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Records -> Inverness-shire

Dores 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.
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 Annie ANDERSON or MCBEAN 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused
Betsy ANDERSON 1871 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Margaret CAMERON 1871 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Thomas CAMERON 1869 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Isabel FERGUSON or MCINTOSH 1853 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Christie FINLAYSON 1871 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow FORBES 1871 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Jane FORBES or MCNEILL 1871 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John FORBES 1847 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John FORBES 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused - see 443 1847
John FORBES 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
John FORBES 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
John FORBES 1874 (1)Order imagesRefused
Ann FRASER 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Betsy FRASER 1874 (3)Order imagesRefused
Widow Betsy FRASER 1882-1883 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Catherine FRASER or CHISHOLME 6 Shuttle Lane Inverness1846 (2)Order imagesRefused - understanding that Inspector's letter be complied with
Widow Catherine FRASER or MCDONALD 1851 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed (poorhouse)
Widow Catherine FRASER or MCDONALD 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused - see 228 1851
Widow Christina FRASER 1879 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Hugh FRASER 1876 (2)Order imagesApplicant dead
Jessie Dallas FRASER 1872 (1)Order imagesRefused
John FRASER 1871 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Mary FRASER or MCDONALD 1849 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Robert FRASER 1858 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Margaret GOLLAN 1872 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Peter GRANT 1855 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Peter GRANT 1857 (3)Order imagesDead
John KENNEDY 1880 (3)Order imagesRefused
Catherine MACDONALD 1871 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Christy MACDONALD 1872 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Hector MACDONALD 1854 (6)Order imagesMinute issued
Margaret MACDONALD 1871 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Mary MACINTOSH 1876 (1)Order imagesRefused - parochial board to repair her house
Widow MACKENZIE Cullaird1846 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Janet MACKENZIE 1850 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John MACKENZIE 1862 (2)Order imagesRefused
John MACKENZIE 1863 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
John MACKENZIE 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
Alexander MCBEAN 1853 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Duncan MCBEAN 1867 (2)Order imagesRefused
Ewen MCBEAN 1867 (1)Order imagesRefused - informal
Widow Margaret MCBEAN or FRASER 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Christy MCDONALD 1856 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed (poorhouse)
Hector MCDONALD 1851 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Hector MCDONALD 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jessie MCDONALD 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Ann MCGRUER or RANKINE 1860 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Farquhar MCINTOSH 1871 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow MCKAY or MATHIESON 1878-1879 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Isobel MCKENZIE or SMITH 1848 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Margaret MCKENZIE 1848-1849 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William MCKENZIE 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
John MCNEIL 1856 (2)Order imagesRefused
John MCNEIL 1857 (3)Order imagesRefused
Alexander SMITH 1869 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander SMITH 1871 (3)Order imagesRefused
Isobell SMITH 1871 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Jane WILLIAMS or ANDERSON 1857 (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 FORBES
Midtown, Bunachton, Dores
Alexander MACDONALD2 Oct 1862Order nowInverness
SC29/7/33
Mary FRASER
Inverfarigaig, Dores, Inverness-shire
John MACTAVISHOrder nowInverness
SC29/7/37
Mary FRASER
Inverfarigaig, Dores, Inverness-shire
John MACTAVISH25 Aug 1876Order nowInverness
SC29/7/37
Margaret MACBEAN
Dores, Inverness-shire
Alexander HEPBURN15 Feb 1851Order nowInverness
SC29/7/32
Isabella MACKINTOSH
Altnagoire, Dores, Inverness-shire
Neil MCLAREN16 Jan 1880Order nowInverness
SC29/7/37
Margaret MACKINTOSH
Scaniport, Dores
Ronald GOLLAN16 Feb 1854Order nowInverness
SC29/7/32


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
Ann Isabella BURNETT1 December 1867Isabella BURNETTFind the father
James CAMERON17 June 1864Ann CAMERONFind the father
William CAMERON1 January 1871Elizabeth CAMERONFind the father
Alexander FRASER28 August 1857Janet FRASERFather found
Donald FRASER13 March 1857Janet FRASERFind the father
Donald FRASER6 December 1874Margaret FRASERFind the father
Ann GRANT26 March 1867Mary GRANTFather found
Margaret LAING1 September 1861Isabella LAINGFind the father
William LEITH3 December 1868Ann LEITHFind the father
Alexander MACDONALD2 August 1865Jessie MACDONALDFind the father
John MACKAY9 October 1869May MACKAYFind the father
John MACKENZIE30 August 1863Jessie MACKENZIEFind the father
Joanne MACLEAN6 November 1866Jessie MACLEANFind the father
James Ross MACNAUGHTON16 December 1859Mary MACNAUGHTONFind the father
Mary Anne MARTIN16 September 1864Isabella Fraser MARTINFind the father
May MCBEAN31 December 1857Bella MCBEANFind the father
Jane MCDONALD27 April 1874Jessie MCDONALDFind the father
John MCDONALD14 September 1872Jessie MCDONALDFind the father
Mary MCDONALD14 August 1866Mary MCDONALDFind the father
William MCDONALD2 May 1870Mary MCDONALDFind the father
Alexander MCKENZIE5 January 1860Isabella MCKENZIEFind the father
Catherine MCKENZIE6 July 1858Betsy MCKENZIEFind the father
James MCKENZIE21 January 1869Catherine Gordon MCKENZIEFather found
John MCKENZIE17 September 1872Betsy MCKENZIEFind the father
Wilhilimina MCKENZIE22 January 1865Margaret MCKENZIEFind the father
Isabella MCTAVISH25 November 1864Ann MCTAVISHFind the father
Isabella MORRISON26 July 1864Mary MORRISONFind the father
Wilhilmina MORRISON15 July 1868May MORRISONFind the father
Emilia MUNRO10 December 1869Jane MUNROFind the father
Henry ROSS22 October 1870Ann ROSSFind the father
Hugh ROSS5 April 1855Catherine ROSSFind the father
Isabella ROSS1 October 1872Ann ROSSFind the father
Jemima SHARP13 January 1857Elizabeth SHARPFind the father
Margaret SHARP18 April 1866Catherine SHARPFind the father
Isabella Ann Mcdougall SHAW15 September 1873Isabella SHAWFind the father
Isabella Young SHAW19 November 1874Isabella SHAWFind 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.


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