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Culsalmond 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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/78/2 | Culsalmond Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes Includes poor payments | 1748-1769 | Request lookup |
| CH2/78/3 | Culsalmond Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes With accounts, including poor payments | 1769-1789 | Request lookup |
| CH2/78/4 | Culsalmond Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes With accounts, including poor payments | 1789-1802 | Request lookup |
| CH2/78/5 | Culsalmond Church of Scotland - Kirk Session Minutes and baptisms Minutes 1853-1900 Baptisms 1876-1900 Proclamations 1880-1900 | 1853-1900 | Request 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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Jean GERRIE | 1859 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Barbara GORDON or BANNERMAN | 1854 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Ann INGRAM | 1872 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander LAWRIE | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of relief | |
| Widow Jane MILNER or TROUP | 1868 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Peter MOIR | 1873 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Alexander PETER | 1854 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jessie REID | 1871 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow SCOTT or MCROBBIE | 1879 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
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.
We have not currently found any decrees for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret BEATON | 16 August 1868 | Margaret BEATON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann BEATTIE | 29 October 1856 | Elspet BEATTIE | Father found |
| Ann BODDIE | 6 June 1869 | Mary BODDIE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth BODDIE | 2 April 1872 | Mary BODDIE | Find the father |
| James CALDER | 13 August 1864 | Helen CALDER | Find the father |
| Isobella Catharine CARNEGIE | 29 November 1872 | Mary CARNEGIE | Find the father |
| James CARNEGIE | 4 June 1860 | Margt. CARNEGIE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Ann CATTO | 21 September 1874 | Isabella CATTO | Find the father |
| Jane Paterson CATTO | 14 December 1868 | Isobella CATTO | Find the father |
| John Porter CATTO | 12 June 1859 | Jean CATTO | Find the father |
| William CATTO | 9 June 1869 | Jane CATTO | Find the father |
| James COWIE | 14 January 1859 | Elspet COWIE | Find the father |
| Margaret COWIE | 19 March 1866 | Janet COWIE | Find the father |
| William COWIE | 14 February 1868 | Isabella COWIE | Find the father |
| William Glennie CRAIB | 26 January 1863 | Isabella CRAIB | Find the father |
| John DAVIDSON | 7 July 1860 | Ann DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| James DEY | 4 August 1867 | Barbara DEY | Find the father |
| Margaret DUNCAN | 26 October 1861 | Jane DUNCAN | Find the father |
| Alexander EMSLIE | 1 August 1871 | Isabella EMSLIE | Find the father |
| John FLORANCE | 15 January 1873 | Margaret FLORANCE | Find the father |
| Alexander GERRARD | 25 November 1857 | Ann GERRARD | Father found |
| Mary GIBB | 6 August 1856 | Elizabeth GIBB | Find the father |
| Adam Milne GLENNIE | 4 January 1866 | Catharine GLENNIE | Find the father |
| James GLENNIE | 8 May 1867 | Jane GLENNIE | Find the father |
| Helen HAY | 10 November 1867 | Janet HAY | Find the father |
| George INGLES | 8 March 1869 | Ann INGLES | Father found |
| Mary Ann INGLIS | 29 June 1870 | Mary INGLIS | Find the father |
| Margaret INGRAM | 20 October 1863 | Jane INGRAM | Find the father |
| Mary Ann INGRAM | 17 July 1863 | Helen INGRAM | Find the father |
| Mary Jane INGRAM | 27 December 1867 | Mary INGRAM | Find the father |
| James Angus KELMAN | 17 October 1867 | Ann KELMAN | Find the father |
| Alexander LAING | 29 April 1871 | Isobella LAING | Find the father |
| Jane Walker MASSIE | 10 January 1871 | Helen MASSIE | Find the father |
| Mary Rennie MCPHERSON | 18 June 1874 | Helen MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Isobella Jane MELVIN | 15 February 1871 | Mary MELVIN | Find the father |
| Mary Ann MELVIN | 23 September 1866 | Mary MELVIN | Find the father |
| Adam MILNE | 7 December 1859 | Christina MILNE | Find the father |
| Mary Jane MOLISON | 24 October 1866 | Mary MOLISON | Find the father |
| John MURRAY | 8 November 1861 | Elspet MURRAY | Find the father |
| William MUTCH | 3 November 1855 | Elspet MUTCH | Find the father |
| George NEWLANDS | 7 January 1857 | Ann NEWLANDS | Find the father |
| Jessie Milne OGG | 12 February 1871 | Helen OGG | Find the father |
| Isobella Agnes PAUL | 1 December 1868 | Rachel PAUL | Find the father |
| Margaret PIRRIE | 15 November 1866 | Eliza PIRRIE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth PORTER | 26 July 1857 | Isabella PORTER | Find the father |
| Anne REID | 6 July 1857 | Janet REID | Find the father |
| Agnes SKINNER | 27 September 1863 | Isabella SKINNER | Find the father |
| Elizabeth SMART | 29 June 1866 | Isobella SMART | Find the father |
| Isabella Jane STRACHAN | 25 June 1855 | Jane STRACHAN | Find the father |
| George Stewart THOMSON | 30 January 1871 | Jessie THOMSON | Find the father |
| Jessie WALKER | 17 June 1871 | Margaret WALKER | Find the father |
| Mary Helen WALKER | 5 December 1866 | Jessie WALKER | Find the father |
| Helen WATT | 27 November 1863 | Barbara WATT | Find the father |
| John Angus WATT | 21 November 1869 | Isobella WATT | Find the father |
| Margaret WATT | 27 March 1866 | Isabella WATT | Find the father |
| Alexander WOOD | 2 February 1860 | Barbara WOOD | Find the father |
| James WOOD | 25 July 1855 | Barbra WOOD | Find the father |
| William WYNESS | 29 January 1855 | Elizabeth WYNESS | Find the father |
| Alexander YOUNG | 11 November 1867 | Margaret YOUNG | Find the father |
| Isabella Wood YOUNG | 17 November 1874 | Margaret 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.
