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St Boswell's 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 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
Janet KERR 1861 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Esther SMAIL 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
George SMAIL 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
George SMAIL 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jane SMAIL 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
James Bertram Archibald ARCHIBALD27 May 1859Violet ARCHIBALDFind the father
Joseph BALLANTYNE6 November 1857Helen BALLANTYNEFind the father
Margaret BROTHERSTON9 March 1864Ann BROTHERSTONFind the father
Robina COMMON18 November 1870Annie COMMONFind the father
Helen DAVIDSON12 April 1871Jessie DAVIDSONFind the father
William DOWIE9 June 1863Agnes DOWIEFind the father
John FAIRBAIRN31 August 1866Agnes FAIRBAIRNFind the father
Mary GRIERSON31 December 1856Margaret GRIERSONFind the father
Helen HALL24 December 1856Margaret HALLFind the father
James Neil HILLS23 July 1861Jane HILLSFind the father
Margaret Robertson HOGG25 December 1871Margaret HOGGFind the father
George James HOWELISTON30 March 1871Mary HOWELISTONFind the father
Walter INGLIS1 December 1870Jessie INGLISFind the father
Mary KERR9 September 1861Janet KERRFind the father
Helen Joan KYLE5 February 1855Euphemia KYLEFind the father
Martha Rachel LAING28 October 1874Sarah LAINGFind the father
Mary LAING22 April 1864Betsy LAINGFind the father
Christina Preston LEARMOND22 June 1874Isabella LEARMONDFind the father
Alice LIDDLE8 October 1856Alice LIDDLEFind the father
Anna LINDORES19 November 1858Anna LINDORESFind the father
William MAIN20 July 1857Margaret MAINFind the father
Thomas MAIR11 June 1870Mary MAIRFind the father
John Wood MATHER17 February 1874Euphemia Paterson MATHERFind the father
George MITCHELL11 August 1864Margaret MITCHELLFind the father
Walter NICHOL1 July 1874Elizabeth NICHOLFind the father
Mary PALMER30 November 1857Janet PALMERFind the father
John Litster PATERSON26 March 1867Elizabeth PATERSONFind the father
George RAE22 February 1869Isabella RAEFind the father
Agnes SCOTT24 June 1865Isabella SCOTTFind the father
Christina Robert STEEL24 April 1872Christina STEELFind the father
Isabella STODDART10 October 1866Jessie STODDARTFather found
Elizabeth Scott TAIT15 June 1862Grace TAITFind the father
Jane TAIT31 December 1856Jane TAITFind the father
Margaret TAIT16 November 1855Margaret TAITFind the father
Janet TAYLOR14 November 1870Janet TAYLORFind the father
Jemima TELFER18 October 1870Agnes TELFERFind the father
Helen Hutton THOMSON4 June 1874Isabella THOMSONFind the father
Mary THORBURN26 March 1864Agnes THORBURNFind 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

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.