Free Church of Scotland Ministers (1843-1900): MAC2

Ewing – List of Ministers: MAC2

 
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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There are so many “Macs” that this index becomes unwieldy if presented as a unity. So Mac1 deals with names from MacAdam to Mackray. Mac2 deals with MacLachlan to McWatt. Again we have an alphabetical index. Take off the prefix “Mc”, “M'” or “Mac” from the surname you are looking for, and click the appropriate letter below. Then find the name you are looking for in the index at that point.

For example, if you are looking for “Hector M’Lean”, remove “M’”and you get “Lean”; click “L” and then click his name in the index provided there.

Ewing’s layout here is difficult to follow. He uses Mac, Mc or M’ as the prefix. In a particular name – say “MacRae” and its variants – he lists all the “MacRae”s in alphabetical order; then he lists all the “McRae”s and “M’Rae”s together in another alphabetical sequence. To check on a person, you really need to look at both these sequences.

Some practical points:

Remember that there is a surname Mac – Intosh, and a surname Mac – kintosh.

“Macloy” is listed under “-C” not under “-L”.

“Makellar” is not a “Mac”.

-L -M -N -O
 
-P -Q -R -T, -V, -W

 

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MACLACHLAN, DAVID STEVENSON, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.242
Born at Glasgow, 1861. Studied at the University, Glasgow, Evangelical Union Divinity Hall, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Coupar-Angus, 1883. Married, 1886, Margaret Scrymgeour. Admitted to Free Church, 1890, and settled at Blackford, 1891.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Blackford, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.340, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1928 and died in 1952.

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MACLACHLAN, NEIL DUNCAN, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born at Greenock, 1855. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Taught the Hebrew classes in Free Church College, Aberdeen, 1879-80. Ordained at Dalkeith, 1880.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dalkeith, Midlothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.55, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1912 and died in 1915.

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MACLACHLAN, PETER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born in Lanarkshire, 1827. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Hillhead, 1859. Resigned, 1870, and commenced mission work in the East End of Glasgow. He formed a new congregation in London Road, over which he was settled, 1874. In 1876 he joined the Church of Scotland. Died, 1890.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Jordanhill, Hillhead, Glasgow; and London Road, Glasgow. Thereafter in 1876, Newlands, FES, Vol.3, 427.

Publications – by him
Christ our study: or, a practical treatise on Christ in His official character, London, Judd and Glass, 1857
The Book of Psalms in metre, Peter M’Lachlan, edited by James McNaught, John McCallum, 1893

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 18/3/1890, Minister of Newlands Parish Church, Glasgow, residing at 70 Armadale Street there, d. 13/01/1890 at Glasgow, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/128; Will, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/100
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Wedderburn or MacLagan,or MacLagan, Katherine Stormonth, 7/7/1891, of Pearsie, County of Forfar, residing at 3 Glencairn Crescent, Edinburgh, d. 25/04/1891 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/297; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/253

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MACLAGAN, DONALD ROBERT CLARKE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born at Aberfeldy, 1845. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and the New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Logierait, 1875. Married, 1881, Catherine Alberta Mackenzie.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Strathtay (Logierait), Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.319, where a short biography is given). He died in 1910.

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M’LAGAN, JAMES, D.D. (St. Andrews)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.57
Born in 1788; son of the parish minister of Blair Atholl. Studied at St. Andrews University and Theological Hall; ordained assistant and successor at Auchtergaven in 1813, and translated to Kinfauns in 1821. Dr. Maclagan married a daughter of Dr. Stewart of Luss; and after her death, Catherine Stormonth. He signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission, and in 1845 was appointed Professor of Divinity in the Free Church College, Aberdeen. He died in 1852.

Publications.—Posthumous—Lectures and Sermons. With Preface by Rev. A. D. Davidson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1813, Auchtergaven, FES, Vol.4, p.142; 1821, Kinfauns, FES, Vol.4, p.217; FES, Vol.8, p.366. In the Free Church, he served in Kinfauns, Perthshire.

Family
His son Laurence Craigie McLagan took on the additional surname of Wedderburn. He was a Free Church minister. His daughter Katherine McLagan was the wife of Donald MacKinnon MacAlister, a Free Church minister.

Publications
See separate document here.

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MACLAREN, DUNCAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born at Dalkeith, 1824. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dunning, Perthshire, 1849. Married, 1863, Caroline Walker. Became senior minister, 1896.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1824 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, the son of Duncan MacLaren and Isabella Stewart. His sister, Margaret MacLaren, married Dugald Shaw, a Free Church minister.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-47.

Marriage
He married Caroline Walker on 24th December, 1863, in Laggan, Inverness-shire. She was born about 1836 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England, the daughter of John Walker, miller, and Caroline Ellis.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dunning, Perthshire. On 10th December, 1896, Robert Smith Clazy was ordained there as his colleague and successor. On 13th April, 1899, a social meeting was held in the church there in recognition of his ministerial jubilee. He was presented with a purse of sovereigns; Mrs MacLaren was given a silver salver and a silver biscuit box.

Death
He died on 19th January, 1901, in Dunning, Perthshire. His wife died in the 3rd quarter of 1915 in the Isle of Wight, England.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Duncan Arthur Maclaren born on 18th April, 1865, in Dunning, Perthshire. He became a Free Church minister.

(2) Caroline Stewart Maclaren born on 21st January, 1867, in Dunning, Perthshire. She died in the 3rd quarter of 1924 in the Isle of Wight, England.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 7/8/1901, F.C. Minister, Dunning, Perthshire, d. 19/01/1901 at Dunning, intestate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/185

Source
The Dundee Courier & Argus, 14th April, 1899, p.4

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MACLAREN, DUNCAN ARTHUR, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born, 1865. Son of the foregoing. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Firth, Orkney, 1893. Married, 1899, Jane J. T. Dennison.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Firth and Stennis, Orkney. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.513). Thereafter he served in Evie from 1991 (FUFC, p.513); and in St Andrews, Orkney from 1918 (FUFC, p.517, where a short biography is given).

