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Records -> Argyll

North Knapdale 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.
We do not currently have any lookups available for this parish.


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
John BEATON 1849 (3)Order imagesAgain before Board - refused
Catherine CAMPBELL 1872 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Isabella CAMPBELL or MCLEAN 1861-1862 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Agnes Mitchell LEITCH 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Christina MACFARLANE 1867 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow MCLEAN 1861 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Mary MCLEAN 1850 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Ann MCNIEL 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
Euphemia GRAHAM
Keirlathan Farm, North Knapdale, Argyllshire
George KERR10 May 1862Order nowStirling
SC67/5/18
Mary MCPHAIL
Kilmichael, Inverlussa, North Knapdale
Neil DEWAR30 Sep 1885Order nowInveraray
SC51/7/10
Elizabeth SMITH
Drimnagall, North Knapdale
Peter MCINTYRE30 Oct 1881Order nowInveraray
SC51/7/10
Elizabeth SMITH
Drimnagall, North Knapdale
Peter MCINTYRE30 Oct 1881Order nowInveraray
SC51/7/10
Agnes STEWART
Tayvallich, North Knapdale, Argyllshire
James SWEENIE30 Mar 1853Order nowPaisley
SC58/7/12


School Leaving Certificate Exams

This is an index to the registers of school leaving certificate examination results (NRS Reference ED36). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order now link.
School leaving certificate examinations
NameDate of birthSchoolYearOrder record
Charles MCLEAN26 Aug 1893North Knapdale Tayvallich Public School1910Order now
Ina A POLLOCK8 Aug 1891North Knapdale Bellanoch Public School1909Order now
Ina R POLLOCK8 Aug 1891North Knapdale Bellanoch Public School1908Order now


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
Alexander BAXTER24 February 1859Catherine BAXTERFind the father
Ann BRODIE17 July 1857Mary BRODIEFather found
Elizabeth BROWN13 March 1860Elizabeth BROWNFind the father
Duncan CAMPBELL27 August 1865Janet CAMPBELLFind the father
Isabella CAMPBELL18 July 1859Janet CAMPBELLFind the father
Donald LAMONT25 July 1865Elizabeth LAMONTFind the father
Angus LEITCH8 July 1857Betsy LEITCHFind the father
Mary LEITCH24 August 1859Ann LEITCHFind the father
Neil LEITCH1 July 1862Ann LEITCHFind the father
Duncan MCCALLUM1 October 1874Sarah MCCALLUMFind the father
Mary Ann MCCULLOCH28 February 1857Catherine MCCULLOCHFind the father
Jane MCDONALD28 February 1873Jane MCDONALDFind the father
Malcolm MCDONALD3 December 1870Margaret MCDONALDFind the father
Catherine MCFARLANE3 January 1867Christina MCFARLANEFind the father
Donald MCFARLANE20 December 1863Christian MCFARLANEFind the father
John MCGILP24 January 1864Mary MCGILPFind the father
Angus MCGUGAN18 February 1863Sarah MCGUGANFind the father
Donald MCINTYRE1 June 1861Catherine MCINTYREFind the father
Neil MCKELLAR10 January 1866Jane MCKELLARFind the father
Mary MCLACHLAN4 June 1859Christina MCLACHLANFind the father
Duncan MCVICAR10 October 1867Mary MCVICARFind 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.


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