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Records -> Berwickshire

Cockburnspath 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/68/1Cockburnspath, St Helen's Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes1844-1936Request lookup
CH2/68/2Cockburnspath, St Helen's Church of Scotland - Marriages1869-1904Request lookup
CH2/68/3Cockburnspath, St Helen's Church of Scotland - Baptisms1869-1905Request 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
  • £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
William CARR Coldingham1847 (1)Order imagesRefused
William CARR 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused
Isabella GLASS 1869 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
William KERR 1855 (2)Order imagesRefused
David NICHOL 1849 (2)Order imagesRefused - see 187 and 428 1848
David NICOL 1848 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed, on the understanding that he is to receive 2s a week


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
Isabella ALLAN
Woodend, Cockburnspath
Samuel CRAIG14 Jun 1891
Teindhill Green, Duns
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Margaret BROWN or WHITELAW
Redheugh, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire
Alexander MORRIS12 Aug 1876Order nowLinlithgow
SC41/15/4
Mary COCKBURN
Cockburnspath Tower
William FULLERTON31 Oct 1861Order nowDuns
SC60/7/41
Mary CROMBIE
Cockburnspath
John CUNNINGHAM3 Sep 1858Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/36
Isabella DARLING
Pathhead, Cockburnspath
Thomas SPEIRS15 May 1890Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Agnes FAIRBAIRN
Cove, Cockburnspath
Peter FAIRBAIRN25 Nov 1887
Cove, Cockburnspath
Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/38
Agnes GORDON
Fisher's Cove, Cockburnspath
William CHRISTISON8 Jul 1894
Fisher's Cove, Cockburnspath
Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/38
Mary GORDON
Cove, Cockburnspath
James REID7 Feb 1891Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Ann GREENLAW
Blackburn Mill, Cockburnspath
John LYAL OR LYALL19 Jan 1852Order nowDuns
SC60/7/41
Marion HILL
Ecclaw Farm, Cockburnspath
Thomas WEATHERSTON OR WATHERSTON10 Nov 1879Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Alice HOGG
Oldcambus West Mains, Cockburnspath
formerly Oldcambus East Mains
Peter STEWART9 Jul 1890
Oldcambus West Mains, Cockburnspath
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Elizabeth HOGG
Oldcambus West Mains, Cockburnspath
Lachlan MCLEAN27 Sep 1890
Oldcambus West Mains, Cockburnspath
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Agnes LYALL
Ecclaw, Cockburnspath
James LUGTON27 May 1877Order nowDuns
SC60/7/42
Agnes NISBET
Cove, Cockburnpath
Robert WATERSTON30 Jul 1880Order nowEdinburgh
SC39/8/49
Ellen SCOTT
Blackburn, Cockburnspath
George RENTON12 May 1880Order 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
Peter ALLISON18 September 1872Agnes ALLISONFind the father
Charles ANDERSON5 October 1867Sarah ANDERSONFind the father
Elisabeth ANDERSON16 November 1861Agnes ANDERSONFind the father
Janet ANDERSON20 September 1861Elisabeth ANDERSONFind the father
Janet Cockburn ARMSTRONG4 January 1855Jemima ARMSTRONGFind the father
John BESSET7 September 1872Elizabeth BESSETFind the father
William BLACK7 August 1871Elizabeth BLACKFind the father
Richard BLAIR16 August 1873Jemima Jane BLAIRFind the father
Jane BRYDEN15 March 1867Jane BRYDENFind the father
John CHAPMAN3 September 1871Susan CHAPMANFind the father
James COWE7 December 1869Isabella COWEFind the father
Annabella CRAIB20 September 1870Bathia CRAIBFind the father
John DARRIE10 September 1861Elspeth DARRIEFind the father
Archibald DAVIDSON21 January 1862Thomson DAVIDSONFind the father
William ELLIOT12 January 1872Agnes ELLIOTFind the father
Mary FAIRBAIRN20 November 1865Barbara FAIRBAIRNFind the father
William FAIRBAIRN9 June 1867Alison FAIRBAIRNFind the father
John FORSYTH20 December 1863Margaret FORSYTHFind the father
Mary Burnet GILLIE11 September 1855Isabella GILLIEFind the father
Catharine GLASS22 August 1861Isabella GLASSFind the father
Isabella GLASS27 July 1871Isabella GLASSFind the father
William GLASS28 November 1858Elisabeth GLASSFind the father
Joan Brown GRAY10 May 1871Elizabeth GRAYFind the father
Janet HENDERSON1 September 1859Jane HENDERSONFind the father
Helen HOULISTON23 August 1859Agnes HOULISTONFind the father
Gavin HUNTER10 September 1867Beatrice HUNTERFind the father
John Lamb JAMESON23 September 1857Isabella JAMESONFind the father
James JOHNSTON20 January 1862Helen JOHNSTONFind the father
Margaret JOHNSTON27 January 1862Margaret JOHNSTONFather found
William Johnston KNOX27 December 1868Isabella KNOXFind the father
Christina LAING9 May 1866Mary LAINGFind the father
Helen LESLIE14 October 1860Christian LESLIEFind the father
Catharine LINCH23 September 1859Catharine LINCHFind the father
James LINDORES12 February 1866Mary LINDORESFind the father
Thomas Scott LINDORES10 February 1865Agnes LINDORESFind the father
John MACPHERSON25 May 1867Marion MACPHERSONFind the father
Anne MCLEOD19 September 1869Margaret MCLEODFind the father
Robert Johnston PATERSON27 March 1856Isabella PATERSONFind the father
Helen PATTERSON22 November 1874Janet PATTERSONFind the father
Isabel King PORTEOUS12 March 1864Elisabeth PORTEOUSFind the father
Mary King PORTEOUS16 August 1869Elizabeth PORTEOUSFind the father
Jane RENTON29 May 1862Jane RENTONFind the father
John RUSSELL14 June 1867Elizabeth RUSSELLFind the father
Jessie SHIEL28 July 1874Isabella SHIELFind the father
Jane SIVES9 June 1868Marion SIVESFind the father
William SIVES10 July 1860Mary SIVESFind the father
Andrew STEWART28 August 1861Elisabeth STEWARTFind the father
Robert STEWART21 February 1865Jane STEWARTFind the father
Alison TROTTER29 October 1860Margaret TROTTERFind the father
Margaret WOOD19 September 1856Mary WOODFind the father
George YORK12 September 1870Mary YORKFind the father
Isabella YORK21 April 1874Hannah YORKFind 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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