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Balmerino 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:
  • £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
William KIDD 1874 (1)Order imagesRefused
Andrew PATON 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused


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 residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Ann BISSET
Grange, Balmerino
Robert ROBERTSON26 Jul 1890Order nowCupar
SC20/4/32
Helen DUNCAN
Coultra, Balmerino
Alexander YOUNG7 Dec 1847Order nowCupar
SC20/4/28
Helen KERR
Bottomcraigs, Balmerino
Thomas DUFF17 Jan 1861Order nowCupar
SC20/4/29
Agnes PATRICK
Balmerino
David SMITH30 Apr 1854Order nowCupar
SC20/4/28
Isabella TURPIE
Balmerino
George LAMONT19 Sep 1876Order nowCupar
SC20/4/31


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
Jane ANGUS5 October 1855Agnes ANGUSFind the father
John BELL3 August 1873Jane BELLFind the father
Margaret BLYTH30 April 1870Margaret BLYTHFather found
Anne DEWAR22 November 1861Catherine DEWARFather found
Robert DEWAR21 December 1859Ann DEWARFind the father
Alexander DUNCAN9 September 1860Janet DUNCANFind the father
Anne DUNCAN16 February 1862Catherine DUNCANFind the father
Jessie DUNN11 November 1870Isabella DUNNFind the father
Jane Gibson GRAHAM24 May 1864Jane GRAHAMFather found
Anne KERR25 July 1856Isabella KERRFind the father
David KERR7 January 1861Helen KERRFather found
Alexander NEILL9 May 1868Mary NEILLFind the father
Agnes NICOL17 May 1861Agnes NICOLFather found
John NICOL20 June 1861Elizabeth NICOLFather found
Archibald PATRICK9 January 1858Elisabeth PATRICKFind the father
Janet PATRICK1 February 1855Susan PATRICKFind the father
John PATRICK6 December 1857Agnes PATRICKFind the father
John PATRICK29 May 1864Susan PATRICKFather found
John Birrell PATRICK16 January 1859Susan PATRICKFind the father
Jane PATTERSON6 February 1857Christina PATTERSONFind the father
Agnes PEARSON4 July 1873Susan PEARSONFind the father
Peter PETRIE17 June 1874Anne PETRIEFind the father
Eliza RATTRAY29 June 1868Johann RATTRAYFind the father
Jane ROLLO22 August 1867Jane ROLLOFather found
Robert ROLLO20 September 1863Jane ROLLOFather found
Walter ROLLY7 November 1859Jane ROLLYFind the father
Catherine SCOTT13 February 1866Catherine SCOTTFind the father
James C. SCOTT1 August 1871Agnes SCOTTFind the father
Janet SCOTT9 May 1861Catherine SCOTTFind the father
Robert SCOTT29 April 1855Catherine SCOTTFather found
John SHIELDS17 November 1862Margaret SHIELDSFather found
Andrew WANN17 October 1861Elizabeth WANNFind the father


General Register of Lunatics

This index shows patients from this parish admitted to asylums. To order a record click on the Order images link.
General Register of Lunatics index MC7
NameDate of deathOrderAsylumsYears
BRABNER, Bathune
linen draper, ship carpenter Royal Merchant Navy
Born about 1839
Single
Previous residence: Gauldry, Balmerino
Chargeable parish: Balmerino
3 Mar 1894Order image (1)Fife And Kinross1867
CHRISTIE, David
farm servant
Born about 1830
Married
Previous residence: Balmerino
Chargeable parish: Balmerino
Order image (1)Fife And Kinross1867
DUNCAN, Helen
field labourer and housekeeper
Born about 1825
Single
Previous residence: Coultra, Balmerino
Chargeable parish: Balmerino
Order image (1)Fife And Kinross1869
DUNCAN, John
seaman
Born about 1833
Single
Previous residence: Balmerino
Chargeable parish: Balmerino
12 Apr 1871Order image (1)Fife And Kinross1867
HEGGIE, George
no occupation
Born about 1875
Single
Previous residence: Newhills, Aberdeen
Chargeable parish: Balmerino
24 May 1902Order image (1)Fife District Asylum1899
MITCHELL, John
crofter
Born about 1866
Married
Previous residence: Woodend, Gauldry
Chargeable parish: Balmerino
Order image (1)Fife District Asylum1904
MOFFAT, Mary
domestic servant
Born about 1854
Single
Previous residence: Dundee Royal Asylum
Chargeable parish: Balmerino
Order images (2)Dundee Royal Asylum
Fife District Asylum
1902
MORRIS, Alexander
warehouseman
Born about 1844
Married
Previous residence: Floral Bank, Gauldry
Chargeable parish: Balmerino
14 Sep 1912Order image (1)Fife District Asylum1912


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.


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