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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 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
  • £10 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
Thomas IRVINE 1858 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Euphemia KENNEDY 1872 (1)Order imagesRefused
John KYLE 1862 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Thomas MACDONALD 1870 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Agnes SCOTT 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
Isabella STODDART 1872 (1)Order imagesRefused

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Thomas Andrew ANDERSON1 July 1862Marion ANDERSONFind the father
Harry BAILLIE25 December 1859Elizabeth BAILLIEFind the father
Thomas BAILLIE7 September 1859Harriet BAILLIEFind the father
John Malcolm BALLANTYNE17 February 1858Mary BALLANTYNEFind the father
Georgina BALMER23 August 1871Janet BALMERFind the father
Isabella BARNS29 May 1874Margaret BARNSFind the father
Allan BEATON18 December 1866Margaret BEATONFind the father
Andrew Mercer BEATON30 December 1860Margaret BEATONFind the father
James BEATON6 July 1864Mary BEATONFind the father
Mary BEATON11 January 1870Margaret BEATONFind the father
Jane BELL26 March 1858Isabella BELLFind the father
William BELL13 October 1860Janet BELLFind the father
Mary BINNIE28 March 1856Mary BINNIEFind the father
John BLACK29 December 1866Mary BLACKFind the father
William BLACK25 January 1860Christina BLACKFind the father
Jane Messer BROWN24 October 1862Jessie BROWNFind the father
William BROWN1 July 1858Margaret BROWNFind the father
Agnes BUNYAN23 February 1869Agnes BUNYANFind the father
James BUNYAN5 June 1865Agnes BUNYANFind the father
Margaret BUNYAN6 May 1860Helen BUNYANFind the father
Margaret BUNYAN28 May 1871Margaret BUNYANFind the father
James Cowan CAIRNS28 November 1866Elizabeth CAIRNSFind the father
Jane Chisholm CAIRNS19 April 1865Agnes CAIRNSFind the father
Thomas CAIRNS8 August 1861Isabella CAIRNSFind the father
James Wood CLARK28 March 1864Georgina Helen CLARKFind the father
David COOK29 July 1855Elisabeth COOKFind the father
Mary CUNNINGHAM21 December 1857Margaret CUNNINGHAMFind the father
Andrew Oliver Wright DANIEL23 September 1867Alison DANIELFind the father
Andrew Smith DANIEL15 August 1874Jane DANIELFind the father
John DAVIDSON18 April 1860Mary DAVIDSONFind the father
William DICKMAN13 November 1860Susan DICKMANFind the father
Robert DODDS5 December 1855Jessie DODDSFind the father
Janet Elisabeth DONALD15 December 1861Margaret Nisbet DONALDFind the father
Robina Laidlaw DRINNAN21 September 1861Catherine DRINNANFind the father
George DUNN7 September 1855Agnes DUNNFind the father
Adam Scott ELLIOT28 January 1865Isabella ELLIOTFind the father
Peter HARDIE28 October 1865Agnes HARDIEFind the father
Annie Preston HARPER2 October 1862Annie HARPERFind the father
Elizabeth Preston HARPER21 March 1865Annie HARPERFind the father
Agnes Mutch HOGG14 June 1868Janet HOGGFind the father
John HOPE15 November 1865Betsy HOPEFind the father
Margaret HUME25 January 1868Isabella HUMEFind the father
Thomas Arthur HUME21 October 1866Mary HUMEFind the father
Agnes HUSH7 November 1870Elizabeth HUSHFind the father
John HUSH3 July 1874Elizabeth HUSHFind the father
Marianne HUSH1 August 1867Jane HUSHFind the father
Robert HUSH16 August 1867Elizabeth HUSHFind the father
James Scott INGLIS8 February 1868Helen INGLISFind the father
Thomas INGLIS12 March 1862Betsy INGLISFind the father
Elizabeth IRVINE16 March 1873Margaret IRVINEFind the father
Robert IRVINE12 August 1863Isabella IRVINEFind the father
Andrew Richardson JOHNSTON17 August 1870Helen JOHNSTONFind the father
Robert JOHNSTON19 February 1870Margaret JOHNSTONFind the father
Betsy JUDGE17 September 1867Betsy JUDGEFind the father
Andrew Forsythe LINDORES22 February 1862Annie LINDORESFind the father
Isabella LINDSAY22 August 1873Isabella LINDSAYFind the father
Mary MESSER5 July 1868Alison MESSERFind the father
John Elliot MINTO8 August 1870Margaret MINTOFind the father
William MOFFAT23 April 1870Elizabeth MOFFATFind the father
Jane Rutherford MORRISON24 December 1869Ann MORRISONFind the father
James Henry MURRAY6 February 1857Helen MURRAYFind the father
William NEIL22 October 1870Elizabeth NEILFind the father
Henry PATERSON20 December 1862Elisabeth PATERSONFind the father
Henry James PATERSON24 August 1869Margaret PATERSONFind the father
Alison REDPATH14 January 1857Alison REDPATHFind the father
Isabella Cairns REDPATH5 October 1862Euphemia REDPATHFind the father
Margaret REDPATH14 May 1858Margaret REDPATHFind the father
Janet Armstrong RIDDEL18 June 1862Mary RIDDELFind the father
Martha ROBSON14 October 1860Isabel ROBSONFind the father
Jane RUTHERFORD1 August 1872Margaret RUTHERFORDFind the father
James Williamson SCOTT8 December 1866Catherine SCOTTFind the father
Janet SCOTT20 December 1865Jemima SCOTTFind the father
Mary SCOTT14 November 1862Mary SCOTTFind the father
Anne SHIEL10 July 1860Anne SHIELFind the father
Margaret Wilson SHORT2 October 1871Helen SHORTFind the father
Eliza SIMPSON12 October 1855Eliza SIMPSONFind the father
Elizabeth SINTON19 September 1868Isabella SINTONFind the father
James SMALL12 March 1858Elisabeth SMALLFind the father
Janet SMALL17 April 1862Elisabeth SMALLFind the father
Adam Alexander SMITH28 June 1865Margaret SMITHFind the father
James SMITH8 June 1861Margaret SMITHFind the father
Mary STEWART5 September 1858Jemima STEWARTFind the father
William Tait STODDART28 October 1861Jessie STODDARTFind the father
Helen STORIE4 June 1870Mary STORIEFind the father
Elizabeth THOMPSON16 August 1863Margaret THOMPSONFind the father
William THOMPSON23 December 1865Margaret THOMPSONFind the father
Sarah THOMSON4 July 1856Sarah THOMSONFind the father
Alison TINLIN16 February 1864Jane TINLINFind the father
Alexander Sharp TURNBULL23 October 1873Isabella TURNBULLFind the father
James TURNBULL30 July 1857Agnes TURNBULLFind the father
Robina TURNBULL22 July 1858Anne TURNBULLFind the father
Alexander TURNER26 December 1861Jessie TURNERFind the father
Thomas Dow TURNER9 June 1863Marion TURNERFind the father
Joan Ronaldson WATSON26 April 1872Isabella WATSONFind the father
John WILSON27 January 1857Isabella WILSONFind the father
Helen WINTRUP1 April 1864Isabella WINTRUPFind 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

We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish