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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.

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.

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
George AITKEN28 August 1873Elizabeth AITKENFind the father
Alfred BERNARD31 December 1873Elizabeth BERNARDFind the father
Mary Whinton BROWN16 December 1871Mary Stoddart BROWNFind the father
James BRUNTON6 June 1870Jane BRUNTONFind the father
William BRYSON16 March 1870Christina BRYSONFind the father
Janet Thomson CLARK20 November 1871Jessie CLARKFind the father
Thomas CRICHTON2 July 1873Marion CRICHTONFind the father
Jane Marion Blackie DOBIE21 November 1872Elizabeth DOBIEFind the father
Helen FERRIER3 May 1870Ann FERRIERFind the father
John Mc Donald FERRIER18 May 1873Ann FERRIERFind the father
Robina FLETCHER16 May 1871Janet FLETCHERFind the father
Agnes Lawson HERRIOT1 March 1870Marion HERRIOTFind the father
John HORSBURGH3 December 1872Jessie HORSBURGHFind the father
Samuel HOWAT17 May 1874Agnes HOWATFind the father
George Vickers HUTCHISON15 September 1871Jessie Hutchison Or STARKFind the father
Robert IRVINE1 November 1873Jane Irvine Or GRANTHAMFind the father
Hannah JOHNSTONE23 December 1870Jane JOHNSTONEFather found
George KERR27 March 1870Isabella KERRFind the father
Jane Tytler KERR4 June 1873Isabella KERRFind the father
Margaret KERR9 December 1873Mary KERRFind the father
Jane Amos LAW27 October 1870Margaret LAWFind the father
Janet Prentice LEARMONTH1 June 1872Frances LEARMONTHFind the father
Jessie MCGROGAN26 March 1871Margaret MCGROGANFather found
David MORRISON19 November 1870Frances Morrison Or LEARMONTHFind the father
David MORRISON20 December 1871Ellen MORRISONFind the father
Mary Mc Culloch MORRISON29 June 1873Helen MORRISONFind the father
Thomas MORRISON17 July 1871Catherine MORRISONFind the father
William Dick MORRISON28 March 1874Frances Morrison Or LEARMONTHFind the father
Alexandrina MULVANEY7 September 1871Elizabeth MULVANEYFind the father
William Spears MULVANEY26 October 1871Mary MULVANEYFind the father
Robert NAYSMITH10 December 1873Mary NAYSMITHFind the father
Andrew RAMAGE5 October 1870Margaret RAMAGEFind the father
Margaret SAMUEL27 September 1871Margaret SAMUELFind the father
Ann SMITH17 October 1874Agnes SMITHFind the father
Agnes Wright STEWART22 December 1870Elizabeth STEWARTFather found
Elizabeth Mitchell VICKERS17 April 1871Elizabeth VICKERSFind the father
Barbara WALKINSHAW13 October 1870Isabella WALKINSHAWFind the father
Jane WALLACE28 December 1870Isabella WALLACEFind the father
Mary WATSON20 October 1870Margaret WATSONFind the father
James Herriot YOUNG20 June 1874Mary YOUNGFind 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.