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Sanquhar 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Ellen CORRIE | 1872 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Euphemia CORRIE | 1870 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Mary HANNAH or BEVERIDGE | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean HOGG | Sanquhar | 1845 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Janet HUDDLESTON | Brewery Street Dumfries | 1846-1847 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| Janet HUDDLESTON | 1847 (1) | Order images | Refused, with recomenndation that provision be made for education of children - see nos 20 1845 and 742 1846 | |
| Janet HUDDLESTONE | Brewery Street Dumfries | 1845 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| James KENNEDY | 1851 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Christina MCCRONE | 1856 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Mrs MITCHELL or CRAINIE | 1882 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Eliz MUIR | 1866 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| John MURRAY | 1875 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John REID | Sanquhar | 1845 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Widow Elizabeth SPENCE | 1883 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| John STEWART | 1866 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| John WARREN | 1871 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Elizabeth WILSON | 1845 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Walter WILSON | 1854 (2) | Order images | Refused |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella CARRUTHERS Auchentaggart, Sanquhar | James MCNAUGHT | 16 Apr 1892 Brownfield, Sanquhar | Order now | Kirkcudbright SC16/7/16 |
| Jane CHISHOLM Mennock Bridge, Sanquhar | Samuel SCOTT | 24 Sep 1890 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
| Margaret COWAN Crawwick Mill, Sanquhar | William TINNING | 30 Jan 1852 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/31 |
| Margaret FINDLATER Euchanfoot, Sanquhar formerly Carronbridge, Durisdeer | Edward BLACKSTOCK | 8 Sep 1907 Euchanfoot, Sanquhar | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Annie GILCHRIST or LAIDLAW Mormockhead, Sanquhar | John CRICHTON | 3 Apr 1880 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
| Anne GILSON Townhead, Sanquhar | William NEVISON | 19 Jun 1877 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/35 |
| Jane HENDERSON Muiredge, Sanquhar | Robert HEWETSON | 6 Jul 1902 Kilncroft, Holywood | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Grace KERR or LORIMER High Street, Sanquhar | David FISHER | 1 Jul 1913 Holm, Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Agnes LINDSAY Carco, Sanquhar | Robert MCLACHLAN | 5 Aug 1903 Greenlea, Torthorwald | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Maggie MAXWELL Newtown, Sanquhar | Angus LOVE | 26 Apr 1888 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
| Agnes MCCALL Wanlockhead, Sanquhar | John MCCALL | 12 Sep 1891 Wanlockhead, Sanquhar | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
| Elizabeth MCMILLAN Crawick Bridge, Sanquhar | William RIGG | 10 Sep 1864 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/33 |
| Annie SCOTT Muiredge, Sanquhar | Robert BROADFOOT | 28 Nov 1886 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
| Mary THOMSON Sanquhar | James THOMSON | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/34 | |
| Elizabeth WATSON Wanlockhead, Sanquhar | Alexander Wallace SHARPE | 13 Sep 1884 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/36 |
| Jessie WATSON South United Free Church Manse, Sanquhar | Robert STITT | 5 Nov 1910 Auchentaggart, Sanquhar | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane ALLISON | 18 December 1866 | Margaret ALLISON | Find the father |
| Robert ALLISON | 4 December 1868 | Margaret ALLISON | Find the father |
| Sarah ALLISON | 2 August 1863 | Margaret ALLISON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth BEATTIE | 9 April 1866 | Mary BEATTIE | Find the father |
| Robert BEATTIE | 10 October 1861 | Mary BEATTIE | Find the father |
| Agnes BLACK | 23 November 1872 | Ann BLACK | Find the father |
| Isabel BLACKWOOD | 25 January 1855 | Marion BLACKWOOD | Find the father |
| William BLACKWOOD | 19 May 1871 | Margaret BLACKWOOD | Find the father |
| Agnes BLYTH | 9 May 1866 | Agnes BLYTH | Find the father |
| Agnes BLYTH | 3 October 1868 | Helen BLYTH | Find the father |
| Helen BLYTHE | 4 July 1869 | Agnes BLYTHE | Find the father |
| David BORTHWICK | 18 August 1864 | Helen BORTHWICK | Find the father |
| George BROWN | 21 April 1865 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| Jane BROWN | 21 March 1866 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| Janet BROWN | 8 October 1871 | Agnes BROWN | Find the father |
| John BROWN | 20 August 1856 | Mary BROWN | Find the father |
| Margaret BROWN | 8 April 1864 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| Robert BROWN | 4 December 1870 | Margaret BROWN | Find the father |
| Robina BROWN | 17 September 1865 | Grace BROWN | Find the father |
| William BROWN | 30 December 1865 | Margaret BROWN | Find the father |
| William Love BROWN | 6 March 1861 | Agnes BROWN | Find the father |
| Marion CAMPBELL | 26 April 1860 | Jane CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| George CHARTERS | 9 June 1858 | Elizabeth CHARTERS | Find the father |
| Helen CLARK | 25 February 1872 | Agnes CLARK | Find the father |
| John COPLAND | 14 May 1871 | Annie COPLAND | Find the father |
| Janet COWAN | 28 February 1855 | Helen COWAN | Find the father |
| Catherine Milligan CRAWFORD | 21 January 1867 | Mary CRAWFORD | Find the father |
| John Milligan CRAWFORD | 16 September 1868 | Agnes CRAWFORD | Find the father |
| Bridget CRINGAN | 23 May 1859 | Janet CRINGAN | Find the father |
| James CRINGAN | 1 October 1866 | Janet CRINGAN | Find the father |
| Robert DALGLIESH | 14 October 1864 | Marion DALGLIESH | Find the father |
| James Kennedy DAVIDSON | 2 March 1860 | Mary Paterson DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Christina Kerr DRYDEN | 7 March 1874 | Isabella DRYDEN | Find the father |
| James Reid FITZGERALD | 8 December 1869 | Isabella FITZGERALD | Find the father |
| John Reid FITZGERALD | 6 December 1871 | Isabella FITZGERALD | Find the father |
| Agnes GEMMEL | 14 February 1866 | Elizabeth GEMMEL | Find the father |
| David GEMMEL | 18 November 1870 | Mary GEMMEL | Find the father |
| John GEMMEL | 25 April 1874 | Mary GEMMEL | Find the father |
| Peter GEMMEL | 30 January 1870 | Elizabeth GEMMEL | Find the father |
| John GIBSON | 6 December 1856 | Barbara GIBSON | Find the father |
| Thomas GLENCROSS | 18 December 1858 | Mary GLENCROSS | Find the father |
| Thomas GORDON | 30 April 1872 | Mary GORDON | Find the father |
| Janet Semple GRAHAM | 24 June 1855 | Ann GRAHAM | Find the father |
| Minnie GRAY | 12 August 1874 | Helen GRAY | Find the father |
| James HADDON | 13 August 1863 | Jane HADDON | Find the father |
| Isabel HADDOW | 27 May 1857 | Jane HADDOW | Find the father |
| William HADDOW | 5 December 1870 | Helen HADDOW | Find the father |
| Margaret HAINING | 3 January 1860 | Isabella HAINING | Find the father |
| Mary Sowerby HAINING | 7 December 1860 | Janet HAINING | Father found |
| James HALLIDAY | 31 March 1863 | Jannet HALLIDAY | Find the father |
| Mary HALLIDAY | 16 August 1865 | Janet HALLIDAY | Find the father |
| Mary HANNING | 21 August 1866 | Isabella HANNING | Find the father |
| Jane HENDERSON | 27 November 1856 | Catherine HENDERSON | Find the father |
| William HENDERSON | 7 June 1868 | Catherine HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Robert HOWAT | 19 June 1874 | Jane HOWAT | Find the father |
| Thomas HOWATT | 15 June 1863 | Marion HOWATT | Find the father |
| James HUNTER | 5 December 1864 | Sarah HUNTER | Find the father |
| Alexander INGLIS | 22 February 1866 | Marion INGLIS | Find the father |
| Betsy Ann INGRAM | 18 July 1869 | Jemima INGRAM | Find the father |
| Hamilton JOHNSTON | 18 November 1873 | Ann JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Isabella Grace JOHNSTON | 21 July 1858 | Agnes JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| John Lindsay JOHNSTONE | 12 March 1864 | Agnes JOHNSTONE | Find the father |
| Margaret KAY | 30 January 1859 | Margaret KAY | Find the father |
| Agnes KERR | 19 July 1858 | Grace KERR | Find the father |
| Elizabeth KERR | 11 April 1856 | Helen KERR | Find the father |
| Hugh KERR | 16 November 1858 | Isabella KERR | Find the father |
| James KERR | 4 July 1862 | Helen KERR | Find the father |
| James KERR | 2 April 1866 | Isabella KERR | Find the father |
| Jane White KERR | 21 August 1859 | Margaret KERR | Find the father |
| John KERR | 15 January 1864 | Margaret KERR | Find the father |
| Mary KERR | 17 June 1862 | Agnes KERR | Find the father |
| Robert KERR | 5 August 1855 | Janet KERR | Find the father |
| William LAIDLAW | 15 August 1855 | Janet LAIDLAW | Find the father |
| James LAING | 16 July 1864 | Jane LAING | Find the father |
| William LAING | 15 May 1870 | Jane LAING | Find the father |
| Alexander LAURIE | 14 September 1868 | Mary LAURIE | Find the father |
| Grace LAURIE | 29 January 1856 | Agnes LAURIE | Find the father |
| Ballantyne LINDSAY | 23 February 1856 | Isabella LINDSAY | Find the father |
