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Humbie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Mary BURN or HAY | 1868 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Mary Robertson COCKBURN | 1879 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Elizabeth GILLIES | 1856 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Thomas JEFFREY | 1849 (2) | Order images | Dead | |
| Catherine MILEY | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow Jane MOFFAT or DAVIE | 1870 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Ann RAEBURN | Whitburgh Mains | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Janet STODDART | Dalkeith | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary BRYDONE Blegbie, Humbie | James HOPE | 26 May 1849 | Order now | Haddington SC40/7/36 |
| Christina HILL Windymains, Humbie, East Lothian | Robert LUNAM | Order now | Duns SC60/7/41 | |
| Margaret SHAW Humbie | Alexander WEIR | 25 May 1885 Boys' Home, Humbie | Order now | Haddington SC40/7/38 |
| Agnes Stewart STODDART Blegbie, Humbie | David WEIR | 24 Aug 1875 | Order now | Haddington SC40/7/37 |
| Jane WYLIE Windymains, Humbie | Andrew SMAIL | 5 Aug 1869 | Order now | Haddington SC40/7/37 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella Pirie ADAMS | 28 December 1873 | Agnes ADAMS | Find the father |
| Daniel Grant BAIRD | 6 January 1864 | Isabella BAIRD | Find the father |
| John BELL | 7 January 1863 | Janet BELL | Find the father |
| Peter Cunningham BELL | 29 April 1859 | Janet BELL | Find the father |
| William BELL | 8 January 1867 | Elizabeth BELL | Find the father |
| Barbara Wilson BLAIR | 18 June 1862 | Elizabeth BLAIR | Find the father |
| Janet BORTHWICK | 21 July 1860 | Janet BORTHWICK | Find the father |
| Catharine Stuart Mcalister BROWN | 5 November 1856 | Isabella BROWN | Find the father |
| Christina BRUCE | 30 October 1869 | Janet BRUCE | Find the father |
| Janet BRUCE | 10 November 1866 | Janet BRUCE | Find the father |
| Mary Scott BRUCE | 1 January 1872 | Elizabeth BRUCE | Find the father |
| William Black CALDER | 11 November 1868 | Elizabeth CALDER | Father found |
| Mary COCKBURN | 23 October 1856 | Catherine COCKBURN | Find the father |
| James Robertson CORMIE | 9 April 1863 | Ann CORMIE | Find the father |
| Margaret Laidlaw CUNNINGHAM | 26 June 1861 | Margaret CUNNINGHAM | Father found |
| Andrew DALGLEISH | 4 February 1862 | Helen DALGLEISH | Find the father |
| George DENHOLM | 24 August 1860 | Jane DENHOLM | Find the father |
| Janet DICKSON | 11 May 1870 | Janet DICKSON | Find the father |
| Catharine DODS | 5 February 1863 | Margaret DODS | Find the father |
| Robert DODS | 30 June 1871 | Margaret DODS | Find the father |
| Andrew EDINGTON | 9 February 1859 | Helen EDINGTON | Find the father |
| Janet GILLIES | 26 November 1867 | Elizabeth GILLIES | Find the father |
| John Ferguson GRANT | 18 June 1874 | Catherine GRANT | Find the father |
| George GRIEVE | 24 October 1865 | Isabella GRIEVE | Find the father |
| Peter GRIEVE | 25 December 1865 | Margaret GRIEVE | Find the father |
| Alexander HILL | 27 June 1861 | Christina HILL | Find the father |
| Robert Lunams HILL | 21 June 1858 | Chirstina HILL | Find the father |
| John HUTCHISON | 23 November 1859 | Jessie HUTCHISON | Find the father |
| William Edwin LAIDLAW | 11 April 1866 | Charlotte LAIDLAW | Father found |
| James Durie LEES | 20 August 1865 | Janet LEES | Find the father |
| Janet MALCOLM | 29 August 1861 | Elisabeth MALCOLM | Find the father |
| Margaret Gray MALCOLM | 10 August 1873 | Elizabeth MALCOLM | Find the father |
| Alexander MCDONALD | 1 April 1874 | Mary MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Christina NOTMAN | 25 January 1859 | Christina NOTMAN | Find the father |
| Margaret PATERSON | 18 November 1858 | Margaret PATERSON | Find the father |
| Catherine PUNTON | 21 August 1869 | Agnes PUNTON | Find the father |
| James PUNTON | 24 October 1857 | Agnes PUNTON | Find the father |
| Mark Pringle PUNTON | 21 August 1869 | Agnes PUNTON | Find the father |
| Andrew PURVES | 28 January 1874 | Jane PURVES | Find the father |
| Christina RICHARDSON | 31 December 1870 | Christina RICHARDSON | Father found |
| George Robertson SCOTT | 19 August 1869 | Beatrice SCOTT | Find the father |
| James SCOTT | 29 November 1861 | Jane SCOTT | Find the father |
| Jane Lindores Raeburn SCOTT | 20 July 1864 | Mary SCOTT | Find the father |
| John SCOTT | 6 December 1868 | Helen SCOTT | Find the father |
| Alexander Paterson SKED | 19 January 1862 | Ann SKED | Find the father |
| Euphemia Bathgate SKED | 22 December 1866 | Helen SKED | Father found |
| Peter SKIRVING | 19 September 1862 | Elizabeth SKIRVING | Find the father |
| Annie SMITH | 15 August 1873 | Annie SMITH | Find the father |
| David THOMSON | 14 February 1868 | Elisabeth THOMSON | Find the father |
| Thomas Scott THOMSON | 14 January 1865 | Elizabeth THOMSON | Find the father |
| James VEITCH | 24 June 1863 | Margaret VEITCH | Find the father |
| Charles WAGSTAFF | 19 August 1868 | Margaret WAGSTAFF | Find the father |
| Elizabeth WATSON | 9 March 1870 | Elizabeth WATSON | Find the father |
| Marion WILLIAMSON | 1 December 1866 | Isabella WILLIAMSON | Find the father |
| John WYLLIE | 10 December 1874 | Jane WYLLIE | Find the father |
| Thomas WYLLIE | 29 July 1869 | Jane WYLLIE | Find the father |
| George YOUNG | 27 July 1871 | Elizabeth YOUNG | 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.
