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Records -> Berwickshire

Ladykirk 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
CH2/660/4List of inhabitants of parish, giving details of members in each family. With a list of totals of inhabitants for other Berwickshire parishes.1811Request lookup
CH2/660/5A more detailed list giving professions1831Request lookup
CH2/660/10Baptismal register1855-1899Request lookup
CH2/660/11Roll of heads of families (communion roll) 1835-68
Minutes (mostly discipline) 1835-67
1835-1868Request lookup
CH2/660/12Communion roll1868-1895Request lookup
CH2/660/13Communion roll1896-1917Request 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:
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  • £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
Alexander AITCHISON 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
David COCKBURN 1866 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Isabella COCKBURN 1850 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Andrew EASTON 1879 (1)Order imagesRefused
Agnes KERR 1850 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Peter MCDONALD 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Janet MOFFAT or ANDREW 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
John NELSON Whitsome Parish1847 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Alice WADDELL 1850 (3)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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Jane RAMSAY
Ladykirk Shiels
Adam WIGHTMAN OR WIGHTY1 Feb 1852Order nowDuns
SC60/7/41
Agnes RICHARDSON
Ladykirk Shiels, Ladykirk
George PIKE11 Sep 1895
Ladykirk Shiels, Ladykirk
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43


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
Robert AITCHISON16 May 1865Margaret AITCHISONFind the father
Euphemia BALMER5 August 1868Euphemia BALMERFind the father
John BELL17 January 1863Margaret BELLFind the father
Jane BONE20 October 1868Agnes BONEFind the father
Mary Ann BROWN7 February 1860Mary Ann BROWNFind the father
George BURNETT18 July 1870Elizabeth BURNETTFind the father
Jannette Logan DEANS11 June 1867Janet DEANSFind the father
Alexander DICKSON10 February 1868Eliza DICKSONFind the father
Agnes DUNSE2 September 1863Agnes DUNSEFind the father
Elizabeth FAIRBAIRN8 December 1870Mary FAIRBAIRNFind the father
John GORDON27 August 1861Margaret GORDONFind the father
Elizabeth Vertue GRIEVE13 December 1865Isabella GRIEVEFind the father
Mary HOOD15 March 1869Mary HOODFind the father
Robert James HORSEBURGH25 March 1874Mary Ann HORSEBURGHFind the father
Georgina JOHNSTON7 November 1860Jane JOHNSTONFind the father
Jane MCDOUGAL28 August 1860Mary MCDOUGALFather found
Hellen O'DONEL23 January 1874Elizabeth O'DONELFind the father
Henry QUEEN22 February 1857Elizabeth QUEENFind the father
Margaret QUEEN4 September 1856Anne QUEENFind the father
Margaret Hornsby RENTON27 September 1874Margaret RENTONFind the father
Adam SCOTT13 January 1860Mary SCOTTFind the father
John SIMPSON5 January 1873Euphemia SIMPSONFather found
James SPEEDY2 February 1869Hellen SPEEDYFather found
Mary SPRATT17 January 1862Mary SPRATTFather found
John WILSON15 February 1866Margaret 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: CH2/660/11 pp. 4-5)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JamesSpeedyUpsetlington
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
JohnHendersonUpsetlington
JamesBurnettUpsetlington
JohnPaulinUpsetlington
WilliamLothianUpsetlington
WilliamPaulinUpsetlington
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
WilliamFordUpsetlington
MatthewBriggsUpsetlington
JamesForsytheUpsetlington
JohnThompsonUpsetlington
StrachanWalter's Stead
AlexrBinnyWalter's Stead
ThomasRobertsonShiels
ThomasRobertsonShiels
MarkAitkenShiels
FortuneLadykirk
DavidWhiteLadykirk
JohnClinkscaleLadykirk
JohnDeansLadykirk
JohnGeggieFollyhills
DavidThompsonFollyhills
BurnFollyhills
PeterCoweFollyhills
JamesWilsonNew Ladykirk
JohnCarrNew Ladykirk
ThomasCossarNew Ladykirk
JamesYuleNew Ladykirk
JohnWilkinsonNew Ladykirk
YoungNew Ladykirk
GeorgeWaddelNew Ladykirk
ThompsonRamridge
AlexrAitchisonRamridge
GeorgeBrackRamridge
ThomasBlackhallRamridge
WilliamGillyRamridge
AlexrYoungRamridge
RobtVeitchRamridge
WilliamDeansHorndeans
DavidDeansHorndeans
WilliamPurvesHorndeans
WilliamPaulinHorndeans
JamesRobertsonHorndeans
AlexrBlairHorndeans

