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Records -> Berwickshire

Westruther 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
Cecilia GARDNER 1878 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Agnes LAIDLAW 1871 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Betty WATHERSTON 1877 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Agnes WEATHERSTONE 1873 (1)Order imagesRefused
Widow Agnes WETHERSTONE 1873 (2)Order imagesRefused


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
Joan HARDY
Spottiswood, Westruther, Berwickshire
George THOMSON OR THOMPSON12 Nov 1852
Camieston, Lessudden
Order nowJedburgh
SC62/7/10
Elizabeth LOGAN
Broomiebank, Westruther
Andrew SMEATONOrder nowDuns
SC60/7/42
Mary STUART or LYALL
Bassendeanhill, Westruther
Joseph DEANS30 Dec 1849Order nowDuns
SC60/7/41


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
Isabella ANDERSON25 July 1862Isabella ANDERSONFind the father
Janet ANDERSON23 August 1865Janet ANDERSONFind the father
Margaret ANDERSON26 June 1856Janet ANDERSONFind the father
Agnes Aken BRUNTON22 January 1865Barbara BRUNTONFind the father
Robina Runciman DAVIDSON21 August 1874Helen DAVIDSONFind the father
Margaret DODDS12 June 1860Margaret DODDSFind the father
Mary DODS22 July 1863Margaret DODSFind the father
Aaron FORD17 February 1867Janet FORDFather found
Margaret FORD30 June 1864Janet FORDFind the father
Alexa GALBRAITH23 December 1867Jane GALBRAITHFind the father
James GALBRAITH1 September 1861Jane GALBRAITHFind the father
Janet GALBRAITH27 April 1858Jane GALBRAITHFind the father
Margaret GALBRAITH19 February 1871Margaret GALBRAITHFind the father
Sophia GALBRAITH2 February 1866Margaret GALBRAITHFind the father
Thomas GALBRAITH7 June 1869Janet GALBRAITHFind the father
Euphemia GARDINER22 September 1864Cecilia GARDINERFind the father
Elisabeth GRAY17 May 1869Betsy GRAYFind the father
Violet GRAY24 January 1862Jessie GRAYFather found
Jane Renton HOGG23 January 1859Margaret HOGGFind the father
John HOGG26 December 1860Margaret HOGGFind the father
George HUME20 September 1860Elisabeth HUMEFind the father
Agnes HUNTER15 July 1872Helen HUNTERFind the father
James HUNTER13 December 1856Janet HUNTERFind the father
William JEFFREY1 May 1872Agnes JEFFREYFind the father
Isabella KELLY26 January 1867Isabella KELLYFind the father
Thomasina KELLY30 June 1873Isabella KELLYFind the father
Sidney LAURIE25 August 1868Isabella LAURIEFind the father
William LAURIE25 August 1868Isabella LAURIEFind the father
James LOGAN5 December 1869Elisabeth LOGANFind the father
Jane Luke MARSHALL20 March 1867Jane MARSHALLFather found
Ann MCFADYEN22 February 1873Rosann MCFADYENFind the father
Thomas MCKELVIE14 November 1873Margaret MCKELVIEFather found
Williamina Clark MILLS18 December 1873Isabella Clark MILLSFind the father
Elisabeth PARK11 January 1865Isabella PARKFind the father
Mary PREACHER7 January 1864Helen PREACHERFind the father
George PRINGLE23 August 1855Isabella PRINGLEFind the father
James PRINGLE24 November 1864Elisabeth PRINGLEFind the father
John PRINGLE22 August 1858Ann PRINGLEFind the father
Agnes RENWICK23 January 1872Janet RENWICKFind the father
Isabella Bain ROBERTSON15 October 1871Isabella Bain ROBERTSONFind the father
Mary Ann SMITH14 May 1860Ann SMITHFind the father
Catherine STEWART3 December 1859Janet STEWARTFind the father
Janet WANLESS13 June 1869Mary WANLESSFind the father
Susan WANLESS12 July 1857Susan WANLESSFind the father
Mary Ann WATHERSTON11 June 1862Mary Ann T. WATHERSTONFind the father
Thomas Stark WILSON19 August 1863Elisabeth WILSONFind the father
Isabella WYLLIE7 April 1865Jane WYLLIEFind 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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  • Records
    • Board of Supervision
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    • Crown Counsel Procedure Books
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