Free Church of Scotland Ministers (1843-1900): W

Ewing – List of Ministers: W

 
Here there is the text of Ewing’s Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900 followed by some Supplementary material. Information about this Supplementary material is available here. Subjects dealt with include Abbreviations, the way place names are recorded: Recording Locations and Publications.
 

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WADDELL, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Born, 1796. Studied at the Divinity Hall, Burgher Synod. Ordained at Burrelton, Perthshire, 1825. Joined the Church of Scotland, 1839. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Deposed, 1845, and went to Ireland. After probation he was allowed to work as a Church agent. Died, 1862.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Scott, Annals, p.497; 1839, Burrelton, FES, Vol.4, p.151. In the Free Church, he served in Burrelton, Perthshire.

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WALKER, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Born at Paisley, 1830. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Millport, 1856. Married, 1864, Euphemia C. Miller.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cumbrae, Bute. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.161). He retired in 1908 and died in 1917.

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WALKER, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Born at Rothesay, 1856. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Deskford, 1884. Married, 1886, Jane Grandison. Translated, 1887, to Pollokshaws, East.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Deskford, Banffshire; and Pollokshaws, East, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.239, where a short biography is given).

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WALKER, DAVID

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Born in Ireland. Studied at the Divinity Hall, Original Secession Church. Ordained at Kirkwall, 1850. After joining the Free Church in 1852 Mr. Walker demitted his charge and went to Canada, where he was settled at Port Sarnia, 1854. Died, 1861.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Ireland about 1827. He was from Boardmills, County Down.

Education
He studied at the Scottish Secession Divinity Hall under Professors McCrie and Laing. He was licensed on 23rd July 1848.

Marriage
He probably married Joanna Burn. This marriage was recorded on 26th July, 1854, in Kirkcaldy, Fife, and in Thurso, Caithness. She was born on 29th August, 1833, and baptised on 24th April, 1834, the daughter of David Burn, who became a Free Church minister, and Ann Macleod.

Ministry
He was ordained at Kirkwall, Orkney, United Original Secession Church, on 25th July, 1850. He entered the Union of 1852. Shortly thereafter he resigned his charge. In 1861 he was a Free Church minister, in Ontario, Canada, married to Joanna, and with two of a family.

Death
He died in Canada in 1861.

Family
He had issue including:

(1) William D. Walker born in Ontario about 1855.

(2) Anna Walker born in Ontario about 1857.

Sources
Antiburgher, Student, Scott, Annals, p.587; 1850, Kirkwall (Antiburgher), Scott, Annals, p.391; Kirkwall, General, Scott, Annals, p.194

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WALKER, DAVID M.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Born in Forfarshire. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained by the Presbytery of Dundee for Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1869. Resigned, 1872. Appointed, 1873, to Port of Spain, Trinidad. Died, 1880.

Supplementary Information
David Macrither Walker

Background
He was baptized in Dundee on 14th February, 1836, the son of John Walker and Agnes Macrither.

Education
He studied at United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1855-1859. He was the Alexander Yeaman Bursar in 1855. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1859-1863.

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WALKER, JAMES, D.D. (Edinburgh)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Born at Carnwath, 1821. Son of Rev. J. Walker, Carnwath. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Carnwath, 1843. Married, 1847, Jane Hamilton; and, 1853, Adamena Anderson. Became senior minister, 1876. It was a matter of regret to all who knew Dr. Walker’s mental endowment and profound acquaintance with historical theology that a feeble constitution, and, in later years, nervous prostration, prevented him giving to the Church his Cunningham Lectures in finished form, and making still larger contributions to that department of ecclesiastical literature in which he was an acknowledged authority. Died, 1891.

Publications.—Posthumous.—The Theology and Theologians of Scotland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Cunningham Lectures). Essays, Papers, and Sermons, with Prefatory Memoir. By Rev. Robert Logan.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 17th September and baptized on 21st October, 1821, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, the son of James Walker and Jane French. See Walker Tree.

Education
He was awarded the D.D. degree by Edinburgh University in 1871.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Jane Hamilton on 1st January, 1847, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire. She was born on 12th April, 1822, the daughter of William Hamilton, minister of Strathblane, and Jane King. She was the sister of William King Hamilton, a Free Church minister.

(2) Adamina Anderson on 1st June, 1853, registered in Colinton, Edinburgh, and Carnwath, Lanarkshire. She was born about 1826 in Colinton, Edinburgh.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Carnwath, Lanarkshire. In 1869, he was called by the Free Abbey Church, Dunfermline, but remained in Carnwath. In 1876 G. Gordon Macleod was ordained as his colleague and successor.

Death
He lived latterly at 4 Glengyle Terrace, Edinburgh, and died there on 5th July, 1891. His first wife died in 1849. Adamina Anderson or Walker died in 1906 in Boroughmuirhead, Edinburgh.

Family
He had issue by his second wife including:

(1) Bessie Graham Walker born on 30th May, 1854, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire. She died in 1940 in Morningside, Edinburgh.

(2) James Walker born on 5th December, 1855, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire.

(3) William Walker born on 7th June, 1857, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire.

(4) Jane Isabella Walker born on 17th August, 1858, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire.

(5) John Andrew Walker born on 12th July, 1860, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire. He died in 1883 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.

(6) George Veitch Walker born in 1862, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire. He died in 1919 in Cheltenham, Victoria.

(7) Caroline Cargill Walker born on 19th February, 1865, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire. She died in 1958 in George Square, Edinburgh.

Publications – by him
Tertullian, in, Essays by ministers of the Free Church of Scotland, edited by William Hanna, Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co., 1858
The union question and the minority of last Assembly, Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1868
The theology and theologians of Scotland chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, being the Cunningham lectures for 1870-71, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1872
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.3, p.85, Regeneration

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/8/1891, D.D., senior Minister, Free Church, Carnwath, residing at 4 Glengyle Terrace, Edinburgh, d. 05/07/1891 at Edinburgh, testate, Confirmation ad non executa granted 15/12/1906; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/298; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/254
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Walker
James Walker, D.D., Essays, papers, and sermons, with a memoir by Robert Logan, Edinburgh, 1898

Sources
Ancientfaces; Aitken Family, p.32

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WALKER, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Born at Dalry, Kirkcudbright, 1809. Signed the Probationers’ Resolutions, 1843. Ordained at Newton-Stewart, 1843. In 1851-52 Mr. Walker acted as a deputy of the Colonial Committee to Canada. Died, 1863.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 30th September, 1810, in Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbrightshire, the son of Robert Walker and Janet McCubbin.

Ministry
“John Walker, Stranraer” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. In the Free Church, he served in Newton-Stewart – Penninghame and Minnigaff, or Creebridge, Wigtownshire. He ministered in Quebec for some time. In 1856, he was elected by the Blairgowrie congregation but his Presbytery refused to translate him and all parties aquiesced.

Death
He died on 27th November, 1863, in Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire.

Family
He never married.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sunday trains and Maynooth grant, 29th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/187
Submission to the powers, a sermon, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1846

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Walker
A faithful ministry, discourses by the late Rev. John Walker, with a memoir by James Dodds, Dunbar, Edinburgh, 1864

Source
Dundee Courier, 30th September, 1857

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WALKER, JOHN LUMSDEN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1859, at Millerston. Married, 1862, Elizabeth Owen. Died, 1863.

Supplementary Information
Background

He was born on 11th March, 1833, in Aberdeen, the son of David Walker and Mary Sandison.

Education
He matriculated at Marischal College, in 1847 and graduated M.A. in 1852. There is a person of that name who enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1883-85, but that is surely a typographical error for 1853-55.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Owen in the 3rd quarterof 1862 in West Derby, Lancashire, England.

Ministry
In 1857 he assisted in the Rutherglen congregation. He built up the congregation of Millerston, Glasgow, and became its first minister.

Death
He died on 28th February, 1863, in Springburn, Glasgow, when his mother’s maiden name was given as Sandieson.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Lumsden Walker.

Source
The Aberdeen Journal, 27th May, 1857

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WALKER, JOHN YOUNG

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Born, 1799. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Became morning lecturer in the Tron Church there. Ordained at Perth, Kinnoul Street, 1842. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Retired, 1870. Died, 1880.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1842, Perth, FES, Vol.4, p.239; Scott, Annals, p.413. In the Free Church, he served in Kinnoul Street, Perth.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, 11th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/209

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 21/3/1881, sometime Free Church Minister, afterwards residing at Broughton Hall, Edinburgh, d. 09/07/1880 at Broughton Hall aforesaid, intestate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/205

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WALKER, JOHNSTONE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.349
Born at Edinburgh, 1851. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. After acting as assistant at Whithorn, and visiting New Zealand and South Africa, Mr. Walker was ordained at Langton, 1880. Married, 1882, Margaret Isabella Gray.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
PCNZ, Ministers’ Register. In the Free Church, he served in Langton, Berwickshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.72 where a short biography is given). He retired in 1920. Thereafter he gave service in various places. He died in 1940.

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WALKER, NORMAN MACDONALD LOCKHART, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Born, 1826. Brother of Dr. J. Walker, Carnwath. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dysart, 1850. Married, 1854, Christian A. Normand. Became senior minister, 1892. At different periods Dr. Walker edited the Free Church Missionary Record, the Family Treasury, and the Presbyterian.

Publications.—Life of Dr. Robert Buchanan. Chapters from the History of the Free Church (Chalmers Lectures). Scottish Church History. Thomas Chalmers. David Maclagan. Our Church Heritage, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dysart, Fife. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.359, where a short biography is given). He died in 1905.

Family
Walker Tree.

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WALKER, PETER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Born in Lanarkshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Coalburn, Lanarkshire, 1895.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Coalburn, Lanarkshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.198, where a short biography is given).

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WALKER, ROBERT SKENE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Born in the parish of Strathmiglo, 1780. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Auchtergaven, Perthshire, 1808. Married, 1809, Cecilia Cornfute; and, 1836, Mary H. Howden. Translated to Kinclaven, 1812; and, 1822, to Longforgan. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1854.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1808, Auchtergaven, FES, Vol.4, p.142; 1812, Kinclaven, FES, Vol.4, p.163; 1822, Longforgan, FES, Vol.5, p.353. In the Free Church, he served in Longforgan, Perthshire.

Publication – by him
New Statistical Account, June, 1838, Longforgan, Vol.10, p.405
Breadalbane Muniments, Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 8 April, 1844, NRS GD112/74/825; Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, 22nd May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/217; 23rd May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/217

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 1/7/1854, minister of Free Church of Longforgan, residing at Mylnefield in county of Perth, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/58
Peter Forbes, schoolmaster, Longforgan Town, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.254 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 3 , p.6; Appendix 2, p.12; Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 2, p.15 and Appendix 2, p.6 response]

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WALLACE, ANDREW

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Born at Leven, 1803. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Cockburnspath, 1846. Married, 1851, Marion D. Sked; and, 1863, Marianne C. Rickarby. Became senior minister, 1874. Died, 1884.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 2nd and baptized on 16th January, 1803, in Scoonie, Fife, the son of John Wallace and Rachel Swan.

Education
He attended school for a time in Kirkcaldy, Fife.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Marion Deans Sked on 22nd October, 1851, at Dunbar, East Lothian, the marriage being registered on the 5th in Dunbar, and on the 4th in Oldhamstocks, East Lothian. She was born about 1827, the daughter of George Sked, Dunbar Foundry, and Margaret Simpson.

(2) Maryanne Christian Rickarby on 11th August, 1863, at 11 Ann Street, Edinburgh. She was born on 7th September, 1824, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, the daughter of James Rickarby and Mary Dunlop. Her sister, Mary Rickarby, married John Freeland, a Free Church minister.

Ministry
On 10th March, 1846, he was called to Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, and was ordained there on 2nd April that year. In 1874 he retired to Leven, Fife, where he lived with his sisters.

Death
He died at Parkhill, Leven, Fife, on 2nd February, 1884. Marion Sked or Wallace died of phthisis on 14th April, 1856, at the Free Church Manse, Oldhamstocks, East Lothian (Registration: 1856 714/ 6 Oldhamstocks). She was buried in Cockburnspath Cemetery. Marianne Rickarby or Wallace died there in 1872.

Family
He had no issue.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, 19th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/215; Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 15th April, 1850, Against marriage affinity bill, NRS GD112/74/834
Records of Cockburnspath and Oldhamstocks Free Church: Personal journal kept by the Rev Andrew Wallace, minister of the Free church at Cockburnspath, giving details of his family, education, few references to public events, notes of sermons, books read, the weather and state of crops, the Disruption, and Dr Chalmers, while writer was in Edinburgh, Kilrenny, Anstruther Easter, Balgrummo, Duns, and Oldhamstocks, 1816-1873, NRS CH3/58/19

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Andrew Wallace
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 4/4/1884, Parkhill, near Leven, d. 22/02/1884 at Parkhill aforesaid, testate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/57

Sources
Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 30th October, 1851; 14th August, 1863; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 16th May, 1867

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WALLACE, EBENEZER BRADSHAW, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Born at Lowick, Northumberland, 1792. Son of Rev. G. Wallace, of Nenthorn. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. After being assistant in the parish of Barr, Ayrshire, he was ordained there, 1819. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1864. Died, 1867. [Vol. 2 says he continued until 1869.]

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1819, Barr, FES, Vol.3, p.18. In the Free Church, he served in Barr, Ayrshire.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, September, 1837, Barr, Vol. 5, Ayr, p.407
Pastoral address to the parishioners of Barr, Ayr, 1843
A lecture on the right relation between Church and State, delivered to the Girvan Mechanics Institution, Ayr, printed at the Western Watchman Office, 1844
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.1, p.584, Danger of Quenching the Spirit

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Ebenezer Wallace
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 24/1/1868, minister of Free Church of Scotland in Barr, parish of Barr, co Ayr, Inventory; Ayr Sheriff Court, NRS SC6/44/33; Trust Disposition and Settlement; Codicils, Ayr Sheriff Court Wills. NRS SC6/46/5
Stephen Walker, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.56 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 5, p.2 and Appendix 3
24th October, 1836, Seventh Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.412 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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WALLACE, GEORGE, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Born at Dundee, 1830. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh; and in Germany. Ordained at Maryton, 1859. Translated to Sunderland, English Presbyterian Church, 1866. Married, the same year, Agnes Salmond; and, 1870, Elizabeth Smith. Translated to Hamilton, St. John’s, 1875.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Maryton, Angus, and St. John’s, Hamilton, Lanarkshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.188, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1906 and died in 1909.

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WALLACE, GEORGE PEXALL, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Born at Sunderland, 1871. Son of foregoing. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained missionary to the Jews at Constantinople, 1895.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.533). He resigned in 1905. Thereafter he served in Roberton from 1907 (FUFC, p.202, where a short biography is given). He moved to Warrington, Lancashire in 1917; and to Camden Road, London, in 1922.

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WALLACE, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Born at Kilmarnock, 1844. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1875, at Alloa, East. Married Mary M’Merry. Translated to Partick, Dowanvale, 1878.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in East, Alloa, Clackmannanshire; and Dowanvale, Partick, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.237, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1921 and died in 1923.

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WALLACE, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Taught mathematics for a time in Edinburgh, and assisted his brother, Professor William Wallace, of the University there. Ordained at Abbey St. Bathans, 1823. Married, 1825, Christina Young. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Owing to the small population of the parish no Free Church charge could be formed at Abbey St. Bathans. Returned to Edinburgh and resumed teaching. Was mathematical tutor at the New College from 1844 to 1855. Died, 1866.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1823, Abbey St Bathans, FES, Vol.2, p.3

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, July, 1834, Abbey St Bathans, Vol.2, p.722
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, 8th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/208

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 20/12/1866, Revd, residing in Grove Street of Edinburgh, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/132; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/107
Edinburgh, St George’s Free: Photograph album containing Carte de Visite images of … Revd John Wallace, NRS CH3/965/314
John Logan, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.75 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 1, p.4

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WALLACE, JOHN AIKMAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.350
Born at Edinburgh, 1802. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Was assistant at Burntisland. Ordained, 1833, at Hawick. Married, 1834, Isabella Nisbet. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1858. Retired, 1864. Died, 1870.

