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Laggan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine LAMONT or MCDONALD | 1848 (2) | Order images | Refused, informal - should have been in name of husband. Send copy of Inspector's note to Inspector of Edinburgh, and desire him to make an increase. Send pauper another form of application | |
| Alexander MACDONALD | 1875 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Donald MACDONALD | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jane MACINTYRE | 1849-1850 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Chirsty MACPHERSON | 1862 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Margaret MACPHERSON | 1867 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Allan MCDONALD | 1854-1855 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John MCDONALD | 1848 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed, on the understanding that he is to receive 13s a month | |
| John MCINTOSH | Newtonmore Kingussie | 1846 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| Margaret MCINTYRE | 1883 (1) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Duncan MCKILLOP | Crathy Croy | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Elizabeth MCKILLOP | Crathy Croy | 1846 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johan MACDONALD Shanvel, Glentruim, Laggan | John TAYLOR | 11 Sep 1879 Shanvel, Glentruim, Laggan | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/37 |
| Ann MCDONALD Muchord, Laggan, Inverness-shire formerly at Heriottfield, near Logiealmond | Alexander MCKERCHER | 28 Mar 1853 | Order now | Perth SC49/4/42 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betsy CAMPBELL | 19 March 1866 | Jane CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Sarah FERGUSON | 26 July 1858 | Catherine FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Jessie FYFE | 30 July 1874 | Isabella FYFE | Find the father |
| Jane KENNEDY | 25 November 1861 | Catherine KENNEDY | Find the father |
| John KERR | 24 May 1867 | Anne KERR | Father found |
| Isabella MACDONALD | 3 November 1855 | Catherine MACDONALD | Find the father |
| May MACKILLOP | 5 September 1874 | Mary MACKILLOP | Find the father |
| Duncan MCCALLUM | 26 December 1857 | Margaret MCCALLUM | Find the father |
| Allan MCDONALD | 27 September 1859 | Isabella MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Andrew MCDONALD | 7 January 1855 | Anne MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Angus MCDONALD | 6 June 1863 | Mary MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Catherine MCDONALD | 27 June 1871 | Catherine MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Frances MCDONALD | 6 August 1857 | Anne MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCDONALD | 7 January 1855 | Anne MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCDONALD | 23 April 1860 | Isabella MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCDONALD | 23 June 1867 | Margaret MCDONALD | Find the father |
| John MCINTYRE | 6 May 1855 | Jane MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MCKILLOP | 27 March 1870 | Mary MCKILLOP | Find the father |
| Catherine MCKINNON | 1 August 1862 | Margaret MCKINNON | Find the father |
| Angus MCPHERSON | 17 May 1865 | Mary MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Christina MCPHERSON | 21 December 1863 | Margaret MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| James MCPHERSON | 12 September 1857 | Christina MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Jane MCPHERSON | 21 March 1870 | Anne MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Jessie MCPHERSON | 31 October 1866 | Anne MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| John MCPHERSON | 3 October 1860 | Chirsty MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Mary MCPHERSON | 21 March 1856 | Chirsty MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Charles Mc Pherson ROBERTSON | 14 January 1866 | Janet ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Christina SMITH | 3 January 1871 | Christina SMITH | Find the father |
| Alexander TOLMIE | 2 January 1863 | Jessie TOLMIE | 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.
