Publications

The Society Journal is published twice a year, and is issued free to our members. Non-members may purchase copies of back issues (if available) for 50p per copy.

In addition, the Society has published the following booklets. To purchase these on-line click the "Buy" button. This will add the item to your shopping cart. For non-members, postage and packing will be added at the flat-rate of £1 for the first item and 50p for each subsequent item in the same order for UK shipments. For shipments overseas, the charges are £2 for the first item and £1 for each subsequent item. Members will receive free post and packing on their first order in each membership year.

Title	ISBN	Price
ALLOWAY CHURCHYARD MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	0-9542897-7-3	£4.00
Second Edition Contains transcriptions of the gravestones in Alloway Churchyard, the memorials within Alloway Church, and the names of those who served in the Great War of 1914-18 recorded in the Alloway Village Hall, and the War Memorial.
ANNALS OF ALLOWAY - Extracts of local births, marriages and deaths from the Diary of James Crosbie, 1805-1893	0-9542897-8-1	£5.00
James Crosbie was an Elder of Alloway Church from 1868, and Treasurer from 1877 to 1886. His diary records many events in and around Alloway, including comments on births, marriages and deaths within the community which have been extracted by Sheila Murray.
BALLANTRAE KIRK SESSION RECORDS 1723-1733 A SUMMARY	0-9542897-4-9	£5.00
The earliest extant records of the Ballantrae Kirk Session contain lists of communicants, testimonials, marriages and baptisms, the latter pre-dating the Old Parish Register. In addition to these lists, financial and judicial matters undertaken by the Kirk Session are summarised. Over 600 individuals are mentioned during this period.
BALLANTRAE OLD GRAVEYARD MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS & O.P.R. DEATH RECORDS	0-9542897-0-6	£4.50
Contains transcripts of the gravestones in the old graveyard and the memorials within the Parish Church, including the War Memorial. The Old Parish Register contains a limited number of deaths 1817-46, over 20 corresponding to inscriptions on gravestones.
BARRHILL OLD CEMETERY MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	0-9542897-2-2	£3.50
Contains transcriptions of the gravestones in Barrhill Old Cemetery, Pinmore Church, the Martyr' Tomb, and the War Memorial.
COLMONELL KIRKYARD MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	0-9542897-1-4	£5.00
Contains transcriptions of over 400 gravestones in the graveyard surrounding the Parish Church, the memorials within the Church, and of the village War Memorial.
DALMELLINGTON OLD GRAVEYARD & WAR MEMORIAL MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	0-9542897-9-X	£3.50
Contains transcriptions of the gravestones in the Old Graveyard and War Memorial.
DALRYMPLE CHURCHYARD MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	0-9542897-3-0	£5.00
Contains transcriptions of gravestones in the Churchyard, of the memorials within the Church, and of the War Memorial.
GIRVAN DOUNE CEMETERY, EAST SECTION, MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	978-0-9553774-2-6	£5.00
This completes the transcription of this Cemetery, and includes the names on the adjacent Girvan War Memorial.
GIRVAN DOUNE CEMETERY, WEST SECTION, MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	978-0-9553774-0-2	£5.00
Contains transcriptions of over 900 gravestones.
KIRKOSWALD CHURCHYARD AND CROSSRAGUEL ABBEY MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	0-9553774-1-2	£4.50
Contains transcriptions of gravestones in the old Kirkoswald Churchyard, and of three in Crossraguel Abbey. Photographs of eighteen of the old gravestones in the Churchyard show the symbols of mortality carved on them.
MAYBOLE CEMETERY, Old Sections, MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	978-0-9553774-3-3	£5.00
Transcriptions of over 500 memorials, mainly 19th and early 20th century, in the cemetery which was opened in 1852
PATNA OLD CEMETERY & KIRKYARD MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS	0-9542897-5-7	£5.00
Contains transcriptions of the 14 gravestones in the Kirkyard, and over 700 in the Old Cemetery, also the War Memorials at Patna and the sites of the villages of Lethanhill, Benquat and Waterside.
ROUTES TO / FROM SOUTHERN AYRSHIRE 2005	0-9542897-6-5	£4.00
An expansion of our Millennium Project, for which members were asked to outline their family's connections with Ayrshire. Only three local members can trace their origins in Ayrshire and still live here - seven local members have moved from England and another ten from other parts of Scotland, while twenty members living in other parts of the U.K. or abroad also contributed to this collection of family histories.