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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:
  • £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
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes
Order imagesDeliverance
Isabel BLAKE 1849 (1)Order imagesRefused


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 residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Janet HOPE
Ploughlands, Crailing
George BROOMFIELD23 Dec 1878Order nowJedburgh
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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Thomas John Deans AITKIN6 April 1863Ann AITKINFind the father
Isabella BRYDON26 October 1865Margaret BRYDONFind the father
George CAIRNS17 January 1857Margaret CAIRNSFind the father
Jemima CAIRNS16 August 1862Margaret CAIRNSFind the father
George CLEGHORN13 December 1871Agnes CLEGHORNFind the father
James CLEGHORN18 August 1869Jane CLEGHORNFather found
John CLEGHORN8 August 1874Jane CLEGHORNFather found
William CLEGHORN27 September 1867Agnes CLEGHORNFather found
Hannah Nixon Little CRANSTON9 September 1874Julia CRANSTONFind the father
William CRANSTON11 October 1872Julia CRANSTONFather found
Andrew DODDS1 October 1858Christy DODDSFind the father
William Ker DOUGLAS7 January 1870Ellen DOUGLASFather found
William ELLIOT9 November 1867Beatrise ELLIOTFind the father
Robina FAIRBAIRN24 November 1874Margaret FAIRBAIRNFind the father
Ann HALL29 May 1861Margaret HALLFind the father
William Jones HALL9 December 1873Janet HALLFind the father
Margaret Paton HOGG6 December 1871Janet HOGGFind the father
George HUME3 January 1871Mary HUMEFather found
Robert HUME18 August 1872Mary HUMEFind the father
Mary HUNTER16 February 1859Mary HUNTERFind the father
Walter HUNTER28 March 1869Margaret HUNTERFind the father
John JOHNSTON4 August 1867Jonan JOHNSTONFind the father
Mary Jane LAUDER14 May 1874Ellen LAUDERFind the father
Robert LAWSON21 October 1857Margaret LAWSONFind the father
Mary MCDOUGAL20 December 1869Jane MCDOUGALFind the father
George NEIL5 June 1858Elisabeth NEILFind the father
James NICHOL18 September 1861Esther NICHOLFind the father
Margaret PATON1 November 1859Mary PATONFind the father
Cathrine PAXTON22 December 1859Janet PAXTONFind the father
Andrew RICHARDSON18 January 1869Isabella RICHARDSONFind the father
John Wight RICHARDSON9 April 1866Mary RICHARDSONFind the father
Robert RICHARDSON30 July 1860Euphemia RICHARDSONFind the father
William Redpath RICHARDSON21 January 1873Isabella RICHARDSONFather found
James William ROBSON19 February 1862Janet ROBSONFind the father
Jane ROBSON18 October 1862Jane ROBSONFind the father
Jeanie Hall ROBSON19 January 1855Margaret ROBSONFind the father
John Ross ROBSON19 August 1870Mary ROBSONFind the father
Cathrine SANDERSON19 June 1860Cathrine SANDERSONFind the father
Agnes Stevenson STEWART10 February 1873Martha STEWARTFind the father
James STEWART25 January 1874Jemima STEWARTFind the father
William TAIT3 July 1866Mary TAITFind the father
Archibald THOMSON3 May 1859Margaret THOMSONFind the father
John TURNBULL7 July 1861Elizabeth TURNBULLFind the father
Margaret WATSON13 October 1855Helen WATSONFather found
Isabella WHILLIANS5 June 1862Isabella WHILLIANSFind the father
Elizabeth Helen WILSON9 October 1873Mary WILSONFind the father
James WILSON18 October 1869Mary WILSONFind the father
Jane WILSON21 February 1873Elizabeth WILSONFind the father
James YOUNG12 September 1855Isabella YOUNGFind 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.


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    • Board of Supervision
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      • AD8 index 1890 01
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      • AD8 index 1890 03
      • AD8 index 1890 04
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    • Crown Counsel Procedure Books
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    • Registers of Sudden Deaths
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    • Scottish Genealogy Sources
    • KINCLAVEN One Place Study >
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