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Glasserton 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.
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
- £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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David BROADFOOT | 1847 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Jessie BROLL | 1864 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Robert CALLIE | 1876 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Archibald CRAWFORD | 1870 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow Mary DONGAR or DRAINY | 1857 (2) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of relief | |
| John FREW | 1849 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed, in respect that he has been removed to his own parish (Glasserton) | |
| John FREW | 1849 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| John FREW | 1852 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Sarah HANNAH | 1851 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Helen IRVINE | 1864 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Hugh KELLY | 1851 (1) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief | |
| Andrew KERR | 1868 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Mary LAMOND | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Martha LETCH | 1858 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Catherine MACDOWALL | 1857 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Catherine MACDOWALL | 1857 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Isabella MACGILIVIE | 1858 (2) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief | |
| Mary MCCOSKRIE | 1862 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Mary MCCOSKRIE | 1866-1867 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Isabella MCKEE | 1858 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Isabella MCNEE | 1862 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert MILROY | 1862 (5) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| John NEEL | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| David RARITY | 1851 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Martha SCOTT | 1861-1862 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Mary SIMPSON | 1860 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John SINCLAIR | 1849 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Matthew SMITH | 1847 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Margaret WALKER | 1862 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Margaret WALKER | 1864 (2) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth FRASER or IRVINE Beggar Row, Glasserton | Thomas MCKIE | 6 Feb 1880 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Helen IRVING or LITTLE Monreith Village, Glasserton | William Gard LIMOND | 13 Jul 1853 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/6 |
| Margaret JESS Longhill, Glasserton | John ALLISON | 3 Jan 1887 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Annie JOHNSTON or MCDOUGALL Glasserton Smithy, Glasserton | Thomas SMITH | 23 Mar 1881 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Mary MCBRIDE Blairbuoy, Glasserton | William MCKEAND | 1 Dec 1882 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Christina MCCOURTNEY Drumrae, Moor of Ravenston, Glasserton | William MCADAM | 24 Dec 1877 Barwinnoch, Glasserton | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Christina MCCOURTNEY Drumrae, Moor of Ravenston, Glasserton | William MCADAM | 24 Aug 1881 Drumrae, Moor of Ravenston, Glasserton | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Christina MCCOURTNEY Drumrae, Glasserton | Isaac MITCHELL | 29 Jun 1885 Drumrae, Glasserton | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Agnes MCCUTCHEON Barwinnock, Glasserton | John SCOTT | 8 Dec 1876 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/8 |
| Helen MILWAIN Monreith Village, Glasserton | John DOUGLAS | 4 Dec 1883 Monreith Village, Glasserton | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Annie MOORE Clarksburn, Glasserton | James GIBB | 9 May 1878 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/8 |
