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Portnahaven 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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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.
We have not currently found any decrees for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betty ANDERSON | 1 February 1870 | Janet ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Johanna ANDERSON | 9 July 1856 | Flora ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Anne CONELLY | 16 July 1868 | Anne CONELLY | Find the father |
| James CONELLY | 16 September 1861 | Mary CONELLY | Find the father |
| Bell FERGUSON | 5 January 1869 | Mary FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Flora FERGUSON | 13 October 1869 | Christina FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Harriet FERGUSON | 25 February 1866 | Margaret FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Marrion FERGUSON | 27 January 1866 | Jane FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Neil FERGUSON | 12 June 1865 | Ann FERGUSON | Find the father |
| Catherine GILLIES | 13 April 1862 | Betty GILLIES | Find the father |
| Flora GILLIES | 21 February 1863 | Mary GILLIES | Find the father |
| James GILLIES | 26 February 1864 | Janet GILLIES | Find the father |
| Marrion MACARTHUR | 10 October 1855 | Anne MACARTHUR | Find the father |
| Duncan MCARTHUR | 22 August 1869 | Catherine MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| James MCARTHUR | 14 May 1860 | Catharine MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| John MCARTHUR | 13 February 1856 | Catherine MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| John MCARTHUR | 19 May 1858 | Mary MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| John MCARTHUR | 21 February 1859 | Anne MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Marrion MCARTHUR | 12 February 1863 | Peggy MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Peggy MCARTHUR | 29 December 1857 | Anne MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Archibald MCAULAY | 25 September 1858 | Janet MCAULAY | Find the father |
| John MCAULAY | 6 August 1871 | Peggy MCAULAY | Find the father |
| Neil MCAULAY | 31 May 1865 | Janet MCAULAY | Find the father |
| John MCCUAIG | 11 August 1862 | Elizabeth MCCUAIG | Find the father |
| Anne MCFADYEN | 9 April 1867 | Anne MCFADYEN | Find the father |
| Maria MCINTYRE | 25 July 1871 | Mary MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| Neil MCINTYRE | 17 May 1861 | Anne MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| Peggy MCINTYRE | 27 April 1862 | Betty MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| William MCINTYRE | 1 December 1867 | Mary MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| Donald MCKAY | 3 June 1874 | Barbara MCKAY | Find the father |
| John MCKAY | 15 May 1865 | Barbara MCKAY | Find the father |
| Christina MCKINNON | 11 November 1863 | Anne MCKINNON | Find the father |
| Margaret MCKINNON | 20 October 1870 | Catherine MCKINNON | Find the father |
| Margaret MCKINNON | 14 January 1872 | Rachel MCKINNON | Find the father |
| Duncan MCLELLAN | 28 April 1867 | Margaret MCLELLAN | Find the father |
| John MCLELLAN | 21 February 1868 | Margaret MCLELLAN | Find the father |
| William MCLERGAN | 29 December 1858 | Mary MCLERGAN | Find the father |
| John MCNABB | 19 March 1872 | Rosina MCNABB | Find the father |
| Mary MCNABB | 19 December 1868 | Margaret MCNABB | Find the father |
| John MITCHEL | 27 February 1873 | Margaret MITCHEL | Find the father |
| Margaret MITCHEL | 4 February 1866 | Janet MITCHEL | Find the father |
| Margaret SINCLAIR | 27 June 1862 | Margaret SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| John WOODREW | 19 August 1856 | Flora WOODREW | 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.
