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

Ewing – List of Ministers: K

 
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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KATER, DAVID, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.196
Born at Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, 1866. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Bathgate, 1892. Married, 1897, Mary Brown.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, In the Free Church, he served in Bathgate, West Lothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p. 3). Thereafter he served in Maryhill, Glasgow, from 1905 (FUFC, p.233, where a short biography is given).

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KAY, ALEXANDER CANT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.196
Born in Forfarshire, 1832. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Loanhead, 1863. Mr. Kay went to Canada, 1880.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 4th and baptized on 18th June, 1832, in Monifieth, Angus, the son of David Kay, engineer, and Margaret Cant.

Education
He attended the Free Church School, Broughty Ferry, Angus. He studied at United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1852-54 and 1856-58, and enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1858-62. He was admitted to the Dialectic Society, Edinburgh, on 19th March, 1859; and became an honorary member on 31st February, 1863. He delivered two Essays to the Society: Knowing and Being; and The Influence of the Idea of Destiny on Oriental Thought . See History of the Dialectic Society, p.210.

Ministry
He was ordained in Loanhead, Midlothian, on 29th December, 1863. He was libelled in 1878-79 by the Presbytery of Dalkeith on seven counts of intoxication. The case was a lengthy one which dragged through the courts. The records of the case were kept in a separate register and formed a substantial volume (NRS, CH3/67/6). He was deposed from the ministry sine die and loosed from his charge by the General Assembly on 22nd May, 1880.

He was declared a bankrupt at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 5th June, 1879: his assets were stated to be ₤209 10/- and his debts were ₤512 7/11.

He was pastor of the East Tawas Presbyterian Church, Iosco County, Michigan, USA, in 1893, and was Commissioner of Schools there from at least 1893 to 1895.

Publication – about him
Court of Session: Concluded Sequestration Processes: Rev Alexander Cant Kay, Loanhead, Edinburghshire, Free church minister, 1884, NRS CS318/27/207

Sources
History of the Dialectic Society, Edinburgh, T. A. Constable, 1887, p.210. The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 30th April, 1879, p.8; 13th November, 1879, p.6; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 6th June, 1879; 24th May 24, 1880

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KAY, CHARLES DONALD, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.196
Born at Dundee, 1841. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Innerleithen, 1870. Married, the same year, Mary Jane Low. Translated to Comrie, 1880; and, 1887, to Woolston, Southampton.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 2nd and baptized on 17th October, 1841, in Dundee, the son of Alexander Kay and Jean Donald.

Education
He attended Dundee High School. He studied at St Andrews, Fife: at United College, 1857-61, and at St Mary’s College, 1863-64. He won the Gray Prize in 1861. He graduated M.A. on 26th April, 1864. He was awarded a D.D. degree on 25th March, 1898. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1864-68. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 19th November, 1864 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.217).

Marriage
He married Mary Jane Low in 1870 in St Andrew, Dundee. She was born on 21st May and baptized on 11th June, 1845, in Dundee, the daughter of Richard Low, teacher, and Wilhelmina Sime. A presentation was made to him on the occasion of his marriage, dated 27th October, 1870.

Ministry
He officiated in East, Aberdeen, for a time, during a vacancy. He was ordained in Innerleithen, Peebles-shire, on 17th March, 1870. On 29th March, 1880, he was elected to Comrie, Perthshire, and he was inducted there on 8th June that year. In 1887 he accepted a call to Woolston, Southampton, England.

Death
He died on 6th June, 1912, in Southampton, Hampshire, England. His wife died there in the 1st quarter of that same year.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Alexander James Kay born in 1872 in Innerleithen, Peebles-shire. He married Winifred Agnes Corfe in the 2nd quarter of 1900 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.

(2) Richard John Kay born in 1874 in Innerleithen, Peebles-shire. He was a bank clerk.

(3) William Robert Kay born in 1881 in Comrie, Perthshire. He was a bank clerk.

(4) Charles David Kay born in 1886 in Comrie, Perthshire. He was a photographer.

Sources
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 18th March, 1870, p.7; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 14th September, 1869; 4th November, 1870; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 2nd March, 1898

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KAY, DAVID, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.196
Born at Carnoustie. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall of the Original Secession Church under Dr. M’Crie. At the time of the Union of 1852 Dr. Kay was labouring as an evangelist in Italy and was admitted to the Union. Ordained by the Free Presbytery of Italy at Genoa, 1853. Married, 1857, Caroline H. C. Hoste. Resigned, 1859, and went to Victoria, where he was settled first at Wickliffe, then at Chatsworth, and at Hexham, 1863. Resigned, 1874.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Student, Scott, Annals, p.588; Ward and Prentis, Presbyterian Ministers, p.78

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KAY, JOHN, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.196
Born at Greenock, 1826. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and Divinity Hall, Reformed Presbyterian Church. Ordained at Airdrie, 1850. Married, the same year, Janet M’K. MacIntyre. Translated, 1859, to Castle Douglas; and, 1871, to Coatbridge. Joined the Free Church, 1876. Translated, 1878, to Argyle Place United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. Died, 1885.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
FRPCS, p.14; Couper, The R.P. Church, p.128. In the Free Church, he served in East, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.

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KAY, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.196
Born at Edinburgh, 1845. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at South Ronaldshay, 1876. Translated to Crofthead, 1878. Married, 1880, Jane Lamb Muir.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Ronaldshay – South, Orkney; and Crofthead (Longridge), West Lothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.37). He became senior minister in 1910 and died in 1913.

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KEAY, ANDREW

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.196
Born at Glenshee, Perthshire, 1834. Studied at the Universities, St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Crail, 1864. Married, 1866, Elizabeth P. Elliot. Translated to Trinity Church, Glasgow, 1872; and to Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 1878. In 1898 Mr. Keay, who was in the colony at the time, represented the Free Church at the jubilee of the Presbyterian Church of Otago.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Crail, Fife; Trinity, Glasgow; and Stockbridge, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.32, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1904 and died in 1908.

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KEITH, ALEXANDER, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.196
Born, 1791. Son of Dr. George Skene Keith, minister of the parish of Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire. Studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen. Ordained at St. Cyrus, 1816. Married, the same year, Jane Blaikie. Dr. Keith was one of the deputation sent by the Assembly of 1839 on a mission of inquiry to the Jews. On his homeward journey he was seized with cholera at Pesth. His recovery was greatly aided by the kind care of the Archduchess, Maria Dorothea, through whose friendship for Dr. Keith the way was opened for the establishment of the mission to the Jews in that city. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. In 1840 his son was associated with him as assistant and successor. For some years before and after the Disruption Dr. Keith was convener of the Jewish Mission Committee. Died, 1880.

Publications.—Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, derived from the Fulfilment of Prophecy. The Signs of the Times; illustrated by the Fulfilment of Historical Predictions. The Land of Israel according to the Covenant with the Patriarchs. Demonstrations of the Truth of the Christian Religion from Existing Facts and Collateral Proof. The Harmony of Prophecy concerning the Time of the Restitution of all Things. History and Destiny of the World and the Church according to Scripture.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1816, St Cyrus, FES, Vol.5, p.483. In the Free Church, he served in St. Cyrus, Kincardineshire.

Family
Lorimer Mellis Blaikie Tree.

Publications
See separate document here.

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KEITH, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.197
Born, 1817. Son of foregoing. Studied at the University, Aberdeen. Ordained at St. Cyrus, 1840. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1852, Eleanor W. Bertram. Became senior minister, 1861. Died, 1880.

Publication.—Isaiah as It Is.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, St Cyrus, FES, Vol.5, p.483. In the Free Church, he served in St. Cyrus, Kincardineshire.

Family
Lorimer Mellis Blaikie Tree.

Publication – by him:
Isaiah as it is, or, Judah and Jerusalem the subjects of Isaiah’s Prophesying, Edinburgh, W. Whyte & Co., 1850

Publications – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: Keith, Alexander
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Free Church Minister, Saint Cyrus, afterwards residing successively at North Queensferry, Fife, Lugton, Dalkeith, Musselburgh, and Levenhall, near Musselburgh, d. 29/04/1880 at Levenhall aforesaid, intestate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/202
Two sermons preached at St. Cyrus, in connection with the settlement of the Rev. Alex. Keith, as assistant and successor to his father in the Parish of St. Cyrus, Alexander D. Davidson and Alexander Keith, Aberdeen, Davidson, 1841
New Statistical Account, December, 1841, St Cyrus, Vol.11, Kincardine, p.269
For photos by Hill and Adamson see here, here and here

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KEITH, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.197
Born, 1821. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, while acting as schoolmaster at Strichen. Ordained at Strichen, 1844. Married, 1852, Ann Watson. Became senior minister, 1872. Died, 1889.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 24th April, 1821, in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, the son of James Keith, farmer, and Mary Mearson.

Education
He matriculated at Marischal College in 1835 and graduated M.A. with Honours and distinction.

Marriage
He married Anne Watson. The marriage was registered on 11th November, 1852, in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, and 9th November, 1852, in St Fergus, Banffshire. She was born about 1823 in St Fergus, Banffshire, the daughter of Alexander Watson, farmer, and his wife Ann.

Ministry
He was ordained in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, on 12th September, 1844. John Tainsh was ordained there as his colleague and successor in 1872.

Death
He died, a widower, on 7th February, 1889, at Keir Cottage, Bridge of Allan (Registration: 1889
374/ 14 Logie (Perth)). There is no sign of his wife’s death in Scotland but the death of an Anne Watson Keith, aged 51, was registered in the 4th quarter of 1874 in the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Anne Keith born on 30th August, 1856, in Strichen, Aberdeenshire. She perhaps died in 1880 in Logie, Perthshire.

(2) Mary Elizabeth Keith, born on 27th May, 1860, in Strichen, Aberdeenshire.

(3) John Robert Keith born on 15th August, 1862, in Strichen, Aberdeenshire.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: minister of the Free Church in Strichen, afterwards residing at Keir Cottage, Bridge of Allan, d. 07/02/1889 at Bridge of Allan, intestate, Inventory, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS C67/36/89

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KEITH, CHARLES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.197
Born at Wick, 1851. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Cluny, 1880. Married, 1891, Mary E. Fleming.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Clunie, Perthshire – not, as Ewing says, in Cluny, which is in Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.323). He died in 1915.

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KEITH, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.197
Born at Aberdeen, 1837. Studied at King’s College and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Carmyllie, 1865. Married, 1868, Margaret H. Routledge.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Carmyllie, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.397). He retired in 1896 and died in 1919.

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KEITH, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.197
Born at Skene, 1834. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Kingswells, 1861. Married, 1864, Jane B. Ronaldson. Translated to Cathcart, 1868. Resigned, 1895.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 18th October, 1834, in Skene, Aberdeenshire, the son of William Keith and Janet Wyness.

Education
He matriculated in King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1850 and graduated M.A. in March, 1855.

Marriage
He married Jane Bertram Ronaldson. She was born on 20th April, 1845, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the daughter of Alexander Ronaldson, sugar merchant, and Catherine Richardson.

Ministry
He was ordained in Kingswells, Aberdeenshire, on 24th September, 1861; and was translated to Cathcart, Glasgow, on 30th April, 1867.

Death
His wife died on 7th January, 1891, at 11 Ethel Terrace, Glasgow.

Family
They had issue, including:

(1) Margaret Ronaldson Keith born on 7th June, 1865, in Newhills, Aberdeenshire. In 1917 she was matron of Finborough Hall Hospital, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England.

(2) William Keith born on 24th February, 1867, in Newhills, Aberdeenshire.

(3) Jessie Marshall Keith born on 11th December, 1868, in Cathcart, Glasgow. In 1919 she was matron of the Officers’ Hospital, Pylewell Park, Lymington, Hampshire, England. She died on 26th April, 1945, in Bridge, Kent, England.

(4) Alexander Ronaldson Keith born on 11th November, 1870, in Cathcart, Glasgow.

(5) Jane Bertram Keith born on 5th March, 1872, in Cathcart, Glasgow.

(6) Marshall Keith born on 9th May, 1873, in Cathcart, Glasgow.

(7) Isabella Ronaldson Keith born on 21st May, 1874, in Cathcart, Glasgow. She died there that same year.

(8) George Edmond Keith born in 1875 in Cathcart, Glasgow. He married Ada Blanche Clapshaw on 1st June, 1911, in St Peters, Wellington, New Zealand. He was “of Tokomaru Bay, son of the Rev. W. Keith.” He died on 8th November, 1958, in New Zealand.

(9) James Burness Keith born in 1877 in Cathcart, Glasgow. He served with the Canadian forces in WW1. He lived at 715 William Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He died in Deer Lodge Hospital there on 7th September, 1960, and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery there.

(10) John Sim Clark Keith born in 1879 in Cathcart, Glasgow. He was a private, in the Royal Marine Labour. He died on 28th June, 1919, and was buried in Dunkirk Town Cemetery, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, Plot: V. A. 20.

(11) Henry Bertram Keith born in 1881 in Cathcart, Glasgow. He died in 1941 in Kelvingrove, Glasgow.

Sources
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1143, 2 June 1911, Page 9; Newspaperarchive; Findagrave; Winnipeg; Glasgow Herald, 8th January, 1891

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KEITH-FALCONER, HON. ION GRANT NEVILLE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.197
Born at Edinburgh, 1856. Son of the eighth Earl of Kintore. Studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Leipzig. Appointed Hebrew lecturer at Clare College, Cambridge, in 1883. Married, the following year at Cannes, Gwendolen Bevan. In 1885 he offered himself to the Free Church, of which he was a communicant, as a missionary to the Mohammedans of South Arabia, and by the General Assembly of the following year was recognised as a fully accredited missionary of the Free Church. Appointed, the same year, Lord Almoner Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. In November 1886 he arrived at Aden, and before the close of the year was living in a temporary residence in Sheikh Othman. In the beginning of 1887 he had repeated seizures of remittent fever. Died on l0th May 1887. “Very visibly he gave to the cause and kingdom of our Lord Jesus all he had. His university distinction, his oriental learning, his position in society, his means, the bright morning of his married life, his physical vigour—for he had trained body as well as mind —he brought them all to the service ” (R. R.).

Publications.—A Plea for the Tower Hamlets Mission. Kalilah and Dimnah: otherwise known as The Fables of Bidpai. Translated from the Syriac. Posthumous.—Memorials of the Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer, M.A. By the Rev. Robert Sinker, D.D., Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1888.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 5th July, 1856, in Edinburgh, the son of Frances Alexander Keith, Earl of Kintore, and Louisa Madeleine Hawkins.

Education
He attended Harrow School, London, England. He studied at the University of Cambridge, England.

Marriage
He married Gwendolen Bevan on 4 March, 1884, in Cannes. She was born in the 4th quarter of 1865, the daughter of Robert Cooper Lee Bevan of Trent Park, Hertfordshire, and Emma Frances Shuttleworth.

Other
He was 6 feet 3 tall; an athlete and champion cyclist.

Death
He died of malaria on 11th May, 1887. His widow later married Frederick Ewart Bradshaw and died on 24th October, 1937, in Chelsea, London, England.

Publications
See separate document here.

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KELLY, JAMES JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.197
Born at Aberdeen, 1852. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Irvine, Fullarton, 1881. Married, 1882, Clara Tindall; and, 1895, Jane D. Reid. Translated, 1894, to Wishaw.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Fullarton, Irvine, Ayrshire; and Wishaw, Lanarkshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.195). He resigned in 1901 and died in 1902.

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KELMAN, JOHN, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.197
Born at Keith, Banffshire, 1830. Studied at King’s College and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Port-Glasgow, 1858. Married, the same year, Margaret H. Urquhart. Translated to Dundonald, Ayrshire, 1862; and to Leith, St. John’s, 1866.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Hamilton, Port-Glasgow, Renfrewshire; Dundonald, Ayrshire; and St. John’s, Leith, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.15). He retired in 1900 and died in 1907.

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KELMAN, JOHN, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born at Dundonald, 1864. Son of foregoing. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Peterculter, 1891. Married, the following year, Ellin Runcorn Bell. Translated, 1896, to New North, Edinburgh. [Vol. 2 says the translation was in 1897.]

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Peterculter, Aberdeenshire, and New North, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.21). Thereafter he served in St George’s, Edinburgh, from 1907 (FUFC, p.29, where a short biography is given). He moved to Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York in 1919 and to Frognal St Andrew’s London, England, in 1924. He retired in 1925 and died in 1929.

Family
For an account of the ramifications of the Bell family, see the Bell Tree on this web-site.

