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Records -> Ross and Cromarty

Gairloch 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
John CAMERON 1848 (2)Order imagesRefused
Duncan CAMPBELL 1860 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Ann MACINTOSH or MACKENZIE 1856 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander MACKENZIE 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Alexander MACKENZIE 1880 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Allan MACKENZIE 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Donald MACKENZIE 1874 (1)Order imagesRefused
Donald MACKENZIE 1875 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Margaret MACLEAN 1865 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Catherine MACPHERSON 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused
Donald MACRAE 1866 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed (poorhouse)
Donald MACRAE 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Isabella MACRAE or MCDONALD 1865 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Sarah MATHESON or MCKENZIE 1867 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Isabella MCDONALD 1861 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Christina MCIVER or MCLEAN 1873 (3)Order imagesRefused
Norman MCIVER 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Alexander MCKENZIE 1853 (4)Order imagesRefused
Widow Mary MCKENZIE 1876 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
George MCLEAN 1860 (1)Order imagesRefused
Betty MCLENNAN 1860 (3)Order imagesRefused
Roderick MCLENNAN 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Mary MCPHERSON 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Barbara MCRAE or MCCASKILL 1864 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Mary MUNRO or MACKENZIE 1858 (5)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Isabella SINCLAIR 1874 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Jessie SUTHERLAND or CAMPBELL 1863 (2)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
Ann BAIN
Kerrisdale, Gairloch
Neil MACNEIL22 Dec 1856Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/7
Annie MACKENZIE
Opinan, Gairloch
Alexander MACLEOD6 May 1886Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/11
Jane MACLEAN
Porthenderson, Gairloch
Thomas GLEESON17 Apr 1882
Porthenderson, Gairloch
Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/11
Janet MATHESON
Second Coast, Poolewe, Gairloch
Angus MACKENZIE18 Dec 1874Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/10


School Leaving Certificate Exams

This is an index to the registers of school leaving certificate examination results (NRS Reference ED36). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order now link.
School leaving certificate examinations
NameDate of birthSchoolYearOrder record
Isabella BEATON1 Dec 1888Gairloch Sand Public School1908Order now
Isabella CAMERON17 Mar 1894Gairloch Poolewe Public School1908Order now
Isabella CAMERON17 Mar 1894Gairloch Poolewe Public School1909Order now
Catherine F GRANT1 Dec 1892Gairloch Poolewe Public School1908Order now
Catherine F GRANT1 Dec 1892Gairloch Poolewe Public School1909Order now
Catherine F GRANT1 Dec 1892Gairloch Poolewe Public School1911Order now
Catherine F GRANT1 Dec 1892Gairloch Poolewe Public School1912Order now
Gracie MACIVER11 Apr 1897Gairloch Poolewe Public School1912Order now
Christina MACKENZIE15 Oct 1889Gairloch Achtercain Public School1908Order now
Christina MACKENZIE22 Aug 1899Gairloch Poolewe Public School1912Order now
Colin MACKENZIE9 Oct 1897Gairloch Poolewe Public School1912Order now
Isabella MACLEAN21 Sep 1895Gairloch Poolewe Public School1911Order now
Isabella MACLEAN21 Sep 1895Gairloch Poolewe Public School1912Order now
Kenneth MACLEAN19 Sep 1891Gairloch Poolewe Public School1908Order now
Kenneth MACLEAN19 Sep 1891Gairloch Poolewe Public School1909Order now
Margaret MACLENNAN24 Apr 1896Gairloch Poolewe Public School1912Order now
Jessie MACNAUGHTON13 Jan 1888Gairloch Poolewe Public School1908Order now
Jessie MACNAUGHTON13 Jan 1888Gairloch Poolewe Public School1909Order now
John MUNRO23 Dec 1896Gairloch Poolewe Public School1911Order now
Alexander URQUHART22 Aug 1896Gairloch Poolewe Public School1911Order now
Alick URQUHART1 Dec 1888Gairloch Poolewe Public School1908Order now
Duncan URQUHART28 Feb 1897Gairloch Poolewe Public School1912Order now
Kenneth URQUHART18 Jun 1896Gairloch Poolewe Public School1911Order now
Margaret URQUHART19 Feb 1895Gairloch Poolewe Public School1911Order now


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
Christy FRASER5 August 1864Ann FRASERFind the father
Catherine KEMP27 November 1860Hannah KEMPFind the father
Murdoch MACDONALD28 April 1858Mary MACDONALDFind the father
Thomas MACDONALD31 March 1867Ann MACDONALDFind the father
James MACGREGOR14 May 1865Mary MACGREGORFind the father
Hectorina MACIVER24 July 1866Christina MACIVERFind the father
Alexander MACKENZIE25 March 1866Mary MACKENZIEFind the father
Christina MACKENZIE20 November 1858Christina MACKENZIEFind the father
John MACKENZIE2 December 1862Alexandrina MACKENZIEFind the father
Kenneth MACKENZIE23 February 1861Catherine MACKENZIEFind the father
Margaret MACKENZIE18 November 1862Annabella MACKENZIEFind the father
Rebecca MACKENZIE3 April 1860Catherine MACKENZIEFind the father
Alexander MACLEAN19 February 1866Catherine MACLEANFind the father
Catherine Ann MACLENNAN7 January 1865Johan MACLENNANFind the father
Mary MACLEOD27 March 1866Janet MACLEODFind the father
Duncan MACRAE12 August 1863Ann MACRAEFind the father
Finlay MACRAE20 December 1865Ann MACRAEFind the father
Isabella MACRAE13 March 1866Anne MACRAEFind the father
John MACRAE24 July 1866Donina MACRAEFind the father
Chirsty MCMILLAN28 September 1857Janet MCMILLANFind the father
Jessie TAYLOR5 October 1866Catherine TAYLORFind the father
Catherine URQUHART18 January 1862Mary URQUHARTFind the father
Finlay URQUHART2 June 1863Isabella URQUHARTFind the father
Margaret URQUHART5 February 1858Janet URQUHARTFind 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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