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				Roxburghshire Monumental Inscriptions - No 21: Melrose Abbey Researched and published by us.
				Available as a CD or an A4 format book, each has the same content. 564 gravestones. Photos of the gravestones and their inscriptions. Hearth Tax and Militia Roll. Gravestone inscriptions in Melrose Abbey and grounds. We regard monumental Inscriptions, gravestone inscriptions, tombstone inscriptions to be identical terms. See Monumental Inscriptions for this and other volumes produced by the Society. Search the Gravestones Index for names in which you're interested. Surnames in the index: Aitchison, Aitkin, Akenhead, Alexander, Allan, Amas, Amos, Anderson, Angus, Armstrong, Bainbridge, Ballantyne, Barham, Barrie, Bartleman, Bathgate, Bell, Belly, Bennetts, Biggar, Bilton, Black, Blaikie, Blakie, Blythe, Borthwick, Boston, Bourdon, Bouston, Boustone, Bower, Boyd, Brack, Brewster, Broadwood, Brodie, Broomfield, Brown, Bruce, Brunton, Brydon, Brydone, Buchanan, Bunyan, Bunyie, Burn, Burnet, Burton, Butler, Cairncross, Campbell, Carmichael, Carr, Charters, Chisholm, Church, Clapperton, Clark, Cochran, Cochrane, Collier, Common, Cook, Cornel, Craik, Cranston, Cranstoun, Crawford, Crosbie, Cully, Cumming, Cunningham, Curle, Dalgleish, Dalgliesh, Darling, Davidson, Dawney, Dick, Dickenson, Dickinson, Dickison, Dickson, Dirom, Dodds, Dods, Donaldson, Douglas, Drummond, Drysdale, Duncan, Dunlop, Easton, Eddington, Edgar, Elder, Elliot, Ellis, Ewart, Fair, Fairbairn, Fairbarn, Fairgrieve, Falla, Farbairn, Ferguson, Fetherstonhaugh, Fiddes, Fisher, Fleming, Forbes, Ford, Forest, Forsyth, Forsythe, Fowler, Fraser, Freer, Frier, Galloway, Gardener, Gardiner, Gibson, Gill, Gillies, Gladstone, Glen, Glendinning, Goddard, Goodfellow, Graham, Grant, Gray, Greig, Grieve, Guthrie, Haig, Hall, Halliburton, Hamilton, Hardie, Harken, Harper, Hart, Hatton, Hay, Heath, Heiton, Henderson, Hepburn, Heriot, Hervie, Hill, Hogg, Hoke, Holland, Home, Hope, Hopkirk, Hoppringle, Howden, Hudson, Hunter, Huntly, Hutchison, Inglis, Innes, Ireland, Isaac, Jackson, Jamieson, Jenkins, Johnston, Karr, Keddie, Keith, Kells, Ker, Kerr, Ketchin, Kirkwood, Knox, Laidlaw, Laidlow, Lamb, Landreth, Lauder, Laurie, Law, Lawrie, Lawson, Lawton, Layell, Leadous, Learmonth, Lee, Lees, Legge, Leith, Lillico, Lillie, Lindsay, Linton, Little, Lockhart, Lockie, Lookup, Lukup, Lumgair, Lumisdon, Lundie, Lyal, Lyall, Mabon, Mack, Macpherson, Mahoney, Main, Mann, Manuel, Marr, Martin, Mather, Matheson, Mathieson, Mathison, Matthewson, Maxwell, Mcaulay, Mcewan, Mckenzie, Mclean, Mcnair, Mcneil, Mebon, Mein, Melville, Mercer, Merton, Middlemas, Mien, Miles, Mill, Millar, Miller, Millne, Mills, Milne, Mitchelhill, Mitchell, Mofet, Moffat, Monteath, Moodie, More, Morow, Morris, Morton, Moss, Muir, Mulvie, Munro, Murray, Myles, Nelson, Nepean, Newton, Nichol, Nicholson, Nicol, Nimmo, Noble, Oliver, Ommanney, Ormiston, Park, Paterson, Pawson, Pigot, Pitman, Pott, Preston, Price, Pringle, Purdie, Purves, Rae, Ramsay, Rankine, Redpath, Reid, Renolson, Richards, Richardson, Riddell, Riddle, Rintoul, Robertson, Robson, Rogers, Romanes, Ronaldson, Rule, Russell, Rutherford, Ruttledge, Sandilands, Scerven, Scoon, Scott, Sharp, Shelley, Shiel, Shields, Shillinglaw, Shultz, Sibald, Sibbald, Simson, Sinclair, Skinner, Skirving, Smail, Smith, Somervile, Spence, Spiers, Steel, Stenhouse, Stephenson, Stevenson, Stewart, Stoddart, Sutherland, Swanston, Tain, Tait, Taket, Taylor, Thin, Thinn, Thompson, Thomson, Thorburn, Tinlin, Tocher, Tod, Trotter, Tudhope, Turnbull, Turner, Usher, Vair, Vogan, Waldie, Walker, Wallace, Walsh, Watson, Wauchope, Waugh, Wayness, Weatherston, Weatherstone, Weir, Welsh, Whiteford, Whitehead, Whitworth, Wight, Wilkinson, Wilkison, Williamson, Willson, Wilson, Winter, Wintrup, Wood, Wybergh, Yellowlees, Young, Zair.
