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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:
  • £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
Mary ALLISON 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Mary ALLISON 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Elizabeth BREMNER 1878 (3)Order imagesRefused
Roderick BREMNER 1878 (3)Order imagesRefused
Ann FINLAYSON Maryburgh1846 (2)Order imagesRefused
Isabella FRASER Muckernish1846 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Isabella FRASER or JACK 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused, on the understanding that she is receiving 2s per week
Widow James FRASER 1882 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
William GARROW Yairhead1846 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander JACK 1867-1868 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Alexander MACINTOSH 1856 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Colin MACKENZIE Allanaclach Of Allangrange1845-1846 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Roderick MACKENZIE 1868 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Roderick MACKENZIE 1868 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Ann MCDONALD Muckernick1846 (1)Order imagesRefused; application informal
Ann MCDONALD 1850-1851 (1)Order imagesRefused - informal
Kenneth MCGREGOR 1879 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Alexander MCINTOSH 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Bell MCKENZIE or MUNRO 1845 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Helen MCLEAN 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
James MCLEAN Culish Munlochy1846 (2)Order imagesFurther inquiries as to croft
John MCLENNAN 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused - informal
Ann MCRAE 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Kenneth MCRAE 1853 (1)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Isabella MORISON 1856 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
John MUNRO 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused
John MUNRO 1864 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Hugh MURRAY 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
Isabella PATERSON 1847 (3)Order imagesRefused
William ROSS 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
William ROSS 1875 (1)Order imagesRefused
Isabella URQUHART 1880 (3)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Jane WILLIAMSON 1881 (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
Mary GRANT
Allanaclach Wood, Knockbain
Alexander FORBES18 Jul 1874Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/10
Mary MACKENZIE
Tullick, Knockbain
Roderick CAMERON18 Dec 1881
Tullick, Knockbain
Order nowInverness
SC29/7/38
Ann ROSS
Munlochy, Knockbain, Ross-shire
Donald FRASER3 Feb 1876Order nowInverness
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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Isabella Jean BISSET24 January 1862Isabella BISSETFind the father
Andrew CAMERON7 September 1858Mary CAMERONFind the father
Donald CAMERON5 July 1866Isabella CAMERONFather found
Thomas DAVIDSON28 October 1858Margaret DAVIDSONFind the father
Duncan Mc Intosh GRAY2 June 1858Ann GRAYFind the father
Donald Mc Donald JOHNSTON9 January 1858Janet JOHNSTONFind the father
Willina JOHNSTON5 January 1862Mary JOHNSTONFind the father
John KENNEDY1 May 1863Ann KENNEDYFind the father
John LOGAN4 December 1867Johanna LOGANFind the father
Catharine MACKAY26 July 1857Jessie MACKAYFind the father
John MACKAY14 September 1865Margaret MACKAYFind the father
Mary MACKAY3 January 1862Margaret MACKAYFind the father
Francis Robert MATHIESON17 January 1859Catherine MATHIESONFind the father
Johan MCANDREW3 May 1865Ann MCANDREWFind the father
John Ross MCGREGOR8 February 1861Margaret MCGREGORFind the father
John William Murdoch MCGREGOR14 September 1867Hellen MCGREGORFind the father
Colin MCKENZIE29 December 1860Jessie MCKENZIEFind the father
Roderick MCLEAN12 January 1864Jessie MCLEANFather found
Betsy MCLENNAN20 August 1859Mary MCLENNANFind the father
Mary Ann MCLENNAN30 April 1864Mary MCLENNANFind the father
Catherine MCLEOD30 April 1865Ann MCLEODFind the father
Willina MCLEOD7 August 1862Hannah MCLEODFind the father
Duncan MCRAE1 March 1863Helen MCRAEFind the father
Georgina MCRAE27 May 1867Helen MCRAEFind the father
James MCRAE6 October 1866Willina MCRAEFind the father
Margaret MCRAY9 June 1858Jess MCRAYFind the father
James MORRISON5 August 1863Christina MORRISONFind the father
Murdoch MORRISON9 August 1857Mary MORRISONFind the father
George MURRAY8 May 1859Sarah MURRAYFind the father
Peggy STEWART18 September 1860Margaret STEWARTFind the father
James Paterson YOUNG20 September 1858Isabella YOUNGFind 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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