Male Heads of families 1835 (NRS Reference: CH2/660/11 pp. 8-9)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
MatthewBriggsUpsetlington
JohnPaulinUpsetlington
JamesSpeedyUpsetlington
JohnHendersonUpsetlington
WilliamPaulinUpsetlington
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
JohnThomsonUpsetlington
JamesBurnetUpsetlington
WilliamFordUpsetlington
WilliamLothianUpsetlington
JamesForsytheUpsetlington
StraughanWalter's Stead
MarkAitkinShiels
JohnWhiteheadShiels
JohnClinkscaleOld Ladykirk
JohnDeansOld Ladykirk
DavidWhiteOld Ladykirk
FortuneOld Ladykirk
DavidThomsonFoleyhills
PeterCoweFoleyhills
BurnFoleyhills
JohnGeggieFoleyhills
YoungNew Ladykirk
JohnWilkinsonNew Ladykirk
JamesYuleNew Ladykirk
ThomasCossarNew Ladykirk
JamesWilsonNew Ladykirk
GeorgeCockburnNew Ladykirk
WilliamRamsayRamridge
ThomasBlackhallRamridge
GeorgeBrackRamridge
RobertVeitchRamridge
DavidDeansHorndean
ThomasBennetHorndean
WilliamPaulinHorndean
WilliamPurvisHorndean
GeorgePaxtonNew Horndean
JamesRobertsonNew Horndean
RobertBowmakerNew Horndean

Male Heads of families 1836 (NRS Reference: CH2/660/11 pp. 12-13)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JamesSpeedieUpsettlington
JohnPaulinUpsettlington
JohnThompsonUpsettlington
JamesBurnetUpsettlington
WmPaulinUpsettlington
PeterPentlandUpsettlington
JohnHendersonUpsettlington
WmFordUpsettlington
WmLothianUpsettlington
PeterPentlandUpsettlington
MatthewBriggsUpsettlington
JamesForsytheUpsettlington
StraughanWalter's Stead
MarkAitkenShiels
JohnWhiteheadShiels
JohnClinkscaleLadykirk
DavidWhiteLadykirk
RobertMcmillanLadykirk
PeterCoweFoleyhills
JohnGeggieFoleyhills
ThomasCossarNew Ladykirk
JamesYuleNew Ladykirk
JamesWilsonNew Ladykirk
ThosBlackhallRamrig
GeoBrackRamrig
WmRamsayRamrig
AlexrYoungRamrig
GeoCockburnRamrig
RobtVeitchRamrig
ThosBennetHorndean
DavidDeansHorndean
WmRichardsonHorndean
WilliamPurvesHorndean
JohnMilneNew Horndean

