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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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/88/1 | Dalton Parish Church - Kirk Session Minutes | 1723-1766 | Request lookup |
| CH2/88/2 | Dalton Parish Church - Kirk Session Minutes | 1800-1849 | Request lookup |
| CH2/88/3 | Dalton Parish Church - Cash Book Accounts, 1821-1858 Communion Roll, 1870-1876 Proclamations, 1858-1857 | 1821-1876 | Request lookup |
| CH2/88/4 | Dalton Parish Church - Communion Roll Post 1876 | c 1876 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William GELLATLY | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| William GELLATLY | 1849 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Mary HISLOP | 1847 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth DUNBAR Kirkhill, Dalton | Joseph GUNNYON | 15 Dec 1910 Westwater Cottage, Langholm | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Mary GARDINER Carrutherstown, Dalton | William GRIERSON | 24 Dec 1855 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/31 |
| Mary Ann HODGSON Smallholmburn, Lochmaben and Dalton | Alexander BOYD | 13 Jan 1895 Bankend, Crossmichael | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
| Janet IRVING Hardgrave, Dalton | James HALLIDAY | 1 Jun 1859 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/32 |
| Elizabeth KELLY Burn Cottage, Hardgrave, Dalton | James JOHNSTONE | 1 May 1906 Burn Cottage, Hardgrave, Dalton | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Annie LIGHTFOOT Dalton Manse Gate, Dalton | Thomas JOHNSTONE | 15 May 1882 | Order now | Kirkcudbright SC16/7/16 |
| Annie LIGHTFOOT Mansegate, Dalton, Dumfriesshire | John HALLIDAY | 15 Mar 1890 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
| Janet MCCLUNE Searigg, Dalton, Dumfriesshire | Thomas AITCHISON | 3 Feb 1892 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
| Isabella TWEEDIE 70 Franklin Street, Cambridge Port, Massachusetts, United States of America formerly Whitecroft, Dalton, Dumfriesshire | John IRVING | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 | |
| Isabella TWEEDIE Whitecroft, Dalton | John IRVING | 19 Jun 1882 | Order now | Dumfries 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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert John ADAMSON | 9 October 1873 | Williamina ADAMSON | Find the father |
| Annie Grace BEATTIE | 10 December 1865 | Jane BEATTIE | Find the father |
| Mary BLACKSTOCK | 21 June 1861 | Janet BLACKSTOCK | Find the father |
| Mary BROATCH | 28 February 1868 | Mary BROATCH | Find the father |
| Helen CALVERT | 13 February 1862 | Agnes CALVERT | Find the father |
| John Jeffrey CARRUTHERS | 3 November 1858 | Margaret CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| William Tait CARRUTHERS | 4 July 1861 | Isabella CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| Margaret CLELAND | 26 September 1856 | Elizabeth CLELAND | Find the father |
| Elizabeth DICKSON | 28 September 1857 | Elizabeth DICKSON | Find the father |
| William DONALDSON | 30 September 1868 | Margaret DONALDSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Sanders DONLY | 4 October 1866 | Maryanne DONLY | Find the father |
| George EDGAR | 12 December 1865 | Jane EDGAR | Find the father |
| Margaret FOX | 10 December 1859 | Sarah FOX | Find the father |
| Janet Dunbar FRAZER | 19 September 1855 | Elizabeth FRAZER | Find the father |
| James GORDON | 8 October 1869 | Marion GORDON | Find the father |
| William GORDON | 17 August 1862 | Margaret GORDON | Find the father |
| Mary GRAHAM | 28 March 1872 | Elizabeth GRAHAM | Find the father |
| Agnes Jardine GRIERSON | 31 July 1862 | Jane GRIERSON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann HALLIDAY | 21 June 1872 | Mary Jane HALLIDAY | Find the father |
| George HAUGH | 6 January 1870 | Margaret HAUGH | Find the father |
| John HOPE | 19 June 1872 | Agnes HOPE | Father found |
| Agnes IRVING | 24 March 1856 | Margaret IRVING | Find the father |
| John IRVING | 22 February 1864 | Janet IRVING | Find the father |
| James IVISON | 1 July 1856 | Janet IVISON | Find the father |
| John Kerr JOHNSTON | 12 August 1860 | Mary JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Sarah JOHNSTON | 8 August 1867 | Jane JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann KEEN | 11 February 1873 | Hellen KEEN | Find the father |
| Jemima Bell KERR | 2 July 1867 | Margaret KERR | Find the father |
| Mary KERR | 11 May 1870 | Margaret KERR | Find the father |
| Samuel KERR | 22 July 1873 | Margaret KERR | Find the father |
| William KERR | 13 July 1864 | Margaret KERR | Find the father |
| John MARCHBANK | 8 January 1869 | Catherine MARCHBANK | Find the father |
| Andrew MCCRACKEN | 11 February 1873 | Mary MCCRACKEN | Find the father |
| Mary Jane MCNIEL | 30 May 1870 | Margaret MCNIEL | Father found |
| George MCVITTIE | 28 January 1868 | Elizabeth MCVITTIE | Find the father |
| Anne MODLIN | 14 May 1864 | Frances MODLIN | Find the father |
| Margaret MOFFAT | 5 March 1860 | Mary MOFFAT | Find the father |
| Mary Ann Paterson PATERSON | 7 December 1871 | Margaret PATERSON | Find the father |
| William PATERSON | 30 October 1857 | Janet PATERSON | Find the father |
| Mary PATTERSON | 12 October 1861 | Mary PATTERSON | Find the father |
| Janet RUTHERFORD | 6 December 1871 | Ellen RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Walter STEWART | 6 November 1874 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| William John Irving THOMSON | 22 August 1872 | Catherine Easton THOMSON | Find the father |
| Matthew WARWICK | 6 November 1866 | Julia WARWICK | Father 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.
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
