Iona parish records

Iona 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.

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 currently found any decrees for this parish.

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.

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Child name	Date of birth	Mother name	Order
John MACCALLUM	5 May 1856	Jane MACCALLUM	Find the father
Euphan MACFARLANE	27 January 1856	Betsy MACFARLANE	Find the father
Archibald MACGILVRAY	20 November 1870	Lizzie MACGILVRAY	Find the father
Catharine MCARTHUR	7 April 1870	Flora MCARTHUR	Find the father
Jemima MCCORMICK	1 May 1862	Catherine MCCORMICK	Find the father
Mary MCCORMICK	22 July 1866	Catharine MCCORMICK	Find the father
Flora MCDONALD	18 December 1867	Mary MCDONALD	Find the father
Anne MCEACHERN	27 February 1869	Margaret MCEACHERN	Find the father
John MCFARLANE	27 June 1855	Marrion MCFARLANE	Find the father
Donald MCGILVRAY	25 October 1857	Euphemia MCGILVRAY	Find the father
Niel MCGILVRAY	30 March 1868	Mary MCGILVRAY	Find the father
Archibald MCINNES	1 April 1867	Christina MCINNES	Find the father
Christina MCINNIS	18 February 1868	Ann MCINNIS	Find the father
Donald MCKINNON	6 December 1864	Catharine MCKINNON	Find the father
Flora MCKINNON	24 June 1862	Catherine MCKINNON	Find the father
John MCKINNON	6 January 1870	Catharine MCKINNON	Find the father
Mary MCLAINE	10 April 1869	Catherine MCLAINE	Find the father
Flora MCLEAN	18 April 1869	Marion MCLEAN	Find the father
Archibald MCMORREN	17 August 1859	Catherine MCMORREN	Find the father
Jessie VASS	19 May 1869	Christina VASS	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.