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Edinburgh St. Mary's records

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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

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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.

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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.

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List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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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: CH2/139/1 pp. 149-156)

Forename	Surname	Occupation	Address	Notes
William	Allester	writer	9 London Street
William	Anderson	coach guard	Leopold Place
George	Adam	of Sasine Office	Hart Street
James	Aitken		At Mrs Dawson's 13 Frederick Street
John	Adam		6 St James Street
Alexander	Boswell	WS	London Street
Peter	Burn		1 London Street
Henry	Banks	tailor	22 Duke Street
David	Brown		8 Brandon Street
	Bogle		Warriston Crescent
William	Bell	WS	9 Queen Street
Andrew	Bell	shoemaker	St Mary's Place Lothian Road	New address Pitt or Dundas Street [CH2/139/83/17]
John	Bell		13 Great King Street
James	Bell	gardener	Canonmills
Nicol	Baird		35 Claremont Street
James	Borthwick	of NB Insurance Coy	14 Claremont Crescent
William	Boyd	WS	Drummond Place
William	Brodie		16 Hart Street
James	Brodie	writer	16 Hart Street
Thomas	Blackwell	grocer	Union Street
George	Brown	merchant	17 Scotland Street
John	Barron	wright	67 Great King Street
Walter	Ballantyne	lithographer	8 Annandale Street	Deleted [CH2/139/83/18]
William	Bird		2 East Broughton Place
	Campbell		4 Picardy Place
Thomas B	Campbell		Greenside Place
William	Cooper	teacher	17 George Street
Hugh	Cowan	WS	Scotland Street
John	Cowan	Advocate	30 Drummond Place
	Cheyne		Inverleith Terrace
Charles	Chisholm		40 London Street
James	Carstairs		7 Spences Place Port Hopetoun
John	Craig		Ferniehill Cottage	Deleted [CH2/139/83/18]
William	Clark	printer	Canonmills
C M	Christie		York Place
William	Cockburn		Broughton Hall
William	Cowan	silk mercer	1 Bellevue Crescent
Hew	Crichton	writer	Nelson Street
David	Craig	macer	Nelson Street
	Craigie		Hanover Street
John	Duff	measurer	10 Catherine Street
John	Dick	mason	Claremont Street
Patrick	Dalmahoy	WS	3 Hart Street
James S	Darling	WS	Scotland Street
George	Douglas	smith	4 Old Broughton
Alexander	Douglas	WS	Drummond Place
James	Dowell	wright	East Thistle Street	51 Hanover Street [CH2/139/83/18]
John	Dick		8 Greenside Row
Thomas	Dick	gardener	40 Claremont Street
Thomas	Dewar	teacher	40 George Square
William	Elliot		23 Drummond Place
Walter	Ferrier	WS	Albany Street
Thomas	Finlay	meal dealer	16 Scotland Street
William	Fraser	WS	9 Mansfield Place
William	Fergusson	merchant	Drummond Place
Cosmo	Falconer	writer	James Square
Charles	Fisher	writer	19 London Street
Thomas	Fraser		Duncan Street
Henry	Goodsir	of Bank of Scotland	Inverleith Row
William	Gallaway	accountant	Elder Street
William	Gibson		27 Haddington Place
Alexander	Gibson	of British Linen Co	5 Pitt Street
George	Gunn	cowfeeder	Allan Street Stockbridge
John	Gordon	clothier	Eyre Place
James	Gray	ironmonger	48 London Street
Henry	Grey		Inverleith Row
Peter	Graham	wright	2 Greenside Place
Robert	Gilchrist	printer	9 Crichton Street
P C	Gibson	surgeon	5 Antigua Street
William	Howden	Dickson & Sons Nursery	Inverleith Row
William	Henry	builder	Scotland Street
William	Hunt	WS	26 Broughton Place
John	Hill	of British Linen Co	28 Scotland Street
William	Hamilton	of General Post Office	9 Brown Street
John	Hamilton	WS	1 Scotland Street
John	Hogg	of City Chambers	7 Scotland Street
William	Hogg		Duncan Street
James	Hislop		33 Union Place
John	Hughes	printer	6 Mansfield Place
John	Hepburn		1 Shrub Place Leith Walk
J H	Horne	of Longformacus	13 Inverleith Row
William	Innes		Stevenlaw's Close
Hugh	Johnston		St Mary's Church
James	Johnston	tobacconist	6 Mansfield Place
John	Johnston	draftsman	1 Cheyne Street
John	Jackson	painter	17 Leopold Place
John	Kermack	WS	20 Broughton Place
	Knox		8 Annandale Street
Colin	Kemp	grocer	31 Nelson Street
Joseph	Liddle	SSC	12 Scotland Street
William M	Little	SSC	50 Cumberland Street	Delete [CH2/139/83/20]
Robert	Logan		5 Laverock Bank Trinity
John	Marshall	Advocate	Fettes Row
Robert	Marshall		Middlefield Leith Walk
David	Manderston	smith	39 Dublin Street
Hector	Mason	ACS	Scotland Street
Duncan	Matheson	Sheriff Substitute	Leith
Andrew	Milroy	WS	Scotland Street
John	Melvin	grocer	19 Dublin Street
John	Manson		Constitution Street Leith
George	Morris	plasterer	Canonmills
George	Maule	wright	58 Broughton Street
Henry	Muir		7 Lochend Close Canongate
James	Morrison	of National Bank	Canal Street
Thomas	Moon	tailor	22 Pitt Street
James	Melvin	grocer	19 Dublin Street
