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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.
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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.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet EDGAR Pumplaburn, Wamphray | Walter LITTLE | 16 Feb 1904 Greskine Cottages, Moffat | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Helen EWART Annan Holm, Wamphray | Joseph GRIERSON | 12 Nov 1902 Annan Holm, Wamphray | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/37 |
| Jessie GRAHAM Kirkland, Kirkmichael formerly Wamphray | Adam SCOTT | 7 Nov 1879 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/35 |
| Mary LINTON Newton, Wamphray | Thomas GRAHAM | 17 Jul 1876 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/35 |
| Isabella ROGERSON Saughtrees, Wamphray | John C TURNER | 7 Mar 1876 Saughtrees, Wamphray | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/35 |
| Margaret THOMSON or CHISHOLM Broomhils, Wamphray | John RENWICK | 25 Dec 1876 | Order now | Dumfries SC15/7/35 |
| Mary WALLACE Saughtrees, Wamphray | Charles WAUGH | 3 Mar 1852 | Order now | Dumfries 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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Clough ATKINSON | 6 July 1864 | Emily ATKINSON | Find the father |
| Janet BEATTIE | 12 November 1869 | Jane BEATTIE | Find the father |
| Janet Carruthers BLACKLOCK | 3 February 1870 | Mary BLACKLOCK | Find the father |
| Mary GOLDIE | 25 November 1865 | Effie GOLDIE | Find the father |
| William GOLDIE | 27 June 1861 | Effie GOLDIE | Find the father |
| Christina Tennant GRAHAM | 23 April 1872 | Mary GRAHAM | Find the father |
| Janet HARKNESS | 27 July 1873 | Agnes HARKNESS | Find the father |
| Janet MITCHELL | 20 September 1861 | Janet MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Anne Lorimer MOFFAT | 28 June 1863 | Agnes MOFFAT | Find the father |
| William MULLANS | 8 May 1871 | Agnes MULLANS | Find the father |
| James PAGAN | 27 July 1863 | Agnes PAGAN | Father found |
| Anna Jane Oliver PATERSON | 2 April 1868 | Jane PATERSON | Find the father |
| James PATERSON | 25 March 1868 | Julia PATERSON | Find the father |
| John PATERSON | 4 November 1865 | Sarah PATERSON | Find the father |
| Mary PATERSON | 22 October 1858 | Agnes PATERSON | Find the father |
| Samuel PATERSON | 14 June 1865 | Janet PATERSON | Find the father |
| Grace REIVE | 30 July 1868 | Margaret REIVE | Find the father |
| Harriet RODDICK | 13 October 1859 | Mary RODDICK | Find the father |
| Henry SANDERS | 24 March 1860 | Elspeth SANDERS | Find the father |
| John SANDERS | 15 November 1856 | Elisabeth SANDERS | Find the father |
| Robert SANDERS | 7 July 1863 | Helen Paterson SANDERS | Find the father |
| Elizabeth SCOTT | 26 June 1864 | Georgina SCOTT | Find the father |
| Euphemia SCOTT | 27 October 1866 | Elizabeth SCOTT | Find the father |
| Jane STEEL | 10 February 1868 | Janet STEEL | Find the father |
| Jessie Agnes TELFER | 27 December 1874 | Mary TELFER | Find the father |
| Margaret Scott TELFORD | 14 August 1862 | Georgina TELFORD | Find the father |
| Thomas TWEEDIE | 15 August 1867 | Janet TWEEDIE | Find the father |
| William WILSON | 13 February 1870 | Mary WILSON | 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.
