | 28 November 1863 | Mary MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Alexander MCKENZIE | 12 September 1872 | Mary MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Helen MCKENZIE | 6 April 1870 | Mary MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Donald MCPHERSON | 17 October 1863 | Isabella MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| John Stewart MCPHERSON | 23 September 1864 | Grace MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret MCPHERSON | 31 July 1859 | Isabel MCPHERSON | Father found |
| David Grant MELDRUM | 20 January 1866 | Elizabeth MELDRUM | Father found |
| Jessie MELDRUM | 9 December 1860 | Margaret MELDRUM | Find the father |
| Jessie STEWART | 31 October 1873 | Mary STEWART | 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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David | Brewster | Belleville | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brewster | |
| James | Davidson | Raitts | ||
| James | Macpherson | Raitts | ||
| Ewen | Macpherson | Raitts | ||
| Thomas | Scott | Lynchat | ||
| Donald | Macbean | Lynchat | ||
| Alexr | Fraser | Lynchat | ||
| John | Duff | elder | Lynchat | |
| John | Campbell | Street | ||
| Alexr | Meldrum | Josal | ||
| James | Macedward | Croftbeg | ||
| Malcolm | Cattanach | |||
| Charles | Cameron | |||
| Wm | Macbean | Dunachtonmore | ||
| Alexr | Forbes | Park | ||
| Murdoch | Campbell | Kincraig | ||
| Donald | Macpherson | Lealt | ||
| Lachlan | Macintosh | elder | Presnacailich | |
| Alexr | Macpherson | Dalraddy | ||
| Robert | Cumming | elder | Lynwilg | |
| Wm | Robertson | Ballenluig | ||
| Donald | Cameron | Kinchyle | ||
| Donald | Maclean | |||
| John | Macbain | |||
| John | Maclean | |||
| James | Anderson | |||
| Donald | Anderson | |||
| Alexr | Kennedy | |||
| Wm | Macbean | |||
| John | Kennedy | |||
| Finlay | Macbain | |||
| Alexr | Duncan | |||
| John | Guthrie | |||
| Wm | Anderson | |||
| John | Macdonald | |||
| John | Macintyre | Baldow | ||
| Henry | Mitchell | Baldow | ||
| Duncan | Macbean |
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.