| Robert LINDSAY | 24 April 1863 | Margaret LINDSAY | Find the father |
| William LINDSAY | 14 July 1855 | Helen LINDSAY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Menzies LORIMER | 24 September 1872 | Elizabeth LORIMER | Find the father |
| Robert LORIMER | 24 December 1873 | Isabella LORIMER | Find the father |
| William LORIMER | 1 October 1868 | Isabella LORIMER | Find the father |
| James LOVE | 24 June 1860 | Margaret LOVE | Find the father |
| James Crichton LOVE | 9 May 1874 | Annie LOVE | Find the father |
| Robert LOVE | 28 March 1857 | Elizabeth LOVE | Find the father |
| Rosina LOVE | 23 October 1868 | Margaret LOVE | Find the father |
| David MAXWELL | 27 July 1874 | Mary MAXWELL | Find the father |
| Jane MCCALL | 16 May 1859 | Isabella MCCALL | Find the father |
| John MCCALL | 10 January 1864 | Mary MCCALL | Find the father |
| Margaret MCCANN | 18 July 1860 | Mary MCCANN | Find the father |
| Georgina MCCAUGHIE | 12 January 1870 | Jessie MCCAUGHIE | Find the father |
| John MCCAUGHIE | 15 July 1874 | Johnann MCCAUGHIE | Find the father |
| Thomas Haddow MCCAUGHIE | 21 February 1864 | Jessie MCCAUGHIE | Find the father |
| Isabella MCCRIRRICK | 8 April 1868 | Elizabeth MCCRIRRICK | Find the father |
| Louisa Brown MCGAUCHIE | 24 February 1867 | Jessie MCGAUCHIE | Find the father |
| Helen MCKEN | 26 July 1865 | Mary MCKEN | Find the father |
| James MCKEN | 23 September 1862 | Mary MCKEN | Find the father |
| John MCKERR | 20 November 1867 | Ann MCKERR | Find the father |
| Robert MCMATH | 24 May 1856 | Ann MCMATH | Find the father |
| Jane MCMICHAN | 12 August 1867 | Janet MCMICHAN | Find the father |
| James MCMILLAN | 12 March 1860 | Elizabeth MCMILLAN | Find the father |
| Jane MCMILLAN | 10 October 1864 | Elizabeth MCMILLAN | Find the father |
| Mary Ann MCWHIR | 1 February 1867 | Catherine MCWHIR | Find the father |
| Jane MCWHIRR | 26 November 1856 | Janet MCWHIRR | Find the father |
| James MEIKLE | 16 July 1855 | Janet MEIKLE | Find the father |
| Jemima MENZIES | 23 December 1866 | Margaret MENZIES | Find the father |
| Thomas MILLIGAN | 19 January 1866 | Mary MILLIGAN | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MORRISON | 28 November 1856 | Jane MORRISON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann MUIR | 4 August 1865 | Margaret MUIR | Find the father |
| Mary Grace MUIR | 26 October 1863 | Ann MUIR | Find the father |
| William MUIR | 28 May 1860 | Marion MUIR | Find the father |
| Margaret NICOL | 30 November 1855 | Agnes NICOL | Find the father |
| Martha NIVISON | 30 November 1859 | Agnes NIVISON | Find the father |
| John RIGGS | 14 April 1858 | Janet RIGGS | Find the father |
| Thomas ROBERTON | 20 November 1871 | Agnes ROBERTON | Find the father |
| Hugh Wilson SCOTT | 4 July 1871 | Margaret SCOTT | Find the father |
| John Ferguson SCOTT | 11 December 1874 | Helen SCOTT | Father found |
| Wilhelmina SCOTT | 27 January 1869 | Margaret SCOTT | Find the father |
| Helen SEATON | 15 June 1855 | Margaret SEATON | Find the father |
| Helen SEATON | 15 January 1864 | Catherine SEATON | Find the father |
| Helen SEATON | 13 January 1869 | Jane SEATON | Find the father |
| Mary SLIMMON | 3 January 1856 | Margaret SLIMMON | Find the father |
| John SMITH | 14 October 1869 | Catherine SMITH | Find the father |
| Maggie Alexander STEWART | 17 June 1873 | Elizabeth Janet STEWART | Find the father |
| Christina TENNANT | 7 December 1863 | Christina TENNANT | Find the father |
| James THOMSON | 30 January 1868 | Margaret THOMSON | Find the father |
| Archibald TURNBULL | 27 June 1858 | Agnes TURNBULL | Find the father |
| Helen TURNBULL | 14 June 1861 | Mary Gillespie TURNBULL | Find the father |
| John TURNBULL | 12 May 1869 | Elizabeth TURNBULL | Find the father |
| James TWADDLE | 8 May 1863 | Margaret TWADDLE | Find the father |
| George WEIR | 14 January 1859 | Janet WEIR | Find the father |
| Agnes WILSON | 15 September 1864 | Marion WILSON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth WILSON | 22 December 1860 | Isabella WILSON | Find the father |
| Janet WILSON | 24 March 1858 | Marion WILSON | Find the father |
| Janet WILSON | 26 October 1862 | Christina WILSON | Find the father |
| John WILSON | 9 June 1862 | Marion WILSON | Father found |
| Marion WILSON | 13 February 1867 | Marion WILSON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann WILSON | 2 August 1862 | Mary WILSON | Find the father |
| Susan Crichton WILSON | 9 July 1872 | Marion WILSON | Find the father |
| William WILSON | 14 May 1856 | Elizabeth WILSON | Find the father |
| William WILSON | 15 February 1860 | Barbara 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.
