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Rafford 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth CALDER Todholes of Rafford | Peter MCGILLIVRAY | 15 Feb 1854 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/4 |
| Isabella MACKENZIE Roadside, Rafford | Robert KEMP | 26 Dec 1879 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/9 |
| Christina MCINTOSH Woodside, Altyre, Rafford | Hugh ROSS | 1 Jul 1882 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/10 |
| Christina MCKINTOSH Rafford | Donald SIMPSON | 30 Jan 1875 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| David ANDERSON | 23 October 1869 | Elizabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Smith BREMNER | 10 November 1873 | Margaret BREMNER | Find the father |
| Donald CAMPBELL | 7 September 1864 | Jessie CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Alexander FOTHERINGHAM | 16 June 1864 | Margaret FOTHERINGHAM | Find the father |
| Helen FRASER | 24 May 1864 | Sophia FRASER | Find the father |
| Margaret GILLIS | 3 November 1873 | Sarah GILLIS | Find the father |
| Barbara Jane GRAHAM | 6 August 1869 | Jessie GRAHAM | Find the father |
| Mary HARDIE | 13 March 1859 | Jane HARDIE | Find the father |
| Alexander HOLME | 26 November 1859 | Isabella HOLME | Find the father |
| David LITTLEJOHN | 17 June 1869 | Isabella LITTLEJOHN | Find the father |
| Robert MASSON | 17 April 1867 | Ann MASSON | Find the father |
| Jessie MCDONALD | 20 January 1874 | Margaret MCDONALD | Find the father |
| William John MCDONALD | 27 September 1861 | Christina MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Jesse MCHATTIE | 22 October 1866 | Mary MCHATTIE | Find the father |
| Jessie MCINTOSH | 13 June 1869 | Jessie MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| William MCINTOSH | 27 August 1870 | Jessie MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| John MCINTYRE | 9 January 1865 | Jessie MCINTYRE | Find the father |
| William MCKAY | 10 July 1865 | Janet MCKAY | Find the father |
| Roderick MCKENZIE | 21 August 1868 | Ann MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Louisa MURRAY | 13 July 1865 | Louisa MURRAY | Find the father |
| Alexander NICHOLSON | 16 December 1873 | Mary NICHOLSON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth RENNIE | 18 January 1856 | Elizabeth RENNIE | Find the father |
| Alexander ROSS | 16 May 1870 | Christina ROSS | Father found |
| Christina ROSS | 15 May 1864 | Margaret ROSS | Find the father |
| Jessie ROSS | 3 August 1857 | Johanna ROSS | Find the father |
| John ROSS | 27 July 1874 | Margaret ROSS | Find the father |
| Mary ROSS | 18 August 1859 | Christina ROSS | Find the father |
| George SCOTT | 8 October 1873 | Jessie SCOTT | Find the father |
| James TAYLOR | 12 May 1866 | Margaret TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Helen TULLOCH | 22 February 1872 | Barbara TULLOCH | Find the father |
| Alexander Mac Gill WALKER | 12 December 1864 | Isabella WALKER | Find the father |
| Annabella WATSON | 3 March 1857 | Ann WATSON | Find the father |
| George YOUNIE | 1 June 1873 | Jessie YOUNIE | Find the father |
| Robert YOUNIE | 5 October 1867 | Margaret YOUNIE | 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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas | Anderson | Farnaley | ||
| William | Asher | Phorp | forename changed to Thomas; address changed to Blackhill of Altyre | |
| James | Bain | Cantackford | ||
| John | Bain | Granary | ||
| Alexander | Barron | Rafford | ||
| James | Barron | Burgie | ||
| Robert | Barron | Clunie | ||
| William | Barron | Stonieford | ||
| Thomas | Buie | Moss-side | ||
| Alexander | Burgess | Cassieford | ||
| James | Calder | Todholes | ||
| John | Calder | Todholes | ||
| Donald | Clark | Blervie Castle | ||
| David | Cruickshanks | Granary | ||
| John | Cruickshanks | Marcassie | ||
| James | Davidson | Tore | ||
| John | Donaldson | Granary | ||
| John | Donaldson | Altyre | ||
| John | Douglas | Granary | ||
| Jonathan | Dow | Blairs Of Altyre | ||
| Archibald | Forsyth | Laurenceton | ||
| James | Fraser | Woodside | ||
| Peter | Hall | Altyre | ||
| George | Henry | Cow Greens | ||
| James | Hutchen | Moss-side | ||
| James | Laing | Briach | ||
| John | Laing | Briach | ||
| John | Laing | Blackhillock Of Burgie | ||
| William | Laing | Bognie | ||
| William | Logie | Blackhillock | ||
| James | Mavor | Mill Of Marcassie | ||
| Alexander | McGillivray | Shogle | ||
| George | McGillivray | Sourbank | ||
| Alexander | Mcdonald | Craighead | ||
| Alexander | Mcintosh | Cotes Of Burgie | ||
| George | Mackay | Rafford | ||
| Mcpherson | Burgie | |||
| Robert | Mcpherson | Clunie | ||
| John | Matthew | Bahill | ||
| James | Mellis | Cantackford | ||
| James | Murray | Burgie | ||
| John | Ogilvie | Laurenceton | ||
| James | Petrie | Lochaber | ||
| James | Reid | Granary | ||
| William | Reid | Tarras | ||
| Alexander | Rose | Altyre | ||
| George | Shepherd | Lochiehill | ||
| James | Syme | Starrywells | ||
| James | Stronach | Clunie | ||
| John | Stronach | Clochdow | ||
| Thomas | Stronach | Granary | ||
| John | Stalker | Brockloch | ||
| James | Torrie | Brockloch | ||
| Alexander | Watson | Farnaley | ||
| Duncan | Watson | Clunie | ||
| James | Watson | Clunie | ||
| John | Watson | Clunie | ||
| William | Watson | Clunie | ||
| James | Younie | Hill Of Burgie | ||
| John | Younie | Rafford | ||
| James | Anderson | Laurenceton | admitted 1842 | |
| Lewis | Dunbar | Rafford | admitted 1842 | |
| John | Fraser | Dam Of Burgie | admitted 1842 | |
| William | Henry | Greens Of Clunie | admitted 1842 | |
| John | McGillivray | Sourbank | admitted 1842 | |
| George | Walker | Burnside | admitted 1842 |
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.
