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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.

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.

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.

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.

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Child nameDate of birthMother nameOrder
James BROWN27 May 1872Janet BROWNFind the father
John BROWN17 April 1858Ann BROWNFind the father
Mary BROWN30 August 1857Janet BROWNFind the father
Robert BROWN7 July 1864Ann BROWNFind the father
John GILCHRIST14 May 1872Janet GILCHRISTFind the father
Ann GRACIE19 January 1859Agnes GRACIEFind the father
James GRACIE30 June 1860Ann GRACIEFind the father
John GRACIE20 February 1862Margaret GRACIEFind the father
James HARKNESS9 May 1870Elizabeth HARKNESSFind the father
Jessie HARKNESS19 December 1872Mary Ann HARKNESSFind the father
Charles HASTIE25 October 1860Mary HASTIEFind the father
Agnes HEATSON19 June 1861Martha HEATSONFind the father
John HOATSON24 May 1860Crawford HOATSONFind the father
Jane HUNTER22 December 1865Janet HUNTERFind the father
Elizabeth KERR1 February 1870Janet KERRFind the father
John Ann KERR25 March 1874Helen KERRFind the father
Margaret LAIDLAW23 April 1858Janet LAIDLAWFind the father
Elizabeth LAUDER21 January 1867Ann LAUDERFind the father
James LAUDER26 May 1871Ann LAUDERFind the father
John LITTLE7 November 1863Margaret LITTLEFind the father
Elizabeth LORIMER27 October 1871Janet LORIMERFind the father
George MCCALL17 May 1862Agnes MCCALLFind the father
George MCCALL22 November 1869Margaret MCCALLFind the father
Margaret MCCALL4 August 1870Janet MCCALLFind the father
William MCMILLAN20 November 1872Ann MCMILLANFind the father
James MEIKLE9 June 1858Janet MEIKLEFind the father
Isabella MILLIGAN28 April 1859Isabella MILLIGANFather found
Janet Watson MILLIGAN8 January 1865Jane MILLIGANFind the father
Margaret MITCHELL1 June 1858Elizabeth MITCHELLFind the father
Agnes Dyer MOFFAT22 January 1871Ann MOFFATFind the father
Susan MURRAY14 December 1868Janet MURRAYFather found
John NICOL1 July 1860Agnes NICOLFind the father
Mary Jamieson PATERSON22 February 1868Isabella PATERSONFind the father
Mary RITCHIE12 August 1873Mary RITCHIEFind the father
Alexander SCOTT17 July 1873Janet SCOTTFind the father
Janet SCOTT28 January 1865Margaret SCOTTFind the father
Margaret SCOTT21 January 1858Elizabeth SCOTTFind the father
William SCOTT15 July 1862Euphemia SCOTTFind the father
Alexander SHARP16 August 1864Mary SHARPFind the father
Jane SLIMMON4 January 1860Mary SLIMMONFind the father
John STEWART31 October 1863Mary STEWARTFind the father
Jessie Jane WEIR2 June 1866Jane WEIRFind the father
John WEIR27 April 1865Ann WEIRFind the father
Agnes WILSON14 November 1858Elizabeth WILSONFind the father
Elizabeth YOUNG23 January 1867Elizabeth YOUNGFind the father
John YOUNG31 July 1871Helen YOUNGFind the father
Margaret YOUNG30 August 1874Helen YOUNGFind the father
Mary YOUNG13 July 1866Helen YOUNGFind the father

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.