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Records -> Dumfriesshire

Wamphray 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 do not currently have any records for this parish.


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
Janet EDGAR
Pumplaburn, Wamphray
Walter LITTLE16 Feb 1904
Greskine Cottages, Moffat
Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/37
Helen EWART
Annan Holm, Wamphray
Joseph GRIERSON12 Nov 1902
Annan Holm, Wamphray
Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/37
Jessie GRAHAM
Kirkland, Kirkmichael
formerly Wamphray
Adam SCOTT7 Nov 1879Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/35
Mary LINTON
Newton, Wamphray
Thomas GRAHAM17 Jul 1876Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/35
Isabella ROGERSON
Saughtrees, Wamphray
John C TURNER7 Mar 1876
Saughtrees, Wamphray
Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/35
Margaret THOMSON or CHISHOLM
Broomhils, Wamphray
John RENWICK25 Dec 1876Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/35
Mary WALLACE
Saughtrees, Wamphray
Charles WAUGH3 Mar 1852Order nowDumfries
SC15/7/31


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
Charles Clough ATKINSON6 July 1864Emily ATKINSONFind the father
Janet BEATTIE12 November 1869Jane BEATTIEFind the father
Janet Carruthers BLACKLOCK3 February 1870Mary BLACKLOCKFind the father
Mary GOLDIE25 November 1865Effie GOLDIEFind the father
William GOLDIE27 June 1861Effie GOLDIEFind the father
Christina Tennant GRAHAM23 April 1872Mary GRAHAMFind the father
Janet HARKNESS27 July 1873Agnes HARKNESSFind the father
Janet MITCHELL20 September 1861Janet MITCHELLFind the father
Anne Lorimer MOFFAT28 June 1863Agnes MOFFATFind the father
William MULLANS8 May 1871Agnes MULLANSFind the father
James PAGAN27 July 1863Agnes PAGANFather found
Anna Jane Oliver PATERSON2 April 1868Jane PATERSONFind the father
James PATERSON25 March 1868Julia PATERSONFind the father
John PATERSON4 November 1865Sarah PATERSONFind the father
Mary PATERSON22 October 1858Agnes PATERSONFind the father
Samuel PATERSON14 June 1865Janet PATERSONFind the father
Grace REIVE30 July 1868Margaret REIVEFind the father
Harriet RODDICK13 October 1859Mary RODDICKFind the father
Henry SANDERS24 March 1860Elspeth SANDERSFind the father
John SANDERS15 November 1856Elisabeth SANDERSFind the father
Robert SANDERS7 July 1863Helen Paterson SANDERSFind the father
Elizabeth SCOTT26 June 1864Georgina SCOTTFind the father
Euphemia SCOTT27 October 1866Elizabeth SCOTTFind the father
Jane STEEL10 February 1868Janet STEELFind the father
Jessie Agnes TELFER27 December 1874Mary TELFERFind the father
Margaret Scott TELFORD14 August 1862Georgina TELFORDFind the father
Thomas TWEEDIE15 August 1867Janet TWEEDIEFind the father
William WILSON13 February 1870Mary WILSONFind 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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