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St Andrews Lhanbryd parish 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.

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.

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 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
  • £10 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
Widow Mary DAWSON or DUFF 1874 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Jane GORDON 1862 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Jane MCKIDD or BRANDER 1862 (1)Order imagesRefused
James MENZIES 1864 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Mary PHIMISTER 1880 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Christian ROBERTSON or CAMERON 1863 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Christina ROBERTSON or CAMERON 1862 (1)Order imagesRefused - too old a date
Widow Christina ROBERTSON or CAMERON 1865 (2)Order imagesRefused
Jane SHEACH 1878 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)

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. For births outwith this period, click here.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Ann BLACK21 December 1869Elspet BLACKFind the father
Duncan Fraser BOTHWIG24 August 1872Margaret BOTHWIGFind the father
Anne CAMPBELL26 September 1864Jane CAMPBELLFind the father
George Collie CAMPBELL22 December 1867Jane CAMPBELLFind the father
Jane Grigor CAMPBELL19 December 1871Jane CAMPBELLFind the father
Jessie Margaret Patton CAMPBELL7 May 1870Isabella CAMPBELLFind the father
Jane CUMMING12 October 1874Jessie CUMMINGFind the father
Jessie CUMMING28 November 1863Jessie CUMMINGFind the father
Margaret Macdonald CUMMING22 November 1861Jessie CUMMINGFind the father
Williamina CUMMING24 April 1866Jessie CUMMINGFind the father
Josephine Jane Mc Kay DUNBAR19 October 1860Christina DUNBARFind the father
Elspet Mc Gregor DUNCAN13 January 1867Jane DUNCANFind the father
William DUNCAN14 January 1872Jessie DUNCANFind the father
Elizabeth EDDIE11 August 1873Isabella EDDIEFind the father
Alexander Russell ELLICE7 May 1873Jane ELLICEFind the father
James FALCONER9 January 1863Isabella FALCONERFind the father
Jane Anne Munro FALCONER5 October 1867Jessie FALCONERFind the father
John FALCONER2 August 1867Jane FALCONERFind the father
John Gregor FALCONER22 October 1870Jane FALCONERFind the father
William FORSYTH7 December 1858Catherine FORSYTHFind the father
Mary Anne Thomson GORDON3 June 1864Isabella GORDONFind the father
Anne GRANT21 December 1860Anne GRANTFind the father
Jemima GRANT21 April 1873Jane GRANTFind the father
James GRIGOR4 April 1862Margaret GRIGORFind the father
Jane GRIGOR5 April 1866Jane GRIGORFind the father
Jane Ewan INNES10 October 1872Margaret INNESFind the father
Frederick Andrew LOGIE28 July 1871Helen LOGIEFind the father
David MACKENZIE9 February 1859Margaret MACKENZIEFind the father
Ellen MCINTYRE20 February 1869Mary MCINTYREFind the father
Alexander MCKENZIE21 December 1874Christina MCKENZIEFind the father
Alexander Cameron MCKENZIE4 October 1867Jessie MCKENZIEFind the father
Ellen Thane MCKIDD23 March 1863Ellen MCKIDDFind the father
Ann MILNE5 May 1872Isabella MILNEFind the father
James MILNE28 January 1855Jane MILNEFind the father
Jane Robertson MILNE21 February 1868Anne MILNEFind the father
Charles MORRISON12 May 1864Margaret MORRISONFind the father
William NICOL25 December 1869Jane NICOLFind the father
William Cook NICOL26 July 1868Jane NICOLFind the father
David Masson PETRIE6 January 1861Margaret PETRIEFind the father
John Reid PIRIE30 May 1863Anne PIRIEFind the father
Charles PRICE6 May 1869Jane Ann PRICEFind the father
Jemima PROCTOR7 October 1872Maggie PROCTORFind the father
Anne Hyde RENNIE3 July 1867Jane RENNIEFind the father
Elizabeth RENNIE18 January 1856Elizabeth RENNIEFind the father
Margaret Shanks ROSS20 July 1867Elizabeth ROSSFind the father
William ROSS28 January 1871Isabella ROSSFind the father
Alexander James RUSSELL18 July 1872Mary Ann RUSSELLFind the father
James SHIACH20 April 1860Elizabeth SHIACHFind the father
Alexander SOUTER11 February 1862Elizabeth SOUTERFind the father
Isabella Innes SOUTER8 February 1859Elizabeth SOUTERFind the father
William SOUTER30 January 1863Margaret SOUTERFind the father
John SUTHERLAND15 October 1870Mary SUTHERLANDFind the father
Ellen VASS1 December 1862Elizabeth VASSFind the father
Jane Forsyth VASS28 February 1862Jessie VASSFind the father
Jessie VASS4 October 1855Jessie VASSFind the father
George WILLIAMSON14 February 1868Isabella WILLIAMSONFind the father
Catherine YOUNIE17 December 1867Jane YOUNIEFind the father

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

We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish