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Records -> Ayrshire

Largs 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
James Thomson CONNELLY 1879 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Ann JOHNSTON 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
Brian LANNARD 1875 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Catherine LENNOX 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
Isabella MCKIRDY Wilson Street1846 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow MCMENEMY 1879 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Grace MCQUEEN 1851-1852 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Margaret PORTER 1855 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Margaret RHYND or WALLACE 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused
Archibald SMITH 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
Archibald SMITH 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused - see 147 1851
Widow STORM 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Mary WALLACE or BALFOUR 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused


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
Elizabeth CRAWFORD
Nelson Street, Largs
Angus MCLELLAND1 Feb 1885
Nelson Street, Largs
Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/13
Janet CRAWFORD or HAMILTON
Largs
James EASTON23 Feb 1875Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/11
Jessie HENNEY
20 Nelson St, Largs
Henry FORBES22 Nov 1878Order nowWick
SC14/10/10
Jessie HENNEY
96 Nelson Street, Largs
Robert MCMILLAN26 Oct 1885
Smithston, Gourock
Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/13
Mary KERR
Nelson St, Largs
formerly Noddesdale Mill, Largs
John RAMSAY30 Sep 1851Order nowAyr
SC6/7/9
Elizabeth LAMONT
17 Nelson Street, Largs
Robert MCLARENOrder nowGreenock
SC53/7/1
Margaret LESLIE
Largs, Ayrshire
George BEGG9 Jul 1884
Wesley Street, Shieldfield, Newcastle on Tune
Order nowDumbarton
SC65/5/2
Elizabeth MALCOM
Main Largs
James CARSWELL13 Apr 1858Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/4
Catherine MANINCH or MCNEISH
Main Street, Largs
James BOYD9 Sep 1880Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/11
Margaret MCKELLAR
Largs
Daniel MCGILL16 Apr 1853Order nowGlasgow
SC36/14/23
Margaret MCLAUGHLAND
Knockside, Largs
Robert SLOAN7 Oct 1873Order nowKilmarnock
SC7/5/10
Janet WILLIAMSON
Hawkhill House, Largs
John RAMAGE1 Dec 1849Order nowAlloa
SC64/7/3