| Margaret NICHOLSON Claymoddie, Glasserton | Patrick SWEENEY | 16 Feb 1886 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Margaret STEWART Ravenstone Mains, Glasserton | Alexander GRAHAM | 26 Jan 1891 Sorbie | Order now | Kirkcudbright SC16/7/16 |
| Annie WALLACE Appleby, Glasserton | William NICHOLSON | 23 May 1888 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| David BODLE | 1 February 1874 | Barbara BODLE | Find the father |
| Sarah Finaland BODLE | 27 December 1874 | Barbara BODLE | Find the father |
| James BOYES | 17 March 1871 | Isabella BOYES | Find the father |
| Samuel BROADFOOT | 15 October 1862 | Elizabeth BROADFOOT | Find the father |
| William BROLLS | 16 January 1860 | Jess BROLLS | Find the father |
| William BROWN | 9 December 1867 | Mary Ann BROWN | Find the father |
| Isabella CHRISTIE | 26 September 1866 | Elizabeth CHRISTIE | Find the father |
| Margaret CHRISTIE | 11 November 1863 | Elizabeth CHRISTIE | Find the father |
| John COID | 16 December 1866 | Annie COID | Find the father |
| John COID | 22 April 1867 | Margaret COID | Find the father |
| John CURRIE | 1 July 1855 | Margaret CURRIE | Find the father |
| Robert Brandford DEWAR | 14 June 1870 | Dougan DEWAR | Find the father |
| Elizabeth DODDS | 23 July 1866 | Reubina DODDS | Find the father |
| Helen DODDS | 1 June 1872 | Mary DODDS | Find the father |
| Jane DODDS | 7 February 1869 | Mary DODDS | Find the father |
| John DODDS | 7 March 1871 | Mary DODDS | Find the father |
| John DODDS | 23 May 1874 | Mary DODDS | Find the father |
| George DONNAN | 19 April 1873 | Helen DONNAN | Find the father |
| John DONNAN | 13 February 1868 | Helen DONNAN | Find the father |
| Robert DONNAN | 17 November 1869 | Mary DONNAN | Find the father |
| William DONNAN | 14 November 1870 | Helen DONNAN | Find the father |
| Nathan Brown DONNOGHUE | 30 December 1856 | Letitia DONNOGHUE | Find the father |
| Mary DOUGLAS | 9 October 1873 | Mary DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Catherine DRAINEY | 23 March 1871 | Catherine DRAINEY | Find the father |
| Jemima DRAINEY | 12 May 1872 | Catherine DRAINEY | Find the father |
| John DRAINEY | 26 June 1863 | Rose Ann DRAINEY | Find the father |
| Margaret O'Donald DRAINEY | 2 July 1856 | Catherine DRAINEY | Find the father |
| Peter DRAINEY | 22 August 1874 | Catherine DRAINEY | Find the father |
| Rosanna DRAINEY | 7 March 1867 | Catherine DRAINEY | Find the father |
| Agnes Jane EMERSON | 16 June 1873 | Mary EMERSON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth FULTON | 30 January 1856 | Elizabeth FULTON | Find the father |
| Samuel GORDON | 9 October 1865 | Janet GORDON | Find the father |
| Jane GRAHAM | 6 March 1866 | Helen GRAHAM | Find the father |
| David GRIER | 29 November 1861 | Ann GRIER | Find the father |
| George HALL | 7 January 1867 | Jane HALL | Find the father |
| Isabella Margaret HARALD | 22 August 1870 | Mary HARALD | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Watson HERALD | 20 February 1874 | Mary HERALD | Find the father |
| Maggie HORNER | 28 September 1861 | Mary HORNER | Find the father |
| Alexander HOUSTON | 25 January 1860 | Elizabeth HOUSTON | Father found |
| John JELLY | 8 January 1869 | Jane JELLY | Find the father |
| William JOHNSTONE | 16 October 1864 | Jessie JOHNSTONE | Find the father |
| Janet KEVAN | 1 March 1866 | Agnes KEVAN | Father found |
| Elizabeth KILTIE | 21 March 1870 | Jane KILTIE | Find the father |
| Alexander LAIRD | 21 December 1874 | Isabella LAIRD | Find the father |
| David Alexander LAIRD | 23 March 1873 | Elizabeth LAIRD | Find the father |
| James LAVERIE | 7 June 1868 | Agnes LAVERIE | Find the father |
| Samuel LIMOND | 18 December 1870 | Mary Ann LIMOND | Find the father |
| John LITTLE | 19 January 1869 | Margaret LITTLE | Find the father |
| John LITTLE | 22 June 1869 | Helen LITTLE | Find the father |
| James Smilie MCADAM | 4 February 1872 | Annie MCADAM | Find the father |
| Peter MCADAM | 3 December 1874 | Ann MCADAM | Find the father |
| Margaret MCCLELLAND | 6 July 1871 | Anne MCCLELLAND | Find the father |
| Hugh MCCORMICK | 18 February 1873 | Martha MCCORMICK | Find the father |
| James MCCORMICK | 28 September 1868 | Martha MCCORMICK | Find the father |
| John Matthews MCCORMICK | 10 August 1866 | Agnes MCCORMICK | Find the father |
