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Kilmeny 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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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.
We have not currently found any decrees for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William ALDERSON | 30 January 1859 | Isabella ALDERSON | Find the father |
| Alexander BOWIE | 23 August 1870 | Catherine BOWIE | Find the father |
| Christina CAMPBELL | 13 July 1874 | Mary CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Duncan CAMPBELL | 4 July 1863 | Mary CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Margaret CAMPBELL | 29 October 1870 | Elisabeth CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| John CARMICHAEL | 23 April 1859 | Anne CARMICHAEL | Find the father |
| George COWIE | 1 January 1866 | Ann COWIE | Find the father |
| Marion CURRIE | 12 June 1861 | Catherine CURRIE | Father found |
| Peter CURRIE | 7 January 1861 | Anne CURRIE | Find the father |
| Archibald DARRACH | 23 January 1861 | Sarah DARRACH | Find the father |
| Malcolm DARROCH | 1 February 1873 | Catherine DARROCH | Find the father |
| Ann FLETCHER | 30 December 1865 | Margaret FLETCHER | Find the father |
| Mary FLETCHER | 25 October 1870 | Mary FLETCHER | Find the father |
| Janet KENNEDY | 12 December 1873 | Mary KENNEDY | Father found |
| Archd. LAMONT | 16 September 1868 | Mary LAMONT | Find the father |
| Flora MACDOUGALD | 21 June 1855 | Flora MACDOUGALD | Find the father |
| Angus MCAFFER | 15 September 1856 | Janet MCAFFER | Find the father |
| Alexander MCARTHUR | 1 July 1868 | Mary MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Thomas Davis MCDEARMID | 30 August 1866 | Margaret MCDEARMID | Find the father |
| Marion MCDOUGALD | 24 December 1856 | Marion MCDOUGALD | Find the father |
| Marion MCDOUGALL | 23 November 1872 | Marion MCDOUGALL | Find the father |
| Anne MCEACHERN | 29 May 1859 | Anne MCEACHERN | Find the father |
| Angus MCINTYRE | 27 January 1860 | Flora MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| Anne MCINTYRE | 31 August 1857 | Flora MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| Christina MCINTYRE | 4 May 1862 | Flora MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| Margaret MCINTYRE | 25 February 1856 | Flora MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| John MCKEACHAN | 9 November 1864 | Cathrine MCKEACHAN | Find the father |
| Christina MCKECHNIE | 19 January 1865 | Mary MCKECHNIE | Father found |
| Archibald MCKELLAR | 16 February 1866 | Mary MCKELLAR | Find the father |
| Donald MCKIACHAN | 24 October 1865 | Julia MCKIACHAN | Find the father |
| Margt. MCLEAN | 5 August 1860 | Catherine MCLEAN | Find the father |
| Donald MCLELLAN | 23 October 1874 | Mary MCLELLAN | Find the father |
| Colin MCNEILL | 10 August 1860 | Janet MCNEILL | Find the father |
| Archibald MCNIVEN | 14 September 1856 | Catherine MCNIVEN | Find the father |
| Archibald Chalmers MCPHAIL | 26 February 1863 | Catherine MCPHAIL | Find the father |
| Mary MCPHAIL | 5 February 1864 | Mary MCPHAIL | Find the father |
| Alexander MCPHIE | 14 September 1873 | Flora MCPHIE | Find the father |
| John MCPHIE | 14 September 1873 | Flora MCPHIE | Find the father |
| Flora MCQUEEN | 6 February 1865 | Flora MCQUEEN | Find the father |
| John MCQUEEN | 8 September 1867 | Ann MCQUEEN | Find the father |
| Dugald MCTAGGART | 24 January 1872 | Margaret MCTAGGART | Find the father |
| Alexander MCVORAN | 29 December 1856 | Christian MCVORAN | Find the father |
| Mary Anne Margaret NEWBIGGING | 24 August 1859 | Susanna NEWBIGGING | Find the father |
| William SHAW | 23 June 1868 | Isabella SHAW | Find the father |
| Ann SMITH | 5 August 1870 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Flora SMITH | 11 January 1866 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Isabella SMITH | 1 December 1874 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Lachlan SMITH | 3 April 1868 | Flora SMITH | Find the father |
| Lucy SMITH | 2 September 1871 | Flora SMITH | Find the father |
| Margaret SMITH | 13 July 1863 | Flora SMITH | Find the father |
| Marion SMITH | 5 August 1870 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Mary SMITH | 11 January 1864 | Mary SMITH | Father found |
| Mary Ann SMITH | 2 January 1866 | Flora SMITH | 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.
