Benholm records
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Asylum records – Index to the General Register of Lunatics in Asylums
School records – Index to School Leaving Certificate Examination results
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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
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/33/1 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Minutes | 1711-1755 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/2 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Minutes | 1756-1832 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/3 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Register Register of receipts and distributions of money by the Kirk Session of Benholm. Includes mortcloth dues and poor rolls | 31 May 1761- 28 Apr 1782 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/4 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Cash book Register of receipts and distributions of money, including receipts for proclamations of banns, mortcloth dues, and donations. Also includes poor rolls | 1810-1858 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/5 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Book of discipline and Kirk Session minutes Contains register of discipline 1833-1883, and Kirk Session minutes 1884-1925. | 1833-1925 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/6 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Proclamations register | 1855-1947 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/7 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Baptismal register | 1883-1947 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/8 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Communicants' roll | 1870-1875 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/10 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Poor fund book Includes mortcloth dues and poor rolls | 1782-1809 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/12 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: roll-book | 1884-1895 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/16 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Communion roll | 1876-1884 | Request lookup |
| CH2/33/17 | Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Communion roll | 1896-1907 | Request lookup |
Board of Supervision poor relief appeals
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
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| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James GRAY | 1874 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Agnes SMITH or NICOL | 1854 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Agnes SMITH or NICOLL | 1854 (2) | Order images | Refused |
Sheriff Court paternity decrees
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agnes BARCLAY Burnhead, Benholm | David SINCLAIR | 13 Feb 1852 | Order now | Stonehaven SC5/7/5 |
| Jessie FINDLAY Johnshaven, Benholm, Kincardineshire | William THOMSON | 1 Dec 1877 | Order now | Dundee SC45/6/20 |
| Helen HENDERSON Haughs, Benholm | James MILNE | Order now | Stonehaven SC5/7/5 | |
| Helen HENDERSON Johnshaven, Benholm, Kincardineshire | David Paterson DAVIDSON | 18 Apr 1882 Johnshaven, Benholm, Kincardineshire | Order now | Forfar SC47/7/18 |
| Isabella OFFICER Tullo of Benholm, Benholm, Kincardineshire | William BEVERLEY | 14 Jul 1875 Laurencekirk | Order now | Forfar SC47/7/17 |
School Leaving Certificate Exams
Anatomy register
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph ALEXANDER | 19 September 1873 | Elisabeth ALEXANDER | Find the father |
| Ann ANDERSON | 27 December 1865 | Jane ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Helen ANDERSON | 4 September 1869 | Mary ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret ANDERSON | 27 December 1865 | Jane ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Mary Helen ANDERSON | 30 March 1864 | Jane ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret ARBUTHNOTT | 22 April 1865 | Anne ARBUTHNOTT | Find the father |
| James BARCLAY | 5 November 1855 | Jean BARCLAY | Find the father |
| William David BARCLAY | 19 May 1866 | Elizabeth BARCLAY | Find the father |
| William Hutchison BEATTIE | 5 November 1873 | Susan BEATTIE | Find the father |
| Alexander BROWN | 7 March 1856 | Mary BROWN | Find the father |
| Elizabeth BRUCE | 28 March 1866 | Elizabeth Sintiana BRUCE | Find the father |
| Susan Ann Cameron BRUCE | 10 October 1868 | Hellen BRUCE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth BURNESS | 1 March 1865 | Eliza BURNESS | Find the father |
| William BURNESS | 30 June 1870 | Eliza BURNESS | Find the father |
