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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
Margaret BLACK29 April 1863Catherine BLACKFind the father
Margaret BLACK17 September 1864Mary BLACKFind the father
John BRUCE15 March 1867Mary BRUCEFind the father
Alexander Kelly CAMPBELL5 April 1870Mary CAMPBELLFind the father
Archd. CAMPBELL14 December 1868Janet CAMPBELLFind the father
Donald Hugh CAMPBELL25 September 1866Margaret CAMPBELLFind the father
James CAMPBELL6 May 1867Mary CAMPBELLFind the father
Joann CAMPBELL14 July 1873Ann CAMPBELLFind the father
Mary Ann CAMPBELL11 May 1870Ann CAMPBELLFind the father
Malcolm HENDERSON24 February 1868Mary HENDERSONFind the father
Alexander KERR24 January 1872Catherine KERRFind the father
Agnes LAW28 June 1866Flora LAWFind the father
Donald LAW21 February 1863Flora LAWFind the father
Misie MCDOUGALL14 February 1867Maron MCDOUGALLFind the father
Archibaldina MCFARLANE9 July 1864Catherine MCFARLANEFind the father
Dugald MCFARLANE24 October 1871Elizabeth MCFARLANEFind the father
Margaret MCKECHNEY27 November 1858Mary MCKECHNEYFind the father
Sarah Mcphaill MCKELLAR21 April 1868Margaret MCKELLARFind the father
Lachlan MCLACHLAN18 January 1864Jane MCLACHLANFind the father
Betty MCLULLICH7 May 1864Catherine MCLULLICHFind the father
Catherine MCLULLICH17 July 1869Catherine MCLULLICHFind the father
Archibald MCMURPHY9 February 1862Ann MCMURPHYFind the father
James MCMURPHY27 March 1870Mary MCMURPHYFind the father
Robert MCMURPHY15 April 1865Mary MCMURPHYFind the father
Alexander MCQUILKAN28 April 1874Janet MCQUILKANFind the father
Archd. MCQUILKAN11 April 1872Mary MCQUILKANFather found
Margaret MCQUILKAN24 November 1869Janet MCQUILKANFind the father
William MCVEAN24 May 1864Jannet MCVEANFind the father
Jane REILLY13 July 1861Ann REILLYFind 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.