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Covington and Thankerton 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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/72/1 | Covington and Thankerton Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes, Baptisms and Marriages Minutes 1652-1774 (inc. deaths 1750-1767), baptisms 1652-1653 (one leaf)) Baptisms 1705-1772 Marriages 1705-1766 | 1652-1774 | Request lookup |
| CH2/72/2 | Covington and Thankerton Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes Minutes 1774-1821 (With accounts) Deaths 1853-1855 Dr Scot's mortification 1802 | 1774-1821 | Request lookup |
| CH2/72/3 | Covington and Thankerton Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes Heritors minutes and accounts, 1820-1879 Session minutes 1856-1872 | 1820-1879 | Request lookup |
| CH2/72/4 | Covington and Thankerton Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes | 1872-1935 | Request 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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George LINDSAY | 1848 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean MITCHELL or WILSON | 1849 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Lancelot MITCHELL | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Agnes NEWLANDS | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Margaret STEVENSON | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Agnes WATSON or BYERS | 1852 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Agnes WATSON or BYRES | 1852 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed - see 385 1852 |
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.
We have not currently found any decrees for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archibald AITKEN | 14 December 1865 | Isabella AITKEN | Find the father |
| James Bailley Ramsay AITKEN | 23 March 1861 | Isabella AITKEN | Find the father |
| James Scott BAXTER | 15 August 1872 | Jane BAXTER | Find the father |
| John BAXTER | 10 February 1868 | Mary BAXTER | Find the father |
| Gavin BRAIDWOOD | 25 February 1855 | Cathrine BRAIDWOOD | Find the father |
| Margaret BROWNLIE | 10 July 1862 | Margaret BROWNLIE | Find the father |
| Jane CUNNINGHAM | 26 April 1864 | Mary CUNNINGHAM | Find the father |
| James ELDER | 6 April 1858 | Anne Glen ELDER | Find the father |
| Helen Cochrane FINLAYSON | 7 October 1872 | Marion FINLAYSON | Find the father |
| Helen Somerville FINLAYSON | 29 June 1862 | Helen FINLAYSON | Find the father |
| Marion FINLAYSON | 9 May 1865 | Helen FINLAYSON | Father found |
| Matthew FINLAYSON | 5 July 1868 | Helen FINLAYSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Russell FORREST | 16 July 1862 | Margaret FORREST | Find the father |
| Peter GALLOWAY | 29 June 1864 | Elizabeth GALLOWAY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Riddell GARTH | 14 January 1872 | Susan GARTH | Father found |
| Isabella Rankin HENDERSON | 28 January 1869 | Mary HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Forrest Dick HUTCHESON | 27 March 1868 | Margaret HUTCHESON | Find the father |
| James INGLIS | 17 July 1855 | Marion INGLIS | Find the father |
| Isabella Irvine Marshall IRVINE | 6 January 1874 | Betsy IRVINE | Find the father |
| Marion Lindsay IRVINE | 12 December 1870 | Betsy IRVINE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Ross LITTLE | 23 October 1874 | Mary LITTLE | Find the father |
| Christina MITCHELL | 2 May 1856 | Jessie MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Robert Walkingshaw NEWBIGGING | 14 October 1867 | Jane NEWBIGGING | Find the father |
| Archibald Walton NEWLANDS | 7 December 1869 | Margaret NEWLANDS | Find the father |
| Christina Watson NEWLANDS | 1 June 1860 | Mary NEWLANDS | Find the father |
| Donald NEWLANDS | 24 April 1858 | Agnes NEWLANDS | Find the father |
| John NEWLANDS | 1 May 1861 | Agnes NEWLANDS | Find the father |
| John Moffat NEWLANDS | 27 March 1866 | Janet NEWLANDS | Find the father |
| David PURDIE | 3 June 1866 | Marion PURDIE | Find the father |
| James PURDIE | 25 January 1873 | Jane PURDIE | Father found |
| Janet Middlemis PURDIE | 7 March 1872 | Janet PURDIE | Find the father |
| Robert Alexander WADDELL | 16 May 1866 | Isabella WADDELL | 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.
