Craigie Kirk Session Index

Craigie 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
CH2/73/1	Craigie Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes	1775-1871	Request lookup
CH2/73/2	Craigie Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes	1872-1932	Request lookup
CH2/73/3	Craigie Church of Scotland - Baptismal register	1883-1956	Request lookup
CH2/73/4	Craigie Church of Scotland - Communion roll	1864-1897	Request lookup
CH2/73/5	Craigie Church of Scotland - Communion roll	1897-1921	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:

£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
Name	Address	Year(s)/ minutes	Order images	Deliverance
Widow SMITH		1848 (1)	Order images	Refused

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 residence	Defender name	Child birth	Order	Court
Katrine MCMILLAN Broadyards, Craigie	James GILLESPIE	22 Nov 1877 Kelty$ Place, Kilmaurs	Order now	Kilmarnock SC7/5/12
Margaret PORTER Meadowhead, Craigie	John LINDSAY	10 Mar 1854	Order now	Kilmarnock SC7/5/3
Margaret STEVENSON Pisgah, Craigie	James HUNTER	18 Nov 1853	Order now	Kilmarnock SC7/5/3

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 name	Date of birth	Mother name	Order
David Ramage ALLAN	9 September 1862	Jane ALLAN	Find the father
James ALLAN	15 March 1859	Janet ALLAN	Find the father
Margaret ALLAN	5 April 1858	Jane ALLAN	Find the father
Elizabeth Stirling BROWN	13 February 1870	Agnes BROWN	Find the father
Elizabeth CALDERWOOD	20 August 1856	Margaret CALDERWOOD	Find the father
Thomas GOLDIE	21 June 1856	Isabella GOLDIE	Find the father
James HAY	25 September 1861	Janet HAY	Find the father
James INGRAM	29 October 1862	Janet INGRAM	Find the father
Susan Souter LYBURN	30 July 1862	Janet LYBURN	Find the father
William MCVICAR	19 February 1862	Margaret MCVICAR	Find the father
John REID	23 August 1866	Jane REID	Find the father
Andrew SCROGGIE	29 September 1858	Jane SCROGGIE	Find the father
Hannah Tannock SCROGGIE	20 November 1869	Jean SCROGGIE	Find the father
Maggie Jane SCROGGIE	7 February 1873	Jane SCROGGIE	Find the father
Agnes Hendry STEVEN	25 September 1871	Elizabeth STEVEN	Find the father
Janet TAYLOR	4 March 1859	Marion TAYLOR	Find the father
William WOOD	22 February 1862	Janet WOOD	Find the father
William Dalzeal Brown WOOD	16 August 1856	Agnes WOOD	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.

Name:

Date: 08/07/1832

Case type: Session Business

Occupation:

Address:

Role:

Details: 'They [Session] took into their consideration the manner in which discipline had been conducted in this Parish & being of opinion that the method of rebuking persons guilty of the sin of uncleanness before the Congregation is not the best method in the present circumstances for promoting the reformation of the offender and considering further that these public rebukes are offensive to many pious & worthy members of the Congregation and are now laid aside in this quarter of the Church. The Session are therefore of opinion that it would be more for edification that these should be given before the Kirk Session which is an open court and at which any of the Parishioners who think they can be edified by witnessing them have it in their power to attend. And the Session therefore did and hereby do approve of these Sessional rebukes instead of appearances before the Congregation accordingly. Session closed with Prayer,

Other names:

Name: Ann Campbell

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: Antenup

Occupation:

Address: Heughmill

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared voluntarily Ann Campbell in Heughmill and was rebuked for the sin of Antenuptial fornication with John Sillars and was absolved from the scandal of that offence.'