Male Heads of families 1837 (NRS Reference: CH2/660/11 pp. 14-15)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JohnHendersonUpsetlington
WmLothianUpsetlington
WmPaulinUpsetlington
JnoYoungUpsetlington
MatthewBriggsUpsetlington
WmFordUpsetlington
JnoPaulinUpsetlington
JnoThomsonUpsetlington
JasSpeedyUpsetlington
JasForsythUpsetlington
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
RobtSpenceUpsetlington
JasBurnetUpsetlington
WmStrachanWalter's Stead
JamesGreyWalter's Stead
WmGreyWalter's Stead
MarkAitkenShiels
JnoWhiteheadShiels
G HRobertsonLadykirk
RobertMcmillanLadykirk
DavidWhiteLadykirk
ThoCossarLadykirk
ThoFargieFoleyhills
PeterCoweFoleyhills
JohnGeggieFoleyhills
JasWilsonNew Ladykirk
SimonScottNew Ladykirk
HenryDicksonNew Ladykirk
GeorgeBrackRamrig
GeoCockburnRamrig
AlexrYoungRamrig
ThoWilsonRamrig
ThoBlackhallRamrig
WmPaulinHorndean
ThoBennetHorndean
WmRichardsonHorndean
WmDeansHorndean
DavidDeansHorndean
WmPurvesHorndean
WmHoggNew Horndean
GeoPaxtonHorndean

Male Heads of families 1838 (NRS Reference: CH2/660/11 pp. 16-16)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
RobertDavidsonUpsetlington
AlexanderLandlesUpsetlington
JamesSpeedyUpsetlington
RobertSpenceUpsetlington
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
WilliamPaulinUpsetlington
JohnYoungUpsetlington
JohnHendersonUpsetlington
MatthewBriggsUpsetlington
JohnPaulinUpsetlington
WilliamLothianUpsetlington
WilliamFordUpsetlington
JamesForsythUpsetlington
JamesBurnetUpsetlington
WilliamStraughanWalter's Stead
JamesGreyWalter's Stead
WilliamGreyWalter's Stead
MarkAitkenShiels
WilliamMarshalShiels
AdamAitchisonShiels
JamesRobertsonShiels
G HRobertsonLadykirk
J HThomsonLadykirk
DavidWhiteLadykirk
ThomasCossarLadykirk
ThomasFargieFoleyhills
PeterCoweFoleyhills
RobertHeriotFoleyhillsadded later
JohnGeggieFoleyhills
JamesWilsonNew Ladykirk
SimonScotNew Ladykirk
MarkScotNew Ladykirk
GeorgeBrackRamrig
ThomasBlackhallRamrig
GeorgeCockburnRamrig
GeorgeWilsonRamrig
WilliamPurvesHorndean
ThomasBennetHorndean
WilliamDeansHorndean
WilliamPaulinHorndean
DavidDeansHorndean
PeterMcdonaldHorndean
JamesRobertsonNew Horndean
ThomasRuncimanNew Horndean

Male Heads of families 1842 (NRS Reference: CH2/660/11 pp. 20-20)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
JamesSpeedyUpsetlington
RobertSpenceUpsetlington
PeterPentlandUpsetlington
WilliamPaulinUpsetlington
JohnYoungUpsetlington
JohnHendersonUpsetlington
MatthewBrigsUpsetlington
JohnPaulinUpsetlington
WilliamLothianUpsetlington
WilliamFordUpsetlington
JamesForsythelderUpsetlington
JamesBurnetUpsetlington
WilliamBurnsUpsetlington
JohnThomsonUpsetlingtonRecord deleted
JohnRobertsonWalter's SteadRecord deleted
JamesGreyWalter's Stead
WilliamStraughanWalter's Stead
MarkAitkenShiels
JosephLindsayShiels
HenryFairbairnShiels
JohnSheppardShiels
DavidWhiteLadykirkRecord deleted
AlexanderMillerLadykirkRecord deleted
Joseph HThomsonLadykirk
RobertHandysideLadykirk
GeorgeSpenceLadykirk
JohnGeggieelderFoleyhills
PeterCoweFoleyhills
RobertHeriotFoleyhills
JamesWilsonNew Ladykirk
RobertCaruthersNew LadykirkRecord deleted
ThomasWhiteNew Ladykirk
ThomasBlackhallRamrigRecord deleted
JohnRobertsonRamrig

Kirk Session Records Index

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We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.


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