Records -> Dumfriesshire
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.
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 ANDERSON | 12 March 1869 | Margaret ANDERSON | Find the father |
| Janet Irvine BORTHWICK | 17 November 1863 | Agnes BORTHWICK | Find the father |
| Alexander CORRIE | 21 July 1863 | Janet CORRIE | Find the father |
| William CORRIE | 21 August 1859 | Janet CORRIE | Father found |
| Mary EDGAR | 18 March 1874 | Isabella EDGAR | Find the father |
| Thomas EDGAR | 12 March 1867 | Isabella EDGAR | Find the father |
| Andrew ELLIOT | 25 October 1869 | Mary ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Archibald ELLIOT | 18 November 1867 | Janet ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Catherine ELLIOT | 22 December 1867 | Violet ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Janet ELLIOT | 14 June 1865 | Violet ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Mary ELLIOT | 16 June 1874 | Violet ELLIOT | Find the father |
| William ELLIOT | 21 November 1864 | Janet ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Elizabeth FAWCETT | 25 October 1862 | Isabella FAWCETT | Find the father |
| James FAWCETT | 27 December 1855 | Isabella FAWCETT | Find the father |
| Thomas FAWCETT | 15 September 1867 | Isabella FAWCETT | Find the father |
| John GRAHAM | 7 July 1861 | Mary GRAHAM | Find the father |
| Mary GRAHAM | 12 February 1860 | Mary GRAHAM | Find the father |
| Georgina JACKSON | 29 November 1864 | Elizabeth JACKSON | Find the father |
| Isabella JACKSON | 30 August 1869 | Elizabeth JACKSON | Find the father |
| Thomas JACKSON | 24 December 1861 | Elizabeth JACKSON | Find the father |
| William JACKSON | 16 September 1863 | Mary JACKSON | Find the father |
| William JACKSON | 9 July 1865 | Jane JACKSON | Find the father |
| Jane JOHNSTONE | 6 August 1864 | Jane JOHNSTONE | Find the father |
| James KELLY | 20 November 1866 | Margaret KELLY | Find the father |
| Janet MOFFAT | 13 January 1865 | Mary MOFFAT | Find the father |
| John MOFFAT | 24 May 1859 | Mary MOFFAT | Find the father |
| George NICOL | 3 February 1866 | Elizabeth NICOL | Find the father |
| John James NICOL | 17 May 1874 | Mary NICOL | Find the father |
| Robert NICOL | 21 November 1867 | Mary NICOL | Find the father |
| Adam POTTS | 11 August 1860 | Janet POTTS | Find the father |
| Agnes POTTS | 19 November 1862 | Janet POTTS | Find the father |
| Isabella POTTS | 25 December 1865 | Sibella POTTS | Find the father |
| James PRIOR | 23 October 1868 | Christian PRIOR | Find the father |
| John SCOTT | 19 June 1864 | Jane SCOTT | Find the father |
| John SCOTT | 19 August 1866 | Margaret SCOTT | 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.