Publication – about him
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, D. F. Wright, Kelman, John (1864–1929), United Free Church of Scotland minister

Source
findingaids.loc.gov

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KENNEDY, ANGUS, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born at Kishorn, Ross-shire, 1778. Studied at the King’s College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Lairg, 1802. Married, 1806, Isabella Rainy. Translated to Dornoch, 1817. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1837. Died, 1855.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1802, Lairg, FES, Vol.7, p.94; 1817, Dornoch,FES, Vol.7. p.85. In the Free Church, he served in Dornoch, Sutherland.

Family
Bayne Tree and links leading from that tree, especially the tree of John Mackay of Kirtomy.

Publication – by him
New Statistical Account, September, 1834, Dornoch, Vol.15, Sutherland, p.1

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Free church Minister at Dornoch. d.22/06/1855, Dornoch Sheriff Court, NRS SC9/36/4
James Kirkwood, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.303 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 3, p.32; Appendix 2, p.7 and Appendix 2, p.8
26th September, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.210 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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KENNEDY, DAVID

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born at Paisley, 1848. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Whithorn, 1878.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Whithorn, Wigtownshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.121). He died in 1913.

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KENNEDY, DAVID WATTS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born at Edinburgh, 1845. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Cardiff, 1876. Married, 1878, Margaret A. Scott. Translated to Perth, Middle, 1881.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Middle, Perth. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.334). He retired in 1915 and died in 1924.

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KENNEDY, DONALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born at Killearnan, 1813. Son of Rev. John Kennedy. Ordained at Killearnan, 1838. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married Caroline J. Macdonald. Died, 1871.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1838, Newark, FES, Vol.3, p.217; 1841, Killearnan, FES, Vol.7, p.13. In the Free Church, he served in Killearnan, Ross and Cromarty.

Family
Kennedy Tree.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Minister of the Free Church of Killearnan, Dingwall Sheriff Court, NRS SC25/44/10
30th March, 1838, Eighth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.356 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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KENNEDY, FARQUHAR, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born in Ross-shire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Harris, 1896.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Harris, Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.493, where a short biography is given).

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KENNEDY, GEORGE RAINY

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born at Lairg, 1812. Son of Rev. Angus Kennedy. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Dornoch, 1837. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1848, Eliza A. Tennant; and, 1865, Mary M’Intyre. Became senior minister, 1880. Died, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, Dornoch, FES, Vol.7, p.85. In the Free Church, he served in Dornoch, Sutherland.

Family
Tree of John Mackay of Kirtomy and the Bayne Tree.

Publications – by him:
Breadalbane Muniments: Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 8, 1844, Dornoch, NRS GD112/74/825; Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 8th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/208

Publications – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: George Rainy Kennedy.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: sometime F.C. Minister, Parish of Dornoch, d. 29/06/1899 at Links House, Dornoch, testate, Dornoch Sheriff Court, NRS SC9/36/9

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KENNEDY, HARRY ANGUS ALEXANDER, D.Sc., D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born at Dornoch, 1866. Son of foregoing. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh, also at Halle and Berlin. Ordained at Callander, 1893. Married, the same year, Elizabeth Gordon.

Publication.—The Sources of New Testament Greek.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 13th November, 1884 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.237). In the Free Church, he served in Callander, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.308). Thereafter he was appointed to the Chair of New Testament Exegesis in Knox College, Toronto, in 1905, and to the New Testament Chair in New College in 1909 (FUFC, p.578, where a short biography is given). He resigned in 1925 and died in 1934.

Family
Tree of John Mackay of Kirtomy.

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KENNEDY, HECTOR

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born at Sleat, 1847. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Park, Lewis, 1889.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1847 in Sleat, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, the son of Donald Kennedy, crofter, and his wife, Mary Maclure.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Park, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. He went into the Union in 1900 with some hesitation but very quickly changed his mimd and was cordially welcomed back into the Free Church in March, 1901. He was inducted to Strontian, Argyll, on 25th July, 1905; to Kilmallie, Argyll, on 3rd February, 1910; and to Raasay, Inverness-shire, on 3rd December, 1912.

Death
He died on 18th October, 1930, in Raasay, Inverness-shire.

Family
He never married.

Source
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 7th March, 1901, p. 5

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KENNEDY, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born at Panbride, Forfarshire, 1868. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Lamlash, Arran, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lamlash, Isle of Arran, Bute. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.152 Thereafter he served in Grant Street, Glasgow, from 1902 (FUFC, p.225, where a short biography is given). He died in 1907.

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KENNEDY, JOHN, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.198
Born, 1819. Son of Rev. John Kennedy, Killearnan. Studied at the University, Aberdeen. Ordained at Dingwall, 1844. Married, 1848, Mary Mackenzie. Dr. Kennedy occupied a very influential position both as a pastor and a leader in the Highlands. As a preacher in Gaelic he had no equal in his day. Dr. Kennedy belonged to the “Constitutional Party.” Died, 1884.

Publications.—Besides numerous controversial pamphlets, The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire. The “Apostle of the North”; the Life and Labours of the Rev. Dr. M’Donald. Man’s Relation to God. Posthumous.—Life of John Kennedy. By Rev. Alexander Auld.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 15th August, 1819, in Killearnan, Ross and Cromarty, the son of John Kennedy, minister, and Jessie Mackenzie.

Family
Kennedy Tree.

Education
He attended the local parish school. He entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1836 and graduated M.A. in 1840. He was awarded the D.D. degree by the University of Aberdeen in 1873.

Marriage
He married Mary Mackenzie in April, 1848, Ross and Cromarty, the marriage being recorded in Fodderty on the 5th and in Dingwall on the 25th. She was baptized on 5th November, 1818, in Stornoway, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of Forbes Mackenzie and Catherine Nicolson.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Chanonry in August, 1843. In the Free Church, he served in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty. In 1857 and in 1872 he declined a call to the Greenock Gaelic congregation, Renfrewshire. He was called to Renfield, Glasgow, in 1863 and to Hope Street, Glasgow, in 1864, but remained in Dingwall.

Death
He died on 28th April, 1884, at Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire. His wife died in 1896 in Fodderty, Ross and Cromarty.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Catherine Kennedy born on 13th December, 1849, in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty. She died there about four years old.

(2) Jessie Kennedy born on 19th May, and baptized on 31st July, 1851, in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty. She died in 1929 in Fortrose, Ross and Cromarty.

(3) Mary Kennedy born on 19th May, and baptized on 31st July, 1851, in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty. She married John Matheson from Stornoway. He was a banker. They lived for a time in Madras, India. She died in 1891 in Fodderty, Ross and Cromarty.

(4) Anne Margaret Kennedy born on 16th May, 1855, in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty. She died there the following year.

Publications
See separate document here.

Source
The Aberdeen Journal, 26th December, 1849

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KENNEDY, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born at Kishorn, Ross-shire, 1833. Studied at the Universities, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Greenock, Gaelic, 1859. Died, 1870.

Supplementary Information
In the Free Church, he served in Gaelic, Greenock, Renfrewshire.

Publication – by him
The sacraments of the New Testament, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, Greenock?, Printed by A. Mackenzie & Co., 1870

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 9/2/1871, minister of the Gospel in Greenock, d. at Bristol, Paisley Sheriff Court, NRS SC58/42/38

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KENNEDY, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born at Edinburgh, 1852. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Liff, 1880. Married, 1891, Elizabeth Macpherson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Liff, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.390, where a short biography is given). He died in 1915.

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KENNEDY, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born at Alvie, Inverness-shire, 1855. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Lenimore and Pirnmill, Arran, 1888.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lenimore and Pirnmill, Isle of Arran, Bute. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.288). He died in 1910.

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KENNEDY, JOHN DOWNIE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born, 1811. Ordained at Rosehall, Ross-shire, 1836. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1850, Catherine Mackay. Became senior minister, 1871. Died, 1873.

Supplementary Information
There is no mention of this man in FES.

Background
He was born on 7th January, 1811, in Urray, Ross and Cromarty, the son of Neil Kennedy and Anne Downie. For some family connections, see the Kennedy Tree.

Education
He matriculated at King’s College, Aberdeen, 1822 and graduated M.A. in March, 1826.

Marriage
He married Catherine Mackay in December, 1850, the marriage being recorded on the 23rd in Creich, Sutherland, and on the 26th in Inverness. She was born on 6th and baptized on 14th August, 1826, in Inverness, the daughter of John Mackay, merchant, and Johanna Mackay.

