Update: 31st March, 2016
A further seven family trees have now been added to the web-site, namely: …
Ecclegen Have a look!
Falling between Two Censuses
Family relationships are easily identified through the use of the ten-yearly censuses. But there are some cases where a minister is ordained for service abroad and never is present in Scotland as a minister in the census year; or a man has a brief ministry in Scotland …
A Clump of Trees
Six more family trees have now been added to this web-site … and they are all inter-related.
Charles Calder Mackintosh: whom did he marry?
Charles Calder Mackintosh was parish minister and, later, Free Church minister in Tain, Ross and Cromarty. He married Anne Brown. But who was she?
Update: 16th February, 2016
The present goals for the development of this website are stated in the right side-bar. Here is a short account of the progress made since these were formulated till the blog came into operation on 16th February.
Archibald Nicol, Coll, Argyll
There is a discrepancy between FES and Ewing Annals in regard to the minister of Coll prior to the Disruption.
The Bell Tree
A new category has been added to our menu: Trees; and the first Tree there is the Bell Tree.
How it all began
I thought I had noticed in Ewing’s Annals that, as the 19th century progressed, the rate of ministers resigning seemed to increase. I wondered if this was because of the theological liberalism which was creeping into the Free Church at that time.
Why a Blog?
A good question! When I started this web-site about a year ago, I didn’t see any need to have a blog. Now I’m not entirely convinced that I need one, but we are going to try it for a while at least.