Family
He was the son of Duncan Maclaren.

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M’LAREN, JAMES, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born at St. Fillans, 1857. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1882, missionary to South Africa. Married, the same year, Christina A. Robertson. [List of missionaries says he resigned 1897.]

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 21st February, 1857, in Comrie, Perthshire, the son of John McLaren, farmer, and Margaret McIntyre.

Education
A James McLaren graduated M.A. from Edinburgh University in 1878. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1878-1882.

Marriage
He married Christina Alice Robertson on 14th June, 1882, in Pencaitland, East Lothian. She was born there on 14th May, 1856, the daughter of Samuel Robertson, a Free Church minister, and Christina Rate. Agnes Gertrude Robertson, her sister, married Walter Dalgleish Glendinning, a Free Church minister.

Ministry
He spoke at a church function in Auchterarder Free Church in 1893 when he was described as of “Blythswood, South Africa”.

Death
He died on 20th August, 1934, in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. His wife died on 8th September, 1924, in The Grove, Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Christina Rate Robertson McLaren was born on 20th September, 1883, in South Africa. She died on 6th January, 1968, in Transvaal, South Africa.

(2) John McLaren was born on 20th January, 1885, in South Africa. He died on 19th January, 1909, in South Africa.

(3) James Stewart McLaren was born on 16th March, 1886, in South Africa and died on 28th January, 1951, in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, England.

(4) Margaret Dorothy McLaren was born on 26th October, 1887, in South Africa. She married Charles Gant as his second wife. She died on 9th August, 1985, in South Africa.

Publications – by him
An introductory Kafir grammar, with progressive exercises, Lovedale, 1886
A grammar of the Kaffir language, London, Longman, Green and Co.,1906
A concise English-Kafir dictionary, London, Longmans, Green and co., 1923
A grammar of the Kaffir language, London, Longmans, Green, 1926
A concise Xhosa-English dictionary, London, Longmans, Green 1936

Sources
Chuckspeed; Peter-graham; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 15th June, 1893

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M’LAREN, JAMES WISHART, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born at Girvan, 1856. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Arbroath, East, 1883. Resigned, 1885, and became a teacher in New Zealand.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 9th August, 1857, in Govan, Glasgow, the son of Thomas McLaren and Mary Jamieson.

Education
He graduated M.A. from Glasgow University in 1879.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow, on 9th May, 1882. He served for a time as assistant to Robert Reid, Banchory Ternan, Kincardineshire. He was elected as minister of East, Arbroath, Angus, on 14th September, 1883, and was ordained there shortly thereafter. He resigned his charge on 7th January, 1885. By March that year he had been declared bankrupt with assets of £200 and liabilities of £600. On 19th March, he failed to appear in court as cited in regard to his bankruptcy and a warrant for his arrest was issued. It was reported in court that he had gone abroad.

Other
He taught in a public school near Palmerston, New Zealand.

Death
He died in 1939 in New Zealand.

Publication – about him
Concluded Sequestration Processes under 1856 Act: James Wishart McLaren, Arbroath, Forfarshire, Free church minister, 1887, NRS CS318/30/219

Sources
The Dundee Courier & Argus , 15th September, 1883; 5th March, 1885; 20th March, 1885

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M’LAREN, PETER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born, 1825. Studied at the New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Lossiemouth, 1853. Married, the same year, Mary Ann Aitken. Translated, 1858, to Brighton. Thereafter went to Port Adelaide, South Australia, where he became theological tutor in the United College of Adelaide. Died, 1878.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1825 in Crieff, Perthshire.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1844-50.

Marriage
He married Mary Aitken on 22nd September, 1853, in Dyke, Moray. She was born on 20th October, 1819, in Sunderland, Co. Durham, England, the daughter of Mark Aitken, minister, and Eliza Bannerman.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1850. He was assistant to Dr Sievewright, Markinch, Fife, before being ordained in Lossiemouth, Moray. After his time in Brighton, Sussex, England, he went to Australia in 1871, on health grounds. He spent some time in Sydney, New South Wales, before being settled in Port Adelaide, South Australia – he gave supply there from 10th October, 1871, and was inducted on 20th February, 1872. He continued till 1878.

Death
He died on 31st May, 1878, aboard the Garonne, en route for England.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Eliza Bannerman MacLaren born on 14th August and baptized on 24th September, 1854, in Drainie, Moray. She married Albert Kaye in 1875 in Port Adelaide, South Australia. He established the firm of Kaye and Carter in Christchurch, New Zealand – shipping, grain and seed merchants. She died in New Zealand in 1923.

(2) Jessie Russell MacLaren born on 12th June, 1856, in Drainie, Moray. She married William Bindley Webb in 1875 in Port Adelaide, South Australia. She died in 1918 in Perth, Western Australia.

(3) Duncan Mark MacLaren born in the 3rd quarter of 1859 in Brighton, Sussex, England. He married Alice Lea Allnutt in 1887 in Port Adelaide, South Australia. He died on 28th March, 1901, in Broken Hills, New South Wales.

(4) Alice Marjory MacLaren born in the 2nd quarter of 1861 in Brighton, Susex, England. She married Anthony Paget Hall in 1883 in Adelaide, South Australia. She died in 1899 in Port Adelaide, South Australia.

Publications – by him
The Glory of the Holy Ghost, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1855
On prayer: why, how, and what we should ask, Brighton, William Simpson, 1860
Presbyterianism: including; I. Presbyterian order. II. The shorter Catechism. III. Guide to prayer., with a copious index, Brighton, W. Pearce, 1863
The seven topics of the Christian faith, London, S.W. Partridge and Co., 1877

Publication – about him
Miscellaneous documents deposited by British Records Association: Antenuptial contract of marriage between the Reverend Peter MacLaren, minister of the Free Protesting Church of Scotland in Drainie, near Elgin, and May Anne Aitken, daughter and only surviving child of the Reverend Mark Aitken, minister of the Free Protesting Church of Scotland in Dyke, near Forres, and deceased Elizabeth Bannerman, his spouse. Free manse of Dyke, 22/9/1853, NRS GD2/271

Sources
South Australian Register, 11th July, 1878; NZETC

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M’LAREN, PETER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born at Comrie, 1863. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Forglen, 1890. Married, 1896, Constance H. Simpson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Forglen, Banffshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.447). Thereafter he served in Rathillet (FUFC, p.373, where a short biography is given). He resigned in 1929.

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MACLAUCHLAN, FRANCIS J., M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born at Glasgow. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Dundee High, 1899. Married, 1900, Ella M. Sinclair.

Supplementary Information
Francis Joseph MacLauchlan

Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in High, Dundee. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.383). Thereafter he served in Victoria, Glasgow, from 1908 (FUFC, p.257, where a short biography is given).

Family
He had a son, Francis Joseph Lauchlan MacLauchlan, who became a United Free Church minister: Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.45.

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MACLAUCHLAN, IVY MACONE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.243
Born at Rothesay, 1837. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Barrhead, 1862. Married, 1863, Jane L. M’Culloch. Translated, 1871, to Kilmarnock, High. Resigned, 1875. Settled at Uddingston, 1877. Resigned, 1885. Died, 1894.

Publication.—Mementoes of a Ministry (printed for private circulation).

Supplementary Information
Ivie MacRae MacLachlan

Background
He was born on 11th March and baptized on 22nd April, 1838, in Rothesay, Bute, the son of Thomas MacLauchlan, physician and surgeon, and Jessie MacRae.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1852.

Marriage
He married Jane Louisa McCulloch on 5th August, 1863, in Neilston, Renfrewshire (Registration: 1863 572/ 37 Neilston). She was born about 1843 in France, the daughter of James McCulloch and his wife Mary McLittelings (?). In 1851 James McCulloch is described as a “Gentleman, formerly bleacher”.

Ministry
He was ordained in Barrhead, Renfrewshire, in 1882; he was translated to High, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, in 1871, in response to a call signed to him by 514 members and 146 adherents. He resigned his charge there in 1875. He was inducted in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, on 13th December, 1877. In 1885 he resigned this charge because of ill health.

Death
He died on 21st January, 1894, at Mount Pleasant, Bothwell, Lanarkshire. His wife died in 1923 in Boroughmuirhead, Edinburgh.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Thomas James Leigh MacLachlan born on 8th May, 1864, at the Free Church Manse, Barrhead, Renfrewshire. Thomas (later Sir Thomas) James Leigh was educated at Ayr Academy. He married, firstly, in Glasgow in 1886, Mary daughter of John Orr, commission agent. He was then a journalist. In 1891 he was agent to the Liberal Union Association. He is said to have married, secondly, Edith Osbourne in North London. He was the principle agent to the Conservative Party and was created a knight in 1927. He died on 1st March, 1946, when his home was 23 Princes Avenue, Muswell Hill in North London, England.

(2) Mary MacLachlan born on 11th March, 1866, in Neilston, Renfrewshire. She died there that same year.

(3) Edith Mary Leigh Maclachlan born on 1st August, 1867, in Neilston, Renfrewshire. She died in 1943 in George Square, Edinburgh.

(4) Hugh David Cathcart MacLachlan born on 16th March, 1869, in Neilston, Renfrewshire. He graduated M.A. from Glasgow University in 1888. He was a law clerk in Glasgow; and a stockman in Texas, USA, and a journalist. He then studied for the ministry. In 1904 he married Margaret Groves Wolverton. In that year he was ordained in the Christian (Disciples) Church. He served briefly in Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA, and for 21 years in Seventh Street Christian Church in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He qualified as a Doctor of Divinity in 1918. He died on 24th May, 1929, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, and was buried on 26th May, 1929, in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

(5) Charles Fellowes Moncreiffe MacLachlan born on 10th April, 1879, in Bothwell, Lanarkshire. He was trained in the law and became a Writer of the Signet in 1907. He was a partner in the Edinburgh firm of Ronald & Ritchie, WS. He joined the Army as a Great War volunteer. He married Alyce Swan Fairweather on 10th April,1915, daughter of William Fairweather, Free Church minister. He was posted to Ireland to deal with insurgency. His home was in Broomhall Road at the western extremity of Edinburgh when he died at Longmore Hospital on 20th October, 1964.

(6) Louise Harriet MacRae MacLachlan born in 1880 in Bothwell, Lanarkshire. She died in 1953 in Leith, Edinburgh.

Sources
Samuel C. Shepherd Jr, Avenues of Faith: Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, p.14; Ancestry; Glasgow Herald, 9th May, 1864; 2nd February, 1871; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 14th December, 1877, p.6

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MACLAUCHLAN, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.244
Born at Blair Atholl, 1827. Studied at King’s College and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Resolis, 1868. Married, 1872, Margaret A. Sangster. Became senior minister, 1877.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 15th September, 1828, in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, the son of Robert MacLauchlan and Ann Menzies.

Education
He entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1854.

Marriage
He married Margaret Ann Sangster on 20th November, 1872, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She was born on 28th December, 1850, and baptized on 26th January, 1851, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen, the daughter of Robert Sangster, butcher, and Mary Still.

Ministry
He was ordained on 3rd September, 1868, in Resolis, Ross and Cromarty, as colleague and successor to Donald Sage, who died in 1869.

Death
He died at 2 Marine Place, Aberdeen, on 29th July, 1913. His wife died at 66 Duthie Terrace, Aberdeen, on 8th January, 1922.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Margaret Milne MacLauchlan born on 10th October, 1873, in Resolis, Ross and Cromarty. She died in 1956 in Monkton, Ayrshire.

