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Records -> Aberdeenshire

Rayne 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/310/3Minutes and accounts1705-1726Request lookup
CH2/310/4Minutes 1726-1744
Baptisms 1783-1787
Marriages 1783-1787
Burials 1783-1785
1726-1787Request lookup
CH2/310/5Minutes 1744-1772
Accounts 1744-1770, 1782-1785
Accounts include mortcloth dues and poor payments
1744-1785Request lookup
CH2/310/6Minutes including copy minutes 1772-1814, accounts 1772-1820, baptisms 1777-1786 (with gaps)
Accounts include mortcloth dues and poor payments
1772-1820Request lookup
CH2/310/7Accounts 1820-1853, and minutes 1820-1852
Accounts include poor payments
1820-1853Request lookup
CH2/310/8Minutes 1875-93
Accounts 1875-1908
1875-1908Request lookup
CH2/310/10Baptismal register 1851-75
Marriages 1851-74
Deaths 1851-75
1851-1875Request lookup
CH2/310/11Baptismal register1880-1908Request lookup
CH2/310/12Proclamations1879-1884Request lookup
CH2/310/13Communion roll1868-1886Request lookup
CH2/310/14Communion roll1887-1907Request lookup
CH2/310/18/1Minutes1781-1805Request lookup
CH2/310/18/2Accounts 1772, 1782-1783, 1805-1807, minutes 1782-1783
Includes poor payments
1772-1807Request lookup


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 ANDERSON 1850-1851 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
George INNES 1868 (2)Order imagesRefused
Jane LAMOND 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow MORTIMER 1866 (3)Order imagesRefused
Margaret SMITH 1866 (3)Order imagesDead


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 ANDERSON
Braeside of Rothmaise, Rayne, Aberdeenshire
Andrew BAIN16 Apr 1884
Braeside of Rothmaise, Rayne, Aberdeenshire
Order nowHaddington
SC40/7/38


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
John ADAMS19 October 1874Elizabeth ADAMSFind the father
Helen Isabella Charles AITKEN1 March 1872Isabella AITKENFind the father
Isabella ALEXANDER12 February 1860Isabella ALEXANDERFind the father
Jane Ann ANDERSON3 March 1863Elizabeth ANDERSONFind the father
Robert Meldrum ANDERSON16 June 1861Jane ANDERSONFind the father
Mary Jane ANGUS6 January 1866Isabella ANGUSFather found
Jane Forbes Mathers BARRACK1 September 1861Isabella BARRACKFind the father
Alexander BROWN15 June 1864Elizabeth BROWNFind the father
Christian BROWN21 June 1862Jane BROWNFind the father
James BROWN15 June 1864Elizabeth BROWNFind the father
Mary Ann BROWN15 February 1873Jane BROWNFind the father
Margaret DONALD11 May 1855Margaret DONALDFather found
Alexander Hutcheon EMSLIE1 November 1865Elizabeth EMSLIEFather found
Margaret Gordon EMSLIE6 April 1865Mary EMSLIEFind the father
Mary EMSLIE15 March 1855Elizabeth EMSLIEFind the father
John FRASER6 July 1863Mary FRASERFind the father
Andrew HENDERSON12 January 1860Hellen HENDERSONFather found
Jane HENDERSON28 July 1864Ann HENDERSONFind the father
Margaret HENDERSON21 November 1859Ann HENDERSONFind the father
Mary Ann Laing HENDERSON1 May 1869Ann HENDERSONFind the father
James JOHNSTON30 July 1869Isabella JOHNSTONFind the father
Wilhelmina Lawson JOHNSTON12 July 1872Jane JOHNSTONFind the father
James MARR23 February 1862Jane MARRFind the father
Alexander Abel MENNIE21 September 1865Barbara MENNIEFind the father
George Forbes MENNIE30 July 1859Barbara MENNIEFind the father
Isabella Murrion MENNIE20 December 1862Barbara MENNIEFind the father
Isabella MIDDLETON16 August 1868Isabella MIDDLETONFather found
Joseph MILNER19 November 1867Jane MILNERFind the father
Jane Anderson MORRISON23 August 1862Jane MORRISONFather found
Alexander POLSON29 November 1874Mary POLSONFind the father
William POLSON22 March 1873Mary POLSONFind the father
Alexander ROBERTSON9 March 1861Margaret ROBERTSONFind the father
John Mann ROBERTSON23 May 1867Margaret ROBERTSONFind the father
Margaret Davidson ROTHNIE24 September 1869Jane ROTHNIEFind the father
Peter ROTHNIE5 January 1872Ann ROTHNIEFind the father
Anthony SMITH25 November 1858Margaret SMITHFind the father
Martha Thain SOUTER4 November 1864Elspet SOUTERFind the father
Jane Dickson STEWART27 May 1859Jane STEWARTFind the father
Elizabeth WATT7 February 1861Helen WATTFind 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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