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Minnigaff 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert COCHRANE | 1863 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Agnes FINDLAY | 1862 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Mary FINDLAY | 1851 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Agnes HERON | Old Village Minnigaff | 1845 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Joan HUGHES | 1852 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Martin JAMESON | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Mary MCGILL | 1863 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| John MILLIGAN | 1846 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| David PEACOCK | 1853 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow POLAND | 1851 (3) | 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.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agnes GILLESPIE or THOMSON Minnigaff | William HANNAY | 19 Nov 1853 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/6 |
| Marion KERR Machermore, Minnigaff | James MCMASTER | 11 Mar 1882 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Marion KERR Carsenaw, Minnigaff | James MCMASTER | 11 Apr 1883 | Order now | Kirkcudbright SC16/7/16 |
| Janet MCCAA Drumyan$, Minigaff | James RANKINE | 19 Jan 1856 | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/10 |
| Georgina MCCRONE Blackcraig, Minnigaff | Gavin MOFFAT | 20 Oct 1892 Palnure, Minnigaff | Order now | Kirkcudbright SC16/7/16 |
| Joan MCCULLOCH Minnigaff | John MCDOWALL | 16 Jun 1878 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/8 |
| Grace MURRAY or DRYSDALE Carsnow, Minnigaff | Isaac JACKSON | 14 Sep 1867 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/34 |
| Margaret PEACOCK or KELLY Blackcraig, Minnigaff | Terence TOUL | 4 Oct 1840 | Order now | Kirkcudbright SC16/7/12 |
| Jane Paxton REID Creebridge, Minnigaff | John H MCCULLOCH | 1 Oct 1877 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/8 |
| Mary Ann RODGERS Caldons, Minnigaff | James GILLESPIE | 1 Jun 1884 | Order now | Wigtown SC19/7/9 |
| Mary Ann SHAW or MCCULLOCH Minnigaff | William MCKIE | 1 Mar 1865 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/33 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James ALLAN | 8 October 1873 | Isabella ALLAN | Find the father |
| Robert ALLISON | 5 November 1865 | Mina ALLISON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth ANDERSON | 18 April 1863 | Mary ANDERSON | Father found |
| Elizabeth Shennan ANDERSON | 6 April 1861 | Maria ANDERSON | Find the father |
| William ANDERSON | 25 December 1873 | Mary ANDERSON | Find the father |
| John BRYANT | 16 October 1866 | Mary BRYANT | Find the father |
| Jane BRYDONE | 28 May 1861 | Margaret BRYDONE | Find the father |
| Ebenezer CANT | 17 June 1863 | Jane CANT | Find the father |
| James CARRUTHERS | 28 August 1859 | Sophia CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| Janet CARRUTHERS | 27 September 1866 | Barbara CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| Jessie CARRUTHERS | 14 September 1869 | Barbara CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| Robina CARRUTHERS | 15 October 1873 | Barbara CARRUTHERS | Find the father |
| Jessie CLARK | 27 March 1855 | Catherine CLARK | Find the father |
| Isabella CLEMENT | 12 September 1860 | Jane CLEMENT | Find the father |
| Sarah Anne CLUGSTON | 9 June 1863 | Elizabeth CLUGSTON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth CRAWFORD | 2 August 1859 | Jane CRAWFORD | Find the father |
| Ellen CRAWFORD | 21 January 1861 | Elizabeth CRAWFORD | Find the father |
| James CRAWFORD | 22 September 1864 | Elizabeth MCCREADIE | Find the father |
| William CRAWFORD | 14 March 1861 | Jane CRAWFORD | Find the father |
| David CROTHERS | 6 December 1859 | Barbara CROTHERS | Find the father |
| Maxwell Alexander CROTHERS | 22 August 1863 | Barbara CROTHERS | Find the father |
| William CROTHERS | 9 May 1862 | Sophia CROTHERS | Find the father |
| Agnes CUMMING | 28 August 1866 | Agnes CUMMING | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Irvine CUMMINGS | 4 September 1863 | Margaret CUMMINGS | Find the father |
| Mary DONALDSON | 15 May 1868 | Elizabeth DONALDSON | Find the father |
| Agnes FERGUSON | 14 September 1873 | Agnes FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Jessie Agnes FERGUSON | 26 December 1873 | Jane FERGUSON | Find the father |
| William GAMMELL | 3 October 1868 | Margaret GAMMELL | Find the father |
| William GRAHAM | 14 July 1865 | Margaret GRAHAM | Find the father |
| George HAMILTON | 19 June 1864 | Margaret HAMILTON | Find the father |
| William Hastie HARVEY | 1 October 1866 | Jane HARVEY | Find the father |
| Jeanie HOUSTON | 27 October 1873 | Janet HOUSTON | Find the father |
| Agnes JOHNSTONE | 5 April 1873 | Margaret RICE | Find the father |
| Henry KELLY | 11 August 1870 | Margaret KELLY | Find the father |
| James KELLY | 24 November 1862 | Margaret KELLY | Find the father |
| John KINNA | 3 December 1872 | Jane KINNA | Find the father |
| Elizabeth KNOX | 16 December 1864 | Isabella KNOX | Find the father |
| John KNOX | 18 October 1868 | Isabella KNOX | Find the father |
| William KNOX | 22 November 1872 | Isabella KNOX | Find the father |
| James LAMONT | 9 April 1867 | Elizabeth LAMONT | Find the father |
| Margaret LAMONT | 15 June 1871 | Letitia LAMONT | Find the father |
| Peter LAMONT | 3 July 1869 | Letitia LAMONT | Find the father |
| Robert LAMONT | 20 February 1866 | Letitia LAMONT | Find the father |
| Thomas LAMONT | 5 September 1870 | Elizabeth LAMONT | Find the father |
| William LAMONT | 2 November 1863 | Elizabeth LAMONT | Find the father |
| Mary MACJANNET | 2 February 1857 | Mary MACJANNET | Find the father |
| John MARTIN | 14 March 1865 | Elizabeth MARTIN | Find the father |
| Niven MCCALLUM | 2 September 1862 | Helen MCCALLUM | Find the father |
| Sarah MCCALLUM | 9 October 1870 | Helen MCCALLUM | Find the father |
| John MCCAULL | 19 July 1874 | Maggie MCCAULL | Find the father |
| Robina MCCLEARIE | 21 November 1859 | Jessie MCCLEARIE | Find the father |
| Jessie MCCLEARY | 20 June 1863 | Jessie MCCLEARY | Find the father |
| Angus Walker MCCLYMONT | 13 August 1866 | Agnes Walker MCCLYMONT | Find the father |
| David MCCORMICK | 13 December 1870 | Sarah MCCORMICK | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MCCUTCHEON | 3 December 1873 | Elizabeth MCCUTCHEON | Find the father |
| Susan MCDOWALL | 16 April 1866 | Helen MCDOWALL | Find the father |
| William MCFARLANE | 12 July 1868 | Annie MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| Janet MCHALLUM | 29 October 1867 | Mary MCHALLUM | Find the father |
| Jane MCILWRAITH | 21 August 1865 | Christina MCILWRAITH | Find the father |
| Mary Crawford MCILWRAITH | 24 June 1874 | Agnes MCILWRAITH | Find the father |
| William MCILWRAITH | 9 November 1868 | Christina MCILWRAITH | Find the father |
| Isabella MCJANET | 24 October 1870 | Jessie MCJANET | Find the father |
