Benholm parish records

Benholm records

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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
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CH2/33/8	Benholme (or Benholm) Kirk Session: Communicants' roll	1870-1875	Request lookup
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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

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.

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Poor law appeals
Name	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

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
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

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
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

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.

George Robertson Scott

James Scott

James Fitz-Maurice Scott Esq

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

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

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

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

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

Name: James Morris

Date: 11/09/1832

Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church

Occupation: tenant

Address: Nether Bernie

Role: present

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

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

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

Name: James Sherret

Date: 11/09/1832

Case type: Heritors Meeting - re New Church

Occupation: merchant

Address: Johnshaven

Role: present

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