Corstorphine 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
Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
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CH2/124/2 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Session minutes | 21 May 1692-1704 | Request lookup |
CH2/124/3 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Session minutes | 1 Jun 1704-1708 | Request lookup |
CH2/124/4 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Session minutes and report on books and accounts of kirk session. Session minutes 1709-1784 Session minutes 1794-1801 Report on books and accounts of kirk session, 3 April 1814 | 1709-1814 | Request lookup |
CH2/124/5 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Session minutes | 1814-1866 | Request lookup |
CH2/124/6 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Accounts | 1710-1746 | Request lookup |
CH2/124/7 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Accounts | 1746-1797 | Request lookup |
CH2/124/8 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Poors Account | 1804-1824 | Request lookup |
CH2/124/9 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Session minutes | 1881-1914 | Request lookup |
CH2/124/11 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Proclamations | 1855-1861 | Request lookup |
CH2/124/18 | Corstorphine Kirk Session - Mr Simpson's cash book for Corstorphine poor | 1824-1845 | Request lookup |
Board of Supervision poor relief appeals
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)
Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
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Elizabeth BAILLIE | 1855 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
Widow Mary BAIRD or WAUGH | 1856 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
Widow DENNY | 1856 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
David GILLON | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
David GRANT | 1849 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
David GRANT | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
Widow Margaret HORSBURGH | 1849 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
Mary MACKENZIE | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
William PEDEN | 1858 (4) | Order images | Dead | |
Robert SMITH | 1856-1857 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
James WALKER | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused |
Sheriff Court paternity decrees
Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
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Margaret BROWN South Gale, near Corstorphine | James LUNN | 11 May 1881 | Order now | Selkirk SC63/6/14 |
Ann DUFFY Corstorphine | Daniel MCKELVIE | 2 Feb 1877 Corstorphine | Order now | Edinburgh SC39/8/45 |
Elizabeth EWART Kirkstyle House, Corstorphine, Edinburgh | Robert MITCHELL | 3 Jun 1883 Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh | Order now | Edinburgh SC39/8/50 |
Jane HALL Corstorphine | George BURNS | 12 Apr 1866 | Order now | Edinburgh SC39/8/39 |
Rachel Marion MACKAY Gogar Bank, Corstorphine, near Edinburgh formerly Bath Street, Broughty Ferry | John ROBERTSON | 20 Aug 1884 | Order now | Dundee SC45/6/22 |
School Leaving Certificate Exams
Anatomy register
Name | Age | Last residence and place of death | Date of death | Order record |
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Margaret ANDERSON | 43 | Corstorphine, Convalescent Home | 28 Sep 1898 | Order record |
David MCLEAN | 67 | Lived: Gogar Farm, Corstorphine Died: Corstorphine | 11 Jan 1913 | Order record |
Janet POLLOCK | 40 | Lived: Corstorphine Died: West Port | 12 Oct 1857 | Order record |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
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Ann AGNEW | 5 December 1863 | Ann Jane AGNEW | Find the father |
James Gemmell AITKEN | 17 January 1857 | Jane AITKEN | Father found |
Mary Ann ARNOT | 29 May 1855 | Ann ARNOT | Find the father |
William BERTRAM | 26 September 1861 | Christina BERTRAM | Find the father |
Jessie BRIGNAL | 20 June 1869 | Emily Wentworth BRIGNAL | Find the father |
John BROWN | 21 June 1859 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
William CRICHTON | 5 March 1868 | Margaret CRICHTON | Find the father |
Hugh CUNNINGHAM | 1 June 1859 | Ann CUNNINGHAM | Find the father |
Jane CUNNINGHAM | 9 July 1863 | Jane CUNNINGHAM | Find the father |
John DOWNIE | 30 June 1866 | Mary Abercrombie DOWNIE | Find the father |
John FARRER | 30 June 1863 | Margaret FARRER | Find the father |
Charles Richard FLEMING | 22 July 1863 | Janet FLEMING | Find the father |
Thomas GRAY | 20 December 1860 | Barbara GRAY | Find the father |
William GRAY | 18 July 1868 | Helen GRAY | Find the father |
