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Walls and Flotta 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widow Jessie CROMARTIE | 1872-1873 (3) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Elizabeth MANSON or THOMSON | 1854 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Widow Christina SUTHERLAND | 1872 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Christina SUTHERLAND | 1872 (4) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Donald SUTHERLAND | 1869 (2) | Order images | Refused | |
| Donald SUTHERLAND | 1872 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jemima ANDERSON | 13 March 1855 | Margaret ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Georgina Christina BARTHOLOMEW | 9 April 1862 | Mary Bartholomew Or FIDDLER | Find the father |
| Jemima Ellen COSTIE | 27 June 1870 | Ellen COSTIE | Find the father |
| James Corrigall GROAT | 4 April 1873 | Jane Ollison GROAT | Find the father |
| William James GUNN | 16 June 1868 | Catharine GUNN | Find the father |
| Mary MANSON | 13 April 1866 | Christina MANSON | Find the father |
| Margaret MCFEE | 11 July 1873 | Janet MCFEE | Find the father |
| Donald MCKAY | 9 May 1870 | Mina MCKAY | Find the father |
| Janet Maxwell MCKAY | 12 April 1862 | Margaret MCKAY | Find the father |
| Jane MCKENZIE | 13 February 1855 | Jane MCKENZIE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth Harriet MILLER | 7 July 1869 | Elizabeth MILLER | Find the father |
| Margaret MOWAT | 5 April 1863 | Margaret MOWAT | Find the father |
| Georgeina NICHOLSON | 8 June 1873 | Jessie NICHOLSON | Find the father |
| Isabella NICHOLSON | 15 May 1869 | Jessie NICHOLSON | Find the father |
| Margaret Ann NICHOLSON | 12 May 1864 | Jessie NICHOLSON | Find the father |
| Benjamin NORQUAY | 8 April 1868 | Elizabeth W. NORQUAY | Find the father |
| Jessie NORQUAY | 22 June 1869 | Jessie NORQUAY | Find the father |
| Margaret NORQUAY | 14 April 1863 | Helen NORQUAY | Find the father |
| Alexander ROBSON | 19 August 1864 | Jane ROBSON | Find the father |
| Mary ROBSON | 6 November 1873 | Jessie ROBSON | Find the father |
| Mary ROSS | 23 April 1873 | Mary ROSS | Find the father |
| Diana SANDISON | 8 November 1873 | Margaret SANDISON | Find the father |
| John Charles SIMPSON | 24 December 1865 | Jean SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Moriah Ann Jean SIMPSON | 28 June 1870 | Elisabeth SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Thomas SIMPSON | 24 March 1863 | Jane SIMPSON | Find the father |
| Donald STOUT | 6 August 1869 | Catherine STOUT | Find the father |
| William James STOUT | 5 November 1869 | Christina STOUT | Find the father |
| Margaret SUTHERLAND | 31 January 1870 | Ann SUTHERLAND | Find the father |
| William Linklater SUTHERLAND | 31 January 1870 | Ann SUTHERLAND | Find the father |
| Alexander SWANSON | 19 December 1856 | Isabella SWANSON | Find the father |
| John SWANSON | 11 June 1864 | Hellen M. SWANSON | Find the father |
| William TOMISON | 28 November 1869 | Margaret TOMISON | Find the father |
| Williamina TOMISON | 19 December 1866 | Margaret TOMISON | 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.
