Tynninghame
"TYNNINGHAME, an ancient parish, containing a post-office village
of its own name, on the coast of Haddingtonshire. It now forms the southern
district of the united parish of Whitekirk and Tynninghame. The name is
the ham, the ing, and the Tyne, of the Anglo-Saxon, collocated in reversed
order, and meaning the hamlet of the meadow of the Tyne; and it graphically
describes the position of the village, 300 yards from the northern margin
of the Tyne, on a beautiful piece of ground which gently slopes to the river's
edge. The original church was founded so early as the 6th century by the
celebrated St Baldred, the Culdee apostle of East Lothian; and was one of
the three which, in a subsequent age of superstition, contested the honour
of possessing his mortal remains." from the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland,
edited by John Marius Wilson, 1868.
A lengthier description is available.
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Bibliography
See "An Old Kirk Chronicle: a history of Auldhame, Tyninghame, and Whitekirk
in East Lothian" by Rev. P. Hately Waddell, published at Edinburgh in
1893.
Cemeteries
The Scottish Genealogy Society
holds a list of pre-1855 gravestones in this parish (12 in total) in its
library in Edinburgh. Similar lists may be available elsewhere, for example
in the East Lothian District Library's Local History Centre at Newton Port
in Haddington.
Church History
See the Bibliography section.
Church Records
The parish church (Church of Scotland) has registers dating from 1695.
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).
An earlier record of some of the baptisms, marriages and burials in the
parish may be found in the Kirk Session records of the parish which are held
in the Scottish
Record Office in Edinburgh.
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.
History
See the Bibliography section.
Population
According to Dr Webster's return of 1755, the population of Tynninghame
then was 599. For populations in later years, see the Whitekirk parish page for total counts
covering the joint parishes.
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Last updated 5 March 2003
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