Stirlingshire poor law record indexes online

Stirling Archives has uploaded a series of PDF file based indexes for the poor relief records from fourteen periods within the Stirling Council area. Each file carries a fairly detailed entry for each application, with a typical entry noing name, age, residence, marital status, occupation and if entry to a poorhouse, the date of entry. The full list of files are availabe at http://www.stirlingarchives.scot/poor-relief-indexes/.

The parishes covered are as follows (with appropriate accession numbers for the original registers):

Aberfoyle
Aberfoyle Parochial Board Minutes 1877-1894 (PR/AB/1/1)

Balfron
Balfron General Register of Poor 1865-1894 (PR/BA/5/1)
Balfron General Register of Poor 1895-1929 (PR/BA/5/2)
Balfron Record of Applications 1913-1915 (PR/BA/4/1)
Balfron Record of Applications 1915-1924 (PR/BA/4/2)
Balfron Record of Applications 1924-1930 (PR/BA/4/3)

Balquhidder
Balquhidder General Register of the Poor 1889-1929 (PR/BQ/4/1)

Buchanan
Buchanan Parish Council General Register 1883-1926 (PR/BU/2/1)
Buchanan Parish Council Minutes 1906-1924 (PR/BU/1/1)
Buchanan Parish Council Minutes 1925-1930 (PR/BU/1/2)

Callander
Callander Register of Poor Persons Admitted on Roll 1814-1864 (PR/CA/4/2)
Callander Register of Poor Persons on the Roll of the Parish 1846-1854 (PR/CA/4/1)
Callander Register of the Poor 1826-1895 (PR/CA/5/1)
Callander General Register of the Poor 1870-1929 (PR/CA/5/2)
Callander Applications for Poor Relief 1855-1871 (PR/CA/3/1)
Callander Record of Applicants 1877-1886 (PR/CA/3/2)

Drymen
Drymen Parish Council Minute Book 1915-1935 (PR/DR/1/3)

Fintry
Fintry Register of Poor Persons 1835-1868 (PR/FI/3/1)
Fintry Parochial Board Register of the Poor 1865-1898 (PR/FI/4/1)
Fintry General Register of the Poor 1876-1926 (PR/FI/4/2)
Fintry Record of Applications 1925-1930 (PR/FI/3/2)

Gargunnock
Gargunnock Minutes of the Parochial Board 1840-1871 (PR/GA/1/1)
Gargunnock Minute Book of the Parochial Board 1871-1895 (PR/GA/1/2)
Gargunnock Register of the Poor 1805-1864 (PR/GA/3/1)
Gargunnock Register of the Poor 1845-1892 (PR/GA/3/2)
Gargunnock Register of the Poor 1893-1906 (PR/GA/3/3)
Gargunnock Poor Relief - Children's Register 1862 (PR/GA/4/1)
Gargunnock Poor Relief Applications 1855-1879 (PR/GA/2/1)
Gargunnock Poor Relief Applications 1879-1887 (PR/GA/2/2)
Gargunnock Poor Relief Applications 1888-1898 (PR/GA/2/3)
Gargunnock Poor Relief Applications 1898-1914 (PR/GA/2/4)
Gargunnock Poor Relief Applications 1915-1929 (PR/GA/2/5)

Killearn
Killearn Record of Applications 1894-1922 (PR/KI/3/1)

Kippen
Kippen General Register of Poor 1845-1868 (PR/KN/5/1)
Kippen General Register of Poor 1845-1922 (PR/KN/5/2)
Kippen General Register of Poor 1923-1929 (PR/KN/5/3)

Kippen Applications for Relief 1878-1894 (PR/KN/4/1)
Kippen Applications for Relief 1895-1903 (PR/KN/4/2)
Kippen Register of Applications 1903-1907 (PR-KN-4-3)
Kippen Record of Applications for Parochial Relief 1907-1919 (PR/KN/4/4)
Kippen Applications for Poor Relief 1919-1926 (PR/KN/4/5)
Kippen Applications for Poor Relief 1926-1929 (PR/KN/4/6)
Kippen Record of Applications for Parochial Relief 1929-1930 (PR/KN/4/7)

Logie
Logie Parish Council Minute Book 1895-1906 (PR/LO/1/3)
Logie Parish Council Minutes 1906-1918 (PR/LO/1/4)

St. Ninians
St Ninians Minute Book of the Parochial Board 1845-1856 (PR/SN/1/1)
St Ninians Poor Relief Applications 1887-1927 (PR/SN/3/2)
St Ninians Register of Poor 1927 (PR/SN/3/3)

Stirling
Stirling General Register of the Poor 1861 -1878 (PR/SG/2/2)
Stirling General Register Book 1865-70 (PR/SG/2/1)
Stirling General Register of the Poor 1878 - 1884 (PR/SG/2/3)
Stirling General Register of the Poor 1884-1891 (PR/SG/2/4)
Stirling Burgh General Register of the Poor 1891-1899 (PR/SG/2/5)

Strathblane
Strathblane General Register of the Poor 1839-1910 (PR/ST/3/1)
Strathblane Record of Applications for Parochial Relief 1888-1917 (PR/ST/2/2)

(With thanks to @StirlingLibs)

Chris

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