Records -> Roxburghshire
Southdean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James CLARK | 1864 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Ellen WILLIAMSON | 1869 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane GANT Westerhouses, Southdean, Roxburghshire | John WILKIE | 14 May 1882 Westerhouses, Southdean, Roxburghshire | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Janet HEDLEY Burns, Southdean | John DRUMMOND | 26 Jul 1876 Burns, Southdean | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/13 |
| Christina HOLLIDAY Ruletownhead, Southdean | Thomas FERGUSON | 5 May 1886 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/14 |
| Margaret RICHARDSON Southdean | David ELLIOT | 16 Jul 1877 Southdean | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/13 |
| Jane TURNBULL Westerhouses, Southdean | William TELFER | 21 Jun 1880 | Order now | Jedburgh SC62/7/14 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Orr ANDERSON | 10 June 1869 | Helen ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Thomas ANDERSON | 2 May 1867 | Helen ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Isabella BELL | 24 January 1873 | Julia BELL | Find the father |
| Margaret CAIRNS | 2 June 1864 | Helen CAIRNS | Find the father |
| Janet CAVERS | 15 July 1870 | Jessie CAVERS | Find the father |
| Andrew DANIEL | 31 December 1863 | Jessie DANIEL | Find the father |
| Robert DOUGLAS | 24 February 1871 | Eliza DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| William DOUGLAS | 10 October 1861 | Eliza DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Thomas GRADEN | 17 May 1866 | Mary GRADEN | Father found |
| Robert HALLIDAY | 8 June 1870 | Christian HALLIDAY | Find the father |
| Thomas HUNTER | 13 April 1860 | Joanna HUNTER | Find the father |
| William INGRAM | 26 February 1872 | Margaret INGRAM | Find the father |
| Agnes MATHISON | 28 December 1862 | Helen MATHISON | Find the father |
| James MINTO | 7 October 1872 | Agnes MINTO | Find the father |
| Jessie Furness MINTO | 29 June 1868 | Agnes MINTO | Find the father |
| Margaret MINTO | 16 March 1867 | Margaret MINTO | Find the father |
| Mary MINTO | 5 November 1863 | Agnes MINTO | Find the father |
| Isabella OLIVER | 28 October 1859 | Jane OLIVER | Find the father |
| William Douglas OLIVER | 17 January 1870 | Annie OLIVER | Find the father |
| William PRINGLE | 8 January 1860 | Margaret PRINGLE | Find the father |
| Williamina SCOTT | 4 January 1857 | Williamina SCOTT | Find the father |
| Euphemia SHORT | 11 January 1873 | Margaret SHORT | Find the father |
| William SHORT | 15 May 1869 | Jane SHORT | Find the father |
| Andrew TELFER | 15 April 1868 | Ann TELFER | Find the father |
| James TELFER | 14 June 1864 | Isabella TELFER | Find the father |
| Robert TELFER | 16 September 1864 | Margaret TELFER | Father found |
| James Scott THOMPSON | 18 December 1860 | Alison THOMPSON | Find the father |
| John THOMSON | 27 October 1869 | Mary THOMSON | Find the father |
| William TURNBULL | 21 May 1872 | Isabella TURNBULL | Find the father |
| Mary YOUNG | 17 August 1865 | Margaret 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.
