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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.

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.

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
Isabella KEIR 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
John LENNIE Burnside Of Gartnachoil1846 (1)Order imagesRefused
Agnes MCINDOE 1847 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Agnes MCINDOE 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused
Margaret MCINDOE 1847 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Walter MCINDOE 1847 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Walter MCINDOE 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused
William MCINDOE 1847 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William MCINDOE 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
John BLAIR7 August 1864Helen BLAIRFind the father
Margaret BLAIR5 November 1860Elizabeth BLAIRFind the father
Williamina BROWNLIE2 February 1868Agnes BROWNLIEFather found
Elizabeth BUCHANAN26 December 1868Elizabeth BUCHANANFind the father
John BUCHANAN16 February 1861Elizabeth Buchanan Or SPITTALFind the father
Margaret BUCHANAN21 February 1864Elizabeth BUCHANANFind the father
Catherine CAMPBELL30 April 1864Mary CAMPBELLFind the father
James CAMPBELL25 October 1862Janet CAMPBELLFind the father
James DONALDSON19 April 1857Margaret DONALDSONFind the father
David DRUMMOND12 October 1856Margaret DRUMMONDFind the father
Mary DRUMMOND20 December 1860Mary DRUMMONDFind the father
William DRUMMOND8 June 1864Elizabeth DRUMMONDFind the father
Mary DUTHIE15 November 1855Jane DUTHIEFind the father
John FORSYTH17 March 1862Helen FORSYTHFind the father
Robert FORSYTH30 October 1856Helen FORSYTHFind the father
Jane Sutherland GALL14 April 1866Jane GALLFind the father
Donald GILLIES17 October 1871Ann GILLIESFind the father
Christina GREENALL25 March 1873Jessie GREENALLFind the father
Helen GREENALL25 March 1873Jessie GREENALLFind the father
Joan HOUSTON18 November 1855Christina HOUSTONFind the father
Margaret HUTTON5 June 1863Janet HUTTONFind the father
Donald KEIR7 December 1858Elizabeth KEIRFind the father
John Ferguson KEYS3 September 1874Elizabeth KEYSFind the father
Mary MACFARLANE15 January 1859Elizabeth MACFARLANEFind the father
Catherine MACLACHLAN27 July 1860Janet MACLACHLANFind the father
Duncan MACLACHLAN3 April 1862Mary MACLACHLANFind the father
John MACMASTER13 September 1864Mary MACMASTERFind the father
Alexander MACNEE19 May 1860Agnes MACNEEFind the father
Allan MACNEE13 April 1858Agnes MACNEEFind the father
Robert MALCOLM25 December 1870Margaret MALCOLMFather found
Samuel MANN15 July 1858Sarah Anne MANNFind the father
Agnes MCADAM2 November 1856Janet MCADAMFind the father
Sarah MCADAM9 June 1860Janet MCADAMFind the father
Anne MCALPINE18 February 1855Janet MCALPINEFind the father
Donald MCCALLUM14 May 1863Margaret MCCALLUMFind the father
Hugh MCCALLUM27 July 1856Catherine MCCALLUMFind the father
Annabella MCDONALD20 April 1866Jessie MCDONALDFind the father
Christina MCFARLANE28 June 1868Jane MCFARLANEFind the father
Walter MCGREGOR24 August 1863Janet MCGREGORFind the father
William MCGREGOR1 April 1860Catherine Mc Gregor Or GOWFind the father
Mary MCLACHLAN18 February 1865Elizabeth MCLACHLANFind the father
James MCMASTER31 January 1857Catherine MCMASTERFind the father
Charlotte MCMILLAN9 February 1871Charlotte MCMILLANFind the father
William MCMILLAN19 February 1865Margaret MCMILLANFind the father
James MCNEE5 December 1864Ann MCNEEFind the father
Margaret MCNEE31 May 1863Ann MCNEEFind the father
George MCPHERSON19 May 1863Janet MCPHERSONFind the father
Mary MCQUEEN18 July 1857Agnes MCQUEENFind the father
Agnes MILLAN31 January 1861Margaret MILLANFind the father
Jane MILLER14 January 1859Jeanie MILLERFind the father
Robert MILLER16 December 1864Mary MILLERFind the father
Helen Stewart MORRISON30 March 1870Janet MORRISONFather found
William RISK3 July 1856Janet RISKFind the father
John ROBERTSON21 June 1857Agnes ROBERTSONFind the father
Agnes STEWART21 November 1867Agnes STEWARTFind the father
Catherine STEWART22 January 1856Catherine STEWARTFind the father
Helen STEWART28 August 1866Janet STEWARTFind the father
Janet STEWART5 December 1859Janet STEWARTFind the father
John STEWART2 June 1863Betsey STEWARTFind the father
Margaret STEWART8 December 1869Jessie STEWARTFind the father
Margaret STEWART8 March 1874Margaret STEWARTFind the father
Isabella TAGGART18 January 1873Isabella TAGGARTFind the father
John TAYLOR7 October 1872Jane TAYLORFind the father
John WILSON22 January 1860Janet WILSONFind the father
William WILSON29 November 1856Janet WILSONFind the father

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.