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Records -> Argyll

Kilmartin 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/793/1Minutes1691-1706Request lookup
CH2/793/2Minutes1724-1751Request lookup
CH2/793/3Minutes1751-1895Request lookup
CH2/793/4Minutes1895-1942Request lookup
CH2/793/5Baptismal register1874-1976Request 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:
  • £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
Catherine GILLIES or SINCLAIR Lochgilphead1846 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed. House to be provided in Kilmartin
Janet HENDERSON or MCPHERSON 1847 (4)Order imagesRefused, in respect that applicant's children have 15s per quarter, besides mother's allowance of 15s per quarter
Widow Sarah LEITCH 1872 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Jane Boyd MACINTYRE 1865 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Peter MACIVER 1869 (2)Order imagesRefused
Mary MAKELLAR 1855 (1)Order imagesRefused
Alexander MCDOUGALD Torran Beg1846-1847 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Sarah MCDOUGALL 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary Ann MCFARLANE 1849 (2)Order imagesRefused
Mary MCKELLAR 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary MCKELLAR 1853-1854 (2)Order imagesRefused
Mary MCKELLAR 1855 (1)Order imagesRefused
Ann MCTURK or MACINTYRE 1857 (4)Order images
Widow Catherine RANKINE or GILLIES 1875 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Catherine SINCLAIR 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused


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
Catharine GILLIES
Taighintrath, Kilmartin
Neil MACKELLAROrder nowDunoon Records
SC51/7/7
Catherine GILLIES
Taighintrath, Kilmartin
Neil MACKELLAROrder nowDunoon Records
SC51/7/8
Margaret JACKSON
Glenan Cottage, Kilmartin
John MACLACHLAN21 Jan 1860Order nowDunoon Records
SC51/7/7


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
Isabella Gillies CHALMERS29 Dec 1891Kilmartin 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
John CAMERON13 November 1868Catherine CAMERONFind the father
Christina FERGUSON12 November 1861Margaret FERGUSONFind the father
Christina FERGUSON2 May 1872Christina FERGUSONFind the father
Janet FERGUSON12 November 1861Margaret FERGUSONFind the father
Margaret FERGUSON11 July 1858Janet FERGUSONFind the father
Mary MACDOUGALL26 July 1864Isabel MACDOUGALLFind the father
Margaret MCARTHUR14 April 1874Catherine MCARTHURFind the father
Neil MCCALLUM19 December 1865Margaret MCCALLUMFind the father
John MCINTYRE10 March 1863Janet MCINTYREFind the father
John MCLELLAN10 September 1865Mary MCLELLANFind the father
Mary Jane MCLELLAN14 January 1871Margaret MCLELLANFind the father
Alexander MCNAUGHTON16 July 1872Jane MCNAUGHTONFind the father
Isabella SINCLAIR5 February 1857Euphemia SINCLAIRFind the father
Margaret SINCLAIR29 January 1865Sarah SINCLAIRFind the father
Catharine SMITH2 August 1863Catharine SMITHFind 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.

Rev Hugh Dewar

Angus Kennedy

Alex Mccallum

Alexander Mccallum

James Mckechnie

Arch Mcphail

Archd Mcphail

Alex Mctavish

Alexander Mctavish

Don Smith

Donald Smith

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


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