Records -> Inverness-shire
Petty 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 Catherine CAMERON | 1878 (2) | Order images | Continued | |
| Widow Margaret CAMPBELL or ROSS | 1860 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Margaret CAMPBELL or MCTAVISH | 1876 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow DAVIDSON or CAMPBELL | 1878 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Jess FERGUSSON or MACKINTOSH | 1865 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Margaret FORBES | 1866 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Margaret FRASER | 1854-1855 (3) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of relief | |
| James GORDON | 1881 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Margaret JACK | 1857 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| John JOHNSTON | 1867 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Ann MACINTOSH | 1864 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Donald MACINTOSH | 1878 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow Jean MARTIN or CAMPBELL | 1860 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Donald MCKAIN | 1858 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Mary MCTAVISH | 1864 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Jessie MUNRO | 1868 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert MUNRO | 1854 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Robert MUNRO | 1862 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Margaret ROSS or CAMPBELL | 1862 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| William SINCLAIR | 1854 (3) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret DAVIDSON Easter Fishertown, Petty | Hugh MACKENZIE | 3 May 1879 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/9 |
| Esther JOHNSTONE Burnside Cottage, near Fort George Station, Petty, Inverness-shire | Alexander GRANT | 17 Jan 1885 | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/39 |
| Madeline LEITCH or SHARP Stewarton, Campbelltown, Petty | Hugh MACKAY | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/37 | |
| Jane Ann MACBAIN Dalziel, Petty, Inverness-shire | James CAMPBELL | 18 Feb 1882 Dalziel, Petty, Inverness-shire | Order now | Inverness SC29/7/38 |
| Betsy Or Elizabeth MACDONALD Auchnaharry, Inverness formerly Lochandurty, Petty | Kenneth MATHESON | 12 Feb 1878 | Order now | Dingwall SC25/7/11 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Mc Intosh BAIN | 5 October 1857 | Ann BAIN | Find the father |
| Margaret Ann BEATON | 20 September 1864 | Ann BEATON | Find the father |
| Donald BORTTUCK | 1 April 1865 | Janet Borttuck Or BORTHWICK | Find the father |
| Christina CAMERON | 7 June 1874 | Margaret CAMERON | Find the father |
| Duncan CAMERON | 21 June 1858 | Mary Ann CAMERON | Find the father |
| George CAMERON | 13 March 1866 | Christian CAMERON | Find the father |
| John CAMERON | 24 November 1869 | Mary CAMERON | Father found |
| Margaret CAMERON | 23 April 1862 | Rachel CAMERON | Find the father |
| Alexander CAMPBELL | 20 December 1865 | Catherine CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| George CAMPBELL | 23 July 1864 | Margaret CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| James CAMPBELL | 12 December 1862 | Jane CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| William CAMPBELL | 30 December 1857 | Jane CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Ann CHISHOLM | 8 February 1860 | Ann CHISHOLM | Find the father |
| William CLARK | 25 March 1860 | Jessie CLARK | Find the father |
| Jean DAWSON | 12 November 1860 | Jean DAWSON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Ann FRASER | 12 June 1865 | Elizabeth FRASER | Find the father |
| Henry FRASER | 27 October 1868 | Betsy FRASER | Find the father |
| Jessie Ann FRASER | 14 October 1874 | Justina FRASER | Find the father |
| Mary Ann FRASER | 2 August 1865 | Catherine FRASER | Find the father |
| James GORDON | 13 January 1865 | May GORDON | Find the father |
| Alexander JOHNSTONE | 21 August 1874 | Ann JOHNSTONE | Find the father |
| Catherine MACDONALD | 10 August 1861 | Madelina MACDONALD | Find the father |
| Williamina MACKAY | 26 July 1870 | Jean MACKAY | Find the father |
| Margaret MACLEAN | 20 July 1859 | Isabella MACLEAN | Find the father |
| William MACLEAN | 4 May 1864 | Margaret MACLEAN | Find the father |
| Christina MACLENNAN | 20 December 1874 | Margaret MACLENNAN | Find the father |
| John MACPHAIL | 27 June 1857 | Jane Macphail Or DAWSON | Find the father |
| Alexander MACPHERSON | 19 February 1862 | Margaret MACPHERSON | Father found |
| Kenneth MACPHERSON | 12 July 1856 | Margaret MACPHERSON | Find the father |
| Simon MCBAIN | 29 June 1855 | Ann MCBAIN | Find the father |
| Margaret MCINTOSH | 27 August 1860 | Sarah MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| David MORRISON | 16 June 1864 | Jessie MORRISON | Find the father |
| Donald MUNRO | 21 August 1858 | Margaret MUNRO | Find the father |
| Alexanderina ROBERTSON | 27 March 1870 | Elizabeth ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Finlay SINCLAIR | 29 October 1861 | Ann SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| Margaret SMITH | 5 July 1860 | Margaret Orr SMITH | Find the father |
| John STEWART | 12 August 1866 | Flora STEWART | Father found |
| Mary STEWART | 7 January 1865 | Isabella STEWART | Find the father |
| William STEWART | 3 January 1866 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| John URQUHART | 17 September 1860 | Christina URQUHART | 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.
