Lyne and Megget parish records

Lyne and Megget 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.

Lookups available
Reference	Title	Dates	Buy
CH2/255/4	Lyne and Megget Kirk Session - Minutes and accounts Minutes 1852-1924 accounts 1846-1924	1846-1924	Request lookup
CH2/255/6	Lyne and Megget Kirk Session - Baptismal register	1902-1954	Request lookup
CH2/255/8	Lyne and Megget Kirk Session - Communion roll	1868-1908	Request lookup
CH2/255/11	Lyne and Megget Kirk Session - Examination book Gives school exam results (in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Needle Work, Religious Knowledge, Sacred Music and Penmanship) for Simson scholars	1879-1889	Request lookup
CH2/255/12	Lyne and Megget Kirk Session - Stock book (books given out) Lists school books given to students	1879-1889	Request 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.
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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 residence	Defender name	Child birth	Order	Court
Marion CALLAN Lyne Farm, Lyne	James GUTHRIE	26 Dec 1886	Order now	Peebles SC42/9/11

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

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Child name	Date of birth	Mother name	Order
Margaret ANDERSON	31 January 1855	Elizabeth ANDERSON	Find the father
James DALGLIESH	12 March 1859	Agnes DALGLIESH	Find the father
Janet DICKSON	25 February 1866	Jane DICKSON	Find the father
James FORREST	16 June 1867	Marion FORREST	Find the father
William KERR	29 December 1867	Ann KERR	Find the father
Elizabeth LAIDLAW	28 November 1856	Agnes LAIDLAW	Find the father
William PATERSON	27 January 1871	Jane PATERSON	Find the father
John ROBERTSON	19 July 1863	Helen ROBERTSON	Find the father
Mary ROSS	31 December 1863	Mary ROSS	Find the father
John Davidson SHIEL	28 July 1868	Christina SHIEL	Find the father
Agnes WHITE	30 January 1863	Helen WHITE	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.

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/255/2 pp. 325-325)
Forename	Surname	Occupation	Address	Notes
William	White
Thomas	Thomson
Walter	Pagan
Oswald	Pagan
George	Pagan
James	Inglis
John	Stewart
William	Symington
John	Macknight
Alexander	Dun
Thomas	Glendinning
Robert	Dalgliesh
Walter	Anderson
Walter	Dalgliesh
William	Anderson
William	Braidwood
William	Anderson
James	Sykes

Male Heads of families 1835 (NRS Reference: CH2/255/2 pp. 326-326)
Forename	Surname	Occupation	Address	Notes
William	White
Thomas	Thomson
Walter	Pagan
Oswald	Pagan
James	Inglis
John	Stewart
William	Symington
John	Macknight
Alexander	Dun
Thomas	Glendinning
Robert	Dalgliesh
Walter	Anderson
Adam	Dalgliesh
William	Anderson
William	Braidwood
William	Anderson
James	Sykes

Male Heads of families 1836 (NRS Reference: CH2/255/2 pp. 327-327)
Forename	Surname	Occupation	Address	Notes
William	White
Thomas	Thomson
Walter	Pagan
James	Inglis
John	Stewart
William	Symington
John	Macknight
Alexr	Dun
Thomas	Glendinning
Adam	Dalgliesh
Walter	Anderson
William	Anderson
William	Braidwood
William	Anderson
James	Sykes

Male Heads of families 1837 (NRS Reference: CH2/255/2 pp. 328-328)
Forename	Surname	Occupation	Address	Notes
William	White
Adam	Somerville
Thomas	Thomson
Walter	Pagan
William	Symington
James	Inglis
John	Stewart
John	Macknight
Alexr	Dun
Thomas	Glendinning
Adam	Dalgliesh
Walter	Anderson
James	Shiel
William	Braidwood
William	Anderson
William	Anderson
James	Sykes

Male Heads of families 1838 (NRS Reference: CH2/255/2 pp. 329-329)
Forename	Surname	Occupation	Address	Notes
William	White
Adam	Sommerville
Thomas	Thomson
Walter	Pagan
James	Inglis
John	Stewart
William	Symington
John	Macknight
Thomas	Glendinning
Adam	Dalgliesh
Walter	Anderson
William	Braidfute
William	Anderson
William	Anderson
James	Sykes
William	Shiel

Male Heads of families 1839 (NRS Reference: CH2/255/2 pp. 330-330)
Forename	Surname	Occupation	Address	Notes
William	White
Adam	Sommerville
Thomas	Thomson
Walter	Pagan
William	Symington
John	Macknight
James	Dun
Thomas	Glendinning
Adam	Dalgliesh
Walter	Anderson
William	Shiel
William	Anderson
William	Bradefoot
William	Anderson
James	Sykes

Kirk Session Records Index

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We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.