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Leuchars parish records

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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 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
  • £10 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
Robert COLVILLE 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
David AITKEN5 August 1870Jessie AITKENFind the father
Henry Paterson ALLAN26 September 1871Margaret ALLANFind the father
James Forrester ALLAN9 May 1867Margaret ALLANFind the father
Archibald ANDERSON7 February 1860Margaret ANDERSONFind the father
Henrietta ANDERSON12 March 1864Henrietta ANDERSONFind the father
James ANDERSON6 February 1856Elspeth ANDERSONFind the father
James ANDERSON11 March 1857Margaret ANDERSONFind the father
James AUSTIN4 May 1857Margaret AUSTINFind the father
Mary Ann BERRY3 July 1873Leah BERRYFind the father
Grace Taylor BIRREL14 March 1862Isabella BIRRELFind the father
Mary Janet BRAID22 January 1866Christina BRAIDFind the father
John Clouston BRAND23 March 1868Jessie BRANDFind the father
John BREMNER18 August 1868Margaret BREMNERFind the father
Alexander BROWN2 October 1859Margaret BROWNFind the father
Margaret BROWN5 July 1862Margaret BROWNFind the father
Jane Myles CARMICHAEL13 January 1863Jane CARMICHAELFind the father
Alexander CLARK21 January 1865Isabella CLARKFind the father
Anne CLARK2 June 1868Isabella CLARKFind the father
David Henderson CLARK1 April 1868Elizabeth CLARKFind the father
James CLARK9 February 1857Janet CLARKFind the father
John CLARK9 February 1857Janet CLARKFind the father
John CLARK27 May 1857Isabella CLARKFind the father
John CLARK1 August 1860Ann CLARKFind the father
Isabella COUTTS11 February 1859Agnes COUTTSFind the father
John Kay COUTTS1 March 1866Christina COUTTSFind the father
Isabella Edward CRAWFORD15 October 1866Cecilia CRAWFORDFind the father
William CURTIS10 February 1862Mary CURTISFind the father
Janet DANDIE26 July 1861Ann Somers DANDIEFind the father
James DEWAR11 May 1866Catherine DEWARFind the father
Robert Collie DORWARD23 January 1859Helen DORWARDFind the father
Jean Ann DUTCH12 June 1856Ann DUTCHFind the father
Rachel FERNIE24 July 1868Catherine FERNIEFind the father
John Mitchell FINLAY9 March 1872Helen FINLAYFind the father
John Tailor FINLAY6 May 1867Mary FINLAYFind the father
Janet Hardie FYFE27 April 1873Mary FYFEFind the father
John FYFE4 July 1870Agnes FYFEFind the father
Elspeth GIBSON30 December 1865Ann GIBSONFind the father
John Gordon GREIG26 September 1871Isabella GREIGFind the father
George Robertson GRIEVE2 May 1862Mary GRIEVEFind the father
Helen GRIEVE5 June 1873Ann GRIEVEFind the father
James GRIEVE18 August 1870Christina GRIEVEFind the father
Jane Berry GRIEVE18 November 1869Jane GRIEVEFind the father
Robert Puller GRIEVE15 July 1867Ann GRIEVEFind the father
Andrew HAY27 June 1858Helen HAYFind the father
Elizabeth Robertson Duff HAY22 December 1860Elizabeth HAYFind the father
Andrew HENDERSON2 August 1869Helen HENDERSONFind the father
Ann HENDERSON6 January 1864Ann HENDERSONFind the father
Margaret HENDERSON9 April 1857Rachel HENDERSONFind the father
Elspeth Kidd HUNTER2 February 1870Ann HUNTERFind the father
Thomas HUSBAND18 December 1857Christina HUSBANDFind the father
John KAY27 October 1855Barbara KAYFind the father
Helen Fernie LAWSON19 August 1873Margaret LAWSONFind the father
Helen LINDSAY19 October 1860Mary Ann LINDSAYFind the father
Herman Dukar MCGAHARN21 July 1863Ann MCGAHARNFind the father
James MCINTOSH7 June 1857Elizabeth MCINTOSHFind the father
Andrew Gibson MELVILLE18 July 1873Agnes MELVILLEFind the father
James Douglas MELVILLE6 September 1860Barbara MELVILLEFind the father
Maggie Robina MELVILLE20 December 1868Ann MELVILLEFind the father
Matilda Guthrie MELVILLE21 November 1871Margaret MELVILLEFind the father
Ann Jack MITCHELL31 May 1871Ann MITCHELLFind the father
Mary Ann MITCHELL12 August 1871Mary Ann MITCHELLFind the father
Helen MURDOCH25 February 1860Helen MURDOCHFind the father
Janet MURDOCH2 September 1857Helen MURDOCHFind the father
Joan MURDOCH13 May 1865Helen MURDOCHFind the father
Margaret Rodger MURDOCH28 October 1862Helen MURDOCHFind the father
Robert PEARSON3 August 1859Mary PEARSONFind the father
Elizabeth Wilkie REID30 August 1874Betsy REIDFind the father
Maggie Davidson RITCHIE12 October 1867Catherine RITCHIEFind the father
George Burnet ROBB7 November 1873Mary Ann ROBBFind the father
Isabella ROBERTSON20 January 1872Agnes ROBERTSONFind the father
William Balfour RUSSELL27 November 1872Catherine RUSSELLFind the father
Henry Brown SCOTT16 May 1874Mary SCOTTFind the father
Thomas Lawson SCOTT27 April 1874Janet SCOTTFind the father
Isabella SEIVEWRIGHT20 August 1872Isabella SEIVEWRIGHTFind the father
Esther Robina SIMON1 October 1861Esther SIMONFind the father
Margaret SIMON19 August 1864Esther SIMONFind the father
Agnes Skinner SMITH9 June 1861Janet SMITHFind the father
James SMITH28 June 1858Susan SMITHFind the father
William SOMERS11 September 1865Ann SOMERSFind the father
Margaret SORLEY15 November 1869Margaret SORLEYFind the father
Elizabeth STRACHAN14 May 1861Margaret STRACHANFind the father
Alexander TAYLOR26 September 1862Elspeth TAYLORFind the father
Alexander TAYLOR12 March 1863Stuart TAYLORFind the father
Arthur TAYLOR21 August 1860Elspeth TAYLORFind the father
Catherine TAYLOR12 December 1855Catherine TAYLORFind the father
Elspeth TAYLOR21 August 1860Elspeth TAYLORFind the father
James TAYLOR12 October 1855Mary TAYLORFind the father
John TAYLOR16 March 1857Elspeth TAYLORFind the father
Margaret TAYLOR27 August 1867Stuart TAYLORFind the father
Catharine TULLIS28 November 1867Elspeth TULLISFind the father
Elizabeth TULLIS27 December 1865Elspeth TULLISFind the father
George TULLIS1 April 1869Elspeth TULLISFind the father
Alexander Meldrum TURBYNE9 August 1874Ann TURBYNEFind the father
Alexander WATSON30 October 1856Jemima WATSONFind the father
David WATSON2 September 1863Janet WATSONFind the father
Catherine Donaldson WEMYSS27 August 1860Margaret WEMYSSFind the father
Joan WEST8 September 1872Margaret WESTFind the father
William WEST25 August 1868Margaret WESTFind the father
Ann WILSON23 October 1870Margaret WILSONFind the father
James YOUNG30 July 1869Margaret YOUNGFind the father
Thomas Houston YOUNG22 August 1866Margaret YOUNGFind 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

We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish