St Martins 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 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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/1012/1 | Minutes | 1896-1961 | Request lookup |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Grace CHAMBERS or SIM | 1848 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander CRAMB | 1850 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Janet DONALDSON | Carolina Place St Martins | 1845 (2) | Order images | Refused |
| Widow GALL | 1857 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean MCFAULD | 1867 (1) | Order images | Refused - not in receipt of parochial relief | |
| Widow Janet MORRIS or LAING | 1857 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Elizabeth PATTILLO | Guildtown | 1846 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| James ROBERTSON | 1865 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
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| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas ALLISON | 8 June 1862 | Isabella ALLISON | Find the father |
| Margaret BRUCE | 10 January 1874 | Mary Ann BRUCE | Find the father |
| Catherine Ramsay CLARK | 8 December 1873 | Margaret CLARK | Find the father |
| William CROMB | 4 November 1863 | Keith CROMB | Find the father |
| Helen DALGLIESH | 30 November 1866 | Jesse DALGLIESH | Find the father |
| Annie Eliza DONALDSON | 11 October 1873 | Eliza Ann DONALDSON | Find the father |
| Mary Isabella DUFF | 29 December 1873 | Catherine DUFF | Find the father |
| Christina DUNCAN | 25 December 1863 | Mary DUNCAN | Find the father |
| James DUNCAN | 13 August 1871 | Helen DUNCAN | Find the father |
| Elizabeth FINLAYSON | 2 August 1872 | Elizabeth FINLAYSON | Find the father |
| Jane Ann Gibson FORD | 16 August 1858 | Hannah FORD | Find the father |
| Janet FORD | 8 October 1865 | Hannah FORD | Find the father |
| Peter Curror FORD | 17 September 1871 | Hannah FORD | Find the father |
| Robert FORD | 3 June 1869 | Hannah FORD | Find the father |
| Elizabeth GAIRNS | 24 January 1872 | Ann GAIRNS | Find the father |
| John GAIRNS | 26 March 1872 | Margaret GAIRNS | Find the father |
| Edward JACKSON | 12 September 1868 | Ann JACKSON | Find the father |
| James JACKSON | 21 August 1869 | Jane JACKSON | Find the father |
| David William JOHNSTON | 23 September 1866 | Ann JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| David KETTLES | 1 February 1862 | Janet KETTLES | Find the father |
| James MACARTHUR | 14 November 1866 | Janet MACARTHUR | Find the father |
| Helen MACDONALD | 17 August 1863 | Barbara MACDONALD | Find the father |
| James MASON | 13 May 1868 | Eliza MASON | Find the father |
| Marjory MASON | 24 December 1870 | Eliza MASON | Find the father |
| Jane MCARTHUR | 18 February 1863 | Janet MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Jessie MCARTHUR | 6 April 1861 | Elizabeth MCARTHUR | Find the father |
| Robert MCFAULD | 6 November 1869 | Jane MCFAULD | Find the father |
| Marjory Elizabeth MORRISON | 28 March 1873 | Mary MORRISON | Find the father |
| James MURRAY | 13 September 1863 | Joan MURRAY | Find the father |
| James MURRAY | 10 March 1873 | Lillias MURRAY | Find the father |
| Andrew Turnbull RITCHIE | 4 September 1857 | Mary Ann RITCHIE | Find the father |
| Williamina Martha RITCHIE | 14 September 1869 | Ann RITCHIE | Find the father |
| David Logie ROBERTSON | 5 May 1861 | Agnes ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Janet ROBERTSON | 1 May 1868 | Helen ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Janet ROBERTSON | 14 July 1873 | Clementina ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Jean ROBERTSON | 23 July 1864 | Mary ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| John Brewster ROBERTSON | 25 March 1869 | Janet ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Robert ROBERTSON | 10 December 1862 | Helen ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Christina SIME | 14 March 1869 | Jane SIME | Find the father |
| James SIME | 16 April 1870 | Agnes SIME | Find the father |
| Mary SIME | 13 January 1867 | Agnes SIME | Find the father |
| Jane STEWART | 27 April 1874 | Jane STEWART | Find the father |
| Jessie STEWART | 17 May 1862 | Margaret STEWART | Find the father |
| Charles STOBIE | 14 November 1863 | Ann STOBIE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Thomson WATT | 6 March 1874 | Elizabeth WATT | Find the father |
| Alexander YEAMAN | 2 April 1872 | Jessie YEAMAN | Find the father |
| Emma YOUNG | 1 June 1872 | Mary YOUNG | 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
