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Edinburgh St. Stephen'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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/607/1 | Minutes (With index) | 1829-1861 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/3 | Minutes | 1880-1904 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/20 | Baptismal register | 1878-1894 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/21 | Baptismal register | 1895-1911 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/22 | Communion roll | 1829-1840 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/23 | Communion roll | 1834 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/24 | Communion roll | 1861-1867 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/25 | Communion roll | 1868-1873 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/26 | Communion roll | 1874-1877 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/27 | Communion roll | 1877-1882 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/28 | Communion roll | 1883-1888 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/29 | Communion roll | 1890 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/30 | Communion roll | nd. | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/69 | Ghospara mission abstract accounts (With gaps). Includes subscriber lists | 1874-1900 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/73 | Ghospara mission printed reports, 1845, 1850, 1852, 1875, 1881, 1883, 1885-7, 1890-2, 1894 Reports include subscriber lists | 1845-1894 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/74 | Ghospara mission reports (1846, 1853-1859) and subscriptions (1882-1886) Includes subscriber lists | 1846-1886 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/116 | General guild committee minutes | 1890-1911 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/118 | Young mens' guild executive committee minutes | 1897-1914 | Request lookup |
| CH2/607/129 | Bible class (young mens' guild) roll 1864/1865-1913/1914. In early years includes descriptions of individual boys, and three photos of groups of boys with names | 1864-1914 | 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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
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 yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | Allan | 2 London Street | ||
| John | Anderson | 6 Mansfield Place | ||
| Peter | Anderson | 7 Carlton Street St Bernards | ||
| James | Anstruther | 42 Moray Place | ||
| John | Baird | 4 Circus Place | ||
| Henry | Baxter | 23 Heriot Row | ||
| George | Berry | 10 Antigua Street | ||
| J P | Bertram | 17 Broughton Place | ||
| Thomas H | Bertram | 26 Royal Crescent | ||
| John | Blackwood | 43 George Street | ||
| Alexander | Blair | 13 Northumberland Street | ||
| Alexander | Boyd | Hillhousefield House Bonnington | ||
| Hugh | Bremner | 69 Great King Street | ||
| Francis | Bridges | 16 Hill Street | ||
| John | Brodie | 59 Northumberland Street | ||
| Archibald | Browne | 26 Scotland Street | ||
| John Osburn | Brown | 66 Northumberland Street | ||
| William | Brown | 6 Nottingham Place | ||
| John | Bruce | 82 Great King Street | ||
| John | Burnet | Hamilton Place New Buildings | ||
| William | Calder | 55 India Place | ||
| Sharp | Callender | 29 Saxe Coburg Place | ||
| Cameron | 24 Saxe Coburg Place | |||
| Colin | Campbell | 12 Abercromby Place | ||
| Peter | Campbell | 10 Great King Street | ||
| S | Campbell | 15 East Claremont Street | ||
| James | Cathcart | 17 Great King Street | ||
| George Todd | Chiene | 7 Great Stuart Street | ||
| Robert | Christie | 12 Inverleith Row | ||
| John | Cockburn | 5 Doune Terrace | ||
| John | Collins | 39 Minto Street Newington | ||
| George | Cousin | 3 Johnstone Place Stockbridge | ||
| John | Cousin | 24 Fettes Row | ||
