Category: Focus

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Who wrote The Wheat and the Chaff?

This book has wrongly been attributed to James McCosh – a minister and academic. Here is the case in favour of James McCosh, journalist and editor, being the author.

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Disruption Defaulters

It may not be immediately apparent why a book entitled The Wheat and the Chaff gathered into Bundles is of relevance to a web-site whose main interest is historical and genealogical.

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Robert Ross, Troon and St Mark’s, Glasgow

Ewing’s information on him is sparse. There is a birth year, but no birthplace; an awareness that he was married twice but only the name of the second wife is known. We can probably add some flesh to these bones

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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 …