Publications.—Pastoral Recollections (two series). Attitudes and Aspects of the Divine Redeemer. Lessons from the Life of James Nisbet. Lectures on the Seven Churches of Asia. Waymarks for Little feet. Reasons for Concurring in Convocation Resolutions. Testimonies in favour of Free Church Principles.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1827, Burntisland, FES, Vol.5, p.84; 1833, Hawick, FES, Vol.2, p.116. In the Free Church, he served in Hawick, Roxburghshire.

Family
His daughter Wilhelmina Hepburn Wallace married John MacGregor, a Free Church minister.

Publications
See separate document here.

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WARDROP, ROBERT MAIN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.351
Born at Glasgow, 1852. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Fenwick, 1884. Married, 1888, Jane Hamilton.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Fenwick, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.136, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1913 to facilitate a local union and died in 1928.

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WARRACK, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.351
Born at Aberdeen, 1838. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Leswalt, 1864. Married, 1870, Emily H. S. Simpson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Leswalt, Wigtownshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.117). He died in 1916.

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WARRICK, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.351
Born at Leith, 1855. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Old Cumnock, 1883. Married, 1891, Ina Alice Philip.

Publication.—History of Old Cumnock, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Old Cumnock, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.130, where a short biography is given).

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WATERS, DAVID, M.A.

 
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Born at Olrig, 1793. Became parish schoolmaster of Bower, and while in this situation studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Ordained, 1826, at Burghead, Morayshire. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1844, Elizabeth M’Pherson. Became senior minister, 1877. Died, 1887.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1826, Burghead, FES, Vol.6, p.381. In the Free Church, he served in Burghead, Moray.

Publications – by him
Letters to William Sinclair of Freswick, latterly resident in Torquay, from miscellaneous correspondents, David Waters, schoolmaster of Bower, concerning salary due to him, NRS GD136/524

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: David Waters
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/8/1887, F.C. Minister, Burghead, d. 31/03/1887 at Burghead, testate, Elgin Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC26/39/17; Elgin Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC26/38/14
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Waters or Macpherson, Elizabeth, 30/3/1892, widow of Rev. David Waters, F.C. Minister, Burghead, d. 09/02/1892 at Burghead, testate, Elgin Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC26/39/18; Elgin Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC26/38/15
17th October, 1836, Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.88 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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WATERS, THOMAS

 
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Born, 1808. Signed the Probationers’ Resolutions, 1843. Ordained the same year at Lauder. Married, 1856, Margaret Burnie. Became senior minister, 1872. Died, 1876.

Publication.—Scripture Emblems.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1808 in Duns, Berwickshire, the son of Henry Waters, blacksmith, and Isabel Hill.

Marriage
He married Margaret Burnie on 3rd September, 1856, in Moffat, Dumfries-shire (Registration: 1856 842/ 8 Moffat). She was baptized on 8th September, 1816, in Moffat, Dumfries-shire, the daughter of Robert Burnie, draper, and Margaret Jardine.

Ministry
“Thomas Waters, Moffat” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. In 1841 he was assistant minister in Moffat, Dumfries-shire. In the Free Church, he served in Lauder, Berwickshire.

Death
He died at 19 West Brighton Crescent, Portobello, Edinburgh, on 15th August, 1876. His widow lived latterly at 37 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, and died there on 27th August, 1903.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publication – by him
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.3, p.157, None like Christ

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Burnie or Waters, Margaret, 9/12/1903, 37 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. Thomas Waters, Lauder, d. 27/08/1903 at Edinburgh, testate, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/7/20; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/429; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/352

Source
The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 18th August, 1876

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WATERSTON, RICHARD, B.A.

 
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Born at Edinburgh, 1830. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, Divinity Hall, Original Secession Church, and New College, Edinburgh. Laboured for six months among the Jews at Breslau. Thereafter he engaged for a time in literary work, being on the staff of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Ordained at Forfar, 1858. Married, 1865, Isabella Anderson. Translated to Glasgow, Union Church, 1867; and to St. Paul’s, Dundee, 1878. Died, 1892.

Publication.—Posthumous.—Thoughts on the Lord’s Supper: A Help to its Better Enjoyment.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 31st October and baptized on 21st November, 1830, in Edinburgh, the son of David Waterston, hosier and glover, and Janet Campbell. He was baptized in Potter Row United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh.

Education
He attended Edinburgh High School and Edinburgh University, graduating B.A.. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1850-54. He studied at first under the Secession Church (Annals, p.589).

Marriage
He married Isabella Anderson on 14th September, 1865, at Seaton Park, Inveresk, Midlothian (Registration: 1865 689/ 47 Inveresk and Musselburgh). She was then of 41 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. She was born about 1835 in Edinburgh, the daughter of Thomas Anderson, secretary, Bank of Scotland, and Jane Cleghorn.

Ministry
Scott, Annals, p.589 He was licensed in 1855. He went to Bresau for six months to the Jewish Mission there, and then he spent some time in literary work in Edinburgh. He was ordained in First, Forfar, Angus, on 14th January, 1858. In 1861 he received a call from Glasgow, Kelvinside, but remained in Forfar. But he was translated to Union, Glasgow, on 28th February, 1867. On 26th September, 1878, he was translated to St. Paul’s: Mariners’, Dundee. In August, 1879, a hawker named David Dunnigan, broke into his house and stole a sealskin jacket, a silk dress and a plaid.

Death
He lived latterly at 5 Park Place, Dundee, and died there on 6th January, 1892. He was buried in the Western Cemetery there on 9th January. His wife died on 17th July, 1912, at 15 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Jane Anderson Waterston born on 13th July, 1866, in Forfar, Angus. She died in 1936 in Morningside, Edinburgh.

(2) Janet Campbell Waterston born on 8th October, 1867, in Govan, Glasgow. She died in 1948 in Morningside, Edinburgh.

(3) Isabella Waterston born on 14th March, 1869, in Govan, Glasgow. She died there that same year.

(4) David Waterston born on 25th August, 1871, in Govan, Glasgow. He was Lecturer in Anatomy in Edinburgh University before being appointed Professor of Anatomy in King’s College, London, England.

Publications – by him
Thoughts on the Lord’s supper, a help to its better enjoyment, Edinburgh, 1896
The Scottish church, its splits and unions: “This diagram was originally designed by the late Rev. Richard Waterston, B.A., and Mr. Nicol Brown for Mr. Waterston’s lecture with the above title delivered in Union Free Church, Glasgow, in December, 1870. It has been revised to 1904 by Mr. Nicol Brown”, Glasgow, Duncan Campbell, 1905?

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Richard Waterston
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 16/3/1892, F.C. Minister, 5 Park Place, Dundee, d. 06/01/1892 at Dundee, testate, Dundee Sheriff Court, NRS SC45/31/44
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Waterston or Anderson, Isabella, 30/10/1912, 15 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh, d. 17/07/1912 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/442

Sources
Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 7th August, 1879; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 11th January, 1892; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 17th November, 1909, p.11; 19th July, 1912, p.12

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WATSON, ALEXANDER DUFF, B.D.

 
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Born at Calcutta, 1855. Grandson of Dr. Duff, Calcutta. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Inch, Wigtownshire, 1887. Married, 1891, Ethel V. Reddie. Resigned, 1895. Settled at Bourtreebush, Aberdeen, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Inch, Wigtownshire; and Bourtreebush, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.422, where a short biography is given). He became senior minister 1916 and died in 1924.

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WATSON, ANGUS JOHN, M.A.

 
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Born at Ferintosh, 1863. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Glenelg, Inverness-shire, 1893. Translated to Lochgilphead, 1896.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Glenelg, Inverness-shire; and Lochgilphead, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.284). Hge died in 1904.

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WATSON, CHARLES, D.D.

 
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Born at Edinburgh, 1794. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Burntisland, 1820. Married, 1821, Isabella Boog. Owing to illness Dr. Watson resigned in 1837. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. He remained closely attached to the Free Church as an elder in the congregation of St. Andrew’s, Edinburgh. Died, 1866.

Publications.—Family Prayers (seventeen editions; Second Series). Prayers for Young Persons. Addresses on the Lord’s Supper. Hints on Christian Experience. Memoir of Dr. Andrew Thomson, Edinburgh.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1820, Burntisland, FES, Vol.5, p.83.

Family
He married Isabella Boog, the sister of Jane Elizabeth Boog, who married Matthew Leishman, a Church of Scotland minister. Dsee also John Mackay of Kirtomy.

Publications – by him
Hints on Christian experience and the Christian’s duty with respect to it, Edinburgh, Waugh and Innes, 1825
Three addresses on subjects connected with the Lord’s supper, Edinburgh, W. Whyte & Co., 1827
Preparation for death, or, Reflections suggested by the late calamitous event which occurred in the church of Kirkaldy, on the evening of the 15th June, 1828, in an address to the inhabitants of Burntisland, Edinburgh, William Whyte & Co., 1828
Prayers for the use of families, Edinburgh, William Whyte and Co., 1830
Prayers for young persons, Edinburgh, William Whyte & Co., 1834
A help to family prayer, Edinburgh, William Whyte and Co., 1839
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.1, p.193, Thoughts on Family Worship

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Charles Watson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 10/9/1866, Revd Dr, residing at No.4 Bruntsfield Place in Edinburgh, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/131; Assistant and Successor to the Minister of parish of Burntisland, Contract of Marriage with Isabella Boag, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/105
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Watson or Boog, Isabella, 3/2/1888, 4 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh, d. 31/12/1887 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/263; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/229
Records of Burntisland: Papers of the Rev Charles Watson: Call to Burntisland, 1 June 1820; Burgess ticket of Burntisland, 29 November 1820; Diploma of Marischal College, Aberdeen, 28 August 1833, giving Watson a DD; Nominations as member of the SSPCK, 3 June 1819, NRS CH2/523/27
Melville Castle Papers: Gen. Sir John Townsend Oswald of Dunnikier; nomination as assistant and successor to Rev. James Wemyss, Burntisland: Rev. Charles Watson, NRS GD51/6/2045/1-3; Rev. James Wemyss, Burntisland; appointment as his assistant and successor: Rev. Charles Watson, NRS GD51/6/2084
Court of Session Extracted Processes: Decreet of preference and for payment, Miss Williamina Ross and others v The Rev Charles Watson, NRS CS44/29/10; Rev Charles Watson v Sprott and others, 1821, NRS CS238/W/10/73

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WATSON, CHARLES, D.D. (Glasgow)

 
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Born at Burntisland, 1822. Eldest son of the foregoing. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Was assistant to Dr. M’Farlan in the West Church, Greenock. Ordained at Langholm, 1848. Married, the same year, Mary Bertram Chalmers; and, 1868, Mary Gray Crum. Translated, 1864, to Largs. Dr. Watson declined nomination to the Moderatorship of the General Assembly.

Publications.—First Epistle of St. John: Notes of Lectures to serve as a Popular Commentary. God and the Bible.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 14th November, 1840 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.189). In the Free Church, he served in Langholm, Dumfries-shire; and Largs, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.152). He became senior minister in 1901 and died in 1908.

Family
tree of John Mackay of Kirtomy; and the Chalmers Tree.

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WATSON, HIRAM

 
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Born at Edinburgh, 1813. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Signed the Probationers’ Resolutions, 1843. Ordained at Logiealmond, 1843. Married, 1850, Isabella Purdie. Translated, 1853, to Ratho. Became senior minister, 1879. Died, 1891.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 15th July, 1813, in Edinburgh, the son of James Watson and Janet Rutherford. He was the uncle of John Watson, a Free Church minister.

Education
He entered Edinburgh University in 1829.

Marriage
He married Isabella Purdie in October, 1850, the marriage being registed on the 27th in Edinburgh and on the 29th in Moneydie, Perthshire. She was born on 8th July, 1815, in Lanark, the daughter of Thomas Purdie, house painter, and Christian Lithgow.

Ministry
“Hiram Watson, Logie Almond, Perth” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. As a probationer he worked in Logiealmond, Perthshire – which was only a preaching station – and he was then ordained there. He moved to Ratho and Kirknewton, Midlothian in December, 1853. He resigned in December, 1879, because of ill health, and thereafter lived in Edinburgh.

Death
He died on 20th April, 1891, at 11 Hatton Place, Edinburgh. His widow lived latterly at Rosemount, Lanark, and died there on 11th August, 1896.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Hiram Watson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 4/7/1891, Rev., sometime of Ratho, latterly of 11 Hatton Place, Edinburgh, d. 20/04/1891 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/297; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/253
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Watson or Purdie, Isabella, 7/5/1897, sometime residing at 11 Hatton Place, Edinburgh, afterwards at Rosemount, Lanark, widow of Rev. Hiram Watson, sometime of Ratho, d. 11/08/1896 at Lanark, testate, Lanark Sheriff Court, NRS SC38/42/6
Letters mostly pertaining to the family of Turnbull of Know, and a few to the Horsburgh family: General correspondence: 1841, Aug 23: Certificate by Patrick Booth, minister of the Parish of Innerleithen, confirming that the Revd Hiram Watson preached his first discourse at Innerleithen last year, and giving a favourable testimonial on behalf of Mr Watson’s application as a candidate for the situation for which he now offers himself, NRS GD178/9/1

Source
The Dundee Courier & Argus, 22nd April, 1891

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WATSON, JOHN, D.D.

 
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Born at Manningtree, Essex, 1850. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1875, at Logiealmond. Translated, 1877, to St. Matthew’s, Glasgow. Married, 1878, Jane B. Ferguson. Translated, 1880, to Sefton Park, Liverpool, a new congregation, of which he was the first minister. Dr. Watson was widely famous as a writer of fiction under the pseudonym of “Ian Maclaren.” The successful establishment of Westminster College in Cambridge was largely due to his advocacy.

Publications.—1. Theological: The Mind of the Master. The Cure of Souls (Yale Lectures). The Potter’s Wheel. Doctrines of Grace. The Life of the Master, etc. 2. Fictional: Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. The Days of Auld Lang Syne. A Doctor of the Old School. Rabbi Saunders, etc.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 3rd November, 1850, in Manningtree, Essex, England, the son of John Watson, Inland Revenue Officer. He was a nephew of Hiram Watson, a Free Church minister.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1870-74.

Marriage
He married Jane Burne Ferguson on 4th June, 1878, at 30 Windsor Terrace, Glasgow (Registration: 1878 644/9 244 Kelvin). She was born about 1850 in Lanarkshire, the daughter of Francis John Ferguson, brewer, and Elizabeth Simpson Nimmo. A portrait of her by Maud Hall Neale is held in the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Stirling in 1874 and ordained the following year in Logiealmond, Perthshire. In 1877 he had the opportunity of going either to Kelso, Roxburghshire, or to St David’s, Glasgow or to Montrose, Angus, but he remained in Logielamond. However, on 13th September, 1877, he was translated to St. Matthew’s, Glasgow, as colleague and successor to Samuel Miller, his call being signed by over 300 members and 53 adherents. On 30th September, 1880, he was translated to Sefton Park Church, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He was the first minister of this charge. He acted as chaplain of the Liverpool Scottish Volunteers. For health reasons he took a tour abroad in 1889-90. His parishioners gave him a purse of £500 and a six months’ furlough. He visited the Mediterranean and Egypt. In 1900 he was Moderator of Synod.

Death
While travelling in the Unites States, he died on 6th May, 1907, in Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa. His remains were embalmed and shipped back to Liverpool, Lancashire, England, on the Cunard ship Umbria. By special arrangement his coffin was deposited in the lecture room of Sefton Park Church and he was exposed to view attired in his ministerial robes. He left an estate valued at £57,709, 6/11.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) John Watson born about 1879 in Lanarkshire.

(2) Francis Duncan Watson born in the 3rd quarter of 1881 in Toxteth Park, Lancashire, England. He served in WW1.

(3) Henry Trelss Watson born in the 3rd quarter of 1883 in Toxteth Park, Lancashire, England. He served in the military.

Publications
See separate document here.

