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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.
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

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.

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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 CAMPBELLFind the father
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

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.