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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

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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

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Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/100/3Dunbarney kirk session: Minutes and accounts.
Minutes 1682-1702
Accounts 1691-1702		1682-1702Request lookup
CH2/100/4Dunbarney kirk session: Minutes and accounts.
Minutes 1702-1717
Accounts 1702-1723		1702-1723Request lookup
CH2/100/5Dunbarney kirk session: Minutes and accounts.
Minutes 1717-1744
Accounts 1723-1742		1717-1744Request lookup
CH2/100/6Dunbarney kirk session: Minutes and accounts.
Minutes 1744-1800
Accounts 1742-1793		1742-1800Request lookup
CH2/100/7Dunbarney kirk session: Minutes and accounts1794-1830Request lookup
CH2/100/8Dunbarney kirk session: Minute book1831-1876Request lookup
CH2/100/9Dunbarney kirk session: Minute book1877-1930Request lookup
CH2/100/11Dunbarney kirk session: Communicants' roll book1855-1876Request lookup
CH2/100/12Dunbarney kirk session: Communicants' roll book1879-1893Request lookup
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CH2/100/18Dunbarney kirk session: Cash book
Including collections, schemes, etc.		1831-1930Request lookup
CH2/100/24Dunbarney kirk session: Baptismal register1879-1911Request lookup
CH2/100/25Dunbarney kirk session: Proclamation register1880-1916Request 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.

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Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes		Order imagesDeliverance
Mary CHALMERS 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of parochial relief
Widow Eliza DAVIDSON 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
Peter MACDONALD 1862 (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
Margaret ARCHIBALD
Kintillo, Bridge of Earn		George MILLER5 Nov 1884Order nowPerth
SC49/4/50
Alison CHEYNE or FERGUSON
Carmouth, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire
formerly Longriggend, Airdrie		Thomas MALCOLM22 Apr 1877
Auchintibber, near Blantyre		Order nowHamilton
SC37/7/24
Elizabeth FORDYCE
Bridge of Earn		Joseph GRAHAM22 Jan 1879Order nowPerth
SC49/4/47
Isabella FORGAN
Balmanno, Bridge of Earn		Robert SMEATON23 Aug 1884Order nowPerth
SC49/4/49
Alison Cheyne Or Ferguson Or HALDANE
Carmouth, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire
formerly at Longriggend, Airdrie		Thomas MALCOLM4 Jul 1878
Hamilton Prison		Order nowHamilton
SC37/7/24
Janet HEGGIE
Summerfield, Bridge of Earn		Alexander SEATON4 Dec 1878
Dunbarney		Order nowPerth
SC49/4/47
Joanna KETTLE or COLVILLE
Bridge of Earn, Dunbarney		David SMITH5 Apr 1883
Bridge of Earn, Dunbarney		Order nowPerth
SC49/4/50
Joanna KETTLE or COLVILLE
Bridge of Earn, Dunbarney		David SMITH15 Nov 1884
Bridge of Earn, Dunbarney		Order nowPerth
SC49/4/50
Joanna KETTLES or COLVILLE
Bridge of Earn		Andrew BENVIE29 Sep 1877Order nowPerth
SC49/4/47

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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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Niel Stewart BROWN8 September 1862Jean BROWNFind the father
Mary Jane CHAPMAN10 November 1867Mary Ann CHAPMANFind the father
Allan DAVIDSON21 April 1865Jessie DAVIDSONFind the father
John DAVIDSON21 April 1865Jessie DAVIDSONFind the father
John Patton DOBBIE23 September 1871Elizabeth DOBBIEFather found
Ann DUNCAN3 February 1863Isabella DUNCANFind the father
Georgina FORBES23 October 1868Ann FORBESFind the father
William GENTLE22 January 1857Agnes GENTLEFind the father
Christina Helen HERD12 October 1864Helen HERDFind the father
Margaret HIGGINS23 February 1862Janet HIGGINSFind the father
Catharine HUTCHISON11 March 1857Catharine HUTCHISONFind the father
Lizzie Knox LAWSON1 November 1870Magdalene LAWSONFind the father
Ann LOW13 January 1861Ann LOWFind the father
James Christie LUMSDALE12 October 1859Jane LUMSDALEFind the father
Alexander MCARCHER7 May 1862Catharine MCARCHERFind the father
Catharine MCDONALD23 July 1864Catharine MCDONALDFind the father
Christina MCDONALD6 March 1870Jessie MCDONALDFind the father
James MCDONALD22 July 1867Jessie MCDONALDFather found
James Kettles MCDONALD30 January 1866Anne MCDONALDFind the father
Jessie MCDONALD23 March 1860Catharine MCDONALDFind the father
Susan Anne MCDONALD3 March 1873Janet MCDONALDFind the father
Ann MCGREGOR12 July 1863Ann MCGREGORFind the father
Elizabeth MCGREGOR22 July 1869Anne MCGREGORFind the father
Grace MCGREGOR18 April 1864Christina MCGREGORFind the father
Alexander MCKENZIE9 January 1870Jane MCKENZIEFather found
Janet Stewart MCLEOD15 July 1874Helen MCLEODFind the father
James Stewart MORRISON15 April 1865Isabella MORRISONFind the father
James Buchan MURDOCH5 October 1861Janet MURDOCHFind the father
Anne NESS29 October 1872Anne NESSFind the father
James RAMSAY13 March 1872Marion RAMSAYFind the father
Margaret REID20 March 1856Isabella REIDFind the father
Duncan ROBERTSON30 July 1861Susan ROBERTSONFind the father
John Grant ROBERTSON15 July 1868Janet ROBERTSONFind the father
Charles STEWART29 August 1862Margaret STEWARTFind the father
Helen STEWART25 February 1862Helen STEWARTFather found
Frank Leggat WITTET14 June 1866Janet WITTETFind the father

