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Whitsome records
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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
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| Reference | Title | Dates | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| CH2/977/1 | Minutes 1834-44; 1847-70 | 1834-1870 | Request lookup |
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.
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| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas FALCONER | 1852 (1) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed | |
| Mary KIRK | 1849 (1) | Order images | Refused |
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.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabel BROWN Whitsome | Alexander PURVES | 22 Jul 1847 | Order now | Duns SC60/7/41 |
| Mary Jane GAULT Leetside, Whitsome | Samuel BRODIE | 4 Mar 1906 Leetside, Whitsome | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Susan HALL Whitsome Laws, Whitsome | John REDPATH | 10 Mar 1887 Whitsome Laws, Whitsome | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Margaret PURVES Wynfield, Whitsome | John DUMMA$ | 2 Apr 1862 | Order now | Duns SC60/7/41 |
| Jessie SHEPHERD Leetside, Whitsome | John LEITHEAD | 4 Jan 1882 Leetside, Whitsome | Order now | Duns SC60/7/43 |
| Alison WHITEHEAD Newton, Whitsome | Ebenezer PATERSON | Order now | Duns 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.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| George ANDERSON | 17 January 1860 | Elisabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| John ANDERSON | 17 January 1860 | Elisabeth ANDERSON | Find the father |
| David BROOMFIELD | 7 March 1868 | Agnes BROOMFIELD | Find the father |
| Agnes BROWN | 7 June 1870 | Helen BROWN | Find the father |
| Mary COCKBURN | 23 May 1860 | Hannah COCKBURN | Find the father |
| George Edwin CROW | 30 November 1855 | Mary CROW | Find the father |
| John CROW | 26 November 1859 | Mary CROW | Find the father |
| Jamima CURLE | 23 June 1857 | Margaret CURLE | Find the father |
| Ann ELLIOT | 17 March 1863 | Ann ELLIOT | Find the father |
| James ELLIOT | 24 February 1862 | Elisabeth ELLIOT | Find the father |
| Alexander FORD | 15 February 1857 | Helen FORD | Find the father |
| Christian FORD | 7 October 1856 | Janet FORD | Find the father |
| William JOHNSTON | 10 January 1858 | Elisabeth JOHNSTON | Find the father |
| Thomas LEWENS | 30 January 1856 | Margaret LEWENS | Find the father |
| Georgina LEWINS | 12 September 1859 | Isabella LEWINS | Find the father |
| Alexander LOCKIE | 12 July 1855 | Margaret LOCKIE | Find the father |
| Agnes MIDDLEMISS | 1 November 1867 | Agnes MIDDLEMISS | Find the father |
| William NAIRN | 3 February 1870 | Elisabeth NAIRN | Find the father |
| Agnes PURVES | 2 April 1862 | Agnes PURVES | Find the father |
| James Bookless REDDEN | 23 December 1871 | Mary REDDEN | Find the father |
| Margaret REDDEN | 23 October 1856 | Agnes REDDEN | Find the father |
| James ROBERTSON | 29 January 1873 | Margaret ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Janet ROBERTSON | 21 July 1857 | Janet ROBERTSON | Find the father |
| Joseph SHEPHERD | 25 March 1868 | Jessie SHEPHERD | Find the father |
| Margaret SHEPHERD | 17 February 1863 | Eliza SHEPHERD | Find the father |
| Matilda SIMPSON | 17 June 1867 | May SIMPSON | Find the father |
| George Oliver SIMSON | 26 April 1864 | May SIMSON | Find the father |
| William SMITH | 13 June 1870 | Mary SMITH | Find the father |
| Robert Douglas TAIT | 12 August 1872 | Susan TAIT | Find the father |
| John VIRTUE | 11 September 1868 | Agnes VIRTUE | Find the father |
| Robert VIRTUE | 11 September 1868 | Agnes VIRTUE | Find the father |
| Agnes WILSON | 21 April 1860 | Ann WILSON | Find the father |
| James WILSON | 31 March 1869 | Agnes WILSON | Find the father |
| Robert Helen WILSON | 13 June 1857 | Sarah WILSON | 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.