Ministry
He was presented by the crown to the parish of Nigg, Ross and Cromarty on 3rd March, 1836 – but he was never settled there. In the Free Church, he served in Rosehall, Sutherland. John Falconer was ordained there as his colleague and successor in 1872.

Death
He died on 25th March, 1873, in Rosehall, Sutherland. His wife died there in 1862.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Neil John Downie Kennedy born on 1st April, 1854, in Creich, Sutherland.
He graduated M.A. from Aberdeen University in 1876. He was awarded an LL.D. from Edinburgh University in 1903. He was a member of the Faculty of Advocates; lecturer in private international law at Edinburgh University, 1899-1901; and Professor of Law there in 1902.

(2) Jane Eliza Mary Kennedy born on 20th December, 1860, in Creich, Sutherland. She died in the 3rd quarter of 1936 in Worthing, Sussex, England.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth grant, 25th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/184

Publications – about him
Papers of Fox Maule as Under Secretary for the Home Department (1835-1841) and minister chiefly responsible for Scottish Affairs: Letters to Lord John Russell and Charles Gore and other papers concerning a Crown presentation to the parish of Nigg, the first presentee, Rev. J.D. Kennedy, being vetoed by the parish, 1835-1837, NRS GD45/9/114
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/11/1873, Minister of Free Church at Rosehall. d.25/03/1873, Dornoch Sheriff Court, NRS SC9/36/6; and 5/3/1874, Additional Inventory, Dornoch Sheriff Court, NRS SC9/36/6
Case, Translation of Rev. John D. Kennedy from Rosehall to Inverary, Edinburgh, John Greig, 1845
30th August, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.212 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

Source
The Morning Post, London, England, 5th March, 1836

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KENNEDY, SAMUEL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born at Newry, Ireland, 1828. Studied at the Royal Belfast College, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Stewarton, 1852. Married, 1856, Matilda Stenhouse; and, 1893, Maria J. Head. Translated to Cruden, 1859. Resigned, 1865. [Vol. 2 says he left Cruden 1863.] After some years of pastoral work in England and Wales Mr. Kennedy qualified as a medical man, and practised in Clifton and London, continuing at the same time to do evangelistic work as he had opportunity.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 23rd June, 1828, in Ireland.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1848-49.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Matilda Forrest Stenhouse on 2nd April, 1856, in Calton, Edinburgh. She was born on 27th November, 1828, in Edinburgh, the daughter of Mowbray Stenhouse, merchant, and Wilhilmina Forrest.

(2) Maria Jane Tyler in the 2nd quarter of 1893, in St George Hanover Square, London, England. She was born about 1841 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Stewarton, Ayrshire. On 1st December, 1858, he received a call signed by 310 members and 36 adherents from Cruden, Aberdeenshire, and was translated there on 9th February the following year. He resigned his charge on 11th May, 1863, on account of the delicate state of his wife’s health which required them to live in a mild climate. He intended to connect himself with the London Presbytery of the English Presbyterian Church.

Death
Matilda Forrest Kennedy died on 29th November, 1886, in Greenwich, London, England. He died on 14th October, 1913, in Kensington, London, England. He was buried, with his first wife, in Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, Lewisham, London, England. Maria J. Kennedy died in the first quarter of 1920 in Kensington, London, England.

Family
He had issue by his first wife including:

(1) Samuel Arthur Stoddard Kennedy born on 29th December, 1857, in Stewarton, Ayrshire. He was admitted L.R.C.P. and S., Edinburgh, in February, 1878. He married Katherine Elizabeth Stewart Beane in the 3rd quarter of 1893 in Lewisham, London, England.

(2) Matilda Kennedy born on 1st March, 1859, in Blythswood, Glasgow.

(3) Edith Kennedy born on 10th December, 1861, in Cruden, Aberdeenshire. She married Raynes Lander MacLaren in the 2nd quarter of 1888 in Lewisham, London, England.

(4) George Johnstone Kennedy born in the 1st quarter of 1864 in Croydon, London, England. He died in the 1st quarter of 1946 in Worthing, Sussex, England.

Sources
The British Medical Journal, 23rd February, 1878, p.273; The Aberdeen Journal, 5th December, 1858; 20th May, 1863
Findagrave

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KER, WILLIAM TURNBULL, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born at Greenock, 1824. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Deskford, Banffshire, 1852. Married, the following year, Margaret M. Stevenson. Retired, 1883. Died, 1885.

Publication.—Distinctive Principles of the Free Church (a prize essay).

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 7th August and baptized on 1st September, 1824, in Greenock, Renfrewshire, the son of John Ker, merchant, and Isabella Turnbull.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1839 and graduated M.A. in 1844. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1844-48.

Marriage
He married Margaret Millar Stevenson. She was born on 10th November and baptized on 24th December, 1826, the daughter of James Stevenson and Jane Stewart Shannon.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Deskford, Banffshire. He had resigned his charge by 1884.

Death
He died on 26th August, 1885, at 40 Skene Terrace, Old Machar, Aberdeen, and was buried at Allenvale Cemetery there. His wife died on 25th February, 1900, in St Machar, Aberdeen.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Alice Jane Shannon Ker born on 2nd December, 1853, in Deskford, Banffshire. She married Stewart Edward Ker in 1888 in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She qualified as a doctor at a time when the profession was just opening up to females. She held key professional posts, and was also an anti-vivisectionist. She spent some months in prison as a result of her activities as a suffragette. She died on 20th March, 1943, in Hendon, London, England.

(2) Isabella Ker born on 12th July, 1855, in Deskford, Banffshire. She married George Frederick Stout in 1899 in St Machar, Aberdeen. She died on 28th October, 1935 in St Andrews, Fife.

(3) Margaret Stewart Ker born on 24th September, 1856, in Deskford, Banffshire. She died on 23rd December, 1925, in Perth, though she was ‘of 4 Wilton Mansions, Glasgow.’

(4) John James Ker born on 31st August, 1858, in Deskford, Banffshire. He died on 4th November, 1903, in Malcolm, Western Australia.

(5) Lisa Mary Ker born on 20th June, 1861, in Deskford, Banffshire. She died on 31st July, 1927, when she was ‘of 12331 Joliette Street, Aurora, Denver, Colorado,’ USA.

(6) Annie Martha Ker born on 20th June, 1861, in Deskford, Banffshire. She died on 20th July, 1874, at Cairnie Lodge, Cupar, Fife.

(7) William Pollock Ker born on 12th December, 1864, in Deskford, Banffshire. He graduated M.A. from Aberdeen University in 1885. He married Lucy Christine Murray in Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada (when he was said to be a Catholic). He held several consular appointments in China. He became a barrister in 1903. He died on 6th August, 1945, at the Manor House, Iffley, Oxford, England.

(8) Alan David Ker born on 10th September, 1866, in St George, Edinburgh. He was a manufacturing chemist. He died on 28th June, 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow – he was ‘of 176 Wilton Street’.

(9) Louisa Stevenson Ker born on 8th April, 1868, in Deskford, Banffshire. She married Alexander James in 1894 in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She died on 27th May, 1944, in North Berwick, East Lothian.

Publications – by him
The distinctive principles of the Free Church, a prize essay, Edinburgh, William P. Kennedy, 1852
Church honesty, Aberdeen, A. & R. Milne, 1861
The restoration of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, John Maclaren & Son, 1879

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 12/11/1885, sometime minister of the Free Church at Deskford, Cullen, co Banff, afterwards residing at 40 Skene Terrace, Aberdeen, d. 26/08/1885 at Aberdeen, intestate, spouse of Mrs Margaret Miller Stephenson or Ker, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/97
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Ker, Margaret Miller, or Stevenson, 2/7/1900, 14 Bon Accord Crescent (formerly known as 21 Bon Accord Terrace), Aberdeen, widow of Rev. William Turnbull Ker, F.C. Minister, Deskford, Banffshire, d. 25/02/1900 at Aberdeen, testate, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/140; and 21/7/1900, Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/121

Source
Genealogy

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KERR, ALEXANDER FLEMING

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born in the parish of Bothwell, 1861. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1890, at Muiravon (Shieldhill). Married, 1893, Elizabeth Macknight.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Shieldhill, Stirlingshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.52). Thereafter he served in St James’, Falkirk, from 1907 (FUFC, p.48); and in Kinkell and Madderty from 1923 (FUFC, p.343, where a short biography is given).

