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Arngask 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.
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
  • £9 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
Elizabeth FERGUSSON 1871 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Janet ALLAN19 December 1864Janet ALLANFather found
Robert ALLAN16 January 1863Janet ALLANFather found
Margaret ANDERSON19 June 1863Ann ANDERSONFind the father
Isabella BROWN13 January 1860Isabella BROWNFind the father
Williamina EDMISTON11 April 1869Elizabeth Scott EDMISTONFind the father
Janet ELLIS11 June 1872Janet ELLISFather found
Catherine FOGGO15 February 1858Margaret FOGGOFind the father
Georgina FORBES11 October 1868Ann FORBESFind the father
Elizabeth Ann Margaret GIBSON1 July 1860Margaret Murray GIBSONFind the father
James GIBSON17 January 1863Elizabeth GIBSONFind the father
Jessie GIBSON23 March 1870Elizabeth GIBSONFind the father
Jane GLEN9 April 1874Janet GLENFather found
William HAGGIE20 April 1864Janet HAGGIEFind the father
Helen HAXTON3 October 1856Helen HAXTONFind the father
David HEGGIE28 January 1873Janet HEGGIEFind the father
John Heggie HEGGIE15 May 1867Janet HEGGIEFind the father
Ann INNES22 December 1856Mary INNESFind the father
Margaret KID15 January 1856Rachael KIDFather found
Cathrine LENNOX12 June 1857Ann LENNOXFind the father
David LENNOX31 July 1867Ann LENNOXFind the father
Leroy LILBURNE9 April 1865Mary LILBURNEFind the father
William LOW29 March 1862Sarah LOWFather found
Cecilia Smith MALCOM9 May 1865Catharine Patterson MALCOMFather found
George MILLAR16 April 1855Margaret MILLARFind the father
James PHILP17 December 1857Mary PHILPFind the father
William ROBERTSON8 March 1871Ann ROBERTSONFind the father
David RONALDSON16 April 1863Janet RONALDSONFind the father
John RONALDSON22 August 1862Mary RONALDSONFind the father
Mary RONALDSON9 March 1864Mary RONALDSONFind the father
David SCOTT12 April 1865Janet SCOTTFather found
Robert John SIMPSON3 June 1865Mary SIMPSONFind the father
Ann STEWART22 October 1855Janet STEWARTFather found
John STEWART26 August 1871Mary Ann STEWARTFather found
Helen THOMSON3 June 1859Christina THOMSONFind the father
Isabella THOMSON3 February 1872Isabella THOMSONFather found
Elizabeth Drummond Hogg WANTON7 July 1856Elizabeth Drummond Hogg WANTONFind the father
George WANTON11 March 1856Cathrine WANTONFind 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

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.