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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 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
CH2/638/1Minutes1718-1747Request lookup
CH2/638/2Minutes
Note of population of parish, July 1801
Includes poor payments		1748-1808Request lookup
CH2/638/3Minutes
Includes poor rolls		1808-1862Request lookup
CH2/638/4Minutes1863-1886Request lookup
CH2/638/9Baptismal register1876-1954Request lookup
CH2/638/10Proclamations1818-1878Request lookup
CH2/638/11Communion roll1871-1877Request lookup
CH2/638/12Communion roll1879-1883Request lookup
CH2/638/13Communion roll1884-1889Request 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
  • £10 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
Isobel OGILVIE or FIDLER 1855 (1)Order imagesRefused
James WILL 1857 (2)Order imagesRefused
James WILL 1857 (2)Order imagesRefused
James WILL 1859 (5)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
James WILL 1860 (2)Order imagesRefused

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. For births outwith this period, click here.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Joseph ALLAN11 May 1861Jessie ALLANFind the father
Isabella BAIN24 September 1869Margaret BAINFind the father
Barbara BARCLAY26 May 1870Jean BARCLAYFind the father
Alexina Barbara Lovie BISSET20 January 1864Mary BISSETFind the father
George Shirran BISSET17 August 1866Ann BISSETFind the father
Margaret BISSET21 April 1861Ann BISSETFind the father
William BISSET21 April 1861Ann BISSETFind the father
William BROWN13 February 1868Mary BROWNFind the father
John BRUCE19 November 1863Mary BRUCEFind the father
Andrew BUCHAN16 November 1865Margaret BUCHANFind the father
Christina BUCHAN4 September 1864Ann BUCHANFind the father
John BUCHAN26 August 1869Ann BUCHANFind the father
John Summers BUCHAN28 November 1872Jane BUCHANFind the father
Margaret BUCHAN15 March 1872Jessie BUCHANFind the father
Mary Isabella BUCHAN9 May 1869Jane BUCHANFind the father
William BUCHAN16 November 1868Catherine BUCHANFind the father
Joseph BURNET11 July 1858Rachel BURNETFind the father
Robert Hendry CARDNO24 August 1860Sophia CARDNOFind the father
Alexander CLARK10 September 1858Jane CLARKFind the father
Alexander Mitchell CLARK20 August 1874Elizabeth CLARKFind the father
George CLARK30 April 1864Jane CLARKFind the father
Jessie Jane Smith CLARK19 May 1870Jessie CLARKFind the father
John CLARK26 October 1861Jane CLARKFind the father
Magdaline CLARK31 July 1868Ann CLARKFind the father
Magdaline CLARK22 September 1869Elizabeth CLARKFind the father
William CLARK27 June 1857Catherine CLARKFind the father
William CLARK10 March 1867Jane CLARKFind the father
William CLARK16 September 1870Margaret CLARKFind the father
Mary DARGIE12 October 1867Jane DARGIEFind the father
Lewis DAVIDSON29 August 1862Isabella DAVIDSONFind the father
William DINNES23 January 1855Christian DINNESFind the father
Elizabeth DUNBAR24 July 1861Margaret DUNBARFind the father
John Mc Lean ESSON30 May 1867Christian ESSONFind the father
Mary Jane ESSON5 January 1864Christian ESSONFind the father
Jessie FRASER3 October 1872Isabella FRASERFind the father
James GREIG15 September 1856Elizabeth GREIGFind the father
George HADDEN28 January 1863Agness HADDENFind the father
Mary Ann HEPBURN16 October 1859Ann HEPBURNFind the father
Alexander HUTCHISON2 January 1862Magdeln HUTCHISONFind the father
Robert HUTCHISON14 May 1868Margaret HUTCHISONFind the father
Alexander Bruce KEITH14 February 1867Ann KEITHFind the father
Robert Reid Brebner MILNE19 October 1871Margaret MILNEFind the father
John MORGAN22 March 1870Mary Ann MORGANFind the father
William MORRICE29 June 1865Ann MORRICEFind the father
Ann PARK26 February 1857Jessie PARKFind the father
Christina Jeanie PARK9 November 1859Jessie PARKFind the father
Elizabeth Jane Lovie PARK21 July 1859Isabella PARKFind the father
James PARK14 February 1864Margaret PARKFind the father
Jessie Smith PARK6 January 1869Jessie PARKFind the father
John Murison PARK21 July 1859Isabella PARKFind the father
Barbara QUERIE28 December 1863Barbara QUERIEFind the father
Jane QUIRIE5 September 1858Isabella QUIRIEFind the father
Mary QUIRIE2 December 1866Isabella QUIRIEFind the father
Jessie ROTHNIE22 May 1862Elizabeth ROTHNIEFind the father
Elizabeth Jane SCOTT24 August 1869Isabella SCOTTFind the father
Mary SCOTT22 November 1865Isabella SCOTTFind the father
Mary SCOTT8 September 1869Mary SCOTTFind the father
Mary Jane SIMPSON20 February 1860Mary SIMPSONFind the father
Magdalen SINCLAIR11 November 1864Ann SINCLAIRFind the father
Arthur SMITH18 December 1861Isabella SMITHFind the father
Elspet SMITH14 August 1868Agnes SMITHFind the father
Elspet Ann SMITH10 February 1868Hellen SMITHFind the father
George SMITH18 April 1863Mary SMITHFind the father
Isabella SMITH18 May 1873Jessie SMITHFind the father
James SMITH3 June 1863Mary Smith Or CRAIGHEADFind the father
James SMITH25 April 1870Eliza SMITHFind the father
John SMITH26 January 1870Elspet SMITHFind the father
Mary SMITH17 August 1859Isabella SMITHFind the father
Mary Ann SMITH9 January 1857Mary SMITHFind the father
Mary Ann SMITH17 November 1860Elspet SMITHFind the father
William SMITH19 December 1862Ann SMITHFind the father
William SMITH16 July 1870Agnes SMITHFind the father
William STEPHEN1 July 1864Jane STEPHENFind the father
William TAYLOR9 November 1857Ann TAYLORFind the father
Alexander TURRIFF7 December 1855Elizabeth TURRIFFFind the father
Alexander TURRIFF4 December 1869Ann TURRIFFFind the father
Margaret TURRIFF5 December 1873Ann TURRIFFFind the father
Alexander URQUHART19 April 1860Rebecca URQUHARTFind the father
Elizabeth Jane WEBSTER18 December 1873Helen WEBSTERFind the father
James WEBSTER25 April 1870Hellen WEBSTERFind the father
Thomas YOUL8 May 1866Mary YOULFind the father
Barbara YOULL21 January 1860Mary YOULLFind the father
Isabella YOULL16 November 1856Sophia YOULLFind the father
James YOULL20 July 1859Sophia YOULLFind the father
Jean YOULL26 January 1859Mary YOULLFind the father
Mary Ann YOULL27 August 1859Elizabeth YOULLFind the father
James YULE21 June 1871Catherine YULEFind the father
Maggie Ann YULE18 December 1870Maggie YULEFind 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.

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