Glass parish 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.
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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/477/1 | Minutes | 1735-1800 | 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
- £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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Ann DUFF or FRASER | 1870 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert MOIR | 1880 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean STEWART | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean STUART | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean STUART | 1870 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean STUART | 1870 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean STUART | 1870 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean STUART | 1871 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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. For births outwith this period, click here.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| John BREMNER | 29 March 1873 | Catherine BREMNER | Find the father |
| Mary Jane CRAIG | 3 August 1871 | Jane CRAIG | Find the father |
| John CRAIGEN | 19 October 1862 | Margaret CRAIGEN | Find the father |
| Donald DAVIDSON | 26 June 1871 | Jane DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Alexander DINGWAL | 9 December 1859 | Jane DINGWAL | Find the father |
| Alexander DOUGLAS | 5 November 1863 | Helen DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Peter DOUGLAS | 12 October 1870 | Jessie DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| George DUFF | 20 December 1869 | Maggie DUFF | Find the father |
| Gordon DUFF | 20 November 1871 | Maggie DUFF | Find the father |
| Alexander DUNCAN | 19 September 1863 | Isabel DUNCAN | Find the father |
| Betsy DUNCAN | 18 February 1869 | Margaret DUNCAN | Find the father |
| George DUNCAN | 30 July 1865 | Ann DUNCAN | Find the father |
| James DYKER | 22 December 1858 | Jessie DYKER | Find the father |
| John FETTES | 18 August 1857 | Margaret FETTES | Find the father |
| William FETTES | 10 June 1865 | Margaret FETTES | Find the father |
| Annie GAULD | 26 May 1863 | Jane GAULD | Find the father |
| Anne GORDON | 24 April 1863 | Isabella GORDON | Find the father |
| Elsy GORDON | 13 April 1866 | Isabel GORDON | Find the father |
| Helen GORDON | 13 April 1866 | Isabel GORDON | Find the father |
| Jean GORDON | 28 March 1874 | Ann GORDON | Find the father |
| May GORDON | 9 December 1874 | Ann GORDON | Find the father |
| James GRANT | 11 May 1870 | Elspet GRANT | Find the father |
| William Dow GRIGOR | 15 November 1872 | Jessie GRIGOR | Find the father |
| Peter HORN | 18 March 1859 | Christina HORN | Find the father |
| Alexander KING | 13 September 1865 | Jane KING | Find the father |
| Mary Harper LAMB | 29 March 1869 | Betty LAMB | Find the father |
| Ann LOBBAN | 11 April 1863 | Margaret LOBBAN | Find the father |
| John LOBBAN | 7 June 1868 | Mary LOBBAN | Find the father |
| John LOBBAN | 7 June 1872 | Margaret LOBBAN | Find the father |
| William LOBBAN | 31 January 1874 | Margaret LOBBAN | Find the father |
| Annabella Knox MAVOR | 12 November 1872 | Margaret MAVOR | Find the father |
| Margaret MAVOR | 16 August 1860 | Isobella MAVOR | Find the father |
| Margaret MCADAM | 24 June 1863 | Ann MCADAM | Find the father |
| Alexander MCINTOSH | 18 December 1870 | Mary MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Francis MITCHELL | 20 May 1869 | Jessie MITCHELL | Find the father |
| James MITCHELL | 15 April 1864 | Jessie MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Catherine MUNRO | 23 November 1869 | Mary MUNRO | Find the father |
| George Sim RAFFAN | 1 May 1872 | Betsy RAFFAN | Find the father |
| Mary ROBERTSON | 20 August 1864 | Mary ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Mary Castles ROBERTSON | 23 August 1874 | Anna ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Walter ROBERTSON | 13 August 1864 | Margaret ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Margaret ROBSON | 31 July 1874 | Anne ROBSON | Find the father |
| Charlotte ROSS | 24 April 1864 | Charlotte ROSS | Find the father |
| John ROSS | 12 November 1859 | Jessie ROSS | Find the father |
| James SHERAR | 13 January 1860 | Helen SHERAR | Find the father |
| Alexander SIMPSON | 10 June 1871 | Jane SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Charles SMITH | 3 April 1872 | Christina SMITH | Find the father |
| Helen SMITH | 12 September 1862 | Eliza SMITH | Find the father |
| Isabel SMITH | 21 September 1863 | Margaret SMITH | Find the father |
| William SMITH | 9 February 1859 | Margaret SMITH | Find the father |
| William SMITH | 12 September 1862 | Eliza SMITH | Find the father |
| Alexander SOUTER | 3 August 1856 | Mary SOUTER | Find the father |
| Alexander Hay SPENCE | 12 April 1867 | Jessie SPENCE | Find the father |
| James STRACHAN | 1 August 1866 | Jean STRACHAN | Find the father |
| Jane STRACHAN | 25 July 1866 | Jessie STRACHAN | Find the father |
| Mary STRACHAN | 27 June 1859 | Ann STRACHAN | Find the father |
| Robert Wilson STRACHAN | 21 June 1870 | Jean STRACHAN | Find the father |
| George STRONACH | 4 January 1867 | Margaret STRONACH | Find the father |
| William STRONACH | 16 December 1857 | Christian STRONACH | Find the father |
| William STUART | 27 March 1856 | Jean STUART | Find the father |
| Georgina Sim SUTHERLAND | 11 July 1862 | Isabella SUTHERLAND | Find the father |
| Alexander TAYLOR | 24 December 1856 | Ann TAYLOR | Find the father |
| James Thomson TAYLOR | 15 August 1866 | Catherine TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Charles WATSON | 11 December 1870 | Jane WATSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Wardlaw WATSON | 29 December 1871 | Margaret WATSON | Find the father |
| William WATSON | 13 June 1869 | Isabella WATSON | 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
