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Tweedsmuir records

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Male Heads of Families – Free transcripts of rolls of male heads of families from the 1830s

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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
CH2/613/1Transcript session minutes
Includes some mortcloth dues		1691-1774Request lookup
CH2/613/3Transcript collections
Includes poor payments		1761-1845Request lookup
CH2/613/9Communion roll1898-1926Request 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.

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  • £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

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Andrew ANDERSON24 December 1855Helen ANDERSONFather found
John BRODIE27 June 1866Joan BRODIEFind the father
John DOUGLAS22 August 1855Ann DOUGLASFind the father
Margaret MUNDELL17 May 1858Janet MUNDELLFind the father
Anne Halliday MURRAY13 June 1870Janet MURRAYFind the father
James Fraser MURRAY25 December 1865Janet MURRAYFind the father
Georgina NEILSON3 December 1858Mary NEILSONFind the father
James TWEEDIE13 September 1864Mary TWEEDIEFind the father
Helen WALKER29 March 1857Janet WALKERFind the father
Robert WALKER16 June 1874Jane WALKERFind 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.

Male Heads of families 1834 (NRS Reference: CH2/613/7 pp. 315-315)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
RobertBrown
GeorgeBallantine
JohnMurrayfarmerHearthstane
JohnMurrayshepherdMoat
JamesNielsonweaverHarestone
JamesThomson
WalterJohnstonBowers
ThomasDempster
ArchibaldFairlie
JamesAitkentailorBridgend
DavidTweediesheep dealer
ThomasGeddes
TweedieMcgrathostler
WilliamRenwickFingland
JohnWalkerMenzion
JamesWalkerGlenbreck
JohnTait
MartinTaylormole catcher
AlexanderFlemingshepherdCrook
ThomasBorthwickCarterhope
ThomasAnderson
WilliamCurrie
JamesJohnstoncottarCrook
JamesJohnstonTweedhopefoot
WilliamPatersonHawkshaw
RobertAnderson
AlexanderBurnetOver Menzion
FrancisShawroadman
DanielKirkTweedshaw
JamesBryden
ArchibaldDouglasMenzion
GeorgeBellshepherdFruid
RobertJohnstonshepherdFruid
JohnMcallumRiggs
WilliamAndersonGameshope
LawrenceTweedie
GeorgeTaitfarmerBridgend
JohnHall
AlexanderAffleck

Male Heads of families 1837 (NRS Reference: CH2/613/7 pp. 316-316)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JohnMurrayfarmerHarestone
JohnMurrayshepherdMoat
WalterJohnstonblacksmithBowers
JamesNielstonweaverHarestone
ThomasDempsterlabourerTweedsmuir
ArchdFairlieschoolmasterTweedsmuir
JamesAitkentailorBridgend
JohnMacallumlabourerRiggs
WilliamAndersonshepherdGameshope
GeorgeBellshepherdFruid
RobertJohnstonshepherdFruid
JamesBrydenshepherdLinnfoots
ArchibaldGilchristploughmanHarestone
AlexanderFlemingshepherdCadger Acre
AdamWalkerploughmanNewbigging
JamesScottshepherdRiggs
MartinTaylormole catcherRiggs
JamesWatsonshepherdTweedhopefoot
ThomasBorthwickshepherdCarterhope
WilliamRenwickshepherdFingland
WilliamCurrieshepherdBadlieu
JamesJohnstonshepherdTweedhopefoot
JamesWalkershepherdGlenbreck
ThomasAndersonshepherdGlencraigie
AlexanderBurnettshepherdOver Menzion
ArchdDouglasshepherdCraiglaw
WilliamHelemshepherdLinnfoots
FrancisShawroadmanTweedshaws
WilliamPatersonfarmerHawkshaw
WalterMundelljoinerTweedsmuir

Male Heads of families 1838 (NRS Reference: CH2/613/7 pp. 338-338)
Forename Surname Occupation Address Notes
JohnMurrayfarmerHarestone
ThomasAndersonshepherdGlencraigie
WilliamRenwickshepherdFingland
WilliamCurrieshepherdBadlieu
JamesJohnstonshepherdTweedhopefoot
JamesWatsonshepherdTweedhopefoot
JamesWalkershepherdGlenbreck
AlexanderFlemingshepherdCadger Acre
GeorgeBellshepherdFruid
RobertJohnstonshepherdFruid
FrancisShawroadmanTweedshaws
ArchibaldGilchristploughmanHarestone
WilliamAndersonshepherdGameshope
DanielKirkinnkeeperTweedshaws
JohnMurrayshepherdMoat
WalterMundelljoinerTweedsmuir
ThomasDempsterlabourerTweedsmuir
JohnMcallumlabourerRiggs
GeorgeGeddestailorNewbigging
AdamWalkerploughmanNewbigging
TweedieMcgrathinnkeeperBield
AlexanderBorthwickshepherdHarestone
MartinTaylormole catcherRiggs
JamesNielsonweaverHarestone
JamesJohnstoncoachmanCrook
JamesScottshepherdOver Menzion
ArchibaldDouglasshepherdCraiglaw
William StarkBaillieroadmanBridgend
JohnWalkershepherdGlenbreck
ArchibaldFairlieschoolmasterTweedsmuir
DavidTweediefisherBridgend
ThomasBorthwickshepherdCarterhope
George TStodartproprietorOliver

Kirk Session Records Index

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