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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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet FERGUSON | 1861 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Peter FERGUSON | 1856 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Dugald MCEWAN | 1861 (1) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief | |
| Janet MCINTYRE | 1849 (1) | Order images | Refused, in respect that she has 2s per week | |
| Widow Ann MCLAREN | 1851 (1) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Duncan MCLAREN | 1857 (5) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| John MCLAREN | 1852 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Mary THORBURN or FERGUSON | 1865 (1) | Order images | Not 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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anne MCDONALD Auchtow, Balquhidder | William MCFARLANE | 9 Aug 1882 Auchtow, Balquhidder | Order now | Perth SC49/4/48 |
| Mary MCGREGOR Auchtow, Balquhidder | Duncan MCGREGOR | 28 Jul 1851 | Order now | Dunblane 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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian CAMERON | 21 May 1861 | Marion CAMERON | Father found |
| Charles CARMICHAEL | 16 July 1859 | Catherine CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| Donald CARMICHAEL | 4 February 1857 | Catharine CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth CARMICHAEL | 18 November 1868 | Catherine CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| Isabella CARMICHAEL | 26 March 1859 | Catherine CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| John CARMICHAEL | 23 January 1866 | Catherine CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| Margaret CARMICHAEL | 7 May 1856 | Elisabeth CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| Margaret CARMICHAEL | 11 January 1861 | Catherine CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| Christian FERGUSON | 23 November 1861 | Mary FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Duncan FERGUSON | 30 November 1868 | Anne FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth FERGUSON | 12 November 1865 | Catherine FERGUSON | Father found |
| Margaret FERGUSON | 7 November 1859 | Margaret FERGUSON | Find the father |
| James FISHER | 11 October 1863 | Christian FISHER | Find the father |
| Elizabeth LAIDLAW | 10 June 1866 | Catherine LAIDLAW | Find the father |
| Helen LAMONT | 23 June 1867 | Christina LAMONT | Father found |
| James MCDONALD | 1 October 1874 | Margaret MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Anne MCFARLANE | 3 July 1868 | Catherine MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| Jane MCFARLANE | 24 May 1861 | Jane MCFARLANE | Father found |
| Mary MCFARLANE | 21 August 1874 | Jane MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| William MCFARLANE | 27 February 1871 | Susan MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| Donald MCGREGOR | 14 November 1870 | Margaret MCGREGOR | Find the father |
| Mary MCINTYRE | 14 June 1869 | Margaret MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| Colin MCLAREN | 26 July 1871 | Margaret MCLAREN | Find the father |
| Jane MCLAREN | 20 July 1867 | Jane MCLAREN | Find the father |
| Janet MCLAREN | 18 June 1864 | Janet MCLAREN | Find the father |
| John MCLAREN | 19 September 1863 | Catherine MCLAREN | Find the father |
| Mary MCLAREN | 14 February 1874 | Mary MCLAREN | Find the father |
| Peter MCLAREN | 19 January 1873 | Catherine MCLAREN | Find the father |
| Agnes MCVEAN | 4 January 1858 | Janet MCVEAN | Find the father |
| Eliza MCVEAN | 27 April 1862 | Anne MCVEAN | Find the father |
| Janet MCVEAN | 27 January 1861 | Anne MCVEAN | Find the father |
| Grace MENZIES | 23 September 1864 | Janet MENZIES | Find the father |
| Janet MENZIES | 5 March 1869 | Janet MENZIES | Find the father |
| John MENZIES | 2 July 1857 | Janet MENZIES | 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.
