Ballachulish and Corran of Ardgour parish records

Ballachulish 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 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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residence	Defender name	Child birth	Order	Court
Elizabeth SINCLAIR Ballachulish	Donald BLACK	29 Apr 1868	Order now	Dunoon Records SC51/7/8

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

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Child name	Date of birth	Mother name	Order
Donald CAMERON	11 January 1866	Catharine CAMERON	Find the father
Duncan CAMERON	24 May 1869	Jessie CAMERON	Find the father
Joan CAMERON	25 June 1858	Elizabeth CAMERON	Find the father
John CAMERON	7 December 1867	Marjory CAMERON	Find the father
William CONNAL	7 August 1861	Catharine CONNAL	Find the father
Grace DINGWALL	27 July 1865	Catharine DINGWALL	Find the father
Ellen HAGGART	3 June 1867	Mary HAGGART	Find the father
Donald LIVINGSTON	23 July 1861	Margaret LIVINGSTON	Find the father
Mary MCCULLOCH	28 April 1873	Maggie MCCULLOCH	Find the father
Angus MCDONALD	8 March 1870	Mary MCDONALD	Find the father
Mary MCINNES	3 January 1872	Mary MCINNES	Find the father
Anne MCINTYRE	23 June 1873	Dorathy MCINTYRE	Find the father
Donald MCINTYRE	9 May 1866	Catharine MCINTYRE	Find the father
Flora MCINTYRE	10 August 1863	Catharine MCINTYRE	Find the father
Anne MCKENZIE	5 April 1859	Mary MCKENZIE	Find the father
John MCKENZIE	14 June 1867	Anne MCKENZIE	Find the father
Margaret MCKINNON	22 February 1869	Christina MCKINNON	Find the father
Alexander MITCHELL	7 November 1867	Jean MITCHELL	Find the father
Christina RENNIE	4 December 1866	Jean RENNIE	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.