| Alexander | Craig | 23 Anne Street Stockbridge | ||
| Cheyne | 15 Cheyne Street | added later | ||
| Colin | Campbell | 4 Abyn Place | added later | |
| William | Dallas | 25 India Street | ||
| Charles Forbes | Davidson | 8 Saxe Coburg Place | ||
| J Henry | Davidson | 61 North Berwick | ||
| John | Dewar | Advocate | 24 Drummond Place | |
| John | Dickie | 14 Dean Terrace | ||
| Alexander | Dickison | Comely Bank Nursery | ||
| Henry Gordon | Dickson | 5 St Vincent Street | ||
| Andrew | Dods | 11 West Circus Place | ||
| William | Dumbreck | 14 Dublin Street | ||
| Thomas | Duncan | 78 Great King Street | ||
| William | Dunlop | 38 India Street | ||
| W Malcolm | Dymock | 18 Albany Street | ||
| Charles | Fergusson | 3 Glenfinlas Street | ||
| Charles | Finlay | 6 Great Stuart Street | ||
| Thomas | Finlay | 12 India Place | ||
| Peter | Forbes | Blacket Place Newington | ||
| John | Forrester | 9 Hart Street | ||
| Robert | Forsyth | Advocate | 11 Royal Circus | |
| M | Fullerton | 27 Hamilton Place | ||
| James | Gairdner | 12 Dean Street | ||
| James | Geddes | 6 Blenheim Place | ||
| John | Gillan | 27 Jamaica Street | ||
| Andrew | Girvan | 17 Howard Place | ||
| Archd Watson | Goldie | 6 York Place | ||
| James | Gordon | 46 Frederick Street | ||
| John | Gordon | 52 Inverleith Row | ||
| Robert | Gordon | 13 Nelson Street | ||
| Alexander | Gowan | 13 Gayfield Square | ||
| James | Graham | 26 Pitt Street | ||
| Patrick | Graham | 37 Inverleith Row | ||
| Robert | Graham | 26 Nelson Street | ||
| William | Graham | 37 Anne Street | ||
| John | Grant | 19 Jamaica Street | ||
| Alexander | Greig | 51 Queen Street | ||
| James | Hastie | 36 Howe Street | ||
| John | Hay | 14 Pitt Street | ||
| Hay | 29 St Bernard's Crescent | |||
| David | Hector | 56 India Street | ||
| William | Henderson | 21 St Andrew Square | ||
| William | Henderson | Trinity Cottage | ||
| Alexander | Hill | 66 Great King Street | ||
| George | Hill | 10 St Andrew Square | ||
| Robert | Hislop | 9 Jamaica Street | ||
| John | Hope | Granton | ||
| Donald | Horne | 10 Athole Crescent | ||
| Robert | Horsburgh | accountant | 15 London Street | |
| Walter | Horsburgh | 29 Northumberland Street | ||
| Houston | 34 Greenside Place | |||
| James | Hunt | of Pittencrieff | 13 Moray Place | |
| John | Hunter | 5 Fettes Row | ||
| David | Irvine | 6 Meadow Place | ||
| Archibald | Iver | 8 Carlton Street | ||
| Robert | Jackson | 20 Clarence Street | ||
| Andrew | Jamieson | 1 West Claremont Street | ||
| John | Jardine | 9 Great King Street | ||
| John S | Keay | 1 Claremont Place | ||
| John | Kennedy | 71 Great King Street | ||
| David | Kidd | 1 Henderson Row | ||
| James | Kier | New Street Court Canongate | ||
| David V | Lambe | 4 Henderson Row | ||
| L'Amy | 27 Northumberland Street | |||
| Robert | Laurie | 38 Brunswick Street | ||
| Andrew | Lawson | 11 High Terrace Leith Street | ||
| John | Learmonth | 6 Roxburgh Street | ||
| John | Leven | 5 Henderson Row | ||
| Ephraim | Lockhart | 14 Pitt Street | ||
| John | Logan | 1 Nelson Street | ||
| Adam | Longmore | 46 Melville Street | ||
| William | Low | accountant | 18 Pitt Street | |
| Alexander | Macdonald | 5 North St David Street | ||
| Donald | Mackenzie | 8 Howe Street | ||
| Parlan | Macfarlane | 22 Fettes Row | ||
| W | Macfarlane | 37 Northumberland Street | ||
| William | Mackintosh | 54 Great King Street | ||
| John | Macwhirter | 4 Ainslie Place | ||
| William | Marshall | 26 Regent Terrace | ||
| George | Mccallum | 42 India Street | ||
| Adam | Mccheyne | 56 Queen Street | ||
| William | Mcclacherty | 16 India Place | ||
| Duncan | Mccuaig | 6 Frederick Street | ||
| W | Mcdowall | 7 Forth Street | ||
| John | Mcfarlan | 14 India Street | ||
| Mclagan | 77 Great King Street | |||
| Gilbert | Mclaren | 10 St Vincent Street | ||
| James | Mclaren | 6 Saunders Street Stockbridge | ||