(2) Robert Sangster MacLauchlan born in 1875 in Resolis, Ross and Cromarty. He married Annie Jane Reid in 1906 in Perth. He was a minister of the United Free Church: FUFC, p.401. He died in the 3rd quarter of 1945 in Sunderland, County Durham, England.

(3) Ann Stewart MacLauchlan born in 1877 in Resolis, Ross and Cromarty.

(4) Mary MacLauchlan born in 1879 in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 8/8/1913, 2 Marine Place, Aberdeen, d. 29/07/1913 at Aberdeen, intestate, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/168
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacLauchlan or Sangster, Margaret Ann, 25/2/1922, 66 Duthie Terrace, Aberdeen, widow, d. 08/01/1922 at Aberdeen, intestate, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/186

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MACLAUCHLAN, LAUCHLAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.244
Born in Argyllshire, 1845. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Dalmellington, 1880. Translated to Glasgow, Martyrs’, 1882; and to Pitsligo, 1895. Married, 1870, Anna Begg Craig.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Killean, Argyll, Paterson.

Marriage
He married Anna Begg Craig in Kelton, Kirkcudbrightshire, in 1870. She was born in Castle Douglas about 1835, perhaps the daughter of Joseph Craig, grocer, and Anna Begg.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dalmellington, Ayrshire; Martyrs’, Glasgow; and Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.444). He resigned in 1906 to facilitate a local union.

Death
He died at Pitsligo on 1st February, 1920. His wife died in Dennistoun, Glasgow, in 1893.

Family
They had issue, including:
(1) Francis Joseph McLauchlan born in Govan, Glasgow, in 1871. He married Isabella McAulay Sinclair in Rosskeen, Ross and Cromarty, in 1900. He was a Free Church minister. He died in Cathcart, Glasgow, on 27th May, 1946, and was buried in Eastwood Old Cemetery, Renfrewshire (Findagrave).

(2) Jane Anna McLauchlan born in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, in 1875. She died in Dumfries in 1951. She married James Anderson Hutchison in Pollokshields, Glasgow, in 1911.

(3) Maggie Maude McLauchlan born in Kelvin, Glasgow, in 1878. She died in Forgan, Fife, in 1961.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Maclauchlan Lauchlan 28 / 4 / 1920 Rev., Minister, Pitsligo U.F. Church Manse, Rosehearty, Parish of Pitsligo, d. 01/02/1902 at Pitsligo, Intestate. Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC1/36/181

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M’LAUCHLAN, SIMON FRASER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.244
Born, 1808. Brother of following. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Ordained at Snizort, 1833. Translated to Cawdor, 1838. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1876. Died, 1881.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1833, Snizort, FES, Vol.7, p.180; 1837, Cawdor, FES, Vol.6, p.440. In the Free Church, he served in Cawdor, Nairnshire.

Family
Calder Mackintosh Tree.

Publication – by him
New Statistical Account, December, 1841, Cawdor, Vol.13, Nairn, p.19
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sunday trains & Maynooth endowment, 16th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/176

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Simon Fraser MacLauchlan
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 1/6/1881, Senior Minister, Free Church of Scotland, Cawdor, residing in Nairn, d. 08/05/1881 at Nairn, testate, Holograph Will and Settlement and codicils, Nairn Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC31/34/1
Ninian Mackenzie, schoolmaster, Rinstrai, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.178 [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.28 and Appendix 1, Table 3, p.40
12th September, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.140 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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M’LAUCHLAN, THOMAS, LL.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.244
Born, 1815. Son of Rev. J. M’Lauchlan, Moy. Studied at King’s and Marischal Colleges, Aberdeen, and Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. Ordained at Moy as colleague and successor to his father, 1838. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated to Stratherrick, 1844; and to St. Columba’s, Edinburgh, 1849. Dr. M’Lauchlan was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1876. Married, 1848, Eliza Mackay; 1857, Margaret H. Geddes; and, 1869, Fanny L. Fraser. For a number of years Dr. M’Lauchlan acted as convener of the Normal School Committee, and afterwards of the Highland Committee. Became senior minister, 1880. Died, 1886.

Publications.—The Early Scottish Church: the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland from the First to the Twelfth Century, 1865. An Edition of the Dean of Lismore’s Book, 1862. Celtic Gleanings, 1857. The Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox’s Liturgy, translated into Gaelic, 1567, by Mr. John Carswell, Bishop of the Isles. Edited by Thomas M’Lauchlan, LL.D., 1873.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1838, Moy, FES, Vol.6, p.477. In the Free Church, he served in Moy, Inverness-shire; Stratherrick, Inverness-shire; and St. Columba’s, Edinburgh.

Family
Calder Mackintosh Tree

Publications
See separate document here.

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MACLEAN, DONALD

 
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Born in Inverness-shire, 1818. Studied at the Universities, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Carinish, Outer Hebrides, 1873. Became senior minister, 1890. Died, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1818 in Portree, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, the son of Archibald Mclean and Ann Gray.

Education
He entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1852. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1858-63.

Ministry
He was ordained in Carinish, North Uist, Inverness-shire, in 1873.

Death
In 1891 he was living in retirement in Earlston, Berwickshire, and he died on 6th November, 1892, at the High Street, Dunbar, East Lothian (Registration: 1892 706/ 90 Dunbar).

Family
He never married.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 17/1/1893, sometime F.C. Minister, Carinish, North Uist, latterly residing at Dunbar, d. 06/11/1892 at Dunbar, testate, Haddington Sheriff Court, NRS SC40/40/29

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MACLEAN, DUNCAN

 
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Born at Rothesay, 1805. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Married, 1833, Georgina Campbell. Ordained at Campbeltown, 1836. Translated to Kilmodan, 1838. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated to Callander, 1844. Became senior minister, 1857. Died, 1858.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1836, Campbeltown, FES, Vol.4, p.53; 1838, Kilmodan, FES, Vol.4, p.32; Footnote, FES, Vol.7, p.44. In the Free Church, he served in Kilmodan and Southhall, Argyll; and Callander, Perthshire.

