Records -> Nairnshire
Ardclach 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/717/2 | Minutes 1716 (1 entry); Minutes 1729-35; Minutes 1737-9; Minutes 1741-4; Minutes 1762-79; Minutes and accounts 1781-1840 Includes poor rolls | 1716-1840 | Request lookup |
| CH2/717/3 | Minutes Includes poor rolls | 1840-1854 | Request lookup |
| CH2/717/4 | Minutes Includes poor rolls | 1855-1916 | Request lookup |
| CH2/717/5 | Minutes | 1917-1933 | Request lookup |
| CH2/717/6 | Baptismal register 1857-1933; Proclamation register 1883-1931 | 1857-1933 | Request lookup |
| CH2/717/7 | Communion roll | 1894-1933 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Ann MATTHEW or CAMPBELL | 1848 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Ann OGILVIE or URQUHART | Kintore | 1846 (1) | Order images | Remit for reconsideration; allowance being made sufficient in meantime. Dead 15th March |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane DAVIDSON Achnatore, Ardclach, Nairnshire | Donald MORE | 31 Jan 1878 | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/37 |
| Isabella MACDONALD Ardclach, Nairnshire | James LESLIE | 26 Sep 1859 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/5 |
| Jane Ann MACKENZIE Hollenbush, Ardclach | James NEWLANDS | 9 Nov 1875 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/8 |
| Jane Ann MCINTOSH School House, Ardclach formerly Berryley, Darnaway | William ROY | 24 Mar 1884 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John ANDERSON | 5 December 1870 | Isabella ANDERSON | Find the father |
| William ANDERSON | 14 November 1874 | Isabella ANDERSON | Find the father |
| John CAMPBELL | 7 August 1866 | Catherine CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Georgina Cumming DAVIDSON | 8 August 1872 | Jane DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Isabella Souter DUNBAR | 8 October 1874 | Alexandrina DUNBAR | Find the father |
| Alexander FALCONER | 12 September 1857 | Jane FALCONER | Find the father |
| Jessie GEDDAS | 19 May 1863 | Jessie GEDDAS | Find the father |
| Mary MACDONALD | 15 June 1869 | Ann MACDONALD | Find the father |
| Anne MACKINTOSH | 6 January 1855 | Betsy MACKINTOSH | Find the father |
| Helen Fraser MACKINTOSH | 8 February 1865 | Catherine Mackintosh Or ALEXANDER | Find the father |
| Hugh MACKINTOSH | 17 September 1861 | Isabella MACKINTOSH | Find the father |
| Mary Ann MACKINTOSH | 10 October 1869 | Mary MACKINTOSH | Father found |
| Jessie Lighton MCARTHUR | 13 June 1871 | Jane MCARTHUR | Father found |
| William MCARTHUR | 1 December 1867 | Jane MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| James MCINTOSH | 1 January 1865 | Mary MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Ann MCKAY | 26 March 1869 | Ann MCKAY | Find the father |
| John MCKAY | 5 June 1864 | Ann MCKAY | Find the father |
| Alexander MCKENZIE | 5 February 1873 | Jane Ann MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| May MCKENZIE | 9 January 1872 | May MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Mary MILNE | 5 July 1868 | Margaret MILNE | Find the father |
| Ann Balfour Or MUNRO | 24 September 1864 | Ann BALFOUR | Find the father |
| John ROSS | 9 May 1861 | Elizabeth ROSS | Find the father |
| Mary ROSS | 10 June 1857 | Elizabeth Mary ROSS | Find the father |
| Ann TULLOCH | 13 July 1863 | Margaret TULLOCH | Find the father |
| Thomas WHITE | 16 September 1855 | Ann WHITE | Find the father |
| George YOUNG | 31 January 1868 | Catherine YOUNG | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Campbell | Brodie | elder | Of Lethen | |
| Charles | Cowpar | elder | Fornighty | |
| William | Rose | elder | Meikleburn | |
| William | Mackay | elder | Fornighty | |
| James | Kinnaird | elder | Meikleburn | |
| David | Mitchell | elder | Fornighty | |
| George | Duncan | elder | Fernaz | |
| John | Gowie | elder | Achnatone | |
| Alexr | Falconer | schoolmaster | Ardclach | |
| John | Mckilican | Achagour | ||
| John | Robertson | Keppernoch | ||
| John | Rose | Lynochork | ||
| Angus | Macpherson | Dulrig | ||
| David | Murdoch | Linemore | ||
| John | Macpherson | Baliniuilt | ||
| George | Mcintosh | Banchor | ||
| John | Donaldson | Delbuie | ||
| Lesly | Drumlochan | |||
| James | Callum | Refouble | ||
| Alexander | Rose | Tomnarroch | ||
| John | Mcintosh | Loggie | ||
| George | Walker | Airdrie | ||
| Alexander | Cameron | Daltlich | ||
| William | Cameron | Balindore | ||
| John | Cameron | Balindore | ||
| James | Mcardie | Achnatone | ||
| William | Hay | Littlemill | Removed | |
| William | Mcpherson | Balinrich | Removed | |
| Donald | Mackay | Remore | ||
| Robert | Mcintosh | Believat | ||
| John | Mcdonald | Believat | record deleted; "never a communicant" | |
| James | Falconer | Remore | ||
| David | Mitchell | Fornighty | ||
| George | Dunbar | Lethenmill | ||
| Alexander | Urquhart | Near Fornighty | ||
| Hugh | Clunes | Fleenas Mill | ||
| William | Davidson | Littlemill | ||
| John | Donaldson | Greystane | Removed | |
| Duncan | Callum | Collindown | ||
| Archibald | Watson | Lagie | ||
| John | Mcpherson | Ardclach | ||
| John | Kennedy | Leubrattoch | ||
| William | Rose | Littlemill | ||
| David | Balfour | Airdrie | ||
| Andrew | Mcintosh | Meikleburn | dead | |
| Alexander | Mcpherson | Achnatone | dead |
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.
