Kirkurd parish 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.
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.
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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/233/1 | Kirkurd Kirk Session - Minutes and proclamations Minutes 1779-1877, proclamations 1856-1862 1779-1793; 1844-1845; 1847; 1853; 1877 | 1779-1877 | Request lookup |
| CH2/233/2 | Kirkurd Kirk Session - Minutes | 1879-1928 | Request lookup |
| CH2/233/3 | Kirkurd Kirk Session - Communion roll Post 1867 | 1867-1897 | Request lookup |
| CH2/233/4 | Kirkurd Kirk Session - Communion roll | 1898-1933 | Request lookup |
| CH2/233/5 | Kirkurd Kirk Session - Cash book (Collections, etc.) (received 11th July, 1960) Includes mortcloth dues | 1794-1878 | Request lookup |
| CH2/233/6 | Kirkurd Kirk Session - Transcript of CH2/233/5 | Request lookup | |
| CH2/233/10 | Kirkurd Kirk Session - Heritors' Minutes (transcript) | 1836-1934 | Request lookup |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
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| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christina BROWN | 11 April 1859 | Margaret BROWN | Find the father |
| Georgina BROWN | 22 October 1872 | Isabella BROWN | Find the father |
| Jane BROWN | 10 October 1869 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| Margaret BROWN | 31 December 1856 | Margaret BROWN | Find the father |
| Robert LEITCHMAN | 25 March 1860 | Isabella LEITCHMAN | Find the father |
| Mary Elizabeth MCCALL | 23 November 1858 | Grace MCCALL | Find the father |
| John TELFER | 23 January 1860 | Mary TELFER | Find the father |
| William WATSON | 13 May 1861 | Susan WATSON | 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.
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
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish
