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Tarves parish records

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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.

Lookups available
Reference Title Dates Buy
CH2/511/1Minutes1841-1855Request lookup
CH2/511/2Proclamations1862-1864Request lookup
CH2/511/3Baptismal register
Baptismal register 1885-6
Baptismal register 1897-1954		1885-1954Request 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
  • £10 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
William COW 1867 (1)Order imagesRefused
Andrew DONALD 1865 (1)Order imagesRefused
James DUGUID 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused
Jean HERD 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
William HERD 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow A HUTCHEON 1867 (1)Order imagesRefused
William KENNEDY 1869 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)

List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
David ALLAN21 December 1866May ALLANFind the father
Duffus Mathers ALLAN27 March 1869May ALLANFind the father
John ALLAN6 January 1856Margaret ALLANFind the father
John ALLARDYCE20 September 1862Isobella ALLARDYCEFind the father
Alexander ANNAND12 June 1868Margaret ANNANDFind the father
Alice ANNAND4 April 1866Margaret ANNANDFind the father
Margaret Ann ANNAND24 September 1863Margaret ANNANDFind the father
William ANNAND4 April 1866Margaret ANNANDFind the father
Margaret BARRY15 October 1856Margret BARRYFind the father
Adam BRUCE5 January 1866Ann BRUCEFind the father
Alexander CHALMERS8 December 1860Jean CHALMERSFind the father
Jean CHESSER27 April 1863Margaret CHESSERFind the father
Elizabeth Jessie Swan CLARK27 February 1862Jessie CLARKFind the father
Helen COOPER2 February 1857Jane COOPERFind the father
William COW10 February 1865Mary Ann COWFind the father
Peter CRIGHTON22 January 1867Mary CRIGHTONFind the father
Elspet CUMMING3 November 1867Rachel CUMMINGFind the father
George CUMMING12 January 1864Rachel CUMMINGFind the father
Margaret CUMMING18 April 1868Margaret CUMMINGFind the father
George Barclay DAVIDSON31 March 1862Helen DAVIDSONFind the father
Mary Ann DAVIDSON30 June 1867Catherine DAVIDSONFind the father
Jean Gordon Cruickshank DONALD12 November 1855Susan DONALDFind the father
William DONALD30 January 1869Mary DONALDFind the father
Jane DOWNIE9 October 1865Mary DOWNIEFind the father
Isabella Sangster Glennie DUNCAN14 December 1866Helen DUNCANFind the father
James DUNCAN4 February 1866Elizabeth DUNCANFind the father
Jean Ann DUNCAN11 September 1863Ann DUNCANFind the father
John DUNCAN7 February 1863Jane DUNCANFind the father
Mary DUNCAN14 January 1866Agnes DUNCANFind the father
Mary DUNCAN28 January 1868Ann DUNCANFind the father
Mary Anne DUNCAN8 February 1856Ann DUNCANFind the father
Sarah DUNCAN26 July 1857Isobella DUNCANFind the father
Sarah DUNCAN10 April 1866Jane DUNCANFind the father
James Grant FINDLAY8 October 1866Ann FINDLAYFind the father
Jane FORBES13 May 1865Elisabeth FORBESFind the father
Matthew Millian FORBES26 October 1868Elizabeth FORBESFind the father
Elsie FORREST17 October 1857Helen FORRESTFind the father
James GORDON28 July 1865Mary GORDONFind the father
Elsie GRAY2 August 1869Elsie D. GRAYFind the father
James GRAY1 June 1860Ann GRAYFind the father
William GRAY21 November 1857Elspet GRAYFind the father
George HARVEY18 May 1864Margaret HARVEYFind the father
Helen HARVEY13 July 1867Margaret HARVEYFind the father
George Gill HENDRY5 December 1855Helen HENDRYFind the father
Barbara HORN9 November 1864Jane HORNFind the father
Elizabeth HORN29 December 1868Jane HORNFind the father
James Pratt HORN2 January 1867Jane HORNFind the father
John INKSON16 April 1859Margaret INKSONFind the father
John JOHNSTON21 October 1864Ann JOHNSTONFind the father
Rachel JOHNSTON22 October 1864Ann JOHNSTONFind the father
Isabella Melvin LAMB27 June 1865Margaret LAMBFind the father
Joseph Murray LAMB13 August 1864Ann LAMBFind the father
Isobella LEWIS13 November 1856Margaret LEWISFind the father
George Henderson LITTLEJOHN21 May 1869Elizabeth LITTLEJOHNFind the father
John LUCAS26 April 1859Ann LUCASFind the father
William MCDONALD17 June 1865Jane MCDONALDFind the father
Jane MCINTOSH7 December 1867Eleanor MCINTOSHFind the father
Ann MORRISON6 February 1858Isobel MORRISONFind the father
Jessie MORRISON20 May 1861Isobella MORRISONFind the father
Margaret Jane MORRISON29 October 1864Mary MORRISONFind the father
Mary Ann MORRISON20 June 1869Elizabeth MORRISONFind the father
William MORRISON16 March 1866Mary MORRISONFind the father
Elizabeth MUTCH2 August 1855Elizabeth MUTCHFind the father
Jane MUTCH5 November 1863Isobella MUTCHFind the father
John NORRIE17 February 1867Jessie NORRIEFind the father
William NORRIE17 July 1864Jessie NORRIEFind the father
Jessie PANTON24 June 1865Jane PANTONFind the father
Mary PARK8 November 1856Jane PARKFind the father
Agnes PENNIE3 January 1862Helen PENNIEFind the father
William PENNY13 December 1867Ann PENNYFind the father
Barbara Taylor PORTER20 January 1862Elizabeth PORTERFind the father
Elizabeth Taylor PORTER30 January 1867Elizabeth PORTERFind the father
James Warrack RAE26 March 1862Mary RAEFind the father
Jane RANNIE27 September 1865Ann RANNIEFind the father
Mary ROBERTSON9 August 1860Ann ROBERTSONFind the father
Margaret Chessar SCOTT5 January 1860Mary SCOTTFind the father
Alexander SIMPSON24 November 1863Jane SIMPSONFind the father
Francis SIMPSON31 January 1864Ann SIMPSONFind the father
Simon SKENE12 November 1869Barbara SKENEFind the father
Alexander SKINNER26 January 1856Margaret SKINNERFind the father
Alexander SMITH1 February 1865Mary SMITHFind the father
Jean SMITH23 August 1862Jean SMITHFind the father
Margaret SMITH19 December 1860Jean SMITHFind the father
Margaret SMITH25 November 1868Jane SMITHFind the father
Mary SMITH9 January 1866Jane SMITHFind the father
May Geggie SMITH15 November 1862Ann SMITHFind the father
Thomas SMITH23 April 1860Mary SMITHFind the father
William SMITH19 April 1867Mary SMITHFind the father
William Sangster SMITH2 March 1865Christian SMITHFind the father
James STEWART24 July 1861Jane STEWARTFind the father
Alexander Davidson SUTHERLAND10 November 1855Isobella SUTHERLANDFind the father
Samuel SUTHERLAND27 September 1858Elizabeth SUTHERLANDFind the father
William TAYLOR5 August 1857Margaret TAYLORFind the father
William WALLACE11 December 1857Mary WALLACEFind the father
James WEBSTER21 October 1869Margaret WEBSTERFind 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

We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish