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ORDINARY COURT
1 Court and minute books 1515-1839
2 Act books 1839-1991
3 Register of ordinary actions ('A' register) 1868-1991
4 Register of summary applications ('B' register) 1903-1991
5 Unallocated
6 Register of Sheriff Court Consignations 1961-1994
7 Register of decrees 1837-1984
8 Minute books and indexes of decrees 1703-1997
9 Unallocated
10 Unallocated
11 Register of sequestrations 1840-1995
12 Simplified Divorces 1991
13 Register of Lunacy Orders 1947-1984
14 Caveat Book 1932-1987
15 Records of fatal accident inquiries 1931-1993
16 Unallocated
17 Maintenance Order Register 1979-1998
18 Register of reports of poindings and sales 1976-1992
19 Register of clubs 1903-1994
20 Club applications 1971-1991
21 Gaming licence applications 1969-1979
22 Processes - preservation, 1st series 1806-1991
23 Processes - limbo 1939-1997
24 Processes - preservation, 2nd series 1912-1945
25 Adoption register 1931-1979
26 Adoption processes 1931-1991
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
27 Workmen's Compensation Act - Special registers 1899-1976
28 Workmen's Compensation Act - Memoranda of agreement 1931-1976
29 Workmen's Compensation Act - Ledgers 1905-1968
30 Workmen's Compensation Act - Medical referees' reports 1911-1930
31 Workmen's Compensation Act - Processes - limbo 1946-1964
SMALL DEBT COURT
32 Small debt court book - Ayr 1827-1977
33 Small debt court book - Beith 1844-1911
34 Small debt court book - Cumnock 1859-1878
35 Small debt court book - Girvan 1878-1896
36 Small debt court book - Irvine 1868-1895
37 Small debt colurt processes 1831-1838
DEBTS RECOVERY COURT
38 Debts recovery court books 1867-1907
39 Unallocated
40 Unallocated
41 Unallocated
SUMMARY REMOVING COURT
42 Summary removing court books 1948-1976
43 Unallocated
COMMISSARY COURT
44 Register of inventories 1824-1985
45 Indexes to register of inventories 1824-1938
46 Register of testamentary writings/wills (renamed in 1970) 1862-1984
47 Indexes to register of testamentary writings and wills 1901-1970
48 Register of confirmations 1824-1967
49 Indexes to register of confirmations 1824-1919
50 Bonds of caution 1811-1860
51 Minute books of inventories 1824-1989
51A Index of records to inventories and testamentary writings 1971-1976
52 Commissary Court books (Act books, Record of extract decrees dative, Register of petitions, and Register of commissary petitions) 1824-1994
53 Commissary miscellanea 1824-1899
CRIMINAL COURTS
54 Record of criminal jury trials 1835-1979
55 Criminal and quasi-criminal roll books 1925-1985 & 1990
56 Criminal libels - South Circuit of High Court of Justiciary 1823-1848
56A Criminal processes 1811-1971
56B Register of Criminal Petitions 1958-1971
57 Records of prisoners committed 1860-1958
58 Juvenile Court register 1946-1967
58A Indictments and Minutes 1980-1991 & 1994
REGISTER OF DEEDS AND PROTESTS
59 Register of deeds, 1st series - warrants 1660-1699
60 Register of deeds, 1st series 1682-1767
61 Minute book of bills, bonds etc 1682-1809
62 Register of deeds, 2nd series 1809-1990 (see SC6/68 Indexes to Register of Deeds 1800-1984)
63 Minute books etc - register of deeds 1809-1846
64 Register of deeds, 2nd series - warrants 1802-1946
65 Register of protests 1809-1903
66 Minute books - register of protests 1776-1856
67 Register of protests - warrants 1823-1997
68 Indexes to Register of Deeds 1800-1984
69 Unallocated
70 Register of deeds and protests - warrants 1682-1808
71 Minute book - inhibitions 1822-1846
MISCELLANEOUS SHERIFF COURT RECORDS
72 Record of improvements on entailed estates 1771-1886
73 Inventories of Sheriff Court records 1821-1913
74 Responde books 1824-1918
75 Register of sheriff officers 1776-1868
76 Corn Law returns 1774-1807
77 Fiars Court records 1837-1975
77A Fiars minute books 1897-1974
78 Freeholders' minute books 1702-1831
79 Regality records 1696-1748
80 Records of the Bailiary of Cunninghame (Register of Hornings transferred to DI 113) 1640-1735
81 Burgh records 1789-1808
82 Poor Law records 1846-1933
83 Lecture notes 1850-1852
84 Miscellaneous papers 1675-1935
85 Miscellaneous papers of an unknown lawyer 1587-1828
86 Miscellaneous deeds (transcribed by the Marquis of Bute) 1600-1823
87 Boyd of Penkill papers 1503-1750
88 Miscellaneous letter books 1828-1831
89 General Fee Book 1985-1991
90 Unallocated
SUMMARY CAUSE
91 Registers of summonses for payment (RSC1) 1976-1993
92 Registers of summonses for recovery of possession of heritable property (RSC2) 1976-1979
93 Registers of summonses other than those for payment or recovery of heritable property (RSC3) 1979-1991
94 Summary causes appeal books (RSC4) 1978-1989
95 Registers of incidental applications (RSC 5) 1977-1992
SOCIAL WORK
96 Social Work applications and referrals 1983-1991 |
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Ayr Sheriff Court operates within the Sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway which also comprises the courts situated at Airdrie, Dumfries, Hamilton, Kirkcudbright, Lanark and Stranraer.
As of The Sheriff Court Districts (Alteration of Boundaries) Order 1996, Ayr Sheriff Court District covers South Ayrshire and wards 21-30 in the area of East Ayrshire.
The sheriffdom of Ayr was in existence from about 1200. The sheriff court at Ayr originally dealt with the whole of that county. In 1846 a separate court was established at Kilmarnock (SC7), which did not initially exercise commissary functions. The parishes within the ordinary jurisdiction of the Ayr court were Auchinleck, Ayr and Alloway, Ballanatrae, Barr, Colmonell, Coylton, Dailly, Dalmellington, Dalrymple, Dundonald, Girvan, Irvine, Kilwinning, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Maybole, Monkton and Prestwick, Muirkirk, New Cumnock, Newton on Ayr, Ochiltree, Old Cumnock, St Quinox, Sorn, Stair, Straiton, Symington and Tarbolton.
Sheriff Principal of Ayr and Bailie of Kylestewart
1686 John, earl of Melfort
1690 Sir George Campbell of Cesnock
1699, 1703-1707 Hugh, Earl of Loudoun
Sheriffs of Ayr (Sheriffs Depute until 1847)
1748, 1761 Mr William Duff
1775 William Wallace
1787 William Craig
1793 Edward Mackormick
1815 Archibald Bell
1854 John Christison
1862 Neil Colquhoun Campbell
1883 John Comrie Thomson
1885 David Brand
1908 Sir John Campbell Lorimer
1911 William Lyon Mackenzie
1937 Sir Arthur Paterson Duffus
Sheriffs of Ayr and Bute
1946 Sir Arthur Paterson Duffus
1948 Sir Henry Wallace Guthrie
1949 Sir James Frederick Gordon Thomson
1952 Christopher William Graham Guest
1954 Charles James Dalrymple Shaw |