Sources
Wiki; Otago Daily Times, (New Zealand) Issue 13996, 31st August, 1907, p.7; The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 12th June, 1877, p.2; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 7th June, 1878, p.8; 20th May, 1907, p.5; 17th July, 1907, p.12; Liverpool Mercury, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, 10th August, 1880; 4th October, 1880; 9th April, 1890

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WATSON, JOHN, M.A.

 
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Born at Fordyce, 1854. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained, 1880, missionary of the English Presbyterian Church to China, where he was stationed at Amor. Married, 1882, Jane Bethia Still. Returned to Scotland in consequence of his wife’s ill health, and was settled at Kelso, 1896.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in North, Kelso, Roxburghshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.78). He resigned in 1905 to return to mission work in China under the English Presbyterian Church.

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WATSON, ROBERT BOOG, LL.D.

 
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Born at Burntisland, 1823. Son of Dr. Watson, Burntisland. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1854, chaplain to the forces, serving in that capacity in the Crimea. Married, 1857, Janet Cowan. In 1864-74 Dr. Watson officiated at Madeira. He edited some of the records of the “Challenger” Expedition. Settled at Cardross, 1879.

Publications.—Disruption in the Church of Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. Geology of Luneburg. The Great Drift Beds with Shells in the South of Arran. Presidential Address to the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cardross, Dunbartonshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.269). He retired in 1897 and died in 1910.

Family
John Mackay of Kirtomy; Cumming Turing and Chalmers Trees.

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WATT, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
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Born at Aboyne, 1822. Studied at the University, Aberdeen. Became parish schoolmaster. At the Disruption he lost this appointment, and taught for two years at Banchory. Attended the Divinity Hall at Aberdeen and the New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kinneff, 1849. Married, the same year, Ann C. Campbell. Became senior minister, 1883. Died, 1889.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born (or baptised) at Roseburn, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, on 2nd December, 1822, the son of Alexander Watt, crofter, and carrier, and Jane Farquharson.

Education
He attended the local parish school and Aberdeen Grammar School. He matriculated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1837 and graduated M.A.. He was teaching at the time of the Disruption and was dismissed from his post because of his opinions. He continued teaching, latterly in the Free Church school in Banchory and studied divinity under the Presbytery by special arrangement. He attended the Free Church College in Aberdeen, and enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1845-46.

Marriage
He married Ann Carter Campbell on 4th November, 1849, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She was baptized on 21st October, 1826, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen, the daughter of William Campbell and Elspet Stephen.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Kincardine O’Neill on 10th February, 1848. In the Free Church, he served in Kinneff, Kincardineshire. James Hastings was inducted as his colleague and successor in 1884.

Death
He died of cystitis on 22nd May, 1889,at Annaville, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire (Registration: 1889 170/ 6 Aboyne). His wife died there on 27th February, 1909.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander Watt
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 29/6/1889, Rev., of Annaville, Aboyne, Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court, Wills, NRS SC1/37/103
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Campbell or Watt, Anne Carter 25/5/1909, Annaville, Aboyne, Parish of Aboyne, widow of Rev. Alexander Watt, minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Kinneff, d. 27/02/1909 at Annaville, testate, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/159; Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/130

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WATT, ARTHUR CRAWFORD, M.A.

 
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Born at Elgin, 1858. Son of Rev. R. J. Watt, Elgin. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Served as assistant at Malta, and at Inverness, High. Ordained, 1888, at Comrie. Married, 1890, Laura Thomson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Comrie, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.341). Thereafter he served in Crailing from 1925 (FUFC, p.76, where a short biography is given).

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WATT, JOHN, M.A.

 
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Born in Aberdeenshire, 1862. Studied at the University, Aberdeen and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained 1888, missionary to Calcutta. [Appointed 1889 according to List of missionaries.] Married, 1889, Helen Archibald.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
His ministry in India was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.537, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1929 and died in 1930.

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WATT, ROBERT JOHN

 
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Born near Coleraine, 1813. Studied at the University, Belfast, and Divinity Hall, Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland. Ordained at Belfast, 1839. In 1842 Mr. Watt was called to be minister of a section of a Reformed Presbyterian congregation at Stranraer which had joined the Original Secession Church. In 1852 he joined the Free Church, and lost his congregation in consequence. Settled the same year in Elgin, Free High Church. Married Martha Macwhinney. Died, 1862.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Antiburgher, Student, Scott, Annals, p.581; 1842, Stranraer (United Original Secession), Scott, Annals, p.431; General, Scott, Annals, p.194; Call, Scott, Annals, p.344. In the Free Church, he served in High, Elgin, Moray.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Robert John Watt
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 29/4/1863, Minister of the Free High Church, residing in Elgin, Inventory, Elgin Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC26/39/9; Last Will and Testament, Elgin Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC26/38/9

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WATT, WILLIAM

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1805. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Buchlyvie, 1837. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1844, Christian C. Monteith. Translated to Norrieston, Perthshire, 1843. Became senior minister, 1878. Died, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, Buchlyvie, FES, Vol.4, p.339. In the Free Church, he served in Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Watt
Court of Session: Bill Chamber, Processes in Actions of Suspension and Interdict:James Stirling & another (Buchlyvie Church Trustees) & Others: Suspension & Interdict: Respondent: Rev. William Watt & Others, 1843, NRS CS275/5/36
23rd July, 1836, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.296 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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WEATHERHEAD, JAMES, B.D.

 
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Born at Whitsome, Berwickshire, 1863. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at North Woodside, Glasgow, 1891.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in North Woodside, Glasgow. Thereafter he served in the United Free Church – in Giffnock from 1900 (FUFC, p.207); and in St Paul’s, Dundee, from 1906 (FUFC, p.389, where a short biography is given). He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1927 (FUFC, p.569).

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WEBSTER, GORDON, M.A.

 
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Born at Panmurefield, near Dundee, 1841. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Girvan, Ayrshire, 1872. Married, 1875, Jane Blyth. Translated, 1887, to St. Andrew’s Church, Christchurch, New Zealand. Was for some years a member of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College. In 1898 he was Moderator of the Northern Assembly. Resigned, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 28th October and baptized on 28th November, 1841, in Monifieth, Angus, the son of Gordon Webster, bleacher, and Elizabeth Simpson.

Education
He attended Dundee High School and graduated M.A. from Edinburgh University in 1867. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 12th November, 1864 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.217). He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1864-68.

Marriage
He married Jane Hunter Blyth on 6th April, 1875, in Kelvin, Glasgow. She was baptized on 30th January, 1850, in Girvan, Ayrshire, the daughter of Adam Blyth, a Free Church minister, and Jane Allan.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Dundee in 1872. That same year he was ordained in Girvan, Ayrshire. In New Zealand, he was inducted in St Andrew’s Church, Christchurch, on 16th December, 1887. He retired on 9th January, 1900. He was Moderator of the Assembly in 1898.

Death
He retired to Scotland and died on 18th July, 1903, at his home 22 Corrennie Gardens, Edinburgh. His wife died in 1926 in St Andrew, Edinburgh.

There is a memorial stone in the Doune Cemetery in Girvan which reads:

Erected
by Rev. Gordon Webster,
Free Church Minister of Girvan,
in
Memory of
His Daughter
Bessie Simpson,
Who Died 16 August 1880
Aged 3 years and 2 months

Here Rests Also,
The Reverend Gordon Webster, MA
Minister of the Free Church in Girvan
From 1872, til 1887,
And of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church,
Christ-Church, New Zealand,
From 1887, till 1899,
Who Died in Edinburgh, 18th July, 1903
Aged 61 Years
And his Wife
Jane Hunter Blyth,
Who Died in Edinburgh, 12th March 1926
Elder daughter of the
Reverend Adam Blyth,
[Minister of the Free Church Girvan]
From 1845 till 1867,
Aged 76 years.

“He shall gather the lambs with his
arm and carry them in his bosom.”

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Jane Allan Webster born in 1876 in Girvan, Ayrshire. She married James Irwin on 28th September, 1904, at Greenbank United Free Church, Edinburgh. She died in 1964 in Newington, Edinburgh. James Irwin was born in Ireland in 1877. He was licensed by the Newry Presbytery and was ordained on 5th April, 1904, in Drumbo Presbyterian Church, County Down, Ireland; thereafter he was minister from April, 1911, in St. Aidan’s United Free Church, Melrose, Roxburghshire; from 1917 in the United Free Church, Newhaven, Edinburgh; and from 1932 in Dunkeld (Cathedral) and Dowally Church of Scotland, Perthshire. He retired in 1949 and died in 1960.

(2) Elizabeth Simpson Webster born in 1877 in Girvan, Ayrshire. She died there of scarlet fever on 16th August, 1880 (Registration: 1880 594/ 85).

(3) George Webster born on 1st July, 1878, in Girvan, Ayrshire. He married Gertrude Lenore Ellen Frostick on 16th April, 1904, in Wandsworth, London, England .(She was born on 2nd February, 1881, and died on 17th March, 1965.) He developed severe eye trouble, pneumococcal ulcers, which resisted treatment and, on medical advice, he settled in New Zealand. He died on February 2, 1965, in Timaru, New Zealand.

(4) Adam Blyth Webster born in 1882 in Girvan, Ayrshire. In 1901 he was an arts student – he later became Professor of English, in St Andrews University, Fife. He married Margaret Mckenzie in 1907 in Morningside, Edinburgh. He died on 19th March, 1956 in St Andrews, Fife, where he had lived at 56 South Street. An obituary in The Times, London, England, spoke of him in the following terms: “Debonair, always well dressed, sharp of wit, puckish, and mischievous, these outward characteristics concealed a sensitivity of taste for letters and a concentration of purpose that made him a teacher of English literature remarkable, indeed almost unique in his generation.”

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/12/1903, Rev. 22 Corrennie Gardens, Edinburgh, d. 18/07/1903 at Edinburgh, testate, Eik granted 17/02/1908, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/7/20; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/430; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/353;17/2/1908, Eik, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/477

Sources
The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1931-36, by Rudyard Kiplin, p.236; Register of New Zealand Presbyterian Church; Drumbo Presbyterian Church; Information from a family member

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WEBSTER, JAMES

 
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Born at Marnoch, 1854. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow, and at New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1882, by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, for Manchuria. Married, the same year, Elizabeth Hamilton Scott.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.551). Thereafter he served as joint Foreign Mission Secretary from 1910 (FUFC, p.572, where a short biography is given). He died in 1923.

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WEBSTER, JAMES, B.D.

 
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Born in the parish of Newhills, Aberdeenshire, 1863. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Alyth, 1894. Married, 1896, Annie Matthewson Brew.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Alyth, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.321). He resigned in 1907.

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WEBSTER, JAMES T.

 
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Born in Forfarshire. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Licensed by the Presbytery of Arbroath, 1895, Mr. Webster proceeded to Budapest as assistant to Dr. Andrew Moody. Ordained, 1897, missionary to the Jews there.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.533). Thereafter he served as a Committee Secretary (FUFC, p.573, where a short biography is given).

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WEBSTER, ROBERT MACLAREN

 
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Born in Perthshire, 1826. Studied at the Universities, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Garvald, 1861. Translated to Sprouston, 1867. Married, 1872, Elizabeth S. Jacob. In 1875 Mr. Webster was settled at Hobart, Tasmania. Died, 1890.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1826 in Blairgowrie, Perthshire. His father was a banker, but he must have died while Robert Webster was in his youth because, by 1851, his mother Jane had remarried. In 1851 he was a teacher of English in Arbroath, Angus.

Education
He matriculated in Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1847 and studied for two sessions. He studied at United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1852-53. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1853-57.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Stuckey Jacob on 16th July, 1872, at St Augustine’s Church, Highbury New Park, London, England. She was the daughter of R. D. Jacob.

Ministry
The Marischal College records described him as a missionary in Dundee. In the Free Church, he served in Garvald, East Lothian. On 16th January, 1867, he was transalted to East, Kelso, (Sprouston), Roxburghshire. In 1872, he resigned his charge on being invited to a church in Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England, under the auspices of the English Presbyterian Church. He was inducted there on 18th August, 1872. He was there for two and a half years and resigned because of ill health. He then went to Chalmers Free Church in Hobart, Tasmania.

Death
He died in 1890 in Tasmania. His wife died there on 6th May, 1904.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Dora Margaret Webster born on 18th September, 1876, in Hobart, Australia. She died there the following year.

(2) Emily Mary Webster born on 10th May, 1878, in, Hobart, Tasmania. She died there that same year.

Sources
The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania), 25th February, 1882; The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania), 25th August, 1890; Eheritage; Heritage.statelibrary; The Morning Post, London, England, 19th July, 1872, p.8; The Daily Gazette, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, 3rd October, 1874, p.3; 17th December, 1875, p.3

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WEDDERBURN, CHARLES

 
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Born in Aberdeenshire, 1836. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at the “Mary Kirk” (West Church), Stirling, 1873. Married Eliza Milne. Translated to Edinburgh, Cowgate, 1879.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in West, Stirling; and Cowgate, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.6). He retired in 1910 at a local union and died in 1916.

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WEDDERBURN, LAURENCE CRAIGIE M’LAGAN

 
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Born at Aberdeen, 1846. Son of Rev. Professor M’Lagan, Aberdeen. On the accession of his mother to a property, the name of Wedderburn was assumed. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Madderty, 1874. Married, 1880, Gertrude E. Maxwell.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Madderty, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.343, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1915 and died in 1925.

Family
He was the son of James McLagan, a Free Church minister. His sister Katherine McLagan married Donald MacKinnon MacAlister, a Free Church minister. His son, Lawrence Dalrymple McLagan Wedderburn, was a minister of the United Free Church: Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.550.

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WEIR, LEWIS MENZIES

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1845. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Married, 1865, Elizabeth Carmichael. Went to Australia as a lay evangelist, 1876, and completed his studies in connection with the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. Ordained, 1881, at Simpson’s Road, Melbourne. Translated to North Williamstown, 1883. That same year he was admitted to the Free Church, and settled at Blochairn, 1885. In 1888 he returned to Victoria. Settled at Maryborough, 1889. Translated later to his former charge at Simpson’s Road.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 25th March, 1845, in Govan, Glasgow, the son of Robert Weir, iron ship builder, and Jane Menzies. In 1861 he was an apprentice joiner.

Education
He studied at the Free Church College, Glasgow; and completed his studies at the Theological Hall of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Carmichael on 22nd September, 1865, at the bride’s home, Bank Place, Govan, Glasgow (Registration: 1865 646/1 145 Govan). He was then a journeyman joiner. She was born in 1845, the daughter of James Carmichael, saw sharpener, and Margaret Paterson.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Melbourne on 2nd February, 1881, and ordained to Collingwood (later Abbotsford) on 26th April, 1881, remaining there till 2nd October, 1883. He was inducted to Williamstown North on 15th October, 1883, remaining till 31st January, 1885, when his wife’s health required a visit to Scotland. In the Free Church, he served in Blochairn, Glasgow. He was re-admitted to the Church in Victoria on 17th July, 1888, and served in Maryborough from 15th January, 1889, till 1st September, 1891; in Abbotsford from 17th September, 1891, till 1st March, 1898; in Bulla and Sunbury from 18th March, 1898, till his death.

Death
He died suddenly on 18th November, 1902, in Point Lonsdale, Queenscliff, Victoria – “late of Abbotsford”. His wife died in June, 1915, in Elsternwick, Victoria. They were buried in the Bulla Cemetery, Victoria, Presbyterian Section, 11, 6.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Margaret Weir born in 1868. She died in Essendon, Victoria, in May, 1909, and was buried in the Bulla Cemetery, Presbyterian Section, 11, 7, on 20th May, 1909.

(2) Jane Menzies Weir born on 22nd January, 1870, in Govan, Glasgow.

(3) Lizzie Carmichael Weir born on 24th May, 1872, in Govan, Glasgow.

(4) Mary Menzies Weir born on 25th October, 1873, in Govan, Glasgow.

(5) Agnes Whitelaw Weir born in 1877 in Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria. She married Hugh Montgomery Jamieson in 1914 in Victoria. She died there in 1931.

(6) Bessie Weir born in 1881 in Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria. She died in 1942 in Victoria.

