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Sorn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane CRICHTON | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Jane FERGUSON or ANDERSON | 1865 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow FINLAY or NEILL | 1878 (3) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| James Wallace HOGG | 1875 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Thomas IRVINE | 1862 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Robert KIRKLAND | 1856 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Janet MCBRIDE | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| David MCCONNELL | 1848 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| James MCCRON | 1866 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Susan MCLACHLAN | 1876 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Agnes ROY or HANNAH | 1858 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martha KEENAN Catrine, Sorn | Hugh GIBB | 22 Jan 1875 | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/15 |
| Martha MCLACHLAN Catrine, Sorn | Henry MOORE | 8 Aug 1876 Sorn | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/15 |
| Elizabeth MCNAUGHT Blairmalloch, Sorn, Ayrshire | Gilbert SHAW | 8 Oct 1878 Blairmalloch, Sorn, Ayrshire | Order now | Hamilton SC37/7/24 |
| Margaret PARK or NIMMO Catrine, Sorn | Joseph MCKENZIE | 28 Jun 1845 | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/10 |
| Elizabeth RENNIE Stewart's Place, Catrine, Sorn | George DALZIEL | 28 Feb 1884 Stewart's Place, Catrine, Sorn | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/17 |
| Elizabeth THOMSON Glenlogan, Sorn | Richard HALLIDAY | 21 May 1869 | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/14 |
| Rachel WILSON or BUCHANAN OR HAMILTON Stewart Place, Catrine, Sorn | William YOUNG | 25 Jul 1879 Stewart Place, Catrine, Sorn | Order now | Ayr SC6/7/16 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander AITKEN | 2 July 1861 | Jane AITKEN | Father found |
| Elizabeth AITKEN | 13 April 1872 | Jessie AITKEN | Find the father |
| Janet AITKEN | 6 January 1864 | Jane AITKEN | Father found |
| Janet Love AITKEN | 29 April 1861 | Mary AITKEN | Find the father |
| John ANTON | 27 June 1863 | Elizabeth ANTON | Find the father |
| David Johnston ARKIESON | 20 March 1857 | Jane ARKIESON | Find the father |
| James ARKISON | 18 October 1863 | Jane ARKISON | Find the father |
| Rachel Ballantine BAIRD | 29 July 1872 | Robina BAIRD | Find the father |
| Robert BAIRD | 13 February 1868 | Robina BAIRD | Find the father |
| William Mcknight BAIRD | 29 July 1872 | Robina BAIRD | Find the father |
| Peter Devlin BARBOUR | 31 August 1865 | Janet BARBOUR | Find the father |
| William BARBOUR | 22 December 1865 | Susan BARBOUR | Find the father |
| Robert BEGG | 15 January 1863 | Christina BEGG | Find the father |
| William BRACKENRIDGE | 28 February 1860 | Agnes BRACKENRIDGE | Find the father |
| Alexander BROWN | 7 February 1860 | Agnes BROWN | Find the father |
| John BROWN | 5 February 1858 | Lilias BROWN | Find the father |
| Mary Ann BROWN | 3 January 1857 | Agnes BROWN | Find the father |
| William BRYAN | 13 April 1861 | Anne BRYAN | Find the father |
| Catherine CAMERON | 20 March 1874 | Margaret CAMERON | Find the father |
| Anne CAMPBELL | 1 May 1870 | Sarah CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Elizabeth CAMPBELL | 25 December 1874 | Sarah CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| John CAMPBELL | 14 November 1863 | Anne CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Robert CAMPBELL | 24 May 1868 | Sarah CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Andrew CLARK | 6 October 1870 | Jessie CLARK | Find the father |
| John CLARK | 13 February 1857 | Margaret Gibson CLARK | Find the father |
| Margaret CLARK | 16 December 1862 | Elizabeth CLARK | Find the father |
| Agnes Morton COWAN | 9 January 1870 | Bethea COWAN | Find the father |
| Anne COWAN | 17 June 1863 | Susannah COWAN | Find the father |
| William COWAN | 22 June 1861 | Jane COWAN | Find the father |
| Williamina COWAN | 6 June 1870 | Agnes COWAN | Father found |
| Anne CURRIE | 3 February 1872 | Anne CURRIE | Find the father |
| George CURRIE | 18 March 1872 | Margaret CURRIE | Find the father |
| James CURRIE | 22 March 1868 | Maria CURRIE | Find the father |
| George DALZIEL | 18 June 1861 | Isabella DALZIEL | Find the father |
| George DAVIDSON | 24 July 1867 | Elizabeth DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| Hugh DAVIDSON | 24 March 1862 | Elizabeth DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| James DAVIDSON | 6 July 1864 | Elizabeth DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| John DAVIDSON | 1 December 1869 | Elizabeth Mcdonald DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| John DAVIDSON | 4 May 1872 | Elizabeth DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| William Walker DAVIDSON | 20 April 1872 | Margaret DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| William DONELLY | 6 April 1860 | Elizabeth DONELLY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth DOOLE | 3 November 1865 | Esther DOOLE | Father found |
| James DOYLE | 24 December 1858 | Margaret DOYLE | Find the father |
| Robert DYKES | 16 August 1863 | Marion DYKES | Find the father |
| John Hamilton FERGUSON | 15 April 1874 | Margaret FERGUSON | Find the father |
| William FERGUSSON | 11 April 1860 | Agnes FERGUSSON | Find the father |
| Euphemia FINLAYSON | 6 May 1864 | Mary FINLAYSON | Find the father |
| Jane FLETCHER | 3 March 1871 | Mary FLETCHER | Find the father |
| John FORREST | 17 July 1855 | Jean FORREST | Find the father |
| William FREEBAIRN | 16 July 1865 | Jane FREEBAIRN | Find the father |
| Christina Cormack FREEMAN | 8 June 1856 | Elizabeth FREEMAN | Find the father |
| Alexander FRENCH | 29 November 1858 | Mary FRENCH | Find the father |
| Annie Mcculloch GARIEY | 6 August 1871 | Jane GARIEY | Find the father |
| James GIBSON | 19 November 1872 | Susan GIBSON | Find the father |
| John Stevenson GIBSON | 4 November 1874 | Susan GIBSON | Find the father |
| John Brown GILCHRIST | 18 February 1871 | Mary GILCHRIST | Find the father |
| John GILLESPIE | 25 November 1864 | Elizabeth HARPER | Father found |
| William GLEN | 29 August 1874 | Isabella GLEN | Find the father |
| Thomas GOOD | 25 December 1860 | Jane GOOD | Find the father |
| Thomas GRAY | 26 June 1865 | Hannah GRAY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Nimmo HAINING | 9 March 1857 | Agnes HAINING | Find the father |
| Margaret HALL | 20 August 1861 | Margaret HALL | Find the father |
| Joseph HAMILTON | 3 May 1864 | Agnes HAMILTON | Find the father |
| William Johnstone HARKISSON | 2 November 1870 | Isabella HARKISSON | Find the father |
| Agnes HAXTON | 15 September 1867 | Elizabeth HAXTON | Find the father |
| Lorimer HEADLEY | 14 July 1859 | Mary HEADLEY | Find the father |
| James HENDERSON | 5 June 1857 | Mary HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Mary HENDERSON | 16 April 1860 | Mary HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Matthew HENDERSON | 4 February 1865 | Mary HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Robina HENDERSON | 10 October 1870 | Janet HENDERSON | Find the father |
| Thomas Hodge HENDERSON | 20 July 1870 | Mary HENDERSON | Find the father |
| John HODGE | 20 August 1860 | Helen HODGE | Find the father |
| William HOGG | 11 May 1871 | Elizabeth HOGG | Find the father |
| Peter Barber HOWAT | 3 April 1869 | Margaret HOWAT | Find the father |
| Andrew HYSLOP | 7 February 1872 | Jane HYSLOP | Find the father |
| Elizabeth HYSLOP | 31 May 1873 | Elizabeth HYSLOP | Find the father |
| Robert HYSLOP | 11 November 1873 | Jane HYSLOP | Find the father |
| Jean JAMIESON | 14 February 1866 | Helen JAMIESON | Find the father |
| Alexander JOHNSTON | 29 April 1866 | Ellison JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Alexander Tolemy JOHNSTON | 10 April 1861 | Jane JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Mary JOHNSTON | 7 February 1856 | Georgina JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Margaret LAMBIE | 7 November 1860 | Jane LAMBIE | Father found |
| Ann LINDSAY | 8 July 1868 | Ann LINDSAY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth LINDSAY | 24 September 1864 | Ann LINDSAY | Find the father |
| Janet LINDSAY | 17 June 1870 | Anne LINDSAY | Find the father |
| John LINDSAY | 6 December 1871 | Grace LINDSAY | Find the father |
| Agnes Thomson LUCAS | 16 February 1866 | Janet LUCAS | Find the father |
| Helen LUCAS | 27 February 1855 | Janet LUCAS | Find the father |
| Marion LUCAS | 3 June 1860 | Janet LUCAS | Find the father |
| Francis MACARTHUR | 10 April 1859 | Anne MACARTHUR | Find the father |
| William MACKIE | 3 September 1874 | Agnes MACKIE | Find the father |
| John Brown MARLEY | 12 October 1871 | Janet MARLEY | Find the father |
| Elizabeth MCBRIDE | 31 May 1871 | Janet MCBRIDE | Find the father |
| Helen MCBRIDE | 4 April 1861 | Janet MCBRIDE | Find the father |
| Janet MCBRIDE | 24 March 1864 | Janet MCBRIDE | Find the father |
| Jeanie MCBRIDE | 22 March 1866 | Janet MCBRIDE | Find the father |
| Mary MCBRIDE | 14 October 1857 | Janet MCBRIDE | Find the father |
| Robert MCBRIDE | 23 August 1868 | Janet MCBRIDE | Find the father |
| William MCCAREY | 27 March 1872 | Elizabeth MCCAREY | Find the father |
| John MCCARTNEY | 19 April 1870 | Agnes MCCARTNEY | Find the father |
| George MCCEARTNEY | 12 August 1871 | Margaret MCCEARTNEY | Find the father |
| David Robert Taylor MCCLURE | 6 June 1862 | Margaret MCCLURE | Father found |
| Mary Ann MCCONNELL | 27 September 1860 | Jane MCCONNELL | Find the father |
| John Lorimer MCCOWAN | 14 April 1860 | Elizabeth MCCOWAN | Find the father |
| Andrew MCCRONE | 19 July 1871 | Jane MCCRONE | Find the father |
| John MCCRONE | 8 May 1868 | Jane MCCRONE | Find the father |
| Margaret MCDONALD | 2 February 1861 | Margaret MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Jane Wilson MCEWEN | 23 January 1865 | Sarah MCEWEN | Find the father |
| Mary Jane MCFARLANE | 28 February 1869 | Helen MCFARLANE | Find the father |
| George MCGAVIN | 7 July 1857 | Agnes MCGAVIN | Find the father |
| Alexander MCKINNA | 18 November 1863 | Janet Mitchell MCKINNA | Find the father |
| Agnes MCWHIRTER | 6 February 1870 | Agnes MCWHIRTER | Find the father |
| Andrew MCWHIRTER | 10 August 1871 | Margaret MCWHIRTER | Find the father |
| William MCWHIRTER | 26 April 1874 | Marion MCWHIRTER | Father found |
| Archibald MONTGOMERY | 7 February 1868 | Grace MONTGOMERY | Find the father |
| Janet MOORE | 18 May 1865 | Margaret MOORE | Find the father |
| Adam Mitchell MORRISON | 25 October 1858 | Mary MORRISON | Find the father |
| Marion MORTON | 30 April 1870 | Jane MORTON | Father found |
| Jemima Jane Morton MUIR | 25 September 1866 | Jane MUIR | Find the father |
| John MUIR | 10 April 1858 | Janet MUIR | Find the father |
| Margaret Kennedy Nimmo MURDOCH | 17 May 1859 | Anne MURDOCH | Find the father |
| Hannah NANS | 29 November 1865 | Rosanna NANS | Find the father |
| Helen NANS | 19 March 1861 | Rosanna NANS | Find the father |
| James Mcfarlane NANS | 22 November 1858 | Rosinna NANS | Find the father |
| Mary NANS | 26 July 1860 | Jane NANS | Find the father |
| Mary NANS | 17 April 1863 | Rosanna NANS | Find the father |
| Mary NANS | 5 June 1866 | Jane NANS | Find the father |
| Rosanna NANS | 4 March 1871 | Rosanna NANS | Find the father |
| Elizabeth NIMMO | 27 December 1857 | Elizabeth NIMMO | Find the father |
| Jane Mccrae NIMMO | 27 November 1856 | Janet NIMMO | Find the father |
| Jane Mccrae NIMMO | 6 January 1870 | Mary Ann NIMMO | Find the father |
| Mary Ann NIMMO | 6 October 1863 | Elizabeth NIMMO | Find the father |
| Mary Watt NIMMO | 16 March 1873 | Mary Ann NIMMO | Find the father |
| Isabella ORR | 20 February 1861 | Elizabeth ORR | Find the father |
| James PATRICK | 6 June 1855 | Mary PATRICK | Find the father |
| Jean PATRICK | 28 March 1866 | Elizabeth PATRICK | Find the father |
| George Bell PATTISON | 25 December 1858 | Agnes PATTISON | Find the father |
| William RAFFERTY | 14 August 1861 | Helen RAFFERTY | Find the father |
| Hugh Pollock RAMAGE | 24 December 1866 | Elizabeth RAMAGE | Find the father |
| Margaret RAMAGE | 7 April 1862 | Margaret RAMAGE | Find the father |
| Mary Mitchell RAMAGE | 10 June 1872 | Mary RAMAGE | Find the father |
| Thomas RAMAGE | 28 May 1865 | Margaret RAMAGE | Find the father |
| William Ballantine RAMAGE | 2 December 1863 | Ann RAMAGE | Find the father |
| William REID | 25 October 1863 | Margaret Baillie REID | Find the father |
| Lawrance RENNIE | 21 July 1874 | Ellen RENNIE | Find the father |
| David RICHMOND | 20 December 1873 | Elizabeth RICHMOND | Find the father |
| Margaret ROBERTSON | 10 February 1868 | Elizabeth ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| William ROGERSON | 16 July 1862 | Nicholas ROGERSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Baird RUSSELL | 24 January 1864 | Janet RUSSELL | Find the father |
| Thomas RUSSELL | 14 September 1868 | Janet RUSSELL | Find the father |
| James SHAW | 13 September 1871 | Helen SHAW | Find the father |
| William SHAW | 25 January 1863 | Helen SHAW | Find the father |
| James SLOAN | 21 February 1867 | Jane SLOAN | Father found |
| William SMITH | 13 August 1872 | Isabella SMITH | Find the father |
| Allan Ramsay SNEDDEN | 17 November 1857 | Helen SNEDDEN | Find the father |
| William STEVENS | 3 September 1866 | Grace STEVENS | Find the father |
| Robert Smith STEWART | 11 September 1864 | Anne STEWART | Find the father |
| William STEWART | 18 August 1859 | Elizabeth STEWART | Find the father |
| John STIRLING | 8 February 1864 | Agnes STIRLING | Find the father |
| Alexander THOMSON | 14 May 1869 | Elizabeth THOMSON | Find the father |
| Robina THOMSON | 12 June 1862 | Janet THOMSON | Find the father |
| William THOMSON | 29 October 1858 | Margaret THOMSON | Find the father |
| William TRAINER | 7 January 1867 | Mary TRAINER | Find the father |
| Hugh URQUHART | 30 April 1869 | Jane URQUHART | Find the father |
| James VALLANCE | 1 August 1857 | Margaret VALLANCE | Find the father |
| Thomas VALLANCE | 1 August 1857 | Margaret VALLANCE | Find the father |
| Robert WIGHTMAN | 21 May 1871 | Janet WIGHTMAN | Find the father |
| Archibald Leitch WILLIAMSON | 16 February 1860 | Agnes WILLIAMSON | Find the father |
| James Alexander YOUNG | 8 April 1872 | Janet 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.
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.
