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Records -> Dunbartonshire

Arrochar 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/445/1Session Minutes
Minutes 1764-1784, with deaths 1835-1840
1764-1840Request lookup
CH2/445/2Session Minutes 1785-1844 (with Proclamations, 1864-1865, 1884, 1901)1785-1901Request lookup
CH2/445/3Session Minutes 1832-1843 (with Proclamations, 1855-1935)1832-1935Request lookup
CH2/445/4Session Minutes1844-1935Request lookup
CH2/445/5Treasurer's Cash Book
Includes poor payments.
1844-1864Request lookup
CH2/445/6Treasurer's Cash Book1864-1896Request lookup
CH2/445/7Communion Roll1867-1869Request 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
  • £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
Donald CAMPBELL 1879 (3)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Catherine MACFARLANE 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
Catherine MACFARLANE 1854 (1)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Duncan MACINTYRE 1855-1856 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed


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 currently found any decrees for this parish.


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Mary Clark CAMPBELL6 August 1871Mary CAMPBELLFind the father
Francis Alexander Mackenzie CLARK19 May 1865Jessie CLARKFind the father
Mary Mcbride FISHER8 April 1873Catherine FISHERFind the father
Alexander Younger GRAY5 August 1862Flora GRAYFind the father
Elizabeth MACFARLANE14 February 1862Elizabeth MACFARLANEFind the father
James RHIND2 August 1856Mary RHINDFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/445/3 pp. 9-11)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
DanielBrodiefarmer
JohnBrydiefarmer
DuncanBlairfishermanNot a communicant
JohnColquhounRemoved
DanielCarmichaelhouse carpenter
JohnCampbellshoemaker
RobertCampbelllabourer
AlexrDewarfarmer
DonaldDewarschoolmaster
JohnFergusonfisherman
AlexanderMacdougalllabourer
DuncanMacgibbonlabourer
DonaldMaccallumlabourer
DougaldMacfarlanefisherman
PeterMacfarlanelabourer
PeterMacintyrefarmer
DuncanMacintyrefarmer
GeorgeMacfarlaneground officer
DougaldMacfarlanegrocer
PeterMacfarlanefisherman
JohnMackellarfarmer
JohnMacmurrichof Stuckgown
DonaldMacgibbonfarmer
DougaldMaclainfisher
MalcolmMacmurrichgrazier
JamesMacgregorteacher
DuncanMacfarlanetailor
AlanMaccallumtollkeeper
ArchibaldMacnicolfarmer
GeorgeMacfarlanefarmer
AlexrMacfarlanefarmer
AndrewMacfarlanefisher
JohnMacfarlanelabourer
HughMacdonaldfarm servant
JohnMacfarlaneBeadle
DonaldMacfarlanetailor
DonaldMacfarlanewood cutter
RonaldMaccallumgrazier
DonaldMacdougallshepherd
RichardMaclainewood cutter
AlexanderPatulloExcise OfficerRemoved
AlexanderRhindblacksmith
RobertRobertsonlabourer
ArchibaldSinclairfarmer
JohnWilsonroad maker
AdamWalkergrazier

Male Heads of families 1835 (NRS Reference: CH2/445/3 pp. 13-14)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
DanielBrodiefarmer
JohnBrodiefarmer
JohnBrodiefarmerStronafinne
JasCrawfordfishermanadded later
JohnCrawfordfisherman+ beside name; added later
DanielCarmichaelwright
JohnCampbellshoemaker
RobertCampbelllabourer
AlexanderDewarfarmer
DonaldDewarschoolmaster
AlexanderMacdougalllabourer
DuncanMacgibbonlabourer
DonaldMaccallumlabourer
DougalMacfarlanefisherman
PeterMacfarlanecottar
PeterMacintyrefarmer
DuncanMacintyrefarmer
GeorgeMacfarlaneground officer
DougalMacfarlanegrocer
PeterMacfarlanefisherman
JohnMackellarcottager+ beside name
JohnMacmurrichof Stuckgown
DonaldMacgibbonfarmer
DougalMaclainefisherman
MalcolmMacmurrichgrazier
JamesMacgregorteacher
DuncanMacfarlanetailor
AlanMaccallumtollkeeper
ArchibaldMacnicolfarmer
GeorgeMacfarlanecottager
AlexanderMacfarlanecottager
AndrewMacfarlanefisherman+ beside name
JohnMacfarlanelabourer
HughMacdonaldfarm servant
JohnMacfarlanecottager
DonaldMacfarlanetailor
DonaldMacfarlanewood cutter
RonaldMaccallumgrazier
RichardMaclainewood cutter
AlexanderRhindsmith
RobertRobertsonlabourer
ArchibaldSinclairfarmer
JohnWilsonroad maker
AdamWalkergrazier+ beside name
DonaldMacfarlanelabourer
DuncanMacnaughtcottager
DuncanMacarthurcottager
DougalMaccallumfisherman+ beside name

Male Heads of families 1838 (NRS Reference: CH2/445/3 pp. 17-18)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
DanielBrydiefarmer
JohnBrydiefarmer
JohnCampbellshoemaker
RobtCampbellfeuar
RobtCampbelllabourer
AlexrCampbellsmith
DanielCarmichaelwright
AlexrDewarfarmer
DonaldDewarschoolmasterinfirm
DuncanMacarthurcottar
DonaldMaccallumlabourer
JohnMaccallumfisherman
AlexrMacdougalllabourer
DugaldMacfarlanefisher
DonaldMacfarlanewood merchant
DugaldMacfarlanegrocer
DonaldMacfarlanecottar
DuncanMacfarlanetailor
GeorgeMacfarlaneground officer
GeorgeMacfarlanecottar
JohnMacfarlanepost
JohnMacfarlanecottar
PeterMacfarlanecottar
DonaldMacgibbonfarmer
DuncanMacgibbonlabourer
JamesMacgregorteacher
DugaldMacleanTynaclach
MalcolmMacmurrichfarmer
DuncanMacintyrefarmer
PeterMacintyrefarmer
JohnMacmurrichStuckgown
DuncanMacnaughtoncottar
ArchdMacnicholfarmer
AlexrRhindsmith
RobtRobertsonlabourer
ArchdSinclaircottar
JohnWilsonroad contractor

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.


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