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Dunning 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/109/1 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Minutes 1783-1797 1820-1822 1835-1841 | 1783-1841 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/2 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Accounts 1849-1910 Register of Proclamations 1856-1910 Includes poor payment | 1849-1910 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/3 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Accounts Includes poor payments | 1715-1765 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/4 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Accounts The volume also contains merchant's accounts, Edinburgh 1764, relating to trade between Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Bordeaux. Includes poor payments | 1800-1807 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/5 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Accounts | 1818-1824 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/7 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Communion roll | 1848-1851 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/9 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Communion roll | 1861-1916 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/10 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Communion roll | 1867-1874 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/11 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Register of transference certificates Gives parish of origin | 1840-1847 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/12 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Minutes | 1841-1908 | Request lookup |
| CH2/109/13 | Dunning: St Serf's kirk session: Baptismal register | 1861-1971 | 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 Janet IMRIE or GLOAG | 1860 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Caroline PATERSON | 1852 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane ALLAN Dunning | David CROW | 14 Nov 1877 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/47 |
| Jessie CAMPBELL Broadfold, near Dunning | John BENVIE | 16 Jul 1878 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/48 |
| Jane CLARK Dunning | James MCNAUGHTON | 3 May 1877 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/46 |
| Margaret EWART Dunning, Perthshire | Henry MURRAY | 18 Jan 1887 Dunning, Perthshire | Order now | Glasgow SC36/14/75 |
| Margaret FENTON Dunning | Thomas WILSON | 11 Sep 1876 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/46 |
| Jane Ann GARDINER or LAWSON Dunning | James MCLEISH | 7 Jan 1847 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/42 |
| Jean IRVINE Newton of Pitcairns, Dunning | Donald DEWAR | 19 Nov 1876 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/46 |
| Margaret ISDAILE Dunning | William STEWART | 11 Aug 1877 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/46 |
| Ann LAWSON Dunning | Charles BOWIE | 27 Sep 1854 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/41 |
| Jessie LAWSON Dunning | John MCGLASHAN | 19 Oct 1878 Dunning | Order now | Perth SC49/4/47 |
| Christina MCLAREN Dunning | James MARSHALL | 5 Mar 1846 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/42 |
| Christina MCLAREN Dunning | James MARSHALL | 2 Aug 1853 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/42 |
| Elizabeth MCLEISH Bridge of Earn Road, Dunning | David ALLAN | 7 Jan 1885 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/50 |
| Elizabeth MCLEISH Bridge of Earn Road, Dunning | David ALLAN | 7 Jan 1885 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/50 |
| Jessie MILLER Dunning | John JACKSON | 10 Apr 1881 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/48 |
| Janet MITCHELL Dunning | John CUNNINGHAM | 7 Aug 1887 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/50 |
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 ADAMS | 29 September 1870 | Catherine ADAMS | Find the father |
| John ALLAN | 31 March 1858 | Mary ALLAN | Find the father |
| Mary ALLAN | 18 September 1872 | Jessie ALLAN | Find the father |
| Agnes ANDERSON | 21 September 1874 | Catherine ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Catherine Winton ANDERSON | 29 November 1857 | Margaret ANDERSON | Father found |
| James ANDERSON | 20 January 1869 | Catherine ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret ANDERSON | 6 February 1864 | Marjory ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Mary ANDERSON | 4 June 1867 | Marjory ANDERSON | Father found |
| Alexander BALLINGALL | 1 September 1858 | Anne BALLINGALL | Find the father |
