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We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
Lady records
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Poor Law appeals – Indexed Poor Law appeals with the option to order images of records.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/1092/1 | Minutes Some pages damaged with loss of text | 1698-1745 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1092/2 | Minutes | 1811-1837 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1092/3 | Minutes | 1837-1894 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1092/4 | Minutes | 1894-1933 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1092/5 | Accounts Includes mortcloth dues and poor rolls | 1787-1821 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1092/7 | Accounts 1821-1853,1891-1897,1930-1933 Includes poor payments and mortcloth dues | 1821-1933 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1092/8 | Proclamation register 1865-1915 incl loose pages, marriages 1812-1818 | 1812-1915 | Request lookup |
| CH2/1092/10 | Communion roll 1893-1899 Baptismal register 1892-1901 Marriages (3) 1895 | 1892-1901 | 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William COOK | 1862-1863 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| William COOK | 1867 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Janet DEARNESS | 1855 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Janet DEERNESS | 1866 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Barbara GARIOCH | 1855-1856 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Barbara GUTHRIE or LESLIE | 1870 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Janet HEARNESS | 1854 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| William KING | 1873 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Janet MUIR or DREWER | 1868 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Jean MUIR | 1851 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean MUIR | 1852 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean MUIR | 1864-1865 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Magnus MUIR | 1852 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Magnus MUIR | 1854 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Maud PEACE | 1861 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| George TOWIE | 1851 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret CUMMING | 16 May 1869 | Mary CUMMING | Find the father |
| Tomima CUMMING | 5 October 1872 | Mary CUMMING | Find the father |
| James GARRIOCH | 4 July 1869 | Ann GARRIOCH | Find the father |
| Jane LESLIE | 6 April 1863 | May LESLIE | Find the father |
| Benjamin MOODIE | 15 January 1874 | Ann MOODIE | Find the father |
| Margaret MOODIE | 19 July 1862 | Margaret MOODIE | Find the father |
| Mary Long MOODIE | 12 October 1856 | Mary MOODIE | Father found |
| Robert MUIR | 3 October 1874 | Robenia MUIR | Find the father |
| James SKEA | 29 October 1873 | Jane SKEA | Find the father |
| James SWANNEY | 13 October 1867 | Ann SWANNEY | Find the father |
| Margaret SWANNEY | 16 June 1864 | Mary SWANNEY | Find the father |
| Tomima SWANNEY | 9 August 1870 | Jean SWANNEY | Find the father |
| James WALLACE | 4 September 1871 | Barbara WALLACE | Find the father |
| Andrew WILSON | 29 June 1872 | Barbara WILSON | 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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | Anderson | Tressness | ||
| James | Barry | Geramount | ||
| Robert | Brock | Glebe | ||
| Thomas | Cock | Elsness | ||
| James | Cormack | Russness | ||
| George | Drover | Scofferland | ||
| Thomas | Derness | Langmie | ||
| George | Derness | Tressness | ||
| Hugh | Dennison | Leavisgarth | ||
| James | Draver | Burrian | ||
| Henry | Guthrie | Burrian | ||
| Edward | Grive | Westhill | ||
| Stephen | Guthrie | elder | Muir | |
| John | Hay | Kirkhall | ||
| John | Harper | elder teacher | ||
| James | Linklater | Hammerbreck | ||
| David | Lyall | Start | ||
| David | Lerment | Canker | ||
| James | Moodie | Langamie | ||
| Magnus | Muir | Westhill | ||
| David | Muir | Little Cunninghole | ||
| John | Muir | Queensbrig | ||
| Thomas | Muir | Gallery | ||
| James | Moodie | Gallowhill | ||
| Stephen | Muir | Neegarth | ||
| Andrew | Muir | Elsness | ||
| Edward | Moodie | Winehouse | ||
| John | Moodie | Cunningam | ||
| James | Moodie | Elsness | ||
| William | Milne | Neegarth | ||
| Robert | Slater | Over The Water | ||
| John | Skea | Tarryhall | ||
| David | Slater | Silverhall | ||
| Robert | Slater | Viggy | ||
| William | Slater | Crowtrave | ||
| James | Suttie | Kirkhall | ||
| John | Slater | Gorn | ||
| Thomas | Swanny | Silverhall | ||
| John | Simpson | Elsness | ||
| Robert | Sinclair | Geramount | ||
| William | Slater | Cooperhall | ||
| William | Strang | Lopness | ||
| John | Scott | Little How | ||
| John | Simpson | Cunninghole | ||
| James | Sinclair | Cleat | ||
| Peter | Turfus | Burrian | ||
| David | Turfus | Langamie | ||
| Wallace | Lingbuilding | |||
| Robert | Wilson | Letan | ||
| Robert | Walls | Sandquoy | ||
| Robert | Wallace | Elsness | ||
| David | Westness | Over The Water | ||
| Robert | Wilson | Skeal |
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | Anderson | Tressness | ||
| Robert | Brock | Glebe | ||
| Thomas | Cock | Elsness | ||
| William | Cock | Elsness | ||
| James | Cormack | Russness | ||
| John | Cormack | Russness | ||
| Hugh | Dennison | Leavesgarth | ||
| George | Draver | Burrian | ||
| George | Derness | Langamie | ||
| Walter | Draver | Scale | ||
| Robert | Garrioch | Elsness | ||
| Henry | Guthrie | Burrian | surname illegible due to small piece missing from page; anme surmised from other lists | |
| Stephen | Guthrie | elder | ||
| John | Harper | elder | ||
| David | Lermon | Elsness | ||
| James | Linklater | Hammerbreck | ||
| William | Milne | Neegarth | ||
| Edward | Moodie | Winehouse | ||
| James | Moodie | Elsness | ||
| James | Moodie | Northwall | ||
| James | Moodie | Sellebester | ||
| John | Moodie | Cunningam | ||
| David | Muir | Maser | ||
| Andrew | Muir | Elsness | ||
| John | Muir | Queensbrig | ||
| Magnus | Muir | Crossgate | ||
| David | Muir | Elsness | name illegible, part of page missing; name surmised from other lists | |
| Stephen | Muir | Neegarth | name illegible, part of page missing; name surmised from other lists | |
| Thomas | Muir | Galilrie | surname illegible, part of page missing; surmised from other lists | |
| Thomas | Muir | Westhouse | surname illegible, part of page missing; surname surmised from other lists | |
| John | Simpson | Cunninghole | ||
| John | Simpson | Elsness | ||
| James | Sinclair | Cleat | ||
| Robert | Sinclair | Geramount | ||
| John | Skea | Northwall | ||
| David | Slater | Silverhall | ||
| John | Slater | Gorn | ||
| William | Slater | Crotrave | ||
| William | Slater | officer | ||
| Thomas | Swannie | Little Cunninghole | ||
| Peter | Turfus | Burrian | ||
| David | Turfus | Langamie | ||
| Robert | Walls | Sandquoy | ||
| John | Wallace | Lingbuilding | ||
| Robert | Wallace | Elsness | ||
| David | Wastness | Over The Water | ||
| Robert | Wilson | Scale |
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | Anderson | Tressness | ||
| Robert | Brock | Glebe | ||
| Thomas | Cock | Elsness | ||
| William | Cock | Elsness | ||
| James | Cormack | Russness | ||
| John | Cormack | Russness | ||
| Hugh | Dennison | Leavesgarth | ||
| George | Draver | Letan | ||
| Walter | Draver | elder | Sheil | |
| George | Derness | Langamie | ||
| Thomas | Derness | Langamie | ||
| Robert | Garrioch | Elsness | ||
| Stephen | Guthrie | Muir | ||
| John | Harper | elder | ||
| James | Linklater | Hammerbreak | ||
| David | Lyall | Start Point | ||
| William | Milne | Neegarth | ||
| Edward | Moodie | Winehouse | ||
| James | Moodie | Sellebester | ||
| James | Moodie | Newark | ||
| James | Moodie | Elsness | ||
| David | Muir | Elsness | ||
| Andrew | Muir | Elsness | ||
| John | Muir | Queensbrig | ||
| Magnus | Muir | Crossgate | ||
| Robert | Muir | Russness | ||
| Stephen | Muir | Neigarth | ||
| Thomas | Muir | elder | Gallery | |
| Thomas | Muir | Westhouse | ||
| John | Simpson | Elsness | ||
| John | Simpson | Cunninghole | ||
| James | Sinclair | Cleat | ||
| Robert | Sinclair | Geramount | ||
| John | Skea | Northwall | ||
| David | Slater | Silverhall | ||
| John | Slater | Gorn | ||
| William | Slater | Crotrave | ||
| William | Slater | officer | ||
| Robert | Smith | surgeon | ||
| William | Strang | Lopness | ||
| Thomas | Swanny | Mire | ||
| Peter | Turfus | Northwall | ||
| David | Turfus | Langamie | ||
| William | Thomson | Northwall | ||
| Robert | Walls | elder | ||
| John | Wallace | Lingbuilding | ||
| Robert | Wallace | Gallowayhill | ||
| David | Wastness | Over The Water | ||
| Robert | Wilson | Northwall |
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.
