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Records -> Peeblesshire

Skirling 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
CH2/329/1Minutes 1654-1659
Minutes 1765-1853 (with gaps)
Minutes 1873
Minutes 1880-1935
1654-1935Request 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 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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Mary THOMSON
Skirling Town Head, Skirling
Forrest SMITH22 Aug 1885Order nowPeebles
SC42/9/11


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 CLARK28 September 1865Mary CLARKFather found
Robina Marion Easton CLARK31 May 1870Eliza CLARKFind the father
Mary DOHERTY19 February 1867Catherine DOHERTYFind the father
James DONNELL8 March 1870Janet DONNELLFind the father
George KERR29 September 1870Margaret KERRFind the father
Margaret Harper MACCALL14 June 1856Mary MACCALLFind the father
John MITCHELL28 October 1863Agnes MITCHELLFind the father
Margaret MORRISON16 February 1872Margaret MORRISONFind the father
Robert PENMAN18 August 1859Agnes PENMANFind the father
Margaret SINCLAIR11 July 1858Margaret SINCLAIRFind the father
Catherine WYBER12 October 1859Grace WYBERFind the father
Alexander YOUNG19 June 1856Isabell YOUNGFind the father
George YOUNG30 December 1863Isabell YOUNGFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1836 (NRS Reference: CH2/329/1 pp. 268-269)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JohnSimpsonelder
LaurenceProudfootelder
GeorgeRamsay
JohnClerk
RobertPaterson
AlexanderNoble
PeterRitchie
WilliamPaterson
JohnBlacklaw
JohnGibson
JohnShankie
CharlesO'donnel
WalterStark
JamesYoung
DavidBurrl
RobertYoung
WilliamLithgow
IsaacWypper
JohnSmith
DavidSmith
ArchibaldFinlayson
JamesTod
CharlesJohnston
JamesJohnston
AndrewForrest
AlexanderSinclair
JohnRobb
JohnHope
WilliamWilson
CharlesClark
AlexanderSomerville
JamesMoffat
RoClerk
RobertNoble
JamesNoble
JohnNimmo
ThomasNoble
AlexanderThripland
JamesTod
WilliamChisholm
JamesPenman
GeorgeCore
AlexanderProudfoot

Male Heads of families 1838 (NRS Reference: CH2/329/1 pp. 276-277)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JohnSimpsonelder
LaurenceProudfootelder
JohnBlacklaw
DavidBurrel
GeorgeCore
RobertClark
JohnClark
WilliamChisholm
GeorgeCuthbertson
CharlesO'donnel
ArchibaldFinlayson
AndrewForrest
JohnGibson
CharlesClark
JohnHope
CharlesJohnstone
JamesJohnstone
JamesMoffat
JohnNimmo
RobertNoble
AlexanderNoble
ThomasNoble
JamesNoble
RobertProudfoot
RobertPaterson
JamesPenman
WilliamPaterson
PeterRitchie
JohnRobb
GeorgeRamsay
AndrewShankie
JohnSmith
DavidSmith
AlexanderSomerville
AlexanderSinclair
JamesTodd
RobertWatson
WilliamWilson
IsaacWyper
RobertYoung
GeorgeYoung
JamesYoung
WilliamLithgow
AlexrThripland

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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