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Records -> Aberdeenshire

Birse 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/595/2Minutes and accounts1726-1744Request lookup
CH2/595/3Minutes and accounts1765-1801Request lookup
CH2/595/5Minutes and accounts 1817 - 67
Milne bequest minutes 1847 - 66
1817-1867Request lookup
CH2/595/7Accounts1867-1880Request lookup
CH2/595/8Baptisms 1789 - 1830
Marriages 1789 - 1829
List of inhabitants 1804/5
Dates of communions 1790 - 1830
Other places where ministers preached, 1790 - 1826
1789-1830Request lookup
CH2/595/9Communion roll1854-1855Request lookup
CH2/595/10Communion roll1868-1880Request lookup
CH2/595/11List of inhabitants1789-1801Request lookup
CH2/595/12List of inhabitants
Several population lists, and a list of young communicants
1812-1827Request lookup
CH2/595/13Ramsay mortification minutes and accounts
Includes extensive poor payment lists
1800-1838Request lookup
CH2/595/15Communion roll1887-1903Request lookup
CH2/595/16Minutes 1778-81
Minutes 1789
Minutes 1801
1778-1801Request lookup
CH2/595/17List of men in parish of Birse from 17 to 66, supposed to be capable of carrying armsMar 1797Request lookup
CH2/595/18List of persons on the poors' roll1802Request 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.

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
James BIRSE 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
William CATANACH 1860 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William CATTANACH 1877 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow Jane LESLIE 1882 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Elsie MCDONALD or PROCTOR 1881 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Mary MCPETRIE 1856 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed


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
Barbara ETTERSHANK
Birse
George CROMER7 Dec 1840Order nowGlasgow
SC36/14/24


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
George ANDERSON5 November 1874Jane ANDERSONFind the father
Margaret Hellen BEGG3 October 1858Mary BEGGFind the father
Mary Ann BEGG18 December 1869Margaret Ann BEGGFind the father
Catherine BEINGS27 January 1867Ann BEINGSFind the father
James BEINGS30 January 1863Ann BEINGSFind the father
Catherine BIRSS14 March 1862Catherine BIRSSFind the father
John BRAND23 October 1866Margaret BRANDFind the father
Mary BRAND2 February 1861Frances BRANDFind the father
James BURNETT29 January 1859Jane BURNETTFind the father
James BURNETT27 September 1874Isabella BURNETTFind the father
Jane BURNETT28 December 1861Jane BURNETTFind the father
Jane BURNETT16 July 1864Elisabeth BURNETTFind the father
Jemima BURNETT27 February 1869Margaret BURNETTFind the father
John BURNETT6 November 1865Elizabeth BURNETTFind the father
Margaret BURNETT7 September 1873Mary BURNETTFind the father
James COCKER12 December 1859Mary COCKERFind the father
Frances Ann COUTTS5 March 1868Elizabeth COUTTSFind the father
James COUTTS3 August 1860Margaret COUTTSFind the father
Jane COUTTS18 September 1857Isabella COUTTSFind the father
Joseph COUTTS26 June 1860Elizabeth COUTTSFind the father
Christina DAVIDSON23 January 1867Jessie DAVIDSONFind the father
Isabella Ley DUNCAN13 October 1862Margaret DUNCANFind the father
George EWAN9 May 1858Margaret EWANFind the father
Kenneth EWAN12 January 1855Isobel EWANFind the father
John EWEN15 January 1860Isabella EWENFind the father
Andrew FARQUHAR16 March 1858Jane Farquhar Or MIDDLETONFind the father
Robert FINDLAY27 December 1859Isabella FINDLAYFind the father
James Gordon GLASS26 November 1874Isabella GLASSFind the father
Ann GRANT12 January 1858Catharine GRANTFind the father
Edward GRANT25 May 1870Jessie GRANTFind the father
Hellen GRANT2 May 1868Hellen GRANTFind the father
Isabella Janet GRAY12 July 1874Janet GRAYFind the father
James GRAY13 February 1863Janet GRAYFind the father
Mary GRAY1 July 1865Janet GRAYFind the father
Isabella GREIG3 February 1870Jessie GREIGFind the father
Ann GREWER22 June 1855Jane GREWERFind the father
Margaret Ann JESSIMAN5 January 1864Ann JESSIMANFind the father
Williamina Low JESSIMAN30 January 1867Ann JESSIMANFind the father
George LAWSON13 May 1867Isobel LAWSONFind the father
Elizabeth LINDSAY1 June 1872Jane LINDSAYFind the father
Mary LINDSAY22 March 1874Jane LINDSAYFind the father
James LOW10 May 1867Margaret LOWFind the father
John MASSIE10 April 1872Jane MASSIEFind the father
Hector Mc Donald MCCARTER11 June 1873Helen MCCARTERFind the father
Elizabeth MCDONALD25 May 1871Margaret MCDONALDFind the father
Ann MCPETRIE25 September 1860Mary MCPETRIEFind the father
Charlotte MCPETRIE2 February 1864Ann MCPETRIEFind the father
Agnes MIDDLETON5 October 1866Ann MIDDLETONFind the father
Alexander MIDDLETON26 June 1855Christian MIDDLETONFind the father
Ann MIDDLETON24 February 1867Margaret MIDDLETONFind the father
Christina MIDDLETON3 September 1859Mary MIDDLETONFind the father
Christina MIDDLETON29 June 1865Margaret MIDDLETONFind the father
Frances Annie Margaret MIDDLETON30 November 1871Annie MIDDLETONFind the father
James MIDDLETON28 November 1866Mary MIDDLETONFind the father
William MIDDLETON29 December 1863Jane MIDDLETONFind the father
Jane MOIR10 April 1867Jessie MOIRFind the father
Agnes ROSS26 February 1860Agnes ROSSFind the father
James ROSS13 July 1857Jane ROSSFind the father
James Crawford ROSS2 April 1862Isabella ROSSFind the father
Lewis ROSS25 July 1864Louisa ROSSFind the father
Walter ROSS25 August 1868Louisa ROSSFind the father
Ann SIM20 June 1856Ann SIMFind the father
Mary Ann Silver SMART5 December 1874Catherine SMARTFind the father
Mary Jane SMITH13 May 1873Jane SMITHFind the father
Jane THOMSON2 December 1870Sarah THOMSONFind the father
Ann THOW1 December 1859Elisabeth THOWFind the father
Charles WATT8 June 1862Jane WATTFind the father
Digby Albin Oswald Patterson WATT29 August 1864Margaret WATTFind the father
Isabella WATT16 June 1859Margaret WATTFind 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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