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Wanlockhead 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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James BROWN | 27 May 1872 | Janet BROWN | Find the father |
| John BROWN | 17 April 1858 | Ann BROWN | Find the father |
| Mary BROWN | 30 August 1857 | Janet BROWN | Find the father |
| Robert BROWN | 7 July 1864 | Ann BROWN | Find the father |
| John GILCHRIST | 14 May 1872 | Janet GILCHRIST | Find the father |
| Ann GRACIE | 19 January 1859 | Agnes GRACIE | Find the father |
| James GRACIE | 30 June 1860 | Ann GRACIE | Find the father |
| John GRACIE | 20 February 1862 | Margaret GRACIE | Find the father |
| James HARKNESS | 9 May 1870 | Elizabeth HARKNESS | Find the father |
| Jessie HARKNESS | 19 December 1872 | Mary Ann HARKNESS | Find the father |
| Charles HASTIE | 25 October 1860 | Mary HASTIE | Find the father |
| Agnes HEATSON | 19 June 1861 | Martha HEATSON | Find the father |
| John HOATSON | 24 May 1860 | Crawford HOATSON | Find the father |
| Jane HUNTER | 22 December 1865 | Janet HUNTER | Find the father |
| Elizabeth KERR | 1 February 1870 | Janet KERR | Find the father |
| John Ann KERR | 25 March 1874 | Helen KERR | Find the father |
| Margaret LAIDLAW | 23 April 1858 | Janet LAIDLAW | Find the father |
| Elizabeth LAUDER | 21 January 1867 | Ann LAUDER | Find the father |
| James LAUDER | 26 May 1871 | Ann LAUDER | Find the father |
| John LITTLE | 7 November 1863 | Margaret LITTLE | Find the father |
| Elizabeth LORIMER | 27 October 1871 | Janet LORIMER | Find the father |
| George MCCALL | 17 May 1862 | Agnes MCCALL | Find the father |
| George MCCALL | 22 November 1869 | Margaret MCCALL | Find the father |
| Margaret MCCALL | 4 August 1870 | Janet MCCALL | Find the father |
| William MCMILLAN | 20 November 1872 | Ann MCMILLAN | Find the father |
| James MEIKLE | 9 June 1858 | Janet MEIKLE | Find the father |
| Isabella MILLIGAN | 28 April 1859 | Isabella MILLIGAN | Father found |
| Janet Watson MILLIGAN | 8 January 1865 | Jane MILLIGAN | Find the father |
| Margaret MITCHELL | 1 June 1858 | Elizabeth MITCHELL | Find the father |
| Agnes Dyer MOFFAT | 22 January 1871 | Ann MOFFAT | Find the father |
| Susan MURRAY | 14 December 1868 | Janet MURRAY | Father found |
| John NICOL | 1 July 1860 | Agnes NICOL | Find the father |
| Mary Jamieson PATERSON | 22 February 1868 | Isabella PATERSON | Find the father |
| Mary RITCHIE | 12 August 1873 | Mary RITCHIE | Find the father |
| Alexander SCOTT | 17 July 1873 | Janet SCOTT | Find the father |
| Janet SCOTT | 28 January 1865 | Margaret SCOTT | Find the father |
| Margaret SCOTT | 21 January 1858 | Elizabeth SCOTT | Find the father |
| William SCOTT | 15 July 1862 | Euphemia SCOTT | Find the father |
| Alexander SHARP | 16 August 1864 | Mary SHARP | Find the father |
| Jane SLIMMON | 4 January 1860 | Mary SLIMMON | Find the father |
| John STEWART | 31 October 1863 | Mary STEWART | Find the father |
| Jessie Jane WEIR | 2 June 1866 | Jane WEIR | Find the father |
| John WEIR | 27 April 1865 | Ann WEIR | Find the father |
| Agnes WILSON | 14 November 1858 | Elizabeth WILSON | Find the father |
| Elizabeth YOUNG | 23 January 1867 | Elizabeth YOUNG | Find the father |
| John YOUNG | 31 July 1871 | Helen YOUNG | Find the father |
| Margaret YOUNG | 30 August 1874 | Helen YOUNG | Find the father |
| Mary YOUNG | 13 July 1866 | Helen YOUNG | 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.