| Janet MCJANET | 11 November 1871 | Mary MCJANET | Find the father |
| John MCJANNET | 9 December 1861 | Mary MCJANNET | Find the father |
| Mary MCKANDERY | 11 January 1870 | Elizabeth MCKANDERY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MCKENDRY | 27 March 1869 | Mary MCKENDRY | Find the father |
| John MCKIE | 18 August 1863 | Agnes MCKIE | Find the father |
| Mary Jane MCKIE | 3 June 1858 | Mary MCKIE | Find the father |
| James MCMILLAN | 25 December 1863 | Jessie MCMILLAN | Father found |
| Jane MCMILLAN | 15 June 1868 | Jessie MCMILLAN | Find the father |
| Jessie MCMILLAN | 26 November 1873 | Jessie MCMILLAN | Find the father |
| George MCNELLIE | 10 July 1859 | Janet Elder MCNELLIE | Find the father |
| Robert MCQUAKER | 12 May 1872 | Margaret MCQUAKER | Find the father |
| Alexander MCTEIR | 15 January 1865 | Agnes MCTEIR | Find the father |
| Annie MOFFAT | 28 October 1866 | Margaret MOFFAT | Find the father |
| Annie MOFFAT | 25 December 1873 | Margaret MOFFAT | Find the father |
| James MOFFAT | 11 March 1863 | Mary MOFFAT | Find the father |
| John MOFFAT | 13 January 1863 | Margaret MOFFAT | Find the father |
| Mary Wright MOFFAT | 12 November 1869 | Margaret MOFFAT | Find the father |
| William MOFFAT | 30 June 1860 | Mary MOFFAT | Find the father |
| John MONTEATH | 4 March 1874 | Mary MONTEATH | Find the father |
| James MURCHIE | 9 December 1868 | Agnes MURCHIE | Find the father |
| Archibald Smith NEWBIGGING | 31 December 1857 | Jane NEWBIGGING | Find the father |
| John PATERSON | 1 March 1867 | Margaret PATERSON | Find the father |
| Sarah Douglas PATERSON | 12 September 1863 | Margaret PATERSON | Find the father |
| Andrew POLLOCK | 3 May 1872 | Elizabeth POLLOCK | Find the father |
| Mary POLLOCK | 1 June 1874 | Elizabeth POLLOCK | Find the father |
| Mary REID | 28 December 1873 | Jeanie REID | Find the father |
| Eleanor RICE | 26 December 1861 | Catherine RICE | Find the father |
| John RICE | 1 November 1865 | Agnes RICE | Find the father |
| Mina RICE | 1 November 1865 | Agnes RICE | Find the father |
| Mary ROY | 2 June 1861 | Ann ROY | Find the father |
| Emily Jessie Mair SILLARS | 23 August 1874 | Frances Mary SILLARS | Find the father |
| William SKIMMING | 30 August 1862 | Agnes SKIMMING | Find the father |
| Jane SMITH | 15 March 1870 | Margaret SMITH | Find the father |
| Jane SMITH | 13 June 1874 | Susan SMITH | Find the father |
| John SMITH | 10 November 1859 | Grace SMITH | Find the father |
| Margaret SMITH | 16 February 1868 | Grace SMITH | Find the father |
| Peter SMITH | 1 June 1862 | Grace SMITH | Find the father |
| Mary Fallar SYMINGTON | 18 August 1861 | Jessie SYMINGTON | Find the father |
| Ellen TAIT | 22 May 1865 | Annie TAIT | Find the father |
| Jane TAIT | 27 January 1868 | Annie TAIT | Find the father |
| John Rae TAIT | 3 January 1858 | Annie TAIT | Find the father |
| Thomas THORNTON | 20 June 1861 | Agnes THORNTON | Find the father |
| Francis Oniell TOAL | 28 July 1855 | Sarah TOAL | Find the father |
| John TONGUE | 2 April 1861 | Charlotte TONGUE | Find the father |
| John TONGUE | 25 July 1874 | Margaret TONGUE | Find the father |
| Mary TONGUE | 22 October 1872 | Margaret TONGUE | Find the father |
| Isaac TOPPING | 18 December 1873 | Mary TOPPING | Find the father |
| James TOPPING | 15 September 1866 | Phebe TOPPING | Find the father |
| William WILSON | 30 June 1866 | Jane WILSON | Find the father |
| Thomasine WROE | 30 April 1858 | Mary Anne WROE | 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.
