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Mouswald records

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Poor Law appeals – Indexed Poor Law appeals with the option to order images of records.

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.

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
David HALL 1855 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Mary HANLIN 1853-1854 (2)Order imagesRefused
Isabella HOPE St Michael Street Dumfries1845 (1)Order imagesRefused
Isabella HOPE 1847 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed by additional temporary relief and child's convalescence
Widow Margt JOHNSTON or WILLIAMSON 1851 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow Margt JOHNSTON or WILLIAMSON 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Isabella KERR 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Mary KIRK or IRVING 1849 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Catherine LAING 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Janet MACKAY or SMITH 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Janet MCKAY or SMITH 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused - see 189 1850
Widow Janet MCKAY or SMITH 1852 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John MCMILLAN 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
Nicholas MITCHELL or RIDDICH 1856-1857 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Nicholas RIDDOCK 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
James BROWN13 June 1862Mary BROWNFind the father
Isabella BRYDONE5 July 1873Georgina BRYDONEFind the father
Peter BRYSON11 February 1857Margaret BRYSONFind the father
James CORRIE16 November 1871Jean CORRIEFind the father
Jane COUPLAND18 June 1864Catherine COUPLANDFather found
Joseph COWAN7 September 1857Ann COWANFind the father
Robert COWAN20 December 1868Margaret COWANFind the father
William CREIGHTON19 September 1855Mary CREIGHTONFind the father
Margaret CUMMING8 November 1857Elspeth CUMMINGFind the father
Agnes DICKSON7 March 1860Elizabeth DICKSONFather found
Jacob DICKSON12 November 1868Elisabeth DICKSONFind the father
Jane Nichol DICKSON19 August 1863Catherine DICKSONFind the father
Mary Agnes FERGUSSON2 February 1872Jane FERGUSSONFind the father
Annie Scott FRASER22 March 1864Elizabeth FRASERFind the father
Mary FRASER27 August 1860Elizabeth FRASERFind the father
Peter FRASER5 September 1857Elisabeth FRASERFind the father
Robert FRASER30 July 1866Elizabeth FRASERFind the father
James GIBSON20 February 1867Margaret GIBSONFind the father
Mary GLENDINNING31 August 1867Agnes GLENDINNINGFind the father
Agnes GOLDIE12 July 1872Margaret GOLDIEFind the father
Helen Hutton GOLDIE27 July 1863Margaret GOLDIEFind the father
Janet GOLDIE29 January 1867Margaret GOLDIEFind the father
John GOLDIE24 June 1873Elisabeth GOLDIEFind the father
Janet HALL18 April 1861Ann HALLFind the father
Mary Johnstone HALL21 June 1873Elisabeth HALLFind the father
John HALLIDAY3 April 1874Margaret HALLIDAYFather found
Martha HALLIDAY17 May 1868Catherine HALLIDAYFind the father
Isabella HILL22 August 1871Jane HILLFind the father
Jessie Jane Palmer HUTTON9 June 1862Mary HUTTONFind the father
Margaret HUTTON23 March 1859Mary HUTTONFind the father
Marion Reid HUTTON21 December 1855Mary HUTTONFind the father
Mary HUTTON27 December 1870Mary HUTTONFind the father
James IRVING16 December 1865Sarah IRVINGFind the father
John IRVING24 November 1871Amelia IRVINGFind the father
Joseph IRVING9 January 1866Helen IRVINGFind the father
Robina IRVING15 October 1869Sarah IRVINGFind the father
Margaret Scott JARDINE10 September 1855Jane JARDINEFind the father
William JOHNSTON23 January 1867Mary JOHNSTONFind the father
Isabella KERR16 July 1871Agnes KERRFather found
Mary Ann KIRK2 December 1866Elizabeth KIRKFind the father
William MCCALL30 July 1869Jane MCCALLFind the father
John Carruthers MITCHELL10 April 1870Margaret MITCHELLFind the father
Robert Crosbie MUNDELL26 December 1873Elisabeth MUNDELLFather found
Margaret Mckee OSBORNE22 October 1864Jessie OSBORNEFind the father
Isabella RAFFERTY31 August 1866Mary RAFFERTYFind the father
James RAFFERTY18 August 1860Isabella RAFFERTYFather found
Robert RAFFERTY11 January 1866Catherine RAFFERTYFind the father
Robert ROBESON8 July 1857Mary ROBESONFind the father
William THOMSON31 July 1860Agnes THOMSONFind the father
James TWEEDIE20 January 1871Margaret TWEEDIEFind the father
Jane TWEEDIE29 March 1866Elizabeth TWEEDIEFind the father
Margaret TWEEDIE13 July 1872Janet TWEEDIEFind the father
Walter TWEEDIE16 December 1867Elisabeth TWEEDIEFind the father
William WILSON23 May 1874Agnes WILSONFind the father

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.