Family
His son Duncan Maclean was a Free Church minister. His daughter Grace Campbell Maclean married James MacGregor, a Free Church minister.

Publications – by him
He contributed to the Disruption Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 483; 518. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth grant and sabbath travel, 5th May, 1845, NRS GD112/51/190; Maynooth grant, 11 May, 1845, NRS GD112/51/192; Sites, 16th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/213
Probably: 29th August, 1836, Eighth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.162 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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MACLEAN, DUNCAN, B.D.

 
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Born, 1846. Son of the foregoing. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Allanton, Berwickshire, 1874. Translated to Old Machar, Aberdeen, 1887. Married, 1898, Isabella M. Balfour. Resigned, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in 1846 in Callander, Perthshire, the son of Duncan Maclean, minister, and Georgina Campbell. His sister Grace Campbell Maclean married James MacGregor, a Free Church minister.

Education
He graduated from Edinburgh University: M.A. in 1866 and B.D. in 1872. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1866-70.

Marriage
He married Isabella Mary Balfour on 27th October, 1898, in the Free Church, Leven, Fife. She was born in Leuchars, Fife, on 21st July, 1852, the daughter of James Balfour of Leven Mills and Isabella Hutcheson.

Ministry
A Duncan Maclean was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1870. He was assistant to Dr MacDonald, Leith. He had calls to both Arbroath, Angus, and Allanton. He was ordained in Allanton, Berwickshire, in 1874. He was translated to Old Machar, Aberdeen in 1887, in response to a call signed by 201 members and 44 adherents.

In June 1889, Annie Smith, a former domestic at the Manse, was sentenced to four months imprisonment for forcing open a work-box and stealing £20 from the Manse family.

He resigned his charge on 15th May, 1900.

Death
He lived at 124 Braid Road, Edinburgh, and died there on 19th October, 1922. His wife died in Edinburgh in 1947.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 23/11/1922, B.D., 124 Braid Road, Edinburgh, d. 29/10/1922 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/688

Sources
The Dundee Courier & Argus, 12th January, 1874; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 26th January, 1887; 5th June, 1889; 2nd November, 1898

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MACLEAN, EBENEZER

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1842. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Fordyce, 1877. Married, 1882, Elizabeth B. Grandison. Resigned, 1893. Died, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in 1842 in Antrim, Ireland, the son of William Maclean, stockbroker, and his wife Elizabeth.

Education
He attended Glasgow Academy and then entered the office of his father. He studied at Glasgow University and the Free Church College there.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Brodie Grandison in 1882 in Paisley, Renfrewshire. She was born on 14 August, 1853, in Gorbals, Glasgow, the daughter of William Grandison and Jane McCue. She was baptized on 25 September, 1853, in Hutchesontown Relief Church, Glasgow. Her father worked for James Grandison and Sons, machine-makers.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow in 1872. He was ordained to Fordyce, Banffshire, in April, 1877. He resigned his charge on 26th September, 1893.

He was a life member of the Clan Maclean Association.

Death
On retirement he settled at 3 Clarendon Place, Stirling. But he died on 15th August, 1899, at the Free Church Manse, Fordyce, Banffshire, while on a visit there, and was buried on 17th August. His widow latterly lived at 4 Mount Hope, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, and died there on 5th July, 1923.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Ebenezer McLean
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 7/9/1899, minister of the Free Church at Fordyce, thereafter residing at 3 Clarendon Place, Stirling, d. 15/08/1899 at Fordyce, co Banff, spouse of Elizabeth Brodie Grandison or MacLean, Inventory; Trust Disposition and Settlement, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/36/117
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacLean or Grandison, Elizabeth Brodie, 27/10/1923, 4 Mount Hope, Bridge of Allan, d. 05/07/1923 at Bridge of Allan, testate, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/40/44 and NRS SC67/36/168

Sources
Glasgow Herald, 16th August, 1899; 30th September, 1895

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M’LEAN, DONALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.244
Born in Argyllshire. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kilberry, Argyllshire, 1895. Married, 1898, Annie H. Martin.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilberry and South Knapdale, Argyll. his ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.288, where a short biography is given). He died in 1905.

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M’LEAN, DONALD

 
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Born in Ross-shire. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1897, at Moy. Married, 1900, Jeanie Fraser. Mr. M’Lean remained outside the Union of 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in September, 1869, in Lochcarron, Ross and Cromarty, the son of John Maclean, seaman merchant service, and Isabella MacDonald.

Education
He attended Lochcarron Primary School and Old Aberdeen Grammar School.

Marriage
He married Jane Fraser on 27th December, 1900, at the Maitland Hotel, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh (Registration: 1900 685/1 669 St George). She was born in 1872 in Lochcarron, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of Angus Fraser, dock contractor, and Jane Ann Mackenzie.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Moy, Inverness-shire. He remained in the Free Church at the Union of 1900. He was inducted to St Columba’s, Edinburgh, on 9th August, 1905. He was Professor of Church History and Principles in the Free Church College, Edinburgh, 1930-43; and in his last year there served as Principal. He was the Moderator of the General Assembly in 1919 and in 1937. He was Secretary of the Highland Committee of the Free Church, 1905-1920; President of the Scottish Church History Society; and Editor of The Evangelical Quarterly, 1939-43.

Death
He died on 30th January, 1943, in Edinburgh.

Family
They had issue:

(1) Isobel Jane Ann Mclean born in Moy and Dalarossie, Inverness-shire, in 1902. She married John Macleod in St Giles, Edinburgh, in 1923. He was a Free Church minister. She died in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1983.