General Register of Lunatics

This index shows patients from this parish admitted to asylums. To order a record click on the Order images link.
General Register of Lunatics index MC7
NameDate of deathOrderAsylumsYears
KIRK or ROBERTSON, Mary
housewife
Born about 1823
Married
Previous residence: Bridge of Earn, Dunbarney
Chargeable parish: Collessie
5 Dec 1892Order images (2)Fife District Asylum
Perth District Asylum		1890
ROBERTSON or KIRK, Mary
housewife
Born about 1823
Married
Previous residence: Bridge of Earn, Dunbarney
Chargeable parish: Collessie
5 Dec 1892Order images (2)Fife District Asylum
Perth District Asylum		1890

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.

Rev Mr John Anderson

Elisabeth Angus

Robert Brough

James Clement

James Deas

William Dow

George Finlay

Margaret Garvie

Ann Gelately

Ann Hay

John Hutchinson

John Hutchison

Wm Lindsay

Isabel Millar

Mary Millar

John Mitchell

James Murray

Jean Peggie

Andrew Porter

Janet Smith

John Thomson

Name: Rev Mr John Anderson

Date: 22/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Mr John Anderson

Date: 12/02/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Mr John Anderson

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Mr John Anderson

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Mr John Anderson

Date: 13/05/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Mr John Anderson

Date: 24/06/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Mr John Anderson

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Mr John Anderson

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Mr John Anderson

Date: 08/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation:

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Elisabeth Angus

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Antenuptial fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared Elisabeth Angus and Ann Gelately who confessed their sin - Elisabeth Angus of antinuptial [sic] fornication- and Ann Gelately of fornication. They were both solemnly rebuked - and absolved.'

Other names: Elisabeth Angus; Ann Gelately

Name: Robert Brough

Date: 24/06/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation:

Address: St Madoes Parish

Role: Compeared

Other parish: Dunbarney parish - East Kinmonth

Details: 'Compeared Robert Brough presently living in St Madoes parish having left this parish at Martinmas last:- and confessed himself to have been guilty of fornication with Ann Hay - both at the time of the sin were living in East Kinmonth in this parish. Ordered to appear this day fortnight.'

Other names: Robert Brough; Ann Hay

Name: Robert Brough

Date: 08/07/1832

Case type: Antenuptial fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared Robert Brough - in terms of last minute - who- having married Ann Hay -was rebuked for the sin of antinuptial [sic] fornication - and absolved.'

Other names: Robert Brough; Ann Hay

Name: James Clement

Date: 12/02/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Clement

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Clement

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Clement

Date: 13/05/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Clement

Date: 24/06/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Clement

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Clement

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Clement

Date: 08/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Deas

Date: 22/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Deas

Date: 12/02/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Deas

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Deas

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Deas

Date: 13/05/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Deas

Date: 24/06/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Deas

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Deas

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Deas

Date: 08/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: William Dow

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Antenuptial fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: Mary is his wife

Other names: William Dow; Mary Millar

Name: William Dow

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Discipline

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: Mary is his wife

Other names: William Dow; Mary Millar

Name: George Finlay

Date: 22/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: George Finlay

Date: 12/02/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: George Finlay

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: George Finlay

Date: 13/05/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: George Finlay

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: George Finlay

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Margaret Garvie

Date: 13/05/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation:

Address: Kinmonth

Role: Compeared

Details: Compeared Margaret Garvie formerly residing at Kinmonth who having - in terms of a former minute - confessed herself guilty of fornication with John Thompson farm servant at Elcho in Rhynd parish - and the said John Thompson having absconded:- after repeated enquiries, the session being disappointed in finding him out. Think it their duty - after the space of upwards of two years - to take Margaret Garvie on discipline:- and accordingly they have this day - rebuked and absolved her from the sandal.'

