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Roberton 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.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan BONE Roberton | William BRODIE | 4 Sep 1852 | Order now | Lanark SC38/7/32 |
| Helen CAIRNS Whitecleuchside, Roberton | William LITTLE | 19 Feb 1853 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/10 |
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. For births outwith this period, click here.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| John ANDERSON | 1 November 1856 | Elizabeth Anderson Or THOMSON | Find the father |
| Mary BROWN | 26 September 1857 | Henrietta BROWN | Find the father |
| Mary BROWN | 11 December 1857 | Mary BROWN | Find the father |
| Elspeth BRYDON | 12 August 1856 | Margaret BRYDON | Find the father |
| Thomas CAIRNS | 17 February 1859 | Helen CAIRNS | Find the father |
| James DALGLIESH | 17 August 1863 | Helen DALGLIESH | Find the father |
| David ECKFORD | 11 November 1860 | Helen ECKFORD | Find the father |
| John ELLIOT | 6 January 1863 | Douglas ELLIOT | Find the father |
| William ELLIOT | 3 November 1863 | Ann ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Helen HALDANE | 21 December 1862 | Isabella HALDANE | Find the father |
| James HARDIE | 12 June 1866 | Isabella HARDIE | Find the father |
| William Murray HARDIE | 11 March 1873 | Isabella HARDIE | Find the father |
| David Brunton HEATLIE | 25 February 1874 | Christina HEATLIE | Find the father |
| Adam HUDSON | 11 October 1874 | Euphemia HUDSON | Find the father |
| Mary IRVINE | 1 February 1860 | Margaret IRVINE | Find the father |
| Thomas JACKSON | 5 April 1872 | Margaret JACKSON | Find the father |
| James KERR | 19 August 1865 | Jane KERR | Find the father |
| George LAWSON | 3 June 1873 | Susanna LAWSON | Find the father |
| Janet LAWSON | 29 October 1871 | Joanna LAWSON | Find the father |
| Margaret LAWSON | 30 August 1865 | Joan LAWSON | Find the father |
| William LAWSON | 5 July 1861 | Janet LAWSON | Find the father |
| Isabella LUNN | 26 May 1865 | Agnes LUNN | Find the father |
| Janet MASON | 22 November 1856 | Janet MASON | Find the father |
| John MCCAIG | 25 May 1866 | Isabella MCCAIG | Find the father |
| Walter MILLAR | 19 November 1870 | Isabella MILLAR | Find the father |
| Thomas Scott MILLER | 4 August 1868 | Isabella MILLER | Find the father |
| Mary MINTO | 20 May 1864 | Mary MINTO | Find the father |
| David MORTON | 5 October 1866 | Elizabeth MORTON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MORTON | 5 October 1866 | Elizabeth MORTON | Find the father |
| Adam NICHOL | 21 April 1859 | Helen NICHOL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth NICHOL | 5 January 1864 | Helen NICHOL | Find the father |
| Jane NICHOL | 28 June 1857 | Helen NICHOL | Find the father |
| Mina NICOL | 1 June 1856 | Jemima NICOL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth RATHIE | 6 April 1863 | Margaret RATHIE | Find the father |
| Emma RATHIE | 15 March 1866 | Margaret RATHIE | Find the father |
| Margaret ROBSON | 7 June 1865 | Elizabeth ROBSON | Find the father |
| Jane Stewart ROMANES | 5 January 1865 | Christina ROMANES | Find the father |
| Isabella SCOTT | 16 March 1868 | Margaret SCOTT | Find the father |
| Thomas SCOTT | 27 September 1856 | Wilhelmina SCOTT | Find the father |
| Thomas SCOTT | 7 July 1858 | Mary SCOTT | Find the father |
| Walter SCOTT | 27 June 1855 | Helen SCOTT | Find the father |
| Isabella STEWART | 16 June 1862 | Janet STEWART | Find the father |
| Margaret STEWART | 18 June 1866 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| Henry TELFER | 1 January 1859 | Mina TELFER | Find the father |
| William TELFORD | 31 March 1863 | Mina TELFORD | Find the father |
| Margaret TURNBULL | 24 December 1864 | Christina TURNBULL | Find the father |
| Margaret WILSON | 24 September 1868 | Charlotte WILSON | 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.