| Mary Ann CLARK | 24 August 1864 | Isabella CLARK | Find the father |
| Alexander Valentine CRABB | 20 December 1866 | Jane CRABB | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Stephen CRABB | 14 March 1870 | Jane CRABB | Find the father |
| William CRABB | 12 February 1867 | Susan CRABB | Find the father |
| Ann Watt Murray CUTHILL | 29 November 1873 | Elisabeth Joe CUTHILL | Find the father |
| Hercules DAVIDSON | 28 April 1870 | Jane Young DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Annie DOUGLAS | 7 April 1870 | Elizabeth DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| David DOUGLAS | 3 January 1869 | Mary DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Williamina Hutcheon DOUGLAS | 31 October 1863 | Mary DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Agnes FORBES | 9 May 1868 | Mary FORBES | Find the father |
| Mary FORSYTH | 21 February 1864 | Margret Forsyth Or STEPHEN | Father found |
| Susan FOTHERINGHAM | 5 March 1873 | Betsy FOTHERINGHAM | Find the father |
| Walter FREEMAN | 6 December 1863 | Christain FREEMAN | Father found |
| David FULLERTON | 22 October 1862 | Jessie FULLERTON | Find the father |
| Mary Jane GERRARD | 11 May 1874 | Elizabeth GERRARD | Father found |
| William GORDON | 2 September 1859 | Ann GORDON | Find the father |
| John GOVE | 27 October 1865 | Elizabeth GOVE | Find the father |
| William GOVE | 31 December 1865 | Margaret GOVE | Find the father |
| Alexander HARRISON | 26 July 1864 | Margaret HARRISON | Find the father |
| Ann HARRISON | 21 October 1872 | Ann HARRISON | Find the father |
| George HENDERSON | 22 January 1857 | Hellen HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Helen HENDERSON | 10 May 1871 | Hellen HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Helen Duncan HENDERSON | 25 October 1870 | Margaret HENDERSON | Find the father |
| James HENDERSON | 10 May 1871 | Hellen HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Allan Wallace HUNTER | 20 February 1855 | Isobel HUNTER | Find the father |
| Elizabeth JOHNSTONE | 15 March 1860 | Elizabeth JOHNSTONE | Find the father |
| Eliza LAING | 2 September 1865 | Isobel LAING | Find the father |
| John LAING | 29 June 1856 | Isobel LAING | Find the father |
| Margaret LAING | 16 February 1857 | Margaret LAING | Find the father |
| James Alexander LITTLEJOHN | 3 April 1864 | Jean LITTLEJOHN | Find the father |
| Alice LOCH | 25 March 1860 | Ann LOCH | Father found |
| Augusta LOCH | 17 March 1864 | Ann LOCH | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MACK | 31 July 1865 | Jessie MACK | Find the father |
| John MACK | 6 January 1863 | Jessie MACK | Find the father |
| John MANSON | 3 March 1866 | Ann MANSON | Find the father |
| Jemima Burness MATHERS | 11 June 1855 | Ann MATHERS | Find the father |
| David MCARTHUR | 14 January 1870 | Jemima MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Jonathan MCARTHUR | 16 June 1871 | Jemima MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Benjamin John MCAVOY | 17 April 1869 | Mary MCAVOY | Find the father |
| William MCBETH | 26 June 1874 | Isabella MCBETH | Find the father |
| Peter MCDONALD | 6 July 1870 | Hannah MCDONALD | Find the father |
| George Fullerton MCLEAN | 6 April 1866 | Elizabeth Mc Lean Or MACK | Find the father |
| Margaret NAPIER | 13 August 1858 | Charlotte NAPIER | Find the father |
| Susan NAPIER | 15 January 1861 | Charlotte NAPIER | Find the father |
| Philip NICOL | 24 August 1863 | Williamina NICOL | Find the father |
| Alexander OFFICER | 24 January 1874 | Jessie OFFICER | Find the father |
| Cowie Black OGILVY | 26 January 1855 | Elizabeth OGILVY | Find the father |
| Agnes PHILIP | 2 March 1868 | Elisabeth PHILIP | Father found |
| Jessie PHILIP | 4 April 1874 | Catherine PHILIP | Find the father |
| Jessie PHILIPS | 8 August 1871 | Agnes PHILIPS | Find the father |
| Christina Chisholm PYPER | 21 August 1863 | Ann Pyper Or BUICK | Find the father |
| James RITCHIE | 16 February 1864 | Isobel RITCHIE | Find the father |
| John RITCHIE | 13 January 1874 | May RITCHIE | Find the father |
| Mary Findlay RITCHIE | 15 November 1859 | Mary RITCHIE | Find the father |
| William Grieve RITCHIE | 28 May 1869 | Isabella RITCHIE | Find the father |
| Charles RODGER | 9 June 1874 | Ann RODGER | Find the father |
| Charles SMITH | 22 February 1858 | Charlot SMITH | Find the father |
| Isabella Cruickshanks STEVENSON | 12 November 1865 | Maria Stevenson Or BLACK | Find the father |
| Robert Black STEVENSON | 5 March 1868 | Hannah Sipiel STEVENSON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann STEWART | 21 January 1860 | Catharine STEWART | Find the father |
| Alexander STRATCHAN | 25 September 1865 | Helen STRATCHAN | Find the father |
