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Records -> East Lothian

Pencaitland 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
Widow ADAMSON 1848 (2)Order imagesRefused
Elizabeth BAILLIE 1869-1870 (2)Order imagesRefused
William BAILLIE 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Margaret BYRNE 1881 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Elizabeth CLARK or GUTHRIE 1859 (1)Order imagesRefused
Agnes CLEGHORN 1860 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Mary CLEGHORN 1860 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Eliz COCKBURN or REID 1872 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Elizabeth DUDGEON 1855 (1)Order imagesAscertain provision for education of children
Widow Christina DUNCAN or STOCKS 1855 (2)Order imagesRefused, on understanding that applicant receives medical attendance
Widow Jane FAIRBAIRN or CLEGHORN 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
James FAIRGRIEVE 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
John FARMER 1860 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Agnes HENDERSON 1860 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Agnes HOGG or MALCOM 1860 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Isabella HOGG or DAVIDSON 1868 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Catherine HUNTER 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Catherine HUNTER 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Bridget KELLY or QUIN 1870 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Janet KING 1867 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William MONTGOMERY 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
William MONTGOMERY 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Catharine Broadley MURPHY 1880 (3)Order imagesRefused
Widow NAISMITH or HUTCHISON 1881 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Rachael PURVES 1846 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jane SIMPSON 1854 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Isabella WATT 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused, on understanding that applicant is receiving 2s 6d a week
Charles WILSON 1862 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John WILSON Ormiston1846 (1)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
Mary GIBSON
Wintonhill, Pencaitland
Alexander FAIRGRIEVE1 Nov 1888
Wintonhill, Pencaitland
Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/38
Christina HOGG
Easter Pencaitland
Robert FORSYTH2 Apr 1876Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/37
Rachel MCLEOD
Spilmersford Mains, Pencaitland
James BETHUNE30 May 1892
Edinburgh
Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/38
Margaret Jane MUIR
New Winton, near Pencaitland
George SCOTT21 Jul 1900
New Winton, near Pencaitland
Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/38
Margaret PRIDE
Templehall, near Pencaitland
Adam COCKBURN1 Dec 1874Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/37
Frances Logan SYDSERFF
Wolfstar, Pencaitland
John KINLAY OR MCKINLAY22 Dec 1886
Sunnyside, Prestonkirk
Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/38
Helen WOOD
New Town, Pencaitland
John GRAY22 Apr 1876Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/37


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
William Wright BAILLIE21 November 1869Elizabeth BAILLIEFind the father
Andrew Burnside BEAMONTS7 November 1859Margaret BEAMONTSFather found
Alison BELL7 April 1861Margaret BELLFind the father
Robina BELL27 March 1871Mary BELLFind the father
Peter Scott BURNS30 September 1866Margaret BURNSFind the father
George Hart CLARK1 July 1861Helen CLARKFind the father
Jane CLEGHORN2 March 1874Margaret CLEGHORNFind the father
John Young CLEGHORN12 July 1870Margaret CLEGHORNFind the father
John CLYNE16 May 1874Catherine CLYNEFind the father
Peter COWE2 November 1873Agnes COWEFind the father
Peter Com CRAIL20 August 1861Margaret CRAILFind the father
Euphemia Punton CUNNINGHAM14 January 1871Elizabeth CUNNINGHAMFind the father
Charles DAVIDSON8 February 1859Janet DAVIDSONFind the father
John DAVIDSON27 September 1861Janet DAVIDSONFind the father
William DAVIDSON4 August 1857Janet DAVIDSONFind the father
William Thomson DAVIDSON2 August 1862Euphemia DAVIDSONFind the father
Georgina DAVIE18 September 1865Janet DAVIEFind the father
Margaret Janet DAVIES29 November 1868Janet DAVIESFind the father
Martha DENHOLM9 September 1871Mary DENHOLMFather found
Christina Isabella DICKSON29 April 1862Jane DICKSONFind the father
Elizabeth Trevelyan Clark DODDS18 October 1869Helen DODDSFind the father
Robert Mercer DODS2 December 1873Helen DODSFind the father
George Welsh DOUGLAS16 August 1862Barbara DOUGLASFind the father
William DOUGLAS15 June 1865Barbara DOUGLASFind the father
George Charles DUNCAN15 April 1862Mary DUNCANFind the father
Margaret Lees DUNCAN30 December 1862Matilda DUNCANFind the father
Samuel Brown FANNIN5 November 1864Margaret FANNINFind the father
Helen FARRELL2 July 1870Maria FARRELLFind the father
Isabella HAMILTON4 August 1863Elizabeth HAMILTONFind the father
Marion HENDERSON10 May 1859Margaret HENDERSONFind the father
Adam HOGG9 May 1857Euphemia HOGGFind the father
Alison HOGG27 August 1870Helen HOGGFind the father
John Wood HOGG7 December 1866Margaret HOGGFather found
George HUMBLE19 November 1862Agnes HUMBLEFind the father
Isabella HUME9 August 1869Isabella HUMEFather found
Peter JOHNSTONE4 February 1860Helen JOHNSTONEFind the father
John KINGHORN25 May 1857Mary KINGHORNFind the father
William LAMB22 May 1856Helen LAMBFind the father
George Allan LESLIE23 January 1865Margaret LESLIEFind the father
Alexander William LOGAN16 July 1872Isabella LOGANFind the father
John LOGAN24 February 1858Ann LOGANFind the father
Flora Campbell MACARTHUR12 August 1863Isabella MACARTHURFind the father
James MALCOLM22 October 1863Margaret MALCOLMFind the father
Alexander MATHISON8 December 1873Mary MATHISONFind the father
Alexander MCINTOSH11 February 1869Janet MCINTOSHFind the father
John Fraser MCINTOSH5 July 1866Jessie MCINTOSHFind the father
Jessie MCKAY31 March 1860Janet MCKAYFind the father
Agnes REID25 December 1874Agnes REIDFind the father
William REID14 July 1873Marion REIDFind the father
Thomas ROBERTSON21 November 1861Margaret ROBERTSONFind the father
Anne ROSS1 November 1860Mary ROSSFind the father
David Wilkie SCOTT7 May 1864Christina SCOTTFind the father
Janet Caird SIMPSON7 April 1865Marion SIMPSONFind the father
George SMITH8 May 1856Elisabeth SMITHFind the father
Alexander SOMERVILLE5 May 1857Jane SOMERVILLEFind the father
Helen THOMSON10 January 1867Helen THOMSONFind the father
William THOMSON26 June 1857Christian THOMSONFather found
Isabella YOUNG18 October 1863Jane YOUNGFind 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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