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Anstruther Easter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/625/4 | Minutes and accounts Includes poor rolls | 1774-1827 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/5 | Minutes and accounts | 1827-1841 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/6 | Minutes and accounts | 29 Mar 1842-1875 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/7 | Minutes and accounts Includes regular lists of poor people given coal | 23 Apr 1875-1898 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/8 | Minutes and accounts Includes rolls of young communicants and coal lists | 1899-1913 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/10 | Accounts | 1796-1813 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/15 | Accounts Includes some poor rolls | 1870-1903 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/20 | Seat letting cash book Includes regular lists of seat holders | 1834-1884 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/21 | Seat letting cash book Includes regular lists of seat holders | 1884-1910 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/23 | Seat letting cash book. List of pews Includes regular lists of seat holders | 1895-1907 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/24 | Proclamations 1855-1926; Baptisms 1855-83 | 1855-1926 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/25 | Rental book of kirk session's lands of Anstruther Easter 1773, 1780-1807 | 1773-1807 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/26 | Churchyard register (burials) Gives locations of burials | 1855-1879 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/27 | Admiral Black's bequest fund minutes and accounts Includes regular poor rolls | 1853-1892 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/28 | Communion Roll | 1841-1845 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/29 | Communion Roll Includes list of certificates granted to parishioners leaving the parish | 1872-1880 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/30 | Communion Roll | 1897-1906 | Request lookup |
| CH2/625/38 | Baptismal Register | 1883-1961 | 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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Davidson ANDERSON | 5 December 1873 | Euphemia ANDERSON | Father found |
| Joan Hay ANDERSON | 20 December 1867 | Elizabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Peter Cameron ANDERSON | 19 May 1873 | Christian Wishart ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Alexander Donaldson ARMSTRONG | 28 September 1871 | Janet ARMSTRONG | Find the father |
| James BALFOUR | 31 January 1870 | Jessie BALFOUR | Find the father |
| George BELL | 23 August 1869 | Helen BELL | Find the father |
| Alexander BLACK | 4 June 1859 | Margaret BLACK | Father found |
| James BLACK | 4 April 1863 | Margaret BLACK | Find the father |
| Margaret COMB | 1 May 1855 | Margaret COMB | Find the father |
| Alexander CUTHBERT | 5 January 1864 | Elisabeth CUTHBERT | Find the father |
| James Aitken DON | 22 November 1869 | Jane Maxton DON | Father found |
| Mary Wilson GOLDIE | 25 March 1869 | Margaret GOLDIE | Find the father |
| James GRUBB | 4 June 1872 | Euphemia GRUBB | Find the father |
| William Nairn HARROW | 2 November 1874 | Agnes HARROW | Find the father |
| Euphemia Grubb HENDERSON | 26 September 1867 | Mary HENDERSON | Find the father |
| James HERD | 9 June 1860 | Agnes HERD | Father found |
| Anne HORSBURGH | 9 January 1861 | Janet HORSBURGH | Father found |
| William Munroe HORSBURGH | 23 April 1874 | Grace HORSBURGH | Find the father |
| Andrew HUTTON | 19 March 1857 | Ann HUTTON | Father found |
| David HUTTON | 18 November 1869 | Helen HUTTON | Find the father |
| John HUTTON | 15 September 1860 | Helen HUTTON | Father found |
| Alexander JAMIESON | 29 November 1859 | Agnes JAMIESON | Find the father |
| George JAMIESON | 24 December 1865 | Agnes JAMIESON | Find the father |
| Joan LILLY | 7 July 1856 | Margaret LILLY | Find the father |
| Anna MONCRIEFF | 15 February 1859 | Jane MONCRIEFF | Father found |
| James PARKER | 25 September 1873 | Sophia PARKER | Find the father |
| William PATTISON | 8 May 1860 | Cathern PATTISON | Father found |
| James Wilson RITCHIE | 7 September 1864 | Jessie RITCHIE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth RONALD | 3 December 1861 | Elizabeth RONALD | Find the father |
| Davina SMITH | 18 October 1859 | Eliza SMITH | Find the father |
| Elizabeth SMITH | 1 March 1859 | Elizabeth SMITH | Father found |
| James Maconochie THOMSON | 27 December 1874 | Christina THOMSON | Find the father |
| Margaret WATTERSTON | 18 December 1861 | Margaret WATTERSTON | Find the father |
| Jane WESTWATERS | 12 November 1871 | Margaret WESTWATERS | Father found |
| Margaret Mahoney WESTWOOD | 5 January 1870 | Marjory WESTWOOD | Find the father |
| Wilhelmina WILSON | 26 July 1866 | Ann WILSON | 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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | Gay | elder | ||
| David | Tod | elder | ||
| David | Strachan | elder | ||
| Walter | Brodie | session clerk | ||
| Thomas | Small | |||
| Andrew | Innes | |||
| Thomas | Brown | |||
| David | Duncan | |||
| Thomas | Keay | |||
| James | Balfour | |||
| James | Brown | |||
| David | Taylor | |||
| Robert | Anderson | |||
| Alexander | Donaldson | |||
| David | Swan | |||
| Andrew | Lawson | |||
| John | Ballantyne | |||
| John | Thomson | |||
| Joseph | Dick | |||
| James | Wilson | |||
| Peter | Campbell | |||
| Andrew | Watterstone | |||
| John | Adamson | |||
| Thomas | Strachan | |||
| George | Darsie | |||
| Philip | Tod | |||
| David | Donaldson | |||
| Andrew | Tod | |||
| William | Danes | |||
| John | Peatie | |||
| Thomas | Dawson | |||
| Alexander | Herd | |||
| James | Westwood | |||
| William | Robertson | |||
| William | Anderson | |||
| James | Small | |||
| John | Gourlay | |||
| James | Macgill | |||
| James | Watterstone | |||
| James | Morris | |||
| James | Brown | |||
| Andrew | Leslie | |||
| Swain | Swanson | |||
| James | Taylor | |||
| David | Dunn | |||
| Philip | Tod | |||
| William | Ramsay | |||
| Alexander | Lindsay | |||
| James | Sime | |||
| William | Lyall | |||
| Thomas | Brown | |||
| James | Tod | |||
| Archd | Guillan | |||
| George | Henderson | |||
| Alexander | Hay | |||
| Robert | Greig | |||
| Johnstone | Smith | |||
| Alexander | Millar | |||
| William | Laing | |||
| John | Henderson | |||
| William | Davidson | |||
| Robert | Forbes | |||
| Philip | Oliphant | |||
| John | Forbes | |||
| Alexander | Cairns | |||
| John | Balfour | |||
| James | Spence | |||
| William | Ballantyne | |||
| Alexr | Ballantyne | |||
| Stephen | Williamson | |||
| David | Tod | |||
| James | Greig | |||
| John | Smith | |||
| Andrew | Morris | |||
| John | Elder | |||
| David | Young | |||
| John | Ritchie | |||
| Robert | Mitchel | |||
| James | Matthieson | |||
| William | Brown | |||
| Alexander | Philp | |||
| David | Brown |
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.