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M’LEAN, DUNCAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.245
Born in the parish of Killin, 1796. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Ordained at Benbecula, 1823. Translated to Salen, in Mull, 1828. Married, the same year, Flora MacLeod. Translated to Kilbrandon, Argyllshire, 1835; and to Glenorchy, 1837. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1871. [Vol. 2 says his ministry ended 1877.]

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1823, Benbecula, FES, Vol.7, p.187; 1828, Salen, FES, Vol.4, p.118; 1835, Kilbrandon, FES, Vol.4, p.90; 1837, Glenorchy, FES, Vol.4, p.87. In the Free Church, he served in Glenorchy, Perthshire.

Family
Alexander Fraser, Inverness

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments: Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office: Personal Correspondence: 1835 April 22, Manse of Salen by Aross, Duncan Maclean to Breadalbane. Vacancy in parish of Kilbrandon; expresses anxiety that the wishes of the people will be little consulted; suggests accepting the offer and to go and preach a sabbath or two at Kilbrandon to discover the inclinations of the parish; need to find acceptable person as writer’s successor at Salen, NRS GD112/74/42; Letter from Duncan MacLean, minister at Kilbrandon, to Laurence Davidson, WS: Encloses report on destitution of parish due to general failure of crops, particularly potatoes, NRS GD112/51/82; Ecclesiastical Documents: 1843, December 6, Manse of Glenorchy, Letter from the Rev Duncan MacLean to Mr Wyllie: Expresses anxiety about provision of a new manse, [writer having signed act of separation and deed of demission]; suggests Croft Brackly, NRS GD112/51/229; Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 27th May, 1848, Sites, NRS GD112/74/831; 1848, May 15, Free Church Manse, Glenorchy, Duncan McLean, minister, to Breadalbane: Interest for his second son; suggests waiting on Mr Maule at Forest House, NRS GD112/74/52; To Breadalbane, Thanks for haunch of venison; asks for a hare occasionally during the winter, 10th October, 1854, NRS GD112/74/63
Dain agus orain. Poems and songs, Glasgow, P. Campbell & Co., 1842
New Statistical Account, August, 1843, Glenorchy and Inishail, Vol.7, Argyll, p.82
Cumha an diadhair urramaich Dr. Thomas Chalmers, a chaochail anns a’ Bhliadhna 1847, Agus da dhan spioradail Eile, Glasgow, Duncan MacVean, 1848
Laoidhean agus dàin, Glasgow, 1868

Publications – about him
Breadalbane Muniments: Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office: Personal Correspondence: 1834 May 10. Coll House, Hugh Maclean to Breadalbane: Choice of pastor for Kilbrandon; the parishioners wish to choose their own; suggest Duncan Maclean of Salen
John Stevenson, schoolmaster, Kilbride, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.40 [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.12; Appendix 1, Table 3, p.38 and Appendix 2, p.13
5th October, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.36 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
Charles McArthur, schoolmaster, Inishdrynich, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.37 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Patrick McIntyre, schoolmaster, Auchnacaron, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.37 [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.18 and Appendix 2, p.13
28th August, 1837, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.34 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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M’LEAN, DUNCAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.245
Born at Kilwinning, 1857. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. For some time was assistant to Dr. Smith, Corsock, Kirkcudbrightshire. Ordained there, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Kilwinnng Ayrshire, on 25th October, 1856, the son of John Mclean and Mary Shaw.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Corsock, Kirkcudbrightshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.113).

Death
He died at Corsock on 4th August, 1908, his death being recorded in Irvine, Ayrshire. He was buried in the Old Churchyard Irvine.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Maclean Duncan 22 / 8 / 1908 Minister of Corsock U.F. Church, Kirkcudbrightshire, d. 04/08/1908 at Corsock, Testate. Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court NRS SC16/41/59; Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC16/47/5

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M’LEAN, HECTOR, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.245
Born at Paisley, 1858. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1884, at Gorebridge. Married, 1885, Catherine Barr.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Gorebridge, Midlothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.56, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1921 and died in 1925.

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M’LEAN, JAMES HAIR, B.D.

 
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Born in Renfrewshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1895, as missionary to Big Conjeeveram, Madras.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.543, where a short biography is given).

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M’LEAN, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.245
Born in Islay, 1825. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Muckairn, 1856. Translated to Carloway, 1858; to Stratherrick, 1863; to Back, 1877; to Shiskine, 1880; and to Tarbert, Harris, 1885. Married, 1861, Isabella Campbell; and, 1889, Mary Ann Miller. Became senior minister, 1897. Died, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1825 in Bowmore, Isle of Islay, Argyll, the son of Neil McLean, schoolmaster, and Catherine McKinnon.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1850-55.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Isabella Campbell on 29th January, 1861, at 1 Fingal Place, Edinburgh (Registration: 1861 685/5 26 Newington). She was born (or baptised) on 6th May, 1828, in Glenorchy and Inishail, Argyll, the daughter of John Campbell, farmer, and his wife Jane Macintyre. She was brought up in Ardchattan, Argyll.

(2) Mary Ann Miller on 13th December, 1889, at 1 Randolph Place, Edinburgh (Registration: 1889 685/1 411 St George). She was then a fund-holder of 6 Ibrox Place, Govan. She was born about 1837 in Dundee, the daughter of David Miller, silk merchant, and Mary Ann Guild.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Muckairn (Taynuilt), Argyll; and Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. He was translated to Stratherrick, Inverness-shire, on 7th May, 1863; to Back, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, in 1877. Later he was translated to Shiskine, Isle of Arran, Bute; and Tarbert, Harris, Inverness-shire.

Death
His first wife died in 1868 in Dores, Inverness-shire. He lived for a time in Rothesay, Bute; afterwards at 3 Cawdor Place, Nairn, where he died on 2nd October, 1900.

Family
He had issue including by his first wife:

(1) Jane McLean born on 29th July, 1862, in Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(2) Catherine McLean born on 28th January, 1865, in Rothesay, Bute.

