East Lothian

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Stenton

"STENTON, a parish, containing a post-office village of its own name, in the eastern part of Haddingtonshire. It consists of two mutually detached districts, a southern and a northern. The southern district lies wholly among the Lammermoors. with a declination southward to the Whitadder; and is bounded by Berwickshire, by Whittingham, and by the Lammermoor sections of Dunbar and Spott ... The parish was originally and long called Petcox, from the village of that name; and seems to have acquired the designation of Staneton, or Stonetown, from the stoniness of the ground in the district round the church. In ancient times it was first a chapelry, and next a prebend of Dunbar and a rectory." from the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, edited by John Marius Wilson, 1868.

Church History

Photos of the church are available.

Church Records

The parish church (Church of Scotland) has registers dating from 1668. Old Parish Registers (before 1855) are held in the General Register Office for Scotland in Edinburgh, and copies on microfilm may be consulted in local libraries and in LDS Family History Centres around the world. Later parish registers (after 1855) are often held in the Scottish Record Office as are any records of non-conformist churches in the area (often unfilmed and unindexed, and only available there).

Civil Registration

Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths began in Scotland on 1st January 1855. For details of these and other records held at the General Register Office in Edinburgh, see the GRO tutorial.

Gazetteers

Extracts for this parish from the 1868 National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland are available.

Maps

The Scottish Record Office holds the following as part of its collection of maps and plans:

• 1750: Road plan of Whittingehame, Stenton and East Linton, showing houses, churches, standing stone and plantations. Scale 1:8000. Size 55x77cm. Grid (map) reference NT6174. SRO reference RHP.56/2

Population

Here are some figures showing the parish's population through time: