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Edinburgh Lady Glenorchy's 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.
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 do not currently have any records for this parish.

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 currently found any decrees for this parish.

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.

We have not found any relevant records for this parish.

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.

Male Heads of families 1836 (NRS Reference: CH2/129/1 pp. 326-329)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
AndrewAdamswine merchant26 Windsor Street
JohnAdamsonservant
ThomasAirdshoemakerWater Of Leith
JamesAlexanderTrinity Hospital
GeorgeAnderson5 James Place
HughAndersonshoemaker2 Little King Street
JamesAndersonBoyd's Entry St Mary Wynd
JamesAndersonupholstererJohn's Close Canongate
AlexrAitchisonbakerLittle King Street
AlexrAitkenCheyne Street
JamesAitchison72 Queen Street
WilliamBankstailorCatherine Street
PeterBegbie2 Drummond Street
GeorgeBlackmessengerJames Square
SamuelBlackNotingham Place
JohnBonar19 Carlton Place
JamesBonarWS15 York Place
JohnBooklasssmithOld Fishmarket Close
AlexanderBraidEast Register Street
CharlesBrownshoemakerCalton Hill
JamesBrownshoemakerLow Calton
JohnBrownbootmakerPrinces Street
RichardBrownhosierAnnandale Street
AlexanderBruce"Sir W Forbes Bt"
AndrewBuistbaker4 Davie Street
HenryBuistbakerDublin Street
DavidBailliegrocerCalton
JamesBremner7 East Adam Street
DavidCampbellshoemakerCanal Street
JamesCampbellshoemakerRose Street
JamesCampbellservant49 Queen Street
JamesCampbellBrowns Square
HenryCarse3 Jamaica Street
WilliamChalmerstailorFrederick Street
JamesCharlesJames Square
JohnClarkslaterChissell's Court
DavidCormacksmithShakespere Square
WilliamCowanwrightWest Cross Causeway
JohnCouplandbookbinderHyndford's Close
ThomasCrookstailorRose Street
RobertCornwallservantWilliam Street
WilliamCummingcarver3 Potterow
GeorgeCarnegieshoemakerFountain Bridge
JohnDavidsontailorRoxburgh Street
JamesDewarcabinet makerCanal Street
JamesDicksonJames Square
DicksonsurgeonUnion Place
RobertDougalcabinet makerElder Street
JohnEdmondcabinet maker
JohnEdwardswrightBrown Place Abbey Hill
DavidFarmerbaker9 Calton Street
WilliamFinlaysonQueensferry Street
JohnFerrieservantCameron Bank
AlexanderGilchristGillespie's Hospital
JohnGilchristCourant Office28 India Place
AndrewGreigcarpet manufacturer28 Gayfield Square
ThomasGreigwright28 Gayfield Square
WilliamGraywright3 Saunders Street
JohnGrantwriterArchibald Place
JohnHayagentSt Andrew Street
WilliamHalketshoemakerRose Terrace
PeterHendersonbuilderUnion Place
JohnHowellpoly artistRose Streethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howell_%28polyartist%29
GeorgeHewatwine merchantGeorge Street
WilliamHillhouseJamaica Street
JohnInveraritycabinet makerCanal Street
FrederickJohnstoneBankerBuccleuch Place
AlexrJamesCowan & CoRose Street
WilliamJeffreymanufacturerSalisbury Street
JamesKempQueens Place Greenside
JamesKennedy23 Dublin Street
JamesKennedycoal agentPark Street
JamesKnoxCanal Street
JohnLaingbookbinderLeith Wynd
CharlesLamondtailor25 Thistle Street
ThomasLattaJames Place
DavidLawsonropemakerLeith
RobertLeesservantNiddry
GeorgeLesslieCowan & CoPrinces Street
GeorgeLindsayNorthumberland Street
JohnLowGillespie's Hospital
AlexanderLyalltailorBarony Street
RobertLindsayBaxter's Place
GeorgeMonropawnbrokerSalisbury Street
JohnMarshallplumberWest Register Street
WilliamMathieson10 Dublin Street
G LMaxwellbrewerSt John's Canongate
JamesMillerwrightLeith WyndAdded later
WilliamMathieson10 Dublin Street
AndrewMonrogardenerNorton Place
WiMortonlapidary18 Lothian Street
RichardMonroclerk31 Davidson's Close Canongate
ThomasMoffatbutlerArgyle Square
JohnMurray52 London Street
JohnMurrayspirit dealer3 Leopold Place
RichardMurraycabinet maker23 Dublin Street
WilliamMylneNicolsons Square
DonaldMcbeathtailorMorrison's Close Canongate
JamesMccaggietailor41 Arthur Street
JamesMccullochteacherOrphan Hospital
DonaldMcdonald31 Buccleuch Place
AlexanderMcdonaldgardenerBonnington Road
JohnMcdonaldclerkRegister Place
John FMcfarlaneapothecaryYork Place
JohnMcgrigorTrinity Hospital
WilliamMcinnesshoemakerLittle King Street
DanielMckercherAbbey Strand
DanielMcleodengraverJoppa
JamesMcnaughtonBroughton Place
JohnMcphersondancing masterDrummond Street
AlexrMcreddiebooksellerNorthumberland Street
RobertNaughtonVenetian blind makerPleasance
AndrewNeillbuilderIndia Street
RobertNicolsontailor
JamesPattersonwatchmakerTollcross
JohnPattersonsolicitor10 Hanover Street
BenjaminPillanstailorUnion Street
PollocksolicitorYork Place
JamesRichardsoncarterDuddingston
JohnRedpathironmonger6 Archibald Place
JamesRitchiewatchmakerJames Street
AlexrRobertsonporterBritish Linen Company
WillmRobertsonauctioneer3 West Newington
DondRobertsongrocerCanal Street
JohnReidInverleith Row
JamesRaeJames Place
HenryScrimgeourservantRose Street
ArchibaldScottHeriot Rowoccupation illegible
WillmSheppherddlast makerLeith Wynd
ThomsShiellsSir W Forbes Bt17 Archibald Place
MalcolmSinclairwrightSociety
WillmSmithbookbinderSociety
AndwSmithwrightHowe Street
HenrySteelewriterLondon Street
WillmStewartbakerHowe Street
JamesStoreysmithSt James Place
JohnTawseAdvocate49 Queen Street
JamesTaylor6 Ingliston Street
ThomsTaylorcarver and gilderCalton Hill
WillmTaylorgrocer6 Union Street
WillmToddgardenerNewton House
ThomsThomson22 Elm Row
WalterThorburnbakerBristo Street
TurnerteacherStockbridge
JohnTurnbulltailorMrs Gray's 10 Middle Arthur Place
TraquairWS
DavidWallacedoor keeperFountain Bridge
JasWallacebuilder10 St Vincent Street
ThomsWardenbrass founderChessell's Court
RobtWemyss12 Cumberland Street
WillmWhitsonshoemakerPleasance
ThomsWhyteGayfield Square
WillmWhytebooksellerGeorge Street
WillmWrightcabinet makerEast Claremont Street
RobtWilsonwrightAntigua Street
JasWoodflesherNicolsons Street
WillmYounggrocerHead Of Canongate

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.