Other names: Ann Campbell; John Sillars

Name: Margaret Elliot

Date: 12/08/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared voluntarily Margaret Elliot and confessed herself guilty of fornication with William Smith in the parish of Loudon and accused him of being the father of her child brought forth some time ago. The Session having received her confession & accusation appointed her to appear along with William Smith when further intimation was given her'

Other names: Margaret Elliot; William Smith

Name: Margaret Elliot

Date: 25/11/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared by appointment of the Session Margaret Elliot and was rebuked for the sin of fornication with William Smith and absolved from the scandal of that offence'

Other names: Margaret Elliot; William Smith

Name: Hugh Glover

Date: 01/01/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation: farmer

Address: Hall

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared voluntarily Hugh Glover farmer in Hall and confessed himself guilty of the sin of fornication with Agnes Sillars in Adamhillgates and father of the child lately brought forth by her and being suitably admonished by the moderator, now appointed to appear and be rebuked before the congregation on Sabbath the 8th instant.'

Other names: Hugh Glover; Agnes Sillars

Name: Hugh Glover

Date: 08/01/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation: farmer

Address: Hall

Role: Compeared

Details: 'This day compeared before the congregation Thomas Wallace Servant in Pocknave, Hugh Glover Farmer in Hall and Agnes Sillars and were rebuked for the sin of Fornication and absolved from the scandal of that offence.'

Other names: Hugh Glover; Agnes Sillars

Name: John Kirkhope

Date: 01/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Kirkhope

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Presbytery and Synod Elder

Address:

Role: Elected

Name: John Kirkhope

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Kirkhope

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Kirkhope

Date: 04/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alexander Lindsay

Date: 01/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alexander Lindsay

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alexander Lindsay

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alexander Lindsay

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alexr Lindsay

Date: 25/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Margaret Mackie

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Also compeared voluntarily Margaret Mackie and Robert Wallace and confessed themselves guilty of the sin of fornication. And Robert Wallace confessed that he is the father of the child lately brought forth by said Margaret Mackie. But not having a certificate from the parish Galston of which he has been an inhabitant from his infancy the Session therefore recommend to him to procure a Certificate from Galston in the event of his wishing to be taken upon discipline here and after having solemnly rebuked & admonished both the parties they absolved Margaret Mackie from the scandal of said offence and restored her to the privileges of the Church'

Other names: Margaret Mackie; Robert Wallace

Name: Agnes Sillars

Date: 01/01/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: mention as party

Other names: Hugh Glover; Agnes Sillars

Name: Agnes Sillars

Date: 08/01/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Other names: Hugh Glover; Agnes Sillars

Name: David Sillars

Date: 01/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: David Sillars

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: David Sillars

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: David Sillars

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: David Sillars

Date: 12/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: David Sillars

Date: 04/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt, elected Presbytery & Synod Elder

Details: 'They [Session] unanimously made choice of David Sillars one of their number to attend the meetings of Presbytery and synod for the current half year'

Name: David Sillars

Date: 25/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Sillars

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: Antenup

Occupation:

Address:

Role: mention as party

Other names: Ann Campbell; John Sillars

Name: William Smith

Date: 12/08/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation:

Address: Loudon, Parish Of

Role: mention as party

Other names: Margaret Elliot; William Smith

Name: William Smith

Date: 25/11/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: mention as party

Other names: Margaret Elliot; William Smith

Name: Rev Dr Stirling

Date: 01/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Dr Stirling

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Dr Stirling

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Dr Stirling

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Dr Stirling

Date: 12/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Dr Stirling

Date: 04/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Dr Stirling

Date: 25/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Andrew Stirling

Date: 12/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Andrew Stirling

Date: 04/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Andrew Stirling

Date: 25/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Robert Wallace

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation:

Address: Galston, Parish Of

Role: Compeared

Other names: Margaret Mackie; Robert Wallace

Name: Thomas Wallace

Date: 08/01/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation: servant

Address: Pocknave

Role: Compeared

Other names: Thomas Wallace

Name: James Watson

Date: 01/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Watson

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder and session clerk

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Watson

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Watson

Date: 12/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Watson

Date: 04/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Watson

Date: 25/11/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt