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Maxton is a rural Parish in north Roxburghshire being bounded on the north by the Parishes of Mertoun in Berwickshire and Makerstoun, on the south-east by the Parish of Roxburgh, on the south-west by the Parish of Ancrum and on the west by the Parish of St. Boswells. Maxton & Mertoun parishes have been combined and they are now linked with St Boswells. Old Parish Records cover the periods:
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| Title | Synopsis | Size Description | Issue No | Author |
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| War Records | Update on W.W.1 records being compiled by the Society. | less than 1 page | 96 | |
| The relationship of place names and personal names | The relationship is two fold: (1) Place names derived from personal names, (2) Personal names derived or adopted from place names. | 1 page or more | 21 | Jessie Macdonald |
| Littledean Tower | A brief history of a little-known tower located at Ploughlands, about 1 mile east of Maxton (Grid Ref. 633313), near the disused quarry that supplied some of the stone for Melrose Abbey. Attacked in the Earl of Hertford in 1544, the tower was the chief residence of the Kerrs of Cessford. | less than 1 page | 102 | Margaret Dick |
| From Cowal to the Borders. Internal migration of the Whyte Family | The Agricultural migration of workers and the history of the Whyte Family. | 2 pages or more | 7 | Donald Whyte |
| The Lillico Family - Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario | The story of a family that emigrated from Roxburghshire to Ontario | 8 pages or more | 70 | Eleanor Lillico |
Map of Maxton 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 Maxton from UK Ordnance Survey Historical Maps from 1919-1947
by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland.
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The 20 most common surnames on gravestones recorded by us in the Maxton monumental inscriptions volume are (number of gravestones in brackets): THOMSON (19), SCOTT (10), WIGHT (6), DAVIDSON (5), WOOD (5), GRANT (5), TURNBULL (4), ROBSON (4), BROWN (4), LYALL (4), BELL (4), LAUDER (4), FIDDES (3), ROBERTSON (3), YOUNG (3), SIMPSON (3), DOUGLAS (3), RICHARDSON (3), HENDERSON (3), BURNS (3).
Village Website - includes a detailed map of the Parish.
Stobie's Map of Roxburghshire of 1770 .
A description of Maxton from the Gazetteer of Scotland, 1806
The RCAHMS website Scotland's Places contains details of;
1841 census: Maxton Village, Morridgehall, Muirhouselaw, Muttonhole, Rutherford, Littledean, Ploughlands, Riddelton Mill, Craigover, Burnside, Rutherford Mains.
1851 census: Morridgehall, Muirhouselaw, Craigo'e, Littledean, Burnside, Ploughlands, Kiddletonhill, Rutherford,
1861 census: Littledean, Ploughlands, Rutherford, Riddletonhill, Muirhouselaw, Morridgehall, Craigo'er.
The population has been recorded as follows: