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Records -> Ross and Cromarty

Tarbat 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
Donald FRASER 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Janet FRASER 1848 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William GAIR 1848 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Ann GORDON 1849 (1)Order imagesRefused
John Forbes HILTON Of Cadboll Tain1846 (1)Order imagesRefused; may receive L6 a year
Donald MACKENZIE 1880 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Margaret Ross MCCANDIE 1851 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Margaret Ross MCCANDIE 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Hannah MCKAY or ROBB 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Bell MUNRO or SUTHERLAND 1849 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Jessie ROBERTSON 1861 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Hugh ROSS 1862 (2)Order imagesRefused
Katerine ROSS or CLUACH 1846-1847 (5)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
Sophia FRASER
Lower Seafield, Tarbat, Ross
William ROSS16 Oct 1887
Balnabruach, Tarbat, Ross
Order nowTain
SC34/3/6
Johan MACLEOD
Geanies Mains, Tarbat, Ross
William T$ MORRISON15 Dec 1896
Geanies Mains, Tarbat, Ross
Order nowTain
SC34/3/6
Isabella MACPHERSON
Meikle Tarrel, Tarbat
William SUTHERLAND12 Mar 1864Order nowTain
SC34/3/4
Hannah ROSS
High Street, Portmahomack, Tarbat, Ross
Benjamin DENOON29 Sep 1894
Portmahomack, Tarbat, Ross
Order nowTain
SC34/3/6
Elspet TALLACH or ROSS
Portmahomack, Tarbat
Walter ROSS26 Jun 1843Order nowTain
SC34/3/4


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). 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
John Mckenzie BARBER1 May 1868Margaret BARBERFind the father
Alexander Smith CRAIB28 August 1872Maggie CRAIBFind the father
Henry Corbet CUMMING21 August 1864Jessie CUMMINGFind the father
Simon CUMMING10 May 1871Jessie CUMMINGFind the father
Alexandrina DENOON24 November 1866Christina DENOONFind the father
David Patience FRASER19 October 1869Margaret FRASERFind the father
Alexander Ross MCKAY16 January 1870Helen MCKAYFind the father
William Tolmie MCKAY28 June 1862Christina MCKAYFather found
Colina Gair MCKENZIE13 February 1870Jean MCKENZIEFather found
John Mc Dougal MCKENZIE22 April 1864Johanna MCKENZIEFind the father
Kenneth Stewart MCKENZIE18 April 1866Christina MCKENZIEFind the father
Lexy MCKENZIE10 April 1859Lexy MCKENZIEFind the father
Margaret Sutherland MCKENZIE10 June 1869Margaret MCKENZIEFind the father
James Williamson MCPHERSON30 July 1868Isabella MCPHERSONFind the father
Christina MUNRO15 February 1872Helen MUNROFind the father
Jessie Ross MUNRO22 September 1864Jessie MUNROFather found
Alexander Mitchell ROSS4 March 1870Christina ROSSFind the father
David ROSS17 March 1869Ann ROSSFind the father
Jamima Finlay ROSS6 October 1865Johan ROSSFind the father
Jemima Gordon ROSS18 November 1863Margaret ROSSFind the father
Margaret Mc Kenzie ROSS17 November 1859Catherine ROSSFind the father
Willina ROSS14 July 1858Helen ROSSFind the father
David Campbell SKINNER15 June 1874Helen SKINNERFind the father
Kitty Ross TALLACH28 September 1865Kitty TALLACHFind the father
Alexander URQUHART26 August 1857Flora URQUHARTFind the father
Roderick Matheson URQUHART6 December 1866Jessie URQUHARTFind 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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  • Records
    • Board of Supervision
    • Fathers Found
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    • Sheriff Court Paternity Decrees
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    • Crown Office Cases AD8 >
      • AD8 index 1890 01
      • AD8 index 1890 02
      • AD8 index 1890 03
      • AD8 index 1890 04
      • AD8 index 1890 05
      • AD8 index 1890 06
      • AD8 index 1890 07
      • AD8 index 1890 08
      • AD8 index 1890 09
      • AD8 index 1890 10
      • AD8 index 1890 11
    • Crown Counsel Procedure Books
    • Registers of Deeds
    • General Register of the Poor
    • Registers of Sudden Deaths
    • Anatomy Registers
  • Resources
    • Scottish Genealogy Sources
    • KINCLAVEN One Place Study >
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