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Bothkennar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John MCLUSKY | 1859 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Mary Ferguson SMART | 1872 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lilias LAIRD Skinflats, Bothkennar | George HUNTER | 22 May 1891 | Order now | Falkirk SC66/6/7 |
| Margaret MARSHALL Skinflats, Bothkennar | Peter MCAINSH | 25 Aug 1884 Skinflats, Bothkennar | Order now | Dunblane SC44/5/8 |
| Barbara RAMAGE Coal Jetty, Bothkennar | William STIRLING | 12 Dec 1876 | Order now | Falkirk SC66/6/6 |
| Margaret WAUGH West Mains Pit, Bothkennar, Stirlingshire | William STEIN | 1 Dec 1870 | Order now | Linlithgow SC41/15/4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter ALLAN | 26 August 1858 | Isabella ALLAN | Find the father |
| Jane Stobbie BURNS | 10 December 1868 | Jane BURNS | Find the father |
| Magdalena Ferguson BURNS | 7 December 1871 | Jane BURNS | Find the father |
| James Malcolm BURT | 5 November 1873 | Margaret BURT | Find the father |
| William Malcolm BURT | 30 July 1872 | Margaret BURT | Find the father |
| Catharine Patton CAMPBELL | 11 April 1869 | Mary CAMPBELL | Father found |
| Elizabeth CAMPBELL | 13 February 1872 | Mary Ann CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Mary Easton Sharp CAMPBELL | 21 February 1866 | Jane CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Mary Auld COWAN | 6 July 1868 | Agnes COWAN | Find the father |
| James DUNCAN | 13 February 1865 | Margaret DUNCAN | Find the father |
| John DUNCAN | 31 July 1870 | Margaret DUNCAN | Find the father |
| Anne EADIE | 27 May 1873 | Margaret EADIE | Find the father |
| John FAIRLIE | 24 April 1872 | Janet FAIRLIE | Find the father |
| Isabella Watson FERGUSON | 24 June 1871 | Isabella FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Janet FERGUSON | 24 July 1869 | Christina FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Mary FERGUSON | 21 May 1866 | Christina FERGUSON | Find the father |
| John FISHER | 17 May 1864 | Margaret FISHER | Find the father |
| Magdalene Davidson GRAHAM | 15 December 1869 | Magdalene GRAHAM | Find the father |
| William Wilson GRAY | 15 February 1860 | Janet GRAY | Find the father |
| John GUNNINGS | 25 June 1855 | Mary GUNNINGS | Find the father |
| James Walker HADDOW | 15 October 1870 | Mary HADDOW | Find the father |
| Thomas HANNAH | 4 April 1867 | Anne HANNAH | Father found |
| James HARROWER | 24 March 1869 | Margaret HARROWER | Father found |
| Henry HIGGIN | 6 May 1861 | Christina HIGGIN | Find the father |
| James Jenkins HILL | 19 July 1872 | Jane HILL | Father found |
| Margaret HUNTER | 20 April 1864 | Find the father | |
| John Duncan JENKINS | 24 November 1873 | Elizabeth JENKINS | Find the father |
| Janet LAIRD | 11 April 1869 | Margaret LAIRD | Find the father |
| William LAIRD | 22 October 1866 | Margaret LAIRD | Father found |
| John LEITCH | 22 March 1873 | Janet LEITCH | Find the father |
| Agnes Hunter LINDSAY | 1 July 1872 | Agnes LINDSAY | Find the father |
| Mary MALCOLM | 12 April 1873 | Mary Ann MALCOLM | Find the father |
| Barbara MARSHALL | 29 May 1866 | Margaret MARSHALL | Find the father |
| Margaret Mather MARSHALL | 10 December 1874 | Eliza MARSHALL | Find the father |
| Mary MARSHALL | 29 July 1867 | Helen MARSHALL | Find the father |
| Francis Binnie MCCLUCKIE | 27 September 1858 | Jean MCCLUCKIE | Father found |
