Crailing parish 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.
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.
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 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
- £10 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 |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
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| 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 | Find the father |
| John CLEGHORN | 8 August 1874 | Jane CLEGHORN | Find the father |
| William CLEGHORN | 27 September 1867 | Agnes CLEGHORN | Find the father |
| Hannah Nixon Little CRANSTON | 9 September 1874 | Julia CRANSTON | Find the father |
| William CRANSTON | 11 October 1872 | Julia CRANSTON | Find the father |
| Andrew DODDS | 1 October 1858 | Christy DODDS | Find the father |
| William Ker DOUGLAS | 7 January 1870 | Ellen DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| 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 | Find the father |
| 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 | Find the father |
| 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 | Find the father |
| 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 |
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.
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
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish
