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Records -> Caithness

Watten 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:
  • £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.

Poor law appeals
NameAddressYear(s)/
minutes
Order imagesDeliverance
Henry CAMPBELL 1851 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Henry CAMPBELL 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
Henry CAMPBELL 1853-1854 (6)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Henry CAMPBELL 1869 (2)Order imagesRefused (poorhouse)
Helen COGHILL 1858 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
James GUNN 1852 (1)Order imagesRefused
Margaret LEVACH Knock Ally Dunbeath1846-1847 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Robert MACURTHIE 1864 (1)Order imagesRefused
Robert MCCARTHY 1862 (3)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Robert MCCATHY 1860 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Mary ROBERTSON 1853 (4)Order imagesGround of complaint removed
Widow Mary ROBERTSON 1856 (2)Order imagesGround of complaint removed


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
Margaret BANKS
Southdun, Watten
William PURDIE1 Mar 1877Order nowWick
SC14/10/10
Margaret CALDER
Wester Watten, Watten
George MACKINNON14 Apr 1887
Wester Watten, Watten
Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Janet Or Jessie CAMPBELL
Southdun, Watten
William GEORGESON16 Feb 1886
Southdun, Watten
Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Elizabeth CORMACK
Myglass, Watten, Caithness
Donald CAMPBELL18 Feb 1886
Barrock Mains, Bower
Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Janet DICKSON
Wester Watten
John GIBSON13 May 1852Order nowWick
SC14/10/8
Ann GROAT
Hill Park, Dunn, Watten, Caithness
Alexander SWANSON30 Nov 1884
Hill Park, Dunn, Watten, Caithness
Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Elizabeth MACGREGOR
South Dunn, Watten, Caithness
John MOWAT26 Oct 1884
South Dunn, Watten, Caithness
Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Esther MACGREGOR
Dunn, Watten
Alexander HENDERSON24 Jan 1888Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Jane MANSON
Achingale, Watten, Caithness
Peter PAUL20 Apr 1882Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Elizabeth MCGREGOR
South Dunn, Watten, Caithness
John WATERS25 Sep 1889
South Dunn, Watten, Caithness
Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Isabella Waters MILLER
Toftingall, Watten
James HENDERSON2 Jun 1884
Toftingall, Watten
Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Jessie MOWAT
Greystones, Watten
George MACKAY23 Oct 1886
Greystones, Watten
Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Elizabeth SINCLAIR
Newlands, Watten
David SUTHERLAND4 May 1886Order nowWick
SC14/10/11
Barbara SUTHERLAND
Wester Watten
Donald MUNRO18 Jan 1861Order nowWick
SC14/10/9
Jessie TAYLOR
Scouthill, Watten
Donald BAIN29 Jun 1886Order nowWick
SC14/10/11


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
Mary Ann ADAMSON26 September 1870Catherine ADAMSONFather found
Williamina Bremner ALEXANDER4 December 1870Janet ALEXANDERFind the father
Alexander BAIN14 June 1870Margaret BAINFind the father
Jessie BAIN26 May 1870Janet BAINFind the father
Isabella BRUCE25 November 1863Helen BRUCEFind the father
Alexanderina Manson CALDER21 April 1872Janet CALDERFind the father
Williamina Mowat CAMPBELL25 June 1874Diana CAMPBELLFind the father
David CHARLESON11 August 1868Margaret CHARLESONFind the father
Robertina CLARK6 January 1874Williamina CLARKFind the father
Ann CREAR3 April 1871Elizabeth CREARFind the father
John CROACH31 May 1865Elizabeth CROACHFind the father
Charles Alexander GRANT21 July 1874Janet GRANTFind the father
George Mckay GROAT10 October 1869Isabella GROATFind the father
John Waters GROAT15 October 1868Elizabeth GROATFind the father
Ann Miller GUNN24 September 1872Barbra GUNNFind the father
Donald GUNN5 July 1862Margaret GUNNFind the father
Donald Waters GUNN22 February 1866Elizabeth GUNNFind the father
Hughina GUNN3 July 1873Catherine GUNNFind the father
Peter Swanson GUNN11 December 1873Margaret GUNNFind the father
Robert Davis GUNN16 February 1869Catherine GUNNFind the father
Williamina GUNN9 April 1864Catherine GUNNFind the father
Alexander HENDERSON4 March 1873Marjory HENDERSONFind the father
Diana HENDRY20 June 1873Johan HENDRYFind the father
Alexander HUME12 May 1874Margaret HUMEFind the father
William HUME12 May 1874Margaret HUMEFind the father
Elizabeth MACKAY16 August 1864Jean MACKAYFind the father
George MANSON26 March 1861Jane MANSONFather found
James MCDONALD1 September 1863Ann MCDONALDFind the father
John MCDONALD24 April 1871Rachel MCDONALDFind the father
Margaret MCDONALD2 August 1865Ann MCDONALDFind the father
Catherine MCLEOD17 January 1855Margaret MCLEODFind the father
Elizabeth MCLEOD8 October 1866Ann MCLEODFind the father
Jessie Nicholl MILL1 October 1873Jessie MILLFind the father
Helen MILLER13 November 1872Mary MILLERFind the father
Benjamin Keith MORGAN9 September 1870Isabella MORGANFind the father
Ronald Mackay MOWAT11 May 1863Ann MOWATFind the father
David MUNRO9 January 1864Elizabeth MUNROFind the father
John Alexander MUNRO5 April 1874Mary MUNROFather found
Christina Mc Adie MURRAY3 September 1866Elisabeth MURRAYFind the father
Donald Taylor SHEARER28 March 1866Catherine SHEARERFind the father
Jamesina SINCLAIR24 January 1869Elizabeth SINCLAIRFind the father
Janet SMITH22 March 1859Janet SMITHFind the father
Donald STEVEN5 January 1861Christian STEVENFind the father
James Ryrie STEVEN27 May 1869Christina STEVENFind the father
John STEVEN5 December 1858Catherine STEVENFind the father
Alexandrina SUTHERLAND16 September 1860Willimina SUTHERLANDFind the father
Georgina SUTHERLAND18 August 1873Christina SUTHERLANDFind the father
Johan SUTHERLAND27 June 1873Johan SUTHERLANDFind the father
Murdoch Campbell WATERS9 January 1871Catherine WATERSFind the father
Margaret WATTERS4 October 1874Margaret WATTERSFind 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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