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The congregation of Dalkeith Associate Session, later known as Back Street United Presbyterian, was constituted in May 1749 within the Presbytery of Edinburgh, and around that same time a church was erected to house the congregation. The first minister of the charge, John Robertson, was ordained in 1755. In 1889, Duncan McIntosh the fourth minister of Dalkeith Back Street, being 80 years of age, announced his intention to retire from his position 'on account of growing infirmities'. It was consequently suggested that Dalkeith Back Street should consider a union with one of the other two United Presbyterian congregations within Dalkeith, however it was unanimously agreed that a preferable solution to union with a sister congregation would be simply to dissolve the charge. As a result, on the 6th January 1891, Dalkeith Back Street United Presbyterian was formally dissolved and the church and manse were sold. |