Records -> Ross and Cromarty
Knockbain 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:
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)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary ALLISON | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Mary ALLISON | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Elizabeth BREMNER | 1878 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Roderick BREMNER | 1878 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Ann FINLAYSON | Maryburgh | 1846 (2) | Order images | Refused |
| Isabella FRASER | Muckernish | 1846 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| Isabella FRASER or JACK | 1847 (1) | Order images | Refused, on the understanding that she is receiving 2s per week | |
| Widow James FRASER | 1882 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| William GARROW | Yairhead | 1846 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| Alexander JACK | 1867-1868 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Alexander MACINTOSH | 1856 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Colin MACKENZIE | Allanaclach Of Allangrange | 1845-1846 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| Roderick MACKENZIE | 1868 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Roderick MACKENZIE | 1868 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Ann MCDONALD | Muckernick | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused; application informal |
| Ann MCDONALD | 1850-1851 (1) | Order images | Refused - informal | |
| Kenneth MCGREGOR | 1879 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Alexander MCINTOSH | 1870 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Bell MCKENZIE or MUNRO | 1845 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Helen MCLEAN | 1861 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| James MCLEAN | Culish Munlochy | 1846 (2) | Order images | Further inquiries as to croft |
| John MCLENNAN | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused - informal | |
| Ann MCRAE | 1873 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Kenneth MCRAE | 1853 (1) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Isabella MORISON | 1856 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| John MUNRO | 1861 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John MUNRO | 1864 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Hugh MURRAY | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Isabella PATERSON | 1847 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| William ROSS | 1871 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| William ROSS | 1875 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Isabella URQUHART | 1880 (3) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow Jane WILLIAMSON | 1881 (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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary GRANT Allanaclach Wood, Knockbain | Alexander FORBES | 18 Jul 1874 | Order now | Dingwall SC25/7/10 |
| Mary MACKENZIE Tullick, Knockbain | Roderick CAMERON | 18 Dec 1881 Tullick, Knockbain | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/38 |
| Ann ROSS Munlochy, Knockbain, Ross-shire | Donald FRASER | 3 Feb 1876 | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/37 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella Jean BISSET | 24 January 1862 | Isabella BISSET | Find the father |
| Andrew CAMERON | 7 September 1858 | Mary CAMERON | Find the father |
| Donald CAMERON | 5 July 1866 | Isabella CAMERON | Father found |
| Thomas DAVIDSON | 28 October 1858 | Margaret DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Duncan Mc Intosh GRAY | 2 June 1858 | Ann GRAY | Find the father |
| Donald Mc Donald JOHNSTON | 9 January 1858 | Janet JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Willina JOHNSTON | 5 January 1862 | Mary JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| John KENNEDY | 1 May 1863 | Ann KENNEDY | Find the father |
| John LOGAN | 4 December 1867 | Johanna LOGAN | Find the father |
| Catharine MACKAY | 26 July 1857 | Jessie MACKAY | Find the father |
| John MACKAY | 14 September 1865 | Margaret MACKAY | Find the father |
| Mary MACKAY | 3 January 1862 | Margaret MACKAY | Find the father |
| Francis Robert MATHIESON | 17 January 1859 | Catherine MATHIESON | Find the father |
| Johan MCANDREW | 3 May 1865 | Ann MCANDREW | Find the father |
| John Ross MCGREGOR | 8 February 1861 | Margaret MCGREGOR | Find the father |
| John William Murdoch MCGREGOR | 14 September 1867 | Hellen MCGREGOR | Find the father |
| Colin MCKENZIE | 29 December 1860 | Jessie MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Roderick MCLEAN | 12 January 1864 | Jessie MCLEAN | Father found |
| Betsy MCLENNAN | 20 August 1859 | Mary MCLENNAN | Find the father |
| Mary Ann MCLENNAN | 30 April 1864 | Mary MCLENNAN | Find the father |
| Catherine MCLEOD | 30 April 1865 | Ann MCLEOD | Find the father |
| Willina MCLEOD | 7 August 1862 | Hannah MCLEOD | Find the father |
| Duncan MCRAE | 1 March 1863 | Helen MCRAE | Find the father |
| Georgina MCRAE | 27 May 1867 | Helen MCRAE | Find the father |
| James MCRAE | 6 October 1866 | Willina MCRAE | Find the father |
| Margaret MCRAY | 9 June 1858 | Jess MCRAY | Find the father |
| James MORRISON | 5 August 1863 | Christina MORRISON | Find the father |
| Murdoch MORRISON | 9 August 1857 | Mary MORRISON | Find the father |
| George MURRAY | 8 May 1859 | Sarah MURRAY | Find the father |
| Peggy STEWART | 18 September 1860 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| James Paterson YOUNG | 20 September 1858 | Isabella YOUNG | 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.
