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Oxnam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Margaret CASSEY | 1850-1851 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Janet OLIVER | 1865 (3) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret DONALD Dolphinstone, Oxnam | William NEIL | 31 Jul 1890 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/14 |
| Mary THOMSON Oxnam | James SCOTT | 14 Apr 1866 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James ANDERSON | 20 January 1869 | Margaret ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Thomas BROWN | 1 June 1874 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| Helen Aitken CHISHOLM | 17 August 1861 | Jessie CHISHOLM | Find the father |
| Margaret EASTON | 1 December 1869 | Helen EASTON | Father found |
| Margaret EDGAR | 19 November 1863 | Isabella EDGAR | Find the father |
| George FAIRBAIRN | 3 December 1865 | Helen FAIRBAIRN | Find the father |
| Andrew Thomson GRADEN | 4 November 1868 | Ann GRADEN | Find the father |
| Thomas GRADEN | 22 September 1873 | Annie GRADEN | Find the father |
| Adam GRIEVE | 21 November 1859 | Jane GRIEVE | Father found |
| William HASTIE | 5 August 1866 | Jane HASTIE | Father found |
| Mary Jane HEATLIE | 14 February 1872 | Isabella HEATLIE | Find the father |
| Hannah HELM | 21 May 1868 | Jane HELM | Find the father |
| John JOHNSTON | 5 December 1860 | Isabella JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| James LAIDLAW | 2 December 1871 | Christina LAIDLAW | Find the father |
| Margaret LAIDLAW | 4 February 1864 | Mary LAIDLAW | Find the father |
| Janet MCDOUGALL | 23 February 1861 | Agnes MCDOUGALL | Father found |
| William MCDOUGALL | 7 December 1866 | Agnes MCDOUGALL | Find the father |
| William Moscrip PATTISON | 4 March 1863 | Elizabeth PATTISON | Find the father |
| Robert PAXTON | 5 November 1873 | Elizabeth PAXTON | Find the father |
| Jessie PURVES | 13 October 1871 | Janet PURVES | Find the father |
| Elizabeth REID | 8 December 1872 | Elizabeth REID | Find the father |
| Margaret RUTHERFORD | 30 June 1874 | Janet RUTHERFORD | Find the father |
| Margaret Hume SHIEL | 26 July 1863 | Anne SHIEL | Find the father |
| Robert TINLIN | 16 February 1862 | Isabella TINLIN | Father found |
| David TODD | 6 October 1869 | Agnes TODD | Find the father |
| John WALDIE | 11 July 1872 | Helen WALDIE | Find the father |
| Anna WELSH | 2 May 1862 | Agnes WELSH | Find the father |
| John WHELENS | 26 November 1869 | Elizabeth WHELENS | Find the father |
| William WHELLANS | 21 August 1874 | Elizabeth WHELLANS | Find the father |
| James WILSON | 12 February 1874 | Elizabeth 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.
