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Records -> Dumfriesshire

Dalton 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
CH2/88/1Dalton Parish Church - Kirk Session Minutes1723-1766Request lookup
CH2/88/2Dalton Parish Church - Kirk Session Minutes1800-1849Request lookup
CH2/88/3Dalton Parish Church - Cash Book
Accounts, 1821-1858
Communion Roll, 1870-1876
Proclamations, 1858-1857
1821-1876Request lookup
CH2/88/4Dalton Parish Church - Communion Roll
Post 1876
c 1876Request 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
  • £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
William GELLATLY 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused
William GELLATLY 1849 (2)Order imagesRefused
Mary HISLOP 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused


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
Elizabeth DUNBAR
Kirkhill, Dalton
Joseph GUNNYON15 Dec 1910
Westwater Cottage, Langholm
Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/37
Mary GARDINER
Carrutherstown, Dalton
William GRIERSON24 Dec 1855Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/31
Mary Ann HODGSON
Smallholmburn, Lochmaben and Dalton
Alexander BOYD13 Jan 1895
Bankend, Crossmichael
Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/36
Janet IRVING
Hardgrave, Dalton
James HALLIDAY1 Jun 1859Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/32
Elizabeth KELLY
Burn Cottage, Hardgrave, Dalton
James JOHNSTONE1 May 1906
Burn Cottage, Hardgrave, Dalton
Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/37
Annie LIGHTFOOT
Dalton Manse Gate, Dalton
Thomas JOHNSTONE15 May 1882Order nowKirkcudbright
SC16/7/16
Annie LIGHTFOOT
Mansegate, Dalton, Dumfriesshire
John HALLIDAY15 Mar 1890Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/36
Janet MCCLUNE
Searigg, Dalton, Dumfriesshire
Thomas AITCHISON3 Feb 1892Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/36
Isabella TWEEDIE
70 Franklin Street, Cambridge Port, Massachusetts, United States of America
formerly Whitecroft, Dalton, Dumfriesshire
John IRVINGOrder nowDumfries
SC15/7/36
Isabella TWEEDIE
Whitecroft, Dalton
John IRVING19 Jun 1882Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/35


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
Robert John ADAMSON9 October 1873Williamina ADAMSONFind the father
Annie Grace BEATTIE10 December 1865Jane BEATTIEFind the father
Mary BLACKSTOCK21 June 1861Janet BLACKSTOCKFind the father
Mary BROATCH28 February 1868Mary BROATCHFind the father
Helen CALVERT13 February 1862Agnes CALVERTFind the father
John Jeffrey CARRUTHERS3 November 1858Margaret CARRUTHERSFind the father
William Tait CARRUTHERS4 July 1861Isabella CARRUTHERSFind the father
Margaret CLELAND26 September 1856Elizabeth CLELANDFind the father
Elizabeth DICKSON28 September 1857Elizabeth DICKSONFind the father
William DONALDSON30 September 1868Margaret DONALDSONFind the father
Margaret Sanders DONLY4 October 1866Maryanne DONLYFind the father
George EDGAR12 December 1865Jane EDGARFind the father
Margaret FOX10 December 1859Sarah FOXFind the father
Janet Dunbar FRAZER19 September 1855Elizabeth FRAZERFind the father
James GORDON8 October 1869Marion GORDONFind the father
William GORDON17 August 1862Margaret GORDONFind the father
Mary GRAHAM28 March 1872Elizabeth GRAHAMFind the father
Agnes Jardine GRIERSON31 July 1862Jane GRIERSONFind the father
Mary Ann HALLIDAY21 June 1872Mary Jane HALLIDAYFind the father
George HAUGH6 January 1870Margaret HAUGHFind the father
John HOPE19 June 1872Agnes HOPEFather found
Agnes IRVING24 March 1856Margaret IRVINGFind the father
John IRVING22 February 1864Janet IRVINGFind the father
James IVISON1 July 1856Janet IVISONFind the father
John Kerr JOHNSTON12 August 1860Mary JOHNSTONFind the father
Sarah JOHNSTON8 August 1867Jane JOHNSTONFind the father
Mary Ann KEEN11 February 1873Hellen KEENFind the father
Jemima Bell KERR2 July 1867Margaret KERRFind the father
Mary KERR11 May 1870Margaret KERRFind the father
Samuel KERR22 July 1873Margaret KERRFind the father
William KERR13 July 1864Margaret KERRFind the father
John MARCHBANK8 January 1869Catherine MARCHBANKFind the father
Andrew MCCRACKEN11 February 1873Mary MCCRACKENFind the father
Mary Jane MCNIEL30 May 1870Margaret MCNIELFather found
George MCVITTIE28 January 1868Elizabeth MCVITTIEFind the father
Anne MODLIN14 May 1864Frances MODLINFind the father
Margaret MOFFAT5 March 1860Mary MOFFATFind the father
Mary Ann Paterson PATERSON7 December 1871Margaret PATERSONFind the father
William PATERSON30 October 1857Janet PATERSONFind the father
Mary PATTERSON12 October 1861Mary PATTERSONFind the father
Janet RUTHERFORD6 December 1871Ellen RUTHERFORDFind the father
Walter STEWART6 November 1874Margaret STEWARTFind the father
William John Irving THOMSON22 August 1872Catherine Easton THOMSONFind the father
Matthew WARWICK6 November 1866Julia WARWICKFather found


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.

Wm Bell

Mary Dickson

Name: Wm Bell

Date: 04/11/1832

Case type: pregnant in uncleanness

Occupation: servant

Address: Kirkwood

Role: Alledged Father mention

Other names: Mary Dickson; Wm Bell


Name: Mary Dickson

Date: 04/11/1832

Case type: pregnant in uncleanness

Occupation: servant

Address: Denbie

Role: Compeared

Details: Voluntarily compeared Mary Dickson serv[an]t at Denbie, acknowledging herself pregnant in uncleanness, and after being suitably admonished, declared that Wm. Bell Servant at Kirkwood is the person guilty with her, and the father of her child - and that the guilt was committed at Denbie. Signed [underline] Mary Dickson

Other names: Mary Dickson; Wm Bell


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