Records -> Dumfriesshire
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.
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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Ann CAMPBELL Brydekirk Cottages, Brydekirk, Dumfriesshire | James BEATTIE | 27 May 1893 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Jane BARTON | 15 December 1873 | Jemima BARTON | Find the father |
| Annie Margaret BEATTIE | 3 January 1874 | Margaret BEATTIE | Find the father |
| James BEATTIE | 16 April 1871 | Elizabeth BEATTIE | Find the father |
| Janet Mary Brown BEATTIE | 3 January 1874 | Helen BEATTIE | Find the father |
| Thomasina BEATTIE | 24 November 1869 | Elizabeth BEATTIE | Find the father |
| William BEATTIE | 7 August 1871 | Helen BEATTIE | Father found |
| James BELL | 4 September 1868 | Helen BELL | Find the father |
| Jane BELL | 11 October 1871 | Helen BELL | Find the father |
| Janet BELL | 14 May 1871 | Mary BELL | Find the father |
| Mary Elizabeth BELL | 12 April 1874 | Jane BELL | Find the father |
| Thomas BELL | 4 January 1872 | Jane BELL | Find the father |
| William BELL | 27 March 1870 | Jane BELL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth BLACKSTOCK | 1 December 1857 | Janet BLACKSTOCK | Find the father |
| Alexander CARRICK | 11 November 1871 | Margaret CARRICK | Find the father |
| Barbara Bell CARRUTHERS | 6 January 1872 | Mary Jane CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| James CARRUTHERS | 3 October 1874 | Mary CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| John CARRUTHERS | 13 October 1873 | Margaret CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| Mary CARRUTHERS | 28 January 1859 | Janet CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| Mathew CARRUTHERS | 31 August 1865 | Sarah CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| William CARRUTHERS | 12 June 1870 | Margaret CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| Elizabeth CRAICK | 5 August 1862 | Jane CRAICK | Find the father |
| Georgina CRAICK | 29 June 1868 | Jane CRAICK | Find the father |
| Irving CRAICK | 17 December 1865 | Jane CRAICK | Find the father |
| John CRONE | 6 February 1858 | Jane CRONE | Find the father |
| James CURRIE | 17 November 1873 | Mary Ann CURRIE | Father found |
| David DALGLIESH | 27 July 1870 | Mary DALGLIESH | Find the father |
| Jessie DALGLIESH | 17 August 1874 | Mary DALGLIESH | Find the father |
| John DALGLIESH | 28 July 1866 | Mary DALGLIESH | Find the father |
| William DALGLIESH | 3 June 1863 | Mary DALGLIESH | Find the father |
| Robina DOBBIE | 12 July 1860 | Margaret DOBBIE | Find the father |
| Helen DONALDSON | 4 September 1857 | Susan DONALDSON | Find the father |
| William DONALDSON | 4 September 1857 | Susan DONALDSON | Find the father |
| William DONALDSON | 31 January 1864 | Janet DONALDSON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth DUNBAR | 13 October 1863 | Elizabeth DUNBAR | Find the father |
| Grizell ELLIOT | 3 March 1874 | Janet Nicholas ELLIOT | Find the father |
| James ELLIOT | 22 January 1871 | Margaret Ann ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Jane Irving HARKNESS | 14 October 1871 | Jane HARKNESS | Find the father |
| William HASTIE | 1 February 1870 | Elizabeth HASTIE | Find the father |
| Sarah HIND | 7 January 1871 | Jane HIND | Find the father |
| John Black HISLOP | 14 July 1857 | Margaret HISLOP | Find the father |
| Andrew IRVING | 26 May 1870 | Margaret IRVING | Find the father |
| Helen IRVING | 4 May 1870 | Helen IRVING | Find the father |
| Margaret Jane JARDINE | 2 July 1859 | Agnes JARDINE | Find the father |
| Mary MARSHALL | 9 October 1857 | Elizabeth MARSHALL | Find the father |
| Robert MARSHALL | 29 March 1874 | Mary MARSHALL | Find the father |
| James MCKAY | 31 May 1863 | Janet MCKAY | Find the father |
| Rebecca NICHOLSON | 31 July 1868 | Jane NICHOLSON | Find the father |
| Eliza PATERSON | 7 December 1870 | Margaret PATERSON | Find the father |
| Janet PAYNE | 31 August 1862 | Jane PAYNE | Find the father |
| John POOL | 25 July 1857 | Helen POOL | Find the father |
| Margaret POOL | 9 June 1861 | Helen POOL | Find the father |
| Marion RICHARDSON | 6 July 1867 | Marion RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| Janet ROSS | 15 November 1874 | Mary ROSS | Find the father |
| Margaret ROSS | 16 December 1865 | Mary ROSS | Find the father |
| Rachael ROSS | 19 September 1868 | Mary ROSS | Find the father |
| Andrew RUTHERFORD | 16 January 1871 | Elizabeth RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Isabella SCOTT | 15 April 1867 | Agnes SCOTT | Find the father |
| James SCOTT | 16 February 1866 | Margaret SCOTT | Father found |
| Davidina SHANNON | 2 October 1866 | Agnes SHANNON | Find the father |
| James SHUTTLEWORTH | 2 September 1859 | Mary SHUTTLEWORTH | Find the father |
| Catharine TAIT | 5 November 1874 | Elizabeth TAIT | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Baillie TAIT | 2 August 1861 | Helen TAIT | Find the father |
| George TAIT | 25 July 1858 | Helen TAIT | Find the father |
| George TAIT | 17 June 1866 | Jemima TAIT | Find the father |
| James TAIT | 25 April 1865 | Rachael TAIT | Find the father |
| James TAIT | 1 August 1870 | Jemima TAIT | Find the father |
| Jane TAIT | 5 January 1859 | Rachel TAIT | Find the father |
| John TAIT | 7 February 1861 | Agnes TAIT | Father found |
| John TAIT | 27 January 1866 | Elizabeth TAIT | Find the father |
| William TAIT | 27 November 1860 | Jemima TAIT | Find the father |
| James TENAN | 1 June 1859 | Margaret TENAN | Find the father |
| Mary Ann TENAN | 8 April 1874 | Margaret TENAN | Find the father |
| George Campbell TENING | 14 April 1869 | Margaret TENING | Find the father |
| John THOMSON | 25 November 1861 | Agnes THOMSON | Find the father |
| Thomas THOMSON | 4 January 1865 | Janet THOMSON | Find the father |
| George TURNBULL | 14 June 1858 | Janet TURNBULL | Find the father |
| Robert VIVERS | 9 November 1872 | Margaret VIVERS | 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.