Sources
The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria), 20th November, 1902, p.1; Bulla_Cemetery

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WELLS, JAMES, D.D. (Edinburgh)

 
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Born in the parish of Torthorwald, Dumfries-shire, 1838. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Glasgow, Wynd Church, 1864. Married, 1867, Janet F. Simpson. Translated, the same year, to Barony, Glasgow; and, 1875, to Pollokshields, West.

Publications.—Rescuers and Rescued. The Sea of Galilee Mission of the Free Church of Scotland. For the Young: Bible Echoes. Bible Children. Bible Images. Bible Object Lessons. The Parables of Jesus. My First Communion. Christ and the Heroes of Heathendom. The Jubilee Story of the Free Church. Scotland’s Patron Saint. The Lad.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 6th June, 1857 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.206). In the Free Church, he served in Wynd, Glasgow; Barony, Glasgow; and Pollokshields, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.241, where a short biography is given). He was Moderator of the General Assemblhy in 1911 (FUFC, p.569). He retired in 1913 and died in 1924.

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WELLS, JOHN HUME

 
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Born at Kirkcaldy in 1830. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and at New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dunbarney, 1858. Married, the same year, Jane Margaret Reid.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dunbarney, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.330). He retired in 1905 and died in 1911.

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WELSH, DAVID, D.D. (Glasgow)

 
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Moderator of the Disruption Assembly. Born in the parish of Moffat in 1793; studied at the University and Theological Hall, Edinburgh; was ordained at Crossmichael, Kirkcudbrightshire, in 1821; translated to St. David’s, Glasgow, in 1827. Married a sister of William Hamilton, Lord Provost of Glasgow. Appointed Professor of Church History in Edinburgh University in 1831. About 1841 he was made Secretary of the Bible Board in Scotland, the monopoly for printing the Scriptures having been abolished. In 1842 he was Moderator of the General Assembly. He signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. After the Disruption Dr. Welsh was elected Professor of Divinity in the New College in 1843. As Convener of the Education Committee the Free Church owes to him, in great measure, the noble Library of the New College, as well as the stately building which contains it. To him also the Church was to a considerable extent indebted for the Normal and Elementary Schools which were conducted with so much success. Dr. Welsh was a man of wide theological culture, his knowledge of books being immense. Chalmers used to say of him that all he could liken him to was a walking epitome of the University Library. He died at Helensburgh, 1845.

Publications.—Life of Professor Thomas Brown. A Volume of Sermons. Elements of Church History. Posthumous.—Life, by Mr. Murray Dunlop.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1821, Crossmichael, FES, Vol.2, p.405; 1827, St David’s, Glasgow, FES, Vol.3, p.439; 1831, Professor, Edinburgh, FES, Vol.7, p.390; 1842, Moderator, FES, Vol.7, p.444

Family
Brown Welsh Tree.

Publications
See separate document here.

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WELSH, WILLIAM, D.D. (Edinburgh)

 
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Of Mossfennan, Broughton. Born at Carden, Peeblesshire, 1820. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Broughton, 1843. Married, 1854, Christina Guthrie. Died, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 15th May, 1820, in Glenholm, Peebles-shire, the son of Alexander Welsh and Mary Tweedie. Family
Brown Welsh Tree.

Education
He attended Peebles Grammar School; Edinburgh High School and Edinburgh University. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 6th January, 1838 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.187). He was awarded a D.D. degree by Edinburgh University on 20th April, 1887.

Marriage
He married Christina Guthrie on 22nd March, 1854, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. She was born on 31st May, 1833, in Arbirlot, Angus, the daughter of Thomas Guthrie, a Free Church minister, and Anne Burns. For some ministerial connections, see the Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Broughton, Peebles-shire. By 1884 provision had been made for the appointment of a colleague and successor and on 29th January, 1885, Alexander Gray was inducted in that role.

Death
He died on 25th December, 1892, the death being registered in 1893 in St George, Edinburgh. His wife died tat 4 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh, on 17th February, 1895.

Family
There is no sign that they had issue.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Religious Trusts and dissenters chapels bill, 1 May, 1844, NRS GD112/51/168Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth bill, 23rd April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/182

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Welsh
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/2/1893, D.D., Mossfennan, County of Peebles, d. 25/12/1892 at Edinburgh, testate, Peebles Sheriff Court, NRS SC42/20/13
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Welsh or Guthrie, Christina, 31/7/1895, widow of Rev. William Welsh, D.D., of Mossfennan, County of Peebles, d. 17/02/1895 at 4 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh, testate, Peebles Sheriff Court, NRS SC42/20/14
Perhaps Court of Session: Bill Chamber: Miscellaneous Petitions; Rev. William Welsh & Others (Alexander Bell’s Trustees) v Henry Conborough, 1849, NRS CS273/1/8; similar v George Henderson, 1849, NRS CS273/1/10
Perhaps Court of Session: Warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Act and decree appointing The Reverend William Welsh to be factor loco tutoris to Robert Aitken and others, Dec 1850, NRS CS46/1850/12/34

Source
Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 23rd April, 1887

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WEST, ALEXANDER

 
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Born in the parish of Gamrie, Banffshire, 1838. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Cromar, Presbytery of Kincardine O’Neil, 1878. Married, 1868, Margaret Skinner.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cromar (Braes of Cromar and Coldstone), Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.429, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1908 and died in 1923.

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WESTWATER, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
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Born at Lochgelly, 1860. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1894, at Hawick, West Port. Married, the same year, Agnes C. Dey; and, 1899, Chrissy Henderson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in West Port, Hawick, Roxburghshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.83). Thereafter he served in Prestonpans from 1913 (FUFC, p.65, where a short biography is given). He retired nin 1928 and died in 1941.

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WHITE, ADAM, M.A.

 
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Born in the parish of Strachur, 1808. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Acted as tutor in Orkney. Ordained at North Ronaldshay, 1837. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1843, to Harray. Married, 1848, Sarah Sloan. Was clerk of the Presbytery of Orkney before the Disruption, and of the Free Church Presbytery for twenty-seven years. Died, 1873.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, North Ronaldsay, FES, Vol.7, p.266. In the Free Church, he served in Ronaldshay – North, Orkney; and Harray and Sandwick, Orkney.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 6th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/207

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Adam White
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 14/10/1873, Minister of the Free Church residing at Harray, Kirkwall (Orkney), d. there 16/08/1873, Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC11/38/8; 29/10/1873, Testament Dative, Kirkwall (Orkney), Sheriff Court, NRS SC11/41/3
Inventories, Wills, etc.: White or Sloane, Sarah, 17/3/1890, 1 Danube Street, Edinburgh, d. 11/02/1890 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/283; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/243
Kirkwall Sheriff Court: Processes: Kirk session of North Ronaldsay: Nature of Action: Summons- count and reckoning Defender Details: Rev. Adam WHITE, Harray, 1848, NRS SC11/5/1848/104

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WHITE, ADAM

 
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Born at Aberdeen, 1829. Studied at Marischal College, and Free Church College, Aberdeen; also at Berlin. Ordained, 1855, missionary to Bombay. Married, the same year, Janet Littlejohn. Transferred to Nagpur, 1859. A few months later, changing his view with regard to the sacrament of baptism, he severed his connection with the Free Church. Thereafter he conducted evangelistic work in the Poona collectorate. In 1864 he was cut down by cholera, caught when ministering to the Hindu pilgrims dying of that disease at Sassoor.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 19th May and baptized on 6th July, 1829, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen, the son of William White, merchant, and Rachel Topp.

Education
He attended Aberdeen Grammar School. He matriculated at Marischal College, Aberdeen in 1842 and graduated with the M.A. degree i9n 1846. He studied at the Free Church College, Aberdeen, and Berlin; and he enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1849-51.

Marriage
He married Jane Littlejohn on 5th December, 1855, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen. She was born about 1833. For some ministerial connections, see the Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow in 1853. He worked as a home missionary under his brother-in-law George Philip. On 29th November, 1855, he was ordained, in the Free West Church, Aberdeen, as missionary to Bombay. He sailed for India on the 4th January, 1856, and worked in Bombay and Nagpur. He severed his official connection with the Free Church on adopting baptistic principles. His headquarters were then for some years at Puna, but afterwards, the hill-fort of Poorundhur, twenty miles from there.

Death
He died of cholera on 16th May, 1864, at his home in Poorunhur, India. His widow lived latterly at 1 Greenbank Terrace, Edinburgh, but died on 26th March, 1917, at 53 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Janet Bentley White born in Bombay, India, in 1857. She died on 24th November, 1926, in Worthing, Sussex, England, and was buried in Allenvale Cemetery, Aberdeen.

(2) Adam George White born on 21st March, 1858, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. He married Catherine Lothian Ferguson in 1897 in Campbeltown, Argyll. He was a surgeon in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. He died there on 3rd June, 1939.

(3) William Ebenezer White born on 8th January, 1860, in Nagpur, India. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1883-87. He was for 40 years chaplain to Indian tea planters and plantation workers at Sylhet, India. He died on 13th February, 1937, at his home, 550 Holburn Street, Aberdeen, and was buried in Allenvale Cemetery there.

(4) John Peregrine Robertson White born on 6th August, 1861. He was an advocate in Aberdeen. He died on 7th October, 1916, in Towie, Aberdeenshire, and was buried in Allenvale Cemetery, Aberdeen.

Publications – by him
Notes of missionary work & experience in 1863, Aberdeen, G. Cornwall and sons, 1864
Notes of a journey to Pundharpoor, made in 1862, Aberdeen, 1864
Remarks on a late decision of the Bombay government of date 8th January 1864, regarding Mr. White, missionary at Poorundhur, and on the connected matters, Bombay, Alliance, 1864

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Adam White
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 8/9/1865, Reverend of Free Church of Scotland, thereafter in Bombay Presidency East Indies, died in Poorunhur in East Indies, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/127; Contract of Marriage with Jane Littlejohn, daughter of William Littlejohn, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/99
Inventories, Wills, etc.: White or Littlejohn, Jane, 23/4/1919, 1 Greenbank Terrace, Edinburgh, widow, d. 26/03/1917 at 53 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/628; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/521

Sources
Rootsweb; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 26th November, 1926, p.14

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WHITE, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.354
Born in Ayrshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Troon, 1898. Married, the same year, Annie Gardiner Barron.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Troon, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.133). Thereafter he served in St Peter’s, Dundee, from 1905 (FUFC, p.389, where a short biography is given).

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WHITE, DAVID

 
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Born, 1807. Ordained at Airlie, 1833. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1872. Died, 1873.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1833, Airlie, FES, Vol.5, p.248. MacKelvie, Annals, p.679: says he became a student in the Secession Church, starting his studies under Professors Dick and Mitchell, but that he joined the Established Church while still a student. In the Free Church, he served in Airlie, Angus.

Family
He married Isobel Balfour, sister of William Balfour, a Free Church minister.

Publication – by him
New Statistical Account, April, 1843, Airlie, Vol.11, Forfar, p.670

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: David White.
William Loban, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.147 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 2, p.30
27th October, 1836, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.4 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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WHITE, JAMES

 
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Born, 1801. Studied at the Divinity Hall, United Associate Synod. Admitted to the Free Church, 1846. Settled at Stevenston, 1847. Married, 1848, Mary A. W. Wilson. Retired, 1866. Died, 1867.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 10th and baptized on 20th January, 1801, in Gladsmuir, East Lothian, the son of James White and Mary Blain.

Marriage
He married Mary Ann Wilkie Wilson on 7th June, 1848, in Stevenston, Ayrshire. She was born on 6th and baptized on 21st January 1822, in Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, England, the daughter of Thomas Wilson, ironmonger and plumber, and Rachel Walker.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Stevenston, Ayrshire.

Death
He lived latterly at 5 Windsor Terrace, Glasgow, and died there in 1869. His wife died on 2nd August, 1857, at the Free Church Manse, Stevenston, Ayrshire (Registration: 1857 615/ 99 Stevenston).

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Rachel Walker White, born on 8th January and baptized on 9th February, 1851, in Stevenston, Ayrshire. She married Charles Pulley in the 3rd quarter of 1896 in Darlington, County Durham, England. She died in Tonbridge, Kent, in the 4th quarter of 1937.

(2) James White born on 17th April and baptized on 13th May, 1849. He married Eliza Mary. In 1911 they were resident in Darlington, County Durham, England.

(3) Robert White born on 9th February and baptized on 17th April, 1853.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 16/8/1869, minister at Stevenston Ayrshire, residing at 5 Windsor Terrace, Glasgow, Inventory, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/62; Revd., residing in Free Manse in Stevenston, father of James and Robert White, etc, Settlement, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/55
Application of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh to the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, for Liberty to Receive the Rev. James White as a Minister of the Free Church, Edinburgh, 1846

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WHITE, JOHN

 
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Born in Ireland, 1816. Studied at the Divinity Hall, Original Secession Church, Belfast, and Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. Ordained at Carluke, 1845. In 1861 he was settled at Maghera, County Down, but was again called by Carluke congregation, 1862. Became senior minister, 1892. [Vol. 2 says his ministry ended in 1893.]

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Carluke, Lanarkshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.198). He died in 1908.

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WHITE, JOHN, M.A.

 
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Born at Kirkcolm, Wigtownshire, 1847. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Baillieston, 1875. Translated to East Park, Glasgow, 1877. Married, 1878, Minnie S. S. Park.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Baillieston, Mure Memorial, Glasgow; and East Park, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.218, where a short biography is given).). He became senior minister in 1919. Thereafter he served in Kennethmont from 1921 (FUFC, p.435) and in Innerwick from 1923 to 1928 (FUFC, p.64).

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WHITE, MALCOLM, M.A.

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1837. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Edinburgh; and at Berlin. He was offered by the Maharajah of Travancore a post in India as mathematical teacher, and a proposal of a similar kind came from Dr. Duff. In 1865 Mr. White went to Cathcart to form a new charge, and was ordained there as first minister. Translated to Innellan, 1867. Married, 1868, Jessie M. Freebairn. Translated, 1873, to Blairgowrie, South.

Publication.—The Symbolic Numbers of Scripture.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cathcart, Glasgow; Innellan; and South, Blairgowrie. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.322). He died in 1906.

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WHITE, MATTHEW, B.D.

 
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Born at Whiteinch, Glasgow, 1860. Brother of Rev. John White, East Park. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Skirling, 1889. Resigned, 1896.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 26th December, 1860, the son of John White and Agnes Kerr.

Education
He studied at Glasgow University, gaining his M.A. in 1883 and his B.D. in 1886.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Glasgow on 17th June, 1886. He was settled in Skirling, Peebles-shire, in 1889. He retired because of ill health.

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WHITE, WILLIAM

 
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Born at Harthill, Whitburn, 1811. Studied at the Divinity Hall, Original Secession Synod. Ordained at Haddington, 1835. Married, 1837, Margaret Buchan; and, 1868, Hannah C. Howden. Was editor of the Original Secession Magazine from 1847 till 1852. Died, 1871.

Publications.—Lectures on National Establishments of Religion. Prophecy, Providence and Popery; or, Lectures on Book of Daniel. Scripture Studies; or, Things New and Old. The Principles of Christian Union as laid down in the Word of God, etc. Posthumous.—Lectures and Sermons, 1875.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Whitburn, West Lothian, on 17th December, 1811.

Education
He entered the Secession divinity hall under Professor Paxton on 1831. He was licensed by the Secession Presbytery of Edinburgh on 3rd July, 1834.

Marriage
His marriage to Margaret Buchan was recorded in Logie, Stirlingshire, on 18th March, 1837, and in Haddington, East Lothian, on 26th March, 1837. She was born on 1st January, 1817, in Stirling, the daughter of David Buchan and Jean Donaldson.

He married Hannah Cassels Howden in 1868 in St Andrew, Edinburgh. She was baptised on 11th November, 1814, in South Leith, Edinburgh.

Ministry
He was called to Auchinleck, Ayrshire, and Haddington, East Lothian, and ordained at the latter place on 1st July 1835. He entered the Free Church with his congregation at the Union of 1852. In the Free Church, he served in Haddington — Knox’s, East Lothian.

