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Records -> East Lothian

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:
  • £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
Widow Mary BURN or HAY 1868 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Mary Robertson COCKBURN 1879 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Elizabeth GILLIES 1856 (1)Order imagesRefused
Thomas JEFFREY 1849 (2)Order imagesDead
Catherine MILEY 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Jane MOFFAT or DAVIE 1870 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Ann RAEBURN Whitburgh Mains1846 (1)Order imagesRefused
Janet STODDART Dalkeith1846 (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
Mary BRYDONE
Blegbie, Humbie
James HOPE26 May 1849Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/36
Christina HILL
Windymains, Humbie, East Lothian
Robert LUNAMOrder nowDuns
SC60/7/41
Margaret SHAW
Humbie
Alexander WEIR25 May 1885
Boys' Home, Humbie
Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/38
Agnes Stewart STODDART
Blegbie, Humbie
David WEIR24 Aug 1875Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/37
Jane WYLIE
Windymains, Humbie
Andrew SMAIL5 Aug 1869Order nowHaddington
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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Isabella Pirie ADAMS28 December 1873Agnes ADAMSFind the father
Daniel Grant BAIRD6 January 1864Isabella BAIRDFind the father
John BELL7 January 1863Janet BELLFind the father
Peter Cunningham BELL29 April 1859Janet BELLFind the father
William BELL8 January 1867Elizabeth BELLFind the father
Barbara Wilson BLAIR18 June 1862Elizabeth BLAIRFind the father
Janet BORTHWICK21 July 1860Janet BORTHWICKFind the father
Catharine Stuart Mcalister BROWN5 November 1856Isabella BROWNFind the father
Christina BRUCE30 October 1869Janet BRUCEFind the father
Janet BRUCE10 November 1866Janet BRUCEFind the father
Mary Scott BRUCE1 January 1872Elizabeth BRUCEFind the father
William Black CALDER11 November 1868Elizabeth CALDERFather found
Mary COCKBURN23 October 1856Catherine COCKBURNFind the father
James Robertson CORMIE9 April 1863Ann CORMIEFind the father
Margaret Laidlaw CUNNINGHAM26 June 1861Margaret CUNNINGHAMFather found
Andrew DALGLEISH4 February 1862Helen DALGLEISHFind the father
George DENHOLM24 August 1860Jane DENHOLMFind the father
Janet DICKSON11 May 1870Janet DICKSONFind the father
Catharine DODS5 February 1863Margaret DODSFind the father
Robert DODS30 June 1871Margaret DODSFind the father
Andrew EDINGTON9 February 1859Helen EDINGTONFind the father
Janet GILLIES26 November 1867Elizabeth GILLIESFind the father
John Ferguson GRANT18 June 1874Catherine GRANTFind the father
George GRIEVE24 October 1865Isabella GRIEVEFind the father
Peter GRIEVE25 December 1865Margaret GRIEVEFind the father
Alexander HILL27 June 1861Christina HILLFind the father
Robert Lunams HILL21 June 1858Chirstina HILLFind the father
John HUTCHISON23 November 1859Jessie HUTCHISONFind the father
William Edwin LAIDLAW11 April 1866Charlotte LAIDLAWFather found
James Durie LEES20 August 1865Janet LEESFind the father
Janet MALCOLM29 August 1861Elisabeth MALCOLMFind the father
Margaret Gray MALCOLM10 August 1873Elizabeth MALCOLMFind the father
Alexander MCDONALD1 April 1874Mary MCDONALDFind the father
Christina NOTMAN25 January 1859Christina NOTMANFind the father
Margaret PATERSON18 November 1858Margaret PATERSONFind the father
Catherine PUNTON21 August 1869Agnes PUNTONFind the father
James PUNTON24 October 1857Agnes PUNTONFind the father
Mark Pringle PUNTON21 August 1869Agnes PUNTONFind the father
Andrew PURVES28 January 1874Jane PURVESFind the father
Christina RICHARDSON31 December 1870Christina RICHARDSONFather found
George Robertson SCOTT19 August 1869Beatrice SCOTTFind the father
James SCOTT29 November 1861Jane SCOTTFind the father
Jane Lindores Raeburn SCOTT20 July 1864Mary SCOTTFind the father
John SCOTT6 December 1868Helen SCOTTFind the father
Alexander Paterson SKED19 January 1862Ann SKEDFind the father
Euphemia Bathgate SKED22 December 1866Helen SKEDFather found
Peter SKIRVING19 September 1862Elizabeth SKIRVINGFind the father
Annie SMITH15 August 1873Annie SMITHFind the father
David THOMSON14 February 1868Elisabeth THOMSONFind the father
Thomas Scott THOMSON14 January 1865Elizabeth THOMSONFind the father
James VEITCH24 June 1863Margaret VEITCHFind the father
Charles WAGSTAFF19 August 1868Margaret WAGSTAFFFind the father
Elizabeth WATSON9 March 1870Elizabeth WATSONFind the father
Marion WILLIAMSON1 December 1866Isabella WILLIAMSONFind the father
John WYLLIE10 December 1874Jane WYLLIEFind the father
Thomas WYLLIE29 July 1869Jane WYLLIEFind the father
George YOUNG27 July 1871Elizabeth YOUNGFind 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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