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Fordoun parish 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 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
  • £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
Helen BOTHWELL or DUNCAN 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
Helen BOTHWELL or DUNCAN 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
Helen BOTHWELL or DUNCAN 1855 (1)Order imagesRefused
William CARNEGIE 1850 (2)Order imagesRefused
George DICKIE 1854 (3)Order imagesRefused
Widow Margaret DURIE or TAYLOR 1868 (4)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Ann GOVE Laurencekirk1846 (1)Order imagesRefused
Helen JOLLY 1855 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow Sarah LAWSON or HENDERSON 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Helen LINDSAY 1860 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary Ann LINDSAY 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused
John MAIN 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
Elizabeth MOIR or GREIG 1859 (2)Order imagesRefused - informal
Widow Harriet TAVENDALE or SCOTT 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary THOMSON 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused

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. For births outwith this period, click here.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Jessie ANDERSON15 December 1867Mary ANDERSONFind the father
William ANDERSON23 June 1871Mary ANDERSONFind the father
John BIRSE13 July 1874Isabella BIRSEFind the father
Christina BLACKIE1 February 1864Rebecca BLACKIEFind the father
Ann Bertie BROWN27 January 1863Betsy BROWNFind the father
Anne COBBAN4 July 1873Elisabeth COBBANFind the father
Ann Kydd COCKIE22 April 1861Christina COCKIEFind the father
Betsy COLLIE6 January 1868Elsie COLLIEFind the father
James CRABB9 July 1868Jane CRABBFind the father
Jane Ann CRABB26 July 1866Mary Ann CRABBFind the father
Jane Ann CRABB16 March 1874Jane CRABBFind the father
Allan Scott CRAMOND21 November 1862Ann CRAMONDFind the father
Margaret DALLAS16 December 1857Margaret DALLASFind the father
Jane DUNCAN8 February 1865Catherine DUNCANFind the father
Robert DUNCAN19 April 1870Helen DUNCANFind the father
Elizabeth Ritchie Or DURWARD20 May 1859Elizabeth Ritchie Or DURWARDFind the father
James DURWARD28 August 1856Jane DURWARDFind the father
William Esson DUTHIE15 March 1866Helen DUTHIEFind the father
Georgina Crabb GORDON21 December 1874Margaret GORDONFind the father
Helen Reid GORDON13 June 1868Margaret GORDONFind the father
John GORDON29 May 1874Isabella GORDONFind the father
William Alexander GRAY6 January 1874Annie GRAYFind the father
Elizabeth Smith GREIG2 September 1856Mary Ann GREIGFind the father
Helen GREIG1 March 1857Ann GREIGFind the father
James Ross GREIG27 November 1860Ann GREIGFind the father
Margaret Davidson GREIG20 February 1865Mary Ann GREIGFind the father
Mary GREIG1 March 1857Ann GREIGFind the father
Mary Ann Howie GREIG8 December 1860Jean GREIGFind the father
Jane Ann Fraser HOBBS26 September 1863Isabella HOBBSFind the father
Elizabeth Greig Reid HUNTER23 October 1860Margaret HUNTERFind the father
John JAFFRAY30 June 1867Helen Jaffray Or ANNANDALEFind the father
Helen JOLLY2 December 1872Ann JOLLYFind the father
James JOLLY25 April 1867Mary JOLLYFind the father
William Boa JOLLY16 December 1873Mary JOLLYFind the father
Jane LAING16 January 1868Jane LAINGFind the father
Louisa Ann LAURIE26 November 1872Margaret LAURIEFind the father
Grace Kinn LONGMUIR26 June 1865Maria LONGMUIRFind the father
David Sheriffs LOW4 May 1867Isabella LOWFind the father
Jane LOWNIE26 February 1862Margaret LOWNIEFind the father
Ann Carnegie MANSON13 December 1863Isabella MANSONFind the father
Emma Jane MASON3 May 1859Margaret MASONFind the father
Ann Ross MASSON15 November 1861Elizabeth MASSONFind the father
Margaret Wight MCANDREW23 June 1869Margaret MCANDREWFind the father
William Alexander MCANDREW23 August 1872Margaret MCANDREWFind the father
John MCGREGOR22 November 1868Isabella MCGREGORFind the father
Ann MILLAR3 December 1871Elisabeth MILLARFind the father
David Scorgie MILLAR4 June 1870Jane MILLARFind the father
Mary Wallace MILLER9 August 1864Elisabeth MILLERFind the father
Alexander Bruce MOIR4 February 1870Jane MOIRFind the father
David Balfour Stephen MOIR14 November 1860Elizabeth MOIRFind the father
William Laing MOIR17 May 1857Jane MOIRFind the father
George MORRISON22 October 1871Mary MORRISONFind the father
Mary Thom MURRAY4 January 1858Mary MURRAYFind the father
Ann NICOL13 March 1859Isabella NICOLFind the father
Isabella NICOL2 March 1862Isabella NICOLFind the father
Ann PETRIE19 December 1868Isabella PETRIEFind the father
Alexander REITH21 January 1871Helen REITHFind the father
David REITH26 January 1870Jean REITHFind the father
Elisabeth Fyfe Longmuir REITH5 June 1866Jean REITHFind the father
Helen Smith REITH29 July 1862Helen REITHFind the father
William Simpson ROBERTS15 April 1872Elisabeth ROBERTSFind the father
John SHERET29 December 1868Elisabeth SHERETFind the father
Alice SMART1 March 1870Ann SMARTFind the father
John SMITH9 July 1874Emily Silver SMITHFind the father
John SOUTER20 September 1873Jane SOUTERFind the father
Annabella Mcdonald STEPHEN23 June 1872Ann STEPHENFind the father
James Barclay STEVENSON29 March 1868Jessie STEVENSONFind the father
David STEWART25 July 1860Elizabeth STEWARTFind the father
David Scott STEWART17 June 1861Elizabeth STEWARTFind the father
Margaret Ann STEWART15 June 1860Mary STEWARTFind the father
Margaret Annie Elder STEWART2 March 1873Mary STEWARTFind the father
Mary Ann Taylor STEWART5 January 1863Ann STEWARTFind the father
Christina Scroggie STRACHAN5 April 1869Margaret STRACHANFind the father
Ann Middleton TAYLOR20 October 1870Helen TAYLORFind the father
Elisabeth King THOMSON11 January 1865Ann THOMSONFind the father
Ann Spalding VALENTINE19 April 1857Jean VALENTINEFind 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

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