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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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret HAY | 1860 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Ann PAUL or ROSS | 1878 (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 FRENCH Burniestripe, Speymouth | Peter KENNEDY | 8 Sep 1885 | Order now | Elgin SC26/7/10 |
| Betsy GILLIES Inchberry, Speymouth | Peter MCKAY | 2 Nov 1875 | Order now | Elgin 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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| John ALLAN | 4 June 1866 | Helen ALLAN | Find the father |
| Margaret ALLAN | 3 October 1860 | Hellen ALLAN | Find the father |
| Alexander Heard ASHER | 18 June 1872 | Betsy ASHER | Father found |
| Robina Mc William BLACK | 23 September 1867 | Marjory BLACK | Find the father |
| Ann CAMERON | 6 June 1872 | Ann CAMERON | Find the father |
| Jane Ann CAMERON | 10 June 1874 | Ann CAMERON | Find the father |
| Margaret Grant CAMERON | 6 January 1868 | Ann CAMERON | Find the father |
| Mary CAMERON | 6 June 1872 | Ann CAMERON | Find the father |
| William Sutherland Black CAMERON | 5 March 1870 | Ann CAMERON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth ELLIES | 7 March 1871 | Jane ELLIES | Father found |
| William Cruickshanks ELLIES | 8 November 1871 | Ann ELLIES | Father found |
| Alexander FINDLAY | 19 September 1863 | Jane FINDLAY | Father found |
| Alice Sweden HORN | 26 November 1870 | Helen HORN | Find the father |
| Marian Winchester HORN | 15 August 1872 | Helen HORN | Find the father |
| Mary Ann Mckay JOHNSTONE | 16 July 1868 | Jessie JOHNSTONE | Find the father |
| John Wiseman KEIRO | 28 February 1870 | Margaret KEIRO | Find the father |
| Alexander LOGIE | 10 August 1860 | Elspet LOGIE | Find the father |
| Margaret MCPHERSON | 1 October 1861 | Jane MCPHERSON | Find the father |
| John MILNE | 28 September 1857 | Elizabeth MILNE | Find the father |
| James MINTY | 4 July 1861 | Jean MINTY | Find the father |
| William MURRAY | 7 February 1869 | Mary MURRAY | Find the father |
| Elspet NIVEN | 18 October 1861 | Jessie NIVEN | Find the father |
| Robert NIVEN | 27 November 1864 | Elspet NIVEN | Find the father |
| Alexander Bain PAUL | 23 June 1868 | Mary PAUL | Father found |
| William PAUL | 17 March 1856 | Jane PAUL | Find the father |
| James ROSS | 9 July 1858 | Jemina ROSS | Find the father |
| Alexander Innes SCOTT | 11 April 1868 | Margaret SCOTT | Find the father |
| Jessie Duncan SCOTT | 25 July 1873 | Mary SCOTT | Find the father |
| Margaret SCOTT | 6 December 1865 | Margaret SCOTT | Father found |
| Alexander SELLAR | 2 March 1866 | Elizabeth SELLAR | Find the father |
| Alexander SELLAR | 20 January 1872 | Elsie SELLAR | Father found |
| Elizabeth SELLAR | 14 May 1866 | Margaret SELLAR | Find the father |
| Jessie SELLAR | 3 January 1864 | Elizabeth SELLAR | Find the father |
| Alexander Gordon SHAND | 9 March 1871 | Ann SHAND | Find the father |
| Hugh SHAND | 22 August 1874 | Ann SHAND | Father found |
| Alexander Robert Taylor SIMPSON | 9 January 1866 | Jane SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Maggie Ann SUTHERLAND | 17 December 1874 | Williamina SUTHERLAND | Find the father |
| Jessie WATT | 20 May 1865 | Jessie WATT | Find the father |
| Margaret WATT | 16 March 1870 | Jessie WATT | Find the father |
| James WILLIAMSON | 1 February 1866 | Margaret Williamson Or BREMNER | Find the father |
| Jane WILLIAMSON | 21 October 1860 | Jane WILLIAMSON | Find the father |
| Margaret WILLIAMSON | 29 April 1862 | Margaret Williamson Or BREMNER | Father 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.