James	Mitchell	surgeon	39 Dublin Street	Delete [CH2/139/83/20]
John	Macintosh		10 Jamaica Street
Lachlan	Macintosh	SSC	35 London Street
James	Mackay	goldsmith	24 Forth Street
John	Mackay	pensioner	2 Old Broughton
Alexander	Macaulay		Great King Street
John	Macnair		5 London Street
Charles	Maclean	grocer	5 Queensferry Street
George	Macbean	policeman	12 Union Street
James	Mcpherson	Improvements Office	30 Hanover Street
Archibald	Mackinlay		16 Forth Street
Alexander	Mckean		2 York Place
Gavin	Mcdowall		2 Mansfield Place
John	Mcdowall		11 Forth Street	National Bank [CH2/139/83/21]
Archibald	Mcrae		4 Union Street
William	Mckenzie	shoemaker	40 Broughton Street
William	Mackersey	WS	2 Bellevue Crescent
H	Mccallum	of Bank of Scotland	16 South Charlotte Street
Neil	Mclaren	merchant	7 Hope Crescent
Daniel	Mcpherson	printer	High Street
John	Neill	builder	17 Carlton Place
Patrick	Neill	printer	Canonmills
John	Nichol	agent	17 James Square
James	Nisbet		17 Fettes Row
Robert	Nisbet		At Mrs Shakerly's 3 Smiths Place Leith Walk
James	Orr	druggist	Forth Street
Archibald	Patterson		7 Annandale Street
Thomas	Paterson		5 East Register Street
Henry	Paterson		Howard Place
Allan	Paterson		47 Cumberland Street
	Pringle		Warriston Crescent
William	Pagan		20 Howe Street
David	Pagan		20 Howe Street
John	Pollock		16 Jamaica Street
Robert	Paul	WS	20 Dublin Street
John	Ponton		22 Scotland Street
	Patrick		Forth Street
James	Richardson		40 London Street
Thomas	Richardson		48 London Street
Andrew	Richardson	WS	Royal Crescent
John	Richardson	WS	Fettes Row
James	Richardson		8 Hope Crescent
John	Richardson		41 Dundas Street
William	Ross	clothier	Inverleith Row
Sylvester	Reid	WS	5 Mansfield Place
Robert	Reid		2 Scotland Street
William	Russell		11 Scotland Street
George	Russell	merchant	4 East Broughton Place
John	Robertson		27 London Street
John	Reoch		Pilrig Street
James	Rutherford		11 Annandale Street
William	Richardson	of Dickson & Co	Leopold Place
Alexander	Robertson	turner	50 Broughton Street
John	Ronaldson	wright	25 East Cumberland Street	Claremont [CH2/139/83/22]
Alexander	Robertson	servant	3 Northumberland Street
John	Robb	builder	Barony Street
Andrew	Scott		39 London Street
Robert	Scott	druggist	Forth Street
Wilkinson	Steele		1 London Street
Robert	Stevenson	engineer	1 Baxters Place
Thomas W	Shaw	writer	Nelson Street
	Stoddart		10 Bellevue Crescent
John	Sinclair		6 Mansfield Place
James	Sinclair		4 New Street
Charles	Stewart	SSC	19 East Thistle Street
	Stewart		10 Dublin Street
William	Stark		Canonmills
William	Sommers		Paterson's Court Broughton
George	Smith	architect	Wemyss Place
Robert	Shiells		43 East Cross Causeway
James	Slater		1 Shrub Place
James	Simpson		Canonmills
	Stupart		Claremont Street	11 Fettes Row [CH2/139/83/23]
Alexander	Seaton	grocer	168 Cowgate
James	Stark	skinner	Canonmills
James	Shade		24 Gayfield Square
James	Sym	writer	45 Frederick Street
James	Scott	merchant	34 London Street
James L	Stewart	landscape painter	25 East Claremont Street	Delete [CH2/139/83/23]
Duncan	Stewart	surgeon	13 Danube Street	"Robert" in original, but corrected as per CH2/139/1/169
William	Sutherland		2 Cheyne Street
Thomas	Thomson		Canonmills
James	Tod	WS	21 Dublin Street
John	Taylor	surgeon	Dublin Street
John	Watson		3 Duke Street
Thomas	Watt	of Allanhill	11 East Claremont Street
	Warden		Baxter's Place
William	Wilson	bookseller	25 Scotland Street
Robert	Weir		41 Moray Place
Archibald	Wilson		Broughton Street
Matthew	Walker	merchant	48 London Street
William	Younger		Drummond Place

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/139/1 pp. 168-168)

Forename	Surname	Occupation	Address	Notes
Walter	Ballantyne	lithographer	8 Annandale Street	Expunged at this date
John	Craig		Ferniehill Cottage	Expunged at this date
William M	Little	SSC	50 Cumberland Street	Expunged at this date
James	Mitchell	surgeon	39 Dublin Street	Expunged at this date
James L	Stewart	landscape painter	25 East Claremont Street	Expunged at this date
Thomas	Bell		5 Scotland Street	Added at this date
Richard	Baird		26 Haddington Place	Added at this date
William	Brown	clerk	20 Drummond Place	Added at this date
Peter	Barclay	gilder	1 Gilmore Street	Added at this date
George	Henderson		3 Duncan Street	Added at this date
Alexr	Henderson	shoemaker	12 Duncan Street	Added at this date
Charles	Lyon	gardener	5 Cumberland Street	Added at this date
James	Sadler	servant	East Broughton Court	Added at this date
Charles	Hutchison	architect	18 Bedford Street	Added at this date
Robert	Forster		20 James Square	Added at this date
Alexander	Strathy	teacher of dancing	31 Dundas Street	Added at this date
John	Nairn	SSC	26 Royal Crescent	Added at this date

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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.

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