				Book 73 pp including index and illustrations. Photos contained in CD attached to back cover. Card Covers. A4 size. ISBN 978-1-874232-11-7. CD price £10.00 plus postage. Weight 70g. Book price £12.00 plus postage. Weight 285g. See our Publications Sales List to buy.
				Melrose Parish War Memorials by Major Trevor S Mills, RE (Rtd) and Mrs Fiona M A Mills. Published 17th April 2007
				This lovingly researched book identifies each of the persons recorded on the Melrose Parish War Memorials in Melrose, Darnick, Newstead, and Gattonside. It has a subtitle, 'The Men and their Stories', because for each of those listed on the memorials, there is a short biographical note of those named, and even of 5 men who should have been named on the Melrose War memorial, compiled from a variety of sources including military records, the census, newspapers, and local knowledge. Where possible, photos of the men are included. There is a surname index. It covers both World Wars, and includes the Roll of Honour of St Mary’s School, Melrose. Surnames in the index: Allan, Anderson, Andrews, Babington, Bain, Barclay, Barton, Bell, Beveridge, Binnie, Black, Blackadder, Blake, Bowie, Boyd, Brown, Buchan, Bunyan, Calvert, Calwell, Carlyle, Chambers, Chapman, Constable, Cook, Crooke, Cruickshank, Curle, Currie, Darling, Davidson, Deans, Dick, Dickinson, Dodds, Dorward, Doughty, Douglas, Douglas-Hamilton, Dun, Dunlop, Dunn, Elliot, Evans, Fernie, Ferrier, Fleming, Fortune, Frew, Gibb, Gibson, Gifford, Gill, Gordon, Gray, Grigor, Hair, Hamilton, Hart, Hastie, Henderson, Hill, Hobkirk, Hogg, Holmes, Honeyman, Hopkirk, Hutcheson, Jardine, Keddie, Kennedy, Laidlaw, Lang, Lawrie, Lees, Leithead, Lockie, Lockton, Logan, Lorimer, Lowe, Lumgair, Lyall, Mack, Maclaren, Maclldowie, MacPherson, Mann, Matthew, McDiarmid, McDonald, McDougal, McGinnis, McIntosh, McMillan, McVittie, Mein, Middlemass, Millar, Mitchell, Montgomerie, Morrison, Morvo/Morow, Munro, Murry/Murray, Myers, Notman, Paterson, Paton, Polwarth, Pringle, Purdom, Purves, Rafferty, Ramsay, Redpath, Reid, Richardson, Riddell, Robinson, Romanes, Rosie, Ross, Rutherford, Sanderson, Scott, Sharp, Sheldrick, Shiel, Sladen, Smart, Smith, Spiers, Spottiswoode, Sproat, Steedman, Steel, Stewart, Telfer, Thompson, Thomson, Todd, Tulloh, Tully, Turnbull, Wade, Walker, Webb, White, Whitelaw, Wilson, Wright, Wynn, Young.
				78 pages including index and illustrations. Card Covers. A4 size. ISBN 978-1-874232-09-2. Price £7.00 plus postage. Weight 285g. See our Publications Sales List to buy.
				Kelso Poor Law and Ragged School Records
				Available as a CD only. This CD contains two maps (around 1857), one of the town of Kelso, and another of the area of the Poor House and a 95 page text document all in PDF format. The text document contains information on over 400 Kelso families taken from the Poor Roll (and the records of the Kelso Poor House), prison records, Ragged School records and other sources. It was researched by the late Audrey Mitchell, one of our founder members, and past Chairman. She was well known as a genealogist and wrote many local social history books. CD price £10.00 plus postage. Weight 70g. See our Publications Sales List to buy.

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