Galashiels parish records
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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 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
- £10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert BROWN | 1849 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Jean CROSBIE | 1878 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Mary CROSBIE | 1882 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| William HANDLY | 1848 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Agnes HORSBURGH | 1846 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Agnes HORSBURGH | 1851 (1) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of relief | |
| Widow Agnes HORSBURGH | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert HOWDEN | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused; case for Sheriff | |
| Widow Mary LOWRIE | 1861 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Agnes MARK | 1849 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John MURPHY | 1877-1878 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| O'HARA | 1876 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Margaret O'HARA | 1875 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Betsy SCOTT | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Francis TULLY | 1876 (1) | Order images | Refused |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
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| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janet ADAMSON | 19 April 1874 | Jessie ADAMSON | Find the father |
| Isabella AITCHISON | 4 November 1859 | Margaret AITCHISON | Find the father |
| Jessie AITKEN | 6 May 1856 | Marion AITKEN | Find the father |
| Andrew ANDERSON | 2 November 1858 | Isabella ANDERSON | Find the father |
| George ANDERSON | 24 April 1870 | Robina Redpath ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Walter ARMSTRONG | 23 July 1863 | Elizabeth ARMSTRONG | Find the father |
| Walter Muir ARMSTRONG | 25 March 1869 | Elizabeth ARMSTRONG | Find the father |
| Alison BALLANTYNE | 4 May 1869 | Sarah BALLANTYNE | Find the father |
| Jane BALLANTYNE | 13 February 1864 | Alison BALLANTYNE | Find the father |
| Jane BALLANTYNE | 3 December 1871 | Margaret BALLANTYNE | Find the father |
| Margaret BALLANTYNE | 31 July 1871 | Mary BALLANTYNE | Find the father |
| Mary BALLANTYNE | 7 March 1873 | Mary BALLANTYNE | Find the father |
| Mary BAPTIE | 16 June 1869 | Helen BAPTIE | Find the father |
| Mary BAPTIE | 24 July 1870 | Elizabeth BAPTIE | Find the father |
| Robert BAPTIE | 17 July 1866 | Margaret BAPTIE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth BARKLEY | 2 January 1860 | Mary BARKLEY | Find the father |
| Christina BEATTIE | 27 August 1870 | Agnes BEATTIE | Find the father |
| Agnes BOLD | 14 December 1868 | Jane BOLD | Find the father |
| Isabella BORTHWICK | 6 July 1857 | Margaret BORTHWICK | Find the father |
| Agnes BOYD | 27 February 1856 | Agnes BOYD | Find the father |
| Margaret BOYD | 15 March 1855 | Ellen BOYD | Find the father |
| Maria BOYD | 27 April 1859 | Elizabeth BOYD | Find the father |
| Charles BRADY | 26 May 1873 | Mary Ann BRADY | Find the father |
| Andrew BROAD | 2 July 1872 | Mary BROAD | Find the father |
| Mary BROAD | 26 May 1866 | Mary BROAD | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Watson BROUGH | 25 January 1870 | Phillis BROUGH | Find the father |
| James BROUGH | 27 November 1871 | Elizabeth Brough Or WATSON | Find the father |
| Thomas Howie Wright BROUGH | 7 March 1873 | Phillis BROUGH | Find the father |
| Jane BROWN | 28 September 1873 | Ann BROWN | Find the father |
| Janet BROWN | 24 December 1870 | Agnes Brown Or DOBBIE | Find the father |
| Janet Taylor BROWN | 31 May 1859 | Alison BROWN | Find the father |
| Mary Scott BROWN | 29 October 1870 | Martha BROWN | Find the father |
| Elizabeth BRUNTON | 8 July 1862 | Elizabeth BRUNTON | Find the father |
| Flora Ann BRUNTON | 6 October 1873 | Agnes BRUNTON | Find the father |
| William BRYCE | 1 February 1870 | Jane BRYCE | Find the father |
| Jane BRYDON | 14 July 1870 | Jane BRYDON | Find the father |
| Jane BURN | 28 April 1874 | Jane BURN | Find the father |
| Elizabeth BURNET | 17 February 1874 | Margaret BURNET | Find the father |
| Euphemia BURNET | 13 August 1870 | Margaret BURNET | Find the father |
| James BURNET | 2 June 1863 | Elizabeth BURNET | Find the father |
| Thomas CAMPBELL | 26 July 1863 | Christina CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth COCKBURN | 31 March 1862 | Alison COCKBURN | Find the father |
| Alice COLLIER | 5 June 1870 | Margaret COLLIER | Find the father |
| Annie COLLIER | 3 February 1873 | Margaret COLLIER | Find the father |
| Robert COLLIER | 28 October 1867 | Margaret COLLIER | Find the father |
| Robert William COLLIER | 18 April 1869 | Margaret COLLIER | Find the father |
| Agnes COLVIN | 22 March 1874 | Margaret COLVIN | Find the father |
| James COWAN | 2 October 1874 | Margaret COWAN | Find the father |
| Mary Isabella COWAN | 23 November 1874 | Janet Cowan Or AIMERS | Find the father |
| Elizabeth CRAWFORD | 20 August 1867 | Carolina Bell CRAWFORD | Find the father |
| Catherine CRICHTON | 31 May 1867 | Margaret CRICHTON | Find the father |
| Isabella Wilhemina CROSBIE | 7 May 1873 | Isabella CROSBIE | Find the father |
| James CROSBIE | 31 July 1866 | Isabella CROSBIE | Find the father |
| Joseph CROSBIE | 25 April 1863 | Isabella CROSBIE | Find the father |
| Sarah Ann CROSBIE | 6 October 1868 | Isabella CROSBIE | Find the father |
| Louis CROZIER | 28 May 1865 | Jane CROZIER | Find the father |
| Eliza Ann CUMMING | 19 June 1871 | Georgina Scott CUMMING | Find the father |
| George Archibald CUMMING | 23 December 1873 | Emily Jane CUMMING | Find the father |
| Jane Mc Bland CUMMING | 24 January 1866 | Emily Jane CUMMING | Find the father |
| Margaret CUMMING | 21 May 1873 | Georgina Scott CUMMING | Find the father |
| Alexander DALGLEISH | 14 February 1856 | Agnes DALGLEISH | Find the father |
| Helen DALGLEISH | 9 December 1865 | Helen DALGLEISH | Find the father |
| Janet Thomson DAVIDSON | 24 October 1869 | Elizabeth DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| John DAVIDSON | 2 February 1871 | Isabella DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Mary Gill DAVIDSON | 11 June 1867 | Elizabeth DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Robert Gill DAVIDSON | 14 June 1871 | Elizabeth DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Isabella Thomson DICKSON | 2 May 1873 | Jane Baillie DICKSON | Find the father |
| Joseph DICKSON | 25 June 1867 | Jane DICKSON | Find the father |
| Robert Young DICKSON | 26 July 1867 | Catherine Young DICKSON | Find the father |
| Agnes DOBSON | 27 May 1874 | Janet DOBSON | Find the father |
| Ernest DOBSON | 2 October 1870 | Joan DOBSON | Find the father |
| James Dalgleish DOBSON | 2 August 1860 | Jessie DOBSON | Find the father |
| Jane DOBSON | 11 November 1871 | Janet DOBSON | Find the father |
| Thomas DONALDSON | 15 January 1868 | Mary DONALDSON | Find the father |
| Jane DOUGLAS | 28 May 1859 | Jemima DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Mary Jane DOUGLAS | 20 May 1868 | Mary DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Thomas DUN | 13 October 1866 | Fanny DUN | Find the father |
| Robert William Gill EASTON | 8 June 1874 | Janet EASTON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth ELDER | 11 June 1869 | Jane ELDER | Find the father |
| James ELDER | 18 October 1870 | Jane ELDER | Find the father |
| James ELLIOT | 20 May 1868 | Barbaray ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Joan FAIR | 23 October 1856 | Joan FAIR | Find the father |
| Robert FAIRBAIRN | 26 February 1873 | Mary FAIRBAIRN | Find the father |
| James FAIRGRIEVE | 11 May 1859 | Janet FAIRGRIEVE | Find the father |
| George Wilson FORSYTH | 20 June 1873 | Jessie FORSYTH | Find the father |
| James FORSYTH | 14 August 1866 | Mary FORSYTH | Find the father |
| Elizabeth FORTUNE | 22 November 1866 | Isabella FORTUNE | Find the father |
| Jessie Chisholm FRIER | 8 May 1870 | Christina FRIER | Find the father |
| Mary Ann GIBSON | 1 September 1870 | Mary GIBSON | Find the father |
| George GLEN | 22 December 1856 | Elizabeth GLEN | Find the father |
| Helen GOODFELLOW | 23 October 1873 | Janet GOODFELLOW | Find the father |
| Robert GOODFELLOW | 5 May 1872 | Janet GOODFELLOW | Find the father |
| Catherine Craig GORDON | 3 May 1872 | Mary GORDON | Find the father |
| Alison GOTTERSON | 14 March 1863 | Christina GOTTERSON | Find the father |
| James GRAHAM | 28 November 1867 | Sarah GRAHAM | Find the father |
| James GROSSART | 19 August 1861 | Isabella GROSSART | Find the father |
| William HALL | 4 June 1858 | Elizabeth HALL | Find the father |
| John Tinline HARDIE | 2 November 1860 | Margaret HARDIE | Find the father |
| Margaret HARKNESS | 15 September 1857 | Margaret HARKNESS | Find the father |
| Andrew HARVEY | 21 January 1871 | Agnes HARVEY | Find the father |
| James HARVEY | 6 September 1869 | Jane HARVEY | Find the father |
| Mary HARVEY | 19 December 1867 | Jane HARVEY | Find the father |
| Mary HARVEY | 3 December 1868 | Agnes HARVEY | Find the father |
| Mary HARVEY | 18 January 1874 | Agnes HARVEY | Find the father |
| Jane HAY | 7 October 1870 | Isabella HAY | Find the father |
| Janet HAY | 9 October 1863 | Eliza Jane HAY | Find the father |
| Agnes HENDERSON | 15 September 1872 | Agnes HENDERSON | Find the father |
| James HOGG | 25 January 1864 | Margaret HOGG | Find the father |
| Elizabeth HOPE | 28 September 1871 | Elizabeth HOPE | Find the father |
| Christiana HUGGAN | 17 January 1857 | Betsy HUGGAN | Find the father |
| Robert INGLES | 9 July 1871 | Helen INGLES | Find the father |
| Janet INGLIS | 31 January 1871 | Elizabeth INGLIS | Find the father |
| Barbara JOHNSTONE | 4 May 1860 | Margaret JOHNSTONE | Find the father |
| Isabella KERR | 16 March 1856 | Isabella KERR | Find the father |
| Janet KERR | 31 January 1861 | Isabella KERR | Find the father |
| Thomas LAIDLAW | 19 April 1872 | Janet LAIDLAW | Find the father |
| Jane LEES | 4 January 1866 | Jane LEES | Find the father |
| Catherine LEITCH | 25 September 1864 | Janet LEITCH | Find the father |
| Thomas LEITCH | 29 January 1862 | Janet LEITCH | Find the father |
| Elizabeth LINDSAY | 16 March 1871 | Helen LINDSAY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth LOWRIE | 27 October 1869 | Jane LOWRIE | Find the father |
| Jessie MABON | 26 June 1863 | Janet MABON | Find the father |
| Mary MABON | 13 September 1860 | Christina MABON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MACK | 13 March 1864 | Euphemia MACK | Find the father |
| James MACK | 1 October 1865 | Euphemia MACK | Find the father |
| Peter MACK | 5 July 1865 | Elizabeth MACK | Find the father |
| William MARK | 6 December 1872 | Isabella MARK | Find the father |
| Robert MARTAIN | 13 January 1859 | Agnes MARTAIN | Find the father |
| Christina MASON | 9 March 1863 | Christina MASON | Find the father |
| James MCDOUGAL | 16 April 1860 | Isabella MCDOUGAL | Find the father |
| Mary MCDOUGALL | 1 May 1868 | Isabella MCDOUGALL | Find the father |
| Thomas MCDOUGALL | 1 May 1868 | Isabella MCDOUGALL | Find the father |
| John MCEWAN | 9 October 1862 | Ann Mc Ewan Or MCNAMARA | Find the father |
| Davina MCINSPIRIT | 22 December 1872 | Elizabeth MCINSPIRIT | Find the father |
| Francis MCINSPIRIT | 14 August 1868 | Betsy MCINSPIRIT | Find the father |
| Sarah Jane MCINSPIRIT | 23 June 1871 | Elizabeth MCINSPIRIT | Find the father |
| Ann MCINTOSH | 11 March 1872 | Eliza MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Janet MCKENZIE | 17 October 1860 | Anne MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| William MCKENZIE | 8 May 1874 | Christina MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Andrew MCLEISH | 19 October 1859 | Janet MCLEISH | Find the father |
| Margaret MCLEISH | 15 April 1871 | Margaret MCLEISH | Find the father |
| Charles John MCLEOD | 25 July 1874 | Euphemia MCLEOD | Find the father |
| Eliza Smith MCMULLEN | 1 May 1862 | Rosanna MCMULLEN | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MELROSE | 11 September 1857 | Elizabeth MELROSE | Find the father |
| John MELROSE | 19 April 1857 | Margaret MELROSE | Find the father |
| Margaret Jane MELROSE | 2 December 1867 | Jane MELROSE | Find the father |
| Mary Jane MELROSE | 25 March 1865 | Isabella MELROSE | Find the father |
| William Robert Paterson MELROSE | 5 August 1872 | Janet MELROSE | Find the father |
| David MILL | 13 September 1865 | Elizabeth MILL | Find the father |
| David MILL | 31 July 1869 | Elizabeth MILL | Find the father |
| Isabella MILL | 25 December 1866 | Elizabeth MILL | Find the father |
| Margaret MILL | 23 January 1867 | Margaret MILL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MILNE | 23 November 1862 | Margaret MILNE | Find the father |
| John MITCHELL | 22 May 1868 | Jane MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MOFFAT | 6 February 1859 | Violet MOFFAT | Find the father |
| Robert MORTON | 24 November 1873 | Margaret MORTON | Find the father |
| Catherine MURPHY | 6 April 1870 | Sarah MURPHY | Find the father |
| Mary MURRAY | 14 March 1869 | Mary MURRAY | Find the father |
| William MURRAY | 21 April 1871 | Helen MURRAY | Find the father |
| Thomas NEIL | 11 February 1869 | Isabella NEIL | Find the father |
| Mary Isabella OLIVER | 16 December 1871 | Isabella OLIVER | Find the father |
| Elizabeth PAISLEY | 3 July 1870 | Mary PAISLEY | Find the father |
| Agnes PATERSON | 22 August 1869 | Betsy PATERSON | Find the father |
| Archibald Brodie PATERSON | 27 March 1874 | Helen PATERSON | Find the father |
| John PEARSON | 10 October 1870 | Margaret PEARSON | Find the father |
| Helen PITTILLA | 13 June 1873 | Eliza PITTILLA | Find the father |
| Agnes PRENTICE | 26 June 1860 | Margaret PRENTICE | Find the father |
| Robert PRENTICE | 26 December 1864 | Agnes PRENTICE | Find the father |
| John Alexander PRINGLE | 23 December 1862 | Jane PRINGLE | Find the father |
| William PURVES | 17 June 1868 | Elizabeth PURVES | Find the father |
| Margaret RANKIN | 1 September 1862 | Jane Brown RANKIN | Find the father |
| Jane Leitch RANKINE | 8 January 1865 | Jane Brown RANKINE | Find the father |
| Isabella REID | 22 June 1863 | Jane REID | Find the father |
| Jane REID | 21 January 1859 | Jane REID | Find the father |
| Isabella RIDDLE | 29 December 1872 | Catherine RIDDLE | Find the father |
| Louisa Stewart ROBSON | 8 August 1867 | Margaret ROBSON | Find the father |
| Janet RUSSELL | 20 May 1858 | Robenia RUSSELL | Find the father |
| Agnes Prescott RUTHERFORD | 24 April 1874 | Ellen RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Frances RUTHERFORD | 6 October 1865 | Ellen RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| James Shearer RUTHERFORD | 27 October 1870 | Ellen RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Robert RUTHERFORD | 6 October 1865 | Ellen RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Daniel SANDERSON | 4 March 1871 | Ann SANDERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret SANDERSON | 25 April 1871 | Agnes SANDERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Mc Gregor SANDERSON | 9 March 1869 | Ann SANDERSON | Find the father |
| William SANDERSON | 6 August 1860 | Margaret SANDERSON | Find the father |
| James SCOTT | 7 November 1864 | Janet SCOTT | Find the father |
| Mary SCOTT | 23 April 1863 | Janet SCOTT | Find the father |
| Mary SCOTT | 10 May 1864 | Mary SCOTT | Find the father |
| Mary SCOTT | 5 November 1874 | Rachel SCOTT | Find the father |
| Mary Ane SCOTT | 17 May 1859 | Sarah SCOTT | Find the father |
| William SCOTT | 24 December 1870 | Margaret SCOTT | Find the father |
| Andrew SHIELS | 20 May 1860 | Janet SHIELS | Find the father |
| Louis SHILLINGLAW | 13 June 1863 | Margaret SHILLINGLAW | Find the father |
| Robert SHORTREED | 27 March 1863 | Grace SHORTREED | Find the father |
