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Records -> Berwickshire

Channelkirk 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
Betsy ANDERSON 1856 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
James ANDERSON 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
Edmond BELL 1857 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Jean DALGLEISH 1861 (2)Order imagesRefused
Andrew DICKSON 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
Peter HOGARTH 1854 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Peter HOGARTH 1855 (1)Order imagesRefused
Janet HUNTER 1857 (1)Order imagesRefused
Janet MANN 1856 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Isabella NICHOL or ELLIOT 1857 (2)Order imagesRefused
Sophia PURVES 1861 (2)Order imagesRefused
Margaret WOOD or SOUNIE 1852 (2)Order imagesRefused
Isabella YOUNG 1850 (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
Marion HALIDAY
Pilmer, Lauder
formerly Collielaw, Channelkirk
James GILCHRIST4 Aug 1883
Pilmer, Lauder
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Jane LAIDLAW
Hillhouse, Channelkirk
Andrew SHAW7 May 1852Order nowDuns
SC60/7/41
Janet MANN
Oxton, Channelkirk
Alexander CROOKS7 Jul 1851Order nowDuns
SC60/7/41
Janet MANN
Oxton, Channelkirk
Alexander CROOKS29 Jun 1853Order nowDuns
SC60/7/41
Elizabeth RAMSAY
Hartside, Channelkirk
Alexander LOCKIE16 Aug 1852Order nowDuns
SC60/7/41
Margaret SMAIL
Netherhowden, Channelkirk
formerly Elwartlaw, Greenlaw
Adam PATERSON27 Jul 1887
Netherhowden, Channelkirk
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43


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
Margaret ALLAN30 November 1872Hellen ALLANFind the father
Helen ANDERSON12 October 1862Janet ANDERSONFind the father
Janet ANDERSON5 January 1868Janet ANDERSONFind the father
John ANDERSON22 September 1864Janet ANDERSONFind the father
Margaret ANDERSON17 February 1864Agnes ANDERSONFind the father
Robert BELL3 February 1861Jane BELLFind the father
George BOOTH18 January 1868Margaret BOOTHFind the father
Robert BRUCE13 October 1871Janet BRUCEFind the father
William CHALMERS21 August 1867Janet CHALMERSFind the father
Mary FORTUNE13 April 1862Margaret FORTUNEFind the father
Margaret GARDINER11 February 1872Cecilia GARDINERFind the father
Thomas GIBSON15 January 1870Mary GIBSONFind the father
Catharine Simpson HAMILTON8 October 1856Janet HAMILTONFind the father
Robert HAMILTON21 November 1859Janet HAMILTONFind the father
Thomas HAMILTON8 February 1861Janet HAMILTONFind the father
Ann Harkness HARKNESS2 July 1867Ann HARKNESSFind the father
Owen HEARSON14 February 1864Rosa HEARSONFind the father
John HIGGINS14 July 1858Bridget HIGGINSFind the father
Andrew LAIDLAW13 June 1859Jean LAIDLAWFind the father
William Matthew LOCKIE17 March 1869Menzies LOCKIEFind the father
Elizabeth Anne LOGAN12 April 1863Jane LOGANFind the father
George MANN1 March 1856Janet MANNFind the father
Janet MANN22 July 1863Janet MANNFind the father
John MATHER26 December 1856Margaret MATHERFind the father
Margaret MATHER11 January 1860Margaret MATHERFind the father
Mary MATHER24 March 1862Margaret MATHERFind the father
Robert MATHER2 March 1868Margaret MATHERFind the father
Helen NORMAN31 May 1871Ann NORMANFind the father
James NORMAN9 March 1873Janet NORMANFind the father
Jean PURVES26 July 1861Jane PURVESFind the father
Wilhelmina PURVES20 July 1872Margaret PURVESFind the father
Agnes RANKIN6 April 1874Jessie RANKINFind the father
Margaret Hogg RANKIN16 October 1868Elizabeth RANKINFind the father
Margaret ROBERTSON18 November 1860Mary ROBERTSONFather found
Archibald SHIELS29 April 1874Margaret SHIELSFather found
James SHIELS9 January 1868Mary SHIELSFind the father
Jane SHIELS9 November 1858Margaret SHIELSFind the father
Mary SHIELS21 February 1866Mary SHIELSFind the father
John SMITH14 February 1859Georgina SMITHFind the father
Mungo STEELL11 July 1864Janet STEELLFind the father
Elizabeth TAIT9 November 1873Janet TAITFind the father
Janet THORNTON20 November 1858Janet THORNTONFind the father
Richard THORNTON26 January 1856Janet THORNTONFind the father
Ralph Davidson TORRANCE24 November 1861Isabella TORRANCEFind the father
Elizabeth Pringle TURNER7 August 1863May TURNERFind the father
Jane Turnbull WHITELAW4 June 1873Margaret WHITELAWFind the father
Thomas WILLIAMSON29 January 1871Janet WILLIAMSONFind the father
Alexander WOOD14 March 1863Elizabeth WOODFind the father
Jemima WOOD23 January 1869Janet WOODFind 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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