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

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.

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
Margaret MCCARTNEY 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Isabella PIRRIE 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)

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

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
James AITKEN29 July 1862Catherene AITKENFind the father
Allan John ALLAN24 April 1856Eleazbeth ALLANFind the father
Mary ANDERSON30 June 1869Mary ANDERSONFind the father
Helen Jane BAILEY28 July 1867Helen BAILEYFind the father
Margaret BEITH7 January 1863Jane BEITHFind the father
Thomas BLAIKIE10 June 1862Margaret BLAIKIEFind the father
John BOYLE5 January 1874Ann Jane BOYLEFind the father
Marion BROADFOOT8 August 1862Jane BROADFOOTFind the father
Robert Mcfarlane BROADFOOT30 August 1872Jane BROADFOOTFind the father
Christina Gardner BROWN18 June 1873Janet BROWNFind the father
Christina Jane BROWN9 June 1866Jane BROWNFather found
Jessie BROWN21 June 1865Margaret BROWNFind the father
Robina BRUSH10 November 1870Agnes BRUSHFind the father
Alexander Mcdonald BUCHANAN2 September 1872Jessie BUCHANANFind the father
Hugh CAMPBELL27 February 1873Flora CAMPBELLFind the father
James CAMPBELL5 February 1863Helen CAMPBELLFind the father
Mary CARRELL16 October 1874Elizabeth CARRELLFind the father
Ross CARRUTHERS12 September 1871Agnes CARRUTHERSFind the father
Leslie Ogilvie CLARKE26 August 1866Alice CLARKEFind the father
John CORNFOOT19 September 1873Elizabeth CORNFOOTFind the father
Elizabeth Lindsay COWAN2 April 1862Margaret COWANFind the father
Margaret CRAWFORD16 June 1857Flora CRAWFORDFind the father
Mary CRUDEN28 May 1862Ann CRUDENFind the father
William Clark CRUDEN25 November 1870Agnes CRUDENFind the father
Mary CURRAN27 January 1866Mary CURRANFind the father
Emma CURRIE29 July 1862Agness CURRIEFind the father
Annie DONALD6 April 1871Jane DONALDFind the father
Thomas DONNELLEY1 December 1866Annie DONNELLEYFind the father
Alexander DRYSDALE26 May 1856Ann DRYSDALEFind the father
Marion DUNCAN23 February 1872Mary DUNCANFind the father
Willimina DUNN14 September 1870Mary Gib DUNNFind the father
Walter Rowland FERGUSON11 November 1868Catherine FERGUSONFind the father
Mary FINLAY27 September 1862Mary FINLAYFind the father
John GALLETLY1 July 1871Margaret GALLETLYFind the father
Isabella Lawson GALLOWAY10 March 1856Ann GALLOWAYFind the father
William GARLAND20 June 1870Janet GARLANDFind the father
James GILCHRIST11 September 1873Jane GILCHRISTFind the father
Agnes GIVAN10 February 1864Janet GIVANFind the father
Robert GODFREY8 December 1873Janet GODFREYFind the father
Jane Ann GRAHAM15 November 1867Catherine GRAHAMFind the father
Mary HAMILTON16 June 1863Maria HAMILTONFind the father
John HILL18 October 1864Elizabeth HILLFind the father
Matthew HILLHOUSE1 June 1874Janet HILLHOUSEFind the father
Jeanie Lang HUNTER27 December 1868Annie HUNTERFind the father
George Wyllie Brown JAMESON11 February 1863Mary JAMESONFind the father
Andrew KERR25 September 1869Jane KERRFind the father
Finlay KERR26 September 1867Mary KERRFind the father
James LAIRD27 August 1871Euphemia LAIRDFind the father
Jane LAMONT12 January 1864Jane LAMONTFind the father
