Blair Atholl and Struan parish 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.
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.
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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/430/2 | Minutes | 1741-1759 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/3 | Minutes | 1759-1780 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/4 | Minutes | 1843-1905 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/5 | Minutes Meetings of Session at Struan. Use in conjunction with CH2/430/4 | 1848-1870 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/6 | Collections and disbursements Includes poor rolls | 1763-1796 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/7 | Collections and disbursements Includes Heritors' Records 1806-1815 Includes poor rolls | 1796-1815 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/8 | Heritors' minutes 1823-1831, accounts 1815-1833 (Inc. Heritors' Records 1823-1833) Includes poor rolls and mortcloth dues | 1815-1833 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/9 | Collections and disbursements 1828-1840 Including Heritors' Records 1829-1834 Includes mortcloth dues and poor rolls | 1828-1840 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/10 | Collections and disbursements Includes poor rolls | 1840-1863 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/11 | Collections and disbursements Includes poor rolls | 1863-1926 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/15 | Proclamation of banns | 1862-1941 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/16 | Baptismal register | 1876-1947 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/17 | Register of marriages | 1855-1861 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/18 | Communion roll Ca. 1864-1870 (or later) | c 1864-c 1870 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/19 | Communion roll | 1872-1880 | Request lookup |
| CH2/430/20 | Communion roll | 1878-1903 | 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.
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
- £10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine DAVIDSON | 1875 (5) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Catherine DOW | 1883 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Janet DOW | 1850 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed - see 722 1850 | |
| Janet DOW | 1850 (1) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed - see 531 1850 | |
| Christina MACPHERSON or LAMONT | 1867 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow MCFARLANE | 1852 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Jean MENZIES | 1860 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert MENZIES | Ald Clune | 1845-1846 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| Donald ROBERTSON | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Donald ROBERTSON | 1854 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Donald ROBERTSON | 1855 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander STEWART | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander STEWART | 1852 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| James STEWART | 1851 (2) | Order images | Refused |
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. For births outwith this period, click here.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret CAMERON | 1 July 1865 | Elizabeth CAMERON | Find the father |
| James CAMPBELL | 17 March 1857 | Helen CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Margaret DAVIDSON | 13 May 1864 | Catherine DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Betsy FORBES | 23 August 1871 | Elizabeth FORBES | Find the father |
| Margaret Stewart FORBES | 21 January 1870 | Elizabeth FORBES | Find the father |
| Mary GORDON | 29 December 1867 | Anne GORDON | Find the father |
| Jane Jessie MCDONALD | 11 January 1873 | Marjory MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Jessie MCDONALD | 26 June 1869 | Margaret MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Jessie MCDONALD | 31 March 1870 | Eliza MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCDONALD | 5 June 1872 | Isabella MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Margaret MCDOUGALL | 10 April 1855 | Mary MCDOUGALL | Find the father |
| John MCFARLANE | 30 August 1865 | Jessie MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| John MCFARLANE | 13 June 1866 | Margaret MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| Robert MCFARLANE | 30 March 1872 | Isabella MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| James Smith MCINTOSH | 22 June 1856 | Elizabeth MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Janet Mcgregor MCINTOSH | 20 July 1860 | Anne MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Jane Anne MCKENZIE | 7 January 1863 | Christian MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Jessie Anne MCKENZIE | 5 December 1863 | Isabella MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Jessie Cameron MCKENZIE | 5 May 1874 | Margaret MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Margaret MCLEAN | 25 September 1872 | Jessie MCLEAN | Find the father |
| Jessie MUNRO | 12 February 1872 | Margaret MUNRO | Find the father |
| Alexander ROBERTSON | 19 July 1869 | Christian ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Catherine ROBERTSON | 19 July 1869 | Christian ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| James ROBERTSON | 10 November 1872 | Isabella ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Jane ROBERTSON | 18 June 1863 | Jane ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Jessie ROBERTSON | 24 November 1873 | Helen ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Margaret ROBERTSON | 16 April 1858 | Mary ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Norman ROBERTSON | 4 June 1874 | Isabella ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| William ROBERTSON | 26 September 1868 | Isabella ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Annabella ROSS | 29 June 1870 | Margaret ROSS | Find the father |
| Duncan ROSS | 14 March 1872 | Anne ROSS | Find the father |
| Catherine SHAW | 8 August 1864 | Anne SHAW | Find the father |
| Alexander STEWART | 15 November 1864 | Christian STEWART | Find the father |
| Alexander STEWART | 24 November 1870 | Anne STEWART | Find the father |
| Donald STEWART | 3 May 1858 | Betsy STEWART | Find the father |
| Donald STEWART | 4 February 1863 | Janet STEWART | Find the father |
| Donald STEWART | 8 September 1863 | Janet STEWART | Find the father |
| Elizabeth STEWART | 27 December 1865 | Jane STEWART | Find the father |
| Grace STEWART | 26 February 1864 | Jane STEWART | Find the father |
| John STEWART | 10 March 1871 | Christian STEWART | Find the father |
| John STEWART | 30 October 1872 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| Robert STEWART | 22 February 1855 | Isabella STEWART | Find the father |
| Robert STEWART | 2 August 1867 | Elizabeth STEWART | Find the father |
| Robert STEWART | 13 April 1870 | Christina STEWART | Find the father |
| Robert Robertson STEWART | 20 May 1870 | Jessie STEWART | Find the father |
| William Smeaton STEWART | 11 June 1867 | Jessie STEWART | Find the father |
| Emilia WATSON | 15 November 1866 | Emilia WATSON | Find the father |
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.
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
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish
