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Records -> Ayrshire

Straiton 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 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.

Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes
Order imagesDeliverance
John BLANE Patna1846 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Stewart BLANE Crosshill1846 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Quintin CLARKE Patna1846 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Janet COCHRAN 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused
Margaret DODDS 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
William DOUNIE 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
William FRASER 1854 (5)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Lydia KENNEDY or MACDONALD 1868 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Lydia KENNEDY or MCDONALD 1873 (3)Order imagesRefused
William LOGGIE 1846 (2)Order imagesRefused
John MACQUARIE 1861 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
George MCCONKEY 1869 (1)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
George MCCONKEY 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
George MCCONKEY 1869 (2)Order imagesRefused
George MCCONNACHIE 1863 (1)Order imagesRefused
Agnes MCCONNELL 1846 (1)Order imagesRefused
William MCCUTCHEN 1871 (2)Order imagesWithdrawn
Widow Margaret MCCUTCHEON 1856 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow MCHUTCHEON 1857 (1)Order imagesRefused
William MCHUTCHEON 1863 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Agnes MCSKIMMING 1857 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Agnes MCSKIMMING 1862 (1)Order imagesRefused
David MCSKIMMING 1856 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Andrew ROWAN 1853 (2)Order imagesRefused
Barbara ROWAN 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused
Thomas SANDERS Craigmalach1846 (1)Order imagesRefused; suggest that allowance or part be given in provisions
Thomas SAUNDERS 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
John STEWART 1865 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed


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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Margaret AIRD
Straiton
David HUNTER23 Nov 1828Order nowAyr
SC6/7/12
Margaret HENDERSON
Balminnoch, Straiton
John THOMSON13 Jun 1876Order nowAyr
SC6/7/15
Jane IRELAND
Nether Berbeth, Straiton
James MURDOCH8 Feb 1881
Nether Berbeth, Straiton
Order nowAyr
SC6/7/16


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Hugh ALEXANDER9 October 1874Agnes ALEXANDERFind the father
Peter ALEXANDER19 February 1867Charlotte ALEXANDERFind the father
Andrew ARTHUR20 June 1855Catherine ARTHURFather found
Robert BEGG11 August 1863Janet BEGGFather found
Agnes BELL29 November 1874Sarah BELLFind the father
John BELL29 April 1868Sarah BELLFind the father
Agnes CAMPBELL14 December 1855Jean CAMPBELLFind the father
Agnes White CAMPBELL2 April 1869Sarah CAMPBELLFind the father
Maggie CAMPBELL22 March 1873Sarah CAMPBELLFind the father
Sarah CLARK26 March 1863Elizabeth CLARKFind the father
Margaret CLEMENT26 October 1870Margaret CLEMENTFind the father
Agnes COUGHTRIE25 December 1862Sarah COUGHTRIEFind the father
Herbert COWAN25 March 1864Margaret COWANFather found
Jessie COWAN16 January 1860Margaret COWANFather found
Henry CROMBIE22 July 1868Elizabeth CROMBIEFather found
John CROMBIE22 July 1868Elizabeth CROMBIEFather found
Mary CROMBIE12 June 1863Elizabeth CROMBIEFind the father
Mary CROMBIE12 January 1874Jeannie CROMBIEFather found
Alexander DOUGLAS23 April 1859Margaret DOUGLASFather found
Mary DOUGLAS5 September 1862Margaret DOUGLASFind the father
James DOWNIE13 October 1861Catharine DOWNIEFind the father
William Moore DOWNIE2 January 1861Margaret DOWNIEFind the father
Andrew ESPIE24 August 1872Margaret ESPIEFind the father
John ESPIE29 December 1869Margaret ESPIEFind the father
Margaret ESPIE15 November 1866Agnes ESPIEFind the father
Robert ESPIE29 October 1874Margaret ESPIEFind the father
Douglas FINDLAY17 May 1859Elizabeth FINDLAYFind the father
Grace Ross GARRIE13 December 1863Helen GARRIEFind the father
Janet GRAHAM24 February 1858Agnes GRAHAMFind the father
James GRANT9 February 1865Ann GRANTFind the father
Robert GRANT3 January 1863Elizabeth GRANTFind the father
Janet HARVEY13 November 1858Elizabeth HARVEYFather found
James HENDERSON18 April 1867Margaret HENDERSONFind the father
Jessie Blane HOSE23 September 1858Janet HOSEFather found
Isabella Ann HUTTON28 June 1859Ann HUTTONFind the father
James JAMIESON16 June 1865Mary JAMIESONFind the father
Jessie LANDSBOROUGH9 May 1871Margaret LANDSBOROUGHFind the father
Janet LECKIE11 August 1855Elizabeth LECKIEFind the father
Andrew LOGAN9 November 1857Sarah LOGANFind the father
William LOGAN2 February 1859Margaret LOGANFind the father
John MARTIN21 June 1860Mary MARTINFind the father
Alice Grace MCCALL19 April 1861Margaret MCCALLFind the father
Isabella MCCALL7 February 1860Margaret MCCALLFind the father
William MCCALL9 January 1858Jean MCCALLFather found
Sarah MCCLELLAND14 April 1866Mary MCCLELLANDFind the father
Catherine MCCLURE14 May 1869Julia MCCLUREFind the father
Janet MCCLURE6 July 1864Agnes MCCLUREFind the father
Agnes MCCLYMONT10 May 1866Jane MCCLYMONTFather found
George MCCONNACHIE3 October 1868Jane MCCONNACHIEFind the father
James MCCONNACHIE6 June 1861Jane MCCONNACHIEFind the father
Samuel MCCONNACHIE24 February 1861Jane MCCONNACHIEFather found
William MCCONNACHIE28 December 1872Janet MCCONNACHIEFind the father
Archbald MCCULLOCH25 September 1863Jane MCCULLOCHFind the father
Isabella MCCULLOCH15 August 1866Jane MCCULLOCHFind the father
Elizabeth MCCUTCHEON15 January 1855Elizabeth MCCUTCHEONFind the father
Hugh MCCUTCHEON15 February 1874Mary MCCUTCHEONFind the father
James MCCUTCHEON13 July 1861Martha MCCUTCHEONFind the father
John MCCUTCHEON3 May 1874Elizabeth MCCUTCHEONFind the father
Matthew MCCUTCHEON14 July 1872Elizabeth MCCUTCHEONFind the father
James MCCUTCHON10 November 1870Elizabeth MCCUTCHONFind the father
Jane MCKELLAR20 March 1869Jane MCKELLARFind the father
Andrew MCLENNAN11 October 1867Christina MCLENNANFind the father
Elizabeth MCMILLAN2 December 1872Elizabeth MCMILLANFind the father
Jean MCMURRAY25 March 1855Sarah MCMURRAYFind the father
John MCQUARRIE30 August 1855Hannah MCQUARRIEFather found
Janet MITCHELL4 December 1867Agnes MITCHELLFind the father
Thomas Welsh MITCHELL4 November 1869Elizabeth MITCHELLFind the father
David MUIR1 June 1867Julia MUIRFind the father
James MUIR30 January 1865Jane MUIRFind the father
John MUIR5 June 1863Jane MUIRFind the father
Margaret Fergusson MUIR9 February 1867Jane MUIRFind the father
Robert MUIR11 January 1859Jane MUIRFind the father
Sarah MUIR2 February 1871Jane MUIRFind the father
William MUIR3 July 1874Jane MUIRFind the father
Thomas MUIRHEAD15 January 1870Elizabeth MUIRHEADFind the father
Ann MURDOCH17 April 1865Ann MURDOCHFind the father
Janet MURDOCH13 July 1859Helen MURDOCHFather found
Janet MURDOCH28 March 1861Elizabeth MURDOCHFather found
John NEIL14 August 1870Agnes NEILFind the father
James RENNIE1 April 1855Barbara RENNIEFather found
Fergus Sloan ROY19 June 1874Jane ROYFind the father
James ROY25 October 1866Ann ROYFather found
Janet Mccormick ROY23 February 1873Sarah ROYFind the father
William ROY11 July 1862Ann ROYFind the father
Helen SIMPSON23 November 1855Elizabeth SIMPSONFind the father
John SMITH21 August 1861Ann SMITHFind the father
Janet SNEDDEN17 July 1861Janet SNEDDENFind the father
Alexander STEWART1 November 1855Mary STEWARTFind the father
William WALLET26 March 1863Margaret WALLETFind the father
David Wootten WHITELAW19 February 1860Jane WHITELAWFind 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.


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