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Inchinnan records

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Poor Law appeals – Indexed Poor Law appeals with the option to order images of records.

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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
CH2/924/1Minutes 1824-50
Heritors (parochial board) minutes and accounts 1825-56
Includes poor rolls		1824-1856Request lookup
CH2/924/2Minutes1848-1886Request lookup
CH2/924/3Minutes of kirk session and heritors (poors' fund) 1827-36
Accounts 1832-6
Includes poor rolls		1827-1836Request 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
Agnes FAULDS or PATERSON 1850 (1)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John ROXTON 1862 (1)Order imagesRefused

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Martha BRESLAND27 November 1866Martha BRESLANDFind the father
Annie COWDEN3 February 1871Margaret COWDENFind the father
Janet Erskine CRAIG28 October 1855Christian CRAIGFind the father
Harbiston Small Moore DRINNAN24 September 1859Rosanna DRINNANFather found
Elizabeth ECCLES27 October 1855Elizabeth ECCLESFind the father
James HOUSTON24 April 1873Sarah HOUSTONFind the father
Jane HOUSTON1 March 1862Jane HOUSTONFind the father
Margaret MCCANNEL12 March 1870Betsy MCCANNELFind the father
Jane MUNN1 August 1870Margaret MUNNFind the father
John SMITH21 January 1863Margaret SMITHFind the father
Marion SMITH14 September 1872Eliza Algie SMITHFind the father
Jane WILKIE22 February 1874Jane WILKIEFind the father

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 1836 (NRS Reference: CH2/924/1 pp. 181-183)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JohnAlgiefarmerGreenhead
JohnAlgiefarmerFerry Croft
RobertAlgiefarmerInchinnan Town
PeterAlgiefarmerOldmains
JamesAlexanderfarmerCraigend
WalterAllisonlabourerCraigend
JamesAdamfarmerMosslands
HughBlairlabourerSouthbar
AndrewBlackwoodlabourerPark
WilliamBlackwoodlabourerPark
AlexanderCraigfarmerSouth Commonside
WilliamCraigfarmerNorth Commonside
WilliamCraiglabourerFerry Croft
RobertCameronLadyacre
WilliamCranlabourerNorthbar
RobertCowanlabourerBroomlands
DuncanCamerongardenerPark
JamesCraigcarpenterNether Southbar
JohnCampbelllabourerNorthbarr
WilliamCrawfordlabourerFreeland
JamesColquhountollkeeperBarnsford
JamesDonaldsonsmithLuckinsford
HumphreyDonaldsonsmithLuckinsford
JohnDuncanelderNorthbar
JohnDunlopfarmerBarnhill
WilliamEwingploughmanSandilands
JamesFultonfarmer and elderLinburn
WalterFlemingoverseerPark
WilliamFrazerploughmanSouthbarr
JohnGibsonfarmer and elderBrownsfield
JamesGallowayschoolmaster and elder
WalterGrindleyploughmanGreenhead
RobertGibsonfarmerAllans
CharlesGilchristservantManse
MatthewHamiltonlabourerCraighead
JamesHoustonfarmerMaxwellfield
JamesHendersonploughmanSouthbarr
MatthewKillochOf Freeland
MatthewKillochFreeland
WilliamKillochfarmerFreeland
HughKirkgardenerSoutbar
JohnLangfarmerGarneyland
AlexanderMcmillanNorthbar
WilliamMontgomerylabourerBroomlands
JamesMckeancarpenterHillhead
AngusMcfeefarmerMosslands
RobertMillerweaverWheelburn
RobertMcalisterlabourerLuckinsford
AlexanderMuirfarmerFerry Croft
WilliamPatonsmithBroomlands
RobertPatersonsmithRed Smithy
AlexanderPatersongardenerSouthbar
WalterReidploughmanBrownsfield
JamesSnodgrassfarmerPortnauld
WilliamSmithcarpenterBroomlands
AlexanderSprowlshoemakerNew Mains
JamesWoodploughmanPark
JohnWilsonploughmanBrownsfield
RobertYounggamekeeperSouthbar

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.