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Spott 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah RICHARDSON or JOHNSTON | 1857 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helen AITCHISON Halls, Spott | Alexander WHITECROSS | 10 Oct 1877 | Order now | Haddington SC40/7/38 |
| Margaret KING Bothwell, Spott, East Lothian | William RAEBURN | 17 Jun 1851 | Order now | Duns SC60/7/41 |
| Isabella WATT Spott | David BURNSIDE | 25 Aug 1854 | Order now | Haddington SC40/7/36 |
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 ALISON | 26 October 1857 | Elizabeth ALISON | Find the father |
| Agnes ANDERSON | 13 December 1861 | Jessie ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Isabella BLAIR | 15 July 1863 | Isabella BLAIR | Father found |
| Isabella BLAIR | 19 November 1863 | Isabella BLAIR | Find the father |
| William BLAIR | 19 January 1861 | Barbara BLAIR | Father found |
| James CLAPPERTON | 23 October 1873 | Jane CLAPPERTON | Find the father |
| Jane COWE | 19 September 1864 | Janet COWE | Father found |
| Janet COWE | 18 June 1870 | Janet COWE | Find the father |
| Margaret COWE | 12 October 1861 | Janet COWE | Find the father |
| Susan COWE | 1 December 1867 | Susan COWE | Find the father |
| Charles DONALDSON | 16 November 1860 | Euphemia DONALDSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Ellen FORTUNE | 13 May 1865 | Margaret Rankin FORTUNE | Find the father |
| Christina GLASS | 1 November 1870 | Mary GLASS | Find the father |
| Agnes Bell Smith GOODALL | 24 November 1863 | Christian GOODALL | Find the father |
| Euphemia HAMILTON | 15 December 1861 | Elizabeth HAMILTON | Find the father |
| James HENDERSON | 27 April 1863 | Euphemia HENDERSON | Find the father |
| David HOWDEN | 7 November 1866 | Margaret HOWDEN | Father found |
| John LINDORES | 10 October 1862 | Mary LINDORES | Find the father |
| Mary LINDORES | 19 January 1868 | Mary LINDORES | Find the father |
| Alison LITSTER | 10 November 1856 | Janet LITSTER | Find the father |
| Catharine MACK | 28 January 1863 | Margaret MACK | Find the father |
| Alexander MCDONALD | 7 April 1867 | Cathrine MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Euphemia MCKENZIE | 4 May 1865 | Euphemia MCLEOD | Find the father |
| Alexander MCLEOD | 7 January 1864 | Ann MCLEOD | Father found |
| Mary MCPHERSON | 30 June 1858 | Marion MCPHERSON | Father found |
| James NESBIT | 9 June 1859 | Isabella NESBIT | Find the father |
| James O'MELLIA | 4 June 1859 | Margaret O'MELLIA | Find the father |
| Alexander PERSON | 29 December 1860 | Margaret PERSON | Find the father |
| Agnes PUNTON | 30 August 1871 | Janet PUNTON | Find the father |
| Andrew SMITH | 17 December 1869 | Mary SMITH | Father found |
| Jane WATERS | 17 January 1868 | Helen WATERS | Find the father |
| Georgina WATT | 5 February 1863 | Isabella WATT | 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.
