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Poor Law appeals – Indexed Poor Law appeals with the option to order images of records.

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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
James ALLAN 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
James ALLAN 1850 (2)Order imagesRefused - see 206 1850
Rachel ALLAN 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
James CLARKSON 1866 (2)Order imagesRefused
James DAVIDSON 1881 (1)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of parochial relief
Margt DOBIE 1865 (3)Order imagesRefused
Wm DOBIE 1865 (3)Order imagesRefused
Christina FORREST 1864 (1)Order imagesRefused
Alexander JOHNSTON 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused
Alexander JOHNSTON 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of parochial relief
Alexander KELLY 1852 (2)Order imagesRefused
Alexander KELLY 1854 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Margaret KELLY 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused - informal
James KIRK 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
William LAURIE 1869 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Rosanna LEECH 1850 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary Jane MCKENNA 1868 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Allan MCPHEE 1875 (1)Order imagesNot in receipt of parochial relief
Christian MCPHERSON 1849 (1)Order imagesRefused
Catherine MCVICAR Wilkies Basin1846 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Elizabeth MCVICAR 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused
Michael MURPHY 1863 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Jessie PARTIE 1865 (3)Order imagesRefused
Catherine WHIGGHAM 1849 (1)Order imagesRefused - not in receipt of relief

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Agnes BRASH30 November 1862Jane BRASHFind the father
Jane Blyth BRASH5 October 1867Jane BRASHFind the father
Janet BRUCE18 November 1860Catherine BRUCEFind the father
Mary COCKBURN9 April 1860Mary COCKBURNFind the father
John Peat COLLINS14 August 1872Isabella COLLINSFind the father
John DAVIDSON17 August 1868Fanny DAVIDSONFind the father
Marion Mc Laren DAVIDSON14 October 1871Fanny DAVIDSONFind the father
James EVERS8 February 1862Jane EVERSFind the father
Thomas FELL26 February 1861Jane FELLFind the father
John Haddo FINLAY18 November 1862Joan FINLAYFind the father
Christina FORREST25 August 1859Christina FORRESTFind the father
Elisabeth FORREST25 March 1868Christina FORRESTFind the father
Elisabeth FORREST2 May 1874Margaret FORRESTFind the father
James FORREST13 June 1863Christina FORRESTFather found
Jane FORREST10 October 1870Margaret FORRESTFind the father
Margaret FORREST26 January 1872Margaret FORRESTFind the father
James Henderson Knox GARLICK4 April 1864Margaret GARLICKFind the father
Margaret GIBSON2 April 1860Margaret GIBSONFind the father
Margaret Thornton HENDERSON26 June 1870Euphemia Arnot HENDERSONFind the father
Georgina Rebecca Baven HUNTER12 October 1865Margaret HUNTERFind the father
Elisabeth Lindsay JOHNSTON12 December 1867Elisabeth JOHNSTONFind the father
Mary Anderson JOHNSTON12 May 1861Catherine JOHNSTONFind the father
Mary Swan JOHNSTON4 June 1864Catherine JOHNSTONFather found
Henrietta Nixon KELLY19 February 1857Isabella KELLYFind the father
Mary KELLY15 October 1860Isabella KELLYFather found
Agnes KNOX10 June 1868Mary KNOXFind the father
Catherine LAWRIE11 June 1864Catherine LAWRIEFind the father
George Tulloch LAWRIE7 July 1866Janet LAWRIEFind the father
James LAWRIE20 June 1868Catherine LAWRIEFind the father
Jane LAWRIE18 December 1870Janet LAWRIEFind the father
Jane LAWRIE14 June 1871Catherine LAWRIEFind the father
William LAWRIE31 May 1862Catherine LAWRIEFind the father
William Alexander LIDDELL7 July 1859Margaret LIDDELLFind the father
James MARSHALL31 July 1865Ann MARSHALLFind the father
James Peden MCDONALD30 January 1869Mary MCDONALDFind the father
John MCGEACHIN9 January 1865Janet Murdoch MCGEACHINFind the father
Mary Gaffeny MCGURK31 August 1873Margaret MCGURKFind the father
Francis Mc Diarmid MCKENNA20 May 1866Mary Ann MCKENNAFind the father
Julia MCKENNA8 April 1868Mary Ann MCKENNAFind the father
Ann Noble MCNEIL31 December 1871Janet MCNEILFind the father
Margaret MCRINER4 February 1872Isabella MCRINERFind the father
James Davidson MILLAR28 March 1865Margaret MILLARFind the father
David MILLS18 April 1857Janet MILLSFind the father
James MITCHELL16 March 1871Catherine MITCHELLFind the father
John MITCHELL30 April 1858Catharine MITCHELLFind the father
William MITCHELL23 February 1857Mary MITCHELLFind the father
John O'NEILL23 May 1860Elizabeth O'NEILLFind the father
William Cameron PATE3 July 1867Jane PATEFind the father
John RAMAGE23 November 1861Ann RAMAGEFind the father
William RAMAGE23 November 1861Ann RAMAGEFind the father
Mary RITCHIE11 March 1870Marion RITCHIEFind the father
George Sanderson SCOTT8 December 1859Marion SCOTTFind the father
William SHIMAN27 May 1864Mary SHIMANFind the father
Elisabeth SORLEY21 February 1859Margaret SORLEYFind the father
Margaret SORLEY15 June 1857Isabella SORLEYFind the father
Peter SORLEY16 December 1861Elizabeth SORLEYFind the father
William Davidson STODDART26 September 1871Ann STODDARTFind the father
Helen SWANSON9 October 1872Sophia SWANSONFather found
William SYME20 June 1864Mary SYMEFind the father
Jeannittie TAIT19 December 1866Janet TAITFind the father
William TAYLOR9 September 1868Janet TAYLORFind the father
Agnes THOMPSON2 June 1872Jane THOMPSONFind the father
Hannah THOMSON12 June 1869Margaret THOMSONFind the father
Jane THOMSON15 September 1874Jane THOMSONFind the father
John THOMSON28 January 1869Jane THOMSONFind the father
William THOMSON14 June 1865Jane THOMSONFind the father
Charlotte WALLACE24 May 1858Janet WALLACEFind the father
Janet WALLACE5 June 1867Janet WALLACEFind the father
John WALLACE7 February 1861Janet WALLACEFind the father
Robert WALLACE17 April 1866Margaret WALLACEFind the father
William WALLACE3 November 1859Agnes WALLACEFind the father
William WEDDELL17 February 1857Agnes WEDDELLFind the father
Catherine Marion WHITE27 May 1863Isabella WHITEFind the father
George WINGAM25 September 1856Catharine WINGAMFind the father
Robert Stewart YOUNG17 November 1857Stewart YOUNGFind the father

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.