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Dairsie 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/427/2Minutes1704-1764Request lookup
CH2/427/3Minutes
(Mostly of a financial nature)
1764-1804Request lookup
CH2/427/4Minutes1837-1924Request lookup
CH2/427/5Collections and Disbursements
Includes poor payments
1704-1769Request lookup
CH2/427/6Collections and Disbursements
Includes mortcloth payments
1772-1823Request lookup
CH2/427/7Heritors' records
(With gaps)
1779-1810Request lookup
CH2/427/8Parochial School Board minutes1860-1885Request lookup
CH2/427/10Scroll Session minutes and accounts1748-1763Request lookup
CH2/427/13Scroll Session minutes and accounts1795-1813Request 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:
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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
Agnes DOIG 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused
James SIME 1852 (2)Order imagesInsane daughter to be sent to lunatic asylum


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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Margaret BECKET
Dairsie Muir
William TURNBULL17 Apr 1875Order nowCupar
SC20/4/31
Euphemia BISSET
Lydox Mill, Dairsie
George MACDONALD28 Mar 1893
Leuchars
Order nowCupar
SC20/4/32
Margaret DAVIDSON
Dairsie Mains, by Dairsie
George MAXWELL15 Mar 1880Order nowCupar
SC20/4/31
Flora MCDONALD
Foodieash, Dairsie
James TAYLOR15 Aug 1864Order nowPerth
SC49/4/44
Jane TAYLOR
Dairsie Mains, Dairsie, Fife
Archibald DUFF18 May 1885Order nowEdinburgh
SC39/8/54
Margaret TURPIE
Dairsie
William DONALDSON27 Feb 1892Order nowCupar
SC20/4/32


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
David BLACK28 January 1871Janet BLACKFind the father
David BONELLA7 November 1871Elizabeth BONELLAFind the father
Eliza BONELLA7 November 1871Elizabeth BONELLAFind the father
Isabella Cairns BOWMAN29 April 1860Elizabeth BOWMANFather found
Peter BRAID9 August 1859Jane BRAIDFind the father
Mary Jane CASSELS15 August 1865Catharine CASSELSFind the father
Andrew CLARK2 July 1866Mary CLARKFind the father
James CLARK23 April 1874Janet CLARKFind the father
David DAVIDSON5 November 1862Helen DAVIDSONFind the father
Charles Berry DICK11 July 1873Janet Inglis DICKFind the father
William DOWNIE28 October 1872Helen DOWNIEFind the father
George HARLEY17 June 1867Margaret HARLEYFind the father
Catherine IMRIE16 September 1862Catherine IMRIEFather found
David IMRIE17 April 1865Cathrine IMRIEFather found
Helen Kinnisson IMRIE16 April 1867Janet IMRIEFind the father
Jean IMRIE20 November 1856Janet IMRIEFather found
John IMRIE2 May 1866Mary IMRIEFind the father
William IMRIE26 January 1869Mary IMRIEFind the father
Mary INGLIS13 July 1862Catherine INGLISFind the father
John KAEY7 February 1865Margaret KAEYFind the father
Annie KIDD30 May 1872Annie KIDDFather found
John LAING17 January 1866Jane LAINGFather found
Graham LINDSAY12 March 1870Margaret LINDSAYFather found
James LOUDEN28 July 1870Helen LOUDENFind the father
John LOUDEN29 January 1870Barbara LOUDENFind the father
Euphemia Joan Braid REEKIE22 June 1873Elspet REEKIEFather found
Isabella REEKIE4 August 1863Catherine REEKIEFind the father
Jane Duncan SMITH6 May 1874Robina SMITHFind the father
Lilias Suttie SPEED18 February 1874Jessie SPEEDFather found
William SPEED26 February 1874Catherine SPEEDFind the father
Margaret VEITCH16 January 1861Mary VEITCHFind the father
Mary Ann WATSON25 August 1855Jean WATSONFind the father
Robert WILSON31 January 1856Euphemia WILSONFather found
Robert WILSON29 May 1874Agnes WILSONFind the father
William WILSON8 February 1870Agnes WILSONFather found


