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Tough 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.
| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/356/1 | Minutes Includes poor payments | 1783-1845 | Request lookup |
| CH2/356/2 | Poor's accounts | 1751-1752 | Request lookup |
| CH2/356/3 | Contributors to fund for buying the bell of Tough | 1735 | Request lookup |
| CH2/356/5 | Communion roll | 1888-1902 | Request 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:
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)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James ARCHIBALD | 1882 (2) | Order images | Refused - applicant's mother can either have 2s per month additional, or applicant can bee removed to poorhouse | |
| Patrick PATERSON | 1870 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Betty RAE | 1856 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Mary THOMSON | 1874 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Mary THOMSON | 1874 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia THOMSON Strath, Tough | James MCLACHLAN | 13 Jul 1845 | Order now | Stonehaven SC5/7/4 |
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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| James ABERDEEN | 5 November 1857 | Agnes ABERDEEN | Find the father |
| Elizabeth ADAM | 6 October 1866 | Elizabeth ADAM | Find the father |
| Mary Farquhar ARCHIBALD | 11 May 1860 | Margaret ARCHIBALD | Find the father |
| Mary Ann BENZIES | 24 November 1860 | Jane BENZIES | Find the father |
| Williamina BENZIES | 7 March 1864 | Catherine BENZIES | Find the father |
| Mary Ann BLACKHALL | 13 December 1866 | Margaret BLACKHALL | Find the father |
| Alexander Murray DICKSON | 20 April 1858 | Jane DICKSON | Find the father |
| Isabella Sutherland DONALD | 2 December 1866 | Ann DONALD | Find the father |
| George DUNN | 17 March 1857 | Isabella DUNN | Find the father |
| William EDWARD | 20 September 1859 | Mary EDWARD | Find the father |
| Jane Ann EMSLIE | 14 October 1859 | Elizabeth EMSLIE | Find the father |
| Mary Ann EMSLIE | 7 October 1856 | Ann EMSLIE | Find the father |
| William EMSLIE | 12 August 1858 | Ann EMSLIE | Find the father |
| Williamina Ann EMSLIE | 18 January 1864 | Jessie EMSLIE | Find the father |
| Robert Mitchell FARQUHAR | 28 June 1859 | Jane FARQUHAR | Find the father |
| Agnes Mc Lachlan FERRIES | 19 December 1862 | Elizabeth FERRIES | Find the father |
| Christina FERRIES | 22 January 1864 | Elizabeth FERRIES | Find the father |
| George FERRIES | 9 May 1856 | Jane FERRIES | Find the father |
| Archibald FRASER | 10 September 1860 | Margaret FRASER | Find the father |
| James GAULD | 29 May 1869 | Ann GAULD | Find the father |
| David GEDDES | 12 December 1866 | Ann GEDDES | Find the father |
| Jessie HARLEY | 21 May 1862 | Jessie HARLEY | Find the father |
| Ann HAY | 29 January 1868 | Ann HAY | Find the father |
| Ann Ingram Morrison HUNTER | 20 February 1864 | Ann HUNTER | Find the father |
| Harry Leith Lumsden Morrison HUNTER | 11 May 1861 | Ann HUNTER | Find the father |
| William INVERARITY | 8 November 1864 | May INVERARITY | Find the father |
| John Geddes JOHNSTONE | 10 September 1866 | Ann JOHNSTONE | Find the father |
| Andrina Cocker LAW | 29 July 1866 | Ann LAW | Find the father |
| Helen LAW | 24 March 1864 | Ann LAW | Find the father |
| John LAW | 14 November 1866 | Sarah LAW | Find the father |
| William LAW | 10 October 1860 | Ann LAW | Find the father |
| Alexander LAWSON | 30 December 1861 | Jane LAWSON | Find the father |
| Barbara LAWSON | 9 September 1866 | Barbara LAWSON | Find the father |
| Agnes LESLIE | 3 August 1857 | Margaret LESLIE | Find the father |
| Catharine LESLIE | 5 April 1860 | Margaret LESLIE | Find the father |
| James LESLIE | 22 April 1865 | Margaret LESLIE | Find the father |
| Jessie MACDONALD | 18 June 1866 | Jessie MACDONALD | Find the father |
| William Alexander MACKAY | 25 May 1856 | Elizabeth MACKAY | Father found |
| Hugh MACKEVOEY | 7 November 1862 | Elizabeth MACKEVOEY | Find the father |
| Andrew MARNOCH | 29 August 1862 | Margaret Marnoch Or PHILIP | Find the father |
| Peter MARNOCH | 1 November 1859 | Margaret Marnoch Or PHILIP | Find the father |
| Robert MARNOCH | 1 May 1858 | Eliza MARNOCH | Find the father |
| Robert MCCONNACHIE | 12 November 1868 | Ann MCCONNACHIE | Find the father |
| John MCEDWARD | 25 March 1864 | Mary Mc Edward Or MITCHELL | Find the father |
| James MITCHELL | 22 April 1856 | Forbes MITCHELL | Find the father |
| William MITCHELL | 22 April 1856 | Forbes MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Samuel NORRIE | 4 July 1861 | Elizabeth NORRIE | Find the father |
| Ann PIRIE | 11 May 1861 | Mary PIRIE | Find the father |
| George Beange PIRIE | 11 November 1861 | May PIRIE | Find the father |
| James PIRIE | 3 January 1860 | May PIRIE | Find the father |
| James REID | 14 April 1867 | Mary REID | Find the father |
| John REID | 25 January 1866 | Ann REID | Find the father |
| Susan Ann REID | 12 February 1863 | Catherine REID | Find the father |
| Mary RIDDEL | 26 March 1868 | Ann RIDDEL | Find the father |
| Mary Ann ROBERTSON | 19 August 1861 | Margaret ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Alexander SMITH | 13 September 1862 | Jane SMITH | Find the father |
| Jane SMITH | 25 March 1864 | Jessie SMITH | Find the father |
| George Alexander Tough STEPHEN | 8 April 1867 | Margaret STEPHEN | Find the father |
| Jane Ann STEPHEN | 9 January 1861 | Margaret STEPHEN | Find the father |
| George THOMSON | 17 December 1857 | Amelia THOMSON | Find the father |
| James TOUGH | 19 November 1860 | Ann TOUGH | Find the father |
| James TOUGH | 27 June 1866 | Jane TOUGH | Find 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.
