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The beginnings of the Dalkeith Burgher Congregation, which sat within the Presbytery of Edinburgh, can be traced back to the village of Easthouses in 1737, when a praying society then in existence petitioned the Associate Presbytery with a request that they be provided with ministry. In the following year similar societies in Dalkeith, Newbattle and Inveresk also petitioned the Presbytery with requests for supply of sermon, and in 1739 further adherents emerged from Cranstoun, Lasswade, Newbattle and Temple. It was from these areas that Dalkeith Buccleuch Street was to draw its members and on 17 February 1741 two elders and a number of the congregation of Dalkeith Parish Church acceded to the Presbytery, and consequently Dalkeith became the place to which supply preachers were appointed. The Dalkeith congregation adhered to the Burgher Presbytery and in 1750 William Hutton, the first minister of Dalkeith Burgher Church, was ordained. In 1812 the old church was replaced by a new building, erected on the same site at a cost of almost £2500, and in 1879 the church in Buccleuch Street was opened, at which time the charge adopted the name of Dalkeith Buccleuch Street. In 1847 the congregation became part of the United Presbyterian Church. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland, Dalkeith Buccleuch Street United Presbyterian Church became Dalkeith Buccleuch Street United Free Church and upon the 1929 union between the United Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland, the charge became Dalkeith Buccleuch Street Church of Scotland. In 1955 a union was established with the congregation of Dalkeith West, with the united charge continuing under the name of Dalkeith Buccleuch Street and further union followed in 1979 with Dalkeith St Nicholas to form the session of Dalkeith St Nicholas Buccleuch. This united congregation sits under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Lothian. |