George HALL | 12 April 1865 | Jane HALL | Find the father |
Peter HALLIDAY | 4 November 1873 | Mary HALLIDAY | Find the father |
Robert HENDERSON | 1 July 1864 | Janet HENDERSON | Find the father |
James HORNE | 29 July 1859 | Catherine HORNE | Find the father |
Mary IRELAND | 3 January 1858 | Elizabeth IRELAND | Find the father |
John IRONSIDE | 18 October 1855 | Barbara IRONSIDE | Find the father |
Isabella JAMIESON | 18 February 1856 | Agnes JAMIESON | Find the father |
John LAIDLAW | 13 November 1866 | Caroline LAIDLAW | Find the father |
Elizabeth Mariah LAING | 6 March 1863 | Allison LAING | Father found |
James LAWRIE | 31 July 1859 | Euphemia LAWRIE | Find the father |
Elizabeth MASON | 18 August 1862 | Barbara MASON | Find the father |
James MCALISTER | 10 December 1857 | Lucy MCALISTER | Find the father |
James MCGUINNESS | 21 January 1870 | Mary MCGUINNESS | Find the father |
Margaret MCLENNAN | 13 November 1867 | Margaret MCLENNAN | Find the father |
James MORTON | 15 June 1864 | Margaret MORTON | Find the father |
William Handcox MORTON | 9 March 1870 | Elizabeth MORTON | Find the father |
Janet MURRAY | 17 April 1856 | Janet MURRAY | Find the father |
William PAXTON | 18 May 1873 | Agnes PAXTON | Find the father |
John POTTER | 19 July 1865 | Jane Weir POTTER | Find the father |
Helen PREACHER | 26 December 1873 | Eliza PREACHER | Find the father |
John RAMAGE | 23 November 1861 | Ann RAMAGE | Find the father |
William RAMAGE | 23 November 1861 | Ann RAMAGE | Find the father |
Jessie Brown RUTHERFORD | 5 May 1870 | Agnes RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
George SHADE | 8 August 1873 | Jane SHADE | Find the father |
John SHADE | 29 October 1870 | Jane SHADE | Find the father |
Mitchell Rodger SHADE | 17 October 1874 | Margaret SHADE | Find the father |
James SHIELS | 20 December 1855 | Eleanor SHIELS | Find the father |
Anne Elmslie SIMPSON | 1 August 1858 | Barbara Balfour Forbes SIMPSON | Father found |
Daniel SOMERVILLE | 14 January 1870 | Helen SOMERVILLE | Find the father |
Catherine STEEDMAN | 14 November 1871 | Janet STEEDMAN | Find the father |
Williamina Smith STEEDMAN | 25 September 1874 | Janet STEEDMAN | Find the father |
Thomas TAYLOR | 28 March 1855 | Janet TAYLOR | Find the father |
John THOMSON | 8 November 1855 | Agnes THOMSON | Find the father |
Jessie WHITE | 12 August 1873 | Jessie Walker WHITE | Find the father |
Catharine WHITEWRIGHT | 20 April 1857 | Agnes WHITEWRIGHT | Find the father |
Alexander WILSON | 13 February 1858 | Marion Wilson Or MILLER | Find the father |
General Register of Lunatics
Rolls of Male Heads of Families
No Roll of Male Heads of Families has yet been found for this parish
Kirk Session Records Index
Name: Mr Thos Mackie
Date: 03/06/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: elder
Address:
Role: present
Name: Mr Thos Mackie
Date: 29/12/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: elder
Address:
Role: present
Details: examined Cash accounts
Name: Mr James Nimmo
Date: 03/06/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: elder
Address:
Role: present
Name: Mr Jas Nimmo
Date: 29/12/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: Presbytery elder
Address:
Role: present, elected
Other parish: Edinburgh, Presbytery of
Details: elected Presbytery Elder
Name: Rev Dr David Scot
Date: 03/06/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: Minister
Address:
Role: moderator
Details: 'The meeting after distributing the Monthly Charity agreed to celebrate the Sacrament of the Lords supper on the last Sabbath of the present month'
Name: Rev Dr David Scot
Date: 29/12/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: Minister
Address:
Role: present
Details: 'Mr Mackie having previously examined the Cash account for the Current year, reported that he found the same correct.
The funds belonging to the Kirk Session consist of as follows
Cash in hands of Treasurer
Ditto at Interest £350.0..0
and Rent of almshouse, vizt twenty five and one half Becks of Barley annually
The Meeting examined and amended the List of Poor, and those to whom meal and coal are to be allowed
The meeting unanimously elected Mr James Nimmo Presbytery Elder to represent the Kirk Session of Corstorphine in Presbytery of Edinburgh for the ensuing half year.'
Name: Mr A Simpson
Date: 03/06/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: session clerk
Address:
Role: present
Name: Mr Alexr Simpson
Date: 29/12/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: session clerk
Address:
Role: present
Name: Mr Walter Wallace
Date: 03/06/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: elder
Address:
Role: present
Name: Mr Walter Wallace
Date: 29/12/1832
Case type: Official
Occupation: elder
Address:
Role: present