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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/329/1 | Minutes 1654-1659 Minutes 1765-1853 (with gaps) Minutes 1873 Minutes 1880-1935 | 1654-1935 | Request 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary THOMSON Skirling Town Head, Skirling | Forrest SMITH | 22 Aug 1885 | Order now | Peebles 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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane CLARK | 28 September 1865 | Mary CLARK | Father found |
| Robina Marion Easton CLARK | 31 May 1870 | Eliza CLARK | Find the father |
| Mary DOHERTY | 19 February 1867 | Catherine DOHERTY | Find the father |
| James DONNELL | 8 March 1870 | Janet DONNELL | Find the father |
| George KERR | 29 September 1870 | Margaret KERR | Find the father |
| Margaret Harper MACCALL | 14 June 1856 | Mary MACCALL | Find the father |
| John MITCHELL | 28 October 1863 | Agnes MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Margaret MORRISON | 16 February 1872 | Margaret MORRISON | Find the father |
| Robert PENMAN | 18 August 1859 | Agnes PENMAN | Find the father |
| Margaret SINCLAIR | 11 July 1858 | Margaret SINCLAIR | Find the father |
| Catherine WYBER | 12 October 1859 | Grace WYBER | Find the father |
| Alexander YOUNG | 19 June 1856 | Isabell YOUNG | Find the father |
| George YOUNG | 30 December 1863 | Isabell YOUNG | 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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | Simpson | elder | ||
| Laurence | Proudfoot | elder | ||
| George | Ramsay | |||
| John | Clerk | |||
| Robert | Paterson | |||
| Alexander | Noble | |||
| Peter | Ritchie | |||
| William | Paterson | |||
| John | Blacklaw | |||
| John | Gibson | |||
| John | Shankie | |||
| Charles | O'donnel | |||
| Walter | Stark | |||
| James | Young | |||
| David | Burrl | |||
| Robert | Young | |||
| William | Lithgow | |||
| Isaac | Wypper | |||
| John | Smith | |||
| David | Smith | |||
| Archibald | Finlayson | |||
| James | Tod | |||
| Charles | Johnston | |||
| James | Johnston | |||
| Andrew | Forrest | |||
| Alexander | Sinclair | |||
| John | Robb | |||
| John | Hope | |||
| William | Wilson | |||
| Charles | Clark | |||
| Alexander | Somerville | |||
| James | Moffat | |||
| Ro | Clerk | |||
| Robert | Noble | |||
| James | Noble | |||
| John | Nimmo | |||
| Thomas | Noble | |||
| Alexander | Thripland | |||
| James | Tod | |||
| William | Chisholm | |||
| James | Penman | |||
| George | Core | |||
| Alexander | Proudfoot |
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | Simpson | elder | ||
| Laurence | Proudfoot | elder | ||
| John | Blacklaw | |||
| David | Burrel | |||
| George | Core | |||
| Robert | Clark | |||
| John | Clark | |||
| William | Chisholm | |||
| George | Cuthbertson | |||
| Charles | O'donnel | |||
| Archibald | Finlayson | |||
| Andrew | Forrest | |||
| John | Gibson | |||
| Charles | Clark | |||
| John | Hope | |||
| Charles | Johnstone | |||
| James | Johnstone | |||
| James | Moffat | |||
| John | Nimmo | |||
| Robert | Noble | |||
| Alexander | Noble | |||
| Thomas | Noble | |||
| James | Noble | |||
| Robert | Proudfoot | |||
| Robert | Paterson | |||
| James | Penman | |||
| William | Paterson | |||
| Peter | Ritchie | |||
| John | Robb | |||
| George | Ramsay | |||
| Andrew | Shankie | |||
| John | Smith | |||
| David | Smith | |||
| Alexander | Somerville | |||
| Alexander | Sinclair | |||
| James | Todd | |||
| Robert | Watson | |||
| William | Wilson | |||
| Isaac | Wyper | |||
| Robert | Young | |||
| George | Young | |||
| James | Young | |||
| William | Lithgow | |||
| Alexr | Thripland |
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.
