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The fishing port of Eyemouth is the smallest parish in Berwickshire. The North Sea lies to the north and east, with the Parish of Ayton on the south and the Parish of Coldingham to the west. In 1881 a ferocious storm hit the coast of Berwickshire which sank most of the Eyemouth fishing fleet and resulted in over 180 deaths. No family in Eyemouth was untouched by Black Friday. Old Parish Records cover the periods:
| The former Eyemouth Parish Church taken from the harbour.
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Only pre 1855 memorial records have been transcribed (see below).
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| Title | Synopsis | Size Description | Issue No | Author |
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| New Research Facility at Eyemouth Museum | Details of new research facilities available at Eyemouth Museum and a project to determine the names of old wynds and vennels recorded in the 1841 census. | 1 page or more | 80 | |
| Eyemouth Local/Family History Centre | Some notes on the Eyemouth Family History Centre and at 'Virtual Experience Pod' at Eyemouth Fort. | 2 pages or more | 84 | |
| John Whillis Exhibition, Eyemouth | Some notes on the John Whillis Exhibition, Eyemouth and the associated exhibition on sailing ships connected including the 'Cutty Sark'. | 1 page or more | 91 | |
| Remembering a Soldier from the Boer War | A tracing of the history of Arthur William Swanston of Marshall Meadows commemorated in Eyemouth churchyard, who died in 1900 in the Boer War in South Africa. Swanston House (now a hotel) was owned by James Swanston (wealthy merchant) and his wife Christian (6th daughter of John Turnbull, fish curer in Eyemouth). They also set up a home in the Canary Islands, and a home in London. John was their eldest son and married Fanny Elizabeth Nash in Kensington, and they often visited their widowed mother in Marshall Meadows. Arthur was their 3rd child, who showed athletic and military prowess and was educated at Loretto School Musselburgh, and Jesus College, Cambridge University, rowing for the university. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the VIth Dragoons, but was killed by a sniper's bullet in Mpumalanga, South Africa 9/Oct/1900 at 25, whilst trying to save the life of a trooper, and was buried there in a marked grave. His fiancée sent flowers every year until the 1960s; the children of a local school have taken over the ceremony and leave flowers and sing 'My bonny lies over the ocean' every year since 2000 when the story was uncovered by Ettie Bierman. He is also remembered in a memorial brass tablet in Berwick in the parish church. | 1 page or more | 105 | Colin Miller |
| Women of Gunsgreen | An account of an exhibition entitled 'Women of Gunsgreen' with information on women who resided at or had connections with Gunsgreen House in Eyemouth. | 1 page or more | 85 | Ronald Morrison |
| Memories of Ayton | Mrs Patricia Payne was so interested in the articles on 'The Ayton Bard' that she felt the need to record some of her memories of Ayton before all was forgotten. | less than 1 page | 18 | Patricia Payne |
| A Berwickshire Schoolmaster | Jean Smithers has contributed this "nugget" from her investigations into the history of one of the strands of her ancestry. | 1 page or more | 11 | Jean Smithers |
| The Ayton Bard | This is in issues 16 and 17. Robert Mennon was a well known Borders bard and contributed to many Scottish weeklies. | 5 pages or more | 16 | A. Michael Mennim |
| Gunsgreen House, Eyemouth | Notes on the book "Eustace the Outcast" by David Pae also on the will of James Swanston of Eyemouth containing what is thought to be a list of customers for illicit produce including the Rev. Robert Bowmaker, minister, Duns. | 1 page or more | 78 | Ronald Morrison |
Map of Eyemouth from UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey one-inch to the mile (1:63,360), 'Hills' edition, 1885-1903
by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland.
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Map of Eyemouth from UK Ordnance Survey Historical Maps from 1919-1947
by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland.
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These records are being indexed and transcribed by the Society.
1841 census: Eyemouth, Pleasents, Eyemouth Mill, Linthill, Barracks, Shore, Quay, Saltgreens.
1851 census: Eyemouth, Netherbyres, Eyemouth Mill, Highlaws, Linthill.
1861 census: Eyemouth, Garden Heads, Linthill, Netherbyres, Quayside, Saltgreens, Morningside, Bridgend.
The population has been recorded as follows: