St Boswells 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:
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)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet KERR | 1861 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Esther SMAIL | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| George SMAIL | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| George SMAIL | 1871 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jane SMAIL | 1871 (1) | Order images | Refused |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
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| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Bertram Archibald ARCHIBALD | 27 May 1859 | Violet ARCHIBALD | Find the father |
| Joseph BALLANTYNE | 6 November 1857 | Helen BALLANTYNE | Find the father |
| Margaret BROTHERSTON | 9 March 1864 | Ann BROTHERSTON | Find the father |
| Robina COMMON | 18 November 1870 | Annie COMMON | Find the father |
| Helen DAVIDSON | 12 April 1871 | Jessie DAVIDSON | Find the father |
| William DOWIE | 9 June 1863 | Agnes DOWIE | Find the father |
| John FAIRBAIRN | 31 August 1866 | Agnes FAIRBAIRN | Find the father |
| Mary GRIERSON | 31 December 1856 | Margaret GRIERSON | Find the father |
| Helen HALL | 24 December 1856 | Margaret HALL | Find the father |
| James Neil HILLS | 23 July 1861 | Jane HILLS | Find the father |
| Margaret Robertson HOGG | 25 December 1871 | Margaret HOGG | Find the father |
| George James HOWELISTON | 30 March 1871 | Mary HOWELISTON | Find the father |
| Walter INGLIS | 1 December 1870 | Jessie INGLIS | Find the father |
| Mary KERR | 9 September 1861 | Janet KERR | Find the father |
| Helen Joan KYLE | 5 February 1855 | Euphemia KYLE | Find the father |
| Martha Rachel LAING | 28 October 1874 | Sarah LAING | Find the father |
| Mary LAING | 22 April 1864 | Betsy LAING | Find the father |
| Christina Preston LEARMOND | 22 June 1874 | Isabella LEARMOND | Find the father |
| Alice LIDDLE | 8 October 1856 | Alice LIDDLE | Find the father |
| Anna LINDORES | 19 November 1858 | Anna LINDORES | Find the father |
| William MAIN | 20 July 1857 | Margaret MAIN | Find the father |
| Thomas MAIR | 11 June 1870 | Mary MAIR | Find the father |
| John Wood MATHER | 17 February 1874 | Euphemia Paterson MATHER | Find the father |
| George MITCHELL | 11 August 1864 | Margaret MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Walter NICHOL | 1 July 1874 | Elizabeth NICHOL | Find the father |
| Mary PALMER | 30 November 1857 | Janet PALMER | Find the father |
| John Litster PATERSON | 26 March 1867 | Elizabeth PATERSON | Find the father |
| George RAE | 22 February 1869 | Isabella RAE | Find the father |
| Agnes SCOTT | 24 June 1865 | Isabella SCOTT | Find the father |
| Christina Robert STEEL | 24 April 1872 | Christina STEEL | Find the father |
| Isabella STODDART | 10 October 1866 | Jessie STODDART | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Scott TAIT | 15 June 1862 | Grace TAIT | Find the father |
| Jane TAIT | 31 December 1856 | Jane TAIT | Find the father |
| Margaret TAIT | 16 November 1855 | Margaret TAIT | Find the father |
| Janet TAYLOR | 14 November 1870 | Janet TAYLOR | Find the father |
| Jemima TELFER | 18 October 1870 | Agnes TELFER | Find the father |
| Helen Hutton THOMSON | 4 June 1874 | Isabella THOMSON | Find the father |
| Mary THORBURN | 26 March 1864 | Agnes THORBURN | Find 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.
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
