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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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/180/2Glenbuchat Kirk Session - Minutes1821-1901Request lookup
CH2/180/4Glenbuchat Kirk Session - Accounts1815-1855Request lookup
CH2/180/6Glenbuchat Kirk Session - Baptismal register1881-1957Request lookup
CH2/180/8Glenbuchat Kirk Session - Communion roll1881-1900Request 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:
  • £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 BEATTIE or MICHIE 1853 (1)Order imagesGround of complaint removed

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
John Hay ABERNETHY3 December 1863Elizabeth ABERNETHYFind the father
Robert ANDERSON29 September 1857Elizabeth ANDERSONFind the father
William ANDERSON19 December 1865Jean ANDERSONFind the father
Hellen BEATTIE5 July 1858Jean BEATTIEFather found
Mary BEATTIE28 February 1867Jean Beattie Or ANDERSONFind the father
Robert Gauld BEATTIE29 July 1862Jean Beattie Or ANDERSONFind the father
Peter BREMNER29 February 1872Ann BREMNERFind the father
Barbra CALLAM30 June 1871Barbra Callam Or YOUNGFind the father
James CLARK21 November 1860Hellen CLARKFind the father
John Cameron CLARK23 January 1865Sophia CLARKFind the father
Peter CLARK21 November 1860Hellen CLARKFind the father
Margaret COCKBURN13 March 1856Agnes COCKBURNFind the father
Ann Innes DOW6 December 1862Isabella DOWFind the father
Margaret Beattie DOW14 October 1856Mary DOWFind the father
Henry Forbes FARQUHARSON2 February 1863Penelope FARQUHARSONFind the father
William FRASER30 May 1869Margaret FRASERFind the father
Mary MCGRIGOR21 April 1869Jessie MCGRIGORFind the father
Isabella MICHIE8 December 1860Maria MICHIEFind the father
Jean MICHIE9 May 1859Maria MICHIEFind the father
Mary MICHIE22 August 1859Christina MICHIEFind the father
William MICHIE22 March 1857Helen MICHIEFind the father
William PATERSON24 October 1859Jane PATERSONFind the father
Jean REID6 June 1857Isabella REIDFind the father
George Forbes ROGER7 July 1859Mary ROGERFind the father
Catherine SMITH27 April 1868Isobel SMITHFind the father
William SMITH24 December 1871Catherine SMITHFind the father
George SPENCE2 April 1868Isobel SPENCEFind the father
James SPENCE29 October 1865Margaret SPENCEFind the father
Duncan Gordon TULLOCH19 December 1869Margaret TULLOCHFind the father
Ann TULLOCK16 November 1861Sophia TULLOCKFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/180/2 pp. 50-52)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
RobertAllanachUpperton
RobertAndersonBadenyon
WilliamBeattieUpperton
JamesBeattieNetherton
JohnBeattieNetherton
JohnBeattieBelnaboth
AlexanderBrodieBelnaglack
JohnBrodieBelnaglack
WilliamBrodieBackies
JamesBrodieDrumnagarrie
ThomasBremnermiller
AlexanderBrownBeltim
JamesBeggBlackhillock
JohnBeggBadenyon
JohnCallumNewton
JohnChreeTillacharrich
WilliamChreeSunnybraes
CharlesClarkBelnaboth
PeterCrawfordDulax
JamesClarkBadenyon
ArchibaldDavidsonBelnaboth
PeterDavidsonBelnaboth
PeterDavidsonBalachduie
WilliamDawsonEasterbucket
PeterDowPetfold
RobertDowPetfold
AndrewFairweatherBeltamore
JohnFarquharsonBelnaglack
JohnFarquharsonRoadside
JohnFarquharsonEasterbucket
JohnForbesschoolmaster
ArthurForbesTambrake
WilliamForbesTambrake
WilliamForbesAuchavaich
GordonForbesBelnacraig
ArthurFraserEasterbucket
JohnFletcherCottage
WilliamGauldCrofts
JohnGauldUpperton
JohnGrassickMains
JohnGrassieTillacharrich
AdamHayUpperton
CharlesInchesClash
WilliamKellasRoadside
WilliamKellasBelnaboth
AlexanderMcdonaldEasterbucket
JohnMcgregorUpperton
WilliamMcgregorSmidyford
JohnMurdochBelnaboth
WilliamMurdochBelnaboth
JamesMichieEasterbucket
RobertMichieBalachduie
WilliamMichieBadenyon
JamesMichieSluggie
HarryMcRobieRinteing
JohnMoriceBadenyon
JamesMichieBadenyon
WilliamOggBeltimb
WilliamOggBeltamore
WilliamPatersonBelnacraig
AlexanderRaeburnBelnacraig
ArchibaldReidBeltamore
JamesReidNewton
AdamReidUpperton
AdamReidBeltamore
JohnReidMilton
WilliamReidDockinton
WilliamRoyBelnacraig
AlexanderRoyBelnaboth
JamesRossSunnybraes
JamesRossBalachduie
ArchibaldRogerBelnacraig
ArthurRainnieEasterbucket
JamesRainnieEasterbucket
JohnRiachAuchavaich
HarryRossSmidyford
DavidTaggartBadenyon
PeterTullochBadenyon
WilliamWalkerBeltamore
JohnWalkerUppertown
JohnWoodBelnaboth
JohnWilliamDelfrankie
AlexanderWilliamDrumnagarrie
JohnYoungBelnaboth

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.