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Records -> Perthshire

Comrie 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
Grace FERGUSON 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
Grace FERGUSON or MCALLUM 1857 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow Eliza FRASER 1857 (2)Order imagesRefused
John FRASER 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
James MACGREGOR 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused
James MCGREGOR 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused
James MCGREGOR 1867 (1)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of parochial relief
Duncan MCLAREN 1882-1883 (3)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
John STEWART 1867 (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
Isabella BRYSON
Carse Of Lenoch, near Comrie
William COMRIE25 Dec 1844Order nowDunblane
SC44/5/4
Christina CAMERON
Kingarth, Comrie
Alexander FORBES13 Dec 1883Order nowPerth
SC49/4/49
Janet DRUMMOND
Comrie
James MCLAREN15 Sep 1854Order nowDunblane
SC44/5/4
Mary Ann MACDONALD
Scatwell, Contin
John CAMPBELL8 May 1883
Clare Place, Dingwall
Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/11
Katie MCINTYRE
Royal Hotel, Comrie
Robert MCLAREN16 Feb 1887Order nowPerth
SC49/4/50
Catherine MCOWAN
Dalginross, Comrie
Robert BURNS17 Apr 1882Order nowDunblane
SC44/5/8
Jane MENZIES
Drummond Street, Comrie
Alexander BROWN4 Oct 1884
Drummond Street, Comrie
Order nowPerth
SC49/4/50
Catherine SHARP
Comrie
Charles MCCOWAN2 Aug 1878
Comrie
Order nowPerth
SC49/4/47


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
Janet ASHCROFT9 March 1862Janet ASHCROFTFind the father
John BAYNE14 December 1860Isabella BAYNEFind the father
Catherine CAMERON20 February 1871Catherine CAMERONFind the father
Margaret CAMERON7 December 1864Christian CAMERONFind the father
Francis Charlotte CAMPBELL6 October 1862Charlotte Stewart CAMPBELLFind the father
Robert CAMPBELL11 December 1859Mary CAMPBELLFind the father
Robert COMRIE2 July 1858Margaret COMRIEFind the father
Janet DOCHART26 March 1856Janet DOCHARTFind the father
Thomas EADIE29 December 1865Helen EADIEFind the father
Jean FAICHNEY22 April 1860Margaret FAICHNEYFind the father
Mary FAICHNEY28 January 1865Margaret FAICHNEYFind the father
James FERGUSON8 January 1856Janet FERGUSONFind the father
Catherine Jack FINDLAY4 December 1873Mary Burns FINDLAYFind the father
Ann GRAHAM3 August 1868Ann GRAHAMFind the father
Margaret Millar GRAHAM9 November 1863Christian GRAHAMFind the father
Janet HEPBURN9 January 1868Jane HEPBURNFather found
Peter KAY27 June 1860Helen KAYFind the father
Catherine KEMP4 July 1868Robina KEMPFind the father
Jessie KEMP26 February 1859Robina KEMPFind the father
Mary Ann KEMP5 January 1864Robina KEMPFind the father
Thomas KEMP29 August 1856Robina KEMPFind the father
Elizabeth KENNEDY12 October 1870Mary KENNEDYFind the father
George MALLOCH19 February 1862Christian MALLOCHFind the father
Janet MCARA5 February 1868Jane MCARAFind the father
Mary MCARA8 May 1872Jane MCARAFind the father
Daniel MCARTHUR26 April 1865Mary MCARTHURFind the father
William MCARTHUR12 August 1867Mary MCARTHURFind the father
Duncan MCCORQUODALE17 October 1860Ann MCCORQUODALEFind the father
Mary Ann MCCOWAN31 July 1860Margaret MCCOWANFind the father
Jean Ferguson MCDONALD13 January 1867Mary MCDONALDFind the father
Mary Ann MCDONALD23 October 1856Ann MCDONALDFather found
Charles MCEWEN5 April 1858Jessie MCEWENFather found
Margaret MCEWEN11 May 1856Jessie MCEWENFind the father
Mary Ann MCEWEN13 October 1855Helen MCEWENFind the father
Ellice Cossar MCFARLANE26 March 1859Beatrice MCFARLANEFind the father
David MCGREGOR22 March 1861Janet MCGREGORFather found
Janet MCGREGOR4 September 1868Janet MCGREGORFind the father
John MCGREGOR13 November 1863Janet MCGREGORFind the father
Robert MCGREGOR18 September 1855Janet MCGREGORFind the father
Janet MCILVRIDE2 January 1871Christina MCILVRIDEFind the father
Robert MCILVRIDE21 June 1863Janet MCILVRIDEFind the father
Agnes MCINTYRE29 August 1866Elisabeth MCINTYREFind the father
Grace MCINTYRE11 April 1862Elisabeth MCINTYREFather found
John MCINTYRE17 August 1864Catherine MCINTYREFind the father
Jane MCISAAC11 April 1870Margaret MCISAACFind the father
John Stewart MCISAAC8 June 1867Margaret MCISAACFind the father
Margaret MCISAAC12 January 1865Margaret MCISAACFind the father
Jane MCKAY22 January 1870Ann MCKAYFind the father
John MCKAY29 March 1856Joan MCKAYFind the father
Daniel MCKEITH5 October 1873Janet MCKEITHFind the father
Daniel MCLAREN1 November 1863Jane MCLARENFind the father
Alexander MCNAUGHTON11 July 1871Jessie MCNAUGHTONFind the father
Donald MCNAUGHTON31 July 1864Catherine MCNAUGHTONFind the father
James MCRORIE5 March 1857Isabel MCRORIEFind the father
Malcolm MENZIES16 September 1871Jane MENZIESFind the father
Christina MILLAR30 September 1863Elizabeth MILLARFind the father
Alexander MORRISON22 October 1868Jessie MORRISONFind the father
Hellen MORRISON17 September 1862Hellen MORRISONFind the father
John MORRISON1 December 1862Elizabeth MORRISONFind the father
Margaret MORRISON1 June 1871Jessie MORRISONFind the father
Mary MORRISON2 June 1865Jessie Boyd MORRISONFind the father
Peter MORRISON29 April 1868Ann MORRISONFind the father
Peter MORRISON29 August 1870Ann MORRISONFind the father
William MORRISON21 December 1859Elisabeth MORRISONFather found
Ann MURRAY15 February 1862Charlotte MURRAYFind the father
James NEISH28 June 1860Charlotte NEISHFind the father
Ann NICOLSON15 April 1857Janet NICOLSONFind the father
Janet NICOLSON17 January 1864Janet NICOLSONFind the father
Alexander OGILVIE24 February 1868Margaret OGILVIEFind the father
William Fleeming ROBINE3 June 1873Margaret Graham ROBINEFind the father
Alexander Mcfarlane SIMPSON1 May 1872Elizabeth SIMPSONFather found
Kenneth STALKER19 June 1865Christian STALKERFind the father
Michael STEWART6 October 1856Mary STEWARTFind the father
Janet TAYLOR7 June 1857Janet TAYLORFind the father
Margaret TAYLOR4 July 1864Janet TAYLORFind the father
Peter TAYLOR7 January 1860Janet TAYLORFind 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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