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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.

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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/278/3Minutes1724-1764Request lookup
CH2/278/4Accounts1746-1756Request lookup
CH2/278/5Accounts1769-1829Request lookup
CH2/278/7Minutes1829-1884Request lookup
CH2/278/10Communion Roll1893-1898Request lookup
CH2/278/11Communion Roll1898-1907Request lookup
CH2/278/15Baptismal Roll1855-1911Request lookup
CH2/278/16Baptismal Roll & Proclamations
Baptismal Roll 1883-1922
Proclamations 1884-1917		1883-1917Request lookup
CH2/278/18Proclamation Register1855-1880Request lookup
CH2/278/20Cash Book1829-1910Request lookup
CH2/278/21Mortsafe subscribers' cash book1824-1877Request lookup
CH2/278/22Lair plan and heritors' division of kirk (roll)1886Request 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.

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Mary ALLAN1 May 1869Catherine ALLANFather found
James BIRRELL12 June 1866Anne BIRRELLFind the father
Mary BISSET1 October 1870Mary BISSETFind the father
Mary BREWSTER15 October 1860Elspet BREWSTERFind the father
Betsy BROWN9 March 1872Agnes BROWNFind the father
William BROWN15 August 1870Agnes BROWNFind the father
Janet Millar BRUNTON9 March 1868Euphemia BRUNTONFather found
David CHRISTIE19 August 1865Janet CHRISTIEFind the father
Thomas DALRYMPLE22 November 1859Mary DALRYMPLEFind the father
Joan DAVIDSON10 January 1872Elizabeth DAVIDSONFind the father
Margaret DAVIDSON3 February 1862Euphemia DAVIDSONFind the father
Marjory DAVIDSON26 December 1861Marjory DAVIDSONFind the father
John DUNCAN19 December 1857Agnes DUNCANFind the father
Thomas FULTON21 July 1857Agnes FULTONFind the father
Robert Findlay MAIR25 June 1874Ellen MAIRFind the father
John SMITH26 April 1874Elspit SMITHFind the father
Wilhelmina SMITH25 September 1871Elspit SMITHFind the father
John Wallace STORRAR8 May 1868Jane STORRARFind the father
Euphemia TURNBULL20 January 1859Ann TURNBULLFind the father
David WALLACE30 May 1859Agnes WALLACEFind the father
Rachel WOOD11 April 1861Cecilia WOODFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/278/7 pp. 14-15)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JamesWyldeGilston
DavidGatherim
ColinRoger
ThomasBrown
DavidKirk
GeorgeChrystie
JohnCowper
GeorgeStewart
WilliamTrail
RobertHodge
DavidMillar
AlexrMuir
WilliamDavidson
JohnWallace
WilliamGold
Goldelder
JamesWilson
WilliamMorgan
HenryRobertson
WilliamSimpson
JohnScott
ThomasCockburn
RobertAitcheson
RobertAnderson
AndrewWood
ThomasBrown
JamesGray
JohnAnderson
Brown
CharlesKing
Ballingallelder
ThomasTurnbull
GeorgeDuncan
ThomasBell
ThomasCoutts
WilliamDuncan
AlexanderBroodie
JamesMurdoch
JamesHutcheson
WilliamForrester
RobertScott
ThomasSyme
WilliamWilkie
JohnSyme
HughBirrell
Hodgeelder
DavidBirrell
CharlesForrester
JohnWood
ThosSyme
William MWright
JamesThomson
WilliamFulton
RobertBrown
DavidStaig
JohnTurnbull
ThomasAitcheson
JamesSyme

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.