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Newmachar parish 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.

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
CH2/281/3Minutes
Includes poor payments		1717-1753Request lookup
CH2/281/4Minutes
Includes poor payments		1753-1778Request lookup
CH2/281/5Minutes
Includes poor payments		1782-1811Request lookup
CH2/281/6Minutes1811-1846Request 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
  • £10 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
Archibald BROUN 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Archibald BROWN 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)

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. For births outwith this period, click here.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Alexander AIKEN15 November 1862Isabella AIKENFind the father
Jane AIKEN25 November 1863Isabella AIKENFind the father
Alexander ALLAN15 September 1857Isabella ALLANFind the father
Mary Robb BROWN17 December 1863Elizabeth BROWNFind the father
Peter BROWN23 May 1865Mary BROWNFind the father
William James BROWN11 August 1870Barbara BROWNFind the father
Jane CAMERON7 October 1855Jane CAMERONFind the father
Elspet CANTLAY18 October 1867Jane CANTLAYFind the father
James CANTLY27 January 1864Jane CANTLYFind the father
James CHARELS6 February 1866Hannah CHARELSFind the father
Ann CHARLES18 January 1863Hannah CHARLESFind the father
Henry CHARLES12 February 1871Hannah Robertson CHARLESFind the father
William CHARLES29 October 1864Margaret CHARLESFind the father
John CHEYNE28 April 1857Fackner CHEYNEFind the father
Alexander Kelman CLARK15 March 1873Jane CLARKFind the father
William Gordon CLARK18 July 1869Jane CLARKFind the father
John COLLIE11 May 1856Barbara COLLIEFind the father
George COURAGE6 May 1856Sophia COURAGEFind the father
Alexander COWIE5 November 1868Christina COWIEFind the father
Robina COWIE9 February 1861Christina COWIEFind the father
James CRANE6 January 1866Elizabeth CRANEFind the father
Eliza Rae CUMMING13 November 1860Margaret CUMMINGFind the father
Anne Wood DAVIDSON25 May 1873Hellen Crombie DAVIDSONFind the father
Hugh DAVIDSON12 December 1856Mary DAVIDSONFind the father
John DONALD1 September 1873Ann DONALDFind the father
William DONALD11 August 1870Ann DONALDFind the father
Elizabeth Mackie DUNCAN17 May 1863Elizabeth DUNCANFind the father
Jane DUNCAN29 December 1872Elizabeth DUNCANFind the father
John DUNCAN25 July 1862Barbara Jiels DUNCANFind the father
Hellen Christina ELRICK9 October 1856Ann ELRICKFind the father
Eliza Margaret FENTON3 May 1859Elizabeth FENTONFind the father
Jane FERRES18 November 1865Jane FERRESFind the father
Jane Allan GLASHAN16 February 1865Williamina Harvey GLASHANFind the father
Robert Reid GRUBB8 September 1869Elizabeth GRUBBFind the father
Ann Watt HARDIE23 March 1874Joanna Margaret Allan HARDIEFind the father
William HARDIE23 December 1865Mary HARDIEFind the father
George Legat HENDERSON29 September 1872Isabella HENDERSONFind the father
Mary HUTCHEON20 January 1863Mary HUTCHEONFind the father
Alexander Bruce INGRAM28 June 1860Helen INGRAMFind the father
Catherine Duncan JOSS21 December 1856Ann JOSSFind the father
George KIRTON27 April 1857Barbara Kirton Or WATTFind the father
Mary LAING12 September 1859Elizabeth LAINGFind the father
Agnes LITTLEJOHN23 September 1857Margaret LITTLEJOHNFind the father
Isabella LITTLEJOHN20 February 1857Barbara LITTLEJOHNFind the father
William Mackie LITTLEJOHN29 July 1856Hellen LITTLEJOHNFind the father
Jessie Mary LOCKHART2 August 1865Agnes LOCKHARTFind the father
William LYON30 August 1873Margaret LYONFind the father
Jessie Lamb MAIN17 September 1862Isabella MAINFind the father
James Chapman MAITLAND1 May 1865Margaret MAITLANDFind the father
Alexander Bruce MARNOCH14 April 1872Jane MARNOCHFind the father
George Moir MASSON1 March 1859Elizabeth MASSONFind the father
John Topp MCINTOSH19 October 1856Sarah MCINTOSHFind the father
Mary Milne MCINTOSH24 July 1856Margaret MCINTOSHFind the father
Elizabeth Ledingham MITCHELL28 August 1864Margaret Thomson MITCHELLFind the father
John MITCHELL8 June 1859Isabella MITCHELLFind the father
Peter MITCHELL26 December 1856Isabella MITCHELLFind the father
Margaret MUTCH21 January 1867Jane MUTCHFind the father
Jane NORRIE22 November 1865Jane NORRIEFind the father
Jessie Brichen RAE29 December 1862Ann RAEFind the father
William Findlay RAE23 October 1860Ann Leslie RAEFind the father
John Barnett RAEBURN15 February 1858Jane RAEBURNFind the father
John ROBB1 July 1865Mary ROBBFind the father
Milina Margaret ROBB20 July 1867Mary ROBBFind the father
Robert Forrest ROBERTSON6 September 1867Mary ROBERTSONFind the father
William Senter SHARP16 October 1865Jessie SHARPFind the father
William SIMPSON7 August 1861May SIMPSONFind the father
Alexander SMITH18 January 1865Margaret SMITHFind the father
Eliza Mutch SMITH25 October 1871Agnes SMITHFind the father
James England SMITH31 December 1869Margaret SMITHFind the father
Margaret Jane SMITH11 August 1870Jane SMITHFind the father
Peter Garden SMITH17 August 1865Jane SMITHFind the father
George Donald STEWART21 October 1863Jane STEWARTFind the father
George Forbes THOMSON8 February 1871Christian THOMSONFind the father
Isabella Moir THOMSON28 January 1868Christina THOMSONFind the father
Margaret Ledingham THOMSON28 July 1868Isabella THOMSONFind the father
John TOPP22 June 1874Mary TOPPFind the father
Catherine WALKER5 April 1870Jessie WALKERFind the father
Barbara Patterson WATSON24 April 1858Elspet WATSONFind the father
George WATSON20 December 1873Elizabeth WATSONFind the father
George Cow WATSON9 November 1874Elizabeth WATSONFind the father
William Aitken WATSON17 April 1867Helen WATSONFind the father
Ann WILKIE20 November 1859Elizabeth WILKIEFind 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

We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish