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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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/441/1Minutes1772-1793Request lookup
CH2/441/2Kirk session minutes 1795-1835 and accounts 1793-1818
Minutes 1795-1835
Poor's accounts 1793-1818		1793-1835Request lookup
CH2/441/3Minutes1839-1888Request lookup
CH2/441/5Kirk session accounts
Includes mortcloth dues and poor payments		1771-1793Request lookup
CH2/441/6Kirk session accounts
Includes poor payments		1818-1832Request lookup
CH2/441/7Kirk session accounts
Includes poor payments		1845-1881Request lookup
CH2/441/9Baptisms1865-1885Request lookup
CH2/441/10Baptisms1886-1933Request lookup
CH2/441/11Proclamations1879-14 Jun 1896Request lookup
CH2/441/13Communion roll1851-1871Request lookup
CH2/441/14Communion roll1872-1891Request lookup
CH2/441/15Communion roll1892-1900Request lookup
CH2/441/16Assessment roll1856-1867Request lookup
CH2/441/17Assessment roll1877-1887Request lookup
CH2/441/18Assessment roll1887-1894Request 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 Mary BALFOUR 1859 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Ann KNOWLES 1860 (2)Order imagesRefused
Jane STRAHAN 1868 (3)Order imagesRefused
Widow Jane WESTON or CAMERON 1858 (2)Order imagesRefused
James WHITE 1855 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
James WHYTE 1855 (2)Order imagesRefused
David WILKIE 1863 (1)Order imagesRefused
Alexander WILLIAMSON 1861 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed

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. For births outwith this period, click here.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Elizabeth ADAM2 January 1858Mary ADAMFind the father
Robert Henry ADAMS27 July 1872Jane ADAMSFind the father
Margaret ALCOCK19 October 1870Margaret ALCOCKFind the father
Robert ANGUS3 May 1865Mary ANGUSFind the father
Susan BEATON30 December 1867Elizabeth BEATONFind the father
Mary BERRY16 October 1856Elizabeth BERRYFind the father
Jane Bruce Forsyth BETON6 March 1871Elizabeth BETONFind the father
Mary Ann BETON15 February 1873Elisabeth BETONFind the father
William BRODDIE17 December 1858Janet BRODDIEFind the father
James Moir BROWN26 December 1874Hellen BROWNFind the father
Mary BURNETT9 October 1871Catherine BURNETTFind the father
William BURNETT26 July 1861Catherine BURNETTFind the father
James CADENHEAD6 January 1874Jane CADENHEADFind the father
Isabella CARNIE2 December 1864Isabella CARNIEFind the father
Jessie Ann CARNIE28 September 1859Jane CARNIEFind the father
Barbara Farquhar CLERIHEW8 December 1867Barbara CLERIHEWFind the father
Mary CLERIHEW19 February 1864Mary Ann CLERIHEWFind the father
John COPLAND12 November 1862Margaret COPLANDFind the father
Peter COPLAND21 February 1860Elspet COPLANDFind the father
William CRAIGIE22 February 1866Helen CRAIGIEFind the father
George CUMMING7 November 1873Elisabeth CUMMINGFind the father
Jane DONALD24 May 1858Elizabeth DONALDFind the father
Helen Ann DUNCAN5 June 1866Ann DUNCANFind the father
John ELLIS9 October 1873Elspet ELLISFind the father
James Smith EWEN29 July 1858Agnes EWENFind the father
Helen FARQUHAR26 February 1873Ellen FARQUHARFind the father
William FARQUHAR25 May 1868Elizabeth FARQUHARFind the father
Peter FORBES20 June 1862Penuel FORBESFind the father
James FRASER19 February 1872Jean FRASERFind the father
James GIBB27 March 1858Mary GIBBFind the father
Jane GIBB1 May 1862Barbara GIBBFind the father
William Beattie GIBB27 August 1873Mary GIBBFind the father
