This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeC.2ACI/1198.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Just a point--registration of births deaths and marriages did not become mandatory until 1855 in scotland. So your only hope is the Old Parish Registers. the first census was 1841. The local newspaper the Haddingtonshire Courier is indexed but i can't remember when the first year was it was definately before 1860. This can be accessed at the east Lothian local Studies library. They might be worth a call for advice. You could do a wee search on scottishdocuments.com for a will at the Haddington court it might turn something up. The monumental inscriptions at St Marys burial ground are at this link http://www.kylemore.btinternet.co.uk/grave.htmThis site may be of help also http://hometown.aol.com/eastlothiangen/index.html Hope to have helped. I

My mother and two sisters and their families moved to Haddington as part of Glasgow's overspill in the early 1960s. My mother, sisters and one husband of my younger sister, have since died. My husband, children and I visited Haddington quite a few times when I visited my mother and family in Haddington. Some of the children were baptised in St. Mary's ... Lamp of the Lothians...and the Rev. Clifford Hughes, who was the minister there, visited a friend here in Paso Robles one year, and gave us the benefit of his fine voice at a "soiree" in the friend's home. I have a copy of his find-raising cassette tape "A Silent Solace" (I believe that is the title. Sadly, I heard that he developed throat cancer, and I imagine he is now retired. I have only recently found out that some on my father's side lived at some point in Prestonpans. They were Anthony Hillcoat and his wife Helen Watson (born or where, I have no idea) and their son Robert Hillcoat, born Prestonpans, who married a Margaret Wylie, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Durham, Northumbria. Question: As the dates for the above are around the 1700s, I wonder if you could suggest where I might find more information on them. I suppose I could try New Register House, but I would likely have to hire a professional genealogist to go the rounds for me. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Maisie -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of aligraham@tesco.net Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:10 AM To: SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Re: Help, (finding Information) This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeC.2ACI/1198.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Just a point--registration of births deaths and marriages did not become mandatory until 1855 in scotland. So your only hope is the Old Parish Registers. the first census was 1841. The local newspaper the Haddingtonshire Courier is indexed but i can't remember when the first year was it was definately before 1860. This can be accessed at the east Lothian local Studies library. They might be worth a call for advice. You could do a wee search on scottishdocuments.com for a will at the Haddington court it might turn something up. The monumental inscriptions at St Marys burial ground are at this link http://www.kylemore.btinternet.co.uk/grave.htmThis site may be of help also http://hometown.aol.com/eastlothiangen/index.html Hope to have helped. I ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== Here is a partial list of the parishes of Haddingtonshire: Oldhamstocks, Ormiston, Pencaitland, Prestonkirk, Prestonpans, Saltoun, Spott, Stenton, Tranent, Tynninghame, Whitekirk, Whittinghame, Yester ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237