Records -> Aberdeenshire
Gartly 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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/1050/1 | Minutes and accounts | 1725-1766 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1050/2 | Minutes 1847-1919 List of those entitled to Dr Milne's bequest 1846-8 | 1846-1919 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1050/3 | Accounts Includes poor payments | 1757-1774 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1050/4 | Accounts 1770-1819 Few minutes 1770-5 Few minutes 1796-7 Few minutes 1809 Few minutes 1815 Ordination of elders 1796-1815 Accounts include poor payments and penalties | 1770-1819 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1050/5 | Accounts Includes poor payments and penalties | 1819-1867 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1050/8 | Annual returns of contributors to schoolmasters' fund and of widows and orphans receiving benefit in presbytery of Strathbogie, 1808-38 with later notes to 1875 Minutes of this fund 1808-82 | 1808-1882 | Request lookup |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Helen LEDINGHAM or MILTON | 1871 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Ann MACDONALD | 1871 (1) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief | |
| Widow Isabel MCWILLIAM or BREMNER | 1871 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow Mary MORRISON or ALLAN | 1863 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane SIMPSON Bogairdy, Gartly, Aberdeenshire | John MCLEOD | 22 Feb 1882 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/9 |
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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert BREWSTER | 27 June 1867 | Isabella BREWSTER | Find the father |
| Helen CALDER | 12 October 1869 | Agnes CALDER | Find the father |
| Jane Skinner CHRISTIE | 27 January 1857 | Elspeth CHRISTIE | Find the father |
| Margaret CHRISTIE | 1 December 1872 | Charlotte CHRISTIE | Find the father |
| Samuel CHRISTIE | 15 November 1861 | Jessie CHRISTIE | Find the father |
| Jessie Ann COBBIN | 10 February 1866 | Jessie Ann COBBIN | Find the father |
| Jessie Ann COBBIN | 21 January 1871 | Ann COBBIN | Find the father |
| Mary Jane COBBIN | 9 September 1874 | Ann COBBIN | Find the father |
| Mary Ann COGHILL | 18 January 1871 | Helen COGHILL | Find the father |
| George DOW | 18 September 1872 | Margaret DOW | Find the father |
| Ann DUNCAN | 8 March 1863 | Christina DUNCAN | Find the father |
| John DUNCAN | 18 February 1866 | Christina DUNCAN | Find the father |
| Alexander FRASER | 11 February 1857 | Anne FRASER | Find the father |
| William GARTLY | 19 February 1855 | Jessie GARTLY | Find the father |
| William GARTLY | 10 December 1861 | Helen GARTLY | Find the father |
| William GRASSIE | 24 October 1856 | Jane GRASSIE | Find the father |
| John Gordon INNES | 19 April 1868 | Elisabeth INNES | Find the father |
| Ann Watt LEMMON | 3 September 1869 | Barbara LEMMON | Find the father |
| James MCCONNACHIE | 6 August 1874 | Elsie MCCONNACHIE | Find the father |
| William MCINTOSH | 16 July 1856 | Catherine MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Alexander MCROBB | 6 May 1871 | Mary MCROBB | Find the father |
| William MCROBB | 3 July 1874 | Jane MCROBB | Find the father |
| Ann MITCHELL | 13 August 1860 | Mary MITCHELL | Find the father |
| James MOIR | 15 March 1860 | Margaret MOIR | Find the father |
| Alexander MORRISON | 29 March 1856 | Isabella MORRISON | Find the father |
| William ROSS | 10 February 1864 | Jessie ROSS | Find the father |
| Jane SIMPSON | 8 February 1867 | Mary SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann SLORACH | 5 June 1868 | Hellen SLORACH | Find the father |
| George SMITH | 28 January 1862 | Christina SMITH | Find the father |
| George Forbes SMITH | 5 January 1855 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Isabella SMITH | 15 August 1856 | Isabella SMITH | Find the father |
| James Gardiner SMITH | 31 January 1869 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Margaret SMITH | 9 February 1862 | Barbara SMITH | Find the father |
| William Shearer SMITH | 2 February 1874 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Isabella STEWART | 17 March 1861 | Isabella STEWART | Find the father |
| William Alexander TAYLOR | 2 July 1861 | Elspeth TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Jessie Ann THOM | 30 December 1873 | Mary Ann THOM | Find the father |
| Jemima WATSON | 2 January 1864 | Mary WATSON | Find the father |
| Ann WILSON | 27 March 1865 | Margaret WILSON | Find the father |
| John WILSON | 11 March 1859 | Mary WILSON | Find the father |
| William WILSON | 22 March 1855 | Margaret WILSON | Find 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.
