1831 ANDREW BAIRD, born Eccles, 16th Nov. 1800, second son of James B., min. of Swinton; educated at Kelso Grammar School and Univ. of Edinburgh;  ord. (assistant and successor) 28th April 1831. Joined the Free Church; min. of Free Church, Cockburnspath and Oldham-stocks, 1843; died unmarr. 22nd June 1845. One of the founders of the Plinian Society, Edinburgh Univ., and of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. Publica­tions—Account of the Parish; Geology and Botany of the Parish of Innerwick (New Stat. Acc., ii.).— [Tombst., Carr's Hist. of Coldingham; Hist. of Berwickshire Nat. Club, 1845; Memoir of Rev. John Bawd (1862).]

1844 WILLIAM PATERSON, born Colding ham, 19th June 1810, son of Thomas P. and Jane Young; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; Royal Bounty mis­sionary at Whiteness 1834; ord. 1835; trans. to Whalsay 1843; trans. and adm. 28th Sept. 1844; died 8th Dec. 1871. He marr. (1) 12th March 1840, Elizabeth, daugh. of John Turnbull, min. of Tingwall, who died without issue: (2) 14th Sept. 1843, Jessie Hay (died 15th Nov. 1892), daugh. of William Spence, of Greenfield, Shetland, and had issue—Jane Spence, born 19th March 1846, died 7th Sept. 1897; Elizabeth Turnbull, born 2nd Feb. 1848, died 12th May 1849; Thomas George, born 25th June 1850; William Gilbert Spence, British Consul at Reykjavik, Ice­land, born 30th Aug. 1854, died 28th March 1898; Charles Edward, born 19th Jan. 1858; Jessie Margaret Catherine Philothea, born 15th Nov. 1861.

1868 JOHN M'GREGOR BUCHANAN, ord. (assistant and successor) 13th Aug. 1863; trans. to Innerwick 22nd April 1869.

1869 JOSEPH HUNTER, born Newfield, Caerlaverock, 7th May 1837, son of William H., farmer, and Margaret Henderson; educated at Dumfries and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A.; assistant at Kingarth, Bute, and Tolbooth, Edinburgh; ord. 16th Dec. 1869; died 22nd May 1906. Marr. 9th Sept. 1873, Jessie, daugh. of Robert

Thomson Brand, of Demerara and London, and Elizabeth MacKenzie, Dum­fries, and had issue—Mabel Josephina, born 27th Oct. 1881. Publication—Ed. Christ the Corner Stone (Edinburgh, 1914).

1905 GEORGE VICTOR DUNNETT, born Lowick, Northumberland, 9th Dec.  1878, son of William D., M.A., min. of Scots Church, Lowick (afterwards of Kilmarnock); educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1900), B.D. (1903); licen. by Presb. of Irvine May 1903; assistant at West Coates Parish, Edinburgh;  ord. (assistant and successor) 5th Sept. 1905. Marr. 20th April 1909, Jane, daugh. of Robert Gibb Forrest, D.D., min. of West Coates Parish, Edinburgh, and has issue— Robert Forrest, born 11th May 1910; George Victor, born 26th Dec. 1911, died 9th Jan. 1912.

ALDCAMBUS

[The church was dedicated to St Helen, and previous to the Reformation belonged to the Abbey of Coldingham.  It was united to Cockburnspath probably about 1610. A portion of St Helen's Chapel is still standing, a little to the north of what is probably the site of the village of Aldcambus.]

1574 JOHN WOOD, reader.

1580 DAVID HUME, removed from Oldham-stocks; trans. to Coldingham before 1585. — [Reg. Assig.]

1586 JAMES LAMBE, trans. from Oldham-stocks; pres. to the vicarage 20th March, and trans. to Bolton in 1587. — [Reg. Assig.}

1591 ALEXANDER WATSON, schoolmaster of Coldingham May 1590; adm. 1591; trans. to Coldingham after 22nd March 1593. — [Reg. Assig., Thom­son's Coldingham.}

1593 THOMAS HEPBURN", min. of Oldhamstocks; took charge in 1593; continued in 1594. — [Reg. Assig.; Reg. of Deeds, xxxi.]