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KERR, ARCHIBALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born at Drumlemble, Campbeltown, 1857. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Enzie, 1884.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Enzie, Moray. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.453, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1922 and died in 1929.

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KERR, CATHEL, M.A., F.F.A. (Scotland)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born at Farr, Sutherlandshire, 1865. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Melness, Sutherlandshire, 1894. Married, 1895, Evangeline H. G. MacKenzie. In 1899 Mr. Kerr was sent to South Africa as chaplain to the Highland Brigade, then engaged in the Transvaal War. He was attacked by typhoid fever at Kimberley, and died there in 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 8th June, 1865, in Farr, Sutherland, the son of Norman Kerr, merchant, and Ann Mackay.

Education
He was educated at Railings School, Inverness, and the Grammar School, Aberdeen. He graduated from Aberdeen University in 1890 and took the course in the Free Church College there.

Marriage
He married Evangeline Helen Girchotte Mackenzie. She was born about 1867 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was the eldest daughter of the Rev. Donald Mackenzie, Farr, and Margaret J. Dormond..

Ministry
He was licensed on 9th May, 1893, by the Free Presbytery of Nairn, Prior to his ordination he served as assistant in Harris, Inverness-shire; Nairn; and Logie Easter (Mr MacDonald); and Queen Street Church, Inverness. He was ordained at Melness and Eriboll, Sutherland, on 12th December, 1894. The smack carrying their furniture to Melness was driven ashore by a gale on the evening of 6th January, 1895, and the cargo was damaged.

In South Africa he was appointed Chaplain to the Scots Greys.

Death
He died at Kimberley, South Africa, on 11th March, 1899, of enteric fever, and was buried in Kimberley Cemetery.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Norman Donald Talmine Kerr born about 1895 in Farr, Sutherland. He died on 8th Oct0ober, 1922, at Princes Street, Thurso, Caithness

(2) Annie Sheila Kerr born in 1900 in Tongue, Sutherland.

Publications – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: Cathel Kerr.
Congested Districts Board: Rev. Cathel Kerr, Melness, Tongue, application for Telegraph Office at Talmine and Money Order Office guarantees for Parish of Tongue, NRS AF42/174; The Rev. Cathel Kerr, Melness, Tongue. Pier at Melness, Tongue, 1899, NRS AF42/338
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 5/9/1900, F.C. Minister, Melness, Tongue, Sutherlandshire, and Chaplain to the Highland Brigade, South African Field Force, d. 11/03/1900 at Kimberley, South Africa, testate, Dornoch Sheriff Court, NRS SC9/36/9

Sources
Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 10th January,, 1895; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 10th October, 1922, p.12

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KERR, GABRIEL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.199
Born at Stewarton, 1819. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Became missionary of the Free Tron Church, Glasgow, in the Cowcaddens district, and gathered a congregation over which he was ordained, 1867. Married, 1879, Dorothea Stewart. Died, 1882.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was the son of John Kerr, grazier and cattle dealer, and Elizabeth Langmuir. His presence is recorded in Old Parish Records on 18th December, 1819, in Stewarton, Ayrshire.

Education
He matriculated at Glasgow University in 1840. He also studied at Edinburgh University. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1846-50.

Marriage
He married Dorothea Stewart on 10th December, 1879, at the bride’s home, 272 Bath Street, Glasgow (Registration: 1879 644/9 534 Kelvin). She was born on 22nd May,1848, in Maryhill, Glasgow, the daughter of John Stewart, surgeon, and Jane Anderson.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh. He was ordained in Cowcaddens, Glasgow, on 19th September, 1867. This was a congregation that had been brought into being through his own efforts under the direction of the Tron Church. Early in 1865 the congregation had heard a report that Kerr was to be removed from them against their wishes and without a proper reason being given and presented a petition to the Presbytery, asking them to intervene in the matter – to erect them into a separate charge or to put them under a different Kirk Session, “the Session of Free Tron having taken but little interest in the station”. The Presbytery appointed a Committee to look into the matter. It emerged that the Tron was willing to sever the connection with Kerr and Cowcaddens and so the station became a congregation in its own right.

A new church was opened there in 1873.

Death
He died suddenly on 29th July, 1882, at 14 Royal Crescent, Crosshill, Glasgow. His wife died in 1930 in Scotstoun, Glasgow.

Family
There is no evidence that they had any issue.

Publication – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: Gabriel Kerr.

Sources
The Home and Foreign Missionary Record of the Free Church of Scotland, 1867, p.279; Glasgow Herald, 9th March, 1865; 30th March, 1865

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KERR, WILLIAM ROBERT, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born in Aberdeenshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kirkoswald, 1897. Married, 1898, Mary Gardner.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kirkoswald, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.129). Thereafter he served in Perceton and Dreghorn from 1905 (FUFC, p.145).

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KESSEN, ANDREW

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born at Paisley, 1793. Studied at the University, Glasgow, taking the greater part of a medical course before entering on the study of theology. He became parish teacher in Strathblane, 1819. Ordained at Lethendy, Perthshire, 1838, but without stipend, manse, or glebe, in consequence of interdict by the Court of Session. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Mr. Kessen was twice married, his second wife being Marion Marshall Wilson. Died, 1859. [Vol. 2 says he finished in Lethendy in 1856.]

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1838, Lethendy, FES, Vol.4, p.166. In the Free Church, he served in Lethendy and Kinloch, Perthshire.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments: Letters with Petitions to Ormelie and Others [Ormelie was John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane]: 21st May, 1846, Andrew Kessen, moderator of Free kirk session of Lethendy and Kinloch – Sites, NRS GD112/51/216

Publications – about him
Record in causa, the Earl of Kinnoull and the Rev. Robert Young, against the Presbytery of Auchterarder, the collector of the Ministers’ Widows’ Fund, and the heritors of the Parish of Auchterarder, Appendix: Answers for the Presbytery of Dunkeld and the Rev. Andrew Kessen, to the petition and complaint of Rev. T. Clark, Edinburgh?, James Gall, 1835-1839
Report of the proceedings of the Court of Session in the Lethendy case, the Rev. Thomas Clark, with concourse of Her Majesty’s Advocate, against the Presbytery of Dunkeld, and the Rev. Andrew Kessen, by C. Gordon Robertson, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood, 1839
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 7/1/1858, minister of Free Church at Lethendy, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/65
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Kessen, or Wilson, Marion M, 2/10/1896, Mudie Cottage, Blairgowrie, widow of Rev. Andrew Kessen, Free Church, Lethendy, d. 04/06/1894 at Blairgowrie, intestate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/166
Charles Robertson, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.253 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
George Stewart, schoolmaster, Kinloch by Blairgowrie, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.253 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
James White, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.128 [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.20 and Appendix 1, Table 3, p.12

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KESSEN, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born at Paisley, 1820. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Bathgate, 1851. Married, 1862, Mary Blackie. Died, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 28th September, 1820 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the son of William Kessen, shawl manufacturer, and Elizabeth McArthur.

Education
He attended Paisley Grammar School prior to entering Glasgow University. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1844-48. He was a teacher in 1841.

Marriage
He married Mary Blaikie on 9th July, 1862, at the bride’s home, Holydean, Bowden, Roxburghshire (Registration: 1862 783/ 3 Bowden). She was born there about 1830, the daughter of Robert Blaikie, farmer, and Violet Smith.

Ministry
He was licensed in May, 1848. He occupied the pulpit of Union Free Church, Glasgow, for about a year before being ordained in Bathgate, West Lothian, on 25th September, 1851.

Death
He died on 10th March, 1892, at the Free Church Manse, Bathgate, West Lothian, and was buried there. “His genial and kindly disposition made him greatly beloved among all classes.” His wife died in 1908 in Dunblane, Perthshire.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) William Frederick Kessen born on 1st August, 1863, at the Free Church Manse, Bathgate, West Lothian. He died there on 6th February, 1873.

(2) Robert Blaikie Kessen, born on 22nd July, 1865, at the Free Church Manse, Bathgate, West Lothian. He married Madeline Sisson, on 13th November, 1908, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a banker working for the Bank of New Brunswick. They latterly live in the USA.

(3) James Archibald Kessen born on 9th January, 1867, in Bathgate, West Lothian. He died on 4th May, 1932, in St Andrew, Edinburgh,

(4) Violet Elizabeth Kessen born on 4th September, 1869, in Bathgate, West Lothian. She died there on 21st September, 1870.

(5) Jane Violet Kessen born on 31st May, 1871, in Bathgate, West Lothian. She died on 8th March, 1947, in George Square, Edinburgh.

Publications – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: James Kessen
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 11/4/1892, F.C. Minister, Bathgate, Linlithgowshire, residing in Bathgate, d. 10/03/1892 at Bathgate, testate, Linlithgow Sheriff Court, NRS SC41/53/15
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Kessen, or Blaikie, Mary, 30/9/1908, widow of Revd James Kessen, Bathgate, West Lothian, 5 Moston Terrace, Edinburgh, d. 31/08/1908 at Dunblane, Perthshire, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/483; and Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/400

Sources
Glasgow Herald, 4th August, 1863; The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 25th July, 1865; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 12th March, 1892

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KILGOUR, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born at Lasswade, 1837. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Cockenzie, 1870. Resigned, 1887.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1837 in Lasswade, Cockpen, Midlothian, the son of James Turner Kilgour, wood merchant, and his wife Christian Arnot.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1861-65.

Marriage
He married Helen Logan on 19th June, 1895, at 77 Queen Street, Edinburgh (Registration: 1895 685/2 206 St Andrew (Edinburgh)). She was born in the 1st quarter of 1866 in Kensington, London, England, the daughter of John Logan, baker, and Margaret Brown.

Ministry
He was ordained in Cockenzie, East Lothian, in 1870. He was “sojourning” in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1873, and a letter to a local paper gives a very interesting description of his style of preaching. The Commission of Assembly of March, 1887, declined to accept a memorial from his Presbytery asking that he be permitted to retire from his charge on condition that he receive £60 annually from the Funds of the Church.

In 1901 he was in Strathmiglo, Fife, and claimed to be the Free Church or the United Free Church minister there. He does not appear either in FUFC or the online ministers’ register of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church. The place of birth of his children show that he was several years in Strathmiglo. He was surely the “ordained preacher” that Ewing mentions as ministering in South, Strathmiglo, Fife, 1889-1899.

Death
He died in January, 1923, in Dron, Perthshire, and was buried in Strathmiglo, Fife. Helen Logan or Kilgour died in 1948 in Newington, Edinburgh.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Margaret Brown Kilgour born in 1897 in Strathmiglo, Fife. She married Thomas Gibson on 31st July, 1926, at Palmerston Place Church, Edinburgh. She was buried in Strathmiglo on 8th April, 1987. She died in Newington, Edinburgh.

(2) Alan James Kilgour born in 1899 in Strathmiglo, Fife. He died on 5th February, 1927, in Cavers, Roxburghshire, and was buried in Strathmiglo, Fife.

(3) Winifred Arnot Kilgour born in 1902 in Strathmiglo, Fife. She was buried there on 4th June, 1983. She probably died in Haymarket, Edinburgh.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 17/4/1923, Clunie House, Strathmiglo, Fife, afterwards Glenfarg Lodge Craigview Abernethy, d. 14/01/1920 at Abernethy, testate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/239; and Perth Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC49/32/34

Sources
Otago Daily Times, 1873; Rootsweb; Findagrave; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 3rd March, 1887; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 2nd August, 1926, p.12

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KILPATRICK, DANIEL ROSS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born at Glasgow, 1821. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Became missionary of Free St. George’s, Glasgow, in the district of Lyon Street, 1853. Here he gathered a congregation over which he was ordained, 1860. In 1876 he and his kirk-session promoted the erection of a new congregation at North Woodside, to which he was transferred with a considerable part of his congregation. Married, 1840, Margaret MacDougall; and, 1856, Eliza Ritchie. Resigned, 1891. [Vol. 2 says he was still there in 1900.]

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lyon Street, Glasgow; and North Woodside, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.251). He died in 1914.

Family
Kilpatrick Tree.

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KILPATRICK, DAVID, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born, 1849. Son of foregoing. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Garelochhead, 1873. Married, the same year, Helen D. Bankier. Translated to Newhaven, 1879.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Garelochhead, Argyll; and Newhaven, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.20). He retired in 1917 and died in 1927.

Family
Kilpatrick Tree.

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KILPATRICK, THOMAS BUCHANAN, D.D. (Glasgow)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born at Glasgow, 1857. Son of Rev. D. R. Kilpatrick. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Burntisland, 1882. Married, 1885, Anna M. K. Orr; and, 1899, Ann M. Binnie. Translated, 1888, to Ferryhill, Aberdeen. Appointed, 1899, Professor in the Presbyterian College of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Publication.—Butler’s Three Sermons (“Bible Class Handbooks”).

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 27th September, 1857, in Blythswood, Glasgow, the son of Daniel Ross Kilpatrick, a Free Church minister. For some family connections, see the Kilpatrick Tree.

Education
He graduated M.A. from Glasgow University in 1877 and B.D. in 1880. He was awarded the D.D. degree on 14th April, 1899.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Anna M. Kelso Orr in 1885 in Newington, Edinburgh. She was born about 1851 in Symington, Ayrshire, the daughter of George Orr, Free Church minister, and Jessie Hamilton Howe.

(2) Jane Menzies Binnie on 27th June, 1899, at 90 Inverleith Place, registered in St Andrews, Edinburgh. She was born on 26th and baptized on 26th April, 1854, in Stirling, the daughter of William Binnie, minister, and Janet Fairbairn. Her father became a Free Church minister; and her mother was sister of John Clarkston Fairbairn, a Free Church minister.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow, on 5th October, 1881. He was assistant to William Laughton, Greenock, in 1882 when he was elected to Shandon, Dunbartonshire. But on 11th July, 1881, he was also elected to Burntisland, Fife, and he was ordained there on 21st September, that year. He was translated to Ferryhill, Aberdeen on 1st March, 1888, the call to him having been signed originally by 8 elders; 9 deacons; 216 members and 106 adherents. He gave a course of lectures in a Canadian University in 1898. After serving as Professor in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, from 1899, he became Professor in Knox College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1905. He was influential in developing the doctrine for church union of the United Church of Canada in 1908. He wrote a number of books on evangelism and union.

Death
Anna Orr or Kilpatrick died on 7th December, 1896, at her home, 68 Polmuir Road, Aberdeen. He died on 20th May, 1930, in Canada. Jane Menzies Kilpatrick or Binnie died on 11th January, 1943.

Family
He had isssue by his first wife including:

(1) Elizabeth Margaret R.F. Kilpatrick born on 15th February, 1886, in Burntisland, Fife.

(2) George Gordon Dinwiddie M. Kilpatrick born on 12th April, 1888, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. He married Ruth McGillivray Fotheringham, in January, 1920. He was minister of St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He died on 11th October, 1975.

(3) Dorothy Hamilton Kilpatrick born on 20th January, 1891, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She was appointed by the Foreign Mission Committee of the Presbyterian Church to serve as a missionary in Central India in 1914. With some interruptions, she served in India until 1955, retiring in 1956. She wrote The Romance of Prince Rana and other Indian Tales.

Publications
See separate document here.

Sources
Authorandbookinfo; Archeion; Biographi.ca; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 20th December, 1887; 20th July, 1898; Glasgow Herald, 9th December, 1896; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 23rd February, 1899, p.3

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KILPATRICK, WILLIAM, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born at Ardrossan, 1861. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Gorgie, Edinburgh, 1891. Married, 1892, Mary B. Fyfe.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Gorgie, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.9, where a short biography is given).

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KING, ALEXANDER DUNLOP

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born, 1850. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Original Secession Church Divinity Hall. Ordained at Carnoustie, 1877. Resigned, 1880. Became assistant to the minister of St. Marnock’s Parish, Kilmarnock. After three months he formed a congregation of his own and was admitted with his people to the Free Church, 1883. In 1889 he resigned and went to America.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 19th December, 1850, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, the son of William King, shoemaker, and Janet Dunlop.

Marriage
He married Ellen Gowans Robertson in 1878 in Blythswood, Glasgow. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1856, the daughter of William Robertson and Ellen Cunningham.

