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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.
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.

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
William AITKIN29 January 1862Margaret AITKINFind the father
George BRACK26 September 1867Elisabeth BRACKFind the father
Elliott BROWN4 March 1860Helen BROWNFather found
James CAVERS4 June 1858Isabella CAVERSFind the father
Ruth DARLING10 December 1871Jessie Young DARLINGFind the father
Robert Aitkin DICKSON24 February 1864Jane DICKSONFind the father
Barbara FAIRGRIEVE2 January 1874Jane FAIRGRIEVEFather found
Alexander FLEMING1 September 1859Eleanor FLEMINGFind the father
Janet GILROY29 November 1871Jemima GILROYFind the father
Jane HARDIE7 June 1863Mary HARDIEFind the father
Jessie HISLOP2 August 1869Mary HISLOPFind the father
Jane HOPE5 August 1871Mary HOPEFind the father
Margaret HOPE25 December 1866Elisabeth HOPEFind the father
William IRVINE11 April 1857Christina IRVINEFather found
Jane JACK20 January 1858Mary JACKFind the father
Thomas JOHNSTON17 April 1865Helen JOHNSTONFather found
William LAUDER10 December 1862Margaret LAUDERFind the father
William LAUDER22 February 1870Wilhelmina LAUDERFind the father
Isabella LYALL19 July 1864Susan LYALLFind the father
Janet PIRIE10 August 1861Anne PIRIEFind the father
James RAMSAY16 August 1858Margaret RAMSAYFind the father
Anne Rutherford RICHARDSON13 November 1863Ann RICHARDSONFind the father
Esther RICHARDSON28 August 1870Anne RICHARDSONFind the father
John RICHARDSON28 August 1870Anne RICHARDSONFind the father
Elisabeth RIDDEL3 August 1865Elisabeth RIDDELFind the father
Alexander RIDDLE14 March 1863Elisabeth RIDDLEFather found
Robert SCOTT10 May 1860Agnes SCOTTFind the father
William SMAIL1 August 1857Jessie Lennox SMAILFind the father
Robert SMITH17 October 1857Margaret SMITHFind the father
James STEWART16 September 1860Mary STEWARTFind the father
Anne TOD13 April 1870Mary Anne TODFind the father
John TOD7 June 1866Margaret TODFind the father
Agnes TURNBULL19 June 1862Euphemia TURNBULLFind the father
Eleanor Mary WILSON4 January 1855Mary WILSONFind the father
Mary Jane WOOD20 May 1872Mary WOODFind the father
Andrew YOUNG15 November 1868Helen YOUNGFind 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

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.