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Halfmorton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella BEATTIE | 1867 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow Nellie COX or LITTLE | 1880 (2) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief | |
| Elizabeth GRAHAM | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Jean KENNITY | 1854 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matilda HEPBURN Cross Keys Inn, Chapelknowe, Half Morton | William MUIR | 4 Jun 1880 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/35 |
| Jane JOHNSTONE Chapelknowe, Half Morton | James GRIBBINS | 23 Aug 1878 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/35 |
| Janet JOHNSTONE or RICHARDSON Solway Bank, Half Morton | Hugh LAMONT | 28 Jul 1907 Solway Bank, Half Morton | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Mary MCCLEARY Corries Mill, Half Morton | William DAVIDSON | 9 Sep 1883 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/35 |
| Mary RICHARDSON Greenwrae, Half Morton | Joseph William STODDART | 16 Jun 1896 Evertown, Canonbie | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Agnes SCOTT or GRAHAM Chapelknowe, Half Morton | George CARRUTHERS | 17 Dec 1847 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/31 |
| Agnes SMITH High Sterries, Half Morton | Donald MCGHIE | 14 Feb 1884 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Anne ARMSTRONG | 2 September 1868 | Mary ARMSTRONG | Find the father |
| William ARMSTRONG | 13 February 1864 | Mary ARMSTRONG | Find the father |
| Annie Broatch BELL | 8 October 1865 | Agnes BELL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Grieve BELL | 22 June 1860 | Agnes BELL | Find the father |
| Jane BELL | 4 August 1858 | Anne BELL | Find the father |
| Margaret BROATCH | 8 August 1871 | Nicholas BROATCH | Find the father |
| Andrew COULTHARD | 5 November 1862 | Sarah COULTHARD | Father found |
| George COULTHARD | 1 February 1860 | Margaret COULTHARD | Find the father |
| Mary Jane DIXON | 9 January 1873 | Margaret DIXON | Find the father |
| Thomas Glaister FARRISH | 19 July 1857 | Janet FARRISH | Find the father |
| David GILBERTSON | 16 June 1858 | Janet GILBERTSON | Find the father |
| Alfred William GRAHAM | 12 April 1866 | Isabella GRAHAM | Find the father |
| Mary Jane GRAHAM | 11 October 1865 | Helen GRAHAM | Find the father |
| Nicholas GRAHAM | 13 August 1874 | Margaret GRAHAM | Find the father |
| Robert William GRAHAM | 8 March 1869 | Mary Anne GRAHAM | Father found |
| Agnes HALL | 4 October 1861 | Agnes HALL | Find the father |
| Margaret HALL | 4 October 1861 | Agnes HALL | Find the father |
| Peter Sword HALL | 21 May 1872 | Janet HALL | Find the father |
| Mary IRVINE | 1 February 1860 | Margaret IRVINE | Find the father |
| George IRVING | 22 December 1861 | Williamina IRVING | Find the father |
| Georgina IRVING | 14 May 1867 | Georgina IRVING | Find the father |
| Jane IRVING | 16 July 1869 | Margaret IRVING | Find the father |
| John IRVING | 4 October 1859 | Williamina IRVING | Find the father |
| Margaret Ann IRVING | 28 January 1861 | Helen IRVING | Father found |
| Margaret Pagan IRVING | 16 November 1872 | Mary IRVING | Find the father |
| William IRVING | 26 January 1859 | Georgina IRVING | Find the father |
| Charles JACKSON | 21 January 1855 | Elizabeth JACKSON | Find the father |
| Jane JOHNSTON | 24 November 1860 | Mary JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| David JOHNSTONE | 17 July 1858 | Agnes JOHNSTONE | Find the father |
| Agnes Jane KENNEDY | 20 December 1874 | Margaret KENNEDY | Find the father |
| George KENNEDY | 12 May 1855 | Agnes KENNEDY | Find the father |
| Williamina Little KENNEDY | 9 November 1870 | Margaret KENNEDY | Find the father |
| Anne LAWSON | 25 December 1858 | Jane LAWSON | Find the father |
| Jane LAWSON | 25 December 1858 | Jane LAWSON | Find the father |
| Andrew LITTLE | 19 October 1870 | Mary LITTLE | Find the father |
| James LITTLE | 16 March 1855 | Mary Ann LITTLE | Find the father |
| Martha MCGILL | 29 December 1865 | Mary MCGILL | Find the father |
| Mary MCGILL | 29 December 1865 | Mary MCGILL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MULLENS | 26 January 1855 | Janet MULLENS | Father found |
| Jane MUNDLE | 2 June 1874 | Mary MUNDLE | Find the father |
| Richard James NUGENT | 12 October 1871 | Agnes NUGENT | Find the father |
| Catherine PHILLIP | 2 November 1855 | Elizabeth PHILLIP | Find the father |
| Walter PRINGLE | 5 August 1873 | Jane PRINGLE | Find the father |
| Janet RICHARDSON | 29 August 1861 | Catharine RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| George ROAN | 15 January 1874 | Mary ROAN | Find the father |
| Margaret ROAN | 27 April 1869 | Dorothy ROAN | Find the father |
| Margaret ROAN | 27 November 1871 | Mary ROAN | Find the father |
| Thomas ROAN | 31 August 1864 | Margaret ROAN | Find the father |
| Mary SCOTT | 1 September 1862 | Janet SCOTT | Find the father |
| Thomas SCOTT | 4 May 1869 | Mary SCOTT | Find the father |
| John SEWELL | 4 May 1863 | Elizabeth SEWELL | Find the father |
| Jane Agnes SMITH | 14 October 1871 | Elizabeth Lorraine SMITH | Find the father |
| Thomas STEWART | 12 October 1874 | Anne Little STEWART | Find the father |
| Anne TEASALE | 28 May 1868 | Anne TEASALE | Find the father |
| Elisabeth TELFORD | 20 August 1859 | Agnes TELFORD | Find the father |
| Elizabeth TELFORD | 22 July 1856 | Jane TELFORD | Father found |
| Margaret THOMSON | 27 December 1862 | Margaret THOMSON | 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.