(3) Isabella McLean born on 13th October, 1867, in Dores, Inverness-shire.

(4) Johan McLean born on 30th November, 1868, in Dores, Inverness-shire.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 9/11/1900, Senior Minister, Free Church of Scotland, Tarbert, Harris, sometime residing at Rothesay, afterwards at 3 Cawdor Place, Nairn, d. 12/10/1900 at Nairn, testate, Nairn Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC31/35/4; Will, Nairn Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC31/34/2

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M’LEAN, JOHN TEED

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.245
Born at Glenorchy, 1843. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Campbeltown, 1868. Married, 1871, Jessie MacRae; and, 1891, Jessie Gibson Farmer. Translated to Port Bannatyne, 1876; [In Vol.1 under Lorne Street, Campbeltown, it says he was translated in 1875.] and to Govan, St. Columba’s, 1887.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lorne Street, Campbeltown, Argyll; North Bute; and St. Columba’s, Govan, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.223, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1899 and died in in 1913.

Family
Alexander Fraser, Inverness

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M’LEAN, MALCOLM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.245
Born in Perthshire, 1839. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Gartmore, 1864. Married, 1895, Catherine C. MacCallum.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 8th October, 1839, in Buchanan, Stirlingshire, the son of Richard Mclean and Mary Colquhoun. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1859-1863.

Marriage
He married Catherine Campbell MacCallum in Kelvin, Glasgow, in 1895. She was born on 19th June, 1856, the daughter of Robert MacCallum and Jessie Campbell. In 1881 Robert Campbell was a property and insurance agent, also Commissioner of Police Board.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Gartmore, Stirlingshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.311). He retired in 1910.

Death
He died at Callander, Perthshire, on 14th October, 1920. His wife died in Newington, Edinburgh, on 27th February, 1915.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Maclean Malcolm 10 / 2 / 1921 U.F. Church of Gartmore, Perthshire, afterwards 8 Braidburn Terrace, Edinburgh, d. 14/10/1920 at Callander, Testate. Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC70/1/659;tsEdinburgh Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC70/4/545
Maclean or MacCallum, Catherine Campbell 31 / 5 / 1915 Wife of Rev. Malcolm Maclean, 46 Craigmillar Park, Edinburgh, U.F. Church, Gartmore, d. 27/02/1915 at Edinburgh, Intestate. Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC70/1/565

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M’LEAN, MURDO S.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.245
Born in Ross-shire. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Arisaig, Inverness-shire, 1898.

Supplementary Information
Murdo Smith Mclean

Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Arisaig, Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.297, where a short biography is given). He resigned in 1917. Thereafter he became a minister in Sandringham Road, West Hartlepool, Co. Durham, England in 1920. He retired in 1928 and went to Australia where he died in 1943.

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M’LEAN, PETER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.245
Born in the parish of Uig, island of Lewis, 1800. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. While prosecuting his studies he engaged in mission work among Highlanders in Edinburgh and Leith. In 1832 he became parish schoolmaster of Uig. Ordained, 1836, as missionary to Highlanders in Cape Breton. Owing to failing health he returned to Scotland, 1842. Married, 1843, Flora Campbell. Settled in the Free Church, Tobermory, the same year. At the request of the Colonial Committee he visited the lower Canadian provinces. Translated, 1855, to Stornoway. In 1861 Mr. M’Lean’s health failed, and he was laid aside for two years. In 1866 he went for the third time to Cape Breton and Nova Scotia to heal divisions arising out of the union of Presbyterian Churches. Died, 1868.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, Cape Breton, FES, Vol.7, p.607. In the Free Church, he served in Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyll; and Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

Family
His daughter Margaret Stewart Mclean married John MacPherson, a Free Church minister (Rootsweb).

Publication – by him
He gave evidence before the Committee on Sites (Scotland) – see the Report of this Committee from Question 4079 on p.1 of Third Report

Publication – about him
Case of traslation of the Rev. Peter McLean of Tobermory, to Stornoway, Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, John Greig and Son, 1855

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M’LEAN, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.246
Born at Pollokshaws, 1858. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Braehead, Kilmarnock, 1890. Married, the same year, Helen Agnew Nimmo. Translated to Inchinnan, 1891; and to Johnstone, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilmarnock— Braehead, Ayrshire; Inchinnan, Renfrewshire; and Johnstone, Renfrewshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.165, where a short biography is given). He died in 1904.

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M’LEISH, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.246
Born, 1806. Ordained at Methven, 1854 [Vol. 2 1845]. Married, 1833, Jane Izatt; 1850, Mary Young; and, 1868, Emily Gibson. Became senior minister, 1883. Died, 1888.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, on 5th April, 1807, the son of William McLeish, farmer, and Mary Hall.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Jean Izatt in 1833, the marriage being recorded on 3rd June in Auchtergaven, Perthshire, and on 26th May in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. She was born on 6th November, 1808, in Tulliallan, Fife, the daughter of John Izatt and Isobel Fergus.

(2) Mary Young on 12th October, 1850, in Methven, Perthshire. She was born (or baptised) on 23rd October, 1803, in Tibbermore, Perthshire, the daughter of James Young, block printer, and Jean Simpson.

(3) Amelia Emily Gibson on 24th December, 1867, in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire. She was born on 13th and baptized on 24th August, 1828, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, the daughter of William Gibson and Mary Wilson.

Ministry
He was ordained in Methven, Perthshire, on 13th November, 1845. On 10th September, 1883, David Bisset was ordained there as his colleague and successor.

Death
He died on 29th December, 1888, at Rose Vale, Dollar, Clackmannanshire, of gastric and intestinal catarrh (Registration: 1888 467/ 20 Dollar). Mary Young or McLeish, died on 8th December, 1866, at the Free Church Manse, Methven, Perthshire (Registration: 1866 380/ 32 Methven ). Amelia Gibson or McLeish died on 20th January, 1912, in Dollar, Clackmannanshire.

