Dumfries Greyfriars parish records

Dumfries Greyfriars 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.

Lookups available
Reference	Title	Dates	Buy
CH2/979/2	Baptismal register	1871-1874	Request lookup
CH2/979/3	Communion roll	1887-1889	Request lookup
CH2/979/4	Communion roll	1890-1892	Request lookup
CH2/979/5	Communion roll	1893-1899	Request lookup
CH2/979/6	Accounts, charge and discharge 1753,1757,1758,1759,1763,1764 (with vouchers),1765,1766	1753-1766	Request lookup
CH2/979/9	List of seat holders in the new church	1862-1863	Request lookup
CH2/979/11	Communion roll	1848-1853	Request lookup
CH2/979/12	Communion roll	1861	Request lookup
CH2/979/26	Minutes (Old and new churches)	1862-1876	Request lookup
CH2/979/29	Poors' fund accounts 1821-9 burial ground and miscellaneous accounts 1837 Includes extensive annual poor rolls	1821-1837	Request lookup
CH2/979/33	Communion roll	1835-1838	Request lookup
CH2/979/34	Communion roll	1848-1864	Request lookup
CH2/979/35	Communion roll	1861-1871	Request lookup
CH2/979/36	Communion roll	1859-1868	Request lookup
CH2/979/37	Communion roll	1876-1880	Request lookup
CH2/979/38	Communion roll	1880-1883	Request lookup
CH2/979/39	Communion roll	1884-1886	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 do not currently have any records for this parish.

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 residence	Defender name	Child birth	Order	Court
Mary HASTINGS Dumfries formerly Gorgie Road, Edinburgh	W J COWAN	25 Oct 1887	Order now	Edinburgh SC39/8/56

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

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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.

