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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
CH2/659/1Minutes1869-1940Request lookup
CH2/659/3Baptisms1875-1958Request lookup
CH2/659/4Proclamations
(Copy)		1856-1937Request lookup
CH2/659/5Communion roll1836-1906Request 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
Widow ANDERSON 1865 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
David CAMPBELL28 July 1862Elizabeth CAMPBELLFind the father
Ann DICKSON13 February 1868Isabell DICKSONFind the father
Peter DONALDSON11 September 1858Isabella DONALDSONFind the father
Alice Elizabeth Alexander DOUGLAS4 October 1863Mary DOUGLASFind the father
Forbes Troup DOUGLAS2 July 1872Helen DOUGLASFind the father
Isabella HURST26 July 1862Mary HURSTFind the father
Thomas MCFARLANE8 December 1867Mary MCFARLANEFind the father
James Donald MCINTYRE13 March 1871Anne MCINTYREFind the father
Robert MCLAREN9 February 1869Margaret MCLARENFind the father
Mary Ramsay MILL9 January 1873Mary MILLFind the father
Janet MILN11 August 1867Janet MILNFind the father
John MONCUR14 June 1865Helen MONCURFind the father
Andrew MONTEITH9 October 1872Marjory MONTEITHFind the father
Robert MONTEITH9 October 1872Marjory MONTEITHFind the father
James REID10 October 1870Mary REIDFind the father
James ROY21 March 1871Catherine ROYFind the father
Alexander William SCOTT11 February 1866Elizabeth SCOTTFind the father
Andrew STEWART30 July 1866Susan STEWARTFind the father
Christina STEWART13 October 1859Isabell STEWARTFind the father
James STEWART9 February 1872Margaret STEWARTFind the father
John STEWART16 September 1862Eliza STEWARTFind the father
Gordon TAINSH26 October 1866Elizabeth TAINSHFind the father
Janet Dougall TAINSH30 April 1872Margaret Christina TAINSHFind the father
James Simpson TAYLOR27 November 1863Ann TAYLORFind the father
William TAYLOR26 October 1856Margaret TAYLORFind the father
Mary WOOD6 August 1872Christina WOODFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1836 (NRS Reference: CH2/659/5 pp. 1-2)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
LauranceAndrewfarmerClathy
JohnArcherfarmerCharlesfield
JohnArranlabourerClathy
RobertCrockartfarmerNewmill
AlexanderClinkshoemakerClathy
LauranceDuncanmasonClathy
GeorgeDavidsonfarm servantChapelbank
HectorDrysdalelabourerBonnyview
PeterDuncanfarmerClathy
AlexanderDronlabourerClathy
JohnFyfelabourerClathy
DanielGollanelderClathy
JohnGowansfarm servantHilton
JamesGorriewrightKeir
PeterGardenerfarmerClathy
JohnGalletlyfarmerBlairbale
WilliamHalleyelderClathybeg
AndrewHoustonwrightBonnyview
WilliamKemplabourerClathy
WilliamKaylabourerClathy
JamesMoncurfarmerDamside
DavidMoricefarmerClathymore
WilliamMoricefarm servantClathymore
JohnMelvilwrightClathy
AlexanderMcleanshoemakerClathy
AlexanderMcleanshoemakerClathy
RobertMonteithsmithClathy
JohnMaxtonmasonClathy
JamesMcunichelderClathy
DanielMacfarlaneschoolmasterGask
PeterMonteithlabourerKeir
RobertMonteithfarm servantBlairbale
JamesMccondochielabourerKeir
RobertCockfarm servantChapelbank
AlexanderMoncriefflabourerKeir
JohnMartinfarmerWoodhead
DuncanMcintoshwrightCharlesfield
JohnMcilwhannellabourerClathy Park
PeterMcilwhannellabourerNether Gask
LauchlanMcleanfarm servantGask
PeterMonteithservantGask
JohnPatonlabourerMiddle Gask
JohnPennyweaverClathy
JohnRichardgamekeeperGask
JohnRintoullabourerClathy
SamuelRichmondfarmerChapelbank
RobertStewartweaverEastfold
JamesStevensonmasonClathymore
LauranceSimfarmerMayfield
DavidSimfarmerWestmoor
JamesStobieelderDrumend
CharlesStobiefarm servantDrumend
JohnSimweaverNether Gask
RobertTaylorfarmerRoss
DavidTaylorlabourerMuirend
GeorgeTaylorlabourerKeir
JamesTaylorfarmerWoodhead
ThomasWallsfarm servantKeirbank

Kirk Session Records Index

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