Kinneff and Catterline parish records

Kinneff and Caterline 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
CH2/218/4	Kinneff and Caterline Kirk Session - Minutes Includes lists of communicants 1846-1851	1794-1851	Request lookup
CH2/218/5	Kinneff and Caterline Kirk Session - Minutes Includes annual rolls of communicants 1852-1864 Proclamations 1855-1883	1852-1920	Request lookup
CH2/218/6	Kinneff and Caterline Kirk Session - Accounts	1794-1847	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.

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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
David WILSON		1853 (1)	Order images	Refused

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 residence	Defender name	Child birth	Order	Court
Isabella HENDERSON Hillside, Kinneff, Kincardineshire formerly Arbroath	Charles ANDERSON	12 Oct 1885	Order now	Edinburgh SC39/8/54
Jean MILNE Muir of Kinneff	James STEPHEN	1 Dec 1851	Order now	Stonehaven SC5/7/4

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

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Child name	Date of birth	Mother name	Order
Mary Cowie AIRTH	27 November 1857	Margaret AIRTH	Find the father
Elizabeth ALLAN	10 December 1865	Helen ALLAN	Find the father
Jane ALLARDICE	13 January 1861	Jane ALLARDICE	Find the father
William ALLARDICE	10 February 1863	Isabella ALLARDICE	Find the father
Jane Murray BEATTIE	31 October 1862	Ann BEATTIE	Find the father
Alexander CAMERON	22 October 1865	Margaret CAMERON	Find the father
Georgina Ann Cobb CAMERON	14 May 1869	Ann CAMERON	Find the father
Helen CAMPBELL	23 April 1867	Helen CAMPBELL	Find the father
Isabella COCKIE	3 February 1860	Ann COCKIE	Find the father
William COOPER	1 November 1867	Ann COOPER	Find the father
John CRAIG	30 January 1866	Marjrie CRAIG	Find the father
James CUSHNY	14 June 1866	Ann CUSHNY	Father found
Charlotte Simpson DAVIDSON	17 August 1866	Hellen DAVIDSON	Father found
Mary DAVIDSON	12 June 1869	Christina DAVIDSON	Find the father
John DUNN	13 May 1855	Agnes DUNN	Find the father
David Watt EDDIE	8 June 1873	Ann EDDIE	Find the father
Mary Ann Crabb ELRICK	27 January 1868	Ann ELRICK	Find the father
Mary Jane FERRIER	15 June 1863	Mary FERRIER	Find the father
Robert FERRIER	2 June 1868	Elizabeth FERRIER	Find the father
Alexander GREIG	18 August 1869	Mary GREIG	Find the father
Jane Croll GREIG	27 June 1874	Joanna Campbell GREIG	Find the father
James Irons HENDERSON	29 December 1871	Helen HENDERSON	Find the father
Jane Ann Couts HENDERSON	3 May 1862	Hellen HENDERSON	Find the father
Hellen Eliza Moir LEMON	15 July 1871	Margaret LEMON	Find the father
Betsey LONGMUIR	26 January 1856	Christina LONGMUIR	Find the father
William LONGMUIR	14 November 1863	Agnes LONGMUIR	Find the father
Ann Airth MARTIN	5 May 1859	Maria MARTIN	Find the father
George Lowe MASSON	2 November 1872	Hellen MASSON	Find the father
Hugh Robert MCINTOSH	13 October 1870	Margaret MCINTOSH	Find the father
John MCKINTOSH	9 December 1863	Margaret MCKINTOSH	Find the father
Ann MELVIN	12 July 1861	Helen MELVIN	Find the father
Thomas Durward MIDDLETON	2 September 1871	Helen MIDDLETON	Find the father
Jane MILNE	20 July 1857	Ann MILNE	Find the father
Andrew MOWAT	23 January 1867	Margaret MOWAT	Find the father
Selina MURRAY	5 April 1856	Jane MURRAY	Find the father
Mary PATERSON	20 February 1855	Hellen PATERSON	Find the father
David Alexander ROBERTSON	24 March 1873	Jessie ROBERTSON	Find the father
Robert Ajesm Catto SKENE	24 October 1869	Jane SKENE	Find the father
Elizabeth Harriet STEPHEN	19 April 1865	Fanny STEPHEN	Find the father
Michael O'Connor STEPHEN	30 September 1871	Margaret STEPHEN	Find the father
Alexander STEWART	16 May 1862	Margaret STEWART	Find the father
Alexander TAYLOR	4 May 1866	Mary Ann TAYLOR	Find the father
Christina TAYLOR	4 March 1863	Ann TAYLOR	Find the father
David Esplin WILLIAMSON	16 September 1873	Margaret WILLIAMSON	Find the father
Elizabeth WILLIAMSON	28 December 1865	Ann WILLIAMSON	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.

