Kilmartin parish records

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

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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.

Lookups available
Reference	Title	Dates	Buy
CH2/793/1	Minutes	1691-1706	Request lookup
CH2/793/2	Minutes	1724-1751	Request lookup
CH2/793/3	Minutes	1751-1895	Request lookup
CH2/793/4	Minutes	1895-1942	Request lookup
CH2/793/5	Baptismal register	1874-1976	Request lookup

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:

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£6 for up to 3 minutes for a single case
£10 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
Name	Address	Year(s)/ minutes	Order images	Deliverance
Catherine GILLIES or SINCLAIR	Lochgilphead	1846 (4)	Order images	Ground of complaint removed. House to be provided in Kilmartin
Janet HENDERSON or MCPHERSON		1847 (4)	Order images	Refused, in respect that applicant's children have 15s per quarter, besides mother's allowance of 15s per quarter
Widow Sarah LEITCH		1872 (2)	Order images	Refused (poorhouse)
Widow Jane Boyd MACINTYRE		1865 (2)	Order images	Refused (poorhouse)
Peter MACIVER		1869 (2)	Order images	Refused
Mary MAKELLAR		1855 (1)	Order images	Refused
Alexander MCDOUGALD	Torran Beg	1846-1847 (3)	Order images	Ground of complaint removed
Sarah MCDOUGALL		1851 (1)	Order images	Refused
Mary Ann MCFARLANE		1849 (2)	Order images	Refused
Mary MCKELLAR		1851 (1)	Order images	Refused
Mary MCKELLAR		1853-1854 (2)	Order images	Refused
Mary MCKELLAR		1855 (1)	Order images	Refused
Ann MCTURK or MACINTYRE		1857 (4)	Order images
Widow Catherine RANKINE or GILLIES		1875 (1)	Order images	Refused (poorhouse)
Widow Catherine SINCLAIR		1853 (1)	Order images	Refused

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

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Child name	Date of birth	Mother name	Order
John CAMERON	13 November 1868	Catherine CAMERON	Find the father
Christina FERGUSON	12 November 1861	Margaret FERGUSON	Find the father
Christina FERGUSON	2 May 1872	Christina FERGUSON	Find the father
Janet FERGUSON	12 November 1861	Margaret FERGUSON	Find the father
Margaret FERGUSON	11 July 1858	Janet FERGUSON	Find the father
Mary MACDOUGALL	26 July 1864	Isabel MACDOUGALL	Find the father
Margaret MCARTHUR	14 April 1874	Catherine MCARTHUR	Find the father
Neil MCCALLUM	19 December 1865	Margaret MCCALLUM	Find the father
John MCINTYRE	10 March 1863	Janet MCINTYRE	Find the father
John MCLELLAN	10 September 1865	Mary MCLELLAN	Find the father
Mary Jane MCLELLAN	14 January 1871	Margaret MCLELLAN	Find the father
Alexander MCNAUGHTON	16 July 1872	Jane MCNAUGHTON	Find the father
Isabella SINCLAIR	5 February 1857	Euphemia SINCLAIR	Find the father
Margaret SINCLAIR	29 January 1865	Sarah SINCLAIR	Find the father
Catharine SMITH	2 August 1863	Catharine SMITH	Find 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 1832 [NRS Reference CH2/80/3]

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.

Name:

Date: 20/03/1832

Case type: Session Business

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Poor Accounts

Details: This being a week day the Session met in order to examine to the state of their funds as there was no regular Distribution from the seventeenth January Eighteen hundred and twenty six. The treasurer having accordingly produced his accounts to their inspection which were minutely examined and approved off [sic] and having considered the various sums given for charitable purposes since the last Distribution they divided the sum of Three pounds Stirling among the various applicants leaving a balance of Four Shillings in the hands of the Treasurer'

Other names:

Name:

Date: 23/08/1832

Case type: Session Business

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Sacrament

Details: 'This being the Fast day prior to the celebration of the Lords Supper in this Parish, the Mod[erator] enquired of the Elders if the[y] observed any thing blameable in the life and conversation of the former communicants and if they had any objections against those who gave in their names in order to be admitted for the first time they having answered in the negative, The Mod[erator] proceeded to Distribute the Tokens and the Elders were appointed their different stations in attending the tables and watching the collections'

Other names:

Name:

Date: 04/12/1832

Case type: Session Business

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Poor Accounts

Details: 'This being a week day the Session met in order to examine the state of their Funds since last Distribution [.] The Treasurer having accordingly produced his accounts to their inspection which were minutely examined and approved off [sic] [.] They find that the Treasurer by order of the Session since last distribution paid out the sum of Four pounds Nine Shillings upon occasional charities and this day distributed the sum of Three pounds four [shillings] among the poor of the Parish, the Kirk Session embrace this opportunity to express their high satisfaction with the fidelity and attention which their Treasurer uniformly pays to the interest of the committed to his charge'

Other names:

Name: Rev Hugh Dewar

Date: 20/03/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Hugh Dewar

Date: 23/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Rev Hugh Dewar

Date: 04/12/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: Minister

Address:

Role: moderator

Name: Angus Kennedy

Date: 20/03/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Craigintirve Beg [Creagantairbh Beag]

Role: Sederunt

Name: Angus Kennedy

Date: 23/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Craigintirve Beg [Creagantairbh Beag]

Role: Sederunt

Name: Angus Kennedy

Date: 04/12/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Craigintive Beg [ Creagantairbh Beag]

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alex Mccallum

Date: 20/03/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Slockuvullin [poss. Slockavullin]

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alex Mccallum

Date: 04/12/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Slockvulling [poss. Slockavullin]

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alexander Mccallum

Date: 23/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Slockvulling [poss. Slockavullin]

Role: Sederunt

Name: James Mckechnie

Date: 23/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Arineckan

Role: Sederunt

Name: Arch Mcphail

Date: 04/12/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Eunoch

Role: Sederunt

Name: Archd Mcphail

Date: 20/03/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Eunoch

Role: Sederunt

Name: Archd Mcphail

Date: 23/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Eunoch

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alex Mctavish

Date: 04/12/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Auchamish

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alexander Mctavish

Date: 20/03/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Auchamis

Role: Sederunt

Name: Alexander Mctavish

Date: 23/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Auchamish

Role: Sederunt

Name: Don Smith

Date: 20/03/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Raslie

Role: Sederunt

Name: Donald Smith

Date: 23/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: elder

Address: Raslie

Role: Sederunt