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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:
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)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary GARVEN | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow John HIGGINS | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet FULTON Fenwick | Alexander DOUGLAS | 16 Sep 1880 | Order now | Kilmarnock SC7/5/11 |
| Janet MCFARLANE Dalmusternock, near Fenwick | William WILSON | 21 Dec 1875 | Order now | Kilmarnock SC7/5/10 |
| Ann MCNEILL Fenwick | Donald CURRIE | 15 Oct 1879 | Order now | Rothesay SC8/5/4 |
| Margaret SLAVEN Windyhill, Fenwick formerly Whinhill, Fenwick | Andrew GEMMELL | 10 Dec 1881 Park Cottage, Kirkoswald | Order now | Kilmarnock SC7/5/12 |
| Osey STOTT Tannicrieff, Fenwick | David HASTINGS | 8 May 1852 | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/9 |
| Elizabeth WOODBURN Waterside, Fenwick$ | Andrew DALGLISH | 5 Jun 1850 | Order now | Hamilton 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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary ADAIR | 30 June 1865 | Maria ADAIR | Find the father |
| James ADAM | 20 February 1865 | Christina ADAM | Find the father |
| Alexander ALLAN | 10 June 1862 | Margaret ALLAN | Find the father |
| Mary ANGUS | 21 May 1865 | Mary ANGUS | Find the father |
| James Vallance ARMOUR | 26 August 1859 | Agnes ARMOUR | Find the father |
| William BAILLIE | 14 August 1866 | Elisabeth BAILLIE | Find the father |
| Janet BARBOUR | 16 February 1857 | Janet BARBOUR | Find the father |
| Jessie BARBOUR | 2 April 1865 | Janet BARBOUR | Find the father |
| Mary Reid BARBOUR | 6 March 1872 | Janet BARBOUR | Find the father |
| Helen Gilmour BOYLE | 12 August 1870 | Margaret BOYLE | Find the father |
| James BROWN | 8 June 1866 | Jean BROWN | Father found |
| John BROWN | 2 October 1856 | Martha Paterson BROWN | Find the father |
| John BURNS | 22 September 1863 | Mary BURNS | Find the father |
| James Lindsay CORKENDALE | 9 March 1869 | Jean CORKENDALE | Find the father |
| Robert COWAN | 22 September 1860 | Margaret COWAN | Find the father |
| William CRAIG | 3 May 1856 | Helen CRAIG | Find the father |
| Alexander CUTHBERT | 7 July 1861 | Jean CUTHBERT | Find the father |
| Jean CUTHBERT | 2 May 1860 | Janet CUTHBERT | Find the father |
| John CUTHBERT | 27 August 1856 | Janet CUTHBERT | Find the father |
| William CUTHBERT | 21 March 1856 | Jean CUTHBERT | Find the father |
| Martha DALZIEL | 22 January 1857 | Harriet White DALZIEL | Father found |
| Archabald Bannatine DEANS | 2 July 1871 | Catherine DEANS | Find the father |
| Georgina Stewart DOBSON | 4 May 1872 | Elizabeth Dods DOBSON | Find the father |
| Janet FULTON | 21 February 1871 | Margaret FULTON | Find the father |
| John Barr GEMMELL | 22 February 1856 | Elizabeth GEMMELL | Find the father |
| James GEMMILL | 19 February 1861 | Janet GEMMILL | Find the father |
| Janet GEMMILL | 9 September 1862 | Mary GEMMILL | Find the father |
| James HIGHET | 19 January 1870 | Jean HIGHET | Find the father |
| William HILL | 20 April 1864 | Annie HILL | Find the father |
| Agnes HOWAT | 19 February 1870 | Mary HOWAT | Find the father |
| Mary Ann Henderson HUTCHESON | 17 November 1861 | Mary HUTCHESON | Find the father |
| Robert KELLEY | 29 October 1864 | Jean KELLEY | Find the father |
| Jean LOVE | 20 September 1860 | Margaret LOVE | Find the father |
| Janet Fulton MCCART | 10 December 1873 | Grace MCCART | Find the father |
| John MCCLEMENT | 21 March 1868 | Christina MCCLEMENT | Find the father |
| Margaret MCEWEN | 29 March 1855 | Isabella MCEWEN | Find the father |
| John MCNIVEN | 1 January 1857 | Margaret MCNIVEN | Find the father |
| James Stevenson MUIR | 1 September 1870 | Mary MUIR | Find the father |
| Robert Stevenson MUIR | 7 November 1873 | Mary MUIR | Find the father |
| Hellen RAMSAY | 13 August 1871 | Hellen RAMSAY | Find the father |
| Andrew REID | 7 February 1867 | Mary REID | Find the father |
| Elizabeth REID | 22 January 1860 | Elizabeth REID | Find the father |
| Janet REID | 28 August 1862 | Mary REID | Find the father |
| Charles ROSS | 8 January 1862 | Janet ROSS | Father found |
| Eliza SHEDDEN | 16 May 1869 | Mary SHEDDEN | Find the father |
| Jean STEVEN | 30 January 1861 | Mary STEVEN | Find the father |
| Mary STEVEN | 30 January 1861 | Mary STEVEN | Find the father |
| Thomas STEWART | 2 November 1856 | Agnes STEWART | Father found |
| David TAYLOR | 9 February 1861 | Jean TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Mary WALKER | 22 March 1866 | Margaret WALKER | Find the father |
| Mary Jane WALLACE | 22 July 1865 | Jane WALLACE | Find the father |
| Janet WHITE | 5 January 1862 | Janet WHITE | Father found |
| John WILSON | 19 September 1857 | Elizabeth WILSON | Find the father |
| William WILSON | 15 September 1867 | Annie WILSON | Father found |
| David YOUNG | 18 June 1866 | Agnes YOUNG | Father 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.
