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Kilfinan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archibald ALLAN | 1866 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Dugald ALLAN | 1858-1859 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Archibald ANGUS | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Malcolm BAXTER | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief | |
| Widow Catherine DOUGLAS or MILLAR | 1857 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John MACFARLANE | 1850 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Alexander MCLARTY | 1851 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Catherine MITCHELL or LANG | 1880 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara MCDERMID Kilfinan, Argyll | James MCPHERSON | Order now | Dunoon Records SC51/7/8 | |
| Janet MCLARDY Otterferry, Kilfinan formerly Meiklewood, Kilmarnock | Hugh LOVE | 25 Feb 1875 | Order now | Kilmarnock SC7/5/10 |
School Leaving Certificate Exams
This is an index to the registers of school leaving certificate examination results (NRS Reference ED36). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order now link.
| Name | Date of birth | School | Year | Order record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah C KENNEDY | 25 Feb 1891 | Kilfinan Tighnabruaich Public School | 1909 | Order now |
| Sarah Campbell KENNEDY | 25 Feb 1891 | Kilfinan Tighnabruaich Public School | 1908 | Order now |
| Cecilia MACINTOSH | 5 Nov 1887 | Kilfinan Tighnabruaich Public School | 1908 | Order now |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret ANGUS | 22 February 1871 | Catharine ANGUS | Find the father |
| Hugh BAXTER | 29 July 1856 | Janet BAXTER | Father found |
| Mary BAXTER | 16 November 1859 | Cathrine BAXTER | Find the father |
| Alexander FERGUSON | 11 June 1872 | Mary FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Margaret FERGUSON | 14 December 1863 | Mary FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Nicol FERGUSON | 9 February 1857 | Marion FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Mary GILLIES | 21 June 1871 | Margaret GILLIES | Find the father |
| Niel Douglass HENDRIC | 19 May 1855 | Jean HENDRIC | Find the father |
| William JOHNSTON | 15 August 1868 | Isabella JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| George Rankin LAMONT | 22 June 1870 | Georgina LAMONT | Find the father |
| Sarah LAMONT | 31 August 1867 | Mary LAMONT | Find the father |
| Catherine MACDERMID | 17 January 1866 | Barbra MACDERMID | Find the father |
| Rebecca MACFAYDEN | 22 March 1870 | Margaret MACFAYDEN | Find the father |
| Janet MACLACHLAN | 28 January 1863 | Margaret MACLACHLAN | Find the father |
| James MACLEAN | 30 May 1864 | Rebekah MACLEAN | Find the father |
| Daniel MARTIN | 10 June 1868 | Catherine MARTIN | Find the father |
| Helen MARTIN | 30 October 1861 | Margaret MARTIN | Find the father |
| James MCCLYMONT | 7 June 1867 | Helen MCCLYMONT | Find the father |
| Walter MCDERMID | 7 October 1867 | Barbra MCDERMID | Find the father |
| James MCDONALD | 17 September 1856 | Betsy Mc Donald Or HILL | Find the father |
| James MCDOUGALL | 26 May 1860 | Flora MCDOUGALL | Find the father |
| Hugh MCFADYNE | 30 January 1872 | Violet MCFADYNE | Find the father |
| Betsy MCFARLANE | 26 March 1872 | Christina MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MCKELLAR | 29 August 1869 | Mary MCKELLAR | Find the father |
| James MCKELLAR | 20 July 1862 | Catherine MCKELLAR | Find the father |
| Hugh Steel MCLACHLAN | 6 April 1858 | Agness MCLACHLAN | Find the father |
| John MCLEAN | 10 May 1855 | Rebecca MCLEAN | Find the father |
| Alexander MITCHELL | 9 November 1872 | Mary MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Duncan MITCHELL | 19 December 1870 | Christina MITCHELL | Father found |
| James MITCHELL | 26 October 1862 | Catherine MITCHELL | Find the father |
| John SMITH | 6 August 1872 | Helen SMITH | Find the father |
| Wilhelmina Jane STEWART | 1 April 1871 | Wilhelmina STEWART | Find the father |
| Alexander WEIR | 13 June 1865 | Jane WEIR | Find the father |
| John WHITE | 25 July 1871 | Mary WHITE | Find the father |
| Donald WHYTE | 11 January 1866 | Jane WHYTE | 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.
