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Records -> Berwickshire

Nenthorn 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
CH2/1323/1Minutes and Accounts 1696-1719; Minutes 1755-88; Minutes 1829-421696-1842Request lookup
CH2/1323/2Minutes1842-1949Request lookup
CH2/1323/4Baptismal register1885-1950Request lookup
CH2/1323/5Proclamation register1885-1950Request lookup
CH2/1323/6Communion roll
Annual rolls
1856-1914Request lookup
CH2/1323/10Accounts 1738-49; Minutes 1739-55
Includes mortcloth dues and poor rolls
1738-1755Request lookup
CH2/1323/12Accounts
Includes some mortcloth dues and poor payments
1813-1895Request 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 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
Mary CAIRNS or KNOX 1854 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Mary STEEL 1849 (2)Order imagesRefused


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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Margaret BROTHERSTON
Nenthorn
William HUNTER30 Jun 1854Order nowJedburgh
SC62/7/10
Helen FAIRGRIEVE
Courthill, Nenthorn
John TAIT22 Aug 1895
Selkirk
Order nowDuns
SC60/7/43
Isabella WILSON
Harrietfield, Nenthorn
Henry DAVIDSON26 Nov 1889Order nowJedburgh
SC62/7/14


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Jane BROTHERSTON26 October 1863Isabella BROTHERSTONFind the father
William BROTHERSTON20 March 1860Barbara BROTHERSTONFind the father
William CAVERS1 August 1857Euphemia CAVERSFind the father
Jane Shiels DAVIDSON2 July 1869Helen DAVIDSONFind the father
Alexander DUFF16 March 1871Dorothy DUFFFind the father
Isabella HENDERSON2 December 1866Isabella HENDERSONFind the father
Jane HENDERSON7 February 1863Catherine HENDERSONFind the father
William KNOX3 May 1858Janet KNOXFind the father
John MCFARLANE23 August 1865Catherine MCFARLANEFather found
William PURVIS14 November 1862Elizabeth PURVISFind the father
James RAE21 January 1857Eliza RAEFind the father
Alexander SIMPSON17 April 1874Margaret SIMPSONFind the father
Thomas STUART26 September 1862Grace STUARTFind the father
Mary TAIT14 August 1864Mary TAITFind the father
Agnes TENNANT12 December 1864Ann TENNANTFind the father
Agnes TENNANT18 July 1873Janet TENNANTFather found
Ann TENNANT27 August 1861Agnes TENNANTFind the father
George TERNENT5 November 1863Mary TERNENTFind the father
Isabel TERNENT30 September 1859Mary TERNENTFind the father
Robert TERNENT5 November 1868Mary TERNENTFind the father
John THOMSON30 December 1873Agnes THOMSONFind the father
Elizabeth TROTTER2 April 1863Janet TROTTERFather found
George WOOD2 July 1866Agnes WOODFind the father
John WOOD13 January 1858Agnes WOODFind the father
George WRIGHT14 August 1859Mary WRIGHTFind the father
Henry WRIGHT24 December 1873Mary WRIGHTFind the father
James WRIGHT10 October 1861Mary WRIGHTFind the father
John WRIGHT16 January 1871Mary WRIGHTFind the father
William WRIGHT2 November 1865Mary WRIGHTFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/1323/1 pp. 172-172)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JohnPurvesjoinerMellowleis
GeorgeYulejoinerMellowleis
JohnYulejoinerMellowleis
AlexanderHislopjoinerMellowleis
AndrewHislopfarmerMellowleis
AndrewRobisonfarmerBlinkbonny
WilliamHenrielabourerBlinkbonny
WilliamHumehindBlinkbonny
JohnThomsonhindBlinkbonny
WilliamSteelhindBlinkbonny
ThomasTrotterfarmerWhitehill
JohnHumehindWhitehill
RobertAickencotterWhitehill
JamesThomsonhindWhitehill
JosephSteelcotterCakemuir
JamesBroughfarmerCakemuir
RobertWeatherstonecotterNenthorn
RobertYounghindBurnbrae
JohnDavidsonparochial schoolmaster and elder
WilliamScottfarmerCourthill
JohnBlackfarm stewardCourthill
GeorgeRedpathhindCourthill
JohnBallantynehedgerCourthillrecord deleted; possibly added in error as next record has same name, but different address
JohnBallantynehedgerHarrietfield
JohnGradencotterHarrietfield
ThomasCarruthersfarm stewardHarrietfield
AlexrRamsayhindHarrietfield
JohnGanlabourerHarrietfield
DavidOrmistonhindHarrietfield
AndrewMatherjoinerNewton Don
ThomasMilllabourerNewton Don
PeterJohnstonefarmerGirrick
GeorgeRichardsonlabourerGirrick
JamesDoddslabourerGirrick
JamesRutherfordhindGirrick
GeorgeForbeshindGirrick
JohnDavidsonjoinerBlinkbonny
JohnHenrieshepherdBlinkbonny
HenryLermonthindGirrick

Male Heads of families 1836 (NRS Reference: CH2/1323/1 pp. 175-176)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
PeterJohnstonGirrick
HenryLermontGirrick
SamuelRutherfordGirrick
ThomasTrotterWhitehill
WilliamHarvieWhitehill
RobertLambWhitehill
RobertInglisWhitehill
AndrewHislopMellowleis
AlexrHislopMellowleis
JohnYuleMellowleis
WilliamAtchisonMellowleis
GeorgeYuleMellowleis
JohnPurvesMellowleis
WilliamBrownSneep
JamesNewtonSneep
AndrewRobisonBlinkbonny
JohnThomsonBlinkbonny
RobertTrotterBlinkbonny
JohnHenrieBlinkbonny
JohnDavidsonBlinkbonny
JohnBrownCakemuir
JohnDavidsonschoolmasterCakemuir
RobertWeatherstoneVillage
RobertYoungBurnbrae
AlexrGrayBurnbrae
WilliamScottCourthill
JohnBlackCourthill
GeorgeRedpathCourthill
AndrewMatherNewton
ThomasMillNewton
DavidHopeNewton
DavidOrmstonHarrietfield
ThomasCarruthersHarrietfield
RobertRobsonHarrietfield
JohnGradenHarrietfield
AlexrSimpsonHarrietfield
GeorgeTrotterHarrietfield
AlexrWhitelawTollhouse
JamesYoungerNenthorn House

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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