Records -> East Lothian
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
Stenton 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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander AMOS | 1881 (2) | Order images | Refused (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. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John AMOS | 5 February 1858 | Elisabeth AMOS | Find the father |
| Alexander ANDERSON | 17 June 1870 | Elisabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Peter ANDERSON | 7 June 1862 | Elisabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Catherine BADGER | 12 March 1858 | Catherine BADGER | Find the father |
| Helen BADGER | 28 February 1870 | Jessie BADGER | Find the father |
| James BADGER | 12 June 1866 | Catherine BADGER | Father found |
| Mary Ann BADGER | 21 June 1867 | Catherine BADGER | Find the father |
| Joseph BISHOP | 27 August 1865 | Mary Anne BISHOP | Find the father |
| Mary BISSET | 12 January 1858 | Elisabeth BISSET | Find the father |
| James BLACK | 18 January 1865 | Isabella BLACK | Find the father |
| Alexander BLAIR | 3 December 1856 | Susan BLAIR | Find the father |
| Janet BLAIR | 13 April 1858 | Margaret BLAIR | Find the father |
| Alexander BRODIE | 31 January 1857 | Matilda BRODIE | Find the father |
| Elisabeth Henry CHALMERS | 6 November 1857 | Margaret CHALMERS | Find the father |
| Andrew DICKSON | 12 October 1867 | Agnes DICKSON | Find the father |
| Christina Thomson DOUGLAS | 20 January 1871 | Agnes DOUGLAS | Father found |
| Margaret FOGGO | 1 December 1862 | Ann FOGGO | Find the father |
| William FRETTER | 16 April 1855 | Elisabeth FRETTER | Find the father |
| James GIBSON | 11 March 1860 | Sarah GIBSON | Find the father |
| Beatrice GILMORE | 3 October 1874 | Elisabeth GILMORE | Find the father |
| George HOGG | 24 March 1860 | Janet HOGG | Find the father |
| John HOPE | 3 May 1867 | Janet HOPE | Father found |
| John KELLY | 12 October 1864 | Margaret KELLY | Find the father |
| Catherine KIRKALDY | 15 September 1858 | Jessie KIRKALDY | Find the father |
| Robert LAWSON | 18 January 1865 | Ann LAWSON | Find the father |
| Anne LEARMONTH | 18 September 1861 | Anne LEARMONTH | Find the father |
| Thomas LEARMONTH | 18 September 1866 | Anne LEARMONTH | Find the father |
| Marion MCDONALD | 21 March 1874 | Mary MCDONALD | Find the father |
| Charles MCLEAN | 16 September 1870 | Marion MCLEAN | Find the father |
| John MCLEOD | 18 May 1856 | Ann MCLEOD | Find the father |
| George MURRAY | 14 January 1864 | Robina MURRAY | Find the father |
| James NICHOLSON | 24 February 1855 | Isabella NICHOLSON | Find the father |
| William PATERSON | 19 March 1866 | Euphemia PATERSON | Find the father |
| Matthew RAMAGE | 4 September 1871 | Elizabeth RAMAGE | Father found |
| Robina Jane SHIERLAW | 10 November 1863 | Rebecca SHIERLAW | Find the father |
| Mary SMITH | 19 January 1855 | Euphemia SMITH | Find the father |
| Agnes THOMSON | 15 February 1867 | Margaret THOMSON | Find the father |
| George WELSH | 6 April 1867 | Margaret WELSH | Find the father |
| John YOUNG | 22 June 1865 | Margaret YOUNG | Find the father |
| Mary YOUNG | 6 April 1873 | Marion YOUNG | Find the father |
| Thomas YOUNG | 13 July 1868 | Christina YOUNG | Father found |
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.
