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Saline 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.
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.
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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth FOTHERINGHAM | 1854 (5) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Elizabeth FOTHERINGHAM | 1855 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| James HARROWER | 1869 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Helen HERRON | 1873 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Mrs Isabella KEIR | 1883 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Ann KING or HARROWER | 1877 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Peter LADY | 1872 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Thomas MERCER | 1851 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow MORRISON | 1865 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Elizabeth REID or MACDOUGALL | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Bridget SMITH or REILLY | 1873 (1) | Order images | Refused - informal | |
| John THOMSON | 1865 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Jean WRIGHT or RITCHIE | 1874 (2) | Order images | Refused |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander ANDERSON | 10 July 1858 | Elizabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| George ANDERSON | 16 May 1870 | Marjory ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Henry ANDERSON | 4 April 1863 | Janet ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Marjory ANDERSON | 16 August 1874 | Marjory ANDERSON | Find the father |
| David ARMOUR | 2 December 1857 | Isabella ARMOUR | Find the father |
| Frederick BARROWMAN | 25 April 1873 | Jessie BARROWMAN | Find the father |
| Isabella BARROWMAN | 2 July 1863 | Jessie BARROWMAN | Find the father |
| John BARROWMAN | 14 October 1863 | Margaret BARROWMAN | Find the father |
| Andrew BOSWELL | 18 December 1857 | Ann BOSWELL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Caroline BOSWELL | 18 April 1870 | Isabella BOSWELL | Find the father |
| Janet BOSWELL | 15 June 1858 | Elizabeth BOSWELL | Find the father |
| Thomas BOSWELL | 29 September 1868 | Mary BOSWELL | Find the father |
| John COUSIN | 5 June 1857 | Margaret COUSIN | Find the father |
| William COUSIN | 12 June 1868 | Elizabeth COUSIN | Find the father |
| Christina CUMMING | 11 October 1864 | Janet CUMMING | Find the father |
| Thomas DOBBIE | 25 August 1865 | Helen DOBBIE | Find the father |
| James DRYSDALE | 6 December 1874 | Euphemia Henderson DRYSDALE | Find the father |
| Christina HAMILTON | 12 June 1864 | Janet HAMILTON | Find the father |
| James Dick HAMILTON | 27 May 1857 | Janet HAMILTON | Find the father |
| Margaret HAMILTON | 30 January 1868 | Janet HAMILTON | Find the father |
| Mary HAMILTON | 18 May 1871 | Janet HAMILTON | Find the father |
| William HAMILTON | 4 September 1855 | Margaret HAMILTON | Find the father |
| Andrew HARLEY | 22 October 1869 | Isabella HARLEY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth HARLEY | 3 June 1865 | Isabella HARLEY | Father found |
| Elizabeth HARLEY | 16 March 1872 | Betsy HARLEY | Find the father |
| Isabella HARLEY | 17 November 1871 | Isabella HARLEY | Find the father |
| Jane HARLEY | 9 April 1874 | Isabella HARLEY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth HARROWAR | 4 August 1866 | Margaret HARROWAR | Find the father |
| Christina HODGE | 5 January 1857 | Christian HODGE | Find the father |
| James HODGE | 15 February 1861 | Christina HODGE | Find the father |
| Johan HODGE | 25 February 1865 | Christina HODGE | Find the father |
| Marrion Stewart HODGE | 19 June 1859 | Christina HODGE | Find the father |
| Mary HODGE | 23 October 1867 | Joan HODGE | Find the father |
| William HODGE | 24 July 1868 | Christina HODGE | Find the father |
| Charlotte HUNTER | 5 July 1870 | Charlotte HUNTER | Find the father |
| James HUNTER | 3 September 1863 | Ann HUNTER | Find the father |
| Mary HUNTER | 15 February 1863 | Charlotte HUNTER | Find the father |
| Mary HUNTER | 30 November 1864 | Charlotte HUNTER | Find the father |
| William LINDSAY | 29 December 1862 | Jane LINDSAY | Find the father |
| John Alexander MARTIN | 22 November 1868 | Marion MARTIN | Father found |
| John MERCER | 17 February 1869 | Janet MERCER | Find the father |
| Robert MERCER | 5 September 1866 | Isabella MERCER | Find the father |
| Adam MORGAN | 27 June 1855 | Janet MORGAN | Find the father |
| John MORGAN | 21 February 1856 | Mary MORGAN | Find the father |
| Thomas MURRAY | 19 April 1855 | Elisabeth MURRAY | Find the father |
| John NEISH | 1 June 1863 | Margaret NEISH | Find the father |
| Catharine PATERSON | 5 March 1856 | Mary PATERSON | Find the father |
| George PATERSON | 27 August 1865 | Elizabeth PATERSON | Find the father |
| James PATERSON | 11 April 1856 | Jane PATERSON | Find the father |
| John PATERSON | 20 June 1863 | Elisabeth PATERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Campbell PATERSON | 24 July 1858 | Margaret PATERSON | Father found |
| Charlotte PEART | 9 September 1865 | Tamar PEART | Find the father |
| David REID | 5 September 1864 | Christian REID | Find the father |
| Andrew ROBERTSON | 27 February 1867 | Euphemia ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| David ROBERTSON | 7 August 1863 | Euphemia ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| James STARK | 26 April 1867 | Euphemia STARK | Father found |
| James STOBIE | 20 September 1874 | Elizabeth STOBIE | Find the father |
| Margaret STOBIE | 14 January 1869 | Elizabeth STOBIE | Find the father |
| William STOBIE | 7 April 1871 | Jane STOBIE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth STRACHAN | 26 April 1872 | Lucy STRACHAN | Find the father |
| John STRACHAN | 18 November 1863 | Margaret STRACHAN | Find the father |
| George STRAGANNAN | 11 July 1870 | Anne STRAGANNAN | Find the father |
| James STRONACH | 17 April 1861 | Catharine STRONACH | Find the father |
| Peter TEMPLEMAN | 11 June 1858 | Jean TEMPLEMAN | Find the father |
| Ruth TOSHACK | 25 April 1859 | Isabella TOSHACK | Find the father |
| Ann WARDLAW | 7 January 1865 | Ann WARDLAW | Find the father |
| Ruth WEIR | 14 June 1856 | Ruth WEIR | Find the father |
| John WINTERS | 24 October 1859 | Elizabeth WINTERS | Find 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.
