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Ettrick and Buccleuch parish 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/1503/2Kirk session minutes1871-1907Request lookup
CH2/1503/3Kirk session minutes1904-1929Request lookup
CH2/1503/4Communicants' roll book1889-1895Request lookup
CH2/1503/5Communicants' roll book1895-1908Request lookup
CH2/1503/6Communion roll book1909-1917Request 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:
  • £3 for a single minute
  • £6 for up to 3 minutes for a single case
  • £10 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.

Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes		Order imagesDeliverance
Margaret COLTHERD 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
W J DAVIDSON 1850 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Walter DAVIDSON 1857 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Mary FITZPATRICK or AYTON 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
Andrew GEDDES 1863 (1)Order imagesRefused

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. For births outwith this period, click here.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
James Amos ANDERSON8 August 1859Janet ANDERSONFind the father
Elisabeth Robertson ARMSTRONG27 April 1860Jane ARMSTRONGFind the father
Jeanie ARMSTRONG25 August 1871Christina ARMSTRONGFind the father
Agnes Burns BAILLIE7 January 1859Janet BAILLIEFind the father
James BEATTIE4 March 1857Lillias BEATTIEFind the father
Agnes BLYTHE20 May 1862Margaret BLYTHEFind the father
Isabella BLYTHE22 June 1862Janet BLYTHEFind the father
William BLYTHE31 August 1868Janet BLYTHEFind the father
Elizabeth BURNET17 February 1874Margaret BURNETFind the father
Euphemia BURNET13 August 1870Margaret BURNETFind the father
James BURNET22 July 1869Isabella BURNETFind the father
Jane CLARK4 December 1861Margaret CLARKFind the father
William CROZIER23 May 1862Jane CROZIERFind the father
Helen DAVIDSON20 January 1856Helen Davidson Or ANDERSONFind the father
James DAVIDSON15 May 1859Elisabeth DAVIDSONFind the father
Mary ELLIOT1 March 1857Violet ELLIOTFind the father
William ELLIOT26 March 1864Violet ELLIOTFind the father
Maggie GRIEVE31 January 1868Janet GRIEVEFind the father
John HENRIE25 August 1855Janet HENRIEFind the father
Adam PRINGLE18 December 1855Janet PRINGLEFind the father
Catherine Biggar PRINGLE1 March 1869Christina PRINGLEFind the father
Janet PRINGLE7 September 1863Janet Burnet PRINGLEFind the father
John ROARK30 September 1856Catherine ROARKFind the father
Henry Glendinning SCOTT21 December 1857Mary SCOTTFind the father
Anne Jane SHANKIE21 August 1864Anne Jane SHANKIEFind the father
Mary Ann SHANKIE17 April 1865Mary SHANKIEFind the father
Thomas SHANKIE9 August 1864Elisabeth SHANKIEFind the father
George William SWORD29 July 1865Christina SWORDFind the father
Isabella Joan SWORD25 June 1860Christina SWORDFind the father
Elisabeth THOMSON31 July 1867Elisabeth THOMSONFind the father
William John THOMSON21 August 1870Elizabeth THOMSONFind the father

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

We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish