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Auldearn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/932/1 | Minutes and accounts Includes poor payments | 1805-1819 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/2 | Minutes 1837-41; Accounts 1830-42 Includes poor payments | 1830-1842 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/4 | Minutes 1845-91; Accounts 1843-79; Deaths 1841-1854 | 1841-1891 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/5 | Minutes | 1891-1928 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/6 | Minutes | 1904-1924 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/7 | Accounts 1767-85; 1819-24 Includes poor payments | 1767-1824 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/9 | Auldearn kirk session: Communion roll book | 1875-1899 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/10 | Auldearn kirk session: Register of proclamations of marriage | 1875-1909 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/13 | Auldearn kirk session: Baptismal register | 1876-1922 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/14 | Auldearn kirk session: Minute book | 1928-1974 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/18 | Auldearn kirk session: Gowan Guild-Farm Servants' Benefit Society minute book Draft copy | 1887-1890 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/19 | Auldearn kirk session: Gowan Guild-Farm Servants' Benefit Society minute book | 1887-1890 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/20 | Auldearn kirk session: Gowan Guild-Farm Servants' Benefit Society register of members | 1887-1889 | Request lookup |
| CH2/932/22 | Auldearn kirk session: Young Men's Guild literary section | 1892-1899 | 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 CAMPBELL | 1845-1846 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Margaret CUMMING | 1862 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Donald FRASER | 1859 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Finlay FRASER | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Margaret FRASER or MCLEAN | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Margaret FRASER or MCLEAN | 1849-1850 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Margaret LAING | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jane MACINTOSH | 1873 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jane MACINTOSH | 1876 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Simon MACKENZIE | 1854 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Andrew MACKIE | 1852 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Donald MACPHERSON | 1854 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Donald MACPHERSON | 1856 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Margaret MACRAE | 1866 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Ann MCINTOSH or TYRE | 1850 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Margaret MCLEAN | 1850 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander MUNRO | 1846 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Ann ROSS or JOHNSTONE | Broadshaw | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Isobel STRONACH | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Helen WILSON | 1846 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed; her demand of 3s per week being complied with in meantime |
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 GUNN An of Leshen, Auldearn | Donald MACGREGOR | 15 Aug 1884 | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/38 |
| Mary MACDONALD Laiken, Auldearn, Nairnshire | Finlay FRASER | 19 Jan 1882 | Order now | Nairn SC31/6/3 |
| Ann MCRAE Innes Close, Auldearn | Alexander ANDREW$ | 2 Sep 1883 | Order now | Nairn SC31/6/3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary CAMERON | 21 June 1855 | Christina CAMERON | Find the father |
| Mary Anne CRUICKSHANKS | 14 September 1872 | Isabella CRUICKSHANKS | Find the father |
| Henry CUMMING | 2 March 1862 | Margaret CUMMING | Find the father |
| Robert DICK | 21 February 1869 | Rebecca DICK | Find the father |
| James FLETCHER | 23 May 1869 | Mary FLETCHER | Find the father |
| John FLETCHER | 26 July 1868 | Isabella FLETCHER | Father found |
| Mary FLETCHER | 19 June 1872 | Isabella FLETCHER | Find the father |
| Sophia FLETCHER | 3 April 1870 | Isabella FLETCHER | Father found |
| Donald FRASER | 12 October 1865 | Eliza FRASER | Find the father |
| John FRASER | 14 September 1856 | Elspet FRASER | Find the father |
| John Charles FRASER | 12 September 1871 | Annie FRASER | Find the father |
| Mary FRASER | 18 May 1862 | Elspeth FRASER | Find the father |
| Robert FRASER | 27 August 1868 | Johanna FRASER | Find the father |
| Thomas FRASER | 18 April 1867 | Catherine FRASER | Find the father |
| Isabella HENDERSON | 28 January 1863 | Jessie HENDERSON | Find the father |
| James HUTCHISON | 14 January 1861 | Catherine Hutchison Or MCGLASHAN | Find the father |
| Elizabeth LAING | 14 July 1866 | Margaret LAING | Find the father |
| Donald MACBETH | 31 January 1873 | Marjory MACBETH | Find the father |
| George MCDONALD | 13 July 1865 | Elspet MCDONALD | Find the father |
| William MCDONALD | 19 June 1869 | Elsie MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Donald MCGILLIVRAY | 13 November 1862 | Isabella MCGILLIVRAY | Find the father |
| John Gilmour MCINTOSH | 16 April 1865 | Isabella MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Margaret Jane MCINTOSH | 30 September 1868 | Lilias MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| John MCKENZIE | 4 April 1864 | Mary MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Catherine MCLEAN | 5 February 1874 | Anne MCLEAN | Find the father |
| Charlotte ROBERTSON | 25 November 1856 | Phoebe ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Robert ROBERTSON | 20 June 1857 | Catharine ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Christina ROSS | 1858 | Find the father | |
| Elizabeth SIMPSON | 26 July 1871 | Jessie SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Jane STEWART | 14 February 1861 | Anne STEWART | Find the father |
| John TULLOCH | 30 January 1866 | Mary TULLOCH | Find the father |
| Margaret TULLOCH | 13 April 1859 | Anne TULLOCH | Find the father |
| Marianne WOOD | 18 July 1858 | Janet WOOD | 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.