| William SIMPSON | 18 January 1857 | Elizabeth SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Christina SINCLAIR | 26 January 1870 | Margaret SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| Daniel SINCLAIR | 2 April 1871 | Margaret SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| James Scott SINCLAIR | 15 August 1873 | Margaret SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| Joan SINCLAIR | 11 October 1863 | Margaret Sinclair Or HAGAN | Find the father |
| Margaret Gibson SINCLAIR | 5 December 1867 | Margaret SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| Thomas SINCLAIR | 26 January 1870 | Margaret SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| William Gibson SINCLAIR | 20 November 1865 | Margaret Sinclair Or HAGAN | Find the father |
| John SLATTER | 11 April 1859 | Mary SLATTER | Find the father |
| Alice Robertson SLIGH | 19 January 1868 | Mary SLIGH | Find the father |
| James SMALL | 14 July 1859 | Isabella SMALL | Find the father |
| Mary SMALL | 27 September 1861 | Isabella SMALL | Find the father |
| Jane Pringle SMART | 17 August 1865 | Margaret SMART | Find the father |
| Margaret SMART | 1 August 1869 | Jessie SMART | Find the father |
| Agnes SMITH | 29 December 1866 | Georgina SMITH | Find the father |
| John SMITH | 28 July 1857 | Elizabeth SMITH | Find the father |
| Thomas SMITH | 10 May 1863 | Janet SMITH | Find the father |
| John SPENCE | 31 July 1866 | Mary SPENCE | Find the father |
| Catherine STENHOUSE | 15 April 1863 | Helen STENHOUSE | Find the father |
| Mary Jane SULLIVAN | 3 May 1873 | Mary SULLIVAN | Find the father |
| Jane Hislop TAIT | 14 December 1866 | Jane TAIT | Find the father |
| Margaret TAIT | 2 November 1868 | Jane TAIT | Find the father |
| Margaret TAYLOR | 26 April 1870 | Mary Jane TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Jane THOMSON | 15 January 1867 | Elizabeth THOMSON | Find the father |
| Peter THOMSON | 11 September 1866 | Elizabeth THOMSON | Find the father |
| Robert THOMSON | 13 June 1864 | Agnes THOMSON | Find the father |
| Joan Donaldson THORBURN | 4 June 1867 | Elizabeth THORBURN | Find the father |
| Helen Bruce TODD | 2 October 1859 | Margaret TODD | Find the father |
| Isabella Brodie TURNBULL | 22 June 1873 | Jessie TURNBULL | Find the father |
| Euphemia Richardson TYSON | 15 September 1869 | Grace TYSON | Find the father |
| John TYSON | 19 May 1868 | Grace TYSON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth WALKER | 11 January 1871 | Elizabeth WALKER | Find the father |
| Jemima WALKER | 15 February 1872 | Elizabeth WALKER | Find the father |
| William Charles WALKER | 1 September 1873 | Elizabeth Walker Or HOOD | Find the father |
| Janet WANLESS | 13 June 1869 | Mary WANLESS | Find the father |
| Helen WELSH | 16 October 1858 | Susan WELSH | Find the father |
| John WELSH | 24 March 1865 | Jane WELSH | Find the father |
| Mary WELSH | 1 April 1871 | Mary WELSH | Find the father |
| Susan WELSH | 9 June 1863 | Susan Welsh Or MCCLUSKY | Find the father |
| Robert WHITEHEAD | 1 December 1858 | Harriet WHITEHEAD | Find the father |
| Andrew WILLIAMSON | 23 April 1865 | Hannah WILLIAMSON | Find the father |
| Hannah WILLIAMSON | 20 December 1871 | Hannah WILLIAMSON | Find the father |
| Helen WILLIAMSON | 24 September 1869 | Hannah WILLIAMSON | Find the father |
| John Welsh WILLIAMSON | 22 December 1860 | Hanah WILLIAMSON | Find the father |
| George WILSON | 4 July 1867 | Isabella WILSON | Find the father |
| James WILSON | 18 October 1869 | Mary WILSON | Find the father |
| Margaret WILSON | 11 March 1860 | Mary WILSON | Find the father |
| Beatrice WOOD | 23 December 1874 | Jessie WOOD | Find the father |
| Isabella Markie WOOD | 10 November 1871 | Janet WOOD | Find the father |
| Robina Graham WRIGHT | 22 August 1873 | Elizabeth WRIGHT | Find the father |
| Isabella YOUNG | 2 May 1872 | Elisabeth YOUNG | Find the father |
| William YOUNG | 5 July 1860 | Mary YOUNG | Find the father |
| John YOUNGER | 14 January 1869 | Alison YOUNGER | 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.
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