| Thomas MCCLUCKIE | 14 March 1863 | Jean MCCLUCKIE | Father found |
| Ann Jenkins MCCULLOCH | 29 November 1863 | Jane MCCULLOCH | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MCDONALD | 24 April 1864 | Elizabeth MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Adam MORRISON | 16 January 1872 | Agnes MORRISON | Find the father |
| Andrew Howieson MORRISON | 3 December 1874 | Elizabeth MORRISON | Find the father |
| Helen Hunter MUIRHEAD | 20 July 1872 | Margaret MUIRHEAD | Find the father |
| William MUIRHEAD | 27 November 1863 | Elizabeth MUIRHEAD | Find the father |
| John Hunter MULHOLLAND | 24 January 1872 | Elizabeth MULHOLLAND | Find the father |
| Margaret Angus PEARSON | 15 June 1873 | Christina PEARSON | Find the father |
| Helen PENMAN | 12 April 1863 | Anne PENMAN | Find the father |
| Livingston France PENMAN | 12 November 1865 | Jane PENMAN | Father found |
| Marion Thomson PENMAN | 10 December 1866 | Elizabeth PENMAN | Find the father |
| Thomas Brown Nisbet PENMAN | 12 March 1874 | Margaret PENMAN | Father found |
| William Robert Stirling POLLOCK | 12 August 1863 | Anne POLLOCK | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Clarkston RAE | 18 May 1874 | Helen RAE | Find the father |
| Agnes RAMAGE | 17 October 1868 | Agnes RAMAGE | Father found |
| Mary Penman RAMAGE | 19 December 1874 | Agnes RAMAGE | Father found |
| Robert RAMSAY | 31 January 1872 | Janet RAMSAY | Find the father |
| Mary Stirling ROBERTSON | 30 May 1869 | Janet ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Margaret RUSSELL | 3 January 1872 | Mary RUSSELL | Find the father |
| Mary RUTHERFORD | 13 October 1873 | Margaret RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Helen Kirkwood SCOTLAND | 30 December 1870 | Isabella SCOTLAND | Find the father |
| Anne Lindsay SIM | 20 June 1870 | Anne SIM | Find the father |
| John SIM | 2 December 1863 | Jane SIM | Find the father |
| James Brown SIMPSON | 21 June 1868 | Margaret SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Mary Hunter SMITH | 21 September 1873 | Mary Ann SMITH | Find the father |
| Marion Chalmers Graham SNADDON | 5 October 1873 | Agnes SNADDON | Find the father |
| Susan Ferguson Wilson SNEDDON | 19 December 1869 | Agnes SNEDDON | Find the father |
| Jane Morrison SPENCE | 17 November 1861 | Jane SPENCE | Find the father |
| James STENHOUSE | 8 October 1863 | Catharine STENHOUSE | Find the father |
| Eliza STEVENSON | 17 June 1855 | Janet STEVENSON | Find the father |
| Agnes Davidson STEWART | 20 September 1874 | Agnes STEWART | Find the father |
| Helen Balfour SYME | 28 May 1870 | Betsy Balfour SYME | Find the father |
| James TURNBULL | 21 October 1863 | Margaret TURNBULL | Find the father |
| Margaret URE | 9 September 1862 | Margaret URE | Find the father |
| Christina WAUGH | 1 December 1870 | Margaret WAUGH | Father found |
| James WAUGH | 13 March 1863 | Ann WAUGH | Find the father |
| Alexander Arbuckle WEIR | 5 May 1867 | Agnes WEIR | Find the father |
| James WELSH | 22 May 1857 | Mary WELSH | Find the father |
| Margaret Christie WELSH | 11 June 1865 | Mary WELSH | Find the father |
| Janet WILSON | 30 May 1871 | Jane Gay WILSON | Find the father |
| Divina Roy WINTON | 9 September 1873 | Helen WINTON | Find the father |
| John WYLLIE | 18 April 1871 | Nickles WYLLIE | 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.
