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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 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.

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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
Widow Ann DUFF or FRASER 1870 (2)Order imagesRefused
Robert MOIR 1880 (2)Order imagesRefused
Jean STEWART 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jean STUART 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jean STUART 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jean STUART 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jean STUART 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jean STUART 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
John BREMNER29 March 1873Catherine BREMNERFind the father
Mary Jane CRAIG3 August 1871Jane CRAIGFind the father
John CRAIGEN19 October 1862Margaret CRAIGENFind the father
Donald DAVIDSON26 June 1871Jane DAVIDSONFind the father
Alexander DINGWAL9 December 1859Jane DINGWALFind the father
Alexander DOUGLAS5 November 1863Helen DOUGLASFind the father
Peter DOUGLAS12 October 1870Jessie DOUGLASFind the father
George DUFF20 December 1869Maggie DUFFFind the father
Gordon DUFF20 November 1871Maggie DUFFFind the father
Alexander DUNCAN19 September 1863Isabel DUNCANFind the father
Betsy DUNCAN18 February 1869Margaret DUNCANFind the father
George DUNCAN30 July 1865Ann DUNCANFind the father
James DYKER22 December 1858Jessie DYKERFind the father
John FETTES18 August 1857Margaret FETTESFind the father
William FETTES10 June 1865Margaret FETTESFind the father
Annie GAULD26 May 1863Jane GAULDFind the father
Anne GORDON24 April 1863Isabella GORDONFind the father
Elsy GORDON13 April 1866Isabel GORDONFind the father
Helen GORDON13 April 1866Isabel GORDONFind the father
Jean GORDON28 March 1874Ann GORDONFind the father
May GORDON9 December 1874Ann GORDONFind the father
James GRANT11 May 1870Elspet GRANTFind the father
William Dow GRIGOR15 November 1872Jessie GRIGORFind the father
Peter HORN18 March 1859Christina HORNFind the father
Alexander KING13 September 1865Jane KINGFind the father
Mary Harper LAMB29 March 1869Betty LAMBFind the father
Ann LOBBAN11 April 1863Margaret LOBBANFind the father
John LOBBAN7 June 1868Mary LOBBANFind the father
John LOBBAN7 June 1872Margaret LOBBANFind the father
William LOBBAN31 January 1874Margaret LOBBANFind the father
Annabella Knox MAVOR12 November 1872Margaret MAVORFind the father
Margaret MAVOR16 August 1860Isobella MAVORFind the father
Margaret MCADAM24 June 1863Ann MCADAMFind the father
Alexander MCINTOSH18 December 1870Mary MCINTOSHFind the father
Francis MITCHELL20 May 1869Jessie MITCHELLFind the father
James MITCHELL15 April 1864Jessie MITCHELLFind the father
Catherine MUNRO23 November 1869Mary MUNROFind the father
George Sim RAFFAN1 May 1872Betsy RAFFANFind the father
Mary ROBERTSON20 August 1864Mary ROBERTSONFind the father
Mary Castles ROBERTSON23 August 1874Anna ROBERTSONFind the father
Walter ROBERTSON13 August 1864Margaret ROBERTSONFind the father
Margaret ROBSON31 July 1874Anne ROBSONFind the father
Charlotte ROSS24 April 1864Charlotte ROSSFind the father
John ROSS12 November 1859Jessie ROSSFind the father
James SHERAR13 January 1860Helen SHERARFind the father
Alexander SIMPSON10 June 1871Jane SIMPSONFind the father
Charles SMITH3 April 1872Christina SMITHFind the father
Helen SMITH12 September 1862Eliza SMITHFind the father
Isabel SMITH21 September 1863Margaret SMITHFind the father
William SMITH9 February 1859Margaret SMITHFind the father
William SMITH12 September 1862Eliza SMITHFind the father
Alexander SOUTER3 August 1856Mary SOUTERFind the father
Alexander Hay SPENCE12 April 1867Jessie SPENCEFind the father
James STRACHAN1 August 1866Jean STRACHANFind the father
Jane STRACHAN25 July 1866Jessie STRACHANFind the father
Mary STRACHAN27 June 1859Ann STRACHANFind the father
Robert Wilson STRACHAN21 June 1870Jean STRACHANFind the father
George STRONACH4 January 1867Margaret STRONACHFind the father
William STRONACH16 December 1857Christian STRONACHFind the father
William STUART27 March 1856Jean STUARTFind the father
Georgina Sim SUTHERLAND11 July 1862Isabella SUTHERLANDFind the father
Alexander TAYLOR24 December 1856Ann TAYLORFind the father
James Thomson TAYLOR15 August 1866Catherine TAYLORFind the father
Charles WATSON11 December 1870Jane WATSONFind the father
Margaret Wardlaw WATSON29 December 1871Margaret WATSONFind the father
William WATSON13 June 1869Isabella WATSONFind 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

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.