| Margaret MCCORMICK | 15 August 1866 | Elizabeth MCCORMICK | Find the father |
| David MCCRAE | 1 September 1872 | Mary MCCRAE | Find the father |
| James MCCREADIE | 6 May 1873 | Helen MCCREADIE | Find the father |
| Peter MCCREADIE | 11 May 1873 | Isabella MCCREADIE | Find the father |
| Annie MCCREDIE | 30 September 1868 | Helen MCCREDIE | Find the father |
| Euphemia Porteous MCCREDIE | 5 January 1870 | Helen MCCREDIE | Find the father |
| Grace MCCREDIE | 17 January 1855 | Margaret MCCREDIE | Find the father |
| Martha Brown MCCREDIE | 28 December 1865 | Isabella MCCREDIE | Find the father |
| Peter Mccormick MCCULLOCH | 28 April 1874 | Helen MCCULLOCH | Find the father |
| Peter MCCUTCHEON | 6 April 1865 | Margaret MCCUTCHEON | Find the father |
| Agnes MCHAFFIE | 27 September 1871 | Mary Ann MCHAFFIE | Find the father |
| Jessie MCKEAND | 15 October 1872 | Jane MCKEAND | Find the father |
| Matilda Douglas MCKEAND | 10 March 1860 | Elizabeth Dunn MCKEAND | Find the father |
| Andrew MCKIE | 5 July 1874 | Margaret MCKIE | Find the father |
| Peter MCKIE | 1 August 1869 | Margaret MCKIE | Find the father |
| Peter MCWHIRTER | 20 March 1865 | Jane MCWHIRTER | Find the father |
| Helen MOORE | 6 December 1869 | Janet MOORE | Father found |
| Isabella MOORE | 23 July 1871 | Agnes MOORE | Father found |
| John MOORE | 10 January 1868 | Isabella MOORE | Find the father |
| William MOORE | 29 February 1868 | Agnes MOORE | Find the father |
| Jane MURRAY | 27 March 1867 | Annie MURRAY | Find the father |
| John MURRAY | 4 October 1865 | Margaret MURRAY | Find the father |
| Robert MURRAY | 12 July 1872 | Sarah MURRAY | Find the father |
| Sarah MURRAY | 10 September 1861 | Eliza MURRAY | Father found |
| Thomas Milligan PATTERSON | 28 January 1864 | Elizabeth PATTERSON | Find the father |
| Patrick POLLOCK | 22 May 1873 | Jane POLLOCK | Find the father |
| Samuel POLLOCK | 8 February 1873 | Janet POLLOCK | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Stewart POOLE | 28 February 1855 | Isabella POOLE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth POTTS | 29 June 1870 | Helen POTTS | Find the father |
| Agnes ROBERTSON | 21 August 1870 | Catherine ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Alexander ROBISON | 1 March 1857 | Gavina ROBISON | Find the father |
| Annie SANDFORD | 3 February 1865 | Janet SANDFORD | Find the father |
| John SANDFORD | 6 June 1868 | Sarah SANDFORD | Find the father |
| John SCOTT | 10 September 1860 | Martha SCOTT | Find the father |
| Maria SCOTT | 17 August 1864 | Martha SCOTT | Find the father |
| James SIMOND | 19 July 1874 | Mary Ann SIMOND | Find the father |
| Helen SMITH | 20 March 1866 | Elizabeth SMITH | Find the father |
| John SMITH | 23 June 1868 | Elizabeth SMITH | Father found |
| William SMITH | 22 July 1872 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Sarah Jane SPIERS | 14 February 1856 | Helen SPIERS | Find the father |
| John Pettigrew STEWART | 9 June 1862 | Elizabeth STEWART | Find the father |
| William STEWART | 5 August 1864 | Elizabeth STEWART | Find the father |
| Patrick TALMAN | 6 August 1855 | Margaret TALMAN | Find the father |
| John Alexander THOMPSON | 3 March 1867 | Jessie THOMPSON | Find the father |
| Margaret THOMPSON | 8 August 1862 | Margaret THOMPSON | Find the father |
| Alexander THOMSON | 24 December 1859 | Margaret THOMSON | Find the father |
| James WALKER | 3 July 1865 | Margaret WALKER | Find the father |
| Margaret WALKER | 5 July 1868 | Margaret WALKER | Find the father |
| Williamina WALKER | 26 November 1860 | Helen WALKER | Find the father |
| Margaret WEBSTER | 5 March 1865 | Mary WEBSTER | Find the father |
| Helen WHITE | 18 March 1865 | Helen WHITE | Find the father |
| James WOODS | 1 November 1874 | Helen WOODS | Find the father |
| Annie WYLIE | 1 August 1871 | Mary WYLIE | Find the father |
| James WYLIE | 25 January 1861 | Janet WYLIE | Find the father |
| Jessie Ann WYLIE | 5 November 1868 | Mary WYLIE | Find the father |
| John WYLIE | 2 September 1869 | Annie WYLIE | Find the father |
| Sarah WYLIE | 5 February 1867 | Jessie WYLIE | Find the father |
| Sarah WYLIE | 12 November 1868 | Sarah WYLIE | Find the father |
| William WYLIE | 29 May 1869 | Jesse WYLIE | 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.
