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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.
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
Widow Margaret BELL or CLARK 1847 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Catherine DALRYMPLE 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Jane GRAHAM 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary HUTTON 1882 (4)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Elizabeth JOHNSTON 1868 (1)Order imagesRefused
Agnes MAXWELL or MCGURK 1848 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow Elizabeth MILLAR 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
John MOFFAT Uppertoun Of Priestside1846 (1)Order imagesRefused
Margaret RAE 1862 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Isabella RULE or FARISH 1849 (1)Order imagesRefused
Helen STEVENSON 1855 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Mary STEVENSON 1855 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Helen TAIT 1863 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Mary WINSLEY 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused

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

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Rachel BEATTIE29 March 1865Janet BEATTIEFind the father
George BELL4 January 1870Jane BELLFind the father
John BLACKSTOCK1 October 1863Janet BLACKSTOCKFind the father
Henry BOYES24 September 1862Caroline BOYESFind the father
Margaret BURGESS27 December 1868Mary BURGESSFather found
William BURNIE27 July 1869Janet BURNIEFather found
Mary CARRUTHERS31 March 1861Sarah CARRUTHERSFind the father
Isabella CORSON17 February 1864Jessie CORSONFather found
Agnes COULTHARD6 August 1865Margaret COULTHARDFind the father
James COULTHART2 April 1862Margaret COULTHARTFind the father
Joseph CRINGIAN7 August 1858Agnes CRINGIANFind the father
Jane Pool DALRYMPLE24 August 1856Agnes DALRYMPLEFind the father
Margaret DALRYMPLE4 January 1874Ellen DALRYMPLEFind the father
Alexander EDGAR12 February 1864Jane EDGARFind the father
David EDGAR4 August 1856Elizabeth EDGARFind the father
Janet EDGAR31 October 1857Ann EDGARFind the father
Mary EDGAR4 August 1859Catherine EDGARFind the father
Agnes Jane FORSYTH30 August 1871Mary FORSYTHFind the father
Harris FRASER3 October 1858Margaret FRASERFind the father
Margaret Irvine FRASER6 March 1867Jane FRASERFind the father
William FRASER14 September 1860Margaret FRASERFind the father
William John FROOD30 April 1866Jemima FROODFind the father
Mary Jane GILBERTSON23 February 1858Janet GILBERTSONFind the father
John Ann GRAHAM23 September 1874Agnes GRAHAMFind the father
Robert GRAHAM13 August 1865Janet GRAHAMFind the father
Mary Davidson HADDEN17 March 1865Jane HADDENFind the father
Janet Christina HENDERSON15 October 1857Jessie HENDERSONFind the father
John HENDERSON28 June 1867Jessie HENDERSONFind the father
Margaret HEWITSON5 January 1870Mary HEWITSONFind the father
Walter Graham HILL23 December 1870Margaret HILLFind the father
Elizabeth Suton IRVING22 April 1872Catherine IRVINGFind the father
Georgie Weild IRVING5 November 1873Catherine IRVINGFind the father
Isabella IRVING10 April 1864Margaret IRVINGFather found
John Foster IRVING3 September 1866Catherine IRVINGFind the father
Agnes Isabella JOHNSTON24 December 1873Margaret JOHNSTONFind the father
Agnes KENNEDY6 July 1860Mary KENNEDYFind the father
James KENNEDY11 October 1872Ann KENNEDYFind the father
Joseph KERR2 July 1861Mary KERRFather found
Helen LITTLE20 July 1855Jannet LITTLEFind the father
Jane MAXWELL28 January 1863Mary MAXWELLFather found
John MAXWELL18 June 1872Wilhelmina MAXWELLFind the father
Margaret MAXWELL15 November 1867Mary MAXWELLFind the father
Mary Ann Mcdugal MCEWEN22 July 1874Ann MCEWENFind the father
William MCEWEN11 October 1872Jane MCEWENFind the father
Andrew MCGEE11 June 1874Mary MCGEEFind the father
Henry Thomson MCGHIE15 April 1872Marion MCGHIEFind the father
David William MCLEAN17 August 1864Agnes MCLEANFather found
Jane MCLEAN5 July 1870Agnes MCLEANFind the father
Thomas MCLEAN9 July 1868Agnes MCLEANFind the father
Margaret MCLEOD15 November 1871Jane MCLEODFather found
Margaret MCVITTIE21 May 1870Elizabeth MCVITTIEFind the father
David MURRAY2 August 1865Elizabeth MURRAYFind the father
David Irving MURRAY16 March 1855Jannet MURRAYFind the father
John MURRAY2 August 1865Elizabeth MURRAYFind the father
Margaret Elspeth MURRAY9 February 1860Mary MURRAYFind the father
Mary Boyd MURRAY6 June 1870Elizabeth MURRAYFind the father
Janet NICHOLSON26 June 1874Elizabeth NICHOLSONFind the father
Jane Irving Douglas PATERSON31 December 1871Mary PATERSONFind the father
Thomas PATTERSON26 December 1872Jane PATTERSONFind the father
Peter John ROBERTSON19 April 1874Mary ROBERTSONFind the father
Christopher ROGERSON7 February 1869Jessie ROGERSONFind the father
James ROGERSON13 August 1874Jessie ROGERSONFind the father
Peter ROGERSON8 October 1871Jessie ROGERSONFind the father
Adam SCOTT23 January 1872Mary SCOTTFind the father
Helen SCOTT24 December 1859Catherine SCOTTFind the father
Margaret Ann SCOTT22 January 1872Mary SCOTTFind the father
George SHANNAN8 January 1858Susan SHANNANFind the father
Robert SHANNAN3 May 1869Betsy SHANNANFind the father
Elizabeth Lattimer SKILLING20 December 1856Jane SKILLINGFind the father
William SKILLING20 May 1856Margaret SKILLINGFind the father
James SMITH15 March 1871Mary SMITHFind the father
William James STODDART28 September 1867Margaret MARSHALLFather found
Mary Johnstone TAIT10 January 1860Margaret TAITFind the father
Margaret Johnstone THOMSON18 June 1865Mary THOMSONFather found
Agnes URQUHART4 February 1869Catherine URQUHARTFind the father
David URQUHART7 December 1864Agnes URQUHARTFind the father
William URQUHART21 January 1859Agnes URQUHARTFind the father
James WARWICK9 November 1858Jane Elizabeth WARWICKFind the father
William James WARWICK21 April 1869Julia WARWICKFind the father
Adam WIGHTMAN23 December 1868Mary WIGHTMANFather found
Agnes Jane WIGHTMAN16 March 1871Elizabeth WIGHTMANFind the father
Ellen Crosbie WIGHTMAN9 October 1871Jane WIGHTMANFind the father
Jane WIGHTMAN20 June 1859Agnes WIGHTMANFind the father
Janet WIGHTMAN3 August 1866Agnes WIGHTMANFind the father
Jemima WIGHTMAN21 October 1867Jane WIGHTMANFind the father
Thomas WILSON11 June 1867Isabella WILSONFind the father
Elizabeth WINSLEY16 July 1856Hannah WINSLEYFind 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

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.