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
Esther M BARBOUR20 Aug 1894Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Janet B H BEGG29 Jun 1896Largs Higher Grade Public School1912Order now
Minnie A T BOYD22 May 1896Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Robert C R BOYD21 Nov 1893Largs Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
James CARMICHAEL20 May 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Margret J CRAWFORD28 Sep 1892Largs Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Alexandra R S DONALD30 May 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Jessie L FRASER18 May 1896Largs Higher Grade Public School1912Order now
John A FRAZER31 Jul 1894Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Sarah GALBRAITHLargs Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Andrew GALLOWAY23 Jun 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
William HARPER8 Mar 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
John HARRIS4 Sep 1896Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Jean HENDRY15 Dec 1892Largs Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Mary HUNTER25 Mar 1893Largs Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Andrew B HUTCHISON24 Jul 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Isabella B JACK6 May 1892Largs Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Frederick G LANE10 Jul 1891Largs Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Jane G LAWSON31 Aug 1893Largs Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Margaret A B MACHRAY6 Mar 1896Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
John MACKAY18 Jun 1893Largs Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Catherine MACMILLAN2 Sep 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Mary MCKENZIE22 Sep 1892Largs Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Grace MCLACHLAN12 Dec 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Katie McK MCLACHLAN7 Feb 1894Largs Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Jane MCNAB29 Oct 1896Largs Higher Grade Public School1912Order now
Thomas M MILLER24 Jan 1893Largs Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Agnes C MOFFAT8 Sep 1894Largs Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Agnes G MORRIS7 Apr 1893Largs Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Catherine M MORRIS22 Oct 1893Largs Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Elizabeth I MORRIS2 Jul 1891Largs Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Elizabeth I MORRIS16 Jan 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Isabella L RODGER2 Aug 1892Largs Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Marguerite S ROSS26 Aug 1896Largs Higher Grade Public School1912Order now
Mary S ROSS5 Feb 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Marjorie A W RUDDOCK30 Jul 1890Largs Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Daniel SMITH18 Feb 1894Largs Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
Frederic J THOMSON12 Aug 1894Largs Higher Grade Public School1911Order now
Marion F P TYRE5 Aug 1889Largs Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Anna J WILSON24 Nov 1891Largs Higher Grade Public School1908Order now
Margaret C WILSON23 Oct 1893Largs Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
Mary WILSON9 Dec 1896Largs Higher Grade Public School1912Order now
Ann H WOOD18 Apr 1893Largs Higher Grade Public School1909Order now
John WOOD26 Mar 1895Largs Higher Grade Public School1910Order now
George M M YOUNG28 Jul 1896Largs Higher Grade Public School1912Order 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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Robert ALLAN15 October 1868Margaret ALLANFind the father
David ANDERSON6 January 1873Jessie ANDERSONFind the father
Elizabeth ANDERSON30 May 1874Mary ANDERSONFather found
Jessie ANDERSON19 May 1871Mary ANDERSONFind the father
George ARMOUR4 January 1861Margaret ARMOURFind the father
James BARBOUR23 May 1873Jane BARBOURFind the father
Rebecca Cassady BARBOUR25 April 1868Janet Aitken BARBOURFind the father
James BARCLAY17 March 1870Susan BARCLAYFind the father
Mary BLAIR17 April 1863Mary BLAIRFind the father
William Pettigrew BLAIR1 February 1872Jane BLAIRFather found
James BROWN26 September 1863Elisabeth BROWNFind the father
John BROWN9 November 1868Agnes BROWNFind the father
Margaret BROWN10 March 1861Margaret BROWNFind the father
Jessie CLARK22 September 1868Agnes CLARKFind the father
Mary CLARK15 June 1863Winifred CLARKFind the father
Joseph CONALY31 July 1864Margaret CONALYFind the father
Joanna COOK13 May 1867Agnes COOKFind the father
Christina Dawson CRAWFORD31 March 1869Janet CRAWFORDFind the father
Isabella CRAWFORD30 November 1861Mary CRAWFORDFind the father
James CRAWFORD16 September 1872Janet CRAWFORDFind the father
Jane CRAWFORD16 February 1873Mary Armour CRAWFORDFind the father
John CRAWFORD20 May 1869Jane CRAWFORDFind the father
Margaret CRAWFORD9 June 1858Agness CRAWFORDFind the father
Jessie DAVIE27 September 1862Jessie DAVIEFind the father
William DOHERTY27 January 1855Isabella DOHERTYFind the father
James DUNAN10 October 1870Christina DUNANFind the father
John EWING17 December 1872Christina EWINGFind the father
Alexander Roy FERGUSON5 March 1873Catherine FERGUSONFind the father
Annie FERGUSON30 January 1872Annie FERGUSONFind the father
Mary FLANNIGAN19 July 1859Margaret FLANNIGANFind the father
John FOREST5 October 1865Margaret FORESTFind the father
John James GALBREATH13 April 1868Jane GALBREATHFind the father
Mary GALLAGHER14 March 1862Grace GALLAGHERFind the father
Archibald GALLOHER22 May 1860Catherine GALLOHERFind the father
Alexander GILLIES10 July 1863Jane GILLIESFind the father
George GRAY17 December 1855Janet GRAYFind the father
John HALLIDAY29 May 1858Mary HALLIDAYFind the father
Daniel HUNTER7 April 1872Flora HUNTERFind the father
Jane JAMIESON2 May 1855Jean JAMIESONFind the father
John KERR23 April 1865Agnes KERRFind the father
John KING26 October 1872Jane KINGFind the father
Charles KIRK6 June 1858Margaret KIRKFind the father
Hugh KIRKWOOD20 October 1866Janet KIRKWOODFind the father
Margaret Lang KIRKWOOD1 March 1869Janet KIRKWOODFind the father
Agnes LAMONT19 November 1865Helen LAMONTFather found
Thomas LAMONT13 October 1867Helen LAMONTFind the father
Agnes LANG28 August 1865Agnes LANGFather found
Neil LEITCH5 May 1857Jean LEITCHFind the father
Matilda Campbell LINDSAY29 May 1858Margaret LINDSAYFind the father
Allan LOGAN26 January 1871Agnes LOGANFind the father
Mary MACGOWAN29 April 1861Isabella MACGOWANFind the father
James MACMILLAN27 January 1865Marjory MACMILLANFind the father
Alexander MALCOLM30 April 1858Elisabeth MALCOLMFind the father
Susan MAXTON19 December 1868Susan MAXTONFind the father
Mary MCCULLOCH15 April 1865Janet MCCULLOCHFind the father
Maggie MCDONALD28 May 1873Catherine MCDONALDFind the father
Mary MCDOUGALL30 March 1874Mary MCDOUGALLFind the father
Murdoch MCDOUGALL15 August 1869Agnes MCDOUGALLFind the father
Robert MCDOUGALL17 May 1869Margaret MCDOUGALLFind the father
Margaret MCFADYEAN16 April 1856Helen MCFADYEANFather found
Mary MCGEACHIE4 May 1866Janet MCGEACHIEFind the father
Maryann MCGILVRAY14 February 1866Euphemia MCGILVRAYFind the father
Daniel MCKINNIS10 December 1861Agnes MCKINNISFind the father
Margaret MCKIRDY2 August 1867Mary Wilson MCKIRDYFind the father
Margaret MCKIRDY20 February 1874Mary MCKIRDYFind the father
Mary MCKIRDY27 September 1862Mary MCKIRDYFind the father
John MCLEAN6 April 1860Ann MCLEANFind the father
Mary MCLEAN10 December 1870Mary MCLEANFind the father
Isabella MCMILLAN21 April 1863Marjory MCMILLANFind the father
James MCMILLAN18 May 1863Catherine MCMILLANFind the father
Mary MCMILLAN3 January 1859Mary MCMILLANFind the father
Daniel MCMINAMI30 August 1862Agnes MCMINAMIFind the father
Janet MCNAUGHT20 December 1856Catherine MCNAUGHTFind the father
Agnes MORRIS24 July 1862Margaret MORRISFind the father
Charles MORRIS21 March 1871Jean MORRISFind the father
Margaret MORRIS17 June 1858Margaret MORRISFind the father
Margaret MORRIS24 July 1862Margaret MORRISFind the father
Marion MORRIS7 June 1862Jane MORRISFind the father
Thomas MORRIS24 June 1858Ann MORRISFind the father
Mary MUIR30 August 1870Janet MUIRFind the father
Janet MUNRO9 April 1862Margaret MUNROFind the father
John MUNRO13 September 1857Alexandrina MUNROFind the father
Margaret MURDOCH24 August 1855Janet MURDOCHFind the father
Patrick O'BOYLE18 April 1864Helen O'BOYLEFind the father
William Cunningham PATRICK28 February 1867Robina PATRICKFind the father
Fanny QUIN10 April 1857Susan QUINFind the father
Jessie REID29 November 1867Joanna Crockett REIDFind the father
John REILLY24 January 1858Margaret REILLYFind the father
Robert SHARKIE17 February 1868Ann SHARKIEFather found
Marion SHEDDEN4 August 1855Janet SHEDDENFind the father
Mary SMITH19 September 1869Mary SMITHFind the father
Robert STEUART6 August 1866Jean STEUARTFind the father
Mary STEWART6 March 1856Jane STEWARTFind the father
John TAYLOR26 September 1856Janet TAYLORFind the father
Annie THOMPSON26 April 1874Elizabeth THOMPSONFind the father
Helen Mary King THOMSON5 June 1866Isabella THOMSONFind the father
Robert WILSON6 February 1872Jane WILSONFather found
Robert WILSON8 July 1874Margaret WILSONFather found
William Alexander WRIGHT27 September 1858Jane WRIGHTFind the father


General Register of Lunatics

This index shows patients from this parish admitted to asylums. To order a record click on the Order images link.
General Register of Lunatics index MC7
NameDate of deathOrderAsylumsYears
WADDELL, Robert
labourer
Born about 1859
Married
Previous residence: Kelty, then County Police Office, Dunfermline
Chargeable parish: Dunfermline
Order images (4)Ayr District
Fife District Asylum
Paisley District
1908-1912


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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