Robert LANGMORE6 February 1856Susannah LANGMOREFind the father
Samuel LOGAN21 December 1865Catheren LOGANFind the father
Mary LORD17 October 1867Mary LORDFind the father
John MACLELLAN29 August 1866Margaret MACLELLANFind the father
Donald MACRAE22 August 1873Catharine MACRAEFather found
John MATHESON20 June 1863Margaret MATHESONFind the father
David MATHISON5 December 1865Margaret MATHISONFind the father
Catherine MCARTHUR24 March 1858Catherine MCARTHURFind the father
Mary MCCLYMONT19 September 1871Marion MCCLYMONTFind the father
Joanna MCDOUGALL6 January 1856Johanna MCDOUGALLFind the father
John MCDOUGALL21 August 1857Elizabeth MCDOUGALLFind the father
Margaret MCDOUGALL22 March 1860Elezabeth MCDOUGALLFind the father
John MCFADYEN30 January 1873Mary Ann MCFADYENFind the father
Agnes MCFAYDEN13 July 1874Mary Ann MCFAYDENFind the father
John MCKANE4 May 1857Elizabeth MCKANEFind the father
Janet Murdoch MCKEAN7 March 1859Janet MCKEANFind the father
Elizabeth MCKELLAR17 May 1873Elizabeth MCKELLARFind the father
George MCKINNON28 May 1866Mary MCKINNONFind the father
Janet MCKINNON17 February 1861Ann Jean MCKINNONFind the father
Alexander MCLELLAN23 March 1863Margaret MCLELLANFind the father
Margory MCLELLAN7 June 1872Susan MCLELLANFind the father
Robert MCLELLAN31 December 1868Susan MCLELLANFather found
John MCMEEKAN23 August 1868Ellen MCMEEKANFind the father
Margaret Copland MCMILLAN10 June 1874Helen MCMILLANFind the father
Catherine MCNEILL11 March 1860Catherine MCNEILLFind the father
Alexander MCNICOL7 April 1873Margaret MCNICOLFind the father
Gabriel MCPHAIL3 July 1866Jessie MCPHAILFind the father
Elizabeth Ann Holm MCPHERSON8 January 1859Anne MCPHERSONFind the father
Elezabeth MENECE27 November 1868Elezabeth MENECEFind the father
George MORTON19 April 1869Ellen MORTONFind the father
Robert MORTON2 January 1873Ellen MORTONFind the father
John MUIR25 October 1874Jane MUIRFind the father
Robert NICOL18 January 1863Mary Ann NICOLFind the father
Robert O'DONELLEY17 October 1872Annie O'DONELLEYFind the father
James PEARSON8 December 1866Margaret PEARSONFind the father
William PEARSON19 December 1869Margaret PEARSONFind the father
Agness PIRRIE12 July 1861Jessie PIRRIEFind the father
John SHEARER5 June 1866Margaret SHEARERFind the father
Mary Anne SHERIDAN7 February 1870Anne SHERIDANFind the father
Margaret Ann Elliot SIMPSON28 May 1868Jane SIMPSONFind the father
Catherine SMITH13 March 1869Jane SMITHFind the father
Jessie STEWART21 January 1871Jessie STEWARTFind the father
Euphemia Nisbet SUTHERLAND31 May 1862Catheren SUTHERLANDFind the father
James TODD12 May 1868Agnes TODDFind the father
Cathrine TOUGH28 November 1855Janet TOUGHFind the father
Thomas WARK20 December 1868Janet WARKFind the father
James WEBSTER5 December 1867Margaret Millar WEBSTERFind the father
Agnes WEIR10 July 1868Mary WEIRFind the father
Peter Bell WHITE18 November 1867Margaret WHITEFind the father
William Adams WHITE6 December 1871Martha WHITEFind the father
Isabella WHYTE11 July 1872Mary WHYTEFind the father
Hugh WILSON18 January 1866Margaret WILSONFind the father
James WILSON14 June 1869Elizabeth WILSONFind 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.

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.