Monumental Inscriptions
Scottish Borders Archive & Local History Centre
We hold the following gravestone inscriptions and other records of death and burial:
Berwickshire
- Pre-1855 Monumental Inscriptions in Berwickshire : three volumes.
Compiled by David Cargill for the Scottish Genealogy Society, 2001 - Berwickshire Monumental Inscriptions compiled by Borders Family History Society for
- Ayton
- Eccles
- Fogo
- Foulden & Mordington
- Gordon, Nenthorn & Westruther
- Greenlaw
- Mertoun
- Polwarth
- Old Parish Record Burials/Deaths, transcribed by Nigel Hardie, for
- Channelkirk (1730 –1841)
- Earlston (1784 -1854)
- Eccles (1786-1854)
- Foulden (1817-1854)
- Greenlaw (1780 -1854)
- Lauder (1781 -1855)
- Legerwood (1784 -1854)
- Index to Coldingham Mortcloth Records 1694-1759, compiled by Vivienne S. Dunstan
Peeblesshire
- Pre-1855 Monumental Inscriptions in Peeblesshire
Compiled by Sheila Scott, for the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1993
Roxburghshire
- A register of monumental inscriptions in Heritors’ Area, Wellogate Cemetery, Hawick, by James H. Haining, 1942-1950.
- A register of monumental inscriptions in St. Mary’s Churchyard, Hawick, by James H. Haining, 1936
- A register of monumental inscriptions in Wilton Old churchyard, Hawick, by James H. Haining, 1937-1939
- Gravestones in Kelso Parish Church
- Pre-1855 gravestone inscriptions in Roxburghshire for:
- Abbotrule
- Cavers
- Crailing (Old Kirkyard)
- Crailing (Present Church)
- Eckford
- Jedburgh
- Oxnam
- Roberton (Borthwick Wa’s)
- Roberton (Parish Burial Ground)
- St. Boswells
- Stichill
- Roxburghshire Monumental Inscriptions, compiled by the Borders Family History Society
- Ancrum & Longnewton
- Bedrule
- Crailing
- Eckford
- Edgerston
- Ednam
- Hownam & Linton
- Kelso
- Makerstoun
- Maxton
- Morebattle
- Oxnam
- Roxburgh
- St. Boswells (Lessudden)
- Smailholm
- Sprouston & Lempitlaw
- Stichill & Hume
- Yetholm
- Register of dead buried in Ancrum, 1702-1855.
- Kelso Mortcloths: cash book and register. In 2 volumes: volume 1 1784-1821 and volume 2 1821-1855. Transcribed and indexed by J. Perkins, 1994. (Microfiche)
- Smailholm Mortcloths, 1822-1847.
- Index to Kelso Chronicle death notices 1853, compiled by Vivienne S. Dunstan, 2000
- Index to Kelso Chronicle death notices 1854, compiled by Vivienne S. Dunstan, 2000
Selkirkshire
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Pre-1855 Gravestone Inscriptions for:
- Ashkirk
- Bewlie
- Ettrick
- Galashiels Old Cemetery
- Lindean
- Ladhope
- Selkirk Old Churchyard
- St. Mary’s Yarrow
- Yarrow
- Old Parish Record Burials/Deaths, transcribed by Nigel Hardie
- Ettrick (1746-1852)
- Galashiels (1762-1788)
- Selkirk (1819-1854)
- Yarrow (1791-1837)








