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Records -> Roxburghshire

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:
  • £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
Margaret SAMUEL 1856 (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
Christina RIDDLE
Greenlees, Linton
James DAVIDSONOrder nowJedburgh
SC62/7/14
Beatrice SCOTT
Blacklaw, Linton, Roxburghshire
Adam GIBSON8 Sep 1880
Blacklaw, Linton, Roxburghshire
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Thomasina STENHOUSE
Linton Downs, Linton, Roxburghshire
John SCOTT7 Jun 1899
Linton Downs, Linton, Roxburghshire
Order nowDuns
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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
James BARNS27 March 1856Isabel BARNSFind the father
Hannah BLAKE2 December 1868Janet BLAKEFind the father
Cecilia BROWN13 January 1869Ceclia BROWNFind the father
Betsy BURK6 May 1855Margaret BURKFind the father
Jane CAIRNS4 July 1860Catherine CAIRNSFind the father
Jane Ann COCKBURN24 March 1866Ann COCKBURNFind the father
John COCKBURN3 April 1866Mary COCKBURNFind the father
Mary DAVIDSON17 August 1871Margaret DAVIDSONFind the father
Margaret Murdie DICKSON25 May 1871Margaret DICKSONFind the father
Charles DOUGLAS30 May 1867Elisabeth DOUGLASFind the father
Christian Veitch DOUGLAS22 December 1858Mary DOUGLASFind the father
Elisabeth DOUGLAS6 August 1864Elisabeth DOUGLASFind the father
Helen DOUGLAS17 September 1863Mary DOUGLASFather found
James DOUGLAS7 November 1860Margaret DOUGLASFind the father
John DOUGLAS25 May 1863Elisabeth DOUGLASFind the father
Margaret DOUGLAS23 March 1860Elisabeth DOUGLASFind the father
Ralph DOUGLAS21 May 1866Christian DOUGLASFind the father
Thomas DOUGLAS10 June 1860Elisabeth DOUGLASFind the father
Margaret FORSON16 December 1862Margaret FORSONFind the father
David HENDERSON29 June 1867Jane HENDERSONFind the father
Janet HENDERSON12 October 1856Ann HENDERSONFind the father
Margaret HERMISTON12 May 1855Mary HERMISTONFind the father
Grizzle Hardie HOGG4 December 1871Grizzle HOGGFind the father
Isabella HOGG2 March 1872Jane HOGGFind the father
Mary HOGG19 June 1865Jane HOGGFind the father
Walter HOGG18 June 1874Jane HOGGFind the father
Janet IRVINE6 October 1871Christina IRVINEFind the father
Andrew JACK17 February 1866Isabel JACKFind the father
William Brown JAFFRAY15 April 1873Mary JAFFRAYFind the father
Robert JOHNSTON6 June 1858Joan JOHNSTONFind the father
Jane KINGHORN13 May 1861Jessie KINGHORNFind the father
Janet LINDSAY10 January 1862Janet LINDSAYFather found
Elspeth MATTHEWSON15 July 1863Agnes MATTHEWSONFind the father
Isabella MILLS7 August 1857Isabella MILLSFind the father
Janet MOFFAT31 July 1860Helen MOFFATFind the father
Mary MOSCRIPT12 November 1867Ealonor MOSCRIPTFind the father
Martha MURDIE12 December 1862Janet MURDIEFind the father
Mary Margaret MUSTARD14 January 1873Mary MUSTARDFind the father
Beatrice PAXTON31 May 1863Elisabeth PAXTONFind the father
James PAXTON9 October 1868Margaret PAXTONFind the father
William ROBSON26 August 1859Elisabeth ROBSONFind the father
Betsy SCOTT3 November 1872Betsy SCOTTFind the father
Thomas SMITH8 October 1870Margaret SMITHFind the father
James SWANSTON17 March 1874Elizabeth SWANSTONFind the father
Alexander TAYLOR2 November 1859Mary TAYLORFind the father
Isabella TAYLOR30 July 1864Violet TAYLORFind the father
Violet TAYLOR11 September 1863Mary TAYLORFind the father
Agnes THOMSON23 May 1866Agnes THOMSONFind the father
Wilhelmina THOMSON23 May 1866Agnes THOMSONFind the father
Janet TINLINE10 May 1857Agnes TINLINEFind the father
Janet Robson TINLINE21 June 1859Agnes TINLINEFind the father
David WALKER21 August 1855Agnes WALKERFind the father
Margaret WALKER6 July 1862Margaret WALKERFind the father
James WILSON21 July 1868Janet WILSONFind the father
John WILSON9 August 1861Janet WILSONFind the father
William WILSON29 January 1869Elisabeth WILSONFind the father
Robert WOOD3 October 1865Anne WOODFind 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.


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