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Mertoun 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 are pleased to be able to offer to obtain images of the minutes for each appeal, at the following rates:
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)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella WOOD | 1847 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
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.
We have not currently found any decrees for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John ANDERSON | 6 May 1859 | Janet ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Ralph ARCHIBALD | 25 January 1870 | Margaret ARCHIBALD | Find the father |
| George BAILLIE | 29 May 1862 | Herriot BAILLIE | Find the father |
| John BOYD | 7 September 1860 | Janet BOYD | Find the father |
| Isabella CAVERS | 11 January 1858 | Isabella CAVERS | Find the father |
| Margaret CHAMBERS | 22 October 1867 | Margaret CHAMBERS | Find the father |
| James DAVIDSON | 9 July 1869 | Isabella DAVIDSON | Father found |
| Helen ECKFORD | 21 October 1858 | Helen ECKFORD | Find the father |
| Isabella Trotter FOX | 4 April 1860 | Euphemia FOX | Find the father |
| Isabella GIBSON | 11 May 1872 | Alison GIBSON | Find the father |
| Jessie GOODFELLOW | 29 September 1863 | Jane GOODFELLOW | Find the father |
| Janet GRANT | 21 August 1866 | Janet GRANT | Find the father |
| John HENDRY | 5 October 1873 | Agnes HENDRY | Find the father |
| James HOGARTH | 5 May 1856 | Agnes HOGARTH | Find the father |
| Margaret HOGARTH | 12 November 1866 | Alison HOGARTH | Find the father |
| Andrew LAING | 28 October 1867 | Janet LAING | Father found |
| John LAING | 5 September 1869 | Elizabeth LAING | Father found |
| Helen LAWRIE | 7 March 1872 | Elizabeth LAWRIE | Father found |
| Alexander LINDORES | 6 October 1870 | Ann LINDORES | Find the father |
| Robert MILLAR | 5 February 1858 | Elisabeth MILLAR | Find the father |
| Mary Anne MILLS | 22 August 1869 | Anne MILLS | Father found |
| Jane Laurie MONTGOMERY | 8 February 1860 | Janet MONTGOMERY | Find the father |
| William MONTGOMERY | 11 March 1863 | Janet MONTGOMERY | Find the father |
| James NOBLE | 13 September 1870 | Mary NOBLE | Find the father |
| Hugh PATERSON | 28 October 1873 | Margaret PATERSON | Find the father |
| John PROUDFOOT | 21 June 1867 | Sophia PROUDFOOT | Find the father |
| John RAMSAY | 7 April 1869 | Janet RAMSAY | Father found |
| Mary RAMSAY | 5 April 1873 | Janet RAMSAY | Find the father |
| Helen REDPATH | 18 July 1857 | Mary REDPATH | Find the father |
| Ann Wyness SCOTT | 14 April 1859 | Isabell Margret SCOTT | Find the father |
| James SCOTT | 25 October 1872 | Janet SCOTT | Find the father |
| Alexander STENHOUSE | 8 July 1872 | Mary STENHOUSE | Find the father |
| George Gray STENHOUSE | 2 October 1872 | Harriet STENHOUSE | Find the father |
| Agnes STEWART | 3 April 1869 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| Alexander STEWART | 6 November 1867 | Agnes STEWART | Find the father |
| James STEWART | 8 January 1869 | Helen STEWART | Find the father |
| Agnes WHITELAW | 27 January 1860 | Elizabeth WHITELAW | Find the father |
| Margaret Alice WHITLAW | 10 May 1859 | Helen WHITLAW | Father found |
| Agnes WILSON | 22 June 1859 | Agnes WILSON | Find the father |
| Agnes WOOD | 26 September 1865 | Alison WOOD | Find the father |
| Elizabeth WOOD | 13 April 1868 | Mary WOOD | Find the father |
| John WOOD | 27 October 1867 | Alison WOOD | Find the father |
| William WOOD | 5 November 1865 | Isabella WOOD | 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.