Ministry
He was minister of Carnoustie, Angus, United Original Secession Church. He applied for admission to the Church of Scotland and became assistant to the minister of St Marnock’s, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. A large number of the congregation, on hearing that their minister had dismissed King as his assistant, resolved to become a congregation of the Church of Scotland with King as their minister. This congregation, however, was eventually admitted to the Free Church in 1883 and King was inducted to it – Kilmarnock— Braehead – on 10th July, 1883. He later went to America and was received by the Presbyterian Church in September, 1889. He accepted a call to Cutchogue Presbyterian Church, Suffolk County, New York. In 1900 and in 1920, he was in Chicago, Illinois, USA; and in 1910 he was in Oxford, Sumner, Kansas, USA.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Ellen Victoria R. King born in 1879 in Barry, Angus.

(2) William King born 14th March and died 24th March, 1881, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.

(3) Jannette Wilhelmina King born in 1882 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.

(4) Margaret Eunice King born in 1885 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.

(5) Alexander Dunlop King born on 29th April, 1887, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. He was a lawyer. He married Mildred and they lived, for a time, in Cook, Illinois, USA. He died on 10th June, 1956, and was buried in Goleta Cemetery, Santa Barbara County California, USA, Plot: 1 East- Lot- 003-1/2- Space-1.

(6) William Frederick King born in 1889 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. He was at one time a book-keeper. He married Margaret and they lived for a time in Cook, Illinois, USA.

(7) John B. King born on 8th August, 1893, in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a hotel time-keeper. He married Olga King. He died on 25th March, 1943, in Proviso, Cook, Illinois, USA.

(8) Hamilton G. King born on 7th December, 1895, in New York, New York, USA. He was a lumber company yardman. He died on 22nd May, 1945, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

(9) Robert L. King born about 1898 in Cook, Illinois, USA. He died there on 11th November, 1902.

Publication – by him
The Record of baptisms performed by the Rev. Alexander Dunlop King during his service as pastor in Kilmarnock, Salt Lake City, Utah, Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 19–?

Sources
Ayrshireroots; Familysearch; Fultonhistory; Findagrave; The Scotsman, Edinburgh,14th September, 1880, p.6; 4th June 1883, p.3

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KING, ANDREW

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.200
Born at Glasgow, 1793. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and spent some years in teaching. Ordained at Torphichen, 1830. Translated to St. Stephen’s, Glasgow, 1836. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. In 1844 Dr. King was a deputy of the Free Church to Canada, and shortly afterwards was appointed Professor of Theology in the College at Halifax. In 1871 he retired, and returned to Scotland. Dr. King married Matilda Ferguson. Died, 1874.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1830, Torphichen, FES, Vol.1, p.232; 1836, St Stephen’s, Glasgow, FES, Vol.3, p.466. In the Free Church, he served in St. Stephen’s, Glasgow. Thereafter in 1848, Nova Scotia, FES, Vol.7, p.615

Publications
See separate document here.

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KING, EDWARD WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born at Sumatra, 1824. He acted as secretary of the Evangelical Society of Batavia from 1851, and was sent to this country in 1857 to study for the ministry. Studied at the New College and United Presbyterian Church Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. By authority of the Assembly, 1860, ordained missionary to Batavia. Married, 1860, Marion F. Thorburn. Mr. King established a mission of his own at Fort Cornelis, where he had access to both a Dutch and a native population. He left Java, 1876, and became minister of a congregation at Kilburgh in Holland, 1878. Died, 1885.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 16th August, 1824, and baptized on 27th February, 1825, in Fort Marlborough-Benkoelen, Sumatra-Selatan, Indonesia, the son of George King and his wife Caroline Catharine Townsend.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1858-60.

Marriage
He married Marion Marshall Forrester Thorburn on 31st July, 1860, at 12 Hermitage Place, Edinburgh. She was born on 5th September, 1832, in South Leith, Edinburgh, the daughter of George Thorburn, merchant, and Anne Forrester.

Ministry
He was ordained as minister of the European population and missionary of the Free Church in Batavia on 2nd May, 1860, in the Free High Church, Edinburgh. Professor Smeaton conducted the service and preached from Jeremiah 23:23-24: “Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.”

Source
The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 2nd August, 1860

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KINMONT, ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born at Edinburgh, 1861. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Burntisland, 1888. Married, 1892, Margaret H. F. Macaulay.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Burntisland, Fife. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.358) Thereafter he served in New Zealand: PCNZ, Ministers’ Register.

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KINNEAR, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born at Edinburgh, 1811. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1841, at Torthorwald. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated to Moffat, 1843. Became senior minister, 1867. Died, 1883.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1841, Torthorwald, FES, Vol.2, p.301. In the Free Church, he served in Moffat, Dumfries-shire.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth endowment, 21st April,1845, NRS GD112/51/180; Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 8 June, 1846, Sites, NRS GD112/74/830

Publications – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: Robert Kinnear.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 4/10/1883, Minister Emeritus, Free Church, Moffat, County of Dumfries, d. 10/07/1883 at Moffat, testate, Dumfries Sheriff Court, NRS SC15/41/19
Letters with Petitions to Ormelie and Others [Ormelie was John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane]: 21 Apr 1845, Robert Kinnear, minister, Free church, Moffat – against Maynooth endowment, NRS GD112/51/180; Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 8 June, Moffat, Robert Kinnear, minister, Free church – Sites, NRS GD112/74/830

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KIPPEN, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born at Aberfeldy, 1823. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Raasay, 1857. Married, 1863, Catherine Boog. Translated, 1867, to Arrochar. Died, 1881.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptised on 11th April, 1823, in Dull, Perthshire, the son of James Kippen, wright, later merchant, and his wife Margaret Marshall.

Education
A James Kippen graduated M.A. from Edinburgh University on 22nd April, 1848. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1847-51.

Marriage
He married Catherine Boog on 26th February, 1863, at the bride’s home, 20 Grange Road, Edinburgh (Registration: 1863 685/5 43 Newington). She was born about 1830 in Edinburgh, the daughter of John Boog, saddler, later merchant, and Jane Hutcheson.

Ministry
He was called to Raasay, Inverness-shire, in 1856 and ordained there the following year. At that time he was described as being from Invertiel. He was called to Arrochar, Dunbartonshire, as colleague and successor of Colin Mackenzie, in 1866.

Death
He died on 25th September, 1881, in Aberfeldy, Perthshire. His wife died in 1898 in Grange, Edinburgh.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: James Kippen
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 6/1/1882, Minister, Free Church of Scotland, Arrochar, County of Dumbarton, d. 25/09/1881 at Aberfeldy, testate, Dumbarton Sheriff Court, NRS SC65/34/25
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Kippen or Boog, Catherine, 16/2/1898, sometime residing at 6 Braidburn Terrace, Edinburgh, latterly at 24 Morningside Park there, widow, d. 07/02/1898 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/366; and Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/303

Source
Minutes of the Free Presbytery of Dumbarton, NRS, CH3/80/2

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KIPPEN, JAMES JOHN GLEN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born at South Leith, 1846. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Pitcairngreen, 1876. Married, 1877, Margaret Thorburn.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Pitcairngreen, Red Gorton, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.337). He died in 1904.

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KIRK, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born at St. Andrews, 1795. Studied at the University, St. Andrews. Ordained at Barry, 1824. Married, 1828, Christian G. Carnegie. Translated to Arbirlot, 1837. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. For several years after the Disruption Mr. Kirk lived in Arbroath. One of his sons was the well-known Dr. John Kirk, surgeon to the expedition of Dr. Livingstone, and subsequently Consul-General at Zanzibar. Died, 1858.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1824, Barry, FES, Vol.5, p.431; 1837, Arbirlot, FES, Vol.5, p.422. In the Free Church, he served in Arbirlot, Angus.

