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The beginnings of the congregation of Stockbridge Associate Session can be traced back to 1775 when the Presbytery of Edinburgh was petitioned by a numbers of individuals residing in and around the village of Old Cambus, in the parish of Cockburnspath, requesting that they be provided with a minister. As a result a mission station was established and some years later in 1795 the first minister of the charge was ordained, a church having been erected to house the congregation in 1793. For a number of years the preferred term for this charge was Old Cambus, and Cockburnspath was also often used in preference to Stockbridge, the name Stockbridge having been derived merely from a small hamlet within the area. At the 1900 union of the United Presbyterians and the Free Church, Stockbridge United Presbyterian became Stockbridge United Free however in 1901 Stockbridge United Free was united with the former Free Church congregation of Cockburnspath, to form the session of Cockburnspath and Stockbridge United Free. Following the 1929 union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, Stockbridge and Cockburnspath United Free was renamed Cockburnspath St John's and Innerwick North. Stockbridge United Presbyterian and United Free kirk sessions sat within the Presbytery of Duns and later of Haddington and Dunbar. |