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Edinburgh Old Kirk 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.
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.

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.

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: CH2/133/3 pp. 27-31)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JamesBeattie4 Northumberland Place
CarlyleBell7 Royal Circus
George GrahamBell19 Albany Street
AlexanderBlackwood18 Great Stuart Street
Boyd4 St John Street
WilliamBrown36 Dean Street Stockbridge
JohnBrown2 Gayfield Place
RobertBruceprinterStevenlaw's Close
WilliamCrawfurd5 Bellevue Crescent
PeterCrerarclerk3 Arthur Street
PeterCampbellSSC40 Broughton Street
ThomasClarkengraver22 St James Square
J RCarsonLauriston
CharlesCoutts8 Middletons Entry
AndrewClasonWSQueen Street
AlbertCummings25 Haddington Place
JohnDe MariaAdvocate
AlexanderDeuchars73 George Street+ beside name
JamesDickson2 Salisbury Square
RobertDalrymple25 Carrubers Close
JohnElderprinter243 High Street
AlexanderForbesteacher of drawing10 Nicolson Street
WilliamFerguson6 Drummond Place
JohnFairbairn1 North St James Street
ThomasGrubGeorge Street
JohnHandyside28 London Street
JohnHogarth108 George Street
William BHamiltonElder Street
AndrewHenderson18 Dundas Street
WilliamJohnston41 Lothian Street
JamesKer20 Drummond Place
JamesKeithclerk25 Cumberland Street
WilliamKennedy20 Minto Street+ next to name
AlexanderKirkwood20 Huntly Street
JohnLee12 Charlotte Square
DavidLawsonprinter333 High Street
JamesMacknight12 London Street
JohnMeek8 Athole Place+ next to name
JamesMacdonald46 West Register Street
CharlesMacdonald1 Newport Street
AlexanderMiller22 West Circus Place
AlexanderMurrayHart Street
WilliamMurraybookbinderLawn Market
WilliamMackintosh12 Royal ExchangeMisnumbered 45 in original
ThomasMurdoch8 Greenside Row
AndrewNimmo10 Broughton Street
AlexanderOrr8 Howe Street
JamesPatterson4 Dalrymple Place
JamesPringlepreacher76 George Street
JohnRuthven23 New Street
WilliamRitchie15 India Street
WalterRichardson3 North St James Street
JohnRoss4 East Arthur Place+ next to name
RobertRoss31 Clarence Place
JamesRodgers7 Hunter Square
JamesStilliebooksellerHigh Street
ThomasSpiden5 Bedford Street
AlexanderSteeleDunbar's Close High Street
DanielStewartStrathie's Close High Street
HenrySimpson45 Frederick Street
JamesScottstationerBank Street+ next to name
WilliamTullisViewforth
MalcolmTurnbull22 St John Street
WilliamVeitchteacherBuccleugh Place
WilliamWallaceLauriston
WardlawLondon Street
GeorgeWilson306 Lawn Market

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.