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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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/310/3 | Minutes and accounts | 1705-1726 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/4 | Minutes 1726-1744 Baptisms 1783-1787 Marriages 1783-1787 Burials 1783-1785 | 1726-1787 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/5 | Minutes 1744-1772 Accounts 1744-1770, 1782-1785 Accounts include mortcloth dues and poor payments | 1744-1785 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/6 | Minutes including copy minutes 1772-1814, accounts 1772-1820, baptisms 1777-1786 (with gaps) Accounts include mortcloth dues and poor payments | 1772-1820 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/7 | Accounts 1820-1853, and minutes 1820-1852 Accounts include poor payments | 1820-1853 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/8 | Minutes 1875-93 Accounts 1875-1908 | 1875-1908 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/10 | Baptismal register 1851-75 Marriages 1851-74 Deaths 1851-75 | 1851-1875 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/11 | Baptismal register | 1880-1908 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/12 | Proclamations | 1879-1884 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/13 | Communion roll | 1868-1886 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/14 | Communion roll | 1887-1907 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/18/1 | Minutes | 1781-1805 | Request lookup |
| CH2/310/18/2 | Accounts 1772, 1782-1783, 1805-1807, minutes 1782-1783 Includes poor payments | 1772-1807 | Request 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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James ANDERSON | 1850-1851 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| George INNES | 1868 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jane LAMOND | 1851 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow MORTIMER | 1866 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Margaret SMITH | 1866 (3) | Order images | Dead |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary ANDERSON Braeside of Rothmaise, Rayne, Aberdeenshire | Andrew BAIN | 16 Apr 1884 Braeside of Rothmaise, Rayne, Aberdeenshire | Order now | Haddington 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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| John ADAMS | 19 October 1874 | Elizabeth ADAMS | Find the father |
| Helen Isabella Charles AITKEN | 1 March 1872 | Isabella AITKEN | Find the father |
| Isabella ALEXANDER | 12 February 1860 | Isabella ALEXANDER | Find the father |
| Jane Ann ANDERSON | 3 March 1863 | Elizabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Robert Meldrum ANDERSON | 16 June 1861 | Jane ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Mary Jane ANGUS | 6 January 1866 | Isabella ANGUS | Father found |
| Jane Forbes Mathers BARRACK | 1 September 1861 | Isabella BARRACK | Find the father |
| Alexander BROWN | 15 June 1864 | Elizabeth BROWN | Find the father |
| Christian BROWN | 21 June 1862 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| James BROWN | 15 June 1864 | Elizabeth BROWN | Find the father |
| Mary Ann BROWN | 15 February 1873 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| Margaret DONALD | 11 May 1855 | Margaret DONALD | Father found |
| Alexander Hutcheon EMSLIE | 1 November 1865 | Elizabeth EMSLIE | Father found |
| Margaret Gordon EMSLIE | 6 April 1865 | Mary EMSLIE | Find the father |
| Mary EMSLIE | 15 March 1855 | Elizabeth EMSLIE | Find the father |
| John FRASER | 6 July 1863 | Mary FRASER | Find the father |
| Andrew HENDERSON | 12 January 1860 | Hellen HENDERSON | Father found |
| Jane HENDERSON | 28 July 1864 | Ann HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret HENDERSON | 21 November 1859 | Ann HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann Laing HENDERSON | 1 May 1869 | Ann HENDERSON | Find the father |
| James JOHNSTON | 30 July 1869 | Isabella JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Wilhelmina Lawson JOHNSTON | 12 July 1872 | Jane JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| James MARR | 23 February 1862 | Jane MARR | Find the father |
| Alexander Abel MENNIE | 21 September 1865 | Barbara MENNIE | Find the father |
| George Forbes MENNIE | 30 July 1859 | Barbara MENNIE | Find the father |
| Isabella Murrion MENNIE | 20 December 1862 | Barbara MENNIE | Find the father |
| Isabella MIDDLETON | 16 August 1868 | Isabella MIDDLETON | Father found |
| Joseph MILNER | 19 November 1867 | Jane MILNER | Find the father |
| Jane Anderson MORRISON | 23 August 1862 | Jane MORRISON | Father found |
| Alexander POLSON | 29 November 1874 | Mary POLSON | Find the father |
| William POLSON | 22 March 1873 | Mary POLSON | Find the father |
| Alexander ROBERTSON | 9 March 1861 | Margaret ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| John Mann ROBERTSON | 23 May 1867 | Margaret ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Davidson ROTHNIE | 24 September 1869 | Jane ROTHNIE | Find the father |
| Peter ROTHNIE | 5 January 1872 | Ann ROTHNIE | Find the father |
| Anthony SMITH | 25 November 1858 | Margaret SMITH | Find the father |
| Martha Thain SOUTER | 4 November 1864 | Elspet SOUTER | Find the father |
| Jane Dickson STEWART | 27 May 1859 | Jane STEWART | Find the father |
| Elizabeth WATT | 7 February 1861 | Helen WATT | 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.
