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Records -> Aberdeenshire

Rhynie 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
CH2/972/1Minutes1837-1840Request lookup
CH2/972/2Minutes1855-1908Request lookup
CH2/972/3Cash book
Includes poor rolls and mortcloth dues
1752-1777Request lookup
CH2/972/4Cash book
Includes mortcloth dues and poor payments
1777-1822Request lookup
CH2/972/5Cash book
Includes poor payments, and some discipline minutes
1823-1835Request lookup
CH2/972/6Cash book1855-1925Request lookup
CH2/972/10Marriage register1855-1867Request lookup
CH2/972/12Communion roll1859-1872Request lookup
CH2/972/13Communion roll1872-1894Request lookup
CH2/972/15Baptismal register1871-1941Request 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
Barbara ALLARDYCE or MORTIMER 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
Helen GRANT 1858 (4)Order imagesRefused - can be removed to her own parish, or to poorhouse Aberdeen
Alexander MILTON 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused


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
Jane GLASS
Raws of Noth, Rhynie
James CUMMING4 Jan 1875Order nowElgin
SC26/7/9


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
Jane Ann CHALMERS28 August 1865Ann CHALMERSFind the father
Alexander CRAN29 June 1856Jessie CRANFind the father
Elspet DEY13 May 1858Helen DEYFind the father
Helen DEY27 March 1863Ann DEYFind the father
George FETTES28 April 1863Mary FETTESFind the father
Margaret Ann FETTES26 June 1860Mary FETTESFind the father
Mary Jane Maconachie FETTES13 June 1869Mary FETTESFind the father
Elizabeth FRASER27 October 1860Duffina FRASERFind the father
Johan FRASER23 April 1868Jane FRASERFind the father
Jean GEDDES6 February 1860Christian GEDDESFind the father
John GLASS7 February 1858Helen GLASSFind the father
Ann Mc William GORDON1 April 1863Magdalene Gordon Or DUNCANFind the father
Elizabeth GORDON11 April 1860Magdalene Gordon Or DUNCANFind the father
Jessie Fraser GORDON14 August 1866Magdalene Gordon Or DUNCANFind the father
Jane HARDIE7 March 1867Jane HARDIEFind the father
Eliza Mary HENDERSON17 January 1865Margaret HENDERSONFind the father
Helen HENDERSON25 September 1861Margaret HENDERSONFind the father
James Proctor HENDERSON4 June 1869Margaret HENDERSONFind the father
John Rae HENDERSON6 June 1867Jane HENDERSONFind the father
Helen HORN2 May 1861Jean HORNFind the father
Peter JOPP23 March 1866Christina JOPPFind the father
John Roger LENNOX27 August 1862Rose Ann Lennox Or FAIRWEATHERFind the father
Alexander LESLIE29 June 1860Elizabeth LESLIEFind the father
John LESLIE2 July 1866Elizabeth LESLIEFind the father
Margaret LIPP8 July 1868Jean LIPPFind the father
Ann MCGREGOR15 April 1862Jane MCGREGORFind the father
James MCGREGOR22 July 1865Jean MCGREGORFind the father
Mary Jean Pirie MCGREGOR28 February 1866Helen MCGREGORFind the father
Betsy MELDRUM11 September 1856Mary MELDRUMFind the father
Helen MILNE29 October 1856Jean MILNEFind the father
Jane REID2 April 1860Ann REIDFind the father
Ann Pirie RHIND22 November 1864Ann RHINDFind the father
George ROBERTSON15 April 1864Jean ROBERTSONFind the father
William ROBERTSON15 April 1864Jean ROBERTSONFind the father
Margaret ROSS23 November 1856Jean ROSSFind the father
Alexander SHEARER11 April 1864Jane SHEARERFind the father
Isabella Mortimer SHEARER2 October 1860Mary SHEARERFind the father
James Mortimer SHEARER25 August 1861Jessie SHEARERFind the father
Margaret Milne SHEARER8 April 1868Jane SHEARERFind the father
John Thain SHERAR7 December 1863Jessie SHERARFind the father
Mary SHERAR30 May 1866Mary SHERARFind the father
Helen SMART9 July 1855Jane SMARTFind the father
Helen SMITH25 October 1862Jessie SMITHFind the father
James Shearer SMITH13 July 1864Ann SMITHFind the father
John SMITH27 January 1866Jean SMITHFind the father
Alexander THOMSON10 February 1859Jane THOMSONFind the father
James THOMSON14 March 1864Margaret THOMSONFind 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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  • Records
    • Board of Supervision
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    • Crown Counsel Procedure Books
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