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | Allan | Whitsome | ||
| John | Allan | Laws | ||
| William | Anderson | Longridge | ||
| Thomas | Balmer | Hilton | ||
| James | Barup | Hilton | ||
| Henry | Bell | Wynnefield | ||
| Robert | Bowmaker | Dykegatehead | ||
| Thomas | Brown | Whitsome | ||
| Peter | Chirnside | Dykegatehead | ||
| John | Chisholm | Eagle Hall | ||
| David | Cockburn | Dykegatehead | ||
| John | Clay | Dykegatehead | ||
| Alexander | Cockburn | Whitsome | ||
| Andrew | Common | Moor House | ||
| Peter | Cowe | Jardinefield | ||
| James | Cowe | Hilton | ||
| Alexander | Cowe | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Cowe | Whitsome | ||
| Andrew | Davison | Whitsome | ||
| Alexander | Dippie | Whitsome | ||
| James | Donaldson | Whitsome | ||
| George | Ford | Whitsome | ||
| John | Gibson | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Gibson | Whitsome | ||
| George | Gillan | Dykegatehead | ||
| Peter | Hume | Whitsome | ||
| Andrew | Inglis | Old Newton | ||
| George | Inglis | Revelaw | ||
| John | Johnson | Frenchlaw | ||
| James | Laidlaw | Hilton | ||
| Ebenezer | Lindsay | Hilton | ||
| Thomas | Logan | Laws | ||
| George | Lorraine | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Lyall | Old Newton | ||
| Thomas | Mabon | Dykegatehead | ||
| Andrew | Middlemiss | Whitsome | ||
| Alexander | Neilans | New Newton | ||
| George | Paterson | Laws | ||
| George | Paxton | Jardinefield | ||
| John | Porter | Laws | ||
| James | Pringle | Whitsome Hill | ||
| James | Purvis | Whitsome | ||
| Joseph | Purves | Whitsome | ||
| John | Richardson | Whitsome Hill | ||
| John | Robison | Whitsome Hill | ||
| Thomas | Roger | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Russell | Longridge | ||
| George | Scott | Whitsome | ||
| James | Sharp | Whitsome Hill | ||
| William | Shirlaw | Whitsome | ||
| John | Simpson | New Newton | ||
| James | Simpson | New Newton | ||
| William | Smith | Whitsome | ||
| John | Spense | Frenchlaw | ||
| Archibald | Spense | Longridge | ||
| James | Trotter | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Vietch | Jardinefield | ||
| Thomas | Waddell | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Walkingshaw | Laws Moor | ||
| William | Watson | Whitsome | ||
| John | Weatherston | Whitsome Hill | ||
| Alexander | Wilson | Longridge |
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | Allan | Whitsome | ||
| William | Anderson | Langrigg | ||
| Thomas | Balmer | Hilton | ||
| James | Bearup | Hilton | ||
| William | Blakie | New Newton | ||
| James | Blakie | Wynnefield | ||
| Thomas | Brown | Whitsome | ||
| Peter | Chirnside | Dykegatehead | ||
| John | Chisholm | Eagle Hall | ||
| John | Clay | Dykegatehead | ||
| David | Cockburn | Dykegatehead | ||
| Alexander | Cockburn | Whitsome | ||
| Peter | Combe | Whitsome | ||
| Andrew | Common | Moor House | ||
| Peter | Cowe | Jardinefield | ||
| James | Cowe | Hilton | ||
| Alexander | Cowe | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Cowe | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Darrie | Whitsome Hill | ||
| Alexander | Dippie | Whitsome | ||
| William | Dunn | Laws | ||
| George | Ford | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Gibson | Revelaw | ||
| John | Gibson | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Gibson | Whitsome | ||
| James | Grinlaw | Dykegatehead | ||
| Thomas | Hay | Jardinefield | ||
| Peter | Hume | Whitsome | ||
| Andrew | Inglis | Old Newton | ||
