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Newburn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/278/3 | Minutes | 1724-1764 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/4 | Accounts | 1746-1756 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/5 | Accounts | 1769-1829 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/7 | Minutes | 1829-1884 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/10 | Communion Roll | 1893-1898 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/11 | Communion Roll | 1898-1907 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/15 | Baptismal Roll | 1855-1911 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/16 | Baptismal Roll & Proclamations Baptismal Roll 1883-1922 Proclamations 1884-1917 | 1883-1917 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/18 | Proclamation Register | 1855-1880 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/20 | Cash Book | 1829-1910 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/21 | Mortsafe subscribers' cash book | 1824-1877 | Request lookup |
| CH2/278/22 | Lair plan and heritors' division of kirk (roll) | 1886 | 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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary ALLAN | 1 May 1869 | Catherine ALLAN | Father found |
| James BIRRELL | 12 June 1866 | Anne BIRRELL | Find the father |
| Mary BISSET | 1 October 1870 | Mary BISSET | Find the father |
| Mary BREWSTER | 15 October 1860 | Elspet BREWSTER | Find the father |
| Betsy BROWN | 9 March 1872 | Agnes BROWN | Find the father |
| William BROWN | 15 August 1870 | Agnes BROWN | Find the father |
| Janet Millar BRUNTON | 9 March 1868 | Euphemia BRUNTON | Father found |
| David CHRISTIE | 19 August 1865 | Janet CHRISTIE | Find the father |
| Thomas DALRYMPLE | 22 November 1859 | Mary DALRYMPLE | Find the father |
| Joan DAVIDSON | 10 January 1872 | Elizabeth DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Margaret DAVIDSON | 3 February 1862 | Euphemia DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Marjory DAVIDSON | 26 December 1861 | Marjory DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| John DUNCAN | 19 December 1857 | Agnes DUNCAN | Find the father |
| Thomas FULTON | 21 July 1857 | Agnes FULTON | Find the father |
| Robert Findlay MAIR | 25 June 1874 | Ellen MAIR | Find the father |
| John SMITH | 26 April 1874 | Elspit SMITH | Find the father |
| Wilhelmina SMITH | 25 September 1871 | Elspit SMITH | Find the father |
| John Wallace STORRAR | 8 May 1868 | Jane STORRAR | Find the father |
| Euphemia TURNBULL | 20 January 1859 | Ann TURNBULL | Find the father |
| David WALLACE | 30 May 1859 | Agnes WALLACE | Find the father |
| Rachel WOOD | 11 April 1861 | Cecilia WOOD | Find the father |
General Register of Lunatics
This index shows patients from this parish admitted to asylums. To order a record click on the Order images link.
| Name | Date of death | Order | Asylums | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELDER or IMRIE, Isabella domestic Born about 1885 Married Previous residence: Pitcorthie Mains Farm, Colinsburgh Chargeable parish: Markinch | Order image (1) | Fife District Asylum | 1915 | |
| HENRY, David coachman Born about 1844 Widowed Chargeable parish: Newburn | 24 Jun 1901 | Order image (1) | Fife District Asylum | 1901 |
| IMRIE or ELDER, Isabella domestic Born about 1885 Married Previous residence: Pitcorthie Mains Farm, Colinsburgh Chargeable parish: Markinch | Order image (1) | Fife District Asylum | 1915 | |
| OSWALD, Robert labourer Born about 1844 Married Previous residence: Edinburgh Chargeable parish: Leven | Order images (3) | Fife Fife And Kinross | 1872-1879 | |
| ROBERTSON, Annie domestic servant Born about 1867 Single Previous residence: Kilconquhar Chargeable parish: Kilconquhar | 2 Aug 1938 | Order image (1) | Fife District Asylum | 1898 |
| SCOTT or WILSON, Mary housewife Born about 1862 Married Previous residence: Coates Cottage, Newburn Chargeable parish: Newburn | Order image (1) | Fife District Asylum | 1897 | |
| WILSON or SCOTT, Mary housewife Born about 1862 Married Previous residence: Coates Cottage, Newburn Chargeable parish: Newburn | Order image (1) | Fife District Asylum | 1897 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | Wylde | Gilston | ||
| David | Gatherim | |||
| Colin | Roger | |||
| Thomas | Brown | |||
| David | Kirk | |||
| George | Chrystie | |||
| John | Cowper | |||
| George | Stewart | |||
| William | Trail | |||
| Robert | Hodge | |||
| David | Millar | |||
| Alexr | Muir | |||
| William | Davidson | |||
| John | Wallace | |||
| William | Gold | |||
| Gold | elder | |||
| James | Wilson | |||
| William | Morgan | |||
| Henry | Robertson | |||
| William | Simpson | |||
| John | Scott | |||
| Thomas | Cockburn | |||
| Robert | Aitcheson | |||
| Robert | Anderson | |||
| Andrew | Wood | |||
| Thomas | Brown | |||
| James | Gray | |||
| John | Anderson | |||
| Brown | ||||
| Charles | King | |||
| Ballingall | elder | |||
| Thomas | Turnbull | |||
| George | Duncan | |||
| Thomas | Bell | |||
| Thomas | Coutts | |||
| William | Duncan | |||
| Alexander | Broodie | |||
| James | Murdoch | |||
| James | Hutcheson | |||
| William | Forrester | |||
| Robert | Scott | |||
| Thomas | Syme | |||
| William | Wilkie | |||
| John | Syme | |||
| Hugh | Birrell | |||
| Hodge | elder | |||
| David | Birrell | |||
| Charles | Forrester | |||
| John | Wood | |||
| Thos | Syme | |||
| William M | Wright | |||
| James | Thomson | |||
| William | Fulton | |||
| Robert | Brown | |||
| David | Staig | |||
| John | Turnbull | |||
| Thomas | Aitcheson | |||
| James | Syme |
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.
