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Oldhamstocks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella ANDERSON | 1854 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| William COOK | 1854 (4) | Order images | Refused | |
| George HUNTER | Castlemains | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Jessie SCOTT | 1856 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean RENTON Oldhamstocks | Thomas AITKEN | 24 Jan 1854 | Order now | Haddington SC40/7/36 |
| Mary Ann WEATHERSTON or EASTON Nether Monynut, Oldhamstocks | John SCOTT | 19 Dec 1875 | Order now | Duns SC60/7/42 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas AITKEN | 31 December 1874 | Elizabeth AITKEN | Find the father |
| Euphemia ANDERSON | 26 July 1856 | Agnes ANDERSON | Find the father |
| George ANDERSON | 12 May 1857 | Elizabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Henry ANDERSON | 29 October 1865 | Marion ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Helen BLACK | 2 July 1865 | Margaret BLACK | Father found |
| Margaret BLAIR | 11 December 1864 | Margaret BLAIR | Father found |
| Archibald BURNSIDE | 30 April 1861 | Margaret BURNSIDE | Find the father |
| Isabella FORTUNE | 28 November 1855 | Agnes FORTUNE | Find the father |
| John GILLIAN | 9 September 1861 | Agnes GILLIAN | Find the father |
| William GLASS | 3 December 1866 | Isabella GLASS | Find the father |
| Alexander GORDON | 11 July 1870 | Mary GORDON | Find the father |
| John HOWDEN | 15 May 1869 | Jane HOWDEN | Find the father |
| Agnes HUNTER | 13 July 1866 | Isabella HUNTER | Find the father |
| David HUNTER | 29 May 1859 | Christina HUNTER | Find the father |
| George HUNTER | 14 April 1871 | Beatrice HUNTER | Find the father |
| Isabella HUNTER | 13 July 1866 | Isabella HUNTER | Find the father |
| William HUNTER | 13 February 1871 | Isabella HUNTER | Find the father |
| Christina LEADBETTER | 11 November 1873 | Rachel LEADBETTER | Find the father |
| Isabella LINCH | 26 April 1856 | Caherine LINCH | Find the father |
| Margaret LISTER | 11 September 1870 | Isabella LISTER | Father found |
| Mary MATHIESON | 25 May 1868 | Marion MATHIESON | Find the father |
| William NESS | 3 January 1872 | Hellen NESS | Find the father |
| John NICOLSON | 17 December 1869 | Christina NICOLSON | Find the father |
| Elisabeth PATERSON | 16 August 1870 | Elisabeth PATERSON | Find the father |
| Janet PATERSON | 13 October 1867 | Janet PATERSON | Find the father |
| George PATTERSON | 1 May 1861 | Isabella PATTERSON | Find the father |
| James PEARSON | 6 October 1863 | Mary PEARSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Bailie PURVES | 2 November 1858 | Isabella PURVES | Find the father |
| Esther RAEBURN | 7 October 1859 | Jesse RAEBURN | Find the father |
| John RAEBURN | 11 July 1863 | Jessie RAEBURN | Find the father |
| John RENTON | 21 June 1871 | Jane C. RENTON | Find the father |
| Alexander ROBERTSON | 8 August 1855 | Isabella ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Jane ROBERTSON | 4 April 1868 | Jane WATERSON | Find the father |
| James William SCOTT | 17 July 1865 | Agnes SCOTT | Find the father |
| Helen SIVES | 19 February 1872 | Mary SIVES | Find the father |
| Margaret STORRIE | 14 July 1865 | Margaret STORRIE | Father found |
| Janet TURNBULL | 30 May 1864 | Jessie SCOTT | Find the father |
| George VALLANCE | 18 February 1860 | Margaret VALLANCE | Find the father |
| Margaret WHITE | 17 August 1868 | Elisabeth WHITE | 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.
