Records -> Roxburghshire
Crailing 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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabel BLAKE | 1849 (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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet HOPE Ploughlands, Crailing | George BROOMFIELD | 23 Dec 1878 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/13 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas John Deans AITKIN | 6 April 1863 | Ann AITKIN | Find the father |
| Isabella BRYDON | 26 October 1865 | Margaret BRYDON | Find the father |
| George CAIRNS | 17 January 1857 | Margaret CAIRNS | Find the father |
| Jemima CAIRNS | 16 August 1862 | Margaret CAIRNS | Find the father |
| George CLEGHORN | 13 December 1871 | Agnes CLEGHORN | Find the father |
| James CLEGHORN | 18 August 1869 | Jane CLEGHORN | Father found |
| John CLEGHORN | 8 August 1874 | Jane CLEGHORN | Father found |
| William CLEGHORN | 27 September 1867 | Agnes CLEGHORN | Father found |
| Hannah Nixon Little CRANSTON | 9 September 1874 | Julia CRANSTON | Find the father |
| William CRANSTON | 11 October 1872 | Julia CRANSTON | Father found |
| Andrew DODDS | 1 October 1858 | Christy DODDS | Find the father |
| William Ker DOUGLAS | 7 January 1870 | Ellen DOUGLAS | Father found |
| William ELLIOT | 9 November 1867 | Beatrise ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Robina FAIRBAIRN | 24 November 1874 | Margaret FAIRBAIRN | Find the father |
| Ann HALL | 29 May 1861 | Margaret HALL | Find the father |
| William Jones HALL | 9 December 1873 | Janet HALL | Find the father |
| Margaret Paton HOGG | 6 December 1871 | Janet HOGG | Find the father |
| George HUME | 3 January 1871 | Mary HUME | Father found |
| Robert HUME | 18 August 1872 | Mary HUME | Find the father |
| Mary HUNTER | 16 February 1859 | Mary HUNTER | Find the father |
| Walter HUNTER | 28 March 1869 | Margaret HUNTER | Find the father |
| John JOHNSTON | 4 August 1867 | Jonan JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Mary Jane LAUDER | 14 May 1874 | Ellen LAUDER | Find the father |
| Robert LAWSON | 21 October 1857 | Margaret LAWSON | Find the father |
| Mary MCDOUGAL | 20 December 1869 | Jane MCDOUGAL | Find the father |
| George NEIL | 5 June 1858 | Elisabeth NEIL | Find the father |
| James NICHOL | 18 September 1861 | Esther NICHOL | Find the father |
| Margaret PATON | 1 November 1859 | Mary PATON | Find the father |
| Cathrine PAXTON | 22 December 1859 | Janet PAXTON | Find the father |
| Andrew RICHARDSON | 18 January 1869 | Isabella RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| John Wight RICHARDSON | 9 April 1866 | Mary RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| Robert RICHARDSON | 30 July 1860 | Euphemia RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| William Redpath RICHARDSON | 21 January 1873 | Isabella RICHARDSON | Father found |
| James William ROBSON | 19 February 1862 | Janet ROBSON | Find the father |
| Jane ROBSON | 18 October 1862 | Jane ROBSON | Find the father |
| Jeanie Hall ROBSON | 19 January 1855 | Margaret ROBSON | Find the father |
| John Ross ROBSON | 19 August 1870 | Mary ROBSON | Find the father |
| Cathrine SANDERSON | 19 June 1860 | Cathrine SANDERSON | Find the father |
| Agnes Stevenson STEWART | 10 February 1873 | Martha STEWART | Find the father |
| James STEWART | 25 January 1874 | Jemima STEWART | Find the father |
| William TAIT | 3 July 1866 | Mary TAIT | Find the father |
| Archibald THOMSON | 3 May 1859 | Margaret THOMSON | Find the father |
| John TURNBULL | 7 July 1861 | Elizabeth TURNBULL | Find the father |
| Margaret WATSON | 13 October 1855 | Helen WATSON | Father found |
| Isabella WHILLIANS | 5 June 1862 | Isabella WHILLIANS | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Helen WILSON | 9 October 1873 | Mary WILSON | Find the father |
| James WILSON | 18 October 1869 | Mary WILSON | Find the father |
| Jane WILSON | 21 February 1873 | Elizabeth WILSON | Find the father |
| James YOUNG | 12 September 1855 | Isabella YOUNG | 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.
