James Wilson (1797-1862), a solicitor in Hawick, kept an unofficial register of deaths of the "better-known citizens of Hawick" between 1825 and 1862 and a transcript of this was published in past transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society.

See under Newspapers for details of pre-1855 death notice indexes compiled from old issues of the Kelso Chronicle.

• National Library of Scotland - Obituaries