Garvald and Bara parish records

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Reference	Title	Dates	Buy
CH2/167/1	Garvald and Bara Kirk Session - Minutes	1721-1852	Request lookup
CH2/167/2	Garvald and Bara Kirk Session - Bara minutes and accounts Bara minutes 1694-1709 accounts 1694-1712 accounts 1718-1721	1694-1721	Request lookup
CH2/167/3	Garvald and Bara Kirk Session - Accounts	1762-1819	Request lookup
CH2/167/4	Garvald and Bara Kirk Session - Accounts	1819-1864	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.

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Poor law appeals
Name	Year(s)/ minutes	Order images	Deliverance
Widow BORTHWICK or DEANS	1882 (2)	Order images	Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief
Widow Margaret MITCHELL or BRYSON	1863 (4)	Order images	Ground of complaint removed
Agnes PETERS or VALLANCE	1875 (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
Peter BAILLIE	10 February 1872	Margaret BAILLIE	Find the father
Margaret BEATON	25 December 1872	Isabella BEATON	Find the father
Helen BLYTH	6 April 1867	Catherine BLYTH	Find the father
James Frank BROWN	6 September 1865	Janet Cribbis BROWN	Find the father
John BROWN	1 October 1869	Jane BROWN	Find the father
Alexander COW	26 September 1857	Agnes COW	Find the father
James COWE	7 October 1870	Agnes COWE	Find the father
Thomas CUNNINGHAM	13 July 1866	Mary CUNNINGHAM	Find the father
Jamesina DICKSON	14 November 1865	Jane DICKSON	Find the father
Robert Gray FARROL	16 March 1865	Mary FARROL	Find the father
Ann Watt GILMORE	2 August 1860	Mary Ann GILMORE	Find the father
Agnes GRAY	11 November 1865	Jane GRAY	Find the father
Margaret GRAY	17 February 1862	Agnes GRAY	Find the father
Thomas GRAY	4 January 1857	Jane GRAY	Find the father
James HARKES	11 June 1869	Helen HARKES	Find the father
Mary Ann HARKES	18 April 1864	Jane HARKES	Find the father
Andrew Blyth HOGG	30 January 1863	Mary HOGG	Find the father
Margaret HOGG	22 March 1867	Margaret HOGG	Find the father
Robert HOGG	22 December 1864	Mary HOGG	Find the father
Margaret JACK	30 September 1861	Margaret JACK	Find the father
Robert JAMIESON	16 February 1867	Mary JAMIESON	Find the father
James JOHNSTON	18 December 1859	Elisabeth JOHNSTON	Find the father
Agnes Dickson KELLIE	26 June 1871	Agnes KELLIE	Find the father
Agnes LEES	14 November 1866	Isabella LEES	Find the father
James Haldane MCDONALD	10 March 1873	Jessie Margaret MCDONALD	Find the father
John MCDONALD	8 September 1860	Catherine MCDONALD	Find the father
Ann Crosbie MCLEOD	16 July 1858	Ann MCLEOD	Find the father
Agnes MELROSE	26 May 1862	Agnes MELROSE	Find the father
Christina MELROSE	11 June 1868	Agnes MELROSE	Find the father
Helen MELROSE	7 March 1870	Janet MELROSE	Find the father
Isabella MELROSE	10 August 1858	Agnes MELROSE	Find the father
Isabella MELROSE	16 January 1859	Janet MELROSE	Find the father
James MELROSE	31 October 1862	Isabella MELROSE	Find the father
Janet MELROSE	16 January 1859	Janet MELROSE	Find the father
Thomas MELROSE	15 January 1864	Agnes MELROSE	Find the father
Ann MONTGOMERY	22 May 1860	Beatrice MONTGOMERY	Find the father
Mary NEILLANS	8 January 1856	Jane NEILLANS	Find the father
George PUNTON	18 April 1859	Janet PUNTON	Find the father
Adam REDPATH	8 March 1863	Agnes REDPATH	Find the father
William ROSS	13 February 1869	Margaret ROSS	Find the father
Charles SANDERSON	20 December 1863	Isabella SANDERSON	Find the father
David SCOTT	4 July 1858	Janet SCOTT	Find the father
David SCOTT	22 March 1869	Helen SCOTT	Find the father
Elizabeth Jane Struthers SCOTT	10 December 1865	Agnes SCOTT	Find the father
Henry SCOTT	15 February 1860	Mary SCOTT	Find the father
James William Robertson SCOTT	4 January 1855	Agnes SCOTT	Find the father
Elisabeth SKED	8 July 1858	Margaret SKED	Find the father
John Thomas STEWART	12 December 1863	Mary Ann STEWART	Find the father
Marion SYMINGTON	25 November 1868	Isabella SYMINGTON	Find the father
John THOMSON	28 October 1870	Margaret THOMSON	Find the father
George Adie WHITE	24 January 1870	Helen WHITE	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.

No Roll of Male Heads of Families has yet been found for this parish

Kirk Session Records Index 1832 [NRS Reference CH2/167/1]

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.

