Records -> Ross and Cromarty
Urray 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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann CAMERON | 1873 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Catherine CAMERON | 1854 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Catherine CAMERON | 1855-1856 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow Jessie CAMERON or MACKENZIE | 1866 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| William CHISHOLM | 1873 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| William CHISHOLM | 1873 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| William CHISHOLM | 1878 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander FRASER | 1878 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Jessie FRASER | 1876 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Kenneth GILLANDERS | 1865-1866 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Kenneth GILLANDERS | 1866 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Kenneth GILLANDERS | 1867 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Donald GOLLAN | Bishop Kinkell | 1846-1847 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| John GOLLAN | 1864 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Alexander GRANT | 1866 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Jane HUTCHINSON or MCDONALD | 1855 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Alexander JUNOR | 1846 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Alexander MACDONALD | 1876 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Ann MACDONALD | 1859 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Christian MACDONALD or MCLEOD | 1862 (2) | Order images | Remitted again - increase not sufficient | |
| Kenneth MACDONALD | 1880 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Kenneth MACDONALD | 1881 (1) | Order images | Refused - if dissatisfied with present allowance (poorhouse) | |
| Mary MACDONALD or GOLLAN | 1872 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Alexander MACKAY | 1852 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Alexander MACKAY | 1853 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Donald MACKAY | Moor Of Tarradale | 1846 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| John MACKAY | 1878 (2) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Charles MACKINNON | 1854 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Widow Jessie MACRAE or FRASER | 1872 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Catherine MCBEATH | 1869 (1) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Alexander MCDONALD | 1878-1879 (5) | Order images | Applicant dead | |
| Widow Helen MCDONALD | 1854 (1) | Order images | Refused (poorhouse) | |
| Betty MCFARQUHAR | Moor Of Tarradale | 1846-1847 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
| Widow Jane MCKAY | 1883 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow MCKENZIE | 1880 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| John MCKILLOP | 1877 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| John MCKILLOP | 1877-1878 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Janet MCLAREN | 1861 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Ann MCLEAN or MCDONALD | 1861 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| John MCLENNAN | 1873 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Malcolm MCLENNAN | 1871 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Catharine MCRAE | 1877 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Donald MCRAE | 1851 (3) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Widow Flora MCRAE | 1866 (1) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| John ROSS | 1869 (1) | Order images | Refused - incompetent |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christina FRASER or MACKENZIE Dreim, Urray | Alexander MACRAE | 5 Feb 1881 Dreim, Urray | Order now | Dingwall SC25/7/11 |
| Isabella MCGREGOR Blair of Fairnburn, Urray | William MCKENZIE | 11 Nov 1876 | Order now | Dingwall SC25/7/10 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander CAMPBELL | 3 March 1866 | Margaret CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Isabella CAMPBELL | 9 March 1863 | Margaret CAMPBELL | Find the father |
| Isabella CHISHOLM | 3 January 1863 | Ann CHISHOLM | Find the father |
| Donald FINLAYSON | 4 September 1858 | Janet FINLAYSON | Find the father |
| John FRASER | 20 July 1871 | Ann FRASER | Find the father |
| Peter FRASER | 19 March 1861 | Barbra FRASER | Find the father |
| Alexandrina GOURLAY | 10 July 1864 | Mary GOURLAY | Find the father |
| Matilda GRANT | 26 April 1856 | Margaret GRANT | Find the father |
| Alexander MACDONALD | 9 January 1864 | Ann MACDONALD | Find the father |
| Ann MACDONALD | 22 October 1857 | Mary MACDONALD | Find the father |
| Robert MACDONALD | 1 December 1873 | Helen MACDONALD | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Mary MACGREGOR | 11 July 1874 | Isabella MACGREGOR | Father found |
| James MACKAY | 30 August 1858 | Peggy MACKAY | Find the father |
| Charlotte MACKENZIE | 30 October 1860 | Betty MACKENZIE | Find the father |
| Roderick MACKENZIE | 29 August 1865 | Isabel MACKENZIE | Find the father |
| Donald MACKINNON | 1 December 1860 | Bell MACKINNON | Find the father |
| William MACLEAN | 8 March 1868 | Betsy MACLEAN | Find the father |
| Mary MACLENNAN | 2 April 1874 | Mary MACLENNAN | Find the father |
| Janet MACLEOD | 31 March 1867 | Betty MACLEOD | Father found |
| Donald MACRAE | 17 July 1858 | Mary MACRAE | Find the father |
| Murdo MATHESON | 9 November 1868 | Chirsty MATHESON | Find the father |
| John MORRISON | 4 February 1872 | Johan MORRISON | Father found |
| Thomasina MUNRO | 22 August 1872 | Ann MUNRO | Find the father |
| John ROSS | 31 March 1860 | Mary ROSS | Find the father |
| Robert ROSS | 8 March 1864 | Ann ROSS | Find the father |
| John SIMPSON | 11 October 1874 | Ann SIMPSON | 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.
