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Culsalmond parish records

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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.

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Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/78/2Culsalmond Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes
Includes poor payments		1748-1769Request lookup
CH2/78/3Culsalmond Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes
With accounts, including poor payments		1769-1789Request lookup
CH2/78/4Culsalmond Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes
With accounts, including poor payments		1789-1802Request lookup
CH2/78/5Culsalmond Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes and baptisms
Minutes 1853-1900
Baptisms 1876-1900
Proclamations 1880-1900		1853-1900Request 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
Widow Jean GERRIE 1859 (1)Order imagesRefused
Barbara GORDON or BANNERMAN 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
Ann INGRAM 1872 (1)Order imagesRefused
Alexander LAWRIE 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of relief
Widow Jane MILNER or TROUP 1868 (2)Order imagesRefused
Peter MOIR 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Alexander PETER 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jessie REID 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow SCOTT or MCROBBIE 1879 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Margaret BEATON16 August 1868Margaret BEATONFind the father
Mary Ann BEATTIE29 October 1856Elspet BEATTIEFind the father
Ann BODDIE6 June 1869Mary BODDIEFind the father
Elizabeth BODDIE2 April 1872Mary BODDIEFind the father
James CALDER13 August 1864Helen CALDERFind the father
Isobella Catharine CARNEGIE29 November 1872Mary CARNEGIEFind the father
James CARNEGIE4 June 1860Margt. CARNEGIEFind the father
Elizabeth Ann CATTO21 September 1874Isabella CATTOFind the father
Jane Paterson CATTO14 December 1868Isobella CATTOFind the father
John Porter CATTO12 June 1859Jean CATTOFind the father
William CATTO9 June 1869Jane CATTOFind the father
James COWIE14 January 1859Elspet COWIEFind the father
Margaret COWIE19 March 1866Janet COWIEFind the father
William COWIE14 February 1868Isabella COWIEFind the father
William Glennie CRAIB26 January 1863Isabella CRAIBFind the father
John DAVIDSON7 July 1860Ann DAVIDSONFind the father
James DEY4 August 1867Barbara DEYFind the father
Margaret DUNCAN26 October 1861Jane DUNCANFind the father
Alexander EMSLIE1 August 1871Isabella EMSLIEFind the father
John FLORANCE15 January 1873Margaret FLORANCEFind the father
Alexander GERRARD25 November 1857Ann GERRARDFind the father
Mary GIBB6 August 1856Elizabeth GIBBFind the father
Adam Milne GLENNIE4 January 1866Catharine GLENNIEFind the father
James GLENNIE8 May 1867Jane GLENNIEFind the father
Helen HAY10 November 1867Janet HAYFind the father
George INGLES8 March 1869Ann INGLESFind the father
Mary Ann INGLIS29 June 1870Mary INGLISFind the father
Margaret INGRAM20 October 1863Jane INGRAMFind the father
Mary Ann INGRAM17 July 1863Helen INGRAMFind the father
Mary Jane INGRAM27 December 1867Mary INGRAMFind the father
James Angus KELMAN17 October 1867Ann KELMANFind the father
Alexander LAING29 April 1871Isobella LAINGFind the father
Jane Walker MASSIE10 January 1871Helen MASSIEFind the father
Mary Rennie MCPHERSON18 June 1874Helen MCPHERSONFind the father
Isobella Jane MELVIN15 February 1871Mary MELVINFind the father
Mary Ann MELVIN23 September 1866Mary MELVINFind the father
Adam MILNE7 December 1859Christina MILNEFind the father
Mary Jane MOLISON24 October 1866Mary MOLISONFind the father
John MURRAY8 November 1861Elspet MURRAYFind the father
William MUTCH3 November 1855Elspet MUTCHFind the father
George NEWLANDS7 January 1857Ann NEWLANDSFind the father
Jessie Milne OGG12 February 1871Helen OGGFind the father
Isobella Agnes PAUL1 December 1868Rachel PAULFind the father
Margaret PIRRIE15 November 1866Eliza PIRRIEFind the father
Elizabeth PORTER26 July 1857Isabella PORTERFind the father
Anne REID6 July 1857Janet REIDFind the father
Agnes SKINNER27 September 1863Isabella SKINNERFind the father
Elizabeth SMART29 June 1866Isobella SMARTFind the father
Isabella Jane STRACHAN25 June 1855Jane STRACHANFind the father
George Stewart THOMSON30 January 1871Jessie THOMSONFind the father
Jessie WALKER17 June 1871Margaret WALKERFind the father
Mary Helen WALKER5 December 1866Jessie WALKERFind the father
Helen WATT27 November 1863Barbara WATTFind the father
John Angus WATT21 November 1869Isobella WATTFind the father
Margaret WATT27 March 1866Isabella WATTFind the father
Alexander WOOD2 February 1860Barbara WOODFind the father
James WOOD25 July 1855Barbra WOODFind the father
William WYNESS29 January 1855Elizabeth WYNESSFind the father
Alexander YOUNG11 November 1867Margaret YOUNGFind the father
Isabella Wood YOUNG17 November 1874Margaret YOUNGFind 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