Georgina Cumming GRANT30 December 1865Margaret GRANTFind the father
Margaret GRANT16 September 1863Margret GRANTFind the father
James HALL3 February 1865Elizabeth Hall Or DAVIDSONFind the father
Jean HENDERSON16 May 1861Jean HENDERSONFind the father
Jane KING29 July 1864Jane KINGFind the father
John KING25 January 1859Jane KINGFind the father
William KNIGHT16 November 1859Sarah KNIGHTFind the father
Alexander Scott LESLIE3 February 1873Mary LESLIEFind the father
Margaret LIVINGSTON9 September 1871Elizabeth LIVINGSTONFind the father
William MARR2 October 1856Rebeccah MARRFind the father
Mary Ann MCALLAN1 February 1866Christina MCALLANFind the father
William MCALLAN4 August 1856Mary MCALLANFind the father
John MCKENZIE26 July 1874Elizabeth MCKENZIEFind the father
William MCPETRIE20 July 1866Jessie MCPETRIEFind the father
Mary Ann MILKIE11 March 1855Catherine MILKIEFind the father
Alexander MILNE20 November 1873Margaret MILNEFind the father
Ann High MILNE14 May 1867Mary MILNEFind the father
George Paterson MILNE4 September 1866Dorothy MILNEFind the father
Helen MILNE6 January 1855Helen MILNEFind the father
James MILNE11 March 1865Margaret MILNEFind the father
James MILNE15 March 1865Dorothy MILNEFind the father
John MILNE17 October 1860Barbara MILNEFind the father
Margaret MILNE24 January 1867Jane MILNEFind the father
Mary Smith MURRISON16 August 1874Isabella MURRISONFind the father
Agnes Ferrier NOBLE19 December 1864Agnes NOBLEFind the father
George RAE31 January 1868Jessie Rae Or HENDERSONFind the father
George Alexander REID6 April 1860Elizabeth REIDFind the father
James REID9 April 1873Jane REIDFind the father
Mary Ann REID8 November 1862Mary REIDFind the father
Mary Ann REID5 December 1870Catherine REIDFind the father
Barbara Troup ROBERTSON7 February 1856Barbara ROBERTSONFind the father
James ROSS21 July 1868Ann ROSSFind the father
Lilias Grant ROSS4 March 1872Louisa ROSSFind the father
Ann Richiston SKINER15 May 1861Margret SKINERFind the father
James SMITH3 June 1858Mary SMITHFind the father
James SMITH10 May 1863Helen SMITHFind the father
James Birnie Thomson SMITH21 March 1873Jessie SMITHFind the father
John SMITH7 February 1860Mary SMITHFind the father
Margaret SMITH5 February 1866May SMITHFind the father
William SMITH28 July 1866Margaret SMITHFind the father
Robert SPENCE27 January 1856Jane SPENCEFind the father
Donald Thain STRACHAN25 January 1870Elspet STRACHANFind the father
James Mennie STRACHAN3 August 1865Jane STRACHANFind the father
Jessie Leslie STRACHAN28 November 1861Jane STRACHANFind the father
John Mennie STRACHAN20 November 1867Jane STRACHANFind the father
Mary Ann STRACHAN19 November 1874Margaret STRACHANFind the father
Ann Davidson THOMSON21 October 1872Mary Ann THOMSONFind the father
Jane Gardiner THOMSON28 December 1869Mary Ann THOMSONFind the father
Margaret THOMSON18 October 1871Margaret THOMSONFind the father
Helen Ann TOCHER10 September 1855Elizabeth TOCHERFind the father
Jessie TOCHER16 April 1859Jane TOCHERFind the father
Mary Ann Strachan TROUP30 September 1869Mary Ann TROUPFind the father
Francis Croll WALKER15 August 1862Martha WALKERFind the father
Isabella Gordon WATT27 April 1871Isabella WATTFind the father
John WATT16 September 1872Caroline WATTFind the father
Elspet WILKIE29 August 1859Agnes WILKIEFind the father
Agnes WILLIAMSON1 December 1858Agnes WILLIAMSONFind the father
James WILLIAMSON6 December 1873Agnes Williamson Or MITCHELLFind 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