| Betsy Duffus TODD | 20 November 1866 | Jean TODD | Find the father |
| James TODD | 21 June 1860 | Hellen TODD | Find the father |
| Mary Ann TODD | 22 June 1858 | Helen TODD | Find the father |
| Robert TODD | 21 December 1855 | Helen TODD | Find the father |
| Alexander TOLIMY | 21 November 1863 | Margaret TOLIMY | Find the father |
| David Alexander TOLMEY | 9 August 1872 | Helen TOLMEY | Find the father |
| David TORRIE | 3 July 1862 | Susan TORRIE | Find the father |
| Robert Hector WATSON | 3 August 1865 | Susan WATSON | Father found |
| William WATSON | 21 February 1872 | Betsy WATSON | Find the father |
| Robert WILKIE | 1 July 1865 | Margaret WILKIE | Find the father |
| William WILKIE | 22 December 1867 | Jane WILKIE | Find the father |
| William WILLIE | 8 December 1862 | Margaret WILLIE | Find the father |
General Register of Lunatics
Rolls of Male Heads of Families
No Roll of Male Heads of Families has yet been found for this parish
Kirk Session Records Index
Name:
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation:
Address:
Role: New Church Plans
Details: seating plans and rents discussed, allocation with numbered pews
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name:
Date: 30/11/1835
Case type: Session Business
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Communicants' roll
Details: session proceed to revise and amend the roll of communicants
Other names:
Name: Ann Arbuthnot
Date: 25/05/1834
Case type: Antenup
Occupation:
Address:
Role: compeared, rebuked, absolved
Other names: John Ross; Ann Arbuthnot
Name: John Bouchart
Date: 29/09/1833
Case type: child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation: weaver
Address: Johnshaven
Role: Alledged Father mention
Details: Ann's lodger
Other names: Ann Carchary; John Bouchart
Name: John Bouchart
Date: 25/05/1834
Case type: child - illegitimate pregnancy, fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: accused father mention
Other names: Ann Carchary; John Bouchart
Name: Ann Carchary
Date: 29/09/1833
Case type: child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address: Johnshaven
Role: Mother Compeared, admonished
Details: '…some time ago been delivered of an illegitimate child…', '…admonished, especially as to the impropriety of this man being continued longer as a lodger in her house … after delaying proceedings for some time in her case, she would be again cited to attend.'
Other names: Ann Carchary; John Bouchart
Name: Ann Carchary
Date: 27/04/1834
Case type: child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother Compeared
Details: ' …absolution would be delayed a month longer, that she might have an opportunity previously of giving farther evidence of her penitence…'
Other names: Ann Carchary
Name: Ann Carchary
Date: 25/05/1834
Case type: child - illegitimate pregnancy, fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother compeared, rebuked, absolved
Other names: Ann Carchary; John Bouchart
Name: Robert Carr
Date: 04/08/1833
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation: tenant
Address: Upper Knox
Role: Alledged Father mention
Other names: Ann Wilson; Robert Carr
Name: Robert Carr
Date: 25/08/1833
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation: tenant
Address: Upper Knox
Role: accused father compeared, acknowledged guilt, professed sorrow, rebuked, absolved
Other names: Robert Carr; Ann Wilson
Name: Robert Carr
Date: 25/05/1834
Case type: child - illegitimate pregnancy, fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Father mention
Other names: Ann Wilson; Robert Carr
Name: David Collie
Date: 28/12/1834
Case type: Antenup
Occupation: farm servant
Address: Bamff
Role: compeared, rebuked, admonished, professed sorrow, absolved
Other names: David Collie; Betty Wilson
Name: Elisabeth Croll
Date: 27/05/1832
Case type: illeg pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: mother compeared acknowledged
Details: 'guilt contracted at Christmas last in the dwelling house' of McCraw
Other names: Elisabeth Croll; Peter Mccraw
Name: Elisabeth Croll
Date: 30/09/1832
Case type: illeg pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: mother compeared adhered, dismissed for present with exhortation
Other names: Elisabeth Croll; Peter Mccraw
Name: Archibald Davidson
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation: manufacturer
Address: Johnshaven
Role: present
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: Catharine Davidson
Date: 24/05/1835
Case type: child - illegitimate
Occupation:
Address: Johnshaven
Role: mother compeared confessed
Details: '…a young woman …lately been delivered of an illegitimate child…'
Other names: Catharine Davidson; Alexander Scott
Name: Agnes Duncan
