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Records -> Sutherland

Lairg 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
John MACDONALD 1858 (1)Order imagesRefused
John MACDONALD 1858-1859 (1)Order imagesRefused
John MACDONALD 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused
Ann MACKAY 1872 (1)Order imagesRefused
Ellen MACKAY or LESLIE 1863 (2)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of parochial relief
Margaret MACKAY 1859 (5)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John MATHIESON 1871 (2)Order imagesRefused
John MCDONALD 1866-1867 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Ann MCKAY 1872 (2)Order imagesRefused
John MCKAY 1881 (2)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of parochial relief


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
Catherine CAMPBELL
Tarroble, Lairg, Sutherland
Duncan MACGREGOR27 Aug 1874Order nowInverness
SC29/7/38
Elspet ROSS
Balnaddeilson, Lairg, Sutherland
Hugh SINCLAIR10 May 1893
Balnaddeilson, Lairg, Sutherland
Order nowTain
SC34/3/6
Jane SUTHERLAND
Dalchork, Lairg
William SUTHERLAND25 Jan 1876Order nowWick
SC14/10/10


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
Mary H CLARK16 Jul 1891Lairg Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Mary Helen CLARK16 Jul 1891Lairg Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
John ESSON30 Jan 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
John ESSON30 Jan 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Peter GRANT20 Oct 1891Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Angus F GRAY27 Nov 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Angus Francis GRAY27 Nov 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
John M GRAY27 Nov 1896Lairg Higher Grade Public School1912Order now
Margaret GRAY22 Dec 1892Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Margaret GRAY29 Dec 1892Lairg Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Jessburt MACCASKILL5 Jul 1895Lairg Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Elizabeth MACDONALD16 May 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Elizabeth MACDONALD16 May 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Margaret MACDONALD15 Jul 1889Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
William MACDONALD23 Apr 1897Lairg Higher Grade Public School1912Order now
Donald MACGREGOR5 Aug 1895Lairg Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Donald MACKAY28 Aug 1895Lairg Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Duncan MACKAY14 Feb 1893Lairg Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Isabella R MACKENZIE13 Oct 1890Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Catherine J MACLEOD25 Feb 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Mary J MACNEILL8 Dec 1892Lairg Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Christina MATHESON7 Mar 1893Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Christina MATHESON7 Mar 1893Lairg Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Christina MATHESON7 Mar 1893Lairg Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
John MATHIESON15 May 1891Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Catherine J MCLEOD25 Feb 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Anne MUNRO6 Oct 1888Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Donald MUNRO23 Oct 1897Lairg Higher Grade Public School1912Order now
Thomas MUNRO27 Sep 1890Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Johanna MURRAY14 Nov 1889Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Lily MURRAY26 Jan 1890Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Helen ROSS18 Feb 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Mackay SINCLAIR28 Jun 1893Lairg Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
David STEPHEN19 Jun 1894Lairg Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Donald STEPHEN13 Dec 1896Lairg Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Cissy SUTHERLAND25 Jun 1897Lairg Higher Grade Public School1912Order now
David VALENTINE8 Nov 1892Lairg Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
David VALENTINE18 Nov 1892Lairg Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
William R H VALENTINE12 Nov 1895Lairg Higher Grade Public School1910Order 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
Johanna BEATTIE20 May 1871Christina BEATTIEFind the father
Johanna BROWN22 May 1863Jessie BROWNFind the father
James CALDER3 May 1871Margaret CALDERFind the father
Catherine CAMERON2 September 1870Elizabeth CAMERONFind the father
Davidina CAMPBELL27 August 1874Catherine CAMPBELLFather found
Dolina CAMPBELL21 December 1871Catherine CAMPBELLFind the father
Ann GRAHAM23 April 1864Elizabeth GRAHAMFind the father
Martha GUNN19 October 1867Dolina GUNNFind the father
Mary Macdonald MACDONALD24 October 1865Jessie MACDONALDFind the father
Donald MACKAY18 December 1867Ann MACKAYFind the father
George MACKAY13 December 1861Lillias MACKAYFind the father
Georgina MACKAY4 January 1869Phebie MACKAYFind the father
Georgina MACKAY7 May 1870Christina MACKAYFind the father
John MACKAY10 February 1868Christina MACKAYFind the father
Williamina MACKAY24 May 1857Marion MACKAYFind the father
Barbara MCKAY8 October 1871Alexandrina MCKAYFind the father
Davidina MCKAY23 April 1869Ann MCKAYFind the father
John MCKAY6 May 1869Lillias MCKAYFind the father
Harre Minten MCLEOD31 December 1872Helen MCLEODFind the father
Alexander MERCHANT15 May 1874Agnes MERCHANTFind the father
Alexander ROSS3 March 1871Ann ROSSFind the father
Ann ROSS2 July 1874Johanna ROSSFind the father
Davidina ROSS17 January 1867Christina ROSSFind the father
Isabella ROSS2 July 1869Johana ROSSFind the father
John ROSS25 September 1864Margaret ROSSFind the father
Margaret SUTHERLAND28 August 1868Ann SUTHERLANDFind the father
Mary Ann SUTHERLAND9 October 1861Euphemia SUTHERLANDFind 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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