Records -> Roxburghshire
Hobkirk 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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret TURNBULL Greenriver, Hobkirk | James GALT | 31 Oct 1883 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/14 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Wallace AMOS | 27 August 1873 | Mary Ann AMOS | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Nuttell BAPTIE | 2 August 1867 | Elizabeth BAPTIE | Find the father |
| Mary BAPTIE | 24 July 1870 | Elizabeth BAPTIE | Find the father |
| Thomas BAPTIE | 12 January 1867 | Mary BAPTIE | Find the father |
| Margaret BARRIE | 6 December 1866 | Ann BARRIE | Find the father |
| Sarah BELL | 27 September 1869 | Elizabeth BELL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Jane BLAKE | 24 December 1867 | Mary BLAKE | Find the father |
| Thomas BROWN | 19 May 1861 | Elizabeth BROWN | Find the father |
| William CHISHOLM | 10 November 1868 | Isabella CHISHOLM | Find the father |
| Margaret CROZIER | 19 October 1859 | Jane CROZIER | Find the father |
| Jemima DALGLIESH | 23 November 1869 | Janet DALGLIESH | Father found |
| Jessie DOUGLAS | 16 December 1866 | Jane DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Margaret DOUGLAS | 30 November 1867 | Margaret DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Margaret Murray ELLIOTT | 2 May 1860 | Agnes ELLIOTT | Find the father |
| Robert David ELLIOTT | 9 April 1855 | Janet ELLIOTT | Find the father |
| Alison GRIEVE | 4 December 1871 | Mary GRIEVE | Find the father |
| John HOGARTH | 17 September 1868 | Jane HOGARTH | Find the father |
| Elizabeth LOUGH | 31 May 1855 | Mary LOUGH | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MINTO | 30 July 1866 | Helen MINTO | Father found |
| Helen MINTO | 27 April 1856 | Margaret MINTO | Find the father |
| Jean MINTO | 27 September 1858 | Agnes MINTO | Find the father |
| John MINTO | 19 January 1861 | Agnes MINTO | Find the father |
| Mary MINTO | 5 November 1863 | Agnes MINTO | Find the father |
| Peter Trotter MINTO | 30 January 1856 | Agnes MINTO | Find the father |
| Thomas MINTO | 6 November 1869 | Margaret MINTO | Find the father |
| Margaret MITCHELHILL | 22 February 1856 | Isabel MITCHELHILL | Find the father |
| Helen MURRAY | 9 February 1863 | Elizabeth MURRAY | Find the father |
| William MURRAY | 28 July 1859 | Violet MURRAY | Find the father |
| Wilhelmina ROBSON | 17 July 1872 | Janet ROBSON | Find the father |
| Isabella RUTHERFORD | 19 September 1855 | Isabella RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Andrew SCOTT | 25 February 1867 | Jessy SCOTT | Find the father |
| Jessie SCOTT | 24 March 1871 | Helen SCOTT | Find the father |
| Betsey SMITH | 31 October 1866 | Wilhelmina SMITH | Find the father |
| Helen Turnbull SMITH | 9 December 1868 | Mina SMITH | Find the father |
| Mary Patterson TAIT | 9 January 1871 | Jane TAIT | Find the father |
| Rachel TAIT | 20 October 1873 | Rachel TAIT | Find the father |
| William Mather TAIT | 24 April 1857 | Rachel TAIT | Find the father |
| Janet TAYLOR | 14 November 1870 | Janet TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Richard WALKER | 12 October 1871 | Margaret WALKER | Find the father |
| James WHILLANS | 28 September 1874 | Janet WHILLANS | 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.
