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Kenmore 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 Janet CAMERON or MALLOCH | 1858-1859 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Christian CAMPBELL or MACPHERSON | 1875 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Christina CAMPBELL or MCPHERSON | 1878 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean CAMPBELL or MCLAREN | 1847 (5) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed, on understanding that she is to have 2s a week - this on account of son's health | |
| Margaret CAMPBELL | 1865 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Margaret CAMPBELL | 1868 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Margaret CAMPBELL | 1872 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Donald DEWAR | 1847 (5) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Ann FERGUSSON | 1855 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Ann FERGUSSON | 1865 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| John FERGUSSON | 1858 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| John FERGUSSON | 1865 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Margaret FORBES or CAMPBELL | 1865 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Margaret Campbell FORBES | 1872 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Jane FRASER | 1847 (1) | Order images | Refused; not in receipt of relief | |
| James KIPPEN | 1858 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| James KIPPEN | 1862 (1) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief | |
| Janet KIPPEN | 1848-1849 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Catherine MACANDREW | 1863 (2) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief | |
| Duncan MACDOUGALL | 1860 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Christian MACFARLANE | 1861 (6) | Order images | Medical certificate as to cause of death | |
| Alexander MARTIN | 1873 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Alexander MARTIN | 1873 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Frances MCARTHUR | 1877 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow MCDIARMID | 1862 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Donald MCDIARMID | 1858 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander MCDONALD | 1855 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Janet MCEWAN | 1855 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Christy MCKERCHAR | Acharn | 1846 (2) | Order images | Refused |
| Marjory MCKERCHAR | 1858 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Christian MCKERCHER | 1863 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Christian MCKERRACHER | 1859 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Christian MCLAREN | 1865 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Elizabeth MCLEAN | 1859 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| James MCLEAN | 1859 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Elizabeth MCLELLAN or CAMPBELL | Doune | 1846 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| Catherine MCNAUGHTON | 1867 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annie ANDERSON Kenmore | John MCLAREN | 17 Dec 1884 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/50 |
| Annie ANDERSON Kenmore | John MCLAREN | 17 Dec 1884 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/49 |
| Jessie DEWAR Edramuckie, Kenmore, Perthshire | Charles IRVINE | 26 Jul 1879 | Order now | Dunblane SC44/5/7 |
| Catherine MCARTHUR Tombuie, Kenmore | Peter CRAMB | 2 Feb 1883 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/49 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Law ANDERSON | 23 May 1873 | Jessie ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Hugh ANDERSON | 20 February 1866 | Margaret ANDERSON | Father found |
| John ANDERSON | 31 October 1873 | Jessie ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Catharine BLACKSTOCK | 25 August 1865 | Catharine BLACKSTOCK | Father found |
| James CAMPBELL | 18 August 1867 | Catharine CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Agnes CARVIE | 2 June 1868 | Mary CARVIE | Find the father |
| James CRERAR | 21 May 1874 | Christian CRERAR | Find the father |
| John CRERAR | 13 February 1865 | Isabella CRERAR | Find the father |
| Elizabeth DEWAR | 23 March 1856 | Elizabeth DEWAR | Find the father |
| Isabella Dewar DEWAR | 2 April 1873 | Christina DEWAR | Find the father |
| Edward LINDSAY | 19 May 1873 | Isabella LINDSAY | Find the father |
| Ann Jane MCANDREW | 21 August 1867 | Janet MCANDREW | Find the father |
| Alexander MCARTHUR | 8 January 1871 | Anne MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| John Rutherfurd MCARTHUR | 20 June 1867 | Ann MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Peter MCEWEN | 10 October 1856 | Jean MCEWEN | Find the father |
| Charles MCGREGOR | 26 April 1863 | Ann MCGREGOR | Find the father |
| Catharine MCKENZIE | 9 August 1865 | Janet MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Janet MCKERCHAR | 28 June 1866 | Christian MCKERCHAR | Find the father |
| Betsey MCLAREN | 9 May 1869 | Christian MCLAREN | Find the father |
| Jean MCPHERSON | 28 July 1869 | Margaret MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Duncan ROBERTSON | 11 April 1859 | Elizabeth ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Duncan STEWART | 5 December 1862 | Janet STEWART | Find the father |
| Robert STEWART | 30 July 1862 | Elizabeth STEWART | Find the father |
| Fredrick SYME | 13 September 1871 | Janet Eliza SYME | Find the father |
| James TAYLOR | 6 June 1871 | Isabella TAYLOR | Father found |
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.