| John | Johnson | Frenchlaw | ||
| James | Laidlaw | Hilton | ||
| Ebenezer | Lindsay | Hilton | ||
| George | Lorraine | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Lyall | Old Newton | ||
| Thomas | Mabon | Dykegatehead | ||
| William | Marshall | Laws | ||
| James | Middlemiss | Laws | ||
| Andrew | Middlemiss | Whitsome | ||
| James | Middlemiss | Whitsome | ||
| James | Mitchell | Laws | ||
| Robert | Paterson | Wynnefield | ||
| George | Paterson | Laws | ||
| George | Paxton | Dykegatehead | ||
| James | Pringle | Whitsome Hill | ||
| James | Purvis | Whitsome | ||
| Joseph | Purvis | Whitsome | ||
| Alexander | Renton | New Newton | ||
| John | Richardson | Whitsome Hill | ||
| John | Robison | Whitsome Hill | ||
| Thomas | Robison | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Robison | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Roger | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Russell | Langrigg | ||
| George | Scott | Whitsome | ||
| James | Sharp | Whitsome Hill | ||
| John | Simpson | New Newton | ||
| James | Simpson | Whitsome Hill | ||
| William | Smith | Whitsome | ||
| John | Spense | Frenchlaw | ||
| Archibald | Spense | Langrigg | ||
| James | Trotter | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Veitch | Dykegatehead | ||
| Alexander | Wait | Laws | ||
| Robert | Walkingshaw | Laws Moor | ||
| William | Watson | Whitsome | ||
| Alexander | Wilson | Langrigg |
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | Anderson | Langrigg | ||
| Alexander | Aitken | Laws | ||
| John | Allan | Whitsome | ||
| James | Bearup | Dykethead | ||
| Thomas | Balmer | Hilton | ||
| James | Blakie | Wynnefield | ||
| Thomas | Brown | Whitsome | ||
| William | Blakie | New Newton | ||
| George | Bowmaker | Dykethead | ||
| Robert | Bowmaker | Hilton | ||
| James | Cowe | Hilton | ||
| Andrew | Common | Moor House | ||
| John | Clay | Dykethead | ||
| Peter | Cowe | Jardinefield | ||
| Peter | Chirnside | Jardinefield | ||
| John | Chisholm | Eagle Hall | ||
| Peter | Combe | Whitsome | ||
| Alexander | Cowe | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Cowe | Whitsome | ||
| Alexander | Cockburn | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Darrie | Whitsome Hill | ||
| Alexander | Dippie | Whitsome | ||
| John | Elliot | Laws | ||
| George | Ford | Whitsome | ||
| George | Gardner | Laws | ||
| Thomas | Gibson | Whitsome | ||
| John | Gibson | Whitsome | ||
| John | Gibson | Whitsome | ||
| James | Gillie | Old Newton | ||
| James | Grinlaw | Whitsome | ||
| Peter | Hume | Whitsome | ||
| Andrew | Ingles | Old Newton | ||
| John | Johnson | Frenchlaw | ||
| William | Jeffrey | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Izatt | Old Newton | ||
| Ebenezer | Lindsay | Hilton | ||
| James | Laidlaw | Hilton | ||
| George | Lorraine | Whitsome | ||
| James | Middlemiss | Old Newton | ||
| Joseph | Middlemiss | Langrigg | ||
| Thomas | Mabon | Dykethead | ||
| William | Mylne | Whitsome Hill | ||
| James | Mitchell | Laws | ||
| Andrew | Middlemiss | Whitsome | ||
| James | Middlemiss | Whitsome | ||
| George | Paxton | Dykethead | ||
| Robert | Paterson | Wynnefield | ||
| George | Paterson | Laws | ||
| James | Purves | Whitsome | ||
| Joseph | Purves | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Roger | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Renton | Dykethead | ||
| John | Richardson | Whitsome Hill | ||
| John | Robison | Whitsome Hill | ||
| Alexander | Renton | New Newton | ||
| Thomas | Russell | Langrigg | ||