Date: 29/03/1831
Case type: Fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: compeared, admonished, absolved
Other names: Agnes Duncan; James Duncan
Name: James Duncan
Date: 29/03/1831
Case type: Fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: mention as party
Other names: Agnes Duncan; James Duncan
Name: James Fitchet
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation: tenant
Address: Boghead
Role: present
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: Ann Fotheringham
Date: 08/07/1835
Case type: with child in fornication - illegitimate
Occupation:
Address: Johnshaven
Role: mother compeared confessed
Details: 'a young woman', previously resident in Bervie
Other names: Ann Fotheringham; John Waddel
Name: Rev James Glen
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation: Minister
Address:
Role: present
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: Jean Gorie
Date: 19/04/1835
Case type: with child in fornication, illegitimate, pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: mother compeared, confessed, professed sorrow, absolved
Details: 'a young woman'
Other names: Jean Gorie; James Tavendale
Name: Alexander Henderson
Date: 30/11/1834
Case type: Official
Occupation: elder
Address:
Role: appointed
Other parish: Angus and Mearns, Synod and Presbytery of Fordoun
Details: Presbytery of Fordoun and Synod Elder
Name: Alexander Jackson
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation: brewer
Address: Johnshaven
Role: present
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: Mr Alexander Jackson
Date: 30/11/1835
Case type: Official
Occupation: elder
Address:
Role: appointed
Details: Presbytery and Synod Elder
Name: James Jervis
Date: 25/08/1833
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation: servant
Address: Stone Of Benholme
Role: Alledged Fatherpresent, acknowledged guilt, exhorted, dismissed
Other names: Ann Grace Smith; James Jervis
Name: James Jervis
Date: 27/10/1833
Case type: child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: father compeared, acknowleded paternity, professed sorrow, rebuked, absolved
Other names: James Jervis; Ann Smith
Name: Charlotte Laing
Date: 27/04/1831
Case type: Illeg child
Occupation:
Address: Johnshaven
Role: mother summoned compeared not
Details: unmarried young woman, sometime ago delivered a child, having been three several times summoned'. 'This woman having had a child born under similar circumstances before and having on occasion treated the summons served upon her in contempt - the session, considering that her contumacy had a direct tendency to strengthen the general belief in the minds of the neighbourhood that there existed In her case certain aggravated circumstances of guilt, agreed to request the advice of the Presbytery as to the steps of procedure they should judge proper to adopt in this affair.'
Other names: Charlotte Laing
Name: Charlotte Laing
Date: 01/03/1833
Case type: Illeg child
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother mention
Details: 'extra judicially accused in the presence of four elders', McKay's stepdaughter
Other names: Alexander Mckay; Charlotte Laing
Name: Isobel Laing
Date: 26/06/1831
Case type: illeg pregnancy in Fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: mother compeared acknowledged himself guilty
Details: 'guilt contracted in the month of October last'
Other names: Isobel Laing; Archibald Young
Name: Isobel Laing
Date: 27/11/1831
Case type: illeg pregnancy in Fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: mother Compeared, professed sorrow, rebuked, absolved
Details: ' child of which she had lately been delivered by removing the child from the mother and consigning it over to the charge of a nurse…'
Other names: Isobel Laing; Archibald Young
Name: Margaret Largie
Date: 30/03/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address: Johnshaven
Role: mother compeared confessed
Details: ' a young woman'
Other names: Margaret Largie; John Webster
Name: Margaret Largie
Date: 27/04/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother mention
Other names: John Webster; Margaret Largie
Name: Margaret Largie
Date: 25/05/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother mention
Other names: John Webster; Margaret Largie
Name: Margaret Largie
Date: 29/06/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy - fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother compeared, rebuked, absolved
Other names: Margaret Largie; John Webster
Name: James Mather
Date: 26/05/1833
Case type: with child in fornication
Occupation:
Address: Johnshaven
Role: Alledged Father mention
Details: married
Other names: Jean Norrie; James Mather
Name: James Mather
Date: 01/07/1833
Case type: with child in fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: accused father compeared not, sent letter
Details: ' …that he was so much affected by a sense of his sinful and irregular conduct, that he felt himself quite unable to attend the Session that day, but that he would be happy to wait upon them as such as he should have recovered some composure of mind…'
Other names: James Mather
Name: James Mather
Date: 06/07/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy - fornication
Occupation:
Address: Johnshaven
Role: Alledged Father mention
Other names: Jean Norrie; James Mather
Name: Alexander Mcbey
Date: 27/01/1833
Case type: Antenup
Occupation:
Address:
Role: compeared, professed sorrow,rebuked, absolved
Other names: Alexander Mcbey; Elisabeth Mearns
Name: Peter Mccraw
Date: 27/05/1832
Case type: illeg pregnancy
Occupation:
Address: Johnshaven
Role: Alledged Father mention
Details: married
Other names: Elisabeth Croll; Peter Mccraw
Name: Peter Mccraw
Date: 10/06/1832
Case type: illeg pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: accused father compeared, would decline answering, dismissed at present
Details: ' …he would decline answering any questions that might be put to him in this case for the present until he should see the time of the child's birth…'
Other names: Peter Mccraw
Name: Peter Mccraw
Date: 09/09/1832
Case type: illeg pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: accused father compeared, denied, dismissed for present
Other names: Peter Mccraw
Name: Peter Mccraw
Date: 30/09/1832
Case type: illeg pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: accused father compeared persisting in his denial, dismissed from present with exhortation
Other names: Elisabeth Croll; Peter Mccraw
Name: Alexander Mckay
Date: 01/03/1833
Case type: Illeg child
Occupation: weaver
Address: Johnshaven
Role: accused as father compeared, acknowledged, exhorted, dismissed
Details: Laing is step daughter, 'session did not judge themselves competent to proceed farther in this case, the cognizance whereof belonging to a superior court'
Other names: Alexander Mckay; Charlotte Laing
Name: Elisabeth Mearns
Date: 27/01/1833
Case type: Antenup
Occupation:
Address:
Role: compeared, professed sorrow,rebuked, absolved
Other names: Alexander Mcbey; Elisabeth Mearns
Name: Ann Menzies
Date: 27/01/1832
Case type: Antenup
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Compeared rebuked absolved
Other names: Alexander Middleton; Ann Menzies
Name: Alexander Middleton
Date: 27/01/1832
Case type: Antenup
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Compeared rebuked absolved
Other names: Alexander Middleton; Ann Menzies
Name: Elisabeth Milne
Date: 09/01/1831
Case type: illeg pregnancy in Fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: mother compeared acknowledged, absolution delayed at present
Other names: Elisabeth Milne; John Wilkie
Name: Elisabeth Milne
Date: 29/03/1831
Case type: Fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: compeared, professed sorrow, absolved
Other names: Elisabeth Milne
Name: David Morris
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation: tenant
Address: Upper Birnie
Role: present
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: James Morris
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation: tenant
Address: Nether Bernie
Role: present
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: Jean Norrie
Date: 26/05/1833
Case type: with child in fornication
Occupation:
Address: Haughs Of Nether Benholme
Role: mother compeared confessed, dismissed for time being
Details: ' a young woman'
Other names: Jean Norrie; James Mather
Name: Jean Norrie
Date: 06/07/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy - fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother compeared, rebuked, absolved
Other names: Jean Norrie; James Mather
Name: John Ross
Date: 25/05/1834
Case type: Antenup
Occupation: farm servant
Address: Ballandro
Role: compeared, rebuked, absolved
Other names: John Ross; Ann Arbuthnot
Name: Alexander Scott
Date: 24/05/1835
Case type: child - illegitimate
Occupation: tenant
Address: Kirktown Of Benholme
Role: Alledged Father mention
Other names: Catharine Davidson; Alexander Scott
Name: George Robertson Scott
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting
Occupation:
Address: Benholme
Role: present
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: James Scott
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation:
Address: Brotherton
Role: present, 'Preses'
Details: 'Preses' also representing James Fitz-Maurice Scott
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation:
Address: Knox
Role: represented
Details: represented by James Scott
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: James Sherret
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation: merchant
Address: Johnshaven
Role: present
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
Name: Ann Smith
Date: 27/10/1833
Case type: child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother mention
Other names: James Jervis; Ann Smith
Name: Ann Grace Smith
Date: 25/08/1833
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: mother compeared confessed, exhorted, dimissed
Details: late servant at Stone of Benholme
Other names: Ann Grace Smith; James Jervis
Name: George Smith Junr
Date: 29/01/1831
Case type: Antenup
Occupation: mason
Address: Haremuir
Role: compeared, rebuked, absolved
Other names: George Smith Junr
Name: Alexander Steel
Date: 29/01/1831
Case type: Antenup
Occupation: wright
Address: Johnshaven
Role: Compeared, rebuked, absolved
Other names: Alexander Steel
Name: James Tavendale
Date: 19/04/1835
Case type: with child in fornication, illegitimate, pregnancy
Occupation: farm servant
Address: Mains Of Muirton
Role: father compeared acknowledged, professed sorrow, absolved
Details: ' expressing his intention to marry the woman'
Other names: Jean Gorie; James Tavendale
Name: John Waddel
Date: 08/07/1835
Case type: with child in fornication - illegitimate
Occupation: salmon fisher
Address: Bervie
Role: Alledged Father mention
Other parish: Bervie, Kirk Session
Details: to be referred to Bervie as guilt contracted there
Other names: Ann Fotheringham; John Waddel
Name: John Webster
Date: 30/03/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation: tenant
Address: Ballandro
Role: Alledged Father mention
Other names: Margaret Largie; John Webster
Name: John Webster
Date: 27/04/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: accused father compeared not, sent letter
Details: letter in excuse for not attending this day but indicating his readiness to wait upon them any time they wished after the birth of Margaret Largie's child
Other names: John Webster; Margaret Largie
Name: John Webster
Date: 25/05/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation: tenant
Address: Ballandro
Role: accused father compeared, acknowledged guilt, rebuked, absolved
Other names: John Webster; Margaret Largie
Name: John Webster
Date: 29/06/1834
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy - fornication
Occupation: tenant
Address: Ballandro
Role: Father mention
Other names: Margaret Largie; John Webster
Name: John Wilkie
Date: 09/01/1831
Case type: illeg pregnancy in Fornication
Occupation: blacksmith
Address: Kirktown Of Benholme
Role: Alledged Father present confessed, absolution delayed at present
Other names: Elisabeth Milne; John Wilkie
Name: Ann Wilson
Date: 04/08/1833
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: mother compeared confessed
Details: late servant to Carr
Other names: Ann Wilson; Robert Carr
Name: Ann Wilson
Date: 25/08/1833
Case type: with child - illegitimate pregnancy
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother mention
Other names: Robert Carr; Ann Wilson
Name: Ann Wilson
Date: 25/05/1834
Case type: child - illegitimate pregnancy, fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Mother compeared, rebuked, absolved
Other names: Ann Wilson; Robert Carr
Name: Betty Wilson
Date: 28/12/1834
Case type: Antenup
Occupation:
Address:
Role: compeared, rebuked, admonished, professed sorrow, absolved
Other names: David Collie; Betty Wilson
Name: Archibald Young
Date: 26/06/1831
Case type: illeg pregnancy in Fornication
Occupation: wright
Address: Johnshaven
Role: Alledged Father mention
Other names: Isobel Laing; Archibald Young
Name: Archibald Young
Date: 03/07/1831
Case type: illeg pregnancy in Fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: accused father compeared decling to answer questions, dismissed for present
Details: ' …he would decline answering any questions that might be put to him in this case for the present until he should see when the child should be born…'
Other names: Archibald Young
Name: Archibald Young
Date: 27/11/1831
Case type: illeg pregnancy in Fornication
Occupation:
Address:
Role: Father mention
Details: '…who having eventually acknowledged himself the father…'
Other names: Isobel Laing; Archibald Young
Name: James Young
Date: 11/09/1832
Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church
Occupation: schoolmaster
Address: Benholm
Role: present
Other names: George Robertson Scott; James Scott; James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq; James Morris; Archibald Davidson; Rev James Glen; David Morris; Alexander Jackson; James Young; James Fitchet; James Sherret
