Records -> Peeblesshire
Newlands 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/543/1 | Transcript heritors' minutes | 1790-1927 | Request lookup |
| CH2/543/2 | Transcript heritors' minutes | 1836-1915 | Request lookup |
| CH2/543/3 | Transcript heritors' accounts | 1850-1893 | Request lookup |
| CH2/543/8 | Accounts Includes poor payments | 1709-1759 | 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 are pleased to be able to offer to obtain images of the minutes for each appeal, at the following rates:
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)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John BRUNTON | Gorgie Park West Kirk Parish | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Elizabeth CLARK | 1852-1853 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Helen HILSON or LAING | 1859 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Helen HILSON or LAING | 1868 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Jane HOGG | 1851 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Catherine RAMSAY or PRINGLE | 1862 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Margaret SAMUEL | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert SAMUEL | 1871 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Elizabeth SMITH | 1852 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane PATERSON Madressa, Newlands | Samuel Everitt JOHNSTON | 9 Jan 1878 | Order now | Peebles SC42/9/11 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James BANKS | 20 July 1870 | Ann BANKS | Find the father |
| Ebenezer BERTRAM | 3 October 1867 | Margaret BERTRAM | Father found |
| David John Cupar BRODIE | 17 April 1864 | Marion BRODIE | Find the father |
| Jane COLLINS | 17 August 1868 | Janet COLLINS | Find the father |
| Mary COLLINS | 9 September 1864 | Janet COLLINS | Find the father |
| Thomas COLLINS | 17 August 1868 | Janet COLLINS | Find the father |
| William DICKSON | 26 January 1858 | Margaret DICKSON | Find the father |
| William James FERGUSON | 15 June 1865 | Christina Weir FERGUSON | Find the father |
| William GRAY | 19 November 1863 | Mary GRAY | Find the father |
| Marion INCH | 8 June 1860 | Marion INCH | Find the father |
| Thomas INCH | 10 May 1858 | Agnes INCH | Find the father |
| William Wilson INCH | 7 March 1857 | Marion INCH | Find the father |
| David INGLIS | 18 January 1855 | Marion INGLIS | Find the father |
| James Wright INGLIS | 16 August 1856 | Janet INGLIS | Find the father |
| John INGLIS | 12 July 1867 | Cecilia INGLIS | Find the father |
| Agnes Smith JOHNSTON | 29 August 1864 | Jane JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Jane JOHNSTON | 16 August 1871 | Jane JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Janet Thomson Todd JOHNSTON | 29 August 1864 | Jane JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Janet KEITH | 30 September 1867 | Margaret KEITH | Find the father |
| William LEISHMAN | 4 October 1867 | Jane LEISHMAN | Find the father |
| Albert Richard MCGLAUGHLIN | 30 March 1872 | Jane MCGLAUGHLIN | Find the father |
| Eleanor Jane MCLAUGHLIN | 16 September 1869 | Anne MCLAUGHLIN | Find the father |
| Elisabeth MOFFAT | 25 September 1862 | Elisabeth MOFFAT | Find the father |
| Janet MOSSMAN | 14 September 1861 | Margaret MOSSMAN | Find the father |
| John Fleming MURDOCH | 8 August 1857 | Christina MURDOCH | Find the father |
| John Laidlaw MURRAY | 20 November 1863 | Agnes MURRAY | Find the father |
| Jane NOBLE | 20 January 1856 | Helen NOBLE | Find the father |
| Alexander Kemp PENMAN | 1 July 1863 | Agnes PENMAN | Find the father |
| John PRINGLE | 22 June 1871 | Isabella PRINGLE | Find the father |
| Robert SAMUEL | 25 April 1865 | Mary SAMUEL | Father found |
| Thomas Fergason SCOTT | 25 April 1859 | Helen SCOTT | Find the father |
| Janet Samuel SHADE | 4 September 1863 | Elisabeth SHADE | Find the father |
| Jane Inglis SIMPSON | 4 October 1873 | Janet SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Agnes SMITH | 5 March 1856 | Elisabeth SMITH | Find the father |
| Isabella Walton STEWART | 28 April 1862 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| Andrew Ferrit SWAN | 2 July 1856 | Agnes SWAN | Find the father |
| Elisabeth TELFER | 31 January 1870 | Helen TELFER | Find the father |
| Agnes TODD | 22 May 1865 | Jane TODD | Find the father |
| Isabella Renwick TODD | 22 October 1867 | Jane TODD | Find the father |
| William TURNER | 6 October 1858 | Isabella TURNER | Find the father |
| Christina WATSON | 16 November 1870 | Mary WATSON | Find the father |
| James Milne WELSH | 25 November 1865 | Agnes WELSH | Find the father |
| Margaret WHARRIE | 7 October 1865 | Margaret WHARRIE | Find the father |
| Henrietta Waters YOUNG | 28 May 1863 | Mary YOUNG | Find the father |
| Robert YOUNG | 14 July 1866 | Isabella YOUNG | Find 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.
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.