General Register of Lunatics

This index shows patients from this parish admitted to asylums. To order a record click on the Order images link.
General Register of Lunatics index MC7
NameDate of deathOrderAsylumsYears
BIRRELL or TAYLOR, Christina
blacksmith's widow
Born about 1810
Widowed
Previous residence: Leuchars Balmullo
Chargeable parish: Leuchars
30 Nov 1887Order image (1)Fife1884
BRAID or MACKIE, Jessie Or Helen
housewife
Born about 1842
Widowed
Previous residence: Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
12 Oct 1903Order image (1)Fife District Asylum1897
DICK or PYPER, Mary Ann
weaver
Born about 1815
Widowed
Previous residence: Vantage, Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
25 Feb 1896Order image (1)Fife District1895
HERD, Mary
housekeeper
Born about 1827
Single
Previous residence: Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
6 Oct 1893Order images (2)Fife1884-1886
MACKIE or BRAID, Jessie Or Helen
housewife
Born about 1842
Widowed
Previous residence: Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
12 Oct 1903Order image (1)Fife District Asylum1897
MACRAE or WOOD, Catherine
outworker
Born about 1845
Widowed
Previous residence: Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
Also known as
Catherine Mcrae or Wood
Order images (2)Fife District Asylum1897-1899
MCGAIN or ROBERTSON, Christina
outworker
Born about 1838
Married
Previous residence: Vantage, Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
30 Jan 1915Order image (1)Fife District Asylum1908
MCRAE or WOOD, Catherine
outworker
Born about 1845
Widowed
Previous residence: Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
Also known as
Catherine Macrae or Wood
Order images (2)Fife District Asylum1897-1899
PYPER or DICK, Mary Ann
weaver
Born about 1815
Widowed
Previous residence: Vantage, Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
25 Feb 1896Order image (1)Fife District1895
ROBERTSON or MCGAIN, Christina
outworker
Born about 1838
Married
Previous residence: Vantage, Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
30 Jan 1915Order image (1)Fife District Asylum1908
SYME, Janet
no occupation
Born about 1836
Single
Previous residence: Millholm House Musselburgh
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
6 Oct 1883Order images (2)Fife And Kinross
Millholme House
1864-1866
TAYLOR or BIRRELL, Christina
blacksmith's widow
Born about 1810
Widowed
Previous residence: Leuchars Balmullo
Chargeable parish: Leuchars
30 Nov 1887Order image (1)Fife1884
THOMSON, John
ploughman
Born about 1848
Single
Previous residence: Pittornie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
31 Jan 1919Order image (1)Fife1887
WILSON, Robert
wright
Born about 1818
Married
Previous residence: Newmill
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
Order images (2)Fife
Fife And Kinross
1872-1874
WOOD, Betsy
factory worker, prostitute
Born about 1834
Single
Previous residence: Dundee
Chargeable parish: Cupar
Also known as
Elizabeth Wood
Order images (5)Dundee
Fife
Fife District Asylum
1874-1891
WOOD or MACRAE, Catherine
outworker
Born about 1845
Widowed
Previous residence: Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
Also known as
Catherine Macrae or Wood
Catherine Mcrae or Wood
Order images (2)Fife District Asylum1897-1899
WOOD or MCRAE, Catherine
outworker
Born about 1845
Widowed
Previous residence: Dairsie
Chargeable parish: Dairsie
Also known as
Catherine Macrae or Wood
Catherine Mcrae or Wood
Order images (2)Fife District Asylum1897-1899
WOOD, Elizabeth
factory worker, prostitute
Born about 1834
Single
Previous residence: Dundee
Chargeable parish: Cupar
Also known as
Betsy Wood
Order images (5)Dundee
Fife
Fife District Asylum
1874-1891


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.

Male Heads of families 1841 (NRS Reference: CH2/427/4 pp. 6-6)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JohnWalker
ThomasBlythe
DavidEdnie
JamesPride
DavidSwan
MichaelSmith
WilliamRobertson
JamesDickson
WilliamHodge
JohnBrown
RobertWalker
DavidDott
DavidGreen
JohnLees
JamesPebbles
DavidLitster
DavidChristie
GeorgeDuncan
GeorgeDoig
WilliamRitchie
JohnGreen
JamesMelville
AlexrLouden
JamesMelville
DavidRymer
WilliamWalker
AlexrGreen
JohnRobertson
JohnRamsay
AlexrClerk
JohnAiken
DavidMeldrum
WilliamDuncan
WilliamWhyte
GeorgeWatson
GeorgeMichie
JohnMeldrum
JohnDouglas
JohnThomson
PeterMitchel
AndwWalker
JamesHenderson
DavidHenderson
DavidRitchie
DavidMeldrum
AndrewSyme
AlexrSyme
WilliamPaton
WilliamBlack
DavidScott
WilliamSinclair
DavidLouden
DavidTaylor
JohnInglis
GeorgeSimpson
JamesHenderson
JamesMethven
JohnHerd
RobertBrown
JamesSyme
ThomasStewart
WilliamInglis
WilliamGrieve
RobertAngus
JohnHay
WilliamJohnstone
WilliamBrodieelder
HBrucesession clerk
JamesBrodiemoderator

Kirk Session Records Index

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We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.


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