Updated November 2023 with East Lothian Council burial records which adds 40+ graves with no headstones, dating between 1676 and 2020. These include pauper's graves, an unnamed infant and a "strange sailor"
Plan of the east end of graveyard (titles in red have no headstone)
Plan of the west end of graveyard (titles in red have no headstone)
The following information has been obtained from a survey of gravestones in 1891 and subsequent burial records held by East Lothian Council (marked with a #). Thanks to Jim Logan and his staff for their time. Also a survey of gravestones in 1975 and an update in 2015 by Shiela Petrie and Joy Dodd on behalf of the Scottish Genealogy Society (marked with an *). Thanks to Shiela for sharing the results.
Below is a chronological list of the graves within the Oldhamstocks graveyard
showing the surname of the first person buried and the year of death.
In the case of a married woman it is her married surname.
Click on any name/date and it will take you to:
Name/ Date
(Number allocated by Scottish Genealogy Society)(Number(s) allocated by East Lothian Council)
List of all people buried or commemorated
Photograph of the stone and the text of the inscription (if one exists)
Names in italics have no headstone
In some cases it was not possible to obtain the inscription and therefore it was obtained from "Oldhamstocks Churchyard & Dunglass Collegiate Church Monumental Inscriptions" compiled by Sheila Petrie and Joy Dodd and published by the Scottish Genealogy Society. This was first completed in 1975 and updated in 2015. The inscriptions used are indicated with an asterisk*.
Thanks to Sheila Petrie for donating a copy of the booklet to the village.
A copy of the booklet is available at https://shop.scotsgenealogy.com/acatalog/shop.html
Unfortunately many of the older monuments have fallen over, broken, become weathered or otherwise are illegible. Some have been moved and stored against the outer walls. Below are some of those monuments.
The Watch House was built in 1824 for Mrs. Agnes Moore, third wife of the Rev Robert Moore. A plaque over the door reads "And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes...shall be holy unto the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever."
This is taken from Jeremiah 31:40 - "And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever."
"Work in progress" below - alphabetical list of all those buried in the graveyard
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