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​​Ardclach parish records

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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 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/717/2Minutes 1716 (1 entry); Minutes 1729-35; Minutes 1737-9; Minutes 1741-4; Minutes 1762-79; Minutes and accounts 1781-1840
Includes poor rolls		1716-1840Request lookup
CH2/717/3Minutes
Includes poor rolls		1840-1854Request lookup
CH2/717/4Minutes
Includes poor rolls		1855-1916Request lookup
CH2/717/5Minutes1917-1933Request lookup
CH2/717/6Baptismal register 1857-1933; Proclamation register 1883-19311857-1933Request lookup
CH2/717/7Communion roll1894-1933Request 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:
  • £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
Widow Ann MATTHEW or CAMPBELL 1848 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Ann OGILVIE or URQUHART Kintore1846 (1)Order imagesRemit for reconsideration; allowance being made sufficient in meantime. Dead 15th March

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

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
John ANDERSON5 December 1870Isabella ANDERSONFind the father
William ANDERSON14 November 1874Isabella ANDERSONFind the father
John CAMPBELL7 August 1866Catherine CAMPBELLFind the father
Georgina Cumming DAVIDSON8 August 1872Jane DAVIDSONFind the father
Isabella Souter DUNBAR8 October 1874Alexandrina DUNBARFind the father
Alexander FALCONER12 September 1857Jane FALCONERFind the father
Jessie GEDDAS19 May 1863Jessie GEDDASFind the father
Mary MACDONALD15 June 1869Ann MACDONALDFind the father
Anne MACKINTOSH6 January 1855Betsy MACKINTOSHFind the father
Helen Fraser MACKINTOSH8 February 1865Catherine Mackintosh Or ALEXANDERFind the father
Hugh MACKINTOSH17 September 1861Isabella MACKINTOSHFind the father
Mary Ann MACKINTOSH10 October 1869Mary MACKINTOSHFind the father
Jessie Lighton MCARTHUR13 June 1871Jane MCARTHURFind the father
William MCARTHUR1 December 1867Jane MCARTHURFind the father
James MCINTOSH1 January 1865Mary MCINTOSHFind the father
Ann MCKAY26 March 1869Ann MCKAYFind the father
John MCKAY5 June 1864Ann MCKAYFind the father
Alexander MCKENZIE5 February 1873Jane Ann MCKENZIEFind the father
May MCKENZIE9 January 1872May MCKENZIEFind the father
Mary MILNE5 July 1868Margaret MILNEFind the father
Ann Balfour Or MUNRO24 September 1864Ann BALFOURFind the father
John ROSS9 May 1861Elizabeth ROSSFind the father
Mary ROSS10 June 1857Elizabeth Mary ROSSFind the father
Ann TULLOCH13 July 1863Margaret TULLOCHFind the father
Thomas WHITE16 September 1855Ann WHITEFind the father
George YOUNG31 January 1868Catherine YOUNGFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/717/2 pp. 345-346)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
John CampbellBrodieelderOf Lethen
CharlesCowparelderFornighty
WilliamRoseelderMeikleburn
WilliamMackayelderFornighty
JamesKinnairdelderMeikleburn
DavidMitchellelderFornighty
GeorgeDuncanelderFernaz
JohnGowieelderAchnatone
AlexrFalconerschoolmasterArdclach
JohnMckilicanAchagour
JohnRobertsonKeppernoch
JohnRoseLynochork
AngusMacphersonDulrig
DavidMurdochLinemore
JohnMacphersonBaliniuilt
GeorgeMcintoshBanchor
JohnDonaldsonDelbuie
LeslyDrumlochan
JamesCallumRefouble
AlexanderRoseTomnarroch
JohnMcintoshLoggie
GeorgeWalkerAirdrie
AlexanderCameronDaltlich
WilliamCameronBalindore
JohnCameronBalindore
JamesMcardieAchnatone
WilliamHayLittlemillRemoved
WilliamMcphersonBalinrichRemoved
DonaldMackayRemore
RobertMcintoshBelievat
JohnMcdonaldBelievatrecord deleted; "never a communicant"
JamesFalconerRemore
DavidMitchellFornighty
GeorgeDunbarLethenmill
AlexanderUrquhartNear Fornighty
HughClunesFleenas Mill
WilliamDavidsonLittlemill
JohnDonaldsonGreystaneRemoved
DuncanCallumCollindown
ArchibaldWatsonLagie
JohnMcphersonArdclach
JohnKennedyLeubrattoch
WilliamRoseLittlemill
DavidBalfourAirdrie
AndrewMcintoshMeikleburndead
AlexanderMcphersonAchnatonedead

Kirk Session Records Index

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