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Records -> Perthshire

Fowlis Wester 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
Ann MORRIS 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow ROSE 1849-1850 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander STEWART 1880 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Peter TAYLOR 1858 (1)Order imagesRefused
Peter TAYLOR 1865 (1)Order imagesRefused
Peter TAYLOR 1875 (2)Order imagesRefused
Peter TAYLOR 1880 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Peter TAYLOR 1881 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Jane WALKER 1858 (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
Catharine CHRISTIE
Tail, Fowlis Wester
Daniel MCDIARMID28 May 1855Order nowPerth
SC49/4/41


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 BUCHAN24 June 1860Catherine BUCHANFind the father
Mary Anne CAMPBELL13 August 1857Elizabeth CAMPBELLFind the father
Alexander COOK20 July 1858Jessie COOKFind the father
Jessie Ann COOK28 November 1867Mary COOKFind the father
Robert Simpson CRERAR10 June 1870Ann CRERARFind the father
Elizabeth CUMMINGS4 July 1869Christian CUMMINGSFind the father
Agnes DAWSON2 August 1867Janet DAWSONFind the father
Ann Stewart DRUMMOND10 April 1864Ann DRUMMONDFind the father
Christina Ann FLETCHER3 August 1870Catherine FLETCHERFind the father
John FLETCHER3 August 1870Catherine FLETCHERFind the father
John Liddle FRASER21 October 1866Jane FRASERFind the father
Robert GORRIE19 January 1856Martha GORRIEFind the father
Margaret HORN18 April 1872Margaret HORNFind the father
William HUNTER3 April 1860Margaret HUNTERFather found
Janet KEMP19 August 1860Mary KEMPFind the father
Robert KEMP12 March 1870Mary KEMPFind the father
Ann Mary KETTLE20 December 1857Janet KETTLEFind the father
Alexander Mckeith KINNELL9 December 1870Helen KINNELLFather found
Robert Monteith LIVINGSTON22 April 1867Margaret LIVINGSTONFind the father
Stewart Mary LOWDEN12 January 1868Jessie LOWDENFind the father
Alexander MARSHALL11 November 1860Janet MARSHALLFind the father
Peter Crow MARSHALL17 May 1865Margaret MARSHALLFind the father
James Tainsh MCARTHUR12 February 1861Catherine MCARTHURFind the father
Christina Dewar MCCULLOCH7 August 1871Christina MCCULLOCHFind the father
Isabella Marshall MCKAY17 April 1867Elisabeth MCKAYFather found
George Todd MCLEAN5 May 1868Ann MCLEANFind the father
Janet MCLEAN23 January 1863Janet MCLEANFind the father
R. A. Anna MCLEAN30 July 1856Isabella MCLEANFind the father
Elizabeth Todd MCLELLAN27 June 1855Margaret MCLELLANFind the father
Christian MCPHERSON15 December 1858Christian MCPHERSONFind the father
Margaret MCPHERSON15 December 1858Christian MCPHERSONFind the father
Ann MOREIS27 June 1868Ann MOREISFather found
Margaret Mitchell OSWALD19 March 1873Marjory OSWALDFather found
John PATERSON21 February 1872Mary PATERSONFind the father
Henry Winny PEEBLES6 December 1869Euphemia PEEBLESFind the father
Mary PROUDFOOT10 February 1865Barbara PROUDFOOTFind the father
Helina Barbara ROBERTSON7 December 1857Margaret ROBERTSONFind the father
Robert ROBERTSON23 July 1859Christian ROBERTSONFind the father
George Blacklaws SORLEY25 April 1871Elizabeth SORLEYFind the father
Catherine Mcgregor STEWART5 December 1860Margaret STEWARTFind the father
Margaret TOWNSLAY15 January 1872Betsy TOWNSLAYFind the father


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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  • Records
    • Board of Supervision
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      • AD8 index 1890 01
      • AD8 index 1890 02
      • AD8 index 1890 03
      • AD8 index 1890 04
      • AD8 index 1890 05
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    • Crown Counsel Procedure Books
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    • Registers of Sudden Deaths
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  • Resources
    • Scottish Genealogy Sources
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