| Thomas | Robison | Wynnefield | ||
| Thomas | Robison | Wynnefield | ||
| John | Simson | New Newton | ||
| John | Spence | Frenchlaw | ||
| Archibald | Spence | Langrigg | ||
| James | Sharp | Whitsome Hill | ||
| James | Simson | Whitsome Hill | ||
| James | Smail | Laws | ||
| George | Scott | Whitsome | ||
| William | Smith | Whitsome | ||
| James | Trotter | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Veitch | Dykethead | ||
| Robert | Walkingshaw | South Laws | ||
| William | Watson | Whitsome |
| Forename | Surname | Occupation | Address | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George | Anderson | Langrigg | ||
| John | Allan | Whitsome | ||
| William | Aitchison | Jardinefield | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] | |
| Alexander | Aitken | Laws | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] | |
| Thomas | Brown | Whitsome | ||
| William | Blakie | West Newton | ||
| George | Bowmaker | Dykethead | ||
| Robert | Bowmaker | Hilton | ||
| Andrew | Common | Muirhouse | ||
| John | Clay | Dykethead | ||
| Peter | Cowe | Jardinefield | ||
| Peter | Chirnside | Dykethead | ||
| John | Chisholm | Eagle Hall | ||
| Alexander | Cowe | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Cowe | Whitsome | ||
| Alexander | Cockburn | Whitsome | ||
| Alexander | Dippie | Whitsome | ||
| George | Ford | Ravelaw | ||
| John | Fortune | Wynnefield | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] | |
| Abraham | Falconer | Whitsome | ||
| William | Gilly | Wynnefield | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] | |
| Thomas | Gibson | Whitsome | ||
| James | Gilly | East Newton | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] | |
| James | Hill | East Newton | ||
| Peter | Hume | Whitsome | ||
| David | Haliday | Dykethead | ||
| John | Herriot | Whitsome | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 as dissenter [p 33] | |
| Andrew | Inglis | East Newton | ||
| John | Johnstone | Frenchlaw | ||
| William | Jaffrey | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Izatt | East Newton | ||
| Ebenezer | Lindsay | Hilton | ||
| James | Laidlaw | Hilton | ||
| George | Lorrain | Whitsome | ||
| Andrew | Lunn | Jardinefield | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] | |
| John | Lamberton | Wynnefield | ||
| Joseph | Middlemiss | Hilton | ||
| Thomas | Mabon | Dykethead | ||
| William | Milne | Whitsome Hill | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] | |
| James | Mitchel | Laws | ||
| Andrew | Middlemiss | Whitsome | ||
| James | Middlemiss | Whitsome | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] | |
| David | Nichol | Laws | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] | |
| George | Paterson | Whitsome Hill | ||
| James | Purves | Whitsome | ||
| Joseph | Purves | Whitsome | ||
| Thomas | Roger | Whitsome | died Feb 1838 [p 33] | |
| John | Richardson | Whitsome Hill | ||
| Alexander | Renton | West Newton | ||
| Thomas | Robison | Wynnefield | ||
| Thomas | Robison | Wynnefield | ||
| Alexander | Ray | Longrigg | ||
| John | Simson | West Newton | ||
| John | Spence | Frenchlaw | ||
| Archibald | Spence | Langrigg | misnumbered 56 in original | |
| James | Smail | Laws | ||
| George | Scott | Whitsome Schoolhouse | ||
| William | Smith | Whitsome | ||
| James | Trotter | Whitsome | ||
| Robert | Walkingshaw | South Laws | ||
| William | Watson | Whitsome | removed by Presbytery 2 Oct 1838 [p 33] |
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.