| David BALLINGALL | 14 August 1861 | Ann BALLINGALL | Find the father |
| David BALLINGALL | 27 January 1866 | Mary BALLINGALL | Find the father |
| Jane Duncan BALLINGALL | 27 May 1863 | Mary BALLINGALL | Find the father |
| William James Hope Grant Smitton BALMAIN | 21 June 1874 | Elisabeth BALMAIN | Father found |
| Barbara BOAG | 9 November 1863 | Christina BOAG | Find the father |
| James BOAG | 14 August 1864 | Isabella BOAG | Find the father |
| Jane Ann BRUCE | 2 May 1868 | Margaret BRUCE | Find the father |
| Mary CALLUM | 20 August 1858 | Mary CALLUM | Find the father |
| Alexander CAMPBELL | 3 May 1859 | Elisabeth CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Jane CAMPBELL | 9 September 1862 | Margaret CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Janet CAMPBELL | 6 November 1865 | Margaret CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Andrew CARMICHAEL | 16 February 1868 | Isabella CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| Ann CARMICHAEL | 13 January 1864 | Isabella CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| Margaret CHRISTIE | 5 July 1872 | Catherine CHRISTIE | Find the father |
| Adam CLARK | 13 July 1872 | Catherine CLARK | Find the father |
| Alexander CLARK | 20 April 1862 | Christian CLARK | Find the father |
| Christina CLARK | 14 June 1865 | Margaret CLARK | Father found |
| Christina CLARK | 14 May 1871 | Christian CLARK | Find the father |
| Jessie CLARK | 3 March 1868 | Christian CLARK | Find the father |
| John CLARK | 20 August 1866 | Agnes CLARK | Find the father |
| Mary CLARK | 6 November 1864 | Christian CLARK | Find the father |
| Robert CLARK | 8 August 1870 | Agnes CLARK | Find the father |
| John CLOAG | 21 April 1865 | Janet CLOAG | Find the father |
| Amelia CREE | 25 January 1867 | Mary CREE | Find the father |
| David CREE | 14 July 1855 | Isabella CREE | Find the father |
| Dougall CREE | 4 August 1866 | Elisabeth CREE | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Garvie CREE | 7 November 1858 | Isabella CREE | Find the father |
| Isabella CREE | 21 May 1859 | Elisabeth CREE | Find the father |
| James CREE | 7 December 1863 | Elisabeth CREE | Find the father |
| Margaret CREE | 1 March 1873 | Mary CREE | Find the father |
| Mary Ann CREE | 4 October 1863 | Mary CREE | Find the father |
| David CRICHTON | 4 October 1862 | Elisabeth CRICHTON | Find the father |
| Alexander CROW | 1 February 1863 | Mary CROW | Find the father |
| John Young DAVIDSON | 28 March 1869 | Jessie Young DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Margaret DAVIDSON | 7 January 1856 | Margaret DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Christina DAVIE | 7 October 1858 | Janet DAVIE | Find the father |
| James DEUCHARS | 16 June 1869 | Eleanor DEUCHARS | Find the father |
| Helen Catherine Ann DUNCAN | 8 June 1863 | Margaret DUNCAN | Find the father |
| Jessie DUNCAN | 3 June 1870 | Isabella DUNCAN | Find the father |
| John DUNCAN | 18 August 1866 | Margaret DUNCAN | Find the father |
| David EWAN | 12 June 1865 | Margaret EWAN | Find the father |
| Mary EWAN | 9 May 1865 | Mary EWAN | Find the father |
| James EWING | 7 November 1857 | Mary EWING | Find the father |
| Charles FERGUSON | 11 November 1867 | Catherine FERGUSON | Find the father |
| John FLOCKHART | 24 February 1860 | Janet FLOCKHART | Find the father |
| Ann FULTON | 18 May 1857 | Elisabeth FULTON | Find the father |
| James FULTON | 12 July 1871 | Elisabeth FULTON | Find the father |
| John GLOAG | 11 February 1861 | Janet GLOAG | Find the father |
| Agnes HENDERSON | 12 September 1861 | Janet HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Ann HENDERSON | 3 September 1871 | Helen HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Jane HENDERSON | 13 December 1872 | Janet HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Jessie HENDERSON | 19 June 1869 | Janet HENDERSON | Find the father |
| John HENDERSON | 13 April 1872 | Ann HENDERSON | Find the father |
| James HORN | 1 June 1863 | Ann HORN | Find the father |
| William ISDALE | 7 November 1860 | Helen ISDALE | Find the father |
| Jane JONES | 8 May 1868 | Sarah JONES | Find the father |
| Margaret LAW | 1 November 1866 | Isabella LAW | Father found |
| Robert LAW | 3 May 1869 | Isabella LAW | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Deuchar LAWSON | 21 March 1865 | Ann LAWSON | Find the father |
| Janet LAWSON | 15 March 1871 | Ann LAWSON | Find the father |
| William LAWSON | 12 February 1860 | Catherine Kinmonth LAWSON | Find the father |
| Mary Janet LOVET | 26 July 1867 | Mary LOVET | Father found |
| Elisabeth MARSHALL | 19 August 1871 | Elisabeth MARSHALL | Find the father |