Earl of Wemyss

Managers of Tweeddale

Name: Earl of Wemyss

Date: 07/03/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting

Occupation:

Address: Wemyss

Role: represented by proxy

Details: represented by Walker [See entry for Lord John Hay of this date]

Other names: Lord John Hay; Managers of Tweeddale; Captain Hay of Hopes; Francis Walker Esq; Earl of Wemyss; Mr Scott; Mr Bogue

Name: Managers of Tweeddale

Date: 07/03/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting

Occupation:

Address: Tweeddale

Role: represented by proxy

Details: represented by Lord John Hay [See entry for Lord John Hay of this date]

Other names: Lord John Hay; Managers of Tweeddale; Captain Hay of Hopes; Francis Walker Esq; Earl of Wemyss; Mr Scott; Mr Bogue

Name: Peter Baillie

Date: 15/01/1832

Case type: Irregular Marriage

Occupation:

Address: Garvald

Role: Compeared

Other parish: Coldstream

Details: Compeared Peter Baillie & Jean young residing in Garvald & being interrogated if they were married persons declared in the affirmative & produced a certificate of their Marriage dated at Coldstream the 3rd Inst.:- They were reprimanded for their irregularity & e[x]horted to a more circumspect behaviour for the future.' [This year is unusual as it only has a single entry in the Session Minutes - There is an additional Heritors minute extracted towards the end of the volume for 1832]

Other names: Peter Baillie; Jean Young

Name: Mr Bogue

Date: 07/03/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Mention

Details: [See entry for Lord John Hay of this date]

Other names: Lord John Hay; Managers of Tweeddale; Captain Hay of Hopes; Francis Walker Esq; Earl of Wemyss; Mr Scott; Mr Bogue

Name: Adam Bogue Esq

Date: 19/01/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting: Cholera

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Preses, present as representative

Details: Mr Bogue Preses. The meeting agree that there should be a Collection at the Church door on Sunday the 29th Current & that a paper should be sent round among the Heritors and Tenants for subscriptions to raise a fund for the purpose of providing additional support and necessaries for the prevention of Cholera.
The Meeting also assess the Heritors eight pounds to pay the expense of paving the water runs and repairing the street of the village of Garvald in order to keep it in a clean state.'

Other names: Adam Bogue Esq; Mr Hay; Miss Hay; Mr William Scott; Mr Douglas; Rev Dr Sangster

Name: Mr Douglas

Date: 19/01/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting: Cholera

Occupation:

Address: Garvald

Role: represented by proxy

Details: represented by Scott [see entry for Adam Bogue of this date]

Other names: Adam Bogue Esq; Mr Hay; Miss Hay; Mr William Scott; Mr Douglas; Rev Dr Sangster

Name: Miss Hay

Date: 19/01/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting: Cholera

Occupation:

Address: Numraw

Role: represented by proxy

Details: represented by Bogue [see entry for Adam Bogue of this date]

Other names: Adam Bogue Esq; Mr Hay; Miss Hay; Mr William Scott; Mr Douglas; Rev Dr Sangster

Name: Mr Hay

Date: 19/01/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting: Cholera

Occupation:

Address: Linplum

Role: represented by proxy

Details: represented by Bogue [see entry for Adam Bogue of this date]

Other names: Adam Bogue Esq; Mr Hay; Miss Hay; Mr William Scott; Mr Douglas; Rev Dr Sangster

Name: Captain Hay of Hopes

Date: 07/03/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting

Occupation:

Address: Hopes

Role: present

Details: [See entry for Lord John Hay of this date]

Other names: Lord John Hay; Managers of Tweeddale; Captain Hay of Hopes; Francis Walker Esq; Earl of Wemyss; Mr Scott; Mr Bogue

Name: Lord John Hay

Date: 07/03/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Preses, present as representative

Details: 'The meeting having taken into consideration the great distress prevailing in the village & Parish of Garvald agree to make a voluntary contribution by the Heritors according to their value rents of Thirty pounds Stirling to be applied in relieving the distress & authorise their clerk to levy it in proportion of the valued rents. & Appoint Lord John Hay, Captain Hay of Hopes, Mr. Walker, Mr. Bogue, Mr. Scott, & the Revd Dr Sangster as a Committee for the Management of said concern. The Meeting also agree to establish a Soup Kitchen in the Village of Garvald to be under the management of Dr. Sangster & the board of health.'

Other names: Lord John Hay; Managers of Tweeddale; Captain Hay of Hopes; Francis Walker Esq; Earl of Wemyss; Mr Scott; Mr Bogue

Name: Rev Dr Sangster

Date: 19/01/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting: Cholera

Occupation:

Address:

Role: represented by proxy

Details: [see entry for Adam Bogue of this date]

Other names: Adam Bogue Esq; Mr Hay; Miss Hay; Mr William Scott; Mr Douglas; Rev Dr Sangster

Name: Mr Scott

Date: 07/03/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting

Occupation:

Address:

Role: represented by proxy

Details: representing Douglas and the Rev Dr Sangster [See entry for Lord John Hay of this date]

Other names: Lord John Hay; Managers of Tweeddale; Captain Hay of Hopes; Francis Walker Esq; Earl of Wemyss; Mr Scott; Mr Bogue

Name: Mr William Scott

Date: 19/01/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting: Cholera

Occupation:

Address:

Role: present as representative

Details: for Douglas and Rev Dr Sangster [see entry for Adam Bogue of this date]

Other names: Adam Bogue Esq; Mr Hay; Miss Hay; Mr William Scott; Mr Douglas; Rev Dr Sangster

Name: Francis Walker Esq

Date: 07/03/1832

Case type: Heritors and kirk Session Meeting

Occupation:

Address:

Role: present as representative

Details: representing The Earl of Wemyss, [See entry for Lord John Hay of this date]

Other names: Lord John Hay; Managers of Tweeddale; Captain Hay of Hopes; Francis Walker Esq; Earl of Wemyss; Mr Scott; Mr Bogue

Name: Jean Young

Date: 15/01/1832

Case type: Irregular Marriage

Occupation:

Address: Garvald

Role: Compeared

Other parish: Coldstream

Other names: Peter Baillie; Jean Young