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Maxton 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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jessie BEGBIE Maxton | Walter HENDERSON | 14 Feb 1890 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/14 |
| Margaret BOYD Rutherford, Maxton | John LAUDER | 16 Nov 1882 Rutherford, Maxton | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/14 |
| Margaret MESSER Rutherford Burnside, Maxton, Roxburghshire | George MABON | 21 Jun 1884 Rutherford Burnside, Maxton, Roxburghshire | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Isabella RIDDLE Maxton | James SCOTT | 3 Aug 1865 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/12 |
| Margaret SIMPSON Maxton | Hugh FERGUSON | 9 Apr 1880 Maxton | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/14 |
| Mary Ann THOMSON Riddletonhill, Maxton | Charles Lauder PATTERSON | 15 Jan 1891 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/14 |
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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| William AITKIN | 29 January 1862 | Margaret AITKIN | Find the father |
| George BRACK | 26 September 1867 | Elisabeth BRACK | Find the father |
| Elliott BROWN | 4 March 1860 | Helen BROWN | Father found |
| James CAVERS | 4 June 1858 | Isabella CAVERS | Find the father |
| Ruth DARLING | 10 December 1871 | Jessie Young DARLING | Find the father |
| Robert Aitkin DICKSON | 24 February 1864 | Jane DICKSON | Find the father |
| Barbara FAIRGRIEVE | 2 January 1874 | Jane FAIRGRIEVE | Father found |
| Alexander FLEMING | 1 September 1859 | Eleanor FLEMING | Find the father |
| Janet GILROY | 29 November 1871 | Jemima GILROY | Find the father |
| Jane HARDIE | 7 June 1863 | Mary HARDIE | Find the father |
| Jessie HISLOP | 2 August 1869 | Mary HISLOP | Find the father |
| Jane HOPE | 5 August 1871 | Mary HOPE | Find the father |
| Margaret HOPE | 25 December 1866 | Elisabeth HOPE | Find the father |
| William IRVINE | 11 April 1857 | Christina IRVINE | Father found |
| Jane JACK | 20 January 1858 | Mary JACK | Find the father |
| Thomas JOHNSTON | 17 April 1865 | Helen JOHNSTON | Father found |
| William LAUDER | 10 December 1862 | Margaret LAUDER | Find the father |
| William LAUDER | 22 February 1870 | Wilhelmina LAUDER | Find the father |
| Isabella LYALL | 19 July 1864 | Susan LYALL | Find the father |
| Janet PIRIE | 10 August 1861 | Anne PIRIE | Find the father |
| James RAMSAY | 16 August 1858 | Margaret RAMSAY | Find the father |
| Anne Rutherford RICHARDSON | 13 November 1863 | Ann RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| Esther RICHARDSON | 28 August 1870 | Anne RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| John RICHARDSON | 28 August 1870 | Anne RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| Elisabeth RIDDEL | 3 August 1865 | Elisabeth RIDDEL | Find the father |
| Alexander RIDDLE | 14 March 1863 | Elisabeth RIDDLE | Father found |
| Robert SCOTT | 10 May 1860 | Agnes SCOTT | Find the father |
| William SMAIL | 1 August 1857 | Jessie Lennox SMAIL | Find the father |
| Robert SMITH | 17 October 1857 | Margaret SMITH | Find the father |
| James STEWART | 16 September 1860 | Mary STEWART | Find the father |
| Anne TOD | 13 April 1870 | Mary Anne TOD | Find the father |
| John TOD | 7 June 1866 | Margaret TOD | Find the father |
| Agnes TURNBULL | 19 June 1862 | Euphemia TURNBULL | Find the father |
| Eleanor Mary WILSON | 4 January 1855 | Mary WILSON | Find the father |
| Mary Jane WOOD | 20 May 1872 | Mary WOOD | Find the father |
| Andrew YOUNG | 15 November 1868 | Helen YOUNG | 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.
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.
