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Records -> Perthshire

Balquhidder 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
Janet FERGUSON 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Peter FERGUSON 1856 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Dugald MCEWAN 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of parochial relief
Janet MCINTYRE 1849 (1)Order imagesRefused, in respect that she has 2s per week
Widow Ann MCLAREN 1851 (1)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Duncan MCLAREN 1857 (5)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John MCLAREN 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary THORBURN or FERGUSON 1865 (1)Order imagesNot in receipt of parochial relief


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
Anne MCDONALD
Auchtow, Balquhidder
William MCFARLANE9 Aug 1882
Auchtow, Balquhidder
Order nowPerth
SC49/4/48
Mary MCGREGOR
Auchtow, Balquhidder
Duncan MCGREGOR28 Jul 1851Order nowDunblane
SC44/5/4


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
Christian CAMERON21 May 1861Marion CAMERONFather found
Charles CARMICHAEL16 July 1859Catherine CARMICHAELFind the father
Donald CARMICHAEL4 February 1857Catharine CARMICHAELFind the father
Elizabeth CARMICHAEL18 November 1868Catherine CARMICHAELFind the father
Isabella CARMICHAEL26 March 1859Catherine CARMICHAELFind the father
John CARMICHAEL23 January 1866Catherine CARMICHAELFind the father
Margaret CARMICHAEL7 May 1856Elisabeth CARMICHAELFind the father
Margaret CARMICHAEL11 January 1861Catherine CARMICHAELFind the father
Christian FERGUSON23 November 1861Mary FERGUSONFind the father
Duncan FERGUSON30 November 1868Anne FERGUSONFind the father
Elizabeth FERGUSON12 November 1865Catherine FERGUSONFather found
Margaret FERGUSON7 November 1859Margaret FERGUSONFind the father
James FISHER11 October 1863Christian FISHERFind the father
Elizabeth LAIDLAW10 June 1866Catherine LAIDLAWFind the father
Helen LAMONT23 June 1867Christina LAMONTFather found
James MCDONALD1 October 1874Margaret MCDONALDFind the father
Anne MCFARLANE3 July 1868Catherine MCFARLANEFind the father
Jane MCFARLANE24 May 1861Jane MCFARLANEFather found
Mary MCFARLANE21 August 1874Jane MCFARLANEFind the father
William MCFARLANE27 February 1871Susan MCFARLANEFind the father
Donald MCGREGOR14 November 1870Margaret MCGREGORFind the father
Mary MCINTYRE14 June 1869Margaret MCINTYREFind the father
Colin MCLAREN26 July 1871Margaret MCLARENFind the father
Jane MCLAREN20 July 1867Jane MCLARENFind the father
Janet MCLAREN18 June 1864Janet MCLARENFind the father
John MCLAREN19 September 1863Catherine MCLARENFind the father
Mary MCLAREN14 February 1874Mary MCLARENFind the father
Peter MCLAREN19 January 1873Catherine MCLARENFind the father
Agnes MCVEAN4 January 1858Janet MCVEANFind the father
Eliza MCVEAN27 April 1862Anne MCVEANFind the father
Janet MCVEAN27 January 1861Anne MCVEANFind the father
Grace MENZIES23 September 1864Janet MENZIESFind the father
Janet MENZIES5 March 1869Janet MENZIESFind the father
John MENZIES2 July 1857Janet MENZIESFind 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.


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    • Board of Supervision
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      • AD8 index 1890 02
      • AD8 index 1890 03
      • AD8 index 1890 04
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      • AD8 index 1890 11
    • Crown Counsel Procedure Books
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