Publications – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: John Kirk
Court of Session: Bill Chamber Processes, 1826: David Hunter & others (Heritors of parish of Barr[y]) v. Rev. John Kirk, NRS CS271/18834
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 21/5/1858, Minister of Free Church in Arbirlot, Forfar Sheriff Court, NRS SC47/40/25
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Kirk, alias Carnegie, Christian Guthrie, 29/8/1865, residing in Edinburgh, widow of Rev. John Kirk, Minister at Arbirlot, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/126; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/99; and 25/6/1891, Eik, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/296
W. Mackenzie, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.148 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.50
6th December, 1837, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.68 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
David Ramsay, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.148 [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.32

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KIRKLAND, MATTHEW

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born, 1799. Licensed by the Presbytery of Glasgow, 1828. Ordained at New Cumnock, 1835. Married, 1839, Ann Smith. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1846.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1835, New Cumnock, FES, Vol.3, p.28. In the Free Church, he served in New Cumnock, Ayrshire.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, November, 1838, Cumnock, New, Vol. 5, Ayr, p.509
The Scottish Christian Herald, 2nd series, Vol.3, p.681, Awful Danger of Neglecting the Great Salvation
Breadalbane Muniments: Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 27th May. 1846, Sites, NRS GD112/74/829

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 27/11/1846, minister of Free Church of Scotland at New Cummock in County of Ayr, spouse is Anne Smith or Kirkland, Mutual Settlement with spouse, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/22
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Kirkland alias Smith, Anne, 1/11/1872, widow of Rev. Matthew Kirkland, Minister of Free Church of Scotland at New Curnnock, Dunbarton County, Dumbarton Sheriff Court, NRS SC65/34/18
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.34

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KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born at Hightae, Dumfries-shire, 1862. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kirriemuir, South, 1894. Married, 1896, Mary Blacklock.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in South, Kirriemuir, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.400). Thereafter he served in Leadhills from 1925 (FUFC, p.201, where a short biography is given).

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KITCHAN, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born in Dumfries-shire, 1797. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. After licence Mr. Kitchan went to Canada, where he was ordained, 1831, and settled in the Presbytery of Kingston. Owing to ill-health he returned to this country. Settled at Mordington, 1844. Died, 1871.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1832, Ontario and Quebec, FES, Vol.7, p.638. In the Free Church, he served in Mordington, Berwickshire.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sabbath desecration, 8 May, 1845, NRS GD112/51/192

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KNIGHT, GEORGE ALEXANDER FRANK, M.A., F.R.S.E.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.201
Born at Dollar Free Church manse, 1868. Son of Rev. G. H. Knight. Studied at the Universities, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Auchterarder, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Auchterarder, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.339). Thereafter he served in St Leonard’s, Perth, from 1903 (FUFC, p.335); and in College and Kelvingrove, Glasgow, from 1914 (FUFC, p.216, where a short biography is given).

Family
He was the son of George Halley Knight, a Free Church minister. He married Annie Baillie Adamson, the daughter of Thomas Adamson, a Free Church minister.

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KNIGHT, GEORGE FULTON, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.202
Born at Edinburgh, 1808. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Mordington, 1832. Married, 1834, Jessie Angus. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated to East Wemyss, 1844. Became senior minister, 1880. Died, 1891.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1832, Mordington, FES, Vol.2, p.58. In the Free Church, he served in Mordington, Berwickshire; and East Wemyss, Fife.

Family
His sons George Halley Knight and William Angus Knight were Free Church ministers.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, February, 1835, Mordington , Vol.2, Berwick, p.337
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth grant, 16th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/176; Sites, 4th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/205; Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 16th April, 1850, Against marriage affinity bill, NRS GD112/74/834

Publications – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: KNIGHT, GEORGE FULTON
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/4/1891, Brae House, East Wemyss, d. 13/02/1891 at Manchester, testate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/65
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Knight, or Angus, Jessie, 9/1/1894, widow of Rev. George Fulton Knight, F.C. Minister, East Wemyss, Fife, d. 29/11/1893 at East Wemyss, testate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/69 and NRS SC20/50/70
David Murray, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.83 [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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KNIGHT, GEORGE HALLEY

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.202
Born, 1835. Son of the foregoing. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dollar, 1863. Married, 1865, Marianne Somerville. Translated to Aberdeen, South, 1878, and to Bearsden, 1888. Resigned, 1895.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 28th February, 1835, in Mordington, Berwickshire, the son of George Fulton Knight, minister, and Jessie Angus.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1856-60.

Marriage
He married Marianne Sommerville, on 14th November, 1865, in Blythswood, Glasgow. She was born on 8th July, 1845, the daughter of Alexander Neil Somerville, Free Church minister, and Isabella Ewing.

Ministry
In 1862, he was elected by West, Helensburgh, as colleague and successor to John Anderson, whose assistant he had been. But he was also elected to Dollar and Muckhart, Clackmannanshire, and he was ordained there on 17th September, 1863. In 1876 he was elected to St Andrews, Fife – but remained in Dollar. On 14th February, 1877, he was elected to Montrose but he declined the call. He was translated to South, Aberdeen, on 31st October, 1878; and, in October, 1888, he was translated to Bearsden, Dunbartonshire. On 13th August, 1895, he resigned his charge.

Death
He died on 12th July, 1917, in Almanaire, Garelochhead, Row, Dunbartonshire. His wife died in 1902 in Row, Dunbartonshire.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Ella Catherine Knight born on 14th November, 1866, at the Free Church Manse, Dollar, Clackmannanshire. She perhaps died in the 1st quarter of 1941 in Islington, London, England.

(2) George A.F. Knight born on 19th October, 1868, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. He became a minister. He married Annie Baillie Adamson, daughter of Thomas Adamson, a Free Church minister. He died on 2nd May, 1937, in Hillhead, Glasgow.

(3) Nora Jessie Knight born on 5th July, 1870, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. She died on 19th March, 1915, in Milton, Glasgow.

(4) Adelaide Somerville Knight born on 26th July, 1873, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. She married Peter McRitchie in 1901 in Blythswood, Glasgow. She died in the 1st quarter of 1929 in Swansea, Wales.

(5) Winifred Angus Knight born on 13th July, 1876, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. She is said to have been a missionary and to have married Ernest Augustus Boxer, in 1903, in Kota Kota, British Central Africa, and to have died in 1905 on SS Victoria, on Lake Nyassa, Kenya. Ernest Boxer was a doctor and missionary.

(6) Gertrude Margaret Knight born on 8th July, 1875, in Aberdeen.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 7/11/1917, Almanarre, Garelochhead, d. 12/07/1917 at Garelochhead, testate, Dumbarton Sheriff Court, NRS SC65/35/24 and NRS SC65/36/15

Sources
Records.ancestry; Rootsweb; Cobboldfht; Glasgow Herald, 12th July, 1862; 16th November, 1866; The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 16th February, 1877

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KNIGHT, WILLIAM ANGUS, LL.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.202
Born, 1836. Son of the Rev. G. F. Knight. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at St. Enoch’s, Dundee, 1866. Married, 1865, Mary Simpson Landale. In 1873 Mr. Knight joined the Church of Scotland along with his congregation, and in 1879 he became a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church. In 1876 he was appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of St. Andrews.

Publications.—Colloquia Peripatetica. Studies in Philosophy and Literature. Essays in Philosophy. The Philosophy of the Beautiful. Aspects of Theism. The English Lake District. Life of Wordsworth in an Edition of his Works. Hume, in “Philosophical Classics” (of which Series he was editor).

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in St. Enoch’s, Dundee. Thereafter in 1876, St Enoch’s, Dundee, FES, Vol.5, p.338.

Family
He was the son of George Fulton Knight, a Free Church minister.

Publications
See separate document here.

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KÖNIG, RUDOLF

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.202
Born at Dantzig, 1816. Studied at the Universities, Berlin and Bonn. He was a licentiate of the Prussian Church, and was employed by the Free Church Jewish Mission Committee at Constantinople, 1845. By authority of the General Assembly, 1847, ordained a Jewish missionary of the Free Church. Married, the same year, Mary Jane Gumprecht. After labouring for a winter at Budapest he returned to Constantinople, and was finally transferred to Budapest. Resigned, 1890. Died, 1894. [In the List of missionaries his surname is Koenig.]

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Danzig, Prussia, in 1816.

Education
He received his school education in his native town, and then studied successively at the universities of Berlin and Bonn, Germany.

Marriage
He married Mary Jane Gumprecht in 1847. She is said to have been from Glasgow. The only Gumprecht family there in 1841-51 was that of Julius Gumprecht, a foreign wine dealer, and his wife Dorothea Schlesinger, head of a private school. Both were born in Germany. And her death notice confirms that Julius was her father.

Ministry
He worked amongst the Jews in Constantinople and was ordained for that work by authority of the General Assembly by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1847. He moved from Constantinople to Budapest in 1863. In both these places he was a valued agent of the National Bible Society of Scotland and the London Tract Society. He resigned in October, 1890.

Death
He spent his last years in Potsdam. He died on 16th September, 1894. His wife died in Berlin, Germany, on 30th January, 1906.

Publication – about him:
Obituary Notice on this web-site: Rudolf Koenig.

Sources
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 24th February, 1906, p.16

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