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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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/486/1 | Kirk 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). | 1837-1891 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/3 | Communion Roll and Role of Male Heads of Families (Including Roll of heads of families 1839-1841) | 1839-1841 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/4 | Communion Roll (1871-1877) and Abstract of Numbers of Communicants (1867-1878) | 1867-1878 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/6 | Communion Roll (Scroll) | 1877-1889 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/7 | Communion Roll (Scroll) | 1889-1895 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/8 | Communion Roll (Scroll) | 1896-1900 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/22 | Congregational fund accounts Lists of subcribers and donors | 1892-1907 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/23 | Congregational fund accounts Includes extensive lists of subscribers and donors | 1891-1931 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/38 | Baptismal register | 1888-1933 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/39 | Proclamation register | 1875-1901 | Request lookup |
| CH2/486/45 | Communion roll | 1900-1907 | Request 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.
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.
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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | Anderson | labourer | Tipperlin | From United Ass Synod Nicolson St |
| Archibald | Allan | labourer | Blackford | from St Cuthberts |
| James | Bertram | farmer | East Merchiston | from Lady Yesters; Removed, returned to Lady Yesters Church |
| James | Bertram | coachman | Falcon Hall | |
| Archibald | Bisset | cowfeeder | Morningside | from St Cuthberts |
| Archibald | Bisset | joiner | Home Street | from St Cuthberts |
| Thomas | Baxter | farm servant | Whitehouse | |
| John | Briggs | gardener | Millbank | from U A S Dean Street |
| George | Baillie | gardener | Grange Loan | |
| Charles | Chalmers | Merchiston Castle | from Buccleugh | |
| Dick | Campbell | shoemaker | Morningside | |
| J A | Dalzell | Whitehouse | ||
| Willm | Denholm | smith | Morningside | from Leith Wynd |
| James | Denholm | smith | Morningside | from Leith Wynd |
| John | Deuchar | Morningside | ||
| James | Dick | farm servant | Greenbank | |
| John | Dempster | hostler | 14 Wrights Houses | from Biggar |
| Adam | Fowler | baker | Morningside | from St Georges |
| James | Fergie | gardener | Canaan Lodge | |
| Gilbert | Fowler | gardener | 13 Bruntsfield Links | |
| Walter | Graham | Merchiston Lodge | from St Cuthberts | |
| James | Gilbert | tailor | Jordan Lane | from Relief St James' Place |
| James | Gourlay | gardener | Bruntsfield House | |
| Archibald | Hunter | labourer | Morningside | from St Cuthberts |
| Alexander | Harrower | farm servant | Myreside | |
| Charles | Hunter | wright | 5 Steeles Place | |
| William | Hunter | builder | Goshen | |
| William | Jackson | labourer | Tipperlin | |
| John | Johnston | gardener | Braids Burn | |
| Laurence | Jackson | labourer | Boroughmuirhead | |
| Alexr Jardine | Lizars | MD | Kirkbank | from High Church; removed to Aberdeen Sept 1841 |
| Alexander | Lawrie | hind | Greenbank | from Colinton |
| John | Liddel | gardener | Canaan House | from UAS Dean Street |
| John | Mathewson | gardener | Plewlands | from St Cuthberts; elder of Morningside parish |
| Archibald | Mathewson | gardener | Plewlands | from St Cuthberts |
| William | Munoch | late manufacturer and elder | Tipperlin | from St Cuthberts; died February 1841 |
| John | Millar | of Stewartfield | 9 Bruntsfield Place | from Jedburgh; removed |
| Benjamin | Mitchell | gardener | St Roque | from St Cuthberts |
| William | Monilaws | gardener | Canaan Cottage | Removed |
| David | Manners | gardener | Canaan Lane | |
| John | Mccraw | merchant | Westerhall Cottage | from High Church; elder of Morningside parish |
| Alexr | Mcdonald | late sergeant | Morningside | from St Johns Episcopal; died 29th April 1841 |
| James | Mcglashan | Grange Loan | ||
| David | Mcgill | labourer | Boroughmuirhead | |
| Donald | Mcintyre | Jordan Bank House | from Stockbridge | |
| Lauchlan | Mckinnon | Boroughmuirhead | ||
| Peter | Ogg | gardener | Greenhill | |
| John | Porteous | labourer | Tipperlin | from Colinton |
| Andrew | Porteous | cowfeeder | Boroughmuirhead | from St Cuthberts |
| Willm | Porteous | farmer | Morningside Bank | from St Cuthberts |
| Alexander | Porteous | farm servant | Morningside Bank | from St Cuthberts |
| David | Phillips | gardener | Grange Loan | from St Cuthberts |
| John | Porteous | grieve | Craighouse | |
| Thomas | Robb | butler | Jordan Lane | |
| Alexander | Russel | Grangebank | ||
| James | Reid | labourer | Blackford | from St Cuthberts |
| James | Ritchie | hind | Greenbank | from Colinton; removed to England |
| Edward | Reid | labourer | Grange Loan | |
| James | Robertson | 1 Montpelier Viewforth | from St Georges; elder of Morningside parish; died 31st Aug 1840 | |
| Murdoch | Robertson | Montpelier Cottage | from St Georges | |
| William | Robertson | joiner | Morningside | from U A S Vennel; removed, returned to UAS Vennel |
| Tod | Morningside Place | |||
| Alexander | Thomson | WS | Canaan House | from St Andws Church |
| John | Tweedie | agent | Goshen Bank | |
| David | Wilson | gardener | Canaan Park | |
| James | Wilkie | labourer | Tipperlin | |
| Alexander | White | coachman | Canaan House | from Jedburgh; removed |
| Thomas | Wood | gardener | Falcon Hall | from St Cuthberts |
| James | Watson | grocer | Morningside |
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.