Death
He died in Haddington, East Lothian, on 13th October, 1871. Margaret Buchan or White died in 1865 in Haddington, East Lothian. Hannah Cassels White or Howdenn died in St George, Edinburgh, in 1877.

Family
He had issue by his first wife including:

(1) Jane Donaldson White born on 14th November, 1838, in Haddington, East Lothin. She died there in 1906.

(2) Peter White born on 6th March, 1840. He probably was a surgeon in Shetland in 1881, married to Wilhelmina Adie. He may have died in Yetholm, Roxburghshire, in 1887.

(3) David White born on 10th March, 1842, in Haddington, East Lothian.

(4) Janet Kay White born on 13th September, 1844. She married Charles Archibald Campbell in St Giles, Edinburgh, in 1882. She died in the1st quarter of March, 1935, in Battersea, London, England.

(5) Margaret Buchan White born on 24th January, 1848, in Haddington, East Lothian. She married Andrew Boosie in St George, Edinburgh, in 1873. She died in the 2nd quarter of 1923 in Chester, England.

(6) William White born on 15th April, 1850, in Haddington, East Lothian.

(7) John White born on 10th June, 1852, in Haddington, East Lothian.

(8) Catherine Elisabeth Donaldson White baptised 21st May, 1854, in Haddington, East Lothian. She died there the following year.

(9) Harriet Mary Carmichael White born on 3rd June, 1856. She married Edward Hewetson. In 1901 she was living with Edward, sexton, Church of Ireland, and seven children at Castle Street, Macroom, Cork, Ireland. She was there with husband and eight children in 1911. She is said to have died there in 1929.

(10) Amelia Marion White born on 24th March, 1858, in Haddington, East Lothian. A person of this name was a nurse in Galashiels in 1893 (see here).

Publications
See separate document here.

Sources
Antiburgher, Student, Scott, Annals, p.572; 1835, Haddington (Constitutional), Scott, Annals, p.359; General, Scott, Annals, p.156; General, Scott, Annals, p.168; General, Scott, Annals, p.193; Call, Scott, Annals, p.256; Call, Scott, Annals, p.380; Call, Small, History, Vol.1, p.515.

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WHITE, WILLIAM EBENEZER, B.A.

 
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Born at Nagpur, India, 1860. Son of Rev. Adam White. Studied at the University, Cambridge, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1890, missionary to Sylhet. [List of missionaries says he was appointed 1891.] Married, 1893, Mary Margaret Edmonston.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 16th November, 1882 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.234). This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.538, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1927 and died in 1937.

Family
See under his father, Adam White, a Free Church minister.

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WHITTON, DAVID

 
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Born at Barry, 1841. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1869, missionary to Nagpur. Married, the same year, Helen Young.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.542, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1908 and died in 1919.

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WHYTE, ALEXANDER, D.D. (Edinburgh)

 
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Born at Kirriemuir, 1837. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at St. John’s, Glasgow, 1866. Translated to St. George’s, Edinburgh, 1870. Married, 1881, Jane Elizabeth Barbour. In 1898 Dr. Whyte was Moderator of the General Assembly.

Publications.—The Shorter Catechism (“Bible Class Handbooks”). William Law. Lancelot Andrew. Bible Characters (six volumes). Bunyan Characters (three volumes). Thomas Shepard, Pilgrim Father and Founder of Harvard, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in St. John’s, Glasgow; and Edinburgh, St. George’s. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.28, where a short biography is given). He was Principal of New College from 1909 to 1918 (FUFC, p.574). He died in 1921.

Family
His half-sister, Elizabeth Whyte, married Thomas MacAdam, a Free Church minister. His wife, Jane Elizabeth Barbour, was the sister of Robert William Barbour, a Free Church minister.

Publication – about him
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, A. B. Macaulay, revised by H. C. G. Matthew, Whyte, Alexander (1836–1921), United Free Church of Scotland minister

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WHYTE, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.356
Born at Montrose, 1851. Studied at the University, Congregational Hall, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Rendall, Orkney, 1878. [This ministry doesn’t fit what is said in Vol. 2, under Evie and Rendall.] Married, 1881, Ann Alexina Hourston. Translated to Bervie, 1883.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He is said to have served in Evie and Rendall, Orkney; and Bervie, Kincardineshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.402). He retired in 1918 and died in 1924.

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WHYTE, CHARLES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.356
Born at Dundee, 1866. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dunrossness, 1892. Married, 1893, Alice Mair Birrell.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dunrossness, Shetland. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.522). Thereafter he served in Towie from 1909 (FUFC, p.433); and in Kingswells from 1917 (FUFC, p.424, where a short biography is given).

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WHYTE, JAMES, B.D.

 
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Born in Dumbartonshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1897, at Deerness, Orkney.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Deerness, Orkney. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.512). Thereafter he served in Rayne from 1910 (FUFC, p.438); in Ceres and Strathkinness from 1917 (FUFC, p.369); and in Lauriston from 1926 (FUFC, p.51, where a short biography is given).

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WHYTE, QUINTIN D.

 
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Born in Ayrshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Inch, Wigtownshire, 1895. Married, 1897, Minnie Paterson.

Supplementary Information
Quintin Dick Whyte

Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Inch, Wigtownshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.116). Thereafter he served in Carmyle, Glasgow, from 1913 (FUFC, p.205); and in Monikie from 1925 (FUFC, p.392, where a short biography is given).

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WHYTE, WILLIAM MACKENZIE

 
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Born at Oban, 1865. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Echt, Aberdeenshire, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Echt, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.439). Thereafter he served in Savoch from 1918 (FUFC, p.445); in Slamannan from 1925 (FUFC, p.40); and in Strathtay from 1928 (FUFC, p.319, where a short biography is given).

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WILKIE, DAVID

 
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Born, 1814. Studied at the New College, Edinburgh. Taught for a time in Montrose Academy. Ordained at Cromarty, 1848. Married, 1849, Jessie F. Macdonald or Grant. Translated to Forfar, East, 1850. Died, 1867. [Vol. 2 has his ministry terminating in 1851.]

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 1st and baptized on 21st June, 1814, in Dundee, the son of James Wilkie and Elizabeth Adamson.

Education
According to the St Andrews University records there was a David Wilkie from Dundee who studied at United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1836-38. He was a teacher in Maxwelltown, Dundee. He is thought to appear in the 1841 census in St Andrews as a teacher, aged 25 – in which case he is lodging in the home of Alexander Bruce Todd, who was later a Free Church minister.
Perhaps the same David Wilkie studied at the United College 1840-43. These St Andrews records also seem to know of a David Wilkie who enrolled in New College Edinburgh, 1843-44; and 1845-46 but there is no evidence of this in the New College records.

Marriage
He married Jessie Falconer McDonald on 12th July, 1849, in Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty. She was born on 15th and baptized on 29th June, 1806, in Inverness, the daughter of John McDonald and Lydia Falconer. She had previously married Peter Grant, a sugar merchant from Demarara, in 1840. Her sister Alicia McDonald married David Sutherland, a Free Church minister. For family connections, see the Bayne Tree, AA:1.1.1. Elizabeth Bayne.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty. There was a secession from his ministry in Cromarty when a group met separately in a wooden building they had erected. This has been referred to as a “station house for Gaelic speakers.” He was inducted to East, Forfar, Angus, on 1st August, 1850.

Death
He died suddenly at Liverpool, Lancashire, England, on 29th August, 1851, where he had gone to solicit funds for a new church building in Forfar. He died at the Infirmary from injuries received by falling through a stair-case opening at St George’s Hall. He was viewing the building when he saw an opening in the floor and stepped into it thinking that it was a stair-case. He fell about 13 feet. One of his legs was dreadfully shattered and of this he died. His wife presented to the Forfar congregation in his memory a very handsome flagon, four cups, two salvers, and a number of tokens.

His wife died in the 3rd quarter of 1890 in Wandsworth, London, England.

Publication – about him
Departure at hand, a sermon preached to the East Free Church Congregation, Forfar, on the 7th September, 1851, being the first Sabbath after the funeral of their late Pastor, the Rev. David Wilkie, David Crichton, Perth, J. Dewar, 1852

Sources
Familysearch; Eastchurchcromarty; Liverpool Mercury, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, 2nd September, 1851; Dundee Courier, 3rd September, 1851; p.1; 3rd November, 1852

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WILLIAMS, GEORGE

 
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Born at Leochel-Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, 1845. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Norrieston, 1879.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Norrieston, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.312, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1927 and died in 1929.

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WILLIAMS, GEORGE, M.A.

 
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Born at Leochel-Cushnie, 1866. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Craig, 1893. Married, 1894, Marion W. Barbour. Translated, 1900, to Glasgow, Candlish Memorial.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Craig, Angus; and Candlish Memorial, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.214). Thereafter he served in Wick from 1912 (FUFC, p.510); and in Methven from 1920 (FUFC, p.333). He retired in 1928.

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WILLIAMSON, HENRY M’ILREE, D.D.

 
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Born at Armagh, 1824. Studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dunblane, 1850. Married, 1855, Catherine C. Robertson; and, 1866, Jessie M. Gibson. Translated to Huntly, 1855; to Aberdeen, High, 1867; and, 1870, to Belfast, Fisherwick. Was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 1896. Died, 1898.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1824 in Lisnadill, Armagh, Ireland, the son of David Williamson and Leoncia McIlree.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1845-49.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Unknown – he appears as a widower in the 1851 census.

(2) Catherine Charlotte Robertson on 18th September, 1855, in Kirkmichael, Perthshire (Registration: 1855 370/ 5 Kirkmichael (Perth)). She was born on 23rd March, 1837, in India, the daughter of James Robert Robertson, 5th of Cray, and Federata Cutliffe Whitlock.

(3) Jessie Maria Gibson. She is said to have been born about 1842 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, the daughter of Charles Frederick Gibson and Barbara Fraser.

Ministry
He was licensed on 3rd October, 1849, by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh. He was ordained in Dunblane, Perthshire, on 21st November, 1850; thereafter he served in Huntly, Aberdeenshire; and High, Aberdeen. From there he was translated to Fisherwick Place, Belfast, Ireland, in 1879.

Death
He died on 29th December, 1898, in Belfast, Ireland. Catherine Charlotte Robertson or Williamson died in 1864 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

Family
He had issue by Catherine Charlotte Robertson:

(1) James Robert David Williamson born on 19th September, 1856, in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. He became a Free Church minister.

(2) Henry McIlree Williamson born in 1858 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. He died on 26th July, 1948, at 9 Chalmers Crescent, Edinburgh.

(3) Federata Williamson born on 29th April, 1860, in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. She married David Yellowlees – a consulting physician – in 1886 in Logie, Perthshire. She died on 22nd October, 1921, in Glenshee, Perthshire.

(4) David Albany Williamson born on 13th June, 1862, in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. He died there the following year.

(5) Angell Williamson born on 3rd March, 1864, in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. He died there that year.

And by Jessie Maria Gibson:

(6) Barbara Williamson born on 19th November, 1866, in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

(7) Grace Williamson born on 19th November, 1866, in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

(8) Charles Frederick Williamson born on 20th February, 1868, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen.

(9) Jessie Maria Williamson born in 1870 in Antrim, Ireland.

(10) David Brainerd Williamson born on 9th January, 1872, in Belfast, Ireland. He married Margaret. He died on 7th March, 1923, in Sri Lanka.

(11) John Fraser Williamson born on 31st March, 1873, in Antrim, Ireland.

(12) Fanny Williamson born on 2nd April and died on 27th May, 1878.

Sources
Rootsweb; Redbook; Kabristan

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WILLIAMSON, HUGH MILLER

 
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Born at Edinburgh, 1855. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Tranent (St. Andrew’s), 1888. Was clerk of the Free Presbytery of Haddington.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Tranent, East Lothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.66, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1920 and died in 1922.

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WILLIAMSON, JAMES DAVID, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.356
Born at Huntly, 1856. Son of Dr. Williamson, Belfast. Studied at Queen’s College, Belfast, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Newburgh, 1882. Married, the same year, Louisa C. Rochead. Translated, 1891, to Rothesay, West. Died the same year.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 19th September, 1856, in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, the son of Henry McIlree Williamson, the Free Church minister there, and Catherine Charlotte Robertson. Much of his boyhood was spent in Belfast.

Education
He studied at Queen’s College, Belfast, and graduated in 1874. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1877-1881.

Marriage
He married Louise Constance Rochead in 1882 in Newington, Edinburgh. She was born on 8th September, 1846, in Glasgow, the daughter of John Thomas Rochead, architect, and Jane Calder.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 16th June, 1881. He served as an assistant in Barclay Free Church, Edinburgh. He was elected by the congregation in Maybole, Ayrshire, on 12th January, 1882, as colleague and successor to their minister, and he was also elected in the congregation of Abdie and Newburgh, Fife, and it was in this latter place he was ordained in March, 1882, as colleague and successor to John Murray, who died later that year. He was called by St. Thomas’ Free Church, Greenock, in 1888, but declined the call. However, on 19th February, 1891, he was translated to West, Rothesay, Bute, as colleague and successor to Robert Elder.

Death
James Robert David Williamson died on 18th November, 1891, in Rothesay, Bute. His wife died in 1928 in Colinton, Edinburgh.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Catherine Constance Williamson born in 1883 in Abdie, Fife.

(2) Henry Rochead Williamson born on 22nd May, 1885, in Abdie, Fife. He studied in Edinburgh and became an architect. He married (i) Ann Veronica May Haddon in 1915 in Hawick, Roxburghshire; and (ii) Elizabeth Houston Wallace in 1940 in Haymarket, Edinburgh. He died on 17th January, 1955, at 153 Morningside Drive, Edinburgh.

(3) Evelyn Whitlock Williamson born in 1887 in Abdie, Fife. She died in 1950 in Morningside, Edinburgh.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James David Williamson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 24/3/1892, formerly of the Free Church, Newburgh, Fife, latterly Minister of West Free Church, Rothesay, residing at the Free West Church Manse there, d. 18/11/1891 at Rothesay, intestate, Inventory, Rothesay Sheriff Court, NRS SC8/35/23

Source
Scottisharchitects

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WILLIAMSON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.356
Born, 1825. Ordained at Braco, 1851. Married, 1857, Mary Kinross. Died, 1859.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 25th July and baptized on 30th August, 1825, in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, the son of William Williamson, gardener, and Anne Henderson.

Marriage
He married Mary Kinross on 30th December, 1857, at Shielhill, Braco, Perthshire. She was born on 28th May, 1835, in Muthill, Perthshire, the daughter of James Kinross, farmer, and Janet Comrie.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Stirling in 1850. He was called to Braco (Ardoch), Perthshire, on 22nd October, 1851.

Death
He died on 16th October, 1859, in Braco, Perthshire. His widow lived latterly at Broombrae, Auchtermuchty, Fife, and died there on 23rd July, 1910.

Family
They had issue:

(1) Jessie Comrie Williamson born on 7th January, 1859 in Muthill, Perthshire. She died on 14th August, 1935, at the Cottage, Braco, Perthshire, and was buried on 19th August in the Free Churchyard.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 22/3/1860, Reverend of Free Church of Scotland, at Braco, parish of Ardoch, I, Dunblane Sheriff Court, NRS SC44/44/13
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Williamson or Kinross, Mary, 16/11/1910, widow of Rev. John Williamson, Free Church of Braco, Perthshire, afterwards Broombrae, Auchtermuchty, Fife, d. 23/07/1910 at Broombrae, intestate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/92

Sources
Kolthammer; Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 5th January, 1858; Glasgow Herald, 21st October, 1859; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 17th August, 1935. p.20

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WILLIAMSON, ROBERT, D.D., LL.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.357
Born at Campbeltown, 1819. Studied at the University, Glasgow, Divinity Hall and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dunkeld, 1844. Translated to Ascog, 1853. Married, 1859, Marion N. Miller. Became senior minister, 1890.

Publications.—Annotated Edition of Dr. Hetherington’s History of the Westminster Assembly. Church Government. Spiritual Independence of the Church. Spiritual Independence and the Patronage Act.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dunkeld, Perthshire; and Kingarth (Ascog), Bute. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.279). He died in 1902.

Publication – by him
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.3, p.61, The security and character of them who are in Christ Jesus

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WILLIS, JAMIESON

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.357
Born, 1801. Son of Rev. W. Willis, Stirling. Ordained at Kirkpatrick-Durham, 1845. Married, the same year, Agnes Fleming. Became senior minister, 1861. Died, 1874.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1801 in Stirling, the son of William Willis, the Secession minister there. His brother Michael Willis was also a Free Church minister.

Marriage
He married Agnes Glen Fleming on 10th June, 1845, in Glasgow. She was born on 23rd March, 1806, in Glasgow, the daughter of Hugh Fleming, commission agent, and Mary Wilson.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kirkpatrick-Durham, Kirkcudbrightshire.

Death
He died in 1874 in St George, Edinburgh, 1874. His wife died there in 1887. There is a monument to the family in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) William Willis born on 4th March, 1846, in Kirkpatrick Durham, Kirkcudbrightshire. He died that same year.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth endowment, 3rd June, 1845, NRS GD112/51/199; Sites, 18th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/214

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Jamieson Willis
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 4/12/1875, minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Kirkpatrick-Durham latterly residing in Edinburgh, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/175; LT. Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/158
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Willis or Fleming, Agnes Glen, 30/3/1887, 23 Ann Street, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. Jamieson Willis, FC minister, Kirkpatrick Durham, d. 10/03/1887 at Edinburgh, testate, Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/223; 2/4/1887, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/256

Sources
Rootsweb; Archiver; Gravestonephotos

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WILLIS, MICHAEL, D.D., LL.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.357
Born at Greenock, 1799. Son of Rev. W. Willis, Stirling. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Hall, Burgher Synod. Ordained at Albion Street Secession Church, 1821. Joined the Church of Scotland in 1839. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Having acted as a deputy of the Free Church to Canada in 1845, he was appointed Professor of Theology in Knox College, Toronto, 1847, of which he afterwards became Principal. Dr. Willis had a mission station in the neighbourhood of Toronto where he regularly preached. Died, 1879.

Publications.—The Religious Question involved in the Proposed Concessions to Roman Catholics. A Discourse on National Establishments of Christianity. Collectanea; or. Selections from the Greek and Latin Fathers, with Notes. Popery the Enemy of Public Morals. Pulpit Discourses. Posthumous.— Memoir of Dr. Michael Willis. By Dr. J. W. Taylor, 1880.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Burgher, Student, Scott, Annals, p.493; 1821, Renfield Street, Glasgow (Burgher), Scott, Annals, p.347; General, Scott, Annals, p.59; General, Scott, Annals, p.63; General, Scott, Annals, p.605; General, Scott, Annals, p.592; 1839, Renfield, Glasgow, FES, Vol.3, p.431; FES, Vol.8, p.300. In the Free Church, he served in Renfield, Glasgow.

Publications
See separate document here.

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WILLOX, ALEXANDER COWIE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.357
Born at Ellon, 1824. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Married, 1861, Rachel Blyth. Ordained at Walls, Shetland, 1877. Resigned, 1896.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 16th December, 1823, and baptized on 6th January, 1824, in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, the son of Alexander Willox and Catharine Robertson.

Education
He matriculated at King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1855 and graduated M.A. on 1st April, 1859.

Marriage
He married Rachel Byth on 23rd April, 1861, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She was baptized on 20th July, 1840, in Aberdeen, the daughter of George Byth and Elspet Procter.

Ministry
The King’s College records suggest that he served in Perth prior to his ordination. The birth places of his children suggest he was settled for a time not only in Perth but in other places as well. He was ordained in Walls and Sandness, Shetland, in 1877.

Death
He died on 25th October, 1901, at his home, 148 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen. His wife died there in 1903.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Jane Findlater Willox born on 17th February, 1862, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She married Captain Thomas Christie Henry in the 1st quarter of 1894 in Hackney, London, England. She died on 27th August, 1941, in Ilford, Essex, England.

(2) Catherine Robertson Willox born on 1st November, 1863, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She died there that same year.

(3) Margaret Jane Proctor Willox born on 23rd December, 1865, in Perth. She married Archibald Sinclair in 1887 in Walls, Shetland. She emigrated to the USA.

(4) Mary Ann Brown Willox born on 2nd July, 1868, in Whitburn, West Lothian.

(5) Alexander Cowie Willox born about 1871 in Aberdeen. He became a naturalized citizen of the USA on 24th July, 1895. He was last heard of by his family in the Klondyke, Canada.

(6) John Gall Willox born on 28th December, 1872, in Aberdeen. He married Ruth McMahon on 27th November, 1900, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He died on 22nd May, 1918, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, USA.

(7) Rachel Byth Willox born in 1876 in Aberdeen. She married James Scoon in 1901. She died on 4th December, 1957, in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.

(8) Mary Ann Willox born about 1878 in Longridge, Linlithgow, West Lothian. She married Charles J. Paterson, auditor, on 28th June, 1905 in Kings, New York, USA. She died in 1930 in Hopewell, Mercer, New Jersey, USA.

(9) Robert C. Willox born in 1878 in Walls, Shetland.

(10) Andrew Alan Willox born about 1880 in Walls, Shetland. He married Kathleen Ellen Schickerling. They lived in South Africa.

(11) George Martin Willox born on 29th July, 1881, in Walls, Shetland.

(12) Eleanor Catherine Willox born in 1884 in Walls, Shetland. She died on 5th April, 1936, in Kings, New York, USA.

(13) Allan James Willox born on 17th October, 1887, in Walls, Shetland. He married Rose Alice. He lived in Nassau County, New York, USA; and was a self-employed mechanic. He died on 5th November, 1942, in Westbury, Nassau, New York, USA.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/11/1901, Revd, resided at 148 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen, formerly Free Church minister, Walls, Shetland, d. 25/10/1901 at Aberdeen, intestate, spouse of Mrs Rachel Byth or Willox, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/144

Sources
The London Gazette, 7 April, 1950; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 24th February, 1945, p.1

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WILSON, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.357
Born in the parish of Kilsyth, 1810. Studied at the University, Glasgow, teaching at the same time in different parish schools in Glasgow. Ordained, 1841, at Bridgeton, Glasgow. Married, 1842, Janet Paton. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1880. Was clerk of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr from 1863. Died, 1891.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Bridgeton, Glasgow, FES, Vol.3, p.403. In the Free Church, he served in Bridgeton, Glasgow.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Mr Wortley’s bill, 20 thJuly, 1850, NRS GD112/51/222

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander Wilson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 13/5/1891, Minister of Bridgeton Free Church, Glasgow, residing at The Manse, 8 Craig Park there, d. 23/02/1891 at Glasgow, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/132; Will, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/103
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Wilson or Arnot, Margaret, 17/9/1909, Morton House, Lothianburn, Colinton, Midlothian, d. 03/06/1909 at Morton House, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/494; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/409

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WILSON, ALEXANDER STODDART, M.A., B.Sc.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.357
Born at Glasgow, 1853. Studied at the University, Glasgow. He acted as interim Professor of Botany in Glasgow University; was lecturer in botany in Anderson’s College and West of Scotland Technical College, also in Queen Margaret’s College. Studied theology at the Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1881, at North Queensferry. Married, 1882, Elizabeth B. Somerville. The erection of the Forth Bridge causing a large influx of artisans and navvies, a hall was erected in the midst of the workmen’s huts. Here for seven years Mr. Wilson, with the assistance of a lay missionary, conducted Sunday services and week-day Gospel Temperance meetings, in addition to his ordinary congregational work. Mr. Wilson was a member of several scientific societies, and contributed to several scientific journals.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in North Queensferry, Fife. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.354, where a short biography is given). He died in 1909.

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WILSON, DANIEL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.357
Born at West Kilbride, 1821. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh, teaching part of the time in Free St. Mary’s School. Ordained at Bo’ness, 1855. Married, the same year, Margaret Arnott. Was clerk of the Free Presbytery of Linlithgow. Died, 1884.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 21st November, 1821, in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, the son of Daniel Wilson, carpenter, and Margaret Alexander Tyre.

Education
He attended school there. He studied at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities: he matriculated at Glasgow University in 1839. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1847-51. During most of his studies, he was master at Free St Mary’s School in Edinburgh.

Marriage
He married Margaret Arnot on 12th June, 1855, in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. She was born on 15th August and baptized on 15th September, 1830, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, the daughter of Henry Arnot, surgeon, and Margaret Oliphant.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Irvine on 31st July, 1851. He served for two years, building up a congregation in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. He was ordained in Borrowstounness and Carriden (Bo’ness), West Lothian, on 11th January, 1855.

Death
He died on 12th January, 1884, at the Free Church Manse, Bo’ness, West Lothian. His wife died in 1909 in Liberton, Edinburgh.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Daniel Wilson born on 5th May, 1856, in Bo’ness, West Lothian.

(2) Margaret Oliphant Wilson born on 13th November, 1857, in Bo’ness, West Lothian.

(3) Henry Arnot Wilson born on 3rd November 1859, in Bo’ness, West Lothian. He was a doctor. He died in 1913 in British Columbia, Canada.

(4) Georgina Dean Wilson born on 2nd February, 1864, in Bo’ness, West Lothian. She died on 5th June, 1843, and was buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, British Columbia, Block N, Plot: 51 E L.

(5) Jane Boyle Wilson born on 21st August, 1871, in Bo’ness, West Lothian.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Daniel Wilson.

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WILSON, DAVID

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.357
Born at Edinburgh, 1810. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Was missionary in the St. Leonard’s district of the city, laying the foundations of what afterwards became St. Paul’s congregation. Ordained, 1837, at Fullarton, Irvine. Married, 1842, Jane Denniston. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Was clerk of the Free Presbytery of Irvine. Died, 1881.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, Fullarton, FES, Vol.3, p.38; FES, Vol.8, p.218. In the Free Church, he served in Fullarton, Irvine, Ayrshire.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: David Wilson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/9/1881, Minister, Fullarton Free Church, Irvine, d. 08/03/1881 at Irvine, intestate, Ayr Sheriff Court, NRS SC6/44/43
Records of Paisley, Free High: Disjunction certificate issued to Miss Agnes Calderwood by David Wilson, minister at Fullarton, 1851, NRS CH3/1487/119

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WILSON, GEORGE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.358
Born at Edington Mains, Berwickshire, 1823. Studied at the University, Divinity Hall, and New College, Edinburgh; also at Berlin. Ordained at Glenluce, Wigtownshire, 1848. Married Mary Frances Dods. Became senior minister, 1894. Mr. Wilson wrote several papers on antiquarian subjects published in the Transactions of various societies. Died, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 31st October, 1823, at Edington Mains, Chirnside, Berwickshire, the son of Abraham Wilson, farmer, and Mary Steuart Todd.

Education
He was educated at the local parish school at Chirnside, and at Edinburgh High School and University. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-46. He spent a semester in Berlin.

Marriage
He married Mary Frances Dods on 7th September, 1854, the marriage being registered in Old Luce, Wigtownshire, and in Edinburgh. She was born in Belford, Cumberland, England, about 1825, the daughter of Marcus Dods, a Presbyterian minister, and Sarah Pallister. She was the sister of Marcus Dods, a Free Church minister. For Marcus Dods, senior, see the General Index of Scottish Presbyterian Ministers here and scroll down to “Dods, Marcus: 1811, Belford”.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside on 5th January, 1847. He was ordained at Glenluce, Wigtownshire, on 30th November, 1848. He had to have spells off work for reasons of health. He retired in the autumn of 1895, when Alexander Kennedy Dallas was ordained as his colleague and successor.

He was a corresponding Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He presented to the National Museum a very large and important collection of implements and ornaments of stone, bronze, etc from Glenluce. By his death, one newspaper commented, “the science of archaelogy in Scotland had lost one of its most arduous labourers”.

Death
He retired to Edinburgh but later moved to Laret Burn, St Boswells, where he died on 18th February, 1899 (Registration: 1899 804/ 3 St Boswells). He was buried in Foulden, Berwickshire, among his family. His wife died on 28th January, 1892, in Glenluce, Wigtownshire (Registration: 1892 894/ 5 Old Luce or Glenluce).

Family
They had no issue.

Publications – by him
The city of God, translated by Marcus Dods and George Wilson, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark 1871-1872 [“Books IV, XVII and XVIII have been translated by George Wilson, Glenluce”]: Vol.1 and Vol.2
Antiquities, from the papers of the Rev. George Wilson of Glenluce, Ms 578, Vol.1 and Vol.2

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: George Wilson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 15/4/1899, Rev., Laret Burn near St Boswells, d. 18/02/1899 at Laret Burn, testate, Jedburgh Sheriff Court, NRS SC62/44/99

Sources
Glasgow Herald, 14th June, 1881; 4th February, 1892; 9th August, 1895; The Newcastle Weekly Courant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 25th February, 1899

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WILSON, GEORGE LITHGOW

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.358
Born in Lanarkshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Settled as ordained preacher at Campsie, 1898, and inducted as minister of the charge, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Campsie, Stirlingshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.205). Thereafter he served in Sandyhills, Shettleston, from 1902 (FUFC, p.253); in Cullen Seafield from 1907 (FUFC, p.453); in Monquhitter from 1925 (FUFC, p.449); and in Cardenden from 1926 (FUFC, p.358, where a short biography is given).

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WILSON, JAMES HOOD, D.D. (Edinburgh)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.358
Born at Duns, 1829. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1854, minister of Fountainbridge Church, Edinburgh, which had been founded by Free St. George’s congregation. Transferred, 1864, [Vol. 2 – 1865] with most of his congregation, to Barclay Church. Married, 1869, his cousin, Margaret Chalmers Hood. For several years Dr. Wilson was convener of the Jewish Mission Committee; and also of the Home Mission Committee. He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1895.

Publications.—The King’s Message. The Gospel and its Fruits. Our Father in Heaven.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 7th February and baptized on 6th March, 1829, in Duns, Berwickshire, the son of John Wilson, merchant, and Mary Hood of Bowshiel. His mother was a first cousin of Dr Thomas McCrie, the church historian whose mother was Mary Hood, presumably the sister of James Wilson’s maternal grand-father. James Hood Wilson was therefore a distant relative of the McCries who were Free Church ministers: Charles Greig McCrie, George McCrie and Thomas McCrie.

The Wilson family belonged to the Secession Church.

He was brought up by Jane Hood, a maiden aunt, being the twin sister of his mother.

Dr George Wilson, medical missionary in Safed, Palestine, and Rev. John Wilson of Trinidad, were both nephews of his.

Education
He entered Edinburgh University in 1843 and graduated M.A. in April, 1848. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1848-52. While a student he did mission work in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh; and, while waiting for licence, in Irvine, Ayrshire.

Marriage
He married Margaret Chalmers Hood in 1869 in Newington, Edinburgh. She was born about 1825 in Dunbar, East Lothian, the daughter of George Hood, labourer, and his wife Janet, teacher. Prior to her marriage she had been superintendent of a Boarding School for Ladies.

They are said to be cousins. It is all but certain that his mother and her father are siblings, both being children of George Hood and Grizell Weatherly of Cockburnspath, Berwickshire. Another daughter of this couple was Agnes Hood who married Alexander Innes. In 1851 James Hood Wilson was a nephew, staying with Agnes Innes in Edinburgh, when he was a divinity student.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 6th October, 1852. He was ordained in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, in July, 1854. He, with a large section of his congregation, moved to Barclay, Edinburgh , which was opened in December, 1864. In 1870 he was called to St John’s, Glasgow, but he remained in Edinburgh. He was very active in the Temperance movement. By 1897 arrangements were in place for him to have a colleague and successor. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.3).

Death
He lived latterly at 47 Braid Road, Edinburgh, and died there on 6th December, 1903. His wife died on 24th July, 1902, at Gullane, Dirleton, East Lothian.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications
See separate document here.

