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Farnell 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.
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.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth BROWN Powmill, Farnell | Daniel CAMERON | 28 Sep 1887 Powmill, Farnell | Order now | Dundee SC45/6/23 |
| Catherine HILL Greenlaw, Farnell, Angus | Alexander PRATT | 21 Jul 1877 | Order now | Cupar SC20/4/31 |
| Mary LAW Powmill, Farnell | George LAWSON | 27 Mar 1882 Farnell | Order now | Forfar SC47/7/18 |
| Mary MACKENZIE Fithie, Farnell | James PATERSON | 29 Jan 1877 Carcary, Farnell | Order now | Forfar SC47/7/17 |
| Mary MOIR Powmill, Farnell | James ALEXANDER | 31 Mar 1885 Powmill, Farnell | Order now | Forfar SC47/7/19 |
| Eliza NAPIER Cloak, Farnell | George BLACK | 21 Aug 1886 Cloak, Farnell | Order now | Forfar SC47/7/19 |
| Jane Ann NEILL Greenden, Farnell | James SMART | 21 Jan 1888 Greenden, Farnell | Order now | Forfar SC47/7/19 |
| Isabella ROBERTS West Wealthieston, Farnell | James SMART | 6 May 1889 West Wealthieston, Farnell | Order now | Forfar SC47/7/19 |
| Mary Ann WEIR Dunlappie, Stracathro formerly Wealthieston, Farnell | James DAVIDSON | 21 Sep 1874 | Order now | Forfar SC47/7/17 |
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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| John BROWN | 10 December 1865 | Catherine BROWN | Find the father |
| James CAIRN | 10 July 1856 | Isabella CAIRN | Find the father |
| John Stirling CARNEGIE | 9 October 1869 | Anne CARNEGIE | Find the father |
| Maryann Morton CRABB | 29 December 1873 | Jane CRABB | Find the father |
| William Dakers EDWARDS | 27 December 1859 | Jane EDWARDS | Find the father |
| Jane Buchan Wilkie FRASER | 3 January 1866 | Mary FRASER | Father found |
| Wilhelmina Cambell FRASER | 29 March 1865 | Isabella Watson FRASER | Find the father |
| Jessie GORDON | 24 February 1856 | Margaret GORDON | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Brown GRANT | 29 January 1872 | Elisabeth GRANT | Find the father |
| Walter GRANT | 7 March 1873 | Helen GRANT | Find the father |
| James Sievwright HILL | 31 July 1860 | Catherine HILL | Find the father |
| William Manson Clark LUKE | 20 November 1860 | Margaret LUKE | Find the father |
| William Paton LUKE | 25 December 1858 | Ann LUKE | Find the father |
| John Guild MATHERS | 3 May 1870 | Isabella MATHERS | Find the father |
| Charles MILNE | 1 October 1859 | Jane MILNE | Find the father |
| James Milne MOLLISON | 23 November 1873 | Elisabeth MOLLISON | Find the father |
| Jane Ann Buchan PATON | 10 May 1861 | Mary PATON | Find the father |
| James PEARSON | 20 February 1862 | Christina PEARSON | Father found |
| Mary Jane ROBERTSON | 7 May 1868 | Mary ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Susan SMITH | 11 February 1859 | Janet SMITH | Find the father |
| William Loudon SMITH | 14 February 1873 | Ann SMITH | Find the father |
| Alexander VALENTINE | 30 December 1869 | Elisabeth VALENTINE | Find the father |
| Peter VALENTINE | 30 December 1869 | Elisabeth VALENTINE | Find the father |
| Alexander Blackie WEIR | 25 February 1871 | Maryanne WEIR | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Gold Davidson WIER | 21 September 1874 | Maryanne WIER | Find the father |
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.
No Roll of Male Heads of Families has yet been found for this parish
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.
