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Lumphanan parish 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.

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
CH2/782/2Lumphanan kirk session: Communion roll1862-1875Request lookup
CH2/782/3Lumphanan kirk session: Communion roll1873-1882Request lookup
CH2/782/4Lumphanan kirk session: Communion roll1883-1891Request lookup
CH2/782/5Lumphanan kirk session: Communion roll1892-1904Request lookup
CH2/782/6Lumphanan kirk session: Communion roll1905-1913Request lookup
CH2/782/7Lumphanan kirk session: Minutes1875-1892Request lookup
CH2/782/10Lumphanan kirk session: Minutes and accounts
Includes poor rolls		1740-1797Request lookup
CH2/782/11Lumphanan kirk session: Minutes (discipline)1847-1864Request lookup
CH2/782/12Lumphanan kirk session: Lists of young communicants, baptisms and proclamations1875-1893Request lookup
CH2/782/13Lumphanan kirk session: Minutes1864-1874Request lookup
CH2/782/14Lumphanan kirk session: Baptismal register1893-1985Request 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
Margaret DUNCAN 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Barbara FARQUHAR or ROBERTSON 1861 (2)Order imagesRefused

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
Catherine ARCHIBALD19 March 1873Eliza ARCHIBALDFind the father
Helen Clark ARCHIBALD16 January 1873Jane ARCHIBALDFind the father
John Smith ARCHIBALD17 February 1868Jane ARCHIBALDFind the father
James BENZIE15 January 1864Martha BENZIEFind the father
Emily CHRISTIE13 February 1872Rachel Ann CHRISTIEFind the father
Mary CHRISTIE28 September 1864Isabella CHRISTIEFind the father
Ann Dunbar COPLAND1 March 1865Ann COPLANDFind the father
George CRAIGMILE31 January 1857Mary CRAIGMILEFind the father
Ann DAVIDSON18 December 1868Christian DAVIDSONFind the father
Catherine Jane DAVIDSON24 July 1874Mary Ann DAVIDSONFind the father
Margaret DAVIDSON26 August 1872Mary Ann DAVIDSONFind the father
William DAVIDSON27 April 1860Ann DAVIDSONFind the father
Jane DUNCAN8 July 1855Elisabeth DUNCANFind the father
Ann DUNN22 April 1866Cathrine DUNNFind the father
Jane DUNN18 February 1857Catherine DUNNFind the father
Mary DUNN9 March 1869Catherine DUNNFind the father
William DUNN1 February 1860Catherine DUNNFind the father
William Malcom EMSLIE13 July 1865Mary EMSLIEFind the father
Helen Cormack ESSAN1 November 1874Isabella ESSANFind the father
David ESSON29 May 1860Ann ESSONFind the father
Jane ESSON30 August 1861Elizabeth ESSONFind the father
Jane ESSON25 July 1872Charlote ESSONFind the father
Barbara EWEN30 January 1873Jane EWENFind the father
John EWEN13 March 1868Isabella EWENFind the father
Margaret Jane EWEN6 March 1857Isabella EWENFind the father
Agnes FARQUHAR15 February 1860Agnes FARQUHARFind the father
Charles FARQUHAR14 October 1867Barbara FARQUHARFind the father
Mary FARQUHAR27 May 1867Jane FARQUHARFind the father
Robert FARQUHAR21 January 1860Jane FARQUHARFind the father
Peter FERRES13 May 1868Margaret FERRESFind the father
William FERRES25 May 1857Christian Ferres Or CALDERFind the father
Robert Garden FRASER3 July 1860Isablea FRASERFind the father
William Mc Gregor FRASER29 June 1866Catherine FRASERFind the father
Mary Ann GERRIE23 October 1859Margaret GERRIEFind the father
William GERRIE1 June 1858Hellen GERRIEFind the father
Isabella GILL14 December 1862Barbra GILLFind the father
John GILL28 December 1860Barbara GILLFind the father
Mary Ann GORDON22 September 1860Margaret GORDONFind the father
Jane Ann Black IMRAY24 May 1863Cathrine IMRAYFind the father
Margaret Jane JOHNSTON19 July 1869Margaret Jane JOHNSTONFind the father
William KELLAS7 November 1863Helen KELLASFind the father
James KEMP28 January 1860Isabella KEMPFind the father
Ann KENNEDY27 December 1860Barbara KENNEDYFind the father
George LAING30 July 1867Elizabeth LAINGFind the father
Margaret LAWSON15 January 1870Ann LAWSONFind the father
Alexander LOW19 August 1860Sarah LOWFind the father
Margret Jane LOW19 July 1863Sarah LOWFind the father
James MARR10 August 1862Catherine MARRFind the father
Christian MASSON29 October 1860Elizabeth MASSONFind the father
George MASSON14 April 1869Christian MASSONFind the father
Hellen Black MASSON8 August 1863Christian MASSONFind the father
James MASSON31 December 1866Margaret MASSONFind the father
Robert Paterson MCWILLIAM18 July 1873Madglen MCWILLIAMFind the father
Isabella MERCHANT24 December 1859Eliza MERCHANTFind the father
William Chiles MIDDLETON11 October 1869Mary MIDDLETONFind the father
Alexander MILNE20 November 1863Euphemia MILNEFind the father
Ann Christian MILNE9 November 1855Martha MILNEFind the father
Margaret MILNE24 August 1859Hellen MILNEFind the father
Ann Brown MURRAY11 May 1874Ann MURRAYFind the father
William MURRAY9 June 1872Ann MURRAYFind the father
Alexander PHILIP2 August 1869Jean Philip Or ESSONFind the father
George Alexander RAE11 September 1864Isabella RAEFind the father
Charlotte REID9 August 1863Margaret REIDFind the father
Margaret Ann Berry ROSS5 October 1873Ann ROSSFind the father
George Smith SHEPHERD18 January 1868Ann SHEPHERDFind the father
Helen SHEPHERD13 January 1865Ann SHEPHERDFind the father
William Alexander SHEPHERD13 January 1856Ann SHEPHERDFind the father
Francis Fraser SKINNER15 July 1871Mary SKINNERFind the father
Jessie Tweedie SMART6 August 1868Isabella SMARTFind the father
Peter SMART3 December 1872Jane SMARTFind the father
Charles STRACHAN21 September 1874Margaret STRACHANFind the father
Mary Jane Pirrie TAYLOR3 September 1872Mary TAYLORFind the father
Helen Edward THOMSON1 July 1868Mary THOMSONFind the father
James THOMSON4 January 1856Mary THOMSONFind the father
Jane THOMSON17 September 1862Mary THOMSONFind the father
Mary Adams THOMSON14 September 1860Mary THOMSONFind the father
William THOMSON11 May 1866Mary THOMSONFind the father
Mary TODD14 September 1860Mary TODDFind the father
Alexander Wilson TOUGH12 September 1867Ann TOUGHFind the father
Jessie TOUGH1 August 1868Jane TOUGHFind the father
Margaret TOUGH18 December 1864Jane TOUGHFind the father
Peter WALKER16 July 1865Margaret WALKERFind 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