Kirkurd parish records

Kirkurd 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
CH2/233/1	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

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.

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 HOWITT Netherurd Tofts, Kirkurd	Robert BALLANTYNE	1 Sep 1887	Order now	Edinburgh SC39/8/56

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 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

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.