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Towie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/760/4 | Baptismal register | 1885-1967 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John FORBES | Birkford Strathdon | 1846 (1) | Order images | Refused |
| Widow Isabella GLENNIE or GIBBON | 1880 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Alexander KESSAN | 1868-1869 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander MILNE | 1882 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| George WALKER | 1882 (3) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) |
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.
We have not currently found any decrees for this parish.
School Leaving Certificate Exams
This is an index to the registers of school leaving certificate examination results (NRS Reference ED36). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order now link.
| Name | Date of birth | School | Year | Order record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John BLACKHALL | 20 Jul 1892 | Towie Public School | 1908 | Order now |
| John BLACKHALL | 30 Sep 1895 | Towie Public School | 1910 | Order now |
| John BLACKHALL | 30 Sep 1895 | Towie Public School | 1911 | Order now |
| Frederick G D CHALMERS | 27 Jul 1894 | Towie Public School | 1909 | Order now |
| Frederick G D CHALMERS | 27 Jul 1894 | Towie Public School | 1910 | Order now |
| Mary COUPER | 21 Jul 1890 | Towie Public School | 1908 | Order now |
| Georgina CRAN | 7 Apr 1893 | Towie Public School | 1908 | Order now |
| Georgina CRAN | 7 Apr 1893 | Towie Public School | 1909 | Order now |
| Robert T DONALD | 20 Dec 1892 | Towie Public School | 1908 | Order now |
| Isabella H ELLIS | 5 Dec 1897 | Towie Public School | 1912 | Order now |
| Maud GRASSICK | 28 Feb 1893 | Towie Public School | 1909 | Order now |
| Maud GRASSICK | 28 Feb 1893 | Towie Public School | 1910 | Order now |
| Margaret J HENDERSON | 31 Mar 1896 | Towie Public School | 1911 | Order now |
| Margaret J HENDERSON | 31 Mar 1896 | Towie Public School | 1912 | Order now |
| Mary HENDERSON | 13 Aug 1892 | Towie Public School | 1909 | Order now |
| Helen J SIMPSON | 2 Feb 1896 | Towie Public School | 1912 | Order now |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel BEGG | 22 May 1858 | Elizabeth BEGG | Find the father |
| Jane CLARK | 4 July 1868 | Mary Ann CLARK | Find the father |
| Margaret COOPER | 18 February 1858 | Christina COOPER | Find the father |
| James DONALD | 23 February 1855 | Elspet DONALD | Find the father |
| William EMSLIE | 2 October 1865 | Mary EMSLIE | Find the father |
| James FERGUSON | 7 August 1858 | Jean Ferguson Or COUTTS | Find the father |
| Jane FORBES | 17 August 1858 | Betsy FORBES | Find the father |
| Mary Ann FRASER | 5 December 1864 | Isabella FRASER | Find the father |
| Alexander Lawson FYFE | 12 July 1869 | Mary FYFE | Find the father |
| Mary Jane GLENNIE | 7 November 1867 | Catherine GLENNIE | Find the father |
| Margaret GORDON | 16 July 1859 | Betsy GORDON | Find the father |
| Mary Jane GORDON | 17 April 1860 | Margaret GORDON | Find the father |
| Mary GRASSICK | 15 December 1855 | Mary GRASSICK | Find the father |
| Helen MCCORMICK | 13 September 1859 | Margaret MCCORMICK | Find the father |
| William MERCHANT | 8 July 1860 | Catherine MERCHANT | Find the father |
| Alick MICHIE | 14 August 1863 | Jane MICHIE | Find the father |
| Helen Black MILNE | 7 July 1862 | Helen MILNE | Find the father |
| Margaret MITCHELL | 13 June 1855 | Jessie MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Alexander MURDOCH | 26 December 1864 | Isabella MURDOCH | Find the father |
| Alexander OGG | 21 March 1860 | Mary OGG | Find the father |
| Catherine RITCHIE | 19 April 1869 | Margaret RITCHIE | Find the father |
| William RITCHIE | 9 October 1857 | Isabella RITCHIE | Find the father |
| William Lamond ROBERTSON | 7 May 1857 | Margaret ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Mary Ann ROSS | 28 August 1869 | Ann ROSS | Find the father |
| Barbara RUNCIEMAN | 6 November 1861 | Mary RUNCIEMAN | Find the father |
| James RUNCIEMAN | 27 June 1860 | Isabella RUNCIEMAN | Find the father |
| Robert SKENE | 16 December 1866 | Catherine SKENE | Find the father |
| James Mitchell STEWART | 29 July 1860 | Ann STEWART | Find the father |
| Catherine Robb STRACHAN | 19 February 1855 | Isabella Ann STRACHAN | Find the father |
| Isabella STRACHAN | 12 March 1862 | Helen STRACHAN | Find the father |
| Helen THOMSON | 18 August 1859 | Mary THOMSON | Find the father |
| William WEBSTER | 26 December 1857 | Margaret WEBSTER | 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.
