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Ashkirk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/650/2 | Minutes 1695-1711 and accounts 1736-98 Some minutes and discipline cases included with accounts | 1695-1798 | 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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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 SCOTT New Headshaw, Ashkirk | John CROZIER | 19 May 1878 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/13 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella AMOS | 19 October 1873 | Jane AMOS | Find the father |
| Rutherford BEST | 29 March 1870 | Jane Rutherford BEST | Find the father |
| James BRUCE | 26 October 1869 | Mary BRUCE | Find the father |
| Margaret BRYDON | 10 February 1860 | Helen BRYDON | Find the father |
| Samuel French BURGESS | 5 January 1862 | Elizabeth BURGESS | Find the father |
| Walter CAIRNS | 16 August 1859 | Agnes CAIRNS | Find the father |
| William CLEGHORN | 16 December 1859 | Margaret CLEGHORN | Find the father |
| Jane DAVIDSON | 13 July 1867 | Beatrice DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Andrew HOGG | 7 August 1864 | Jane HOGG | Find the father |
| Mary HOGG | 17 March 1859 | Jane HOGG | Find the father |
| William Anderson HOGG | 11 December 1861 | Jane HOGG | Find the father |
| Mary LEARMONTH | 16 February 1859 | Isabella LEARMONTH | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MACGHINTY | 17 March 1861 | Isabella MACGHINTY | Find the father |
| Andrew MASON | 1 May 1860 | Janet MASON | Find the father |
| Christina MASON | 9 March 1863 | Christina MASON | Find the father |
| Margaret MASON | 6 November 1860 | Christian MASON | Find the father |
| Robert MASON | 23 September 1862 | Elizabeth MASON | Find the father |
| Jane MURRAY | 25 December 1865 | Isabella MURRAY | Find the father |
| Nelly Haldane NICHOL | 17 March 1870 | Rachel NICHOL | Find the father |
| John ROSS | 16 November 1867 | Agnes ROSS | Find the father |
| Jane SCOTT | 16 June 1862 | Helen SCOTT | Find the father |
| John SCOTT | 2 September 1857 | Agnes SCOTT | Find the father |
| Margaret SCOTT | 6 June 1870 | Margaret SCOTT | Find the father |
| William SCOTT | 18 August 1873 | Janet SCOTT | Find the father |
| George TAYLOR | 21 November 1863 | Mary TAYLOR | 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.
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.
