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Records -> Ayrshire

Kirkoswald 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
Widow Janet ABERNETHY 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
John CROMBIE 1862 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John CRUMMIE 1864 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
John EAGLESHAM 1857 (2)Order imagesRefused
Robert ELLIOT 1865 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Robert FERGUSON 1851 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Jane FULTON 1856 (3)Order imagesRefused
Widow Jean FULTON 1852 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Agnes JOHNSTON or MCDEAD 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Jean KENNEDY 1860 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William KENNEDY 1862 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William KENNEDY 1862 (1)Order imagesRefused
James MCBLAIN 1865 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Andrew MCCRINDLE 1863 (3)Order imagesRefused
David MCLURE 1859 (2)Order imagesRefused
Myles MCNIFF 1864 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Sarah WALKER or MUCKLEWRATH 1861 (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
Alison AIRD
Dalzellowlie, by Maybole, Kirkoswald
Andrew MCDOWALL4 Feb 1882
Dalzellowlie, by Maybole, Kirkoswald
Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/13
Margaret CAIRNS
Burnside, Kirkoswald
James STEVENSON21 Mar 1869Order nowAyr
SC6/7/14
Jessie CAMPBELL
Turnberry Lodge, Kirkoswald
Thomas MCMATH25 Dec 1887
Drumshang, Maybole
Order nowAyr
SC6/7/18
Janet COUPERTHWAIT
Drumdow, Kirkoswald
William JAMIESON1 Jan 1857Order nowAyr
SC6/7/11
Janet ECCLES
Kirklands, Damhouse, Kirkoswald
Thomas MCQUISTON10 Feb 1886
Kirklands, Damhouse, Kirkoswald
Order nowAyr
SC6/7/18
Janet GALLOWAY
Dalzellowlie, Kirkoswald
Quintin MACMORELAND6 Apr 1879
Dalzellowlie, Kirkoswald
Order nowAyr
SC6/7/16
Agnes HANNAH
Dalzellowlie, Kirkoswald
William TEMPLETON8 Feb 1883
Little Craigfin, near Maybole
Order nowAyr
SC6/7/18
Jane PROVAN
Pathhead, near Dalzielellolie, Kirkoswald
William WILSON13 Jan 1854Order nowAyr
SC6/7/13
Marion RAMSAY
Blair, Kirkoswald
John GEORGE16 Apr 1875Order nowAyr
SC6/7/15
Mary WATSON
Corrieston, Kirkoswald
John NEILL10 Jul 1862Order nowAyr
SC6/7/12


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Grace Hutchison ARLOW7 June 1860Mary ARLOWFather found
James ARLOW21 December 1855Margaret ARLOWFind the father
William ARLOW17 August 1859Sarah ARLOWFind the father
Agnes Spiers BICKERSTAFF5 October 1869Agnes BICKERSTAFFFind the father
Kennedy BICKERSTAFF9 July 1861Agnes BICKERSTAFFFind the father
Mosina BICKERSTAFF1 June 1868Agnes BICKERSTAFFFind the father
William BICKERSTAFF9 December 1863Agnes BICKERSTAFFFind the father
Elisabeth BODEN24 April 1872Annie BODENFind the father
Hugh BRACKENRIDGE3 February 1856Agnes BRACKENRIDGEFind the father
Margaret CRAWFORD18 May 1869Nicholas CRAWFORDFather found
Isabella CROMBIE26 April 1874Martha CROMBIEFind the father
Jane Burns CUMMING22 August 1872Jessie CUMMINGFind the father
Helen CURRIE15 November 1868Agnes CURRIEFind the father
Jeanie CURRIE26 May 1874Agnes CURRIEFind the father
Helen DAVIDSON5 July 1856Ann DAVIDSONFind the father
