Records -> Berwickshire
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
Fogo 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark KINGHORN | 1851 (2) | Order images | Refused |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James BLACK | 25 August 1870 | Mary BLACK | Find the father |
| Mary BRODIE | 16 January 1867 | Agnes BRODIE | Find the father |
| Isabella BROWN | 7 October 1865 | Hannah BROWN | Find the father |
| Mary BROWN | 25 August 1864 | Margaret BROWN | Find the father |
| Peter DARRIE | 12 February 1869 | Margaret DARRIE | Find the father |
| Thomas DARRIE | 5 January 1868 | Alison DARRIE | Find the father |
| Annie Newton DRUMMOND | 18 January 1873 | Margaret DRUMMOND | Find the father |
| Christian ELLIOT | 19 September 1870 | Christian ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Isabella ELLIOT | 24 November 1864 | Christian ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Alexander FLETCHER | 2 August 1865 | Margaret FLETCHER | Find the father |
| David FOREMAN | 9 December 1871 | Agnes FOREMAN | Find the father |
| Robert FOREMAN | 31 October 1871 | Margaret FOREMAN | Find the father |
| Mary HALLIDAY | 19 February 1869 | Isabella HALLIDAY | Find the father |
| William Cleghorn HALLIDAY | 22 December 1868 | Agnes HALLIDAY | Find the father |
| Grace HASTIE | 24 July 1866 | Janet HASTIE | Find the father |
| William HASTIE | 31 January 1866 | Margaret HASTIE | Find the father |
| Agnes HENDRY | 4 December 1858 | Margaret HENDRY | Father found |
| Hannah HENDRY | 3 December 1858 | Isabella HENDRY | Find the father |
| Catharine HUNTER | 16 November 1874 | Catherine HUNTER | Find the father |
| Mary JACKSON | 3 February 1867 | Isabella JACKSON | Find the father |
| Agnes JOHNSTON | 23 June 1857 | Helen JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| William LAWRIE | 31 March 1868 | Agnes LAWRIE | Find the father |
| Helen MCDONALD | 17 April 1874 | Helen MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Alexander MCDOUGAL | 25 January 1872 | Elisabeth MCDOUGAL | Find the father |
| Adam Guthrie MORTON | 3 March 1869 | Ann MORTON | Find the father |
| George PATERSON | 10 August 1873 | Christina Thompson PATERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret REDPATH | 21 October 1869 | Janet REDPATH | Find the father |
| Georgina Dickson ROBERTSON | 1 August 1871 | Helen ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Margaret ROBERTSON | 23 September 1868 | Helen ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Mary Dickson ROBERTSON | 1 August 1871 | Helen ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Mary SWANSTON | 29 August 1870 | Catharine SWANSTON | Find the father |
| Jane TAIT | 10 March 1873 | Helen TAIT | Find the father |
| Frances TROTTER | 1 October 1874 | Elizabeth TROTTER | Find 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
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.
