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Records -> Berwickshire

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:
  • £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.

Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes
Order imagesDeliverance
Janet MARTIN 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jean MARTIN 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused
Robert PHORSON 1873 (2)Order imagesRefused


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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Minnie ELLIOT
Blackhouse, Bunkle
Robert LORIMER24 Mar 1899
Blackhouse, Bunkle
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Jane FISH
Lintlaw, Bunkle
George YOUNG25 Mar 1893
Lintlaw, Bunkle
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Jemima LAURIE
Primrosehill, Bunkle
John JEFFREY8 May 1889Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Janet NAIRN
Lintlaw, Bunkle
formerly Chirnside
James CLINKSCALE17 Mar 1889
Swinton Greenriggs, Swinton
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Maria STEWART
Slighhouses, Bunkle
John MORGAN30 Apr 1878Order nowDuns
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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Mary Jane BLAIR10 September 1868Alison BLAIRFind the father
Marion CLARK3 May 1869Charlotte CLARKFind the father
Henry CRAIG25 May 1861Luke CRAIGFather found
Margaret CRAIG16 December 1855Margaret CRAIGFind the father
Alison DOUGLAS20 February 1858Elizabeth DOUGLASFind the father
Margaret FORD29 September 1867Rachel FORDFind the father
George Hume Kerr GRAY15 June 1855Mary Ann GRAYFind the father
Abraham Elliot IMRIE4 December 1864Helen IMRIEFind the father
Christina INGLIS23 December 1857Christina INGLISFind the father
John INGLIS15 August 1855Christian INGLISFind the father
John KIRK14 December 1873Mary KIRKFind the father
William LAWRIE31 March 1868Agnes LAWRIEFind the father
Agnes MARTIN17 June 1860Helen MARTINFind the father
Archibald Marshall MCARTHUR5 August 1869Catherine MCARTHURFind the father
Jane MCARTHUR14 August 1870Catherine MCARTHURFind the father
John MCNAMEE2 April 1860Agnes MCNAMEEFind the father
James NAIRN21 July 1874Mary NAIRNFind the father
James OUTTERSON12 July 1866Jane OUTTERSONFind the father
Alexander PATTERSON14 November 1868Magdalene PATTERSONFind the father
William POLWARTH23 January 1859Agnes POLWARTHFind the father
Alexander PURVES1 August 1866Isabella PURVESFind the father
Mary Jane PURVES7 June 1873Isabella PURVESFind the father
George RICHARDSON16 July 1864Mary RICHARDSONFind the father
Jessie RICHARDSON15 October 1864Isabella RICHARDSONFind the father
Janet SCOTT17 February 1870Catherine SCOTTFind the father
William TUNNAH19 June 1865Helen TUNNAHFind the father
Thomas TURNER13 December 1865Mary TURNERFind the father
Thomas TURNER21 June 1868Janet TURNERFind the father
Christian WHITE28 September 1872Jeanie WHITEFind the father
Margaret WIGHTMAN9 January 1867Margaret WIGHTMANFind the father
Andrew WILSON30 June 1873Violet WILSONFind the father
Isabella WINDRAM7 September 1862Isabella WINDRAMFind the father
John YOUNG17 March 1873Agnes YOUNGFind 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.


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