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Legerwood 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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/515/2 | Minutes | 1738-1838 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/3 | Minutes | 1838-1935 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/4 | Collections and distributions | 1762-1776 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/5 | Collections and distributions Includes poor payments | 1776-1788 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/6 | Collections and distributions Includes poor payments and mortcloth dues | 1791-1818 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/7 | Collections and distributions Includes mortcloth dues and poor payments | 1818-1857 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/8 | Collections and distributions Includes poor payments | 1857-1905 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/9 | Communion rolls | 1853-1877 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/10 | Communion rolls | 1877-1897 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/11 | Communion rolls | 1893-1899 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/12 | Poor roll | 1762-1779 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/13 | Poor roll Includes assessments and poor payments | 1797-1818 | Request lookup |
| CH2/515/14 | Heritors' minutes | 1793-1829 | Request 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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane DOUGLAS Boon, Legerwood formerly Huntlywood | Alexander BALLANTYNE | 6 Jun 1886 Huntlywood | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Jane FORD Boon, Legerwood | Adam PURVES | 1 Dec 1850 | Order now | Duns SC60/7/41 |
| Mary GIBB Whitslade, Legerwood | William HALLIDAY | 31 Oct 1884 Crosshall, Eccles | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Mary LAWRIE Dods, Legerwood | Thomas STEWART | 26 Apr 1875 Dods, Legerwood | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Mary LAWRIE Dods, Legerwood | Thomas STEWART | 6 Sep 1880 Dods, Legerwood | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Isabella MCBEAN Whitslade, Legerwood formerly Blythe, Lauder | William BROTHERSTON | 2 Sep 1885 Whitslade, Legerwood | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Agnes THOMSON Bridgehaugh, Legerwood | William CHISHOLME | Order now | Duns SC60/7/41 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella Drawhill ALLAN | 15 June 1858 | Mary ALLAN | Find the father |
| Thomas BALLANTYNE | 9 October 1860 | Helen BALLANTYNE | Find the father |
| James Redpath BATHGATE | 5 March 1865 | Agnes BATHGATE | Find the father |
| James Gourlay BOLTON | 9 December 1870 | Elisabeth BOLTON | Find the father |
| Walter Thomas BRODIE | 14 February 1870 | Elisabeth BRODIE | Find the father |
| William BROWNLEE | 29 December 1857 | Elizabeth BROWNLEE | Find the father |
| Ann COLLINS | 8 July 1862 | Betsy Bridget COLLINS | Find the father |
| Mary COLLINS | 18 October 1864 | Bridget COLLINS | Find the father |
| Robert CURRIE | 11 August 1858 | Elizabeth CURRIE | Find the father |
| David DAVIDSON | 18 February 1868 | Margaret DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Maggie Jane DAWSON | 29 June 1874 | Agnes DAWSON | Father found |
| Alexander Carruthers DEWER | 31 December 1864 | Ann DEWER | Find the father |
| George DOUGLAS | 3 December 1873 | Elizabeth DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Walter HUNTER | 23 June 1863 | Jessie HUNTER | Find the father |
| William Grieve JOHNSTON | 25 December 1860 | Isabella JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Isabella MARSHALL | 7 September 1873 | Elizabeth MARSHALL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MCBAIN | 6 August 1863 | Mary MCBAIN | Father found |
| Wilhelmina MCDONALD | 21 January 1858 | Elizabeth MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Isabella Wanless PAXTON | 29 August 1870 | Margaret PAXTON | Father found |