Other names: Margaret Garvie; John Thomson

Name: Ann Gelately

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared Elisabeth Angus and Ann Gelately who confessed their sin - Elisabeth Angus of antinuptial [sic] fornication- and Ann Gelately of fornication. They were both solemnly rebuked - and absolved.'

Other names: Elisabeth Angus; Ann Gelately

Name: Ann Hay

Date: 24/06/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation:

Address: East Kinmonth

Role: mention as party

Other names: Robert Brough; Ann Hay

Name: Ann Hay

Date: 08/07/1832

Case type: Antenuptial fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: mention as party

Details: now Robert's wife

Other names: Robert Brough; Ann Hay

Name: John Hutchinson

Date: 22/01/1832

Case type: Fornication; antenuptial fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Other parish: Tillicoultry

Details: Compeared John Hutchinson who confessed himself to have been guilty of the sin of fornication with Janet Smith in the parish of Tillicoultry. He Produced a certificate of his being in communion with the Church from the session of Tillicoultry - previous to that time:- Confessed also that he had been guilty of the sin of antinuptial fornication with his wife Jean Peggie - the session agreed to take him and his wife upon discipline on some future day and meantime exhorted him to repentance.'

Other names: John Hutchinson; Janet Smith; Jean Peggie

Name: John Hutchison

Date: 12/02/1832

Case type: Discipline

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared in terms of last minute - John Hutchinson and Jean Peggie - his wife who being solemnly rebuked - and exhorted to future good behaviour were absolved from the scandal'

Other names: John Hutchison; Jean Peggie

Name: Wm Lindsay

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation:

Address: Easter Moncrieffe

Role: mention as employer

Details: employed Millar and employs Porter

Other names: Isabel Millar; Wm Lindsay; Andrew Porter

Name: Isabel Millar

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation:

Address: Easter Moncrieffe

Role: Compeared as mother

Details: 'Compeared Isabel Millar - lately servant to Wm Lindsay Easter Moncrieffe - who confessed having brought forth a child in fornication about seven weeks ago - and accused Andrew Porter farmservant thereof being it's father. The said Andrew Porter was ordered to be summoned to appear this day fortnight.'

Other names: Isabel Millar; Wm Lindsay; Andrew Porter

Name: Mary Millar

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Discipline

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared:- in terms of last minute - William Dow and Mary Millar his wife - who having produced testimonials of their former good behaviour - were solemnly rebuked and absolved from the Scandal.'

Other names: William Dow; Mary Millar

Name: Mary Millar

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Antenuptial fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared William Dow and Mary Millar - his wife:- and confessed themselves to be guilty of the sin of antenuptial [sic] fornication. The session considering that William Dow has never been in Communion with any congregation - and that his wife Mary Millar belongs to a Relief Congregation - delay proceeding farther with this case - till information can be obtained regarding their former behaviour.'

Other names: William Dow; Mary Millar

Name: John Mitchell

Date: 22/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Mitchell

Date: 12/02/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Mitchell

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Mitchell

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Mitchell

Date: 13/05/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Mitchell

Date: 24/06/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Mitchell

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Mitchell

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: John Mitchell

Date: 08/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Murray

Date: 22/01/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Murray

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Murray

Date: 01/04/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Murray

Date: 13/05/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Murray

Date: 24/06/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Murray

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Murray

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address:

Role: Sederunt

Name: Jean Peggie

Date: 22/01/1832

Case type: Antenuptial fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: mention as party

Details: John's wife

Other names: John Hutchinson; Janet Smith; Jean Peggie

Name: Jean Peggie

Date: 12/02/1832

Case type: Discipline

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'Compeared in terms of last minute - John Hutchinson and Jean Peggie - his wife who being solemnly rebuked - and exhorted to future good behaviour were absolved from the scandal'

Other names: John Hutchison; Jean Peggie

Name: Andrew Porter

Date: 05/07/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation:

Address: Easter Moncrieffe

Role: Alledged Father mention

Other names: Isabel Millar; Wm Lindsay; Andrew Porter

Name: Janet Smith

Date: 22/01/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: mention as party

Other names: John Hutchinson; Janet Smith; Jean Peggie

Name: John Thomson

Date: 13/05/1832

Case type: Fornication

Occupation: farm servant

Address: Elcho, Rhynd Parish

Role: mention as party

Details: formerly Rhynd Parish, now absconded

Other names: Margaret Garvie; John Thomson