Sir George Ogilvie of Barras

Name:

Date: 22/03/1832

Case type: worship

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Cholera

Details: 'This being appointed as a national Fast on account of the pestilence called the Cholera was solemnly observed as a day of public worship'

Other names:

Name:

Date: 04/05/1832

Case type: Session Business

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Poor Distribution

Details: 'The Meeting made the payments and Distributions as per Cash Book of this date and authorised the Treasurer to continue the weekly Pensions.'

Other names:

Name:

Date: 05/08/1832

Case type: Sacrament

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Lord's supper

Details: 'The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was solemnly celebrated the Minister being assisted as usual by some of the neighbouring clergymen on the several days of Public worship'

Other names:

Name:

Date: 06/08/1832

Case type: collection

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Sacramental Collection

Cash amount: £5 1s 6d

Details: 'The Sacramental Collections were found to amount to Five Pounds one Shilling and Sixpence Sterling'

Other names:

Name:

Date: 06/08/1832

Case type: Session Business

Occupation:

Address:

Role: weekly Pensioners; distributions and payments

Details: 'The meeting afterwards made the Payments and Distributions as per Cash Book of this date and authorised the Treasurer to continue the weekly Pensioners'

Other names:

Name:

Date: 07/10/1832

Case type: Distribution

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Poor Distribution

Details: 'The above mentioned Sum of Five Pounds was divided among twelve poor familie' [See Sir George Ogilvie of Barras Minute 23rd September 1832]

Other names:

Name:

Date: 29/11/1832

Case type: worship

Occupation:

Address:

Role: cholera; harvest thanksgiving

Details: 'This day was observed by appointment of the Synod as a day of public Thanksgiving for the abundant Harvest and the abatement of the cholera'

Other names:

Name: Christian Begg

Date: 25/11/1832

Case type: pregnancy

Occupation: servant [lately]

Address: Glenbervie, Parish Of [Kinghorny Lately]

Role: Compeared as mother

Details: 'Christian Begg, unmarried, lately servant at Kinghorny now in the parish of Glenbervie appeared before the Session and confessed herself to be with child and gave as the father David Caird unmarried, lately her fellow servant at Kinghorny now at Know of Benholme. After being suitably exhorted by the Minister she was dismissed for the present'

Other names: Christian Begg; David Caird

Name: Christian Begg

Date: 09/12/1832

Case type: pregnancy

Occupation:

Address:

Role: mention as mother

Details: 'David Caird lately servant at Kinghorny appeared before the Session and confessed himself to be the father of the child with which Christian Begg is pregnant.
Whereupon he was suitably rebuked and exhorted by the Minister; and after havind paid the usual penalty for both parties was dismissed from church censure'

Other names: David Caird; Christian Begg

Name: William Buckle

Date: 19/02/1832

Case type: discharge

Occupation:

Address: Fordoun

Role: supply

Cash amount: 4s

Details: 'The Session authorised the Treasurer to pay [see name and Amount fields]'

Other names: William Buckle

Name: David Caird

Date: 25/11/1832

Case type: pregnancy

Occupation: servant [lately]

Address: Benholme, Knox Of [formerly Kinghorny]

Role: alleged father mention

Details: [see Christian Begg same date]