| John PRINGLE | 3 December 1868 | Agnes PRINGLE | Find the father |
| Margaret SCOTT | 22 September 1866 | Helen SCOTT | Find the father |
| Janet TAYLOR | 30 March 1869 | Margaret TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Alison THOMSON | 11 February 1872 | Margaret THOMSON | Find the father |
| Andrew TURNBULL | 17 November 1858 | Jane TURNBULL | Find the father |
| Agnes WIGHT | 14 November 1871 | Janet WIGHT | Find the father |
| Janet WILKINSON | 12 May 1862 | Margaret WILKINSON | Find the father |
| Margaret WILKINSON | 30 May 1869 | Jane WILKINSON | Father found |
| James WILSON | 14 September 1874 | Margaret WILSON | Father found |
| Agnes WRIGHT | 11 September 1874 | Isabella WRIGHT | Find the father |
| Andrew WRIGHT | 6 June 1871 | Isabella WRIGHT | 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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George | Smith | schoolmaster and elder | Legerwood | |
| John | Smith | assistant schoolmaster and elder | Legerwood | |
| George | Lockie | smith | Legerwood | |
| George | Taylor | hind | Legerwood | |
| James | Wood | householder | Legerwood | |
| James | Learment | hind | Legerwood | |
| John | Spiers | hind | Legerwood | |
| John | Mathison | late labourer | Legerwood | |
| Andw | Mathison | hind | Legerwood | |
| James | Hardie | hind | Legerwood | |
| Alexander | Simpson | hind | Legerwood | |
| James | Dalgliesh | shepherd | Legerwood | |
| William | Purves | wright | Legerwood | |
| William | Martin | hind | Legerwood | |
| Robert | Wood | steward | Legerwood | |
| James | Webster | hind | Legerwood | |
| David | Garnock | tenant | Kirkhill | |
| Robert | Boyd | tailor | Kirkhill | |
| James | Boyd | Church Officer | Kirkhill | |
| Alexander | Boyd | carrier | Kirkhill | |
| George | Smith | house servant | Kirkhill | |
| James | Messer | hind | Corsbie | |
| Alexander | Crake | hind | Corsbie | |
| Alexander | Robertson | hind | Corsbie | |
| James | Allen | gardener | Corsbie | |
| Robert | Buttler | steward | Corsbie | |
| John | Robertson | groom | Corsbie | |
| Willm | Robertson | smith | Stockbridge | |
| Thomas | Cairns | labourer | Stockbridge | |
| John | Michie | Smith and elder | Cambridge | |
| John | Stewart | miller | Dod Mill | |
| Peter | Forsyth | shepherd | Dod Mill | |
| Alexander | Nisbet | tenant | Dods | |
| James | Henderson | hind | Dods | |
| Alexander | McBean | hind | Dods | |
| James | Hope | hind | Boon | |
| George | Mclean | hind | Boon | |
| Robert | Shiel | hind | Boon | |
| John | Simpson | hind | Boon | |
| Adam | Loch | shepherd | Boon | |
| George | Fairbairn | shepherd | Boon Mill | |
| James | Mallen | hind | Boon Mill | |
| David | Wallace | hind | Boon Mill | |
| Andrew | Scott | hind | Boon Mill | |
| John | Given | shepherd | Whitslaid | |
| Adam | Given | labourer | Whitslaid | |
| James | Feargrieve | labourer | Bridgehaugh | |
| David | Clerk | labourer | Bridgehaugh | |
| Francis | Holliday | tenant | Bridgehaugh Mill | |
| James | Millar | labourer | Bridgend | |
| James | Millar | labourer | Bridgend | |
| John | Kirkwood | labourer | Bridgend | |
| William | Shillinglaw | Birkhillside | ||
| Andrew | Park | tenant | Birkhillside | |
| John | Hamilton | steward | Birkhillside | |
| William | Grahame | hind | Birkhillside | |
| John | Kyle | hind | Birkhillside | |
| Joseph | Mason | hind | Birkhillside | |
| Charles | Simpson | shepherd | Birkhillside | |
| George | Shiels | tenant | Birkhillside Mill | |
| William | Rae | labourer | Stabbiwood | |
| Andrew | Key | shepherd | Addenston | |
| George | Duncan | labourer | Addenston | |
| Thomas | Somner | tenant | West Moriston | |
| Hugh | Purves | steward | West Moriston | |
| Robt | Somerville | hind | West Moriston | |
| Alexander | Bell | hind | West Moriston | |
| Robert | Pringle | hind | East Moriston | |
| George | Newton | hind | East Moriston | |
| Willm | Hallyburton | shepherd | Deanbrae |
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.
