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Drumoak 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/1286/3 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Minutes and accounts Includes poor payments | 1718-1733 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/4 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Minutes Includes poor payments | 1733-1758 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/5 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Minutes Includes poor payments | 1759-1787 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/6 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Minutes | 1787-1815 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/7 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Minutes | 1815-1830 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/12 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Accounts | 1750-1788 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/13 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Treasurer's accounts Includes poor payments | 1787-1827 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/14 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Treasurer's accounts Includes poor payments | 1827-1883 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/15 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Poors' fund accounts Includes poor payments | 1845-1855 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/16 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Parochial board minutes | 1845-1859 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/17 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Communion roll | 1863-1879 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1286/18 | Drumoak Kirk Session: Communion roll | 1880-1901 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Ann CARNIE | 1850 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Jane DAVIDSON | 1856 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Isabel GRANT | 1880 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Isobel GRANT | 1881 (1) | Order images | Refused - if dissatisfied (poorhouse) | |
| Isobel GRANT | 1881 (1) | Order images | Refused - if dissatisfed, poorhouse | |
| Alexander KELLY | 1852-1853 (2) | Order images | Refused - see 331 1852 | |
| Widow Jane KELLY or DAVIDSON | 1857 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander KILOH | 1852 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| George REID | 1870 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Alexander ROSS | 1861-1862 (5) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| James STOTT | 1880 (2) | 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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
We have not currently found any decrees for this parish.
School Leaving Certificate Exams
This is an index to the registers of school leaving certificate examination results (NRS Reference ED36). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order now link.
| Name | Date of birth | School | Year | Order record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lizzie SMITH | 26 Oct 1889 | Drumoak Central Public School | 1908 | Order now |
Anatomy register
This is an index to the registers of the Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland (NRS Reference MH1/1-MH1/30). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order record link.
| Name | Age | Last residence and place of death | Date of death | Order record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agnes MUNRO | 71 | Candyglerach, Drumoak | 14 Jul 1904 | Order record |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Mc Killigan ADAMS | 10 January 1871 | Ann ADAMS | Find the father |
| Mary Ann Milne BOOTH | 25 July 1874 | Margaret BOOTH | Find the father |
| Ann BURNETT | 1 January 1866 | Ann BURNETT | Find the father |
| Isabella CAMERON | 16 August 1860 | Isabella Cameron Or FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Robert CAMERON | 22 June 1857 | Isabella Cameron Or FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Charles William CHAPMAN | 15 November 1867 | Helen CHAPMAN | Find the father |
| Margaret Thomson CHILLAS | 7 July 1873 | Mary CHILLAS | Find the father |
| Margaret George CLARK | 7 September 1873 | Margaret CLARK | Find the father |
| Mary Ann George CLARK | 7 September 1873 | Margaret CLARK | Find the father |
| William CLARK | 5 October 1868 | Christina Allan CLARK | Find the father |
| Alexander CROMBIE | 26 May 1870 | Mary CROMBIE | Find the father |
| Mary CROMBIE | 6 November 1872 | Mary CROMBIE | Find the father |
| George DUNCAN | 26 May 1856 | May DUNCAN | Find the father |
| Robert FINDLAY | 22 December 1863 | Margaret FINDLAY | Find the father |
| Jane GIBSON | 5 December 1855 | Christina GIBSON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann Fraser GRANT | 6 April 1858 | Margaret GRANT | Find the father |
| George HARPER | 7 June 1874 | Jane HARPER | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Watt HENDERSON | 6 December 1867 | Margaret HENDERSON | Find the father |
| John KNOWELS | 3 January 1855 | Jane KNOWELS | Find the father |
| Isabella MCWILLIAM | 11 November 1864 | Ann MCWILLIAM | Find the father |
| Jane Smith MILNE | 9 December 1869 | Jane MILNE | Find the father |
| Isabella PAPE | 15 August 1867 | Barbara PAPE | Find the father |
| Jane PAPE | 8 November 1869 | Barbara PAPE | Find the father |
| Isabella PHILIP | 28 May 1868 | Isabella PHILIP | Find the father |
| Barbara Adam ROSS | 28 December 1873 | Elizabeth ROSS | Find the father |
| Francis ROSS | 25 March 1871 | Eliza Or Elizabeth ROSS | Find the father |
| George SMITH | 29 April 1866 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Helen STRACHAN | 3 June 1859 | Helen STRACHAN | Find the father |
| Mary WATT | 30 August 1869 | Jane WATT | Find 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.
