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Lilliesleaf 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 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
George BELL 1846 (1)Order imagesRefused
Harriet DAVIDSON 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
Benjamin STIRLING 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused

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

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Helen Maxwell AITCHISON29 July 1863Sarah AITCHISONFind the father
Margaret Hogg AITKEN4 November 1874Mary AITKENFind the father
Elizabeth BELL12 January 1868Margaret BELLFind the father
Thomas BLYTHE2 February 1870Agnes BLYTHEFind the father
George BORTHWICK19 September 1863Margaret BORTHWICKFind the father
George Alexander BRUCE11 November 1874Margaret BRUCEFind the father
George BRUNTON27 December 1871Elizabeth BRUNTONFind the father
Margaret Brown BRUNTON4 February 1872Elizabeth BRUNTONFind the father
Robert BRUNTON11 December 1868Elizabeth BRUNTONFind the father
John BYERS14 May 1871Jane BYERSFind the father
Mary Glendinning COLTHARD30 April 1873Elizabeth COLTHARDFind the father
Robert CRIGHTON1 February 1864Elspeth CRIGHTONFind the father
Robert CROZIER6 April 1868Elizabeth CROZIERFind the father
Margaret Martin CUNNINGHAM22 August 1872Eddington CUNNINGHAMFind the father
Thomas Tweedie DALGLIESH1 August 1869Janet DALGLIESHFind the father
William DALGLIESH12 May 1872Janet DALGLIESHFind the father
Thomas DAVIDSON26 January 1861Helen DAVIDSONFind the father
Mary Ann Robson GOULDSTRAWE20 September 1874Margaret GOULDSTRAWEFind the father
Margaret HALL21 July 1864Janet HALLFind the father
Elizabeth MABION28 April 1871Janet MABIONFind the father
John MILLAR9 July 1856Jane MILLARFind the father
Andrew REDFORD15 February 1874Ellen REDFORDFind the father
William RICHARDSON15 December 1866Mary RICHARDSONFind the father
Adam SCOTT7 January 1865Dorothy SCOTTFather found
Agnes Harrison SCOTT7 September 1864Adamina Gourlay SCOTTFind the father
Helen SCOTT24 April 1858Isabella SCOTTFind the father
Jessie SCOTT7 June 1856Agnes SCOTTFind the father
Mina SCOTT24 November 1863Helen SCOTTFind the father
Adam Alexander SMITH28 June 1865Margaret SMITHFind the father
William STEELE3 May 1874Helen Dickson STEELEFind the father
Charlotte Samuel Ormiston STIRLING26 April 1872Margaret STIRLINGFather found
William TELFER4 November 1871Eliza TELFERFind the father
Walter THOMPSON4 February 1871Wilhelmina THOMPSONFind the father
Adam TURNBULL1 July 1866Jane TURNBULLFind the father
Jane TURNBULL27 June 1862Jane TURNBULLFind 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.