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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.

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CH2/789/1Minutes1844-1932Request lookup
CH2/789/2Accounts1854-1933Request lookup

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
  • £10 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
Widow Margaret SMALL 1864 (1)Order imagesRefused

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Andrew ADAM19 August 1868Mary ADAMFind the father
David ANDERSON23 October 1870Elisabeth ANDERSONFind the father
Walter Wallace ANDERSON26 August 1874Elizabeth ANDERSONFind the father
Sarah BISSET29 November 1855Christian BISSETFind the father
James Gillespie BRUCE1 August 1871Jessie BRUCEFind the father
John BURRIE14 June 1865Ann BURRIEFind the father
Jessie CARR4 January 1868Jane CARRFind the father
Marjory Murray Munro CARR23 July 1870Jane CARRFind the father
John CLARK9 October 1867Jessie CLARKFind the father
John CLARK10 July 1874Euphemia CLARKFind the father
Thomas CLARK23 September 1871Jessie CLARKFind the father
David Kiddie CRAMMOND29 March 1874Mary CRAMMONDFind the father
Jane CRICHTON5 July 1858Jane CRICHTONFind the father
Mary CROCKETT1 December 1862Mary CROCKETTFind the father
Maria DEMPSTER26 July 1872Joan DEMPSTERFind the father
David DOIG24 December 1858Isabella DOIGFind the father
Jessie DONALDSON2 April 1864Jane DONALDSONFind the father
Alexander Anderson DUFF14 November 1871Isabella DUFFFind the father
William Anderson DUFF14 November 1871Isabella DUFFFind the father
Wilhelmina EDWARD13 July 1867Ann EDWARDFind the father
John ERSKINE10 June 1864Elizabeth ERSKINEFind the father
John FENWICK17 February 1860Emily FENWICKFind the father
Martha FENWICK26 November 1869Margaret FENWICKFind the father
Elisabeth FERGUSON3 February 1859Amelia FERGUSONFind the father
Helen FERGUSON7 January 1862Margaret FERGUSONFind the father
Jemima FLIGHT7 August 1864Ann FLIGHTFind the father
Margaret Ann FORBES1 October 1871Ann FORBESFind the father
Jessie FRASER3 February 1862Margaret FRASERFind the father
John FRASER27 July 1874Mary FRASERFind the father
Mary Ann FRASER20 May 1865Ann FRASERFind the father
Peter FRASER24 August 1857Margaret FRASERFind the father
Christina GAIRNS7 January 1867Ann GAIRNSFind the father
Janet GAIRNS18 March 1869Ann GAIRNSFind the father
Margaret GAIRNS7 January 1867Ann GAIRNSFind the father
William GARDINER13 June 1858Isabella GARDINERFind the father
Charles Downie GAULD22 November 1865Margaret GAULDFind the father
John GAULD4 November 1862Margaret GAULDFind the father
Henry GOW11 December 1855Margaret GOWFind the father
John Moncrieff HENDRY27 May 1872Isabella HENDRYFind the father
David HODGE8 January 1871Jane HODGEFind the father
Ann HOPKIRK25 April 1866Christian Ann HOPKIRKFind the father
Janet Cumming KEIL5 August 1861Christina KEILFind the father
Jessie LAING4 March 1872Catharine LAINGFind the father
William Adam LAING12 August 1870Catharine LAINGFind the father
Marjorie LENNIE1 April 1871Jessie LENNIEFind the father
William James MANN9 March 1864Maryann D. MANNFind the father
Ann MCARTHUR8 February 1872Jessie MCARTHURFind the father
Betsey MCDONALD22 September 1858Mary MCDONALDFind the father
James Bell Osler MCEWAN18 September 1872Euphemia MCEWANFind the father
William MCFARLANE20 July 1872Elizabeth MCFARLANEFind the father
Christian MCFAULD8 January 1859Margaret MCFAULDFind the father
Thomas MCFAULD5 January 1866Jane MCFAULDFind the father
Kenneth MCKENZIE13 April 1869Margaret MCKENZIEFind the father
Margaret MCKENZIE8 March 1856Isabella MCKENZIEFind the father
David MCKILLOP25 July 1857Margaret MCKILLOPFind the father
William Pearson MCNAB26 September 1865Isabella MCNABFind the father
Ann MELLIS25 December 1863Sarah MELLISFind the father
James MELLIS31 December 1865Sarah MELLISFind the father
Eliza NICOLL17 December 1869Grace NICOLLFind the father
John PATON10 February 1856Jane PATONFind the father
David PENNYCOOK28 May 1859Elisabeth PENNYCOOKFind the father
George PULLAR31 December 1872Marian PULLARFind the father
Mary Ann PULLAR14 March 1867Jessie PULLARFind the father
David RAMSAY2 May 1861Catharine RAMSAYFind the father
Ellen Baxter REID12 February 1865Ann REIDFind the father
Agnes Stewart RITCHIE22 July 1867Mary RITCHIEFind the father
Jessie Ford RITCHIE7 November 1865Janet RITCHIEFind the father
John RITCHIE3 March 1861Jean RITCHIEFind the father
Mary Stevenson ROBERTSON28 August 1865Helen ROBERTSONFind the father
William Robert ROBERTSON25 November 1856Jane ROBERTSONFind the father
Isabella ROSS7 December 1865Isabella ROSSFind the father
James ROSS24 December 1861Isabella ROSSFind the father
Jane ROUGH8 January 1865Mary ROUGHFind the father
Christian ROY27 August 1859Margaret ROYFind the father
Janet ROY27 August 1859Margaret ROYFind the father
James SCOTT29 January 1864Catharine SCOTTFind the father
David SEATON9 January 1870Catharine SEATONFind the father
Andrew SIM20 November 1859Agnes SIMFind the father
Elizabeth SIM18 November 1863Agnes SIMFind the father
John SIM22 February 1862Agnes SIMFind the father
Margaret SMALL14 February 1860Jessie SMALLFind the father
James SMITH18 January 1857Elizabeth SMITHFind the father
Jessie Jane Stewart STALKER11 September 1868Janet STALKERFind the father
Peter STALKER28 December 1855Janet STALKERFind the father
Elspeth Burns STEWART5 December 1873Jessie STEWARTFind the father
William STEWART25 August 1857Elizabeth STEWARTFind the father
Hennritta TAYLOR25 April 1874Hennritta TAYLORFind the father
Jane TAYLOR8 August 1862Margaret TAYLORFind the father
Marjorie TAYLOR1 February 1858Marjorie TAYLORFind the father
Jessie Ann Winter TEVENDALE16 August 1874Isabella TEVENDALEFind the father
Amelia Sprunt THOMSON11 April 1858Mary THOMSONFind the father
Isabella Simpson THOMSON13 April 1861Isabella THOMSONFind the father
Jessie THOMSON29 July 1861Ann THOMSONFind the father
Georgina WATSON28 December 1864Jessie WATSONFind the father
Georgina WHITTET11 August 1863Mary Ann WHITTETFind the father
Ann YOUNG19 May 1863Ann YOUNGFind the father
Annie YOUNG25 January 1874Catharine YOUNGFind 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

We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish