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Records -> Orkney

Lady 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
CH2/1092/1Minutes
Some pages damaged with loss of text
1698-1745Request lookup
CH2/1092/2Minutes1811-1837Request lookup
CH2/1092/3Minutes1837-1894Request lookup
CH2/1092/4Minutes1894-1933Request lookup
CH2/1092/5Accounts
Includes mortcloth dues and poor rolls
1787-1821Request lookup
CH2/1092/7Accounts 1821-1853,1891-1897,1930-1933
Includes poor payments and mortcloth dues
1821-1933Request lookup
CH2/1092/8Proclamation register 1865-1915
incl loose pages, marriages 1812-1818
1812-1915Request lookup
CH2/1092/10Communion roll 1893-1899
Baptismal register 1892-1901
Marriages (3) 1895
1892-1901Request 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:
  • £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
William COOK 1862-1863 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William COOK 1867 (1)Order imagesRefused
Janet DEARNESS 1855 (1)Order imagesRefused
Janet DEERNESS 1866 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Barbara GARIOCH 1855-1856 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Barbara GUTHRIE or LESLIE 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused
Janet HEARNESS 1854 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William KING 1873 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow Janet MUIR or DREWER 1868 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Jean MUIR 1851 (2)Order imagesRefused
Jean MUIR 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jean MUIR 1864-1865 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Magnus MUIR 1852 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Magnus MUIR 1854 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Maud PEACE 1861 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
George TOWIE 1851 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed


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 currently found any decrees for this parish.


School Leaving Certificate Exams

This is an index to the registers of school leaving certificate examination results (NRS Reference ED36). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order now link.
School leaving certificate examinations
NameDate of birthSchoolYearOrder record
Robina BURGHER26 Apr 1890Lady Central Public School1908Order now
Robina BURGHER26 Apr 1890Lady Central Public School1909Order now
Mary J CLOUSTON17 Jul 1890Lady Central Public School1908Order now
Mary Jane CLOUSTON17 Jul 1890Lady Central Public School1909Order now
David B GARRIOCH4 Feb 1895Lady Central Public School1911Order now
Isabella E MUIR2 Feb 1895Lady Central Public School1911Order now
Jane Isabella SHEA26 Jun 1890Lady Central Public School1909Order now
Jane I SKEA26 Jun 1890Lady Central Public School1908Order now


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
Margaret CUMMING16 May 1869Mary CUMMINGFind the father
Tomima CUMMING5 October 1872Mary CUMMINGFind the father
James GARRIOCH4 July 1869Ann GARRIOCHFind the father
Jane LESLIE6 April 1863May LESLIEFind the father
Benjamin MOODIE15 January 1874Ann MOODIEFind the father
Margaret MOODIE19 July 1862Margaret MOODIEFind the father
Mary Long MOODIE12 October 1856Mary MOODIEFather found
Robert MUIR3 October 1874Robenia MUIRFind the father
James SKEA29 October 1873Jane SKEAFind the father
James SWANNEY13 October 1867Ann SWANNEYFind the father
Margaret SWANNEY16 June 1864Mary SWANNEYFind the father
Tomima SWANNEY9 August 1870Jean SWANNEYFind the father
James WALLACE4 September 1871Barbara WALLACEFind the father
Andrew WILSON29 June 1872Barbara WILSONFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1835 (NRS Reference: CH2/1092/2 pp. 59-60)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
WilliamAndersonTressness
JamesBarryGeramount
RobertBrockGlebe
ThomasCockElsness
JamesCormackRussness
GeorgeDroverScofferland
ThomasDernessLangmie
GeorgeDernessTressness
HughDennisonLeavisgarth
JamesDraverBurrian
HenryGuthrieBurrian
EdwardGriveWesthill
StephenGuthrieelderMuir
JohnHayKirkhall
JohnHarperelder teacher
JamesLinklaterHammerbreck
DavidLyallStart
DavidLermentCanker
JamesMoodieLangamie
MagnusMuirWesthill
DavidMuirLittle Cunninghole
JohnMuirQueensbrig
ThomasMuirGallery
JamesMoodieGallowhill
StephenMuirNeegarth
AndrewMuirElsness
EdwardMoodieWinehouse
JohnMoodieCunningam
JamesMoodieElsness
WilliamMilneNeegarth
RobertSlaterOver The Water
JohnSkeaTarryhall
DavidSlaterSilverhall
RobertSlaterViggy
WilliamSlaterCrowtrave
JamesSuttieKirkhall
JohnSlaterGorn
ThomasSwannySilverhall
JohnSimpsonElsness
RobertSinclairGeramount
WilliamSlaterCooperhall
WilliamStrangLopness
JohnScottLittle How
JohnSimpsonCunninghole
JamesSinclairCleat
PeterTurfusBurrian
DavidTurfusLangamie
WallaceLingbuilding
RobertWilsonLetan
RobertWallsSandquoy
RobertWallaceElsness
DavidWestnessOver The Water
RobertWilsonSkeal

Male Heads of families 1836 (NRS Reference: CH2/1092/2 pp. 63-64)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
WilliamAndersonTressness
RobertBrockGlebe
ThomasCockElsness
WilliamCockElsness
JamesCormackRussness
JohnCormackRussness
HughDennisonLeavesgarth
GeorgeDraverBurrian
GeorgeDernessLangamie
WalterDraverScale
RobertGarriochElsness
HenryGuthrieBurriansurname illegible due to small piece missing from page; anme surmised from other lists
StephenGuthrieelder
JohnHarperelder
DavidLermonElsness
JamesLinklaterHammerbreck
WilliamMilneNeegarth
EdwardMoodieWinehouse
JamesMoodieElsness
JamesMoodieNorthwall
JamesMoodieSellebester
JohnMoodieCunningam
DavidMuirMaser
AndrewMuirElsness
JohnMuirQueensbrig
MagnusMuirCrossgate
DavidMuirElsnessname illegible, part of page missing; name surmised from other lists
StephenMuirNeegarthname illegible, part of page missing; name surmised from other lists
ThomasMuirGalilriesurname illegible, part of page missing; surmised from other lists
ThomasMuirWesthousesurname illegible, part of page missing; surname surmised from other lists
JohnSimpsonCunninghole
JohnSimpsonElsness
JamesSinclairCleat
RobertSinclairGeramount
JohnSkeaNorthwall
DavidSlaterSilverhall
JohnSlaterGorn
WilliamSlaterCrotrave
WilliamSlaterofficer
ThomasSwannieLittle Cunninghole
PeterTurfusBurrian
DavidTurfusLangamie
RobertWallsSandquoy
JohnWallaceLingbuilding
RobertWallaceElsness
DavidWastnessOver The Water
RobertWilsonScale

Male Heads of families 1839 (NRS Reference: CH2/1092/3 pp. 8-9)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
WilliamAndersonTressness
RobertBrockGlebe
ThomasCockElsness
WilliamCockElsness
JamesCormackRussness
JohnCormackRussness
HughDennisonLeavesgarth
GeorgeDraverLetan
WalterDraverelderSheil
GeorgeDernessLangamie
ThomasDernessLangamie
RobertGarriochElsness
StephenGuthrieMuir
JohnHarperelder
JamesLinklaterHammerbreak
DavidLyallStart Point
WilliamMilneNeegarth
EdwardMoodieWinehouse
JamesMoodieSellebester
JamesMoodieNewark
JamesMoodieElsness
DavidMuirElsness
AndrewMuirElsness
JohnMuirQueensbrig
MagnusMuirCrossgate
RobertMuirRussness
StephenMuirNeigarth
ThomasMuirelderGallery
ThomasMuirWesthouse
JohnSimpsonElsness
JohnSimpsonCunninghole
JamesSinclairCleat
RobertSinclairGeramount
JohnSkeaNorthwall
DavidSlaterSilverhall
JohnSlaterGorn
WilliamSlaterCrotrave
WilliamSlaterofficer
RobertSmithsurgeon
WilliamStrangLopness
ThomasSwannyMire
PeterTurfusNorthwall
DavidTurfusLangamie
WilliamThomsonNorthwall
RobertWallselder
JohnWallaceLingbuilding
RobertWallaceGallowayhill
DavidWastnessOver The Water
RobertWilsonNorthwall

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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  • Records
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    • Crown Counsel Procedure Books
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