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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.

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.
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
Isabella ANDERSON 1854 (2)Order imagesRefused
William COOK 1854 (4)Order imagesRefused
George HUNTER Castlemains1846 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jessie SCOTT 1856 (1)Order imagesRefused

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Thomas AITKEN31 December 1874Elizabeth AITKENFind the father
Euphemia ANDERSON26 July 1856Agnes ANDERSONFind the father
George ANDERSON12 May 1857Elizabeth ANDERSONFind the father
Henry ANDERSON29 October 1865Marion ANDERSONFind the father
Helen BLACK2 July 1865Margaret BLACKFather found
Margaret BLAIR11 December 1864Margaret BLAIRFather found
Archibald BURNSIDE30 April 1861Margaret BURNSIDEFind the father
Isabella FORTUNE28 November 1855Agnes FORTUNEFind the father
John GILLIAN9 September 1861Agnes GILLIANFind the father
William GLASS3 December 1866Isabella GLASSFind the father
Alexander GORDON11 July 1870Mary GORDONFind the father
John HOWDEN15 May 1869Jane HOWDENFind the father
Agnes HUNTER13 July 1866Isabella HUNTERFind the father
David HUNTER29 May 1859Christina HUNTERFind the father
George HUNTER14 April 1871Beatrice HUNTERFind the father
Isabella HUNTER13 July 1866Isabella HUNTERFind the father
William HUNTER13 February 1871Isabella HUNTERFind the father
Christina LEADBETTER11 November 1873Rachel LEADBETTERFind the father
Isabella LINCH26 April 1856Caherine LINCHFind the father
Margaret LISTER11 September 1870Isabella LISTERFather found
Mary MATHIESON25 May 1868Marion MATHIESONFind the father
William NESS3 January 1872Hellen NESSFind the father
John NICOLSON17 December 1869Christina NICOLSONFind the father
Elisabeth PATERSON16 August 1870Elisabeth PATERSONFind the father
Janet PATERSON13 October 1867Janet PATERSONFind the father
George PATTERSON1 May 1861Isabella PATTERSONFind the father
James PEARSON6 October 1863Mary PEARSONFind the father
Margaret Bailie PURVES2 November 1858Isabella PURVESFind the father
Esther RAEBURN7 October 1859Jesse RAEBURNFind the father
John RAEBURN11 July 1863Jessie RAEBURNFind the father
John RENTON21 June 1871Jane C. RENTONFind the father
Alexander ROBERTSON8 August 1855Isabella ROBERTSONFind the father
Jane ROBERTSON4 April 1868Jane WATERSONFind the father
James William SCOTT17 July 1865Agnes SCOTTFind the father
Helen SIVES19 February 1872Mary SIVESFind the father
Margaret STORRIE14 July 1865Margaret STORRIEFather found
Janet TURNBULL30 May 1864Jessie SCOTTFind the father
George VALLANCE18 February 1860Margaret VALLANCEFind the father
Margaret WHITE17 August 1868Elisabeth WHITEFind 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

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.