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Records -> Edinburgh

Edinburgh Morningside 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/486/1Kirk session minutes (1838-1842, 1864-1891) and Proposal to build Church (1837) and List of Subscribers (1837) and Constitution (1838)
Minutes 1839-1842
Minutes 1865-1891 (including proposals for building church at Morningside, list of subscribers, 1837, constitution, extracted from minutes of presbytery of Edinburgh, 1838, Confession of Faith, formula for elders, 1839-1888, report and statement for 1868-69).
1837-1891Request lookup
CH2/486/3Communion Roll and Role of Male Heads of Families
(Including Roll of heads of families 1839-1841)
1839-1841Request lookup
CH2/486/4Communion Roll (1871-1877) and Abstract of Numbers of Communicants (1867-1878)1867-1878Request lookup
CH2/486/6Communion Roll (Scroll)1877-1889Request lookup
CH2/486/7Communion Roll (Scroll)1889-1895Request lookup
CH2/486/8Communion Roll (Scroll)1896-1900Request lookup
CH2/486/22Congregational fund accounts
Lists of subcribers and donors
1892-1907Request lookup
CH2/486/23Congregational fund accounts
Includes extensive lists of subscribers and donors
1891-1931Request lookup
CH2/486/38Baptismal register1888-1933Request lookup
CH2/486/39Proclamation register1875-1901Request lookup
CH2/486/45Communion roll1900-1907Request lookup


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.


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). 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.

We have not found any relevant records for this parish.


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.

Male Heads of families 1839 (NRS Reference: CH2/486/3 pp. 28-30)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
WilliamAndersonlabourerTipperlinFrom United Ass Synod Nicolson St
ArchibaldAllanlabourerBlackfordfrom St Cuthberts
JamesBertramfarmerEast Merchistonfrom Lady Yesters; Removed, returned to Lady Yesters Church
JamesBertramcoachmanFalcon Hall
ArchibaldBissetcowfeederMorningsidefrom St Cuthberts
ArchibaldBissetjoinerHome Streetfrom St Cuthberts
ThomasBaxterfarm servantWhitehouse
JohnBriggsgardenerMillbankfrom U A S Dean Street
GeorgeBailliegardenerGrange Loan
CharlesChalmersMerchiston Castlefrom Buccleugh
DickCampbellshoemakerMorningside
J ADalzellWhitehouse
WillmDenholmsmithMorningsidefrom Leith Wynd
JamesDenholmsmithMorningsidefrom Leith Wynd
JohnDeucharMorningside
JamesDickfarm servantGreenbank
JohnDempsterhostler14 Wrights Housesfrom Biggar
AdamFowlerbakerMorningsidefrom St Georges
JamesFergiegardenerCanaan Lodge
GilbertFowlergardener13 Bruntsfield Links
WalterGrahamMerchiston Lodgefrom St Cuthberts
JamesGilberttailorJordan Lanefrom Relief St James' Place
JamesGourlaygardenerBruntsfield House
ArchibaldHunterlabourerMorningsidefrom St Cuthberts
AlexanderHarrowerfarm servantMyreside
CharlesHunterwright5 Steeles Place
WilliamHunterbuilderGoshen
WilliamJacksonlabourerTipperlin
JohnJohnstongardenerBraids Burn
LaurenceJacksonlabourerBoroughmuirhead
Alexr JardineLizarsMDKirkbankfrom High Church; removed to Aberdeen Sept 1841
AlexanderLawriehindGreenbankfrom Colinton
JohnLiddelgardenerCanaan Housefrom UAS Dean Street
JohnMathewsongardenerPlewlandsfrom St Cuthberts; elder of Morningside parish
ArchibaldMathewsongardenerPlewlandsfrom St Cuthberts
WilliamMunochlate manufacturer and elderTipperlinfrom St Cuthberts; died February 1841
JohnMillarof Stewartfield9 Bruntsfield Placefrom Jedburgh; removed
BenjaminMitchellgardenerSt Roquefrom St Cuthberts
WilliamMonilawsgardenerCanaan CottageRemoved
DavidMannersgardenerCanaan Lane
JohnMccrawmerchantWesterhall Cottagefrom High Church; elder of Morningside parish
AlexrMcdonaldlate sergeantMorningsidefrom St Johns Episcopal; died 29th April 1841
JamesMcglashanGrange Loan
DavidMcgilllabourerBoroughmuirhead
DonaldMcintyreJordan Bank Housefrom Stockbridge
LauchlanMckinnonBoroughmuirhead
PeterOgggardenerGreenhill
JohnPorteouslabourerTipperlinfrom Colinton
AndrewPorteouscowfeederBoroughmuirheadfrom St Cuthberts
WillmPorteousfarmerMorningside Bankfrom St Cuthberts
AlexanderPorteousfarm servantMorningside Bankfrom St Cuthberts
DavidPhillipsgardenerGrange Loanfrom St Cuthberts
JohnPorteousgrieveCraighouse
ThomasRobbbutlerJordan Lane
AlexanderRusselGrangebank
JamesReidlabourerBlackfordfrom St Cuthberts
JamesRitchiehindGreenbankfrom Colinton; removed to England
EdwardReidlabourerGrange Loan
JamesRobertson1 Montpelier Viewforthfrom St Georges; elder of Morningside parish; died 31st Aug 1840
MurdochRobertsonMontpelier Cottagefrom St Georges
WilliamRobertsonjoinerMorningsidefrom U A S Vennel; removed, returned to UAS Vennel
TodMorningside Place
AlexanderThomsonWSCanaan Housefrom St Andws Church
JohnTweedieagentGoshen Bank
DavidWilsongardenerCanaan Park
JamesWilkielabourerTipperlin
AlexanderWhitecoachmanCanaan Housefrom Jedburgh; removed
ThomasWoodgardenerFalcon Hallfrom St Cuthberts
JamesWatsongrocerMorningside

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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