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Records -> Shetland

Mid Yell 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:
  • £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.

Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes
Order imagesDeliverance
Widow Betty ANDERSON 1864 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Eliz ANDERSON or COULTER 1870 (3)Order imagesRefused
Ann BLANCE 1847 (2)Order imagesRefused
David CHARLESON 1870 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John CHARLESON 1870 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Magnus CLERK 1866-1867 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
David COUTTS 1870 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Andrew GRAY 1864 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Catherine GREEN or SUTHERLAND 1875 (5)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Gilbert HOSEASON 1881 (2)Order imagesRefused
Andrew IRVINE 1881 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Margaret LAURENSON 1870 (2)Order imagesRefused
Margaret NISBET 1865-1866 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Margaret SHARP 1857 (2)Order imagesAscertain amount of allowance by week
Widow Andrina SINCLAIR or MUNRO 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
Henerina SMITH 1870 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Charlotte WILLIAMSON 1870 (2)Order imagesRefused
David WILLIAMSON 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
David WILLIAMSON 1872 (2)Order imagesMedical certificate
James WILLIAMSON 1863 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Williamina WILLIAMSON 1878 (5)Order imagesGround 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 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). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order now link.
School leaving certificate examinations
NameDate of birthSchoolYearOrder record
Lizzie McK HOUSTON5 Jan 1889Yell Mid Yell Public School1908Order now


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Margaret Jane ANDERSON18 October 1865Margaret ANDERSONFind the father
Charlotte BLANCE21 November 1864Janet BLANCEFind the father
Christina GRAY24 September 1866Andrina Christina GRAYFind the father
John Gilbert GUTHRIE21 December 1866Margaret GUTHRIEFind the father
Catharine INKSTER12 July 1862Ann INKSTERFind the father
Catharine IRVINE31 May 1859Catharine IRVINEFind the father
Joan IRVINE10 July 1873Joan IRVINEFind the father
Robert John IRVINE2 April 1871Robina IRVINEFind the father
Basil Pole JAMESON24 April 1865Catharine JAMESONFind the father
James Robert JAMESON24 November 1857Catharine JAMESONFind the father
David JOHNSON9 October 1856Robina JOHNSONFind the father
William John JOHNSON6 June 1874Robina JOHNSONFind the father
Mary Elizabeth Henderson LEISK7 October 1864Mary LEISKFind the father
John Bruce MANSON10 June 1872Barbara MANSONFind the father
Grace MATTHEWSON21 July 1864Christena MATTHEWSONFind the father
Samuel Henry OMAN24 June 1873Jane OMANFind the father
John Thomas OMOND8 June 1856Sibella OMONDFind the father
Margaret ROBERTSON5 May 1870Elizabeth ROBERTSONFind the father
Robina ROBERTSON26 August 1861Ann ROBERTSONFind the father
Catharine Jane SMITH22 August 1873Mergery Mackintosh SMITHFind the father
Mary Jane SMITH10 June 1866Mary SMITHFind the father
Elizabeth THOMASON16 September 1869Janet THOMASONFind the father
Joan THOMASON13 August 1874Margaret THOMASONFind the father
Daniel TULLOCH22 September 1872Mary Ann TULLOCHFind the father
Johannah WILLIAMSON23 May 1869Williamina WILLIAMSONFind the father
Johannah Christina WILLIAMSON12 August 1857Catharine WILLIAMSONFind the father
Magnus William WILLIAMSON21 December 1874Mary Ann WILLIAMSONFind the father
Robina Charlotte WILLIAMSON3 July 1871Elizabeth WILLIAMSONFind the father
Magnus WOOD28 February 1864Agnes WOODFind 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.


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  • Records
    • Board of Supervision
    • Fathers Found
    • Asylum Patients
    • Sheriff Court Paternity Decrees
    • Sheriff Court Extract Decrees
    • School Leaving Certificates
    • Crown Office Cases AD8 >
      • AD8 index 1890 01
      • AD8 index 1890 02
      • AD8 index 1890 03
      • AD8 index 1890 04
      • AD8 index 1890 05
      • AD8 index 1890 06
      • AD8 index 1890 07
      • AD8 index 1890 08
      • AD8 index 1890 09
      • AD8 index 1890 10
      • AD8 index 1890 11
      • AD8 index 1900 1
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      • AD8 index 1900 5
      • AD8 index 1900 6
    • Crown Counsel Procedure Books
    • Registers of Deeds
    • General Register of the Poor
    • Registers of Sudden Deaths
    • Anatomy Registers
  • Resources
    • Scottish Genealogy Sources
    • KINCLAVEN One Place Study >
      • Kinclaven 1911 census
      • Kinclaven Parish Church Books
      • Kinclaven Communion Roll 1880-1894
    • Archives in Scotland map
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