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Stobhill 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.
Asylum records – Index to the General Register of Lunatics in Asylums
School records – Index to School Leaving Certificate Examination results
Anatomy Registers – Index to the records of the Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland
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.
Asylum records – Index to the General Register of Lunatics in Asylums
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 do not currently have any records for this parish.
We do not currently have any records for this parish.
Sheriff Court paternity decrees
Single mothers often took the fathers of their children to court for child support. Such cases were known as filiation and aliment cases. The court could order the father to provide maintenance payments to the mother. If the mother won her case, the court would issue a decree, which would allow the mother to enforce payment of aliment. We have indexed all the records of such cases held by the National Records of Scotland from at least 1855 to 1880, and can provide digital images of the records. To order your copy, simply click on the Order now link in the table below.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
We have not currently found any decrees for this parish.
School Leaving Certificate Exams
This is an index to the registers of school leaving certificate examination results (NRS Reference ED36). We do not currently have any records for this parish.
Anatomy register
This is an index to the registers of the Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland (NRS Reference MH1/1-MH1/30). We do not currently have any records for this parish.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| George AITKEN | 28 August 1873 | Elizabeth AITKEN | Find the father |
| Alfred BERNARD | 31 December 1873 | Elizabeth BERNARD | Find the father |
| Mary Whinton BROWN | 16 December 1871 | Mary Stoddart BROWN | Find the father |
| James BRUNTON | 6 June 1870 | Jane BRUNTON | Find the father |
| William BRYSON | 16 March 1870 | Christina BRYSON | Find the father |
| Janet Thomson CLARK | 20 November 1871 | Jessie CLARK | Find the father |
| Thomas CRICHTON | 2 July 1873 | Marion CRICHTON | Find the father |
| Jane Marion Blackie DOBIE | 21 November 1872 | Elizabeth DOBIE | Find the father |
| Helen FERRIER | 3 May 1870 | Ann FERRIER | Find the father |
| John Mc Donald FERRIER | 18 May 1873 | Ann FERRIER | Find the father |
| Robina FLETCHER | 16 May 1871 | Janet FLETCHER | Find the father |
| Agnes Lawson HERRIOT | 1 March 1870 | Marion HERRIOT | Find the father |
| John HORSBURGH | 3 December 1872 | Jessie HORSBURGH | Find the father |
| Samuel HOWAT | 17 May 1874 | Agnes HOWAT | Find the father |
| George Vickers HUTCHISON | 15 September 1871 | Jessie Hutchison Or STARK | Find the father |
| Robert IRVINE | 1 November 1873 | Jane Irvine Or GRANTHAM | Find the father |
| Hannah JOHNSTONE | 23 December 1870 | Jane JOHNSTONE | Father found |
| George KERR | 27 March 1870 | Isabella KERR | Find the father |
| Jane Tytler KERR | 4 June 1873 | Isabella KERR | Find the father |
| Margaret KERR | 9 December 1873 | Mary KERR | Find the father |
| Jane Amos LAW | 27 October 1870 | Margaret LAW | Find the father |
| Janet Prentice LEARMONTH | 1 June 1872 | Frances LEARMONTH | Find the father |
| Jessie MCGROGAN | 26 March 1871 | Margaret MCGROGAN | Father found |
| David MORRISON | 19 November 1870 | Frances Morrison Or LEARMONTH | Find the father |
| David MORRISON | 20 December 1871 | Ellen MORRISON | Find the father |
| Mary Mc Culloch MORRISON | 29 June 1873 | Helen MORRISON | Find the father |
| Thomas MORRISON | 17 July 1871 | Catherine MORRISON | Find the father |
| William Dick MORRISON | 28 March 1874 | Frances Morrison Or LEARMONTH | Find the father |
| Alexandrina MULVANEY | 7 September 1871 | Elizabeth MULVANEY | Find the father |
| William Spears MULVANEY | 26 October 1871 | Mary MULVANEY | Find the father |
| Robert NAYSMITH | 10 December 1873 | Mary NAYSMITH | Find the father |
| Andrew RAMAGE | 5 October 1870 | Margaret RAMAGE | Find the father |
| Margaret SAMUEL | 27 September 1871 | Margaret SAMUEL | Find the father |
| Ann SMITH | 17 October 1874 | Agnes SMITH | Find the father |
| Agnes Wright STEWART | 22 December 1870 | Elizabeth STEWART | Father found |
| Elizabeth Mitchell VICKERS | 17 April 1871 | Elizabeth VICKERS | Find the father |
| Barbara WALKINSHAW | 13 October 1870 | Isabella WALKINSHAW | Find the father |
| Jane WALLACE | 28 December 1870 | Isabella WALLACE | Find the father |
| Mary WATSON | 20 October 1870 | Margaret WATSON | Find the father |
| James Herriot YOUNG | 20 June 1874 | Mary YOUNG | Find the father |
General Register of Lunatics
This index shows patients from this parish admitted to asylums. We have not yet identified any patients from this parish.
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.
