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Longforgan 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 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/249/3Longforgan Kirk Session - Minutes1710-1729Request lookup
CH2/249/4Longforgan Kirk Session - Minutes
Includes mortcloth dues		1729-1738Request lookup
CH2/249/5Longforgan Kirk Session - Minutes and accounts
Includes mortcloth dues		1772-1782Request lookup
CH2/249/8Longforgan Kirk Session - Minutes and accounts
Minutes 1782-1812 and accounts 1782-1805
Includes poor rolls and some mortcloth dues		1782-1812Request lookup
CH2/249/9Longforgan Kirk Session - Minutes and accounts
Minutes 1813-1821 and accounts 1821-1841 (Inc. accounts, 1813-1841)
Includes mortcloth dues		1813-1841Request lookup
CH2/249/10Longforgan Kirk Session - Minutes1821-1890Request lookup
CH2/249/11Longforgan Kirk Session - Cash book
Includes poor rolls and mortcloth dues		1841-1856Request lookup
CH2/249/13Longforgan Kirk Session - Communion Roll1862-1875Request lookup
CH2/249/14Longforgan Kirk Session - Communion Roll1878-1892Request lookup
CH2/249/19Longforgan Kirk Session - Register of Proclamations1855-1977Request lookup
CH2/249/21Longforgan Kirk Session - Kirk Session minutes1890-1963Request 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 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
Widow BARNET 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused
Elizabeth CARR 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused
John LOGAN 1859 (2)Order imagesRefused - informal
Rachel MACINTOSH 1858 (2)Order imagesRefused
Rachel MACINTOSH 1859 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Rachael MCINTOSH 1859 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow MCLEOD or CARR 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary STORY or IRVINE 1863 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)

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. For births outwith this period, click here.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Mary Elisabeth BARTON17 December 1869Mary BARTONFind the father
James BATCHELOR27 June 1860Christian BATCHELORFind the father
Agnes BELL5 August 1874Agnes BELLFind the father
William BEVERADGE29 May 1864Margaret BEVERADGEFind the father
Margaret Helen Bell BLACKLAW7 February 1860Elisabeth BLACKLAWFind the father
James BLAIR21 October 1867Margaret BLAIRFind the father
Robert BLAIR26 February 1866Margaret BLAIRFind the father
William BREWSTER10 January 1874Margaret BREWSTERFind the father
William Ogilvie BRICKNAL27 May 1859Mary BRICKNALFind the father
Martha BRUCE26 August 1863Elisabeth BRUCEFind the father
William BRUCE26 December 1860Jean BRUCEFind the father
David BURNS14 July 1871Mary BURNSFind the father
William BURNS28 December 1867Mary BURNSFind the father
Janet Scrimgeour CLINK13 February 1869Clementina CLINKFind the father
William CRAIK31 May 1870Elisabeth CRAIKFind the father
David Forbes DARGIE18 June 1870Jane DARGIEFind the father
Alexander Key DOIG10 March 1867Mary DOIGFind the father
Ann DUFF14 January 1855Magdalene DUFFFind the father
Charles DUFF31 December 1861Mary DUFFFind the father
Mary Ann DUFF29 September 1859Mary DUFFFind the father
Mary Mcdougall ELDER9 November 1872Isabella ELDERFind the father
Peter FERGUSON21 November 1856Susan FERGUSONFind the father
Jane FLEMING6 September 1862Janet FLEMINGFind the father
Robert FLEMING23 July 1863Euphemia FLEMINGFind the father
David Thomas FRASER20 February 1863Jane FRASERFind the father
