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Brydekirk 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.
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:
  • £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.

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Anne Jane BARTON15 December 1873Jemima BARTONFind the father
Annie Margaret BEATTIE3 January 1874Margaret BEATTIEFind the father
James BEATTIE16 April 1871Elizabeth BEATTIEFind the father
Janet Mary Brown BEATTIE3 January 1874Helen BEATTIEFind the father
Thomasina BEATTIE24 November 1869Elizabeth BEATTIEFind the father
William BEATTIE7 August 1871Helen BEATTIEFather found
James BELL4 September 1868Helen BELLFind the father
Jane BELL11 October 1871Helen BELLFind the father
Janet BELL14 May 1871Mary BELLFind the father
Mary Elizabeth BELL12 April 1874Jane BELLFind the father
Thomas BELL4 January 1872Jane BELLFind the father
William BELL27 March 1870Jane BELLFind the father
Elizabeth BLACKSTOCK1 December 1857Janet BLACKSTOCKFind the father
Alexander CARRICK11 November 1871Margaret CARRICKFind the father
Barbara Bell CARRUTHERS6 January 1872Mary Jane CARRUTHERSFind the father
James CARRUTHERS3 October 1874Mary CARRUTHERSFind the father
John CARRUTHERS13 October 1873Margaret CARRUTHERSFind the father
Mary CARRUTHERS28 January 1859Janet CARRUTHERSFind the father
Mathew CARRUTHERS31 August 1865Sarah CARRUTHERSFind the father
William CARRUTHERS12 June 1870Margaret CARRUTHERSFind the father
Elizabeth CRAICK5 August 1862Jane CRAICKFind the father
Georgina CRAICK29 June 1868Jane CRAICKFind the father
Irving CRAICK17 December 1865Jane CRAICKFind the father
John CRONE6 February 1858Jane CRONEFind the father
James CURRIE17 November 1873Mary Ann CURRIEFather found
David DALGLIESH27 July 1870Mary DALGLIESHFind the father
Jessie DALGLIESH17 August 1874Mary DALGLIESHFind the father
John DALGLIESH28 July 1866Mary DALGLIESHFind the father
William DALGLIESH3 June 1863Mary DALGLIESHFind the father
Robina DOBBIE12 July 1860Margaret DOBBIEFind the father
Helen DONALDSON4 September 1857Susan DONALDSONFind the father
William DONALDSON4 September 1857Susan DONALDSONFind the father
William DONALDSON31 January 1864Janet DONALDSONFind the father
Elizabeth DUNBAR13 October 1863Elizabeth DUNBARFind the father
Grizell ELLIOT3 March 1874Janet Nicholas ELLIOTFind the father
James ELLIOT22 January 1871Margaret Ann ELLIOTFind the father
Jane Irving HARKNESS14 October 1871Jane HARKNESSFind the father
William HASTIE1 February 1870Elizabeth HASTIEFind the father
Sarah HIND7 January 1871Jane HINDFind the father
John Black HISLOP14 July 1857Margaret HISLOPFind the father
Andrew IRVING26 May 1870Margaret IRVINGFind the father
Helen IRVING4 May 1870Helen IRVINGFind the father
Margaret Jane JARDINE2 July 1859Agnes JARDINEFind the father
Mary MARSHALL9 October 1857Elizabeth MARSHALLFind the father
Robert MARSHALL29 March 1874Mary MARSHALLFind the father
James MCKAY31 May 1863Janet MCKAYFind the father
Rebecca NICHOLSON31 July 1868Jane NICHOLSONFind the father
Eliza PATERSON7 December 1870Margaret PATERSONFind the father
Janet PAYNE31 August 1862Jane PAYNEFind the father
John POOL25 July 1857Helen POOLFind the father
Margaret POOL9 June 1861Helen POOLFind the father
Marion RICHARDSON6 July 1867Marion RICHARDSONFind the father
Janet ROSS15 November 1874Mary ROSSFind the father
Margaret ROSS16 December 1865Mary ROSSFind the father
Rachael ROSS19 September 1868Mary ROSSFind the father
Andrew RUTHERFORD16 January 1871Elizabeth RUTHERFORDFind the father
Isabella SCOTT15 April 1867Agnes SCOTTFind the father
James SCOTT16 February 1866Margaret SCOTTFather found
Davidina SHANNON2 October 1866Agnes SHANNONFind the father
James SHUTTLEWORTH2 September 1859Mary SHUTTLEWORTHFind the father
Catharine TAIT5 November 1874Elizabeth TAITFind the father
Elizabeth Baillie TAIT2 August 1861Helen TAITFind the father
George TAIT25 July 1858Helen TAITFind the father
George TAIT17 June 1866Jemima TAITFind the father
James TAIT25 April 1865Rachael TAITFind the father
James TAIT1 August 1870Jemima TAITFind the father
Jane TAIT5 January 1859Rachel TAITFind the father
John TAIT7 February 1861Agnes TAITFather found
John TAIT27 January 1866Elizabeth TAITFind the father
William TAIT27 November 1860Jemima TAITFind the father
James TENAN1 June 1859Margaret TENANFind the father
Mary Ann TENAN8 April 1874Margaret TENANFind the father
George Campbell TENING14 April 1869Margaret TENINGFind the father
John THOMSON25 November 1861Agnes THOMSONFind the father
Thomas THOMSON4 January 1865Janet THOMSONFind the father
George TURNBULL14 June 1858Janet TURNBULLFind the father
Robert VIVERS9 November 1872Margaret VIVERSFind 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.

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.