Records -> Ross and Cromarty
Avoch 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.
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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William MACKINTOSH | Kirkton | 1846 (2) | Order images | Refused |
| John MCLENNAN | 1866 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Mary MCLENNAN | 1857 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| William MCLENNAN | 1847 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Christina MORE | 1852 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Donald MORRISON | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John MORRISON | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Roderick MUNRO | 1854 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Janet NICOL | 1861 (3) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow RENNIE or PATERSON | 1877 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Ann ROSS or MCLENNAN | Strath Of Afterflow | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused; application informal |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Ann MACDONALD Shaw Park, Avoch | Charles MACPHERSON | 1 Jan 1885 | Order now | Cromarty SC24/3/3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas ALISON | 16 May 1861 | Catharine ALISON | Find the father |
| Jessie Ann ALLISON | 3 September 1869 | Betsy ALLISON | Find the father |
| Alexander BEATON | 23 May 1862 | Sarah BEATON | Find the father |
| John BEATON | 14 May 1872 | Sarah Anne BEATON | Find the father |
| John DAVIDSON | 10 December 1862 | Ann DAVIDSON | Father found |
| Colin FORBES | 15 June 1858 | Catharine FORBES | Find the father |
| William FRASER | 22 March 1859 | Christina FRASER | Find the father |
| Elizabeth GRAY | 30 August 1856 | Ann GRAY | Find the father |
| James MACKENZIE | 7 October 1867 | Ann MACKENZIE | Find the father |
| Henrietta Martin MACLEAY | 18 March 1857 | Catharine MACLEAY | Find the father |
| Robert MATHISON | 17 July 1862 | Jessie MATHISON | Find the father |
| Ann MCINTOSH | 4 September 1858 | Ann MCINTOSH | Father found |
| Margaret Elizabeth MCLENNAN | 22 January 1864 | Margaret MCLENNAN | Father found |
| John MCRAE | 16 January 1871 | Madelina MCRAE | Find the father |
| Jessie Ann MORRISON | 11 February 1867 | Elizabeth MORRISON | Find the father |
| James PATIENCE | 20 April 1871 | Janet PATIENCE | Find the father |
| James REID | 9 February 1871 | Elizabeth REID | Find the father |
| Jessie REID | 19 October 1872 | Jessie REID | Find the father |
| William Smith REID | 1 February 1871 | Ann REID | Find the father |
| Isabella ROSS | 25 September 1873 | Isabella ROSS | Find the father |
| John SINCLAIR | 1 February 1861 | Margaret SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| John SINCLAIR | 2 May 1869 | Jessie SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| William SINCLAIR | 13 August 1871 | Ann SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| Thomas SKINNER | 12 November 1862 | Sarah William SKINNER | Find the father |
| Alexander TAYLOR | 26 December 1873 | Catherine TAYLOR | Find the father |
| John THOMSON | 7 May 1870 | Jessie THOMSON | Find the father |
| John WATSON | 11 November 1865 | Margaret WATSON | Find the father |
| Charles WHYTE | 9 August 1868 | Isabella WHYTE | Find the father |
| Isabella WILSON | 30 May 1866 | Annie WILSON | Find the father |
| Isabella WILSON | 29 May 1870 | Isabella WILSON | Father found |
| John WILSON | 15 August 1863 | Anne WILSON | 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.
