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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:
  • £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
Ann CAMERON 1873 (2)Order imagesRefused
Catherine CAMERON 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Catherine CAMERON 1855-1856 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Jessie CAMERON or MACKENZIE 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused
William CHISHOLM 1873 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
William CHISHOLM 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused
William CHISHOLM 1878 (2)Order imagesRefused
Alexander FRASER 1878 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow Jessie FRASER 1876 (1)Order imagesRefused
Kenneth GILLANDERS 1865-1866 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Kenneth GILLANDERS 1866 (1)Order imagesRefused
Kenneth GILLANDERS 1867 (1)Order imagesRefused
Donald GOLLAN Bishop Kinkell1846-1847 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John GOLLAN 1864 (1)Order imagesRefused
Alexander GRANT 1866 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Jane HUTCHINSON or MCDONALD 1855 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander JUNOR 1846 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander MACDONALD 1876 (1)Order imagesRefused
Ann MACDONALD 1859 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow Christian MACDONALD or MCLEOD 1862 (2)Order imagesRemitted again - increase not sufficient
Kenneth MACDONALD 1880 (1)Order imagesRefused
Kenneth MACDONALD 1881 (1)Order imagesRefused - if dissatisfied with present allowance (poorhouse)
Mary MACDONALD or GOLLAN 1872 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander MACKAY 1852 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander MACKAY 1853 (1)Order imagesRefused
Donald MACKAY Moor Of Tarradale1846 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John MACKAY 1878 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Charles MACKINNON 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Widow Jessie MACRAE or FRASER 1872 (2)Order imagesRefused
Catherine MCBEATH 1869 (1)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Alexander MCDONALD 1878-1879 (5)Order imagesApplicant dead
Widow Helen MCDONALD 1854 (1)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Betty MCFARQUHAR Moor Of Tarradale1846-1847 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Jane MCKAY 1883 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow MCKENZIE 1880 (2)Order imagesRefused
John MCKILLOP 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused
John MCKILLOP 1877-1878 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Janet MCLAREN 1861 (2)Order imagesRefused
Widow Ann MCLEAN or MCDONALD 1861 (2)Order imagesRefused
John MCLENNAN 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused
Malcolm MCLENNAN 1871 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Catharine MCRAE 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused
Donald MCRAE 1851 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Flora MCRAE 1866 (1)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
John ROSS 1869 (1)Order imagesRefused - 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.

Sheriff Court Filiation and Aliment decrees
Mother name and residenceDefender nameChild birthOrderCourt
Christina FRASER or MACKENZIE
Dreim, Urray
Alexander MACRAE5 Feb 1881
Dreim, Urray
Order nowDingwall
SC25/7/11
Isabella MCGREGOR
Blair of Fairnburn, Urray
William MCKENZIE11 Nov 1876Order nowDingwall
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.

Find the father
Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
Alexander CAMPBELL3 March 1866Margaret CAMPBELLFind the father
Isabella CAMPBELL9 March 1863Margaret CAMPBELLFind the father
Isabella CHISHOLM3 January 1863Ann CHISHOLMFind the father
Donald FINLAYSON4 September 1858Janet FINLAYSONFind the father
John FRASER20 July 1871Ann FRASERFind the father
Peter FRASER19 March 1861Barbra FRASERFind the father
Alexandrina GOURLAY10 July 1864Mary GOURLAYFind the father
Matilda GRANT26 April 1856Margaret GRANTFind the father
Alexander MACDONALD9 January 1864Ann MACDONALDFind the father
Ann MACDONALD22 October 1857Mary MACDONALDFind the father
Robert MACDONALD1 December 1873Helen MACDONALDFind the father
Elizabeth Mary MACGREGOR11 July 1874Isabella MACGREGORFather found
James MACKAY30 August 1858Peggy MACKAYFind the father
Charlotte MACKENZIE30 October 1860Betty MACKENZIEFind the father
Roderick MACKENZIE29 August 1865Isabel MACKENZIEFind the father
Donald MACKINNON1 December 1860Bell MACKINNONFind the father
William MACLEAN8 March 1868Betsy MACLEANFind the father
Mary MACLENNAN2 April 1874Mary MACLENNANFind the father
Janet MACLEOD31 March 1867Betty MACLEODFather found
Donald MACRAE17 July 1858Mary MACRAEFind the father
Murdo MATHESON9 November 1868Chirsty MATHESONFind the father
John MORRISON4 February 1872Johan MORRISONFather found
Thomasina MUNRO22 August 1872Ann MUNROFind the father
John ROSS31 March 1860Mary ROSSFind the father
Robert ROSS8 March 1864Ann ROSSFind the father
John SIMPSON11 October 1874Ann SIMPSONFind 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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