Records -> Stirlingshire
Drymen 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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella KEIR | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John LENNIE | Burnside Of Gartnachoil | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Agnes MCINDOE | 1847 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Agnes MCINDOE | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Margaret MCINDOE | 1847 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Walter MCINDOE | 1847 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Walter MCINDOE | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| William MCINDOE | 1847 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| William MCINDOE | 1848 (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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet GARDINER Drymen, Stirlingshire | William SOMMERVILLE | 14 Jan 1876 Drymen, Stirlingshire | Order now | Hamilton SC37/7/24 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John BLAIR | 7 August 1864 | Helen BLAIR | Find the father |
| Margaret BLAIR | 5 November 1860 | Elizabeth BLAIR | Find the father |
| Williamina BROWNLIE | 2 February 1868 | Agnes BROWNLIE | Father found |
| Elizabeth BUCHANAN | 26 December 1868 | Elizabeth BUCHANAN | Find the father |
| John BUCHANAN | 16 February 1861 | Elizabeth Buchanan Or SPITTAL | Find the father |
| Margaret BUCHANAN | 21 February 1864 | Elizabeth BUCHANAN | Find the father |
| Catherine CAMPBELL | 30 April 1864 | Mary CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| James CAMPBELL | 25 October 1862 | Janet CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| James DONALDSON | 19 April 1857 | Margaret DONALDSON | Find the father |
| David DRUMMOND | 12 October 1856 | Margaret DRUMMOND | Find the father |
| Mary DRUMMOND | 20 December 1860 | Mary DRUMMOND | Find the father |
| William DRUMMOND | 8 June 1864 | Elizabeth DRUMMOND | Find the father |
| Mary DUTHIE | 15 November 1855 | Jane DUTHIE | Find the father |
| John FORSYTH | 17 March 1862 | Helen FORSYTH | Find the father |
| Robert FORSYTH | 30 October 1856 | Helen FORSYTH | Find the father |
| Jane Sutherland GALL | 14 April 1866 | Jane GALL | Find the father |
| Donald GILLIES | 17 October 1871 | Ann GILLIES | Find the father |
| Christina GREENALL | 25 March 1873 | Jessie GREENALL | Find the father |
| Helen GREENALL | 25 March 1873 | Jessie GREENALL | Find the father |
| Joan HOUSTON | 18 November 1855 | Christina HOUSTON | Find the father |
| Margaret HUTTON | 5 June 1863 | Janet HUTTON | Find the father |
| Donald KEIR | 7 December 1858 | Elizabeth KEIR | Find the father |
| John Ferguson KEYS | 3 September 1874 | Elizabeth KEYS | Find the father |
| Mary MACFARLANE | 15 January 1859 | Elizabeth MACFARLANE | Find the father |
| Catherine MACLACHLAN | 27 July 1860 | Janet MACLACHLAN | Find the father |
| Duncan MACLACHLAN | 3 April 1862 | Mary MACLACHLAN | Find the father |
| John MACMASTER | 13 September 1864 | Mary MACMASTER | Find the father |
| Alexander MACNEE | 19 May 1860 | Agnes MACNEE | Find the father |
| Allan MACNEE | 13 April 1858 | Agnes MACNEE | Find the father |
| Robert MALCOLM | 25 December 1870 | Margaret MALCOLM | Father found |
| Samuel MANN | 15 July 1858 | Sarah Anne MANN | Find the father |
| Agnes MCADAM | 2 November 1856 | Janet MCADAM | Find the father |
| Sarah MCADAM | 9 June 1860 | Janet MCADAM | Find the father |
| Anne MCALPINE | 18 February 1855 | Janet MCALPINE | Find the father |
| Donald MCCALLUM | 14 May 1863 | Margaret MCCALLUM | Find the father |
| Hugh MCCALLUM | 27 July 1856 | Catherine MCCALLUM | Find the father |
| Annabella MCDONALD | 20 April 1866 | Jessie MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Christina MCFARLANE | 28 June 1868 | Jane MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| Walter MCGREGOR | 24 August 1863 | Janet MCGREGOR | Find the father |
| William MCGREGOR | 1 April 1860 | Catherine Mc Gregor Or GOW | Find the father |
| Mary MCLACHLAN | 18 February 1865 | Elizabeth MCLACHLAN | Find the father |
| James MCMASTER | 31 January 1857 | Catherine MCMASTER | Find the father |
| Charlotte MCMILLAN | 9 February 1871 | Charlotte MCMILLAN | Find the father |
| William MCMILLAN | 19 February 1865 | Margaret MCMILLAN | Find the father |
| James MCNEE | 5 December 1864 | Ann MCNEE | Find the father |
| Margaret MCNEE | 31 May 1863 | Ann MCNEE | Find the father |
| George MCPHERSON | 19 May 1863 | Janet MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Mary MCQUEEN | 18 July 1857 | Agnes MCQUEEN | Find the father |
| Agnes MILLAN | 31 January 1861 | Margaret MILLAN | Find the father |
| Jane MILLER | 14 January 1859 | Jeanie MILLER | Find the father |
| Robert MILLER | 16 December 1864 | Mary MILLER | Find the father |
| Helen Stewart MORRISON | 30 March 1870 | Janet MORRISON | Father found |
| William RISK | 3 July 1856 | Janet RISK | Find the father |
| John ROBERTSON | 21 June 1857 | Agnes ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Agnes STEWART | 21 November 1867 | Agnes STEWART | Find the father |
| Catherine STEWART | 22 January 1856 | Catherine STEWART | Find the father |
| Helen STEWART | 28 August 1866 | Janet STEWART | Find the father |
| Janet STEWART | 5 December 1859 | Janet STEWART | Find the father |
| John STEWART | 2 June 1863 | Betsey STEWART | Find the father |
| Margaret STEWART | 8 December 1869 | Jessie STEWART | Find the father |
| Margaret STEWART | 8 March 1874 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| Isabella TAGGART | 18 January 1873 | Isabella TAGGART | Find the father |
| John TAYLOR | 7 October 1872 | Jane TAYLOR | Find the father |
| John WILSON | 22 January 1860 | Janet WILSON | Find the father |
| William WILSON | 29 November 1856 | Janet WILSON | 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.
