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Records -> Argyll

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:
  • £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
Archibald ALLAN 1866 (3)Order imagesRefused
Dugald ALLAN 1858-1859 (2)Order imagesRefused
Archibald ANGUS 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
Malcolm BAXTER 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of parochial relief
Widow Catherine DOUGLAS or MILLAR 1857 (1)Order imagesRefused
John MACFARLANE 1850 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander MCLARTY 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Catherine MITCHELL or LANG 1880 (2)Order imagesGround 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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Barbara MCDERMID
Kilfinan, Argyll
James MCPHERSONOrder nowDunoon Records
SC51/7/8
Janet MCLARDY
Otterferry, Kilfinan
formerly Meiklewood, Kilmarnock
Hugh LOVE25 Feb 1875Order nowKilmarnock
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.
School leaving certificate examinations
NameDate of birthSchoolYearOrder record
Sarah C KENNEDY25 Feb 1891Kilfinan Tighnabruaich Public School1909Order now
Sarah Campbell KENNEDY25 Feb 1891Kilfinan Tighnabruaich Public School1908Order now
Cecilia MACINTOSH5 Nov 1887Kilfinan Tighnabruaich Public School1908Order 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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Margaret ANGUS22 February 1871Catharine ANGUSFind the father
Hugh BAXTER29 July 1856Janet BAXTERFather found
Mary BAXTER16 November 1859Cathrine BAXTERFind the father
Alexander FERGUSON11 June 1872Mary FERGUSONFind the father
Margaret FERGUSON14 December 1863Mary FERGUSONFind the father
Nicol FERGUSON9 February 1857Marion FERGUSONFind the father
Mary GILLIES21 June 1871Margaret GILLIESFind the father
Niel Douglass HENDRIC19 May 1855Jean HENDRICFind the father
William JOHNSTON15 August 1868Isabella JOHNSTONFind the father
George Rankin LAMONT22 June 1870Georgina LAMONTFind the father
Sarah LAMONT31 August 1867Mary LAMONTFind the father
Catherine MACDERMID17 January 1866Barbra MACDERMIDFind the father
Rebecca MACFAYDEN22 March 1870Margaret MACFAYDENFind the father
Janet MACLACHLAN28 January 1863Margaret MACLACHLANFind the father
James MACLEAN30 May 1864Rebekah MACLEANFind the father
Daniel MARTIN10 June 1868Catherine MARTINFind the father
Helen MARTIN30 October 1861Margaret MARTINFind the father
James MCCLYMONT7 June 1867Helen MCCLYMONTFind the father
Walter MCDERMID7 October 1867Barbra MCDERMIDFind the father
James MCDONALD17 September 1856Betsy Mc Donald Or HILLFind the father
James MCDOUGALL26 May 1860Flora MCDOUGALLFind the father
Hugh MCFADYNE30 January 1872Violet MCFADYNEFind the father
Betsy MCFARLANE26 March 1872Christina MCFARLANEFind the father
Elizabeth MCKELLAR29 August 1869Mary MCKELLARFind the father
James MCKELLAR20 July 1862Catherine MCKELLARFind the father
Hugh Steel MCLACHLAN6 April 1858Agness MCLACHLANFind the father
John MCLEAN10 May 1855Rebecca MCLEANFind the father
Alexander MITCHELL9 November 1872Mary MITCHELLFind the father
Duncan MITCHELL19 December 1870Christina MITCHELLFather found
James MITCHELL26 October 1862Catherine MITCHELLFind the father
John SMITH6 August 1872Helen SMITHFind the father
Wilhelmina Jane STEWART1 April 1871Wilhelmina STEWARTFind the father
Alexander WEIR13 June 1865Jane WEIRFind the father
John WHITE25 July 1871Mary WHITEFind the father
Donald WHYTE11 January 1866Jane WHYTEFind 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.


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