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Corsock 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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane JARDINE Auchenhay, Corsock, Kirkcudbrightshire | John COWAN | 5 Nov 1896 Auchenhay, Corsock, Kirkcudbrightshire | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agnes Murray ARMSTRONG | 4 June 1873 | Mary Ann ARMSTRONG | Find the father |
| William Dobie BROWNRIGG | 29 November 1872 | Agnes BROWNRIGG | Find the father |
| George CLARK | 9 December 1861 | Margaret CLARK | Find the father |
| James DOCHERTY | 9 July 1871 | Janet DOCHERTY | Find the father |
| Jessie DOCHERTY | 29 May 1873 | Mary DOCHERTY | Father found |
| Margaret DOCHERTY | 25 February 1869 | Janet DOCHERTY | Find the father |
| Agnes FARISH | 4 March 1867 | Nicholas FARISH | Find the father |
| James GAW | 18 March 1870 | Janet GAW | Find the father |
| John Alexander GAW | 26 February 1868 | Janet GAW | Find the father |
| Jane Mcnoe GOURLAY | 23 March 1866 | Jannet GOURLAY | Find the father |
| Thomas GOURLAY | 2 December 1862 | Jannet GOURLAY | Find the father |
| William GOURLAY | 19 January 1865 | Jannet GOURLAY | Find the father |
| Margaret HAY | 25 January 1856 | Marion HAY | Find the father |
| William HAY | 3 January 1856 | Jane HAY | Find the father |
| Mary Agnes HAYTON | 6 January 1870 | Winifred HAYTON | Find the father |
| Christopher HENDERSON | 8 July 1867 | Jane HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann HENDERSON | 3 September 1873 | Letitia HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Ann IRELAND | 27 September 1874 | Ann IRELAND | Find the father |
| Robert KINCID | 1 November 1870 | Mary KINCID | Find the father |
| Janet KIRK | 25 June 1870 | Ann KIRK | Find the father |
| Robert KIRK | 31 December 1861 | Ann KIRK | Find the father |
| William MACORMICK | 16 August 1865 | Jane MACORMICK | Find the father |
| William MCCORMICK | 29 August 1856 | Jean MCCORMICK | Find the father |
| Scott MCKEND | 20 May 1869 | Margaret MCKEND | Find the father |
| Margaret MCKIE | 3 December 1866 | Margaret MCKIE | Find the father |
| Agnes MCKNIGHT | 15 June 1862 | Barbara MCKNIGHT | Find the father |
| Grace MCKNIGHT | 19 June 1864 | Barbara MCKNIGHT | Find the father |
| James MCKNIGHT | 29 March 1866 | Barbara MCKNIGHT | Find the father |
| Thomas MCKNIGHT | 19 June 1864 | Barbara MCKNIGHT | Find the father |
| Isabella MCMATH | 24 February 1862 | Agness MCMATH | Father found |
| James MCMATH | 3 January 1858 | Agnes MCMATH | Find the father |
| John MILLIGAN | 27 December 1872 | Margaret MILLIGAN | Find the father |
| Agnes MUIR | 3 December 1864 | Mary MUIR | Find the father |
| Agnes MUIR | 26 June 1874 | Agnes MUIR | Find the father |
| Maria MUIR | 16 March 1869 | Agnes MUIR | Find the father |
| Agness Fergusson PATERSON | 28 February 1861 | Jane PATERSON | Find the father |
| Grace PATERSON | 8 January 1864 | Mary PATERSON | Find the father |
| Jannet PATTERSON | 8 February 1859 | Jannet PATTERSON | Find the father |
| Christopher RIDDICK | 26 January 1870 | Mary RIDDICK | Father found |
| Agness STEWART | 11 May 1862 | Marion STEWART | Find the father |
| Helen WALLACE | 2 April 1874 | Grace WALLACE | Find the father |
| James WALLACE | 21 May 1862 | Agnes WALLACE | Find the father |
| James Christopher WALLACE | 10 March 1866 | Mary Donaldson WALLACE | Find the father |
| Jane WALLACE | 4 December 1856 | Agnes WALLACE | Find the father |
| Jemima WALLACE | 4 December 1865 | Maryann WALLACE | Find the father |
| John WALLACE | 30 November 1856 | Elizabeth WALLACE | Find the father |
| John WALLACE | 30 June 1862 | Grace WALLACE | Find the father |
| Margaret WALLACE | 17 January 1865 | Agnes WALLACE | Find the father |
| Robert WALLACE | 26 December 1855 | Jessie WALLACE | Find the father |
| Robert WALLACE | 15 July 1859 | Mary Ann WALLACE | Find the father |
| William WALLACE | 18 January 1872 | Grace WALLACE | Find the father |
| William WAUGH | 7 July 1874 | Mary WAUGH | Find 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.
