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Records -> Ayrshire

Fenwick 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 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.

Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes
Order imagesDeliverance
Mary GARVEN 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow John HIGGINS 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused


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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Janet FULTON
Fenwick
Alexander DOUGLAS16 Sep 1880Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/11
Janet MCFARLANE
Dalmusternock, near Fenwick
William WILSON21 Dec 1875Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/10
Ann MCNEILL
Fenwick
Donald CURRIE15 Oct 1879Order nowRothesay
SC8/5/4
Margaret SLAVEN
Windyhill, Fenwick
formerly Whinhill, Fenwick
Andrew GEMMELL10 Dec 1881
Park Cottage, Kirkoswald
Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/12
Osey STOTT
Tannicrieff, Fenwick
David HASTINGS8 May 1852Order nowAyr
SC6/7/9
Elizabeth WOODBURN
Waterside, Fenwick$
Andrew DALGLISH5 Jun 1850Order nowHamilton
SC37/7/17


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Mary ADAIR30 June 1865Maria ADAIRFind the father
James ADAM20 February 1865Christina ADAMFind the father
Alexander ALLAN10 June 1862Margaret ALLANFind the father
Mary ANGUS21 May 1865Mary ANGUSFind the father
James Vallance ARMOUR26 August 1859Agnes ARMOURFind the father
William BAILLIE14 August 1866Elisabeth BAILLIEFind the father
Janet BARBOUR16 February 1857Janet BARBOURFind the father
Jessie BARBOUR2 April 1865Janet BARBOURFind the father
Mary Reid BARBOUR6 March 1872Janet BARBOURFind the father
Helen Gilmour BOYLE12 August 1870Margaret BOYLEFind the father
James BROWN8 June 1866Jean BROWNFather found
John BROWN2 October 1856Martha Paterson BROWNFind the father
John BURNS22 September 1863Mary BURNSFind the father
James Lindsay CORKENDALE9 March 1869Jean CORKENDALEFind the father
Robert COWAN22 September 1860Margaret COWANFind the father
William CRAIG3 May 1856Helen CRAIGFind the father
Alexander CUTHBERT7 July 1861Jean CUTHBERTFind the father
Jean CUTHBERT2 May 1860Janet CUTHBERTFind the father
John CUTHBERT27 August 1856Janet CUTHBERTFind the father
William CUTHBERT21 March 1856Jean CUTHBERTFind the father
Martha DALZIEL22 January 1857Harriet White DALZIELFather found
Archabald Bannatine DEANS2 July 1871Catherine DEANSFind the father
Georgina Stewart DOBSON4 May 1872Elizabeth Dods DOBSONFind the father
Janet FULTON21 February 1871Margaret FULTONFind the father
John Barr GEMMELL22 February 1856Elizabeth GEMMELLFind the father
James GEMMILL19 February 1861Janet GEMMILLFind the father
Janet GEMMILL9 September 1862Mary GEMMILLFind the father
James HIGHET19 January 1870Jean HIGHETFind the father
William HILL20 April 1864Annie HILLFind the father
Agnes HOWAT19 February 1870Mary HOWATFind the father
Mary Ann Henderson HUTCHESON17 November 1861Mary HUTCHESONFind the father
Robert KELLEY29 October 1864Jean KELLEYFind the father
Jean LOVE20 September 1860Margaret LOVEFind the father
Janet Fulton MCCART10 December 1873Grace MCCARTFind the father
John MCCLEMENT21 March 1868Christina MCCLEMENTFind the father
Margaret MCEWEN29 March 1855Isabella MCEWENFind the father
John MCNIVEN1 January 1857Margaret MCNIVENFind the father
James Stevenson MUIR1 September 1870Mary MUIRFind the father
Robert Stevenson MUIR7 November 1873Mary MUIRFind the father
Hellen RAMSAY13 August 1871Hellen RAMSAYFind the father
Andrew REID7 February 1867Mary REIDFind the father
Elizabeth REID22 January 1860Elizabeth REIDFind the father
Janet REID28 August 1862Mary REIDFind the father
Charles ROSS8 January 1862Janet ROSSFather found
Eliza SHEDDEN16 May 1869Mary SHEDDENFind the father
Jean STEVEN30 January 1861Mary STEVENFind the father
Mary STEVEN30 January 1861Mary STEVENFind the father
Thomas STEWART2 November 1856Agnes STEWARTFather found
David TAYLOR9 February 1861Jean TAYLORFind the father
Mary WALKER22 March 1866Margaret WALKERFind the father
Mary Jane WALLACE22 July 1865Jane WALLACEFind the father
Janet WHITE5 January 1862Janet WHITEFather found
John WILSON19 September 1857Elizabeth WILSONFind the father
William WILSON15 September 1867Annie WILSONFather found
David YOUNG18 June 1866Agnes YOUNGFather found


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.


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