Records -> Peeblesshire
Eddleston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/120/2 | Eddleston Kirk Session - Minutes, accounts and baptisms. Minutes 1697-1715 Accounts 1697-1709 Baptisms 1697-1699 | 1697-1715 | Request lookup |
| CH2/120/3 | Eddleston Kirk Session - Minutes and accounts. Includes poor rolls | 1713-1725 | Request lookup |
| CH2/120/4 | Eddleston Kirk Session - Minutes | 1726-1751 | Request lookup |
| CH2/120/5 | Eddleston Kirk Session - Minutes and accounts. Minutes 1823-1856 Accounts 1798-1856 Accounts include poor rolls | 1798-1856 | Request lookup |
| CH2/120/6 | Eddleston Kirk Session - Poor's Accounts and minutes | 1752-1781 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet BROWN | 1880 (3) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Janet COLLINS | 1869 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Janet COLLINS | 1874 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Jane INGLIS | 1857 (5) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jane INGLIS | 1861 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jane INGLIS | 1862 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| David JOHNSTON | 1854 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Isabella JOHNSTON | 1852 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| David JOHNSTONE | 1857 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jane OVENS | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Elizabeth SOMERVILLE or JOHNSTON | 1849 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Helen STODDART | 1872 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Janet THOM or BORLAND | 1864 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Janet TURNBULL | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Marian YOUNG | 1848 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet COSSAR Cottage Bank, Eddleston, Peeblesshire | Michael RENWICK | 19 Dec 1851 | Order now | Edinburgh SC39/8/32 |
| Mary GILCHRIST Hattonknowe, near Eddleston, Peeblesshire | James COOK | 14 Jan 1885 | Order now | Edinburgh SC39/8/54 |
| Jane MCKENZIE Eddleston, near Peebles formerly Nether Horsburgh, Innerleithen | John COSSAR | 29 Jun 1885 | Order now | Edinburgh SC39/8/54 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angelina AITKEN | 27 January 1865 | Marion AITKEN | Find the father |
| Christina BENNET | 14 May 1865 | Agnes BENNET | Find the father |
| George BRUNTON | 12 December 1864 | Helen BRUNTON | Find the father |
| Alexander BURNS | 24 December 1871 | Agnes BURNS | Find the father |
| Jane COWAN | 12 April 1859 | Jane COWAN | Find the father |
| Janet COWAN | 13 February 1860 | Jessie COWAN | Find the father |
| Margaret DICK | 6 May 1862 | Mary DICK | Find the father |
| Agnes Smith HARPER | 12 February 1862 | Janet HARPER | Find the father |
| Janet HARPER | 19 September 1856 | Jannet HARPER | Find the father |
| Robert Smith INGLIS | 24 December 1864 | Elizabeth INGLIS | Find the father |
| Janet IRELAND | 7 November 1859 | Catherine IRELAND | Find the father |
| Thomas IRELAND | 31 December 1866 | Jane IRELAND | Find the father |
| Jeanie Stewart LITTLE | 18 January 1874 | Isabella LITTLE | Find the father |
| Catherine MACRAE | 12 July 1861 | Isabella MACRAE | Find the father |
| Helen MACRAE | 4 September 1863 | Isabella MACRAE | Father found |
| Anne PATERSON | 7 February 1863 | Isabella PATERSON | Find the father |
| James PORTEOUS | 9 October 1863 | Helen PORTEOUS | Find the father |
| Jane PORTEOUS | 4 March 1861 | Helen PORTEOUS | Father found |
| Alison PRESTON | 13 July 1872 | Isabella PRESTON | Find the father |
| Charles WALDIE | 1 June 1871 | Jane WALDIE | Find the father |
| Janet Hope WATSON | 15 November 1873 | Janet WATSON | Find the father |
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.
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.
