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Arbirlot parish 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 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
David MACFARLANE 1854 (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. For births outwith this period, click here.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Ann AIRTH11 August 1861Ann AIRTHFind the father
David AIRTH26 September 1862Euphemia AIRTHFind the father
William AIRTH12 April 1855Mary AIRTHFind the father
Helen BINNIE11 December 1870Margaret BINNIEFind the father
Alexander BROWN10 October 1859Jane BROWNFind the father
Alexander Anderson BROWN31 October 1870Elizabeth BROWNFind the father
Martha BROWN1 June 1861Mary BROWNFind the father
Robina Sim BROWN29 September 1868Mary BROWNFind the father
William BURNESS21 July 1863Margaret BURNESSFind the father
Amelia BUTCHART3 February 1872Mary Ann BUTCHARTFind the father
Alfred CABLES25 January 1873Hannah CABLESFind the father
David Francis CLARK19 April 1861Mary Ann CLARKFind the father
William COLLIER13 January 1867Elizabeth COLLIERFind the father
William DOUGLAS15 January 1871Marjory DOUGLASFind the father
Alexina EASTON1 May 1865Margaret EASTONFind the father
James GIBSON25 February 1868Helen GIBSONFind the father
Jessie Ann GIBSON21 May 1865Helen GIBSONFind the father
Agnes Alexina GOURLAY28 May 1870Ann GOURLAYFind the father
Jane Taylor INVERARITY12 December 1862Jessie INVERARITYFind the father
William KEILLAR27 May 1862Betsy KEILLARFind the father
Mary Ann KING18 April 1863Isabella KINGFind the father
Ann LOWSON2 August 1862Mary Ann LOWSONFind the father
David Finlay MACK2 December 1872Jessie MACKFind the father
Isabella MARSHALL3 January 1872Helen MARSHALLFind the father
William MILLAR12 January 1863Agness MILLARFind the father
Betsy MILNE12 May 1869Mary MILNEFind the father
Hugh MITCHELL6 June 1868Jane MITCHELLFind the father
Janet MITCHELL7 May 1868Mary Ann MITCHELLFind the father
David RATTRAY25 March 1863Betsy RATTRAYFind the father
Mary Elizabeth REID16 May 1873Margaret Lawson REIDFind the father
Charles ROBERTSON28 September 1873Margaret ROBERTSONFind the father
William ROBERTSON4 March 1859Mary ROBERTSONFind the father
Edward STEWART27 October 1857Ann Stewart Or DORWARDFind the father
William STEWART8 August 1867Catherine STEWARTFind the father
William WHITE5 April 1863Clementina WHITEFind the father
James WOOD1 October 1859Jane WOODFind 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