| John MARSHALL | 12 March 1873 | Elisabeth MARSHALL | Find the father |
| Michael MARSHALL | 1 May 1864 | Christina MARSHALL | Find the father |
| Williamina MARSHALL | 2 October 1862 | Elisabeth MARSHALL | Find the father |
| Helen MCFARLANE | 23 August 1855 | Margaret MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| Margaret MCGREGOR | 25 July 1865 | Margaret MCGREGOR | Find the father |
| Margaret MCKEITH | 30 December 1865 | Isabella MCKEITH | Find the father |
| Thomas MCKILLOP | 10 March 1858 | Ann MCKILLOP | Father found |
| John Hopetown Malcolm Gallway MCLEISH | 9 February 1872 | Betsy MCLEISH | Find the father |
| Georgina MENZIES | 13 December 1868 | Margaret MENZIES | Father found |
| Dougall MILLER | 17 December 1867 | Janet MILLER | Find the father |
| James MORISON | 20 October 1872 | Margaret R. MORISON | Find the father |
| James MORRISON | 19 April 1863 | Jessie Cunningham MORRISON | Find the father |
| Joan MORRISON | 7 May 1871 | Jessie MORRISON | Find the father |
| Helen Martin MOUNTAGE | 12 June 1873 | Ann MOUNTAGE | Find the father |
| James MURRAY | 16 February 1858 | Ann MURRAY | Find the father |
| Robert MURRAY | 1 August 1857 | Janet MURRAY | Find the father |
| Robert MURRAY | 29 June 1866 | Jemima MURRAY | Find the father |
| David NEWLANDS | 17 December 1860 | Catherine NEWLANDS | Find the father |
| James NICHOL | 23 February 1863 | Margaret NICHOL | Father found |
| William OACKLEY | 18 August 1870 | Margaret OACKLEY | Find the father |
| Janet REID | 13 April 1856 | Janet REID | Find the father |
| Catherine Paton ROBERTSON | 8 November 1868 | Catherine Paton ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Henry Cross ROBERTSON | 5 December 1866 | Catherine Paton ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Margaret ROBERTSON | 19 June 1859 | Elisabeth ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| William ROBERTSON | 2 September 1871 | Catherine ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| James ROSS | 23 October 1858 | Agnes ROSS | Find the father |
| Christina RUTHERFORD | 30 April 1858 | Jean RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Isabella Cairns RUTHERFORD | 3 December 1869 | Margaret RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| John RUTHERFORD | 2 April 1864 | Margaret RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Margaret RUTHERFORD | 9 February 1859 | Margaret RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Peter RUTHERFORD | 27 October 1861 | Margaret RUTHERFORD | Father found |
| Christina SAGE | 2 May 1870 | Margaret SAGE | Find the father |
| George SALMOND | 9 October 1862 | Janet SALMOND | Find the father |
| Catherine Ann SCOBBIE | 18 August 1864 | Mary SCOBBIE | Find the father |
| Janet SCOBIE | 6 August 1873 | Mary SCOBIE | Find the father |
| Margaret SCOBIE | 14 March 1870 | Margaret SCOBIE | Father found |
| Mary SCOBIE | 4 December 1873 | Margaret SCOBIE | Find the father |
| William SCOBIE | 4 December 1873 | Margaret SCOBIE | Find the father |
| Walker SHARP | 4 October 1863 | Margaret SHARP | Find the father |
| Janet SINCLAIR | 10 March 1857 | Janet SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| Hugh SMITH | 3 July 1873 | Helen SMITH | Find the father |
| Christina STEWART | 27 August 1874 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| James WATSON | 20 December 1869 | Margaret WATSON | Find the father |
| James WILSON | 28 November 1867 | Mary WILSON | Father found |
| Mary WILSON | 13 October 1872 | Mary WILSON | Find the father |
| Barbara WINTON | 7 March 1856 | Janet WINTON | Find the father |
| Catherine Somerville WINTON | 3 March 1869 | Lilias WINTON | Find the father |
| Charles WINTON | 29 April 1862 | Mary WINTON | Find the father |
| Elisabeth WINTON | 8 October 1867 | Elisabeth WINTON | Find the father |
| James WINTON | 12 April 1874 | Ann WINTON | Find the father |
| Jane WINTON | 1 June 1859 | Marjory WINTON | Find the father |
| Jane WINTON | 13 June 1859 | Elisabeth WINTON | Find the father |
| Margaret WINTON | 30 August 1862 | Ann WINTON | Find the father |
| Thomas WINTON | 4 May 1859 | Ann WINTON | Find the father |
| Thomas WINTON | 20 May 1864 | Elisabeth WINTON | Find the father |
| William WINTON | 17 February 1862 | Elisabeth WINTON | Find 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.
| Name | Date of death | Order | Asylums | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHILLIPS, Alexander forester Born about 1846 Single Previous residence: Kinross and General Prison, Perth Chargeable parish: Kinross | 14 Mar 1912 | Order images (2) | Fife District Asylum Perth District Asylum | 1897-1898 |
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.
