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Speymouth 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:
  • £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)
We have indexed these records, and list the cases for this parish below. Just click on the Order images link to order images of the relevant minutes. Please note that as these minutes may need to be filmed specially, it may take up to a week before we can supply them.

Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes
Order imagesDeliverance
Margaret HAY 1860 (3)Order imagesRefused
Widow Ann PAUL or ROSS 1878 (2)Order imagesRefused


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
Jane FRENCH
Burniestripe, Speymouth
Peter KENNEDY8 Sep 1885Order nowElgin
SC26/7/10
Betsy GILLIES
Inchberry, Speymouth
Peter MCKAY2 Nov 1875Order nowElgin
SC26/7/8


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
John ALLAN4 June 1866Helen ALLANFind the father
Margaret ALLAN3 October 1860Hellen ALLANFind the father
Alexander Heard ASHER18 June 1872Betsy ASHERFather found
Robina Mc William BLACK23 September 1867Marjory BLACKFind the father
Ann CAMERON6 June 1872Ann CAMERONFind the father
Jane Ann CAMERON10 June 1874Ann CAMERONFind the father
Margaret Grant CAMERON6 January 1868Ann CAMERONFind the father
Mary CAMERON6 June 1872Ann CAMERONFind the father
William Sutherland Black CAMERON5 March 1870Ann CAMERONFind the father
Elizabeth ELLIES7 March 1871Jane ELLIESFather found
William Cruickshanks ELLIES8 November 1871Ann ELLIESFather found
Alexander FINDLAY19 September 1863Jane FINDLAYFather found
Alice Sweden HORN26 November 1870Helen HORNFind the father
Marian Winchester HORN15 August 1872Helen HORNFind the father
Mary Ann Mckay JOHNSTONE16 July 1868Jessie JOHNSTONEFind the father
John Wiseman KEIRO28 February 1870Margaret KEIROFind the father
Alexander LOGIE10 August 1860Elspet LOGIEFind the father
Margaret MCPHERSON1 October 1861Jane MCPHERSONFind the father
John MILNE28 September 1857Elizabeth MILNEFind the father
James MINTY4 July 1861Jean MINTYFind the father
William MURRAY7 February 1869Mary MURRAYFind the father
Elspet NIVEN18 October 1861Jessie NIVENFind the father
Robert NIVEN27 November 1864Elspet NIVENFind the father
Alexander Bain PAUL23 June 1868Mary PAULFather found
William PAUL17 March 1856Jane PAULFind the father
James ROSS9 July 1858Jemina ROSSFind the father
Alexander Innes SCOTT11 April 1868Margaret SCOTTFind the father
Jessie Duncan SCOTT25 July 1873Mary SCOTTFind the father
Margaret SCOTT6 December 1865Margaret SCOTTFather found
Alexander SELLAR2 March 1866Elizabeth SELLARFind the father
Alexander SELLAR20 January 1872Elsie SELLARFather found
Elizabeth SELLAR14 May 1866Margaret SELLARFind the father
Jessie SELLAR3 January 1864Elizabeth SELLARFind the father
Alexander Gordon SHAND9 March 1871Ann SHANDFind the father
Hugh SHAND22 August 1874Ann SHANDFather found
Alexander Robert Taylor SIMPSON9 January 1866Jane SIMPSONFind the father
Maggie Ann SUTHERLAND17 December 1874Williamina SUTHERLANDFind the father
Jessie WATT20 May 1865Jessie WATTFind the father
Margaret WATT16 March 1870Jessie WATTFind the father
James WILLIAMSON1 February 1866Margaret Williamson Or BREMNERFind the father
Jane WILLIAMSON21 October 1860Jane WILLIAMSONFind the father
Margaret WILLIAMSON29 April 1862Margaret Williamson Or BREMNERFather found


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.


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