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Linton 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:
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)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret SAMUEL | 1856 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christina RIDDLE Greenlees, Linton | James DAVIDSON | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/14 | |
| Beatrice SCOTT Blacklaw, Linton, Roxburghshire | Adam GIBSON | 8 Sep 1880 Blacklaw, Linton, Roxburghshire | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Thomasina STENHOUSE Linton Downs, Linton, Roxburghshire | John SCOTT | 7 Jun 1899 Linton Downs, Linton, Roxburghshire | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James BARNS | 27 March 1856 | Isabel BARNS | Find the father |
| Hannah BLAKE | 2 December 1868 | Janet BLAKE | Find the father |
| Cecilia BROWN | 13 January 1869 | Ceclia BROWN | Find the father |
| Betsy BURK | 6 May 1855 | Margaret BURK | Find the father |
| Jane CAIRNS | 4 July 1860 | Catherine CAIRNS | Find the father |
| Jane Ann COCKBURN | 24 March 1866 | Ann COCKBURN | Find the father |
| John COCKBURN | 3 April 1866 | Mary COCKBURN | Find the father |
| Mary DAVIDSON | 17 August 1871 | Margaret DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Murdie DICKSON | 25 May 1871 | Margaret DICKSON | Find the father |
| Charles DOUGLAS | 30 May 1867 | Elisabeth DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Christian Veitch DOUGLAS | 22 December 1858 | Mary DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Elisabeth DOUGLAS | 6 August 1864 | Elisabeth DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Helen DOUGLAS | 17 September 1863 | Mary DOUGLAS | Father found |
| James DOUGLAS | 7 November 1860 | Margaret DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| John DOUGLAS | 25 May 1863 | Elisabeth DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Margaret DOUGLAS | 23 March 1860 | Elisabeth DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Ralph DOUGLAS | 21 May 1866 | Christian DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Thomas DOUGLAS | 10 June 1860 | Elisabeth DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Margaret FORSON | 16 December 1862 | Margaret FORSON | Find the father |
| David HENDERSON | 29 June 1867 | Jane HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Janet HENDERSON | 12 October 1856 | Ann HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret HERMISTON | 12 May 1855 | Mary HERMISTON | Find the father |
| Grizzle Hardie HOGG | 4 December 1871 | Grizzle HOGG | Find the father |
| Isabella HOGG | 2 March 1872 | Jane HOGG | Find the father |
| Mary HOGG | 19 June 1865 | Jane HOGG | Find the father |
| Walter HOGG | 18 June 1874 | Jane HOGG | Find the father |
| Janet IRVINE | 6 October 1871 | Christina IRVINE | Find the father |
| Andrew JACK | 17 February 1866 | Isabel JACK | Find the father |
| William Brown JAFFRAY | 15 April 1873 | Mary JAFFRAY | Find the father |
| Robert JOHNSTON | 6 June 1858 | Joan JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Jane KINGHORN | 13 May 1861 | Jessie KINGHORN | Find the father |
| Janet LINDSAY | 10 January 1862 | Janet LINDSAY | Father found |
| Elspeth MATTHEWSON | 15 July 1863 | Agnes MATTHEWSON | Find the father |
| Isabella MILLS | 7 August 1857 | Isabella MILLS | Find the father |
| Janet MOFFAT | 31 July 1860 | Helen MOFFAT | Find the father |
| Mary MOSCRIPT | 12 November 1867 | Ealonor MOSCRIPT | Find the father |
| Martha MURDIE | 12 December 1862 | Janet MURDIE | Find the father |
| Mary Margaret MUSTARD | 14 January 1873 | Mary MUSTARD | Find the father |
| Beatrice PAXTON | 31 May 1863 | Elisabeth PAXTON | Find the father |
| James PAXTON | 9 October 1868 | Margaret PAXTON | Find the father |
| William ROBSON | 26 August 1859 | Elisabeth ROBSON | Find the father |
| Betsy SCOTT | 3 November 1872 | Betsy SCOTT | Find the father |
| Thomas SMITH | 8 October 1870 | Margaret SMITH | Find the father |
| James SWANSTON | 17 March 1874 | Elizabeth SWANSTON | Find the father |
| Alexander TAYLOR | 2 November 1859 | Mary TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Isabella TAYLOR | 30 July 1864 | Violet TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Violet TAYLOR | 11 September 1863 | Mary TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Agnes THOMSON | 23 May 1866 | Agnes THOMSON | Find the father |
| Wilhelmina THOMSON | 23 May 1866 | Agnes THOMSON | Find the father |
| Janet TINLINE | 10 May 1857 | Agnes TINLINE | Find the father |
| Janet Robson TINLINE | 21 June 1859 | Agnes TINLINE | Find the father |
| David WALKER | 21 August 1855 | Agnes WALKER | Find the father |
| Margaret WALKER | 6 July 1862 | Margaret WALKER | Find the father |
| James WILSON | 21 July 1868 | Janet WILSON | Find the father |
| John WILSON | 9 August 1861 | Janet WILSON | Find the father |
| William WILSON | 29 January 1869 | Elisabeth WILSON | Find the father |
| Robert WOOD | 3 October 1865 | Anne WOOD | 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.
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.