Male Heads of families 1840 (NRS Reference: CH2/979/10 pp. 2-9)
Forename	Surname	Occupation	Address	Notes
Thomas T	Duncan
John	Anderson	bookseller and member of session
David	Crosbie	grocer and member of session
Watson	Campbell	teacher and member of session
John	Gibson	cabinet maker and member of session
James	Gibson	hosier and member of session
Thomas	Harkness	writer and member of session
Christopher	Johnston	joiner and member of session
David	Johnston	writer and member of session
Wm	Milligan	hosier and member of session
John	Mckie	bookseller and member of session
James	Reid	furrier and member of session
Samuel	Patterson	innkeeper and member of session
Willm	Gemmill	teacher and member of session
Robert	Adamson	writer	Irish Street
William	Aitchison	upholsterer	Church Crescent	Record deleted; absent 6 communions
Wm	Aitken	brass founder	Queensberry Square	Record deleted; absent 10 communions
John	Allan		Fountainbleu
Andrew	Anderson	labourer	Nunholm	"St Marys"
William	Armstrong	mathematician	Church Place
Andrew	Anderson	dresser	Loreburn Street
John	Bain	cabinet maker	Chapel Street
James	Bendall	grocer	Friars Vennel
David	Blacklock	residing at	March Hill	"St Marys"
John	Brown	late innkeeper	Lea Park Cottage	absent 5 communions
Archd	Blacklock	surgeon	Castle Street	absent 5 communions
William	Black	late residing at Mavisgrove	Academy Street	address changed to Cassylands Troqueer
William	Brydon	porter	Sands
John	Corrie	mason	Queensberry Street	address changed to New Fleshmarket Street; absent 4 communions
Robert	Creighton	residing at	English Street	absent 6 communions; dead
Thomas	Creighton	mason	Academy Street
Terence	Collans	sawer	Glasgow Street Maxwelltown
John	Crichton	baker	Queensberry Street
Gilbert	Crocket	provision dealer	Assembly Street
Thomas	Dargue	shoemaker	Sloans Close Queensberry Square	dead
James	Dickson		Back Of Buccleuch Street
George	Donaldson	cabinet maker	Queensberry Street
Edwd	Dove	innkeeper	High Street
James	Dickson	baker	New Fleshmarket Street
James	Dalzell		Castle Street
John	Dunbar	residing at	Academy Street	from Old Church
Hugh	Farish	grain dealer	Academy Street	x next to name
James	Fraser	druggist	High Street
Wm	Forsyth	baker	Maxwelltown	record deleted; "New Com Oct past"
Bryce	Gillies	engraver	High Street
William	Goldie	writer	Irish Street
Robert	Grainger	china merchant	High Street
James	Gordon	writer	Buccleuch Street
Thomas	Glendinning	reading rooms	High Street	"St Mary's"
Joseph	Gray	cabinet maker	High Street
William	Glover		Friars Vennel
Thomas	Hairstanes		Buccleuch Street
John	Hannah		Of Hannahfield
Jacob	Hellon	clothier	Pleasance Cottage	record deleted; "elder St Marys"
Peter	Henderson	shoemaker	English Street
William	Howat	draper	High Street
Robert	Henry	residing with his mother	Academy Street
Robert	Hunter	mason	Brewery Street	absent 4 times
James	Heron	of Duncow	Marchfield
James	Henderson	grocer	Queensberry Street	"St Mary's Com"
William	Halliday	writer	Of Rosebank	"St Mary's Com"
Christopher	Harkness	writer	Nunholm
Thomas	Ireland	provision dealer	English Street	"St Mary's Com"
James	Johnston	flax dresser	St Andrew Street
	Jackson	labourer	Friars Vennel	absent 3 times
Robert	Kemp	writer	High Street
Quintin	Kennedy	smith	Greyfriars Street
Francis	Kerr	porter to carriers	Irish Street	record deleted; address changed to English St; "absent 10 times, sits in St Mary's but not a Comt"
George	Kerr	cabinet maker	Queensberry Street	"St Mary's Com"
Alexr	Kirk	cabinet maker	Queensberry Street
Thomas	Kerr	gun maker	English Street
John	Kirk	stocking maker	New Fleshmarket Street	absent 6 times
Francis	Miller		Queensberry Street	address changed to Nith Place
Thos	Millroy	joiner	High Street	"St Mary's Com"
James	Mundell	innkeeper	Queensberry Street
John	Murdoch	tailor	King Street
Francis	Murray	baker	High Street
John	Milligan	hosier	Queensberry Street	absent 8 times
James	Maxwell	cooper	Townhead Street
John	Morrine	of Carzield	Loreburn Street	record deleted; "communicated only once in Nov 1838"
John	Maxwell	joiner	King Street Maxwelltown
William	Monies	of Netherwood		from St Michaels
John	Mckieg Or Mccaig	carter	St Andrew Street
Hugh	Mcclellan	umbrella maker	Friars Vennel	absent 10 times
John	Mccormick	shoemaker	High Street
James K	Mcdiarmid	painter	Queen Street
Robert	Mcdowall		Castle Street	"St Mary's Comt"
Nathaniel	Mckie	tailor	Castle Street
James	Mclellan	shoemaker	High Street
Thomas	Mcmaster	warehouseman	Queensberry Street	record deleted; absent 5 times; left; "is it not now Market Street"
William	Mcnaught	spirit dealer	Friars Vennel
William	McQuhae	mason	Chapel Street
James	McVean		English Street	record deleted; absent 7 times
William	McNay		Townhead Street
Charles	Mcminn	stamp office	Irish Street
Thomas	Mcqueen	residing at	Greystone	"St Mary's Com"
Robert	Mcmillan	rector grammar school	Bank Street	"now a lodger"; "if Mr Mcmillan remains on the roll, so ought Mr Burnett, as they both lodge in same house. Neither are now housekeeping"
William	Mckie	smith	Hole In The Wa High Street
William	Mcdowall	cabinet maker	High Street	absent 10 times
William	Nelson	residing at	New Fleshmarket Street
John	Nelson	innkeeper	Friars Vennel	only once com, absent 5 times
John	Owens	sawer	Bank Street
William	Primrose	writer	Castle Street
William	Patterson	residing at	Castle Street	"St Mary's Com"
John	Payne	butcher	Friars Vennel	"St Mary's Com"
Adam	Rankine	wine merchant	Nith Place
Robert	Reid	cabinet maker	St David Street	Record deleted
James	Robson	taylor	Friars Vennel
Alexander	Robson	residing at	Coffee Close	late Chapel Street
Alexr	Robson	surgeon	Castle Street	"St Mary's Com"
Theodore	Roddan	stocking maker	Brewery Street
William	Roddan	weaver	Brewery Street
Charles	Rogerson	residing at	King Street	"St Mary's Com"
George	Reid	accountant	Commercial Bank	"St Mary's Com"
James	Rutherford		Millbank Troqueer	address changed to Corbelly Place
Robert	Scott	cooper	Queensberry Street
Robert	Scott	hosier	English Street	"St Mary's Com"
Walter	Shanks	shoemaker	Friars Vennel
James	Simpson	barber	Queensberry Street
Robert	Sloan	grocer	Queensberry Square	absent 8 times
Willm	Smith	perfumer	English Street
Archbald	Smith	weaver	Townhead Street
Adam	Stewart	joiner	Bank Street
	Swanson		Millbank Troqueer
John	Stewart	mason	Queensberry Street	address changed to Irish Street
Alexander	Taylor	shoemaker	St David Street	absent 6 times
William	Thomson	sheriff clerk	George Street
John	Thomson	joiner	Friars Vennel
Robt	Thomson	grocer	High Street
James	Thomson	writer	Castle Street
Willm	Tait	gardener	Albany Place	"St Mary's Com"
James	Thorburn	stocking maker	Queensberry Street	record deleted; absent 8 communions
Thomas	Thomson	wood merchant	Nithbank
Willm	Tait	hosier	Buccleuch Street
William	Wallace	grocer	Queensberry Square
George	Watson	tailor	Marchmont	"St Mary's Com"
Thomas	Wells	innkeeper	King Street	"St Mary's Com"
David	Weymess	shoemaker	High Street
James	Wightman	provision dealer	Academy Street	"St Mary's Com"
Joseph	Wright	cabinet maker	Buccleuch Street	"St Mary's Com"
William	Wright	stocking maker	Loreburn Street
Alexr	Wright	stocking maker	Corsons Cottage	absent 5 times
James	Wallace	tailor	Friars Vennel
John	Wilson	residenter	New Market Street	"he never was in Dr Duncan's list only present twice and has been absent two last Coms, where did he come from where now"
James	Wilson	shoemaker	Friars Vennel	record deleted; "only once in 10 occasions"
Robert	Mcmillan	rector	Academy Street	lodging with Mr Spalding surgeon
	Burnet	teacher of English	Academy Street	lodging with Mr Spalding surgeon

Kirk Session Records Index

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