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Bunkle and Preston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet MARTIN | 1854 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean MARTIN | 1873 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert PHORSON | 1873 (2) | Order images | Refused |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnie ELLIOT Blackhouse, Bunkle | Robert LORIMER | 24 Mar 1899 Blackhouse, Bunkle | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Jane FISH Lintlaw, Bunkle | George YOUNG | 25 Mar 1893 Lintlaw, Bunkle | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Jemima LAURIE Primrosehill, Bunkle | John JEFFREY | 8 May 1889 | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Janet NAIRN Lintlaw, Bunkle formerly Chirnside | James CLINKSCALE | 17 Mar 1889 Swinton Greenriggs, Swinton | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Maria STEWART Slighhouses, Bunkle | John MORGAN | 30 Apr 1878 | Order now | Duns SC60/7/42 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Jane BLAIR | 10 September 1868 | Alison BLAIR | Find the father |
| Marion CLARK | 3 May 1869 | Charlotte CLARK | Find the father |
| Henry CRAIG | 25 May 1861 | Luke CRAIG | Father found |
| Margaret CRAIG | 16 December 1855 | Margaret CRAIG | Find the father |
| Alison DOUGLAS | 20 February 1858 | Elizabeth DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Margaret FORD | 29 September 1867 | Rachel FORD | Find the father |
| George Hume Kerr GRAY | 15 June 1855 | Mary Ann GRAY | Find the father |
| Abraham Elliot IMRIE | 4 December 1864 | Helen IMRIE | Find the father |
| Christina INGLIS | 23 December 1857 | Christina INGLIS | Find the father |
| John INGLIS | 15 August 1855 | Christian INGLIS | Find the father |
| John KIRK | 14 December 1873 | Mary KIRK | Find the father |
| William LAWRIE | 31 March 1868 | Agnes LAWRIE | Find the father |
| Agnes MARTIN | 17 June 1860 | Helen MARTIN | Find the father |
| Archibald Marshall MCARTHUR | 5 August 1869 | Catherine MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Jane MCARTHUR | 14 August 1870 | Catherine MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| John MCNAMEE | 2 April 1860 | Agnes MCNAMEE | Find the father |
| James NAIRN | 21 July 1874 | Mary NAIRN | Find the father |
| James OUTTERSON | 12 July 1866 | Jane OUTTERSON | Find the father |
| Alexander PATTERSON | 14 November 1868 | Magdalene PATTERSON | Find the father |
| William POLWARTH | 23 January 1859 | Agnes POLWARTH | Find the father |
| Alexander PURVES | 1 August 1866 | Isabella PURVES | Find the father |
| Mary Jane PURVES | 7 June 1873 | Isabella PURVES | Find the father |
| George RICHARDSON | 16 July 1864 | Mary RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| Jessie RICHARDSON | 15 October 1864 | Isabella RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| Janet SCOTT | 17 February 1870 | Catherine SCOTT | Find the father |
| William TUNNAH | 19 June 1865 | Helen TUNNAH | Find the father |
| Thomas TURNER | 13 December 1865 | Mary TURNER | Find the father |
| Thomas TURNER | 21 June 1868 | Janet TURNER | Find the father |
| Christian WHITE | 28 September 1872 | Jeanie WHITE | Find the father |
| Margaret WIGHTMAN | 9 January 1867 | Margaret WIGHTMAN | Find the father |
| Andrew WILSON | 30 June 1873 | Violet WILSON | Find the father |
| Isabella WINDRAM | 7 September 1862 | Isabella WINDRAM | Find the father |
| John YOUNG | 17 March 1873 | Agnes YOUNG | 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.