James DAVIDSON1 May 1863Janet DAVIDSONFind the father
Jessie DAVIDSON26 July 1867Helen DAVIDSONFind the father
John DAVIDSON1 January 1862Margaret DAVIDSONFind the father
Elisabeth DOUGLAS9 January 1867Susan DOUGLASFind the father
Jane DUNN27 July 1861Agnes DUNNFind the father
Ann FERGUSSON16 June 1859Jane FERGUSSONFather found
Sarah FINDLAY6 August 1868Margaret FINDLAYFind the father
William FINDLAY16 July 1868Mary FINDLAYFind the father
Janet Kay GARY30 January 1855Jane GARYFind the father
Annie GILLAN30 August 1866Margaret GILLANFind the father
Archibald GIRVAN22 June 1864Barbara GIRVANFind the father
Margaret GIRVAN31 May 1870Janet GIRVANFind the father
Mary GIRVAN21 April 1862Jane GIRVANFind the father
Thomas GIRVAN15 November 1866Barbara GIRVANFind the father
Isabella Alice GRAHAM29 August 1857Alice GRAHAMFather found
Jane Douglas HAZLE21 April 1873Marion HAZLEFind the father
Isabella HERRON14 March 1866Agnes HERRONFind the father
James HEWITT26 August 1873Mary HEWITTFind the father
William HEWITT22 June 1872Sarah HEWITTFind the father
Margaret Campbell HODGEN19 April 1865Agnes HODGENFind the father
Thomas JAMIESON29 June 1858Jane JAMIESONFind the father
William JAMIESON23 March 1866Helen JAMIESONFind the father
Alexander JONES16 April 1870Agnes JONESFind the father
George Gray JONES7 June 1874Agnes JONESFather found
William JONES1 June 1866Janet JONESFind the father
David KENNEDY24 July 1856Margaret KENNEDYFind the father
Thomas KERR29 June 1857Mary KERRFather found
Alice KILDAY14 January 1855Bridget KILDAYFind the father
Agnes Reid KILPATRICK7 January 1860Agnes KILPATRICKFind the father
John KILPATRICK9 March 1855Agnes KILPATRICKFind the father
William KILPATRICK6 August 1857Agnes KILPATRICKFind the father
Agnes LACHLAN22 May 1870Margaret LACHLANFind the father
Margaret LACHLAN22 December 1866Margaret LACHLANFind the father
David LOVE7 April 1862Marion LOVEFind the father
David MCCAUGHTRIE10 October 1863Catherine MCCAUGHTRIEFind the father
Andrew MCCLURE6 July 1855Jean MCCLUREFather found
Walker MCCLURE3 July 1865Elizabeth MCCLUREFather found
Janet MCCORMICK15 June 1874Janet MCCORMICKFind the father
John MCCORMICK6 October 1872Ann MCCORMICKFind the father
Sarah MCCORMICK29 September 1868Jane MCCORMICKFind the father
Robert MCCRINDLE3 October 1862Jessie MCCRINDLEFind the father
John MCCULLOCH13 February 1862Elisabeth MCCULLOCHFind the father
Charles MCDAAD14 August 1856Janet MCDAADFind the father
Margaret MCGILL6 January 1859Margaret MCGILLFind the father
Mary MCGRANE15 December 1857Ann MCGRANEFind the father
James MCILWRAITH29 June 1856Ann MCILWRAITHFind the father
Janet MCILWRICK31 July 1857Janet MCILWRICKFind the father
Alexander MCJANET5 August 1861Janet MCJANETFind the father
William MCJANNET24 June 1858Jannet MCJANNETFind the father
John MCKENN1 June 1857Jane MCKENNFind the father
John MCKENNA14 December 1860Sarah MCKENNAFind the father
John MCKINNIES5 May 1862Janet MCKINNIESFind the father
Andrew MCKINNON22 August 1873Marion MCKINNONFind the father
Eliza Jamieson MCMATH14 March 1874Isabella MCMATHFind the father
Andrew MCMURTRIE10 November 1862Ann MCMURTRIEFind the father
William MCMURTRIE24 September 1860Jane MCMURTRIEFind the father
Agnes MCNISH5 April 1863Jane MCNISHFind the father
Helen MCQUESTIN14 October 1858Margaret MCQUESTINFind the father
Jessie MCQUESTIN8 October 1862Margaret MCQUESTINFind the father
William MCQUESTION2 January 1869Mary MCQUESTIONFind the father
James MCSKIMMING18 January 1863Janet MCSKIMMINGFind the father
Janet MCSKIMMING26 August 1858Janet MCSKIMMINGFind the father
Janet MCSKIMMING8 November 1866Minie MCSKIMMINGFind the father
Robert MCSKIMMING10 October 1865Janet MCSKIMMINGFind the father
Thomas MCSKIMMING25 May 1858Robina MCSKIMMINGFind the father
Elisabeth MCWHINNEY23 July 1857Agnes MCWHINNEYFind the father
Robert MITCHELL11 September 1859Mary Dalrymple MITCHELLFind the father
Elisabeth MUIR24 June 1868Elisabeth MUIRFind the father
Jane MUIR22 January 1868Susan MUIRFind the father
Jamima MURRAY25 May 1856Jamima MURRAYFind the father
Henry NEWBERRY30 July 1862Mary NEWBERRYFind the father
Mary NEWBERRY12 September 1864Mary NEWBERRYFind the father
Helen NISBET10 June 1873Agnes NISBETFind the father
Mary Jane PARK22 September 1872Elizabeth PARKFind the father
Alexander PATTON10 July 1862Mary PATTONFind the father
Mary Semple PATTON14 December 1865Mary PATTONFind the father
Robert PITT4 May 1859Susan PITTFind the father
Alexander POLLOCK17 August 1864Catherine POLLOCKFind the father
Elisabeth POLLOCK17 December 1860Elisabeth POLLOCKFind the father
John POLLOCK15 August 1865Agnes POLLOCKFind the father
William POLLOCK1 October 1868Catherine POLLOCKFind the father
Mary PROVANCE1 March 1857Jane PROVANCEFind the father
George Miller RAE26 October 1874Janet RAEFind the father
James RAE15 July 1868Jessie RAEFind the father
John RAE3 September 1873Margaret RAEFind the father
Elisabeth RODY5 December 1862Jane RODYFather found
Adam ROWAN24 October 1866Margaret ROWANFind the father
Janet Rewcastle Niven SHANKLAND1 November 1857Jane SHANKLANDFind the father
Henrietta Elisabeth Davidson SLOAN11 January 1867Catherine SLOANFind the father
Matthew Robert SLOAN24 October 1869Catherine SLOANFather found
William SLOAN18 June 1874Elizabeth SLOANFind the father
Andrew Mccrindle SMITH23 February 1870Mary SMITHFind the father
Helen Couperthaite SMITH12 February 1874Mary SMITHFather found
Hugh STEVENSON18 October 1867Agnes STEVENSONFind the father
David Bell STEWART28 February 1865Margaret STEWARTFind the father
Annie TAYLOR28 June 1867Annie TAYLORFind the father
Henry TAYLOR30 July 1870Margaret TAYLORFind the father
Isabella TAYLOR9 March 1863Margaret TAYLORFind the father
Margaret TAYLOR1 May 1865Ann TAYLORFind the father
Mary TAYLOR23 May 1865Margaret TAYLORFind the father
Elizabeth THOMPSON27 June 1861Jane THOMPSONFind the father
Aurelia THOMSON4 May 1867Mary THOMSONFind the father
Jane THOMSON4 July 1860Sarah THOMSONFind the father
Jean THOMSON16 May 1855Barbara THOMSONFind the father
Jessie Annie Eleanor THOMSON6 August 1873Jane THOMSONFind the father
Wilhelmina THOMSON26 November 1871Annie THOMSONFind the father
William THOMSON15 October 1868Elizabeth THOMSONFind the father
Margaret WATT3 July 1863Margaret WATTFind the father
Margaret Love WHITE2 December 1858Mary WHITEFather found
David WILSON31 August 1871Rosanna WILSONFind the father
James WILSON9 December 1865Rosannah WILSONFind the father
Mary WILSON9 February 1870Jane WILSONFind 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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