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WILSON, JOHN, D.D. (Edinburgh), F.R.S.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.358
Born at Lauder, 1804. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Having been accepted as an agent of the Scottish Missionary Society, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Lauder, 1828. Married, the same year, Margaret Bayne; and, 1846, Isabella Dennistoun. In 1835, along with other two missionaries of the Society, Dr. Wilson was received as a missionary of the Church of Scotland. He signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. In the advancement of education and the establishment of universities in India he took a deep interest and active part. At his death he was Vice-Chancellor, and also Dean and Syndic in Arts of the University of Bombay. He was President of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. In 1868 a sum of R21,000 (£2100) was contributed to form the Wilson Memorial, the capital being devoted, according to his own suggestion, to the endowment of a Chair of Comparative Philology in the Bombay University. “His knowledge of Western India, in particular, with its endless complexity of tribes and dialects and customs, was perfectly marvellous. He became an authority superior to all others on any question connected with the native races. In the dark and trying times of the Mutiny Dr. Wilson was an invaluable counsellor to Government. Lord Elphinstone, who proved, under God, a ruler equal to the terrible emergency, often sought his sympathy and advice” (J. M. M.). In 1870 Dr. Wilson was Moderator of the General Assembly. Died, 1875.

Publications.—The Life of John Eliot, the Apostle of the Indians (issued anonymously in 1828 when a student). The Parsi Religion: as in the Zend-Avesta. The Evangelisation of India. The Caste System. The Lands of the Bible Visited. Darkness and Dawn in India. The Indian Military Revolt Viewed in its Religious Aspects, etc. Posthumous.— The Life of John Wilson, D.D., F.R.S., for Fifty Years Philanthropist and Scholar in the East. By George Smith, C.I.E., LL.D.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1828, Missionary, FES, Vol.7, p.711

Family
Bayne Tree.

Publications
See separate document here.

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WILSON, JOHN, D.D. (Glasgow)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.358
Born at Southwick, Kirkcudbrightshire, 1843. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Abernyte, Perthshire, 1873. Married, 1875, Christian Lydia Bain. Delicate health obliged Dr. Wilson to retire, 1886. He resided for several years at Montreux, and latterly at Lausanne.

Publications.—Enigma Vitae. How God has Spoken; or. Divine Revelation in Nature, in Man, in Hebrew History, and in Jesus Christ. Translation of The Teaching of Jesus, by Professor Hans Hinrich Wendt, D.D., Jena. Two volumes.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 3rd January, 1843, in Colvend, Kirkcudbrightshire, the son of William Thomson and Mary Tait.

Education
He graduated M.A. from Glasgow University in 1868. He was awarded Glasgow’s D.D.in 1903.

Marriage
He married Christian Lydia Bain on 21st July, 1875, in Coupar Angus, Perthshire. She was born on 22nd November, 1847, in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, the daughter of Thomas Bain and Elizabeth Christian Burns. For some ministerial connections, see the Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.

Ministry
He was probably licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow, in 1872. The following year he was ordained in Abernyte, Perthshire. By June 1886, he had resigned his charge in consequence of ill health. He was then a litterateur living in Switzerland.

Death
He died on 9th December, 1912, in Mousquines, Lausanne, Switzerland. He is commemorated by an inscription on the family stone in Colvend cemetery.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) William Burns Wilson born in Abernyte, Perthshire, in 1876.

(2) Marian Elizabeth Wilson born in Abernyte, Perthshire, in 1881. She was a doctor. She graduated from Edinburgh University in 1906 and had posts in Barrow in Furness, and the Hebron Mission, Palestine. She then served on the staff of the Scottish Women’s Hospital at Royaumont, France, from 1915. The French government awarded her a medal for distinguished services to the French wounded. She joined her family at St Martin Vesubie above Nice, and took ill and died there in August, 1917. She was buried at Nice.

(3) Kenneth Bain Wilson born in Abernyte, Perthshire, in 1883.

Publications – by him
Aenigma vitæ, or, Christianity and modern thought, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1887
The Carrisford tablets, discovered on English soil by H. Pennant and F.P. Wyndhurst, and recording the voyages and adventures of Simran the Babylonian, specially on his mission of search to the tin mines of Albion, B.C. 1325-50, London, Elliot Stock, 1896
The teaching of Jesus, Hans Hinrich Wendt, two volumes, translated by John Wilson, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1898-99
How God has spoken, or, Divine Revelation in nature, in man, in Hebrew history, and in Jesus Christ, Edinburgh, T. &. T. Clark, 1909

Sources
Kirkyards; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 11th September, 1917, p.4; Western Mail, Cardiff, Wales, 26th May, 1881

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WILSON, JOHN SMITH, M.A.

 
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Born at Duns, 1860. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Canonbie, 1885. Married, the following year, Helen Wilson. His health obliged him to resign, 1892, when he went to the British West India Islands.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Canonbie, Dumfries-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.568, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1928 and died in 1931.

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WILSON, JOSEPH

 
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Born at Newton-on-Ayr, 1807. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall, Original Secession Synod. Joined the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1838. Ordained, 1841, at Dundee. Resigned, 1847. In 1848 [Vol. 2 says 1850.] he was admitted to the Free Church, and inducted at Abernyte. Died, 1873.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1834, Antiburgher, Student, Scott, Annals, p.574; Call, Scott, Annals, p.256; Call, Scott, Annals, p.332; Robb, Cameronian Fasti, p.33; Couper, The R.P. Church, p.118. In the Free Church, he served in Abernyte, Perthshire.

Publication – by him
The conversion of the world waiting for the conversion of the Jews, a sermon, preached on behalf of the Jewish Mission, Dundee, William Middleton, 1845

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Joseph Wilson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 7/6/1873, minister of the Free Church of Scotland congregation in Abernyte, by Inchture, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/95
Reference from the Free Presbytery of Dundee, in the Case of the Rev. Joseph Wilson, Edinburgh?, 1848

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WILSON, ROBERT, M.A.

 
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Born, 1805. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained for St. John’s, New Brunswick, 1832. Married, 1833, Mary E. Wilmot. Returned to Scotland, and settled at North Ronaldshay, 1846. Became senior minister, 1877. Died, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1832, New Brunswick, FES, Vol.7, p.612. In the Free Church, he served in Ronaldshay – North, Orkney.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 15/5/1894, Rev., 28 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, d. 05/04/1894 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/330; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/276

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WILSON, ROBERT MACNAIR

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1799. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Maryhill, Glasgow, 1826. Married, the same year, Mary Muir. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. For eighteen years Mr. Wilson was clerk of the Free Presbytery of Glasgow. Died, 1874.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1826, Maryhill, Glasgow, FES, Vol.3, p.423. In the Free Church, he served in Maryhill, Glasgow.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Robert McNair Wilson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 17/7/1874, Revd, minister of Free Church, Maryhill, spouse of Mary Muir or Wilson, I, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/74; Trust Disposition and Settlement, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/66
Second Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, Appendix 2, p.184 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]; Schedule of Queries and Additional Declarations, Appendix 3, p.581

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WILSON, THOMAS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.359
Born in the parish of Glassford, 1800. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Friockheim, 1837. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. For several years was clerk of the Free Presbytery of Arbroath. Became senior minister, 1871. Died, 1872.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1833, Longtown, FES, Vol.7, p.476; 1837, Friockheim, FES, Vol.5, p.436. In the Free Church, he served in Friockheim, Angus.

Publication – by him
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.603, Jesus standing at the door

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Thomas Wilson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/7/1872, Minister at Friockheim of the Free Church of Scotland residing at Carnoustie, Dundee Sheriff Court, NRS SC45/31/23
22nd October, 1836, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.38 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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WILSON, THOMAS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.359
Born in Fife, 1854. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Beith, 1893. Translated to Pleasance, Edinburgh, 1896. Married Ann Kay.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Beith, Ayrshire; and Pleasance, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.23). He resigned in 1903.

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WILSON, THOMAS LOCKERBY

 
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Born at Cadder, Lanarkshire, 1810. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. While a student he taught in Glasgow, and officiated as a probationer at Banff, Sanday, and Gamrie. Ordained, 1849, at Longside. Married, 1850, Euphemia M’Lean; and, 1868, Harriet G. Gatherer. Became senior minister, 1870. Died, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born (or baptised) on 10th July, 1811, in Cadder, Lanarkshire, the son of Alexander Wilson, farmer, and Elizabeth Waddell. In his student days he was a teacher including in the schools of St James’ and Bridgegate, Glasgow.

Education
He matriculated at Glasgow University in 1834. There is no evidence that he enrolled in New College, Edinburgh.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Euphemia McLean on 15th August, 1850, at 2 Grafton Place, Glasgow, the marriage being registered in Campsie, Stirlingshire, on the 10th and in Longside, Aberdeenshire, on the 14th. She was born about 1813 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, the daughter of James McLean, carpet manufacturer, Kilmarnock, and Janet McLean.

(2) Harriet Gordon Gatherer on 23rd January, 1868, in Elgin, Moray. She was born on 16th May and baptized on 23rd June, 1840, in Elgin, Moray, the daughter of George Gatherer, writer, and Harriet MacLachlan.

Ministry
He was licensed in 1846 by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow. He was ordained in Longside, Aberdeenshire. In November, 1890, William Young was ordained as his colleague and successor.

Death
He died of diphtheria, five days, on 24th April, 1894, at 30 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen (Registration: 1894 168/2 356 Aberdeen Old Machar). His first wife died on 29th April, 1865, in Longside, Aberdeenshire (Registration: 1865 218/ 21 Longside). His second wife died in 1883 in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.

Family
He had issue by his second wife including:

(1) Harriet Gatherer Wilson born on 17th March, 1869, in Longside, Aberdeenshire. She died in 1943 in Aberdeen.

(2) Thomas Wilson born on 29th May, 1870, in Longside, Aberdeenshire.

(3) George Gatherer Wilson born on 15th March, 1872, in Longside, Aberdeenshire. In 1911 he was awarded the Imperial Chinese Order of the Double Dragon for services rendered in the recent pneumonic plague. He was then Secretary and Treasurer of the Union Medical College, Peking, China. By 1920 he was an O.B.E. and a captain in the Labour Corps. He died in 1949 in Aberdeen.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Thomas Lockerby Wilson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 29/5/1894, senior minister of the Free Church, Longside, residing sometime at 52 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen, latterly at 30 Beaconsfield Place there, d. 24/04/1894 at Aberdeen, testate, xtract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/122; Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/113

Sources
London Gazette, 1911; Edinburgh Gazette, 1920; Dundee Courier, 21st August, 1850; The Aberdeen Journal, 28th August, 1850; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 7th November, 1890, p.3

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WILSON, WILLIAM, D.D. (Edinburgh)

 
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Born in the parish of Westruther, 1808. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. After receiving licence in 1833 he acted as parochial missionary in Gorbals, Glasgow; and for some years edited the Scottish Guardian. Under the jus devolutum the Presbytery of Arbroath, in compliance with a petition from the parishioners, ordained him minister of Carmyllie, 1837. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. After the Disruption Mr. Wilson found himself without church or manse in a district where site refusal was the order of the day, and could only secure a lodging seven miles distant from the sphere of his labours. Became minister of the Mariners’ Church, Dundee, 1848. Here he built up a large congregation for which a new church was erected, later known as St. Paul’s. He was clerk both of the Synod of Angus and Mearns, and of the Presbytery of Dundee. In 1866 Dr. Wilson was Moderator of the General Assembly, and in 1868 he became one of the principal clerks of that Court. In 1877 he was appointed joint-convener and secretary of the Sustentation Fund Committee, when he became minister emeritus, and removed to Edinburgh. From 1863 to 1873 Dr. Wilson was convener of the Home Mission Committee; he was also at different times convener of the Church and Manse Building Fund. Died, 1888.

Publications.—The Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus: Exposition. Free Church Principles (Chalmers Lectures). Memoirs of Robert S. Candlish, D.D. Scriptural Argument against Patronage. Christ’s Gift to the Church, and His Authority. Christ setting His Face towards Jerusalem: Expositions.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, Carmyllie, FES, Vol.5, p.433; FES, Vol.8, p.510. In the Free Church, he served in St. Paul’s: Mariners’, Dundee.

Publications
See separate document here.

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WILSON, WILLIAM, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.359
Born 1828. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Monkton, Ayrshire, 1855. Married, 1856, Mary Shields; and, 1868, Jane Aitchison. Translated, 1864, to Musselburgh. Was clerk of the Free Presbytery of Dalkeith. Died, 1875.

Publications.—Heroines of the Household. Popular Preachers of the Ancient Church. Translated the works of Clement of Alexandria for Messrs. T. & T. Clark’s Ante-Nicene Library. The Heavenward Path; or, Progress and Perfection in the Life of Faith, being a series of discourses on Second Peter. Posthumous.—Until the Day Break, a volume of sermons.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 14th December, 1828, and baptized on 10th January, 1829, in Peterculter, Aberdeenshire, the son of Francis Wilson, carpenter, and Dorothea Mitchell.

Education
He attended Aberdeen Grammar School. He matriculated at King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1845 and graduated M.A. in March 1849. There is no evidence that he enrolled in New College, Edinburgh.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Mary Shield on 27th January, 1856, in Edinburgh. She was born about 1833 in Edinburgh.

(2) Jane Aitchison on 27th July, 1868, in Prestonpans, East Lothian. She was born on 9th April, 1829, in Musselburgh, Midlothian, the daughter of William Aitchison and Jane Allan.

Ministry
He was ordained in Prestwick, Ayrshire, in 1855; and was translated to Musselburgh, Midlothian, in 1861.

Death
He died on 20th September, 1875, in Musselburgh, Midlothian. His first wife died there in 1866. His widow lived latterly at 92 Findhorn Place, Edinburgh, and died there on 1st April, 1902.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) Mary Shield Wilson born on 20th November, 1856, in Monkton, Ayrshire. She married James Francis Gardner, a Free Church minister, in 1888 in Newington, Edinburgh. She died in 1930 in Morningside, Edinburgh.

(2) Frances Dorothea Wilson born on 19th January, 1858, in Monkton, Ayrshire.

(3) William Austin Mitchell Wilson born on 15th April, 1859, in Monkton, Ayrshire. His death was announced in September, 1895. In the Free Church, he served in the Middlesex Regiment and then in the Indian Army.

(4) George Wilson baptized on 1st September, 1860, in Monkton, Ayrshire.

(5) James Arran Wilson born on 17th July, 1862, in Monkton, Ayrshire.

(6) John Ferguson Wilson born on 24th October, 1863, in Monkton, Ayrshire.

(7) Elizabeth Wilson born on 5th January, 1865, in Inveresk with Musselburgh, Midlothian.

And by his second wife:

(8) Allan Aitchison Wilson born on 2nd August, 1870, in Inveresk with Musselburgh, Midlothian. He died on 21st January, 1929, in St Andrew, Edinburgh.

(9) Alexander Clement Francis William Wilson born on 21st December, 1871, in Inveresk with Musselburgh, Midlothian. He died on 24th July 24, 1940, at 19, Belgrave Place, Edinburgh.

Publications – by him
The popular preachers of the ancient Church: their lives, their manner, and their work, London, 1859
The heavenward path: or progress and perfection in the life of faith, Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo, 1862
Heroines of the household, London, George Routledge and Sons, 1864
The writings of Clement of Alexandria, translated by William Wilson, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1867-1869
Liturgies and other documents of the Ante-Nicene period, translated by William Wilson and others, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1872
“Until the day break”, and other sermons, with memoir by James Moir, Edinburgh, 1876
Shorter stories from Balzac, English versions by William Wilson and the Count Stenbock, London, Walter Scott, 1890

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Wilson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 4/2/1876, M.A., Minister, Free Church, Musselburgh, d. 20/09/1875 at Musselburgh, intestate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/176
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Aitchison or Wilson, Jane 22/7/1902, 92 Findhorn Place, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. William Lyon Wilson, M.A., F.C. Musselburgh, d. 01/04/1902 at Edinburgh, testate, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/7/11; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/415; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/340

Source
Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 20th September, 1895

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WINGATE, WILLIAM

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1808. Began life as a Glasgow merchant, but relinquished business in order to devote himself to mission work among the Jews. After preparatory studies in Glasgow and Edinburgh, he was appointed to Budapest, and ordained there by a specially constituted Presbytery in 1843, his ordination being afterwards recognised by the Free Church General Assembly. Married, the same year, a daughter of Dr. John Duncan, Edinburgh. Being driven out of Hungary in 1852, Mr. Wingate retired to London, where he laboured amongst the Jews for forty years. Died, 1899.