| Mcnicol | 44 Howe Street | |||
| John | Menzies | 19 Pitt Street | ||
| James | Mercer | 31 Howe Street | ||
| Robert | Mercer | 20 India Street | ||
| Thomas H | Miller | 41 Heriot Row | ||
| Robert | Milne | Craigleith | ||
| John | Minto | 15 Clarence Street | ||
| George | Monro | Advocate | 28 Northumberland Street | |
| John | Morrison | 24 Northumberland Street | ||
| Robert | Morrison | 6 Heriot Row | ||
| Charles | Moubray | St Stephens Church | Name deleted | |
| Claud | Muirhead | 7 Heriot Row | ||
| Col | Macdonald | Powder Hall | added later | |
| Charles | Nairne | 22 Albany Street | ||
| Napier | 29 Scotland Street | |||
| James | Newton | 11 Darnaway Street | ||
| Newton | 15 Catherine Street | |||
| James | Paterson | merchant | 4 India Street | |
| Alexander | Pearson | 17 Royal Circus | ||
| John | Phin | 37 Dublin Street | ||
| Robert | Purdie | 38 Heriot Row | ||
| John | Purdon | 21 Jamaica Street | ||
| Quin | 79 Rose Street | |||
| John | Ramage | 5 Hope Street | ||
| R Wardlaw | Ramsay | 11 Moray Place | ||
| Robert | Rattray | 8 Bellevue Crescent | ||
| John | Renton | 30 Royal Circus | ||
| George | Ritchie | 11 Castle Street | ||
| Robert | Ritchie | 54 India Street | ||
| George | Robertson | 28 Albany Street | ||
| James | Robin | 34 Jamaica Street | ||
| James | Robison | Advocate | 18 Elder Street | |
| Daniel | Ross | Edinburgh Academy | ||
| P W | Roy | 18 Fettes Row | ||
| James | Ruthven | 23 New Street Canongate | ||
| John | Sang | 23 Scotland Street | ||
| Peter | Sawers | 39 Dublin Street | ||
| Scot | 42 Northumberland Street | |||
| W D | Scott | 13 London Street | ||
| William | Scott | 43 Northumberland Street | ||
| Ralph Erskine | Scott | 26 Ann Street St Bernards | ||
| John | Shand | 23 Fettes Row | ||
| John Robertson | Sibbald | 142 Princes Street | ||
| Sinclair | 16 Inverleith Row | |||
| Small | 6 Fingal Place | |||
| Archibald | Smith | 36 Dundas Street | ||
| David | Smith | 3 Doune Terrace | ||
| Peter | Smith | 23 Howe Street | ||
| William | Smith | 3 Saxe Coburg Place | ||
| Spalding | 85 Great King Street | |||
| James | Spence | 24 Pitt Street | ||
| Robert | Spittal | 6 Wemyss Place | ||
| Alexander | Stevenson | 3 Heriot Row | ||
| Stevenson | 41 Great King Street | |||
| George | Stodart | 18 Windsor Street | ||
| Robert | Stoddart | 43 India Place | ||
| Duncan | Stewart | 85 Great King Street | ||
| Patrick | Stewart | 47 India Place | ||
| J Graham | Stuart | 9 Picardy Place | ||
| Stuart | 34 Great King Street | |||
| John | Sutherland | 20 India Place | ||
| John | Swinton | 16 Inverleith Place | ||
| John | Syme | 1 Dundas Street | ||
| J R | Stodart | 2 Drummond Place | added later | |
| John | Tait | 1 Melville Street | ||
| Andrew | Tawse | 11 Royal Terrace | ||
| John | Taylor | 15 Claremont Crescent | ||
| David | Thom | 19 Pilrig Street | ||
| William | Thomson | 4 Claremont Place | ||
| Andrew | Thomson | 13 Pitt Street | ||
| William R | Thomson | 28 Brunswick Street | ||
| Traill | 10 Albyn Place | |||
| Richard | Trotter | 26 Royal Circus | ||
| David | Turnbull | 34 India Street | ||
| John | Turnbull | 10 Dundas Street | ||
| James | Valentine | 10 West Claremont Street | ||
| William | Waddell | 50 Melville Street | ||
| Alexander | Walker | 22 London Street | ||
| James | Walker | Advocate | 23 Royal Circus | |
| Charles | Watson | 28 Dundas Street | ||
| H G | Watson | accountant | 21 East Claremont Street | |
| Robert | Whigham | 79 Great King Street | ||
| Whitehead | 27 St Bernard's Crescent | |||
| David K | Whytt | 10 Scotland Street | ||
| David | Wight | 16 Pitt Street | ||
| Robert | Wilkie | 67 Great King Street | ||
| Thomas Ramsay | Williamson | Lixmount | ||
| Thomas | Wood | 48 Great King Street | ||
| John | Wood | Gayfield Square | ||
| Peter | Wood | 85 Great King Street |
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.
