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Seafield 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.
We have not currently found any decrees for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth DAVIDSON | 13 May 1857 | Elizabeth DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Geddes DONALDSON | 2 April 1867 | Isabella DONALDSON | Find the father |
| Helen FORBES | 28 June 1868 | Ann FORBES | Find the father |
| Edwin Pryor GRIMWOOD | 11 May 1866 | Emma GRIMWOOD | Find the father |
| John HARPER | 4 March 1858 | Mary HARPER | Find the father |
| George INNES | 14 June 1865 | Jessie INNES | Find the father |
| George LEGG | 30 September 1865 | Jessie LEGG | Find the father |
| Annie LYALL | 18 November 1866 | Ann LYALL | Find the father |
| Christian Rannie LYALL | 2 October 1870 | Ann LYALL | Find the father |
| William George LYALL | 18 September 1872 | Ann LYALL | Find the father |
| Alexander Anderson MAIR | 27 July 1867 | Jane MAIR | Find the father |
| Helen MAIR | 1 November 1864 | Helen MAIR | Find the father |
| Margaret MAIR | 10 May 1870 | Lilly MAIR | Find the father |
| Margaret Ann MCINTOSH | 12 May 1866 | Catherine MCINTOSH | Find the father |
| Peter MCKAY | 5 May 1864 | Elizabeth MCKAY | Find the father |
| Jessie Ann MCLEAN | 21 October 1869 | Ann MCLEAN | Find the father |
| Ann MORRISON | 26 October 1857 | Mary MORRISON | Find the father |
| Jessie Brodie MORRISON | 12 July 1856 | Margaret MORRISON | Find the father |
| Helen MUNRO | 14 March 1870 | Jessie MUNRO | Find the father |
| Alexander NOBLE | 4 April 1868 | Elizabeth NOBLE | Find the father |
| James PATERSON | 23 March 1869 | Elisabeth PATERSON | Find the father |
| Jane PATERSON | 22 May 1865 | Hellen PATERSON | Find the father |
| Mary PIRIE | 26 May 1865 | Helen PIRIE | Find the father |
| James REID | 10 January 1871 | Jane REID | Find the father |
| John Christie RICHARDSON | 18 December 1874 | Elisabeth RICHARDSON | Find the father |
| Henry SMART | 6 October 1858 | Eliza SMART | Find the father |
| Alexander William SMITH | 1 January 1866 | Hellen SMITH | Find the father |
| Arthur SMITH | 2 March 1860 | Ann SMITH | Find the father |
| Margaret SMITH | 16 April 1862 | Ann SMITH | Find the father |
| Helen STEWART | 28 April 1859 | Janet STEWART | Find the father |
| James TAIT | 6 July 1857 | Helen Tait Or MAIR | Find the father |
| Helen THOM | 2 May 1863 | Isabella THOM | Find the father |
| Mary Jane THOM | 21 November 1864 | Jane THOM | Find the father |
| Agnes Drummond WISEMAN | 25 April 1859 | Agnes WISEMAN | Find the father |
| Janet Coull WISEMAN | 25 April 1859 | Agnes WISEMAN | Find the father |
| Alexander WOOD | 2 February 1864 | Jane WOOD | Find the father |
| Isabella WOOD | 1 April 1863 | Margaret WOOD | Find the father |
| Margaret WOOD | 7 May 1856 | Margaret WOOD | Find the father |
| William WOOD | 23 April 1859 | Margaret WOOD | 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.