Other names: Christian Begg; David Caird

Name: David Caird

Date: 09/12/1832

Case type: pregnancy

Occupation: servant [lately]

Address: Kinghorny [lately]

Role: compeared as father

Details: [see Christian Begg same date]

Other names: David Caird; Christian Begg

Name: James Cowie

Date: 15/04/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation: servant

Address: Fernyflatt

Role: alleged father mention

Details: ' Ann Wishart, unmarried lately servant at Fernyflatt now residing in the Parish of Logie Pert, appeared before the Session and confessed that she had brought forth a child in the beginning of November last, and gave as the father James Cowie, unmarried her fellow servant at FernyFlatt$. After being solemly rebuked and suitably echorted by the Minister, she was dismissed for the presnt: and the Officer was desired to summon James Cowie to appear next Lord's Day'

Other names: Ann Wishart; James Cowie

Name: James Cowie

Date: 22/04/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: accused as father compeared not

Details: 'The above mentioned James Cowie having been called did not make his appearnce'

Other names: James Cowie

Name: James Cowie

Date: 29/04/1832

Case type: child in fornication; certificate of Poverty to conduct law suit

Occupation:

Address:

Role: alleged father mention

Details: 'This day appeared Ann Wishart, who persisted in her accusation of james Cowie, and to whom the Session agreed to grant a Certificate to the Poor's agent that sh might prosecute Jame Cowie'

Other names: Ann Wishart; James Cowie

Name: John Craig

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: Antenuptial fornication

Occupation:

Address: Slains

Role: Compeared

Details: 'John Craig at Slains and his wife Jane Watson were reproved for Antenuptial fornication and dismissed from further censure.'

Other names: John Craig; Jane Watson

Name: Duncan

Date: 06/08/1832

Case type: collection

Occupation:

Address:

Role: interest on Legacy

Cash amount: £3

Details: 'The Treasurer stated that he had received Three Pounds as the Interest of Duncan's Legacy'

Other names: Duncan

Name: Mr James Mitchell

Date: 06/08/1832

Case type: Official

Occupation: session clerk

Address:

Role: Elected

Details: 'The Session reelected Mr James Mitchell as their clerk during the ensuing year'

Name: Sir George Ogilvie of Barras

Date: 23/09/1832

Case type: Poor of the Parish

Occupation:

Address: Barras

Role: Donation

Details: 'The minister laid down Five Pounds which he had received from Sir George Ogilvie of Barras as a Donation to the Poor of the Parish'

Other names: Sir George Ogilvie of Barras

Name: Robert Pithie

Date: 29/01/1832

Case type: discharge

Occupation:

Address: Damside

Role: supply

Cash amount: 4s

Details: 'The Session authorised the Treasurer to pay [see name and Amount fields]'

Other names: Robert Pithie

Name: Mr Stewart

Date: 06/08/1832

Case type: collection

Occupation:

Address:

Role: interest on Bill

Cash amount: £2 16s

Details: 'The Treasurer stated that he had received [...inter alia...] Two Pounds Sixteen shillings as the Interest of Mr Stewart's Bill'

Other names: Mr Stewart

Name: Jane Watson

Date: 22/07/1832

Case type: Antenuptial fornication

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared

Details: 'John Craig at Slains and his wife Jane Watson were reproved for Antenuptial fornication and dismissed from further censure.'

Other names: John Craig; Jane Watson

Name: Widow Watt

Date: 26/02/1832

Case type: discharge

Occupation:

Address: Fernyflatt

Role: supply

Cash amount: 5s

Details: 'The Session authorised the Treasurer to pay [see name and Amount fields]'

Other names: Widow Watt

Name: Ann Wishart

Date: 15/04/1832

Case type: child in fornication

Occupation: servant [lately]

Address: Logie Pert, Parish Of [Fernyflatt Lately]

Role: Compeared as mother

Other names: Ann Wishart; James Cowie

Name: Ann Wishart

Date: 29/04/1832

Case type: child in fornication; certificate of Poverty to conduct law suit

Occupation:

Address:

Role: Compeared as mother

Other names: Ann Wishart; James Cowie