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Eckford records

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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
James GIBSON 1849 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow TULLY 1856-1857 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William WILSON 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Helen AFFLECK6 September 1859Janet AFFLECKFind the father
Margaret AINSLIE25 March 1859Margaret AINSLIEFind the father
Sarah BIGGAR23 September 1859Mary BIGGARFind the father
James BOLLAN4 November 1873Mary BOLLANFind the father
Margaret CAVERS4 December 1856Joan CAVERSFind the father
Ann COCHRANE1 January 1869Ann COCHRANEFind the father
Ellen COCHRANE31 December 1868Ann COCHRANEFind the father
Janet Wilson CRAWFORD3 October 1862Jane CRAWFORDFind the father
John CROSBIE9 December 1870Catherine CROSBIEFind the father
James Wilson CURRIE24 June 1866Jessie CURRIEFind the father
Catherine DUNN21 May 1870Janet DUNNFind the father
Hugh GALLAGHER21 October 1872Margaret GALLAGHERFather found
David GROSEART17 September 1860Margaret GROSEARTFind the father
William GROSERT15 November 1855Margaret GROSERTFind the father
George HALIDAY12 September 1861Isabella HALIDAYFind the father
Mary Christian HALIDAY29 December 1855Christian HALIDAYFind the father
Catherine HALL7 November 1873Elizabeth HALLFind the father
Elisabeth Shiel HALL20 January 1873Catherine HALLFind the father
Euphemia HALL29 September 1867Elizabeth HALLFind the father
Robina Henderson HALL27 December 1869Margaret HALLFind the father
Adam HOWIE3 August 1872Agnes HOWIEFind the father
Agnes HUNTER27 January 1855Helen HUNTERFind the father
James HUNTER19 November 1859Helen HUNTERFind the father
Andrew JACK23 January 1857Jane JACKFind the father
Andrew JACK13 July 1858Ann JACKFind the father
Jane JACK30 January 1873Margaret JACKFind the father
William Jeffrey JACK4 January 1864Margaret JACKFind the father
Thomas JEFFREY23 October 1866Harriet JEFFREYFather found
Agnes JOHNSTON20 December 1857Isabella JOHNSTONFather found
Helen JOHNSTON28 January 1868Isabella JOHNSTONFind the father
Robert JOHNSTON23 February 1856Isabella JOHNSTONFind the father
James LAIDLAW30 October 1868Janet LAIDLAWFind the father
Isabella LAWSON2 April 1865Margaret LAWSONFind the father
James Kinghorn LILLICO18 December 1869Jane LILLICOFind the father
Mary Young LOWRIE17 July 1861Mary LOWRIEFind the father
Elisabeth MABEN6 May 1861Elisabeth MABENFind the father
Mary MCDOUGALL23 December 1865Catren MCDOUGALLFind the father
Thomas MIDDLEMISS5 February 1871Janet MIDDLEMISSFind the father
Robert MILLER9 October 1862Margaret MILLERFind the father
James MILLS25 January 1867Margaret MILLSFind the father
Margaret MITCHELL22 January 1861Isabella MITCHELLFind the father
Andrew MOORE12 December 1869Elizabeth MOOREFind the father
Margaret MOORE6 April 1871Margaret MOOREFind the father
Eliza MULLIN23 July 1865Martha MULLINFind the father
Helen NEIL16 December 1861Elizabeth NEILFind the father
William Scott PATTERSON11 November 1866Euphemia PATTERSONFind the father
Euphemia QUARRY11 February 1862Isabella QUARRYFind the father
William REID17 August 1874Margaret REIDFind the father
Margaret ROBERTSON28 May 1861Margaret ROBERTSONFind the father
Andrew SHIELLS27 October 1870Isabella SHIELLSFind the father
James SMITH3 December 1863Margaret SMITHFind the father
Mary SMITH23 May 1858Isabella SMITHFind the father
William SMITH4 March 1858Margaret SMITHFind the father
Margaret Hewie STEWART27 February 1867Jemima Combe Martin STEWARTFind the father
Agnes TAYLOR25 June 1868Mary TAYLORFather found
Jemima TERNENT27 September 1869Janet TERNENTFind the father
Euphemia THOMPSON7 December 1870Agnes THOMPSONFind the father
Alexander THOMSON21 June 1874Agnes THOMSONFind the father
Elisabeth Welsh THOMSON20 February 1869Helen THOMSONFind the father
James TURNER1 October 1869Margaret TURNERFind the father
Alexander WATSON3 May 1861Helen WATSONFind the father
Agnes WHELLANS9 February 1872Janet WHELLANSFind the father
James WHILENS30 June 1867Margaret WHILENSFind the father
John Friskin WILSON11 May 1868Agnes WILSONFind the father
Andrew Turnbull YEOMANS24 November 1870Elizabeth YEOMANSFind the father
Euphemia Margaret YOUNG24 January 1863Elisabeth YOUNGFind the father
Jane YOUNG12 February 1866Elisabeth YOUNGFind 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.