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Tough 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
CH2/356/1Minutes
Includes poor payments		1783-1845Request lookup
CH2/356/2Poor's accounts1751-1752Request lookup
CH2/356/3Contributors to fund for buying the bell of Tough1735Request lookup
CH2/356/5Communion roll1888-1902Request 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
James ARCHIBALD 1882 (2)Order imagesRefused - applicant's mother can either have 2s per month additional, or applicant can bee removed to poorhouse
Patrick PATERSON 1870 (1)Order imagesRefused
Betty RAE 1856 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary THOMSON 1874 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary THOMSON 1874 (1)Order imagesRefused

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. For births outwith this period, click here.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
James ABERDEEN5 November 1857Agnes ABERDEENFind the father
Elizabeth ADAM6 October 1866Elizabeth ADAMFind the father
Mary Farquhar ARCHIBALD11 May 1860Margaret ARCHIBALDFind the father
Mary Ann BENZIES24 November 1860Jane BENZIESFind the father
Williamina BENZIES7 March 1864Catherine BENZIESFind the father
Mary Ann BLACKHALL13 December 1866Margaret BLACKHALLFind the father
Alexander Murray DICKSON20 April 1858Jane DICKSONFind the father
Isabella Sutherland DONALD2 December 1866Ann DONALDFind the father
George DUNN17 March 1857Isabella DUNNFind the father
William EDWARD20 September 1859Mary EDWARDFind the father
Jane Ann EMSLIE14 October 1859Elizabeth EMSLIEFind the father
Mary Ann EMSLIE7 October 1856Ann EMSLIEFind the father
William EMSLIE12 August 1858Ann EMSLIEFind the father
Williamina Ann EMSLIE18 January 1864Jessie EMSLIEFind the father
Robert Mitchell FARQUHAR28 June 1859Jane FARQUHARFind the father
Agnes Mc Lachlan FERRIES19 December 1862Elizabeth FERRIESFind the father
Christina FERRIES22 January 1864Elizabeth FERRIESFind the father
George FERRIES9 May 1856Jane FERRIESFind the father
Archibald FRASER10 September 1860Margaret FRASERFind the father
James GAULD29 May 1869Ann GAULDFind the father
David GEDDES12 December 1866Ann GEDDESFind the father
Jessie HARLEY21 May 1862Jessie HARLEYFind the father
Ann HAY29 January 1868Ann HAYFind the father
Ann Ingram Morrison HUNTER20 February 1864Ann HUNTERFind the father
Harry Leith Lumsden Morrison HUNTER11 May 1861Ann HUNTERFind the father
William INVERARITY8 November 1864May INVERARITYFind the father
John Geddes JOHNSTONE10 September 1866Ann JOHNSTONEFind the father
Andrina Cocker LAW29 July 1866Ann LAWFind the father
Helen LAW24 March 1864Ann LAWFind the father
John LAW14 November 1866Sarah LAWFind the father
William LAW10 October 1860Ann LAWFind the father
Alexander LAWSON30 December 1861Jane LAWSONFind the father
Barbara LAWSON9 September 1866Barbara LAWSONFind the father
Agnes LESLIE3 August 1857Margaret LESLIEFind the father
Catharine LESLIE5 April 1860Margaret LESLIEFind the father
James LESLIE22 April 1865Margaret LESLIEFind the father
Jessie MACDONALD18 June 1866Jessie MACDONALDFind the father
William Alexander MACKAY25 May 1856Elizabeth MACKAYFind the father
Hugh MACKEVOEY7 November 1862Elizabeth MACKEVOEYFind the father
Andrew MARNOCH29 August 1862Margaret Marnoch Or PHILIPFind the father
Peter MARNOCH1 November 1859Margaret Marnoch Or PHILIPFind the father
Robert MARNOCH1 May 1858Eliza MARNOCHFind the father
Robert MCCONNACHIE12 November 1868Ann MCCONNACHIEFind the father
John MCEDWARD25 March 1864Mary Mc Edward Or MITCHELLFind the father
James MITCHELL22 April 1856Forbes MITCHELLFind the father
William MITCHELL22 April 1856Forbes MITCHELLFind the father
Samuel NORRIE4 July 1861Elizabeth NORRIEFind the father
Ann PIRIE11 May 1861Mary PIRIEFind the father
George Beange PIRIE11 November 1861May PIRIEFind the father
James PIRIE3 January 1860May PIRIEFind the father
James REID14 April 1867Mary REIDFind the father
John REID25 January 1866Ann REIDFind the father
Susan Ann REID12 February 1863Catherine REIDFind the father
Mary RIDDEL26 March 1868Ann RIDDELFind the father
Mary Ann ROBERTSON19 August 1861Margaret ROBERTSONFind the father
Alexander SMITH13 September 1862Jane SMITHFind the father
Jane SMITH25 March 1864Jessie SMITHFind the father
George Alexander Tough STEPHEN8 April 1867Margaret STEPHENFind the father
Jane Ann STEPHEN9 January 1861Margaret STEPHENFind the father
George THOMSON17 December 1857Amelia THOMSONFind the father
James TOUGH19 November 1860Ann TOUGHFind the father
James TOUGH27 June 1866Jane TOUGHFind 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