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Westerkirk 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 ANDERSON12 March 1869Margaret ANDERSONFind the father
Janet Irvine BORTHWICK17 November 1863Agnes BORTHWICKFind the father
Alexander CORRIE21 July 1863Janet CORRIEFind the father
William CORRIE21 August 1859Janet CORRIEFather found
Mary EDGAR18 March 1874Isabella EDGARFind the father
Thomas EDGAR12 March 1867Isabella EDGARFind the father
Andrew ELLIOT25 October 1869Mary ELLIOTFind the father
Archibald ELLIOT18 November 1867Janet ELLIOTFind the father
Catherine ELLIOT22 December 1867Violet ELLIOTFind the father
Janet ELLIOT14 June 1865Violet ELLIOTFind the father
Mary ELLIOT16 June 1874Violet ELLIOTFind the father
William ELLIOT21 November 1864Janet ELLIOTFind the father
Elizabeth FAWCETT25 October 1862Isabella FAWCETTFind the father
James FAWCETT27 December 1855Isabella FAWCETTFind the father
Thomas FAWCETT15 September 1867Isabella FAWCETTFind the father
John GRAHAM7 July 1861Mary GRAHAMFind the father
Mary GRAHAM12 February 1860Mary GRAHAMFind the father
Georgina JACKSON29 November 1864Elizabeth JACKSONFind the father
Isabella JACKSON30 August 1869Elizabeth JACKSONFind the father
Thomas JACKSON24 December 1861Elizabeth JACKSONFind the father
William JACKSON16 September 1863Mary JACKSONFind the father
William JACKSON9 July 1865Jane JACKSONFind the father
Jane JOHNSTONE6 August 1864Jane JOHNSTONEFind the father
James KELLY20 November 1866Margaret KELLYFind the father
Janet MOFFAT13 January 1865Mary MOFFATFind the father
John MOFFAT24 May 1859Mary MOFFATFind the father
George NICOL3 February 1866Elizabeth NICOLFind the father
John James NICOL17 May 1874Mary NICOLFind the father
Robert NICOL21 November 1867Mary NICOLFind the father
Adam POTTS11 August 1860Janet POTTSFind the father
Agnes POTTS19 November 1862Janet POTTSFind the father
Isabella POTTS25 December 1865Sibella POTTSFind the father
James PRIOR23 October 1868Christian PRIORFind the father
John SCOTT19 June 1864Jane SCOTTFind the father
John SCOTT19 August 1866Margaret SCOTTFind 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.