William GELLATLY28 May 1862Catherine GELLATLYFind the father
Elisabeth Porter GOW11 September 1857Jean GOWFind the father
John HAGGIE22 December 1860Margaret HAGGIEFind the father
Helen HAY28 June 1870Elisabeth HAYFind the father
Elisabeth HUTTON12 May 1860Margaret HUTTONFind the father
Mary Martin HUTTON3 January 1871Margaret HUTTONFind the father
Charles JAMES8 January 1860Christina JAMESFind the father
Mary KERR15 August 1863Elisabeth KERRFind the father
David Paton LISTER25 December 1866Agnes LISTERFind the father
Isabella LIVINGSTON17 May 1871Jean LIVINGSTONFind the father
George LOW17 May 1866Margaret LOWFind the father
Ann MATTHEW26 February 1869Ann MATTHEWFind the father
James MATTHEW20 July 1871Jessie MATTHEWFind the father
Jessie MATTHEW14 January 1866Ann MATTHEWFind the father
William MATTHEW13 June 1867Margaret MATTHEWFind the father
James MCDONALD16 July 1859Ann MCDONALDFind the father
James MCDONALD29 January 1873Jessie MCDONALDFind the father
James Soutar MCDONALD20 December 1871Ann MCDONALDFind the father
Jessie MCDONALD28 October 1872Isabella MCDONALDFind the father
Euphemia MCEWAN19 December 1863Ann MCEWANFind the father
Jessie Bruce MCEWAN21 May 1862Ann MCEWANFind the father
Margaret MCFARLANE17 December 1855Margaret MCFARLANEFind the father
John MCINROY14 April 1869Grace MCINROYFind the father
Elspet Innes MCINTOSH3 January 1861Agnes MCINTOSHFind the father
Janet MCINTOSH15 October 1868Innes MCINTOSHFind the father
Jessie MCKINNON10 December 1870Ann MCKINNONFind the father
Peter Boyd MCLEAN24 November 1873Isabella MCLEANFind the father
Andrew MELVILLE1 January 1871Jane MELVILLEFind the father
Helen MILLER26 May 1863Helen MILLERFind the father
George MONCUR25 May 1862Margaret MONCURFind the father
William Boyd MORTON4 March 1868Isabella MORTONFind the father
Joan Hird NESS5 January 1870Margaret NESSFind the father
James OGILVIE10 March 1856Mary Coupar OGILVIEFind the father
Jane OGILVIE21 June 1859Mary Coupar OGILVIEFind the father
William OGILVIE7 March 1861Mary Coupar OGILVIEFind the father
James PATERSON14 October 1870Betsy PATERSONFind the father
Duncan PAUL7 October 1862Christina PAULFind the father
Elisabeth PAUL18 November 1865Ann PAULFind the father
Louisa PAUL10 December 1872Elisabeth PAULFind the father
Agnes PEEBLES13 December 1863Agnes PEEBLESFind the father
Alexander PRAIN23 July 1871Agnes PRAINFind the father
Helen PRAIN20 August 1862Alison PRAINFind the father
Ann Candow RICHARDSON29 June 1858Janet RICHARDSONFind the father
James ROBB23 October 1863Isabella ROBBFind the father
Margaret ROBB30 August 1856Margaret ROBBFind the father
Archibald ROBERTSON22 April 1858Mary Ann ROBERTSONFind the father
Helen ROBERTSON7 July 1861Elisabeth ROBERTSONFind the father
George ROSS11 February 1861Isabella ROSSFind the father
Mary ROSS5 May 1858Mary ROSSFind the father
Agnes White SELLARS4 November 1873Euphemia SELLARSFind the father
John Mcarthur SHAW25 January 1870Isabella SHAWFind the father
Sarah Campbell SHAW13 November 1863Margaret SHAWFind the father
Mary Ann SMALL8 March 1862Mary SMALLFind the father
Amelia SOUTAR2 April 1865Helen SOUTARFind the father
Helen Jane SOUTAR14 May 1856Janet SOUTARFind the father
William STEELE11 May 1868Euphemia STEELEFind the father
Ann STEWART17 January 1866Margaret STEWARTFind the father
Jane Ann STEWART29 October 1859Margaret STEWARTFind the father
William STURROCK7 November 1858Marjory STURROCKFind 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