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Edderton 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/1411/1Minutes 1821-51; Minutes 1857; Minutes 1860-72; Minutes 1877-1920 (includes communion rolls); Proclamations 1884-1912;
Baptisms 1867-1912		1821-1920Request 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:
  • £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
Widow Margaret CLUNAR 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
Georgina MCASKILL 1852 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Eppy MUNRO 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
Eppy MUNRO 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused - see 211 1851
Hugh MUNRO 1853-1854 (2)Order imagesDead
Catherine REID 1854 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed (poorhouse)
Widow Margaret REID or ROSS 1849 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jean ROBERTSON 1860 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Alexander ROSS 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused - informal
Neil ROSS 1848 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed

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
Ann CHISHOLM1 October 1863Mary Ann CHISHOLMFind the father
William Ross DRYDEN17 May 1874Ellen Ann DRYDENFind the father
Alexandrina FRASER9 March 1864Catherine FRASERFind the father
Margaret FRIDGE7 March 1865Mary Ann FRIDGEFind the father
Annie MCKAY3 December 1869Williamina MCKAYFind the father
John William MCPHERSON12 July 1868Margaret MCPHERSONFind the father
Mary Ann MCPHERSON22 January 1871Margaret MCPHERSONFind the father
Ann MUNRO22 December 1867Jessie MUNROFind the father
Alexandrina REID12 October 1860Catherine REIDFind the father
Ann ROBERTSON30 June 1864Isabella ROBERTSONFind the father
George ROSS6 February 1859Bell ROSSFind the father
Isabella ROSS13 April 1864Christina ROSSFind the father
Niel ROSS30 March 1867Christina ROSSFind the father
William ROSS27 March 1865Eppy ROSSFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/1411/1 pp. 95-96)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
FinlayMathesonschoolmaster and elder
MurdochMcleodmiller and elder
JamesMcgregortenant and elderRaamore
DonaldRossWeaver and elderHill
AlexrRosstenantUpper Edderton
AlexrDingwallKirk Officer
AlexrRossHillalias McStiddan
DonaldRossHillalias Callum
WmRosspensionerBogrue
MurdochCampbelltenantRaanich
JohnRossBalblair
PeterRobertsonMuyblanie
AlexrRosstenantGluicjalias Greugach
AlexrMcphersontenantCeanstuil
AlexrMckaytenantPollgharry
AlexrFrazerArdvannie
EwenMcdearmidshepherdCoillmore
RalphReidMidfearn
WilliamSutherlandHill
WmMurrayof Westfield"occasionally resides at Ardmore in this parish, and has for years been in full communion with the church"

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.