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Records -> Midlothian

Heriot 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/187/1Heriot Kirk Session - Collections1731-1846Request lookup
CH2/187/2Heriot Kirk Session - Minutes and list of communicants
Minutes 1832-91
List of communicants 1819-35
1819-1891Request lookup
CH2/187/3Heriot Kirk Session - Communion roll1851-1878Request 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
Alison TWEEDIE 1858 (1)Order imagesRefused


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
Jane MCDONALD
Shoestanes, near Heriot, Midlothian
James GIRVAN5 Oct 1881Order nowEdinburgh
SC39/8/48


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
William BURNS6 August 1870Margaret BURNSFind the father
George Douglas CURRIE12 May 1874Jane CURRIEFind the father
George DARLING23 December 1872Margaret DARLINGFind the father
Agnes DICKSON27 August 1864Jane DICKSONFind the father
George DICKSON31 January 1863Ellen DICKSONFind the father
Georgina DICKSON22 December 1866Jane DICKSONFind the father
William DICKSON5 February 1862Jane DICKSONFind the father
Agnes HOWISON26 February 1857Barbara HOWISONFather found
Isabella HOWISON15 March 1861Betsy HOWISONFind the father
Robert HOWISON30 June 1857Elizabeth HOWISONFind the father
Agnes Chancellor MURRAY19 May 1869Margaret MURRAYFind the father
Edith MURRAY27 January 1865Catherine MURRAYFind the father
Peter NICOL19 November 1857Robina NICOLFind the father
William NICOL19 November 1857Robina NICOLFind the father
Elizabeth RAMSAY17 February 1871Isabella RAMSAYFind the father
Margaret STEWART19 February 1858Agnes STEWARTFind the father
Mary STODDART8 June 1863Catherine STODDARTFind the father
Jane WHITELAW28 December 1856Mary WHITELAWFind the father
Angus WILSON29 March 1874Jessie WILSONFather found
David WILSON9 June 1870Isabella WILSONFind the father
Jane WILSON10 July 1868Isabella WILSONFind the father
Robert WILSON17 January 1872Isabella WILSONFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/187/2 pp. 18-19)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JamesTaitshepherd and elderLittle Dod
JohnRitchieshepherdLadyside
WilliamScottfarmerDewar
WalterWhitsonshepherdTathieknowe
WilliamBroadwoodshepherdCarcant
JohnGordonlabourerCarcant
GeorgePringlefarmer and elderKirklandhill
JamesLaikenKirklandhill
JamesPorteousKirklandhill
GeorgeSimpsonschoolmaster and elderHeriot
GeorgeSimpsonhindHeriot
WalterAndersonhindBorthwickhall
JohnWatherstoneshepherdRoughswire
RobertDavidsonshoemakerRoughswire
WilliamHandysidelabourerHeriot
JohnDunfarmerFalahill
GeorgeHallFalahill
RobtStewartshepherdSwirehouse
ArchibaldMathiesonSwirehouse
ThomasTurnerfarmer and elderShoestanes
CharlesStirlingNettleflat
WilliamAndersontailorOld Toll
JohnGovenlockfarmerHeriot House
JamesLeadbetterGalalaw
JamesTaitHeriot Lodge
GeorgeKaylabourerCakemuir Hill BorthwickNot a parishioner
JamesHunterhindBrotherstones FalaNot a parishioner
WalterPalmergardenerCrookston Lodge StowNot a parishioner
JamesLowriehindCortleferry StowNot a parishioner
WalterGrahamgardenerCuddiehall StowNot a parishioner
ThosPringleStagebank StowNot a parishioner

Male Heads of families 1835 (NRS Reference: CH2/187/2 pp. 20-21)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JamesTaitshepherd and elderLittle Dod
JohnRitchieshepherdLadyside
WilliamScottfarmerDewar
JohnGordonlabourerPiper's Grave
WilliamBroadwoodshepherdCarcant
GeorgePringlefarmer and elderKirklandhill
JamesPorteoushindOld Hangingshaw
GeorgeSimpsonschoolmaster and elderHeriot
AlexanderPearsonhindHeriot
JohnFalconerhindHeriot Mill
WalterAndersonhindBorthwickhall
JohnWatherstoneshepherdRoughswire
RobertDavidsonshepherdRoughswire
WilliamHandysidelabourerHeriot
JohnEckfordGarvald Shank Toll BarRemoved
JohnDunfarmerFalahill
GeorgeHallhindFalahill
GeorgeScotthindFalahill
RobertStewartshepherdSwirehouse
ArchibaldMathiesoncarrierSwirehouseRemoved
ThomasTurnerfarmer and elderShoestanes
CharlesStirlingNettleflat
RobertThomsonlabourerOld Toll
JohnGovenlockfarmerHeriot HouseRecord deleted
JamesLeadbetterlabourerGalalaw
JamesTaitHeriot Lodge
GeorgeKaylabourerCakemuir Hill BorthwickRecord deleted "not parishioner"
GeorgeSimpsonhindOld Crookston StowRecord deleted "not parishioner"
WalterPalmergardenerCrookston Lodge StowRecord deleted "not parishioner"
JamesLowriehindCortleferry StowRecord deleted "not parishioner"
ThomasPringlejoinerStagebank StowRecord deleted "not parishioner"
AndrewDickshoemakerFountainhall StowRecord deleted "not parishioner"
AndrewHumeweaverSunnysideRecord deleted "not parishioner"

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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