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Tobermory 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.
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
Colina BLACK24 March 1866Marion BLACKFind the father
William BLACK1 December 1867Marion BLACKFind the father
Catherine CAMERON5 July 1870Cameron CAMERONFind the father
Donald CAMERON21 December 1862Catherine CAMERONFind the father
John CAMERON23 January 1862Marion CAMERONFind the father
Margaret CAMERON13 November 1856Marion CAMERONFind the father
Flora CURRIE25 January 1858Flora CURRIEFind the father
John CURRIE15 November 1861Flora CURRIEFind the father
Alexander HENDERSON22 November 1862Margaret HENDERSONFind the father
Archibald HENDERSON6 November 1866Mary HENDERSONFind the father
Charlot HENDERSON4 August 1858Mary HENDERSONFind the father
John HENDERSON23 January 1856Margaret HENDERSONFind the father
John HENDERSON5 January 1863Mary HENDERSONFind the father
Maggie HENDERSON12 January 1866Catherine HENDERSONFind the father
Georgina LEITCH22 November 1866Ann LEITCHFind the father
Donald MACDONALD27 May 1869Flora MACDONALDFind the father
Chirsty Anderson MACFADYEN16 July 1873Hellen MACFADYENFind the father
Donald MACQUARRIE5 June 1861Catherine MACQUARRIEFind the father
Margaret Tait MCARTHUR20 November 1872Margaret MCARTHURFind the father
Mary MCCOLL26 June 1872Mary Ann MCCOLLFind the father
Alexander MCDONALD6 January 1872Catherine MCDONALDFind the father
Chirsty MCDONALD6 June 1865Catherine MCDONALDFind the father
Donald MCDONALD13 November 1869Helen MCDONALDFind the father
Duncan MCDONALD11 December 1869Mary MCDONALDFind the father
Hector MCDONALD10 December 1874Catherine MCDONALDFind the father
Hugh MCDONALD12 November 1874Catherine MCDONALDFather found
John MCDONALD11 June 1858Margaret MCDONALDFind the father
Janet MCDOUGALL15 January 1868Mary MCDOUGALLFind the father
Mary MCDOUGALL2 January 1873Mary MCDOUGALLFind the father
Flora Ann MCFARLANE14 February 1863Isabella MCFARLANEFind the father
Graham MCGREGOR16 April 1870Maggie MCGREGORFind the father
Angus MCINNES6 January 1873Jessie MCINNESFind the father
Donald MCKINNON27 July 1857Christian MCKINNONFind the father
James MCKINNON26 February 1864Catherine MCKINNONFind the father
Jessie MCKINNON30 December 1871Mary MCKINNONFind the father
John MCKINNON16 September 1862Eliza MCKINNONFind the father
Walter MCKINNON30 November 1869Jessie MCKINNONFind the father
James MCLACHLAN7 September 1871Catherine MCLACHLANFind the father
Mary Ann MCLACHLAN23 October 1874Flora MCLACHLANFind the father
Ann MCLEAN2 May 1864Mary MCLEANFind the father
John MCLEAN5 May 1864Ann MCLEANFind the father
Mary MCLEAN15 September 1867Margaret MCLEANFind the father
Hugh MCLEOD17 February 1867Mary MCLEODFind the father
Archibald MCMILLAN27 April 1873Jessie MCMILLANFind the father
Elizabeth MCNIVEN8 July 1871Jane MCNIVENFather found
Issabella MCPHEE27 May 1855Mary MCPHEEFind the father
Janet MCPHEE7 March 1861Mary MCPHEEFind the father
Alexander MCPHERSON4 August 1860Janet MCPHERSONFind the father
Niel OHENLY3 August 1860Catherine OHENLYFather found
Margaret WILSON10 December 1871Mary WILSONFind 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.