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Records -> Dumfriesshire

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:
  • £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
Isabella BEATTIE 1867 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Nellie COX or LITTLE 1880 (2)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of parochial relief
Elizabeth GRAHAM 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Jean KENNITY 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused (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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Matilda HEPBURN
Cross Keys Inn, Chapelknowe, Half Morton
William MUIR4 Jun 1880Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/35
Jane JOHNSTONE
Chapelknowe, Half Morton
James GRIBBINS23 Aug 1878Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/35
Janet JOHNSTONE or RICHARDSON
Solway Bank, Half Morton
Hugh LAMONT28 Jul 1907
Solway Bank, Half Morton
Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/37
Mary MCCLEARY
Corries Mill, Half Morton
William DAVIDSON9 Sep 1883Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/35
Mary RICHARDSON
Greenwrae, Half Morton
Joseph William STODDART16 Jun 1896
Evertown, Canonbie
Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/37
Agnes SCOTT or GRAHAM
Chapelknowe, Half Morton
George CARRUTHERS17 Dec 1847Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/31
Agnes SMITH
High Sterries, Half Morton
Donald MCGHIE14 Feb 1884Order nowDumfries
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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Jane Anne ARMSTRONG2 September 1868Mary ARMSTRONGFind the father
William ARMSTRONG13 February 1864Mary ARMSTRONGFind the father
Annie Broatch BELL8 October 1865Agnes BELLFind the father
Elizabeth Grieve BELL22 June 1860Agnes BELLFind the father
Jane BELL4 August 1858Anne BELLFind the father
Margaret BROATCH8 August 1871Nicholas BROATCHFind the father
Andrew COULTHARD5 November 1862Sarah COULTHARDFather found
George COULTHARD1 February 1860Margaret COULTHARDFind the father
Mary Jane DIXON9 January 1873Margaret DIXONFind the father
Thomas Glaister FARRISH19 July 1857Janet FARRISHFind the father
David GILBERTSON16 June 1858Janet GILBERTSONFind the father
Alfred William GRAHAM12 April 1866Isabella GRAHAMFind the father
Mary Jane GRAHAM11 October 1865Helen GRAHAMFind the father
Nicholas GRAHAM13 August 1874Margaret GRAHAMFind the father
Robert William GRAHAM8 March 1869Mary Anne GRAHAMFather found
Agnes HALL4 October 1861Agnes HALLFind the father
Margaret HALL4 October 1861Agnes HALLFind the father
Peter Sword HALL21 May 1872Janet HALLFind the father
Mary IRVINE1 February 1860Margaret IRVINEFind the father
George IRVING22 December 1861Williamina IRVINGFind the father
Georgina IRVING14 May 1867Georgina IRVINGFind the father
Jane IRVING16 July 1869Margaret IRVINGFind the father
John IRVING4 October 1859Williamina IRVINGFind the father
Margaret Ann IRVING28 January 1861Helen IRVINGFather found
Margaret Pagan IRVING16 November 1872Mary IRVINGFind the father
William IRVING26 January 1859Georgina IRVINGFind the father
Charles JACKSON21 January 1855Elizabeth JACKSONFind the father
Jane JOHNSTON24 November 1860Mary JOHNSTONFind the father
David JOHNSTONE17 July 1858Agnes JOHNSTONEFind the father
Agnes Jane KENNEDY20 December 1874Margaret KENNEDYFind the father
George KENNEDY12 May 1855Agnes KENNEDYFind the father
Williamina Little KENNEDY9 November 1870Margaret KENNEDYFind the father
Anne LAWSON25 December 1858Jane LAWSONFind the father
Jane LAWSON25 December 1858Jane LAWSONFind the father
Andrew LITTLE19 October 1870Mary LITTLEFind the father
James LITTLE16 March 1855Mary Ann LITTLEFind the father
Martha MCGILL29 December 1865Mary MCGILLFind the father
Mary MCGILL29 December 1865Mary MCGILLFind the father
Elizabeth MULLENS26 January 1855Janet MULLENSFather found
Jane MUNDLE2 June 1874Mary MUNDLEFind the father
Richard James NUGENT12 October 1871Agnes NUGENTFind the father
Catherine PHILLIP2 November 1855Elizabeth PHILLIPFind the father
Walter PRINGLE5 August 1873Jane PRINGLEFind the father
Janet RICHARDSON29 August 1861Catharine RICHARDSONFind the father
George ROAN15 January 1874Mary ROANFind the father
Margaret ROAN27 April 1869Dorothy ROANFind the father
Margaret ROAN27 November 1871Mary ROANFind the father
Thomas ROAN31 August 1864Margaret ROANFind the father
Mary SCOTT1 September 1862Janet SCOTTFind the father
Thomas SCOTT4 May 1869Mary SCOTTFind the father
John SEWELL4 May 1863Elizabeth SEWELLFind the father
Jane Agnes SMITH14 October 1871Elizabeth Lorraine SMITHFind the father
Thomas STEWART12 October 1874Anne Little STEWARTFind the father
Anne TEASALE28 May 1868Anne TEASALEFind the father
Elisabeth TELFORD20 August 1859Agnes TELFORDFind the father
Elizabeth TELFORD22 July 1856Jane TELFORDFather found
Margaret THOMSON27 December 1862Margaret THOMSONFind 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.


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