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Records -> Aberdeenshire

Strathdon 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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/343/2Kirk session accounts 1752-1765, baptisms 1753-1767, marriages 1753-1762
Cash book 1753-1763 (with few mins, includes poor payments)
Baptisms 1752-1758
Baptisms 1762-1765
Marriages 1753-1757
1752-1767Request lookup
CH2/343/3Cash books 1767-1784 and minutes 1784-1795
Cash books 1767-1788
Cash books 1793
Cash books 1795 (with few mins)
Includes poor payments
1767-1795Request lookup
CH2/343/4Cash books 1784-1798, collections 1827, 1836-1841
Includes poor payments and some mortcloth dues
1784-1841Request lookup
CH2/343/5Cash books
Includes poor rolls and mortcloth dues
1798-1825Request lookup
CH2/343/6Cash books
Includes poor payments
1822-1831Request lookup
CH2/343/7Cash books
Includes poor payments
1831-1843Request lookup
CH2/343/9Cash books1840-1843Request lookup
CH2/343/10Cash books
Includes poor payments
1859-1896Request lookup
CH2/343/12Proclamations and baptisms
Baptisms 1844-1847
Proclamations 1844-1847
1844-1847Request lookup
CH2/343/13Church Defense Association: Minutes
Includes an extensive list of Association members
1885-1899Request 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:
  • £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
Mary ANDERSON 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
John D CLARK 1861 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John W CLARK 1861 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John W CLARK 1861 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
George COUTTS 1859 (2)Order imagesRefused
Jane COUTTS 1883 (2)Order imagesRefused
Mary COUTTS 1872 (4)Order imagesRefused
Mary COUTTS 1878 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Ann DOW 1871 (3)Order imagesRefused
Ann DOW 1881 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Anne DOW 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused
Charles DOWNIE 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused
Joan GRASSICK 1872 (1)Order imagesRefused
John KELLAS 1877 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Janet LESLIE 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
John LOBBAN 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow MACPHERSON 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
James MACPHERSON 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary MCHARDY 1847 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander STEWART 1880 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Esther TAYLOR or STEWART 1868 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Mary WILSON 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused


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
Ann MORTIMER
Craignaich, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire
William ROBERTSON29 May 1846Order nowDunblane
SC44/5/4


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). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order record link.
Anatomy Registers
NameAgeLast residence and place of deathDate of deathOrder record
William SHAW57Lived: Culquhonnie, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire
Died: In A Field At Culquhonnie, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire
8 Oct 1932Order record


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
Alexander ANDERSON21 October 1866Dorothy ANDERSONFind the father
Ann Beattie BARRON25 August 1865Grace BARRONFind the father
James BEATTIE13 March 1864Ann BEATTIEFind the father
Ann Kellas BIRSS28 July 1868Margaret BIRSSFind the father
Isobella CLARK30 January 1864Helen CLARKFind the father
Elspet COUTTS7 June 1864Jean COUTTSFind the father
Alexander CULLEN27 March 1864Mary CULLENFind the father
Ann Mitchell DAWSON3 January 1860Maria DAWSONFind the father
Janet DEWARS6 January 1866Joyan DEWARSFind the father
James Shepherd DOWNIE30 July 1867Isabella DOWNIEFind the father
Andrew FARQUHARSON30 June 1868Jessie FARQUHARSONFather found
Helen FARQUHARSON21 May 1868Christina FARQUHARSONFind the father
William FARQUHARSON13 November 1859Mary FARQUHARSONFind the father
James Gordon FORBES3 July 1868Maria FORBESFind the father
George Michie GRASSICK11 May 1869Helen GRASSICKFind the father
James GRASSICK11 May 1869Helen GRASSICKFind the father
Jean GRASSICK25 April 1862Penelope GRASSICKFind the father
Ann HENDERSON28 November 1863Margaret HENDERSONFind the father
Gavin HENDERSON19 April 1866Margaret HENDERSONFind the father
James HOSIE27 August 1869Mary HOSIEFind the father
Alexander KELLAS6 January 1867Isabella KELLASFind the father
Duncan MCHARDY11 August 1861Elizabeth MCHARDYFind the father
Margaret Jane Mitchell MCHARDY9 July 1869Margaret MCHARDYFind the father
Mary Ann MCHARDY29 July 1866Margaret MCHARDYFind the father
Susan MCHARDY26 February 1855Jane MCHARDYFind the father
William MCHARDY26 May 1863Elizabeth MCHARDYFind the father
James Cooper MCPHERSON4 November 1858Ann MCPHERSONFind the father
Charles MITCHELL31 May 1868Helen MITCHELLFind the father
Peter MORTIMER12 July 1857Ann MORTIMERFind the father
Hellen RATTRAY8 September 1866Ann RATTRAYFind the father
David ROSS5 July 1867Mary ROSSFind the father
Harry ROSS17 November 1864Elizabeth Ross Or SHAWFind the father
James ROSS13 March 1863Christian ROSSFind the father
Jane ROSS13 February 1860Jane ROSSFind the father
Janet ROSS22 March 1856Jane ROSSFind the father
Margaret SHEARER27 September 1868Margaret SHEARERFind the father
William SIMPSON5 July 1863Jane SIMPSONFind the father
Ann STEWART2 June 1859Jessie STEWARTFind the father
Ann Isobella WILLIAMS26 July 1864Mary WILLIAMSFind 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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