Publication.—The Close of the Times of the Gentiles.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1842, Missionary, FES, Vol.7, p.717

Publications – by him
Close of the times of the Gentiles, the great event of our day, London, 1872
Lux in Tenebris: or Thoughts for the Bereaved, compiled by Elizabeth Marriott, edited by W. Wingate, London, Elliott Stock, 1900

Publications – about him
Life and work of the Rev. William Wingate, missionary to the Jews, Gavin Carlyle, London, Alfred Holness, c. 1900
The story of the consecrated life of the Rev. William Wingate, saint, apostle and missionary to the Jews, Isaac Levinson, London, British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews, between 1900 and 1914

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WINTER, JAMES, M.A.

 
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Born, 1862. Son of Dr. Winter, Dyke. Studied at the Universities, St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Bower, Caithness-shire, 1891. Died, as the result of an accident, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 18th March, 1862, in Dyke, Moray, the son of William Winter, the Free Church minister there, and Christina Henderson.

Education
He attended Forres Academy, Moray, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh. He studied at United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1879-1880. He was the Garth Bursar in 1879. He studied at Edinburgh University from where he graduated M.A. in 1884. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1883-87. In the summer of 1884 he worked as a student missioner at Kingscavil and Linlithgow, West Lothian.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Forres on 7th June, 1887. He served at St Stephen’s, Edinburgh; Port William, Wigtownshire; South Monifieth, Angus; and for three years at St Mary’s, Edinburgh. He was ordained in Bower, Caithness, on 26th November, 1891.

Death
He was thrown from his horse while returning from preaching and was found dead the next morning in the road, a mile from his Manse, near Thura Linn. He died on 8th May, 1892, in Bower, Caithness, and was buried there on 13th May. In June he was due to have married a niece of David Ogilvy – a sister of J. M. Barrie, the writer. (J.M. Barrie left £500 in his will to Bower Free Church, in memory of James Winter.)

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Winter
9/7/1892, M.A., F.C. Minister, Bower, County of Caithness, d. 09/05/1892 at Bower, intestate, Wick Sheriff Court, NRS SC14/40/14

Sources
Glasgow Herald, 10th May, 1892; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 14th May, 1892; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 16th July, 1937, p.8

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WINTER, WILLIAM, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.360
Born at Mains, Forfarshire, 1832. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dyke, Morayshire, 1857. Married, the same year, Christina Henderson. Dr. Winter was clerk of the Synod of Moray and of the Presbytery of Forres.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dyke, Moray. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.469). He became senior minister in 1909 and died in 1913.

Family
His son, James Winter, was a Free Church minister.

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WINTER, WILLIAM

 
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Born at Cortachy, Forfarshire, 1863. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kingarth, Bute, 1890. Married, 1891, Mary H. M. Rae.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilchattan Bay, Kingarth, South, Bute. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.279, where a short biography is given). He died in 1924.

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WISELY, GEORGE, D.D.

 
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Born at Aberdeen, 1826. Studied at Marischal College and Free Church College, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Appointed to Malta, 1853, where he was ordained, 1854. Married, the same year, Jessie T. Miller. Became minister emeritus, 1896. In the early years of his ministry Dr. Wisely had interesting work among Oriental students who attended the Malta Protestant College—Copts, Abyssinians, Greeks, Armenians, and others. After some years he procured a site and secured the erection of a church and manse.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.527). He died in 1917.

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WISEMAN, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.360
Born at Fochabers, 1862. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Monifieth, 1890.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Monifieth, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.391). He retired in 1920.

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WISHART, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.360
Born at Aberdeen, 1839. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Forgue, Aberdeenshire, 1864. Married, 1865, Agnes Watt.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Forgue, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.447). He retired in 1910 and died in 1924.

Family
His son, Walter Taylor Wishart, was a minister of the United Free Church: Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.464.

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WISHART, ALEXANDER W.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.360
Born at Forgue. Son of the foregoing. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Aboyne, 1899. Married, 1900, Euphemia Ogilvie. Alexander Watt Wishart

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.428, where a short biography is given).

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WOOD, JAMES JULIUS, D.D. (Glasgow)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.360
Born at Jedburgh, 1800. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Newton-on-Ayr, 1827. Married, 1833, Christian Henderson. Translated, 1836, to Stirling; and, 1839, to New Greyfriars’, Edinburgh. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Shortly after the Disruption Dr. Wood’s health gave way, and he spent some years officiating at Malta, Madeira, and other foreign stations. In 1848 he was settled at Dumfries, St. George’s. In 1857 Dr. Wood was Moderator of the General Assembly. Became senior minister, 1875. Died, 1877.

Publications. — Address on Quitting the Establishment. Letter to Greyfriars’ {Edinburgh} Free Church, 1843.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1827, Newton on Ayr, FES, Vol.3, p.14; 1836, Stirling, FES, Vol.4, p.322; 1839, New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, FES, Vol.1, p.35; FES, Vol.8, p.9; 1841, Malta, FES, Vol.7, p.556; Small, History, Vol.2, p.415. In the Free Church, he served in Greyfriars’, Edinburgh; and Dumfries— St. George’s.

Family
His daughter Sophia Wood married David Norris Mackay, a Free Church minister.

Publications
See separate document here.

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WOOD, WALTER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.361
Born at Dundee, 1812. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Westruther, 1838. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1845, to Elie. Married, the same year, Agnes Scott; and, 1877, Margaret G. Broadfoot. Died, 1882.

Publications.—Memoir of Walter Pringle, of Greenknowe. The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and Antiquities. The Last things: The Doctrine of the Resurrection. Will the Second Advent be Pre-millennial? The Free Church and the Patronage Act: Reply to Bishop Wordsworth’s Charges, 1865-66.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1838, Westruther, FES, Vol.2, p.166; FES, Vol.8, p.147. In the Free Church, he served in Westruther, Berwickshire; and Elie, Fife.

Family
Brown Tree.

Publications
See separate document here.

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WRIGHT, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.361
Born at Malta, 1845. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Musselburgh, 1876. Married, 1882, Marion Isabella Barron.

Publications.—The Presbyterian Church: Its Worship, Functions, and Ministerial Orders.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Musselburgh, Midlothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.58). He died in 1901.

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WRIGHT, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.361
Born in the parish of Kilmadock, 1809. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Divinity Hall, Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall, Burgher Synod. Ordained at Alloa, 1830. Joined the Church of Scotland, 1839. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1875. Mr. Wright was the last Moderator of the Associate Burgher Synod; he was also last Moderator of the Synod of Perth and Stirling at the time of the Disruption. Died, 1893.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1830, Alloa (Burgher), Scott, Annals, p.508; Scott, Annals, p.249; 1839, Alloa West, FES, Vol.4, p.295. In the Free Church, he served in East, Alloa, Clackmannanshire.

Publications – by him
Eternal life the free gift of Christ, a discourse on John 17:2, Alloa, J. Lothian, 1841
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, 15th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/175

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Wright
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 6/4/1893, Rev., Lothian Bank, Eskbank, Dalkeith, formerly Minister, East Free Church, Alloa, d. 08/01/1893 at Dalkeith, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/317; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/266
2nd March, 1838, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.324 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

Source
Article 1 — No Title; The Scotsman (1860-1920); Jan 10, 1893; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Scotsman (1817-1950); pg. 4

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WRIGHT, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.361
Born at Dollar, 1819. Studied at the Universities, St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kinross, 1844. Married, 1852, Margaret Leishman.

Supplementary Information
John Kinross Wright

Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kinross. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.351, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1902 and died in 1909.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth endowment, 29th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/187

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WRIGHT, JOHN GRANT, LL.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.361
Born, 1821. After three sessions at the New College, Edinburgh, he was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Kelso, 1846. Ordained at Morebattle, 1847. Married, 1850, Alice Henderson. Translated to Southampton, 1854, where he died.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Perth about 1822.

Education
He studied at United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1839-43. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-46. He was awarded the LL.D. degree by an American University.

Marriage
He married Alice Henderson on 19th June, 1850, in Kelso, Roxburghshire. She was born about 1830 in England, the daughter of Andrew Henderson and Anne Browne, who married in Leeds in 1828. In 1841 she was living in Kelso with her mother, who had by then married George Main, a baillie there. The marriage was conducted by “Dr Henderson, Glasgow.” Everything seems to indicate that this was Dr James Henderson, who became a Free Church minister, and that he was an uncle of Alice Henderson.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Morebattle, Roxburghshire.

Death
He died in the 1st quarter of 1880 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. He lived at 15 Cranbury Place, Southampton. His wife died in 1855 in Kelso, Roxburghshire.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Charlotte Anne Wright baptized on 24th August, 1851, in Kelso, Roxburghshire. She married William Gilbert Dickinson, surgeon, London, England, in September, 1878, in Kelso, Roxburghshire. She died in the 1st quarter of 1909 in Wandsworth, London, England.

(2) Mary Louisa Wright baptized on 18th April, 1853, in Kelso, Roxburghshire.

(3) John Henderson Wright baptized on 24th January, 1855, in Kelso, Roxburghshire. He married Nellie Alice Charlotte Hamilton Reddie in 1878 in Colinton, Edinburgh. He was a doctor, for a time practising in Kelso, Roxburghshire

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 5/7/1880, of 15 Cranbury Place, Southampton, Presbyterian minister, LL.D., Probate of the will, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/6/18

Sources
Curiousfox; Antill

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WRIGHT, JOHN WALLACE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.361
Born at Glasgow, 1809. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Halls, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Ordained, 1839, at St. John’s, Haddington. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, the same year, Hangup Murray Whitehead. Died, 1872.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1839, Haddington, FES, Vol.1, p.374. In the Free Church, he served in Haddington — St. John’s, East Lothian.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John W. Wright
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 27/9/1872, of Free Saint John ‘s Church at Haddington, Haddington Sheriff Court, NRS SC40/40/18

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WRIGHT, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.361
Born at Amisfield, Dumfries-shire, 1838. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dalbeattie, 1866. Married, 1869, Janet Crichton. Died, 1879.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 28th April and baptized on 13th May, 1836, in Amisfield, Tinwald, Dumfries-shire. The son of Johnstone Wright, shoemaker, and Marion Glover.

Education
He attended Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh University. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 19th March, 1859 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.209). He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1860-64.

Marriage
He married Janet Crichton on 29th June, 1869, in Tinwald, Dumfries-shire. She was born on 16th and baptized on 27th July, 1838, in Tinwald, Dumfries-shire, the daughter of David Crichton, farmer, and Elizabeth Henry.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Dumfries in 1864.  he was appointed to be missionary in connection with St. Andrew’s Free Church, Greenock. He was ordained in Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 22nd February, 1866.

Death
He died of phthisis on 26th April, 1879, at the Free Church Manse, Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire. His widow lived latterly at Kindar, Rotchell Road, Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire, and died there in 1919.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Robert Wright
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 15/5/1879, Minister, Free Church, Dalbeattie, d. 26/04/1879 at Dalbeattie, testate, Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court, NRS SC16/41/34
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Wright or Creighton, Janet, 10/6/1919, Kindar, Rotchell Road, Maxwelltown, widow, d. 24/03/1919 at Maxwelltown, testate, Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court, NRS SC16/41/63; Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC16/47/8

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WRIGHT, THOMAS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.361
Born at Edinburgh, 1809. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Rhynie, Presbytery of Strathbogie, 1842. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1843, to Swinton. Became senior minister, 1870. Died, 1882.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 6th December, 1809, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, the son of Robert Wright, architect, and Mary Finnie.

Education
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 23rd January, 1830 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.180).

Marriage
He married Georgina Charlotte Gunn in 1863 in St Andrew, Edinburgh (Registration: 1863 685/2 246 St Andrew (Edinburgh)). She was born on 4th October, 1830, in Latheron, Caithness, the daughter of John Gunn, farmer, and his wife Margaret.

Ministry
After licence, he acted as missionary first in St. Stephen’s, Edinburgh, and afterwards in South Leith.  He was ordained in Rhynie, Aberdeenshire; and was later translated to Swinton, Berwickshire. In 1870 he intimated his intention to resign his charge on the grounds of bad health and William Shearer was ordained as his colleague and successor.

Death
He died on 3rd December, 1882, at Tower Villa, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire. It is probable that his wife died in the 3rd quarter of 1916 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England.

Publication – by him
New Statistical Account, August, 1842, Rhynie, Vol.12, p.1015

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Thomas Wright
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/1/1883, Minister, Free Church, sometime at Swinton, near Coldstream, thereafter residing at Towerville, Helensburgh, d. 03/12/1882 at Helensburgh, testate, Dumbarton Sheriff Court, NRS SC65/34/26

Source
He is not mentioned in FES.

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WYLIE, JAMES AITKEN, LL.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.361
Born at Kirriemuir, 1808. Studied at the Universities, Aberdeen and St. Andrews, and Divinity Hall, Original Secession Church. Ordained at Dollar as Secession minister, 1831. In 1846 Dr. Wylie resigned his charge in order to remove to Edinburgh and be associated with Hugh Miller in the editorship of the Witness. In 1852 he was admitted by the Presbytery of Edinburgh as a minister of the Free Church without a charge. From 1853 to 1860 Dr. Wylie edited the Free Church Record, and in the latter year he was appointed lecturer in connection with the Protestant Institute. Died, 1890.

Publications: Modern Judea compared with Ancient Prophecy. Scenes from the Bible. Ruins of Bible Lands. The Seventh Vial. The Papacy (prize essay). Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber. The History of Protestantism, (three volumes). History of the Scottish Nation (two volumes: unfinished). History of the Waldenses. Daybreak in Spain. Rise and Progress of Jesuitism. The Story of the Covenant and Covenanters, etc.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 9th August, 1808, in Kirriemuir, Angus, the son of James Wylie, merchant.

Education
He matriculated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1823, and completed three years of work. He studied at the United College, St Andrews, Fife, in 1826-27. He studied at the Divinity Hall of the Secession Church. He received an honorary LL.D. degree from Aberdeen University on 17th April, 1855. He was licensed on 1st December, 1829.

Marriage
His marriage to Euphemia Gray is recorded on 5th July, 1841, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. She was born on 25th December, 1808, and baptised on 5th January, 1809, in Kirkcaldy, Fife, the daughter of Thomas Gray and Catherine Roubel.

Ministry
He was ordained at Dollar Secession Church, Clackmannanshire, on 20th April, 1831. He became assistant editor of the Witness newspaper and so he resigned his charge on 27th April, 1846. He joined the Free Church at the Union of 1852.

Death
He died on 1st May, 1890, at 12 Archibald Place, Edinburgh. His wife died, according to the Old Parish Records on 5th March, 1846. They were buried in East Preston Street Cemetery, Edinburgh, where a grave stone commemorates the whole family. According to it, his wife died on 6th March, 1848. We have to say however that though using here information from the gravestone, some of the details on it are certainly wrong. For example, his daughters were not born in Edinburgh, as the stone says, but in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, as the censuses record.

Family
He had issue including:

(1) Catherine Mary Wylie born on 6th October, 1842, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. She died 10th December, 1891, in Edinburgh.

(2) Margaret Wylie born on 15th March, 1844, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. She died on 18th February, 1899, in Edinburgh.

(3) Thomas Gray Wylie said to have been born on 20th October, 1845, in Edinburgh and to have died there on 19th April, 1847.

Publications
See separate document here.

Sources
1831, Antiburgher, Student, Scott, Annals, p.565; Dollar, General, Scott, Annals, p.154; Small, History, Vol.2, p.712; Findagrave

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WYLLIE, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.362, Vol.1, p.349
Born at Pollokshaws, 1841. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Hall, Reformed Presbyterian Church. Ordained, 1868, at Dundee. Married, 1871, Marion Pettigrew. Mr. Wyllie joined the Free Church at the union of 1876. Died, 1893.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
FRPCS, p.33 – John Wylie; Couper, The R.P. Church, p.151. In the Free Church, he served in Dundee – Martyrs’.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Wylie.

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