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Records -> Kirkcudbrightshire

Twynholm 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.
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.

Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes
Order imagesDeliverance
Widow Agnes BURNIE 1875 (1)Order imagesRefused
William CAMPBELL 1846 (1)Order imagesRefused; case for Sheriff
Widow HALLIDAY 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused
John LIDDERDALE 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused
James MACARTNEY 1848 (1)Order imagesRefused
Mary MCMIKEN 1868 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Peter NELSON 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
John PORTER 1847 (1)Order imagesRefused
Agnes WAUGH 1874 (1)Order imagesRefused (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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Mary BEATTIE
Twynholm
George CAMPBELL11 Jul 1859Order nowKirkcudbright
SC16/7/13
Agnes BURNIE
Twynholm
William MCMINN29 Aug 1850Order nowKirkcudbright
SC16/7/13
Agnes CAMPBELL
Compstone, Twynholm
William HANNAH9 Jun 1886Order nowKirkcudbright
SC16/7/16
Jane GOURLAY
Cambletown, Twynholm
Joseph HELM6 Nov 1854Order nowKirkcudbright
SC16/7/12
Mary HARRISON
Barluka, Twynholm
James CORSON18 Jun 1879Order nowKirkcudbright
SC16/7/16
Mary Ann MCKNIGHT
Kilchrist, Twynholm
Thomas MOWATT26 Nov 1885Order nowKirkcudbright
SC16/7/16
Elizabeth MUIRHEAD
Old Mill, Twynholm
Alexander DOBIE29 Aug 1892Order nowKirkcudbright
SC16/7/16
Margaret PAISLEY
Kirkcock, Twynholm
James MCLEAN19 Sep 1887Order nowKirkcudbright
SC16/7/16


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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Catherine Jane AIRLEY14 October 1863Mary AIRLEYFind the father
Jane AIRLEY14 February 1864Allison AIRLEYFather found
Janet AIRLEY1 December 1861Mary AIRLEYFind the father
Agnes BEATTIE4 July 1859Mary BEATTIEFind the father
Jane BEATTIE21 December 1869Mary BEATTIEFind the father
Mary BEATTIE14 September 1863Mary BEATTIEFind the father
Robert BEATTIE6 July 1855Mary BEATTIEFind the father
Robert BEATTIE4 July 1859Mary BEATTIEFind the father
William BOYLE28 October 1866Jane BOYLEFind the father
Agnes BURNIE1 November 1867Agnes BURNIEFind the father
David BURNIE7 February 1861Agnes BURNIEFind the father
Mary Jane BURNIE14 January 1858Jane BURNIEFind the father
Anne CARSON2 April 1856Barbara CARSONFind the father
James Kennan CARSON2 September 1862Margaret CARSONFind the father
Margaret CHARTERS14 April 1870Margaret CHARTERSFind the father
Margaret COPLAND11 September 1865Margaret COPLANDFind the father
Grace CROSBIE14 October 1872Sarah CROSBIEFather found
Robert DAVIS6 April 1857Mary DAVISFind the father
Jane DUNN23 January 1866Jane DUNNFind the father
Agnes Lidderdale FITZSIMONS28 April 1873Rachel FITZSIMONSFind the father
Marion Baird FITZSIMONS18 September 1870Rachel FITZSIMONSFind the father
Mary HACKSTONE18 January 1855Margaret HACKSTONEFind the father
Agnes HANNAH1 February 1874Janet HANNAHFind the father
Catherine JOHNSTON12 July 1869Jane JOHNSTONFather found
Annie Davis JOHNSTONE23 September 1871Joan JOHNSTONEFather found
Elisabeth KELLY8 April 1872Mary KELLYFather found
Mary KELLY8 January 1872Elizabeth KELLYFind the father
Mary Jane KENNAN5 December 1863Elisabeth KENNANFind the father
John KIDD21 May 1872Catherine KIDDFind the father
Thomas Aitken KIDD21 January 1865Christina KIDDFind the father
William KIDD12 February 1868Christana KIDDFind the father
Grace MALTMAN22 August 1865Mina MALTMANFind the father
Isabella Gordon Campbell MAXWELL12 December 1874Maggie MAXWELLFind the father
Maggie MCCHEYNE28 July 1873Grace MCCHEYNEFind the father
Archibald MCCORMACK17 January 1864Grace MCCORMACKFind the father
David Manson MCCORMICK1 June 1862Margaret MCCORMICKFind the father
Grace Papple MCCORMICK29 June 1862Elisabeth MCCORMICKFather found
Margaret Jane MCCORMICK25 January 1868Agnes MCCORMICKFind the father
Margaret MCCORNOCK5 June 1858Jane MCCORNOCKFind the father
Isabella MCKIE21 October 1865Isabella MCKIEFather found
Jane MCKIE14 November 1856Isabella MCKIEFind the father
Janet MCMURRAY3 July 1873Agnes MCMURRAYFind the father
Grace MCNALLEY17 April 1866Elisabeth MCNALLEYFather found
Isabella Anderson MCQUEEN3 October 1858Grace MCQUEENFather found
Hugh Campbell MILROY16 May 1864Jane MILROYFind the father
James Mitchell MILROY31 December 1860Agnes MILROYFind the father
Jane MILROY19 April 1868Jane MILROYFind the father
Robert Gaw MILROY10 July 1869Jane MILROYFind the father
Samuel MILROY21 July 1861Jane MILROYFind the father
Margaret MUIRHEAD11 May 1868Janet MUIRHEADFind the father
John NEIL23 January 1858Jane NEILFind the father
John NISH15 July 1863Helen NISHFind the father
Thomas Moffat RITCHIE1 February 1865Elisabeth RITCHIEFather found
William RITCHIE5 December 1868Elisabeth RITCHIEFind the father
Agnes STEEL15 October 1863Mary STEELFind the father
Mary STEEL15 June 1858Mary STEELFind the father
James Fraser STEWART1 February 1869Margaret STEWARTFind the father
Matthew STEWART10 October 1867Margaret STEWARTFind the father
John WAUGH19 September 1868Margaret WAUGHFind the father
William Hyslop WAUGH10 July 1861Margaret WAUGHFather found
William Nicol Burns Mcilveen WAUGH16 December 1868Helen WAUGHFind the father
Mary Jane WILSON23 April 1868Martha WILSONFind the father
Isabella WOODS4 February 1872Isabella WOODSFind 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.


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