Records -> Ayrshire
Ochiltree 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:
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 BUCHAN | 1846 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Wm COOK | 1857 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Wm COOK | 1857 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| David FARQUHAR | 1857 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| David FARQUHAR | 1868 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| David FARQUHAR | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| David FARQUHAR | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| David FARQUHAR | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| David FARQUHAR | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| David FARQUHAR | 1870 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| David FARQUHAR | 1871 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert MCEWAN | 1857 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert MCEWAN | 1857 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| James PATERSON | 1850 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Barbara TURNER | 1864 (5) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Thomas TURNER | 1863 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow Mary WALLACE or GIBBIE | 1858 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean FINDLAY Moat Toll, Ochiltree | Robert BROWN | 22 Sep 1845 | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/9 |
| Agnes GILMOUR Ochiltree | Hutchison BESS | 17 Mar 1878 Ochiltree | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/16 |
| Helen KENNEDY Garrochhill Cottage, Ochiltree | John GLEN | 13 Sep 1886 9 Back Row, Trabboch Colliery, Ochiltree | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/18 |
| Elizabeth PEDEN Ochiltree | James PROBERT | 12 Jan 1879 Ochiltree | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/16 |
| Margaret WOODBURN Spierston, Ochiltree | William PATERSON | 14 Aug 1850 | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/11 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane AIRD | 14 January 1859 | Ellen AIRD | Find the father |
| John Hillhouse ALEXANDER | 5 August 1859 | Elisabeth ALEXANDER | Find the father |
| John Milwrick ANDERSON | 27 October 1867 | Elisabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| John AULD | 28 June 1855 | Mary AULD | Find the father |
| Mary Murray Templeton BAIRD | 28 May 1866 | Mary BAIRD | Find the father |
| James Lyle BLAIN | 1 April 1860 | Jean BLAIN | Find the father |
| Annie Bush BROWN | 15 June 1862 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| Mary BROWN | 15 May 1873 | Margaret BROWN | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Wilson BRYDEN | 29 July 1856 | Agnes BRYDEN | Find the father |
| John CAUGHTRIE | 24 June 1871 | Mary CAUGHTRIE | Find the father |
| John CAVAN | 22 August 1863 | Catherine CAVAN | Find the father |
| John CONNEL | 15 March 1866 | Jane CONNEL | Father found |
| James CRAWFORD | 8 February 1864 | Helen CRAWFORD | Find the father |
| William Paterson CUNNINGHAM | 22 November 1856 | Margaret Ferguson CUNNINGHAM | Find the father |
| Agnes Wallace CURRIE | 22 February 1874 | Marion CURRIE | Find the father |
| Jane DAVIDSON | 11 August 1856 | Agnes DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Elisabeth DICKIE | 12 November 1858 | Jean DICKIE | Find the father |
| Hugh DICKIE | 26 October 1871 | Jane DICKIE | Find the father |
| Grace FINDLAY | 18 August 1865 | Jean FINDLAY | Find the father |
| Ellen Howat GIBSON | 4 February 1858 | Ann GIBSON | Find the father |
| Isabella GILMOUR | 16 January 1869 | Jane GILMOUR | Find the father |
| William GILMOUR | 19 June 1871 | Jane GILMOUR | Find the father |
| Catherine GRAY | 20 July 1871 | Catherine GRAY | Find the father |
| John HOWAT | 29 March 1866 | Margaret HOWAT | Find the father |
| William HOWAT | 17 October 1860 | Margaret HOWAT | Find the father |
| Marion Drinnan KING | 22 December 1860 | Janet KING | Find the father |
| Elisabeth LEES | 21 February 1870 | Elisabeth LEES | Find the father |
| Margaret LEES | 16 February 1867 | Margaret LEES | Find the father |
| James Robb LINDSAY | 10 August 1871 | Hannah LINDSAY | Find the father |
| Jean MCCALL | 16 December 1857 | Jean MCCALL | Father found |
| Charles Thomson MCCLELLAND | 15 December 1856 | Jessy MCCLELLAND | Find the father |
| Ellen MCLACHLAN | 18 February 1856 | Mary MCLACHLAN | Find the father |
| John Robb MCLEAN | 31 October 1870 | Jane MCLEAN | Find the father |
| John MCPHERSON | 27 May 1870 | Jane MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| Isabella MILLAR | 30 November 1856 | Mary MILLAR | Find the father |
| John Johnston MILLAR | 28 January 1870 | Elisabeth MILLAR | Find the father |
| Jane MILLER | 25 January 1862 | Elisabeth MILLER | Find the father |
| Margaret MILLER | 22 January 1858 | Marion MILLER | Find the father |
| William MILLER | 20 May 1869 | Mary MILLER | Find the father |
| Jane MORRISON | 14 January 1861 | Margaret MORRISON | Find the father |
| James MUIR | 27 August 1860 | Janet MUIR | Find the father |
| Albert MURDOCH | 23 May 1873 | Janet MURDOCH | Father found |
| David Black MURDOCH | 21 February 1865 | Agnes MURDOCH | Find the father |
| John MURDOCH | 16 August 1864 | Grace MURDOCH | Find the father |
| Margaret MURDOCH | 4 October 1862 | Grace MURDOCH | Find the father |
| Nicholas Lammie MURDOCH | 29 November 1858 | Grace MURDOCH | Find the father |
| Jane Mcdougal PATON | 15 December 1862 | Jane PATON | Find the father |
| Elisabeth RAFFERTY | 28 June 1872 | Elisabeth RAFFERTY | Find the father |
| Ellen RAMSAY | 23 April 1871 | Ellen RAMSAY | Find the father |
| John Mcintosh RAMSAY | 16 November 1868 | Ellen Ross RAMSAY | Find the father |
| Charles REID | 6 October 1859 | Janet REID | Find the father |
| Janet Arthur REID | 16 March 1871 | Elisabeth REID | Find the father |
| William REID | 27 April 1859 | Ann REID | Find the father |
| James ROSS | 25 March 1873 | Sarah ROSS | Find the father |
| Anne Murdoch ROURKE | 16 July 1855 | Margaret ROURKE | Find the father |
| Jane Stewart RUSSELL | 29 November 1860 | Janet RUSSELL | Find the father |
| Joan Brown RUSSELL | 4 May 1856 | Janet RUSSELL | Find the father |
| Elisabeth SANDERSON | 17 July 1874 | Dora SANDERSON | Find the father |
| John SCOTT | 17 October 1866 | Ellen SCOTT | Father found |
| Andrew Smith SERVICE | 14 April 1868 | Sophia SERVICE | Father found |
| Jessie Johnston SERVICE | 10 August 1866 | Jessie SERVICE | Find the father |
| Mary Sloan SMITH | 30 August 1855 | Cunningham SMITH | Find the father |
| Marion Young STURGEON | 3 February 1873 | Christina STURGEON | Find the father |
| James TURNER | 4 February 1866 | Jane TURNER | Find the father |
| Richard Smith WATT | 7 August 1867 | Christina WATT | Find the father |
| Margaret WELSH | 12 November 1874 | Margaret WELSH | Find the father |
| John Aird WILSON | 29 January 1861 | Jane WILSON | 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.