Family
He had issue including by his first wife:

(1) Isabella Fergus McLeish born on 3rd and baptized on 10th April, 1834, in Auchtergaven, Perthshire.

(2) William McLeish born on 9th and baptized on 21st February, 1836, in Auchtergaven, Perthshire.

(3) John McLeish born on 24th December, 1837, and baptized on 7th January, 1838, in Auchtergaven, Perthshire.

(4) Norman McLeish born in 1841 in Auchtergaven, Perthshire.

(5) Marianne I. McLeish born about 1845 in Cargill, Perthshire.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 3rd June, 1846, NRS GD112/51/219

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacLiesh or Gibson, Emily, 9/2/1912, Rosevale, Dollar, widow of Revd John MacLeish, d. 20/01/1912 at Dollar, testate, Alloa Sheriff Court, NRS SC64/40/1 and NRS SC64/42/24

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M’LEISH, PETER, D.D. (Glasgow)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.246
Born at Lochwinnoch, 1815. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dunlop, Ayrshire, 1846. Married, 1852, Margaret Brown; and, 1873, Janet Laucht. For seven years was clerk of the Presbytery of Irvine. Died, 1888.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 27th April and baptized on 14th May, 1815, in Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, the son of Archibald McLeish and Jean Thomson. He was the uncle of W. Kennedy Moore, minister of St George’s Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, Lancashire, England.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1834 and was awarded the D.D. there in 1872. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-45.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Margaret Brown on 21st February, 1852, in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire. She is said to have been born on 18th July, 1828, in Glasgow, the daughter of Alexander Brown and Marion Meikle.

(2) Janet Laught (her surname is variously spelt) in 1873 in Park, Glasgow. She was born on 17th April, 1829, in Dreghorn, Ayrshire, the daughter of James Laut and Janet Wallace.

Ministry
He was ordained in Dunlop, Ayrshire, in 1846. In 1869 he was nominated for the Professorship of Hebrew in the Aberdeen College, but he was not appointed.

Death
He died on 2nd February, 1888, at the Free Church Manse, Dunlop, Ayrshire. Margaret Brown or McLeish died there on 2nd October, 1860. Janet Laut or McLeish died at Dunlop on 5th January, 1902.

Family
He had issue including by his first wife:

(1) Marion Meikle McLeish born about 1853 in Dunlop, Ayrshire. She is said to have died on 8th June, 1938, in Los Angeles, California, USA.

(2) Dr Archibald Lyle McLeish born in 1854 in Dunlop, Ayrshire. He studied at Edinburgh University and enrolled in New College Edinburgh, 1875-79. He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Irvine on 28th June, 1881. He was a medical missionary of the English Presbyterian Church in Amoy, China. He married (i) Grace Helen Peffers; (ii) Maria Van Zandt Cobb. He died on 20th May, 1930, in Los Angeles, California, USA.

(3) Rosina Douglas McLeish born on 24th December, 1856, in Dunlop, Ayrshire. She died there on 14th October, 1884.

(4) Jane Thompson McLeish born on 14th October, 1858, in Dunlop, Ayrshire. She died in 1940 in Pollok, Glasgow.

(5) Alexander Brown McLeish born on 14th September, 1860, in Dunlop, Ayrshire. He died in 1867 in Ayr.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Peter MacLeish
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/4/1888, D.D., F.C. Minister, Dunlop, d. 02/02/1888 at Dunlop, intestate, Ayr Sheriff Court, NRS SC6/44/49
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacLeish or Laught or Ferguson, Janet, 26/2/1902, residing in Dunlop, widow of Revd Peter MacLeish, D.D., minister of the Free Church at Dunlop, d. 05/01/1902 at Dunlop, testate, Ayr Sheriff Court, NRS SC6/44/65
Dunlop Kirk Session – Photographs: Photograph of Rev Peter McLeish, first minister of Dunlop Free Church 1843, taken by Bara of Ayr, NRS CH2/1584/10/5

Sources
Findagrave; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 19th February, 1864

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MACLELLAN, WILLIAM

 
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Born at Kilsyth, 1836. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Divinity Hall of the Congregational Church. Ordained at Haddington, 1861. Translated to Wick, 1867; and, 1879, to Stirling. Admitted to the Free Church, 1883, and settled at Law. Married, 1863, Margaret Kirkwood Hogg; and, 1899, Jessie M’D. Currie.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, about 1832, the son of James MacLellan and Jean Leishman. He studied in the Divinity Hall of the Congregational Church from 1856 and was ordained in 1862.

Marriage
He married, firstly, Margaret (Maggie) Kirkwood in Newington, Edinburgh, on 23rd July, 1863. She was born in Glasgow about 1842, the daughter of John Hogg and Jane Kirkwood.

He married, secondly, Jessie McDougall Currie in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1899. She was born in Edinburgh, on 5th October, 1857, the daughter of Peter Currie, teacher, and Jessie Young. Her father died when she was about three. Her sister, Catherine Young Currie, married John Pringle – a minister of the United Presbyterian Church.

Ministry
He served Scottish congregational churches in Haddington 1861-1867, Wick 1867-1875, and Stirling 1879-1884. He also sserved in Chapel Street Congregational Church, Salford, Lancashire, England, 1875-1879. In the Free Church, he served in Law, Lanarkshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.201). He retired in 1903.

Death
He died at St Ninian’s, Stirlingshire, on 19th July, 1907, and was buried in the Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh (Findagrave). His first wife died at the Free Church Manse, Law, Lanarkshire, on 16th August, 1898. His second wife died in Milton, Glasgow, in 1924.

Family
For his family see Couples9. He had issue by his first wife, including:
(1) James Kirkwood McLellan born in Haddington, East Lothian, on 8th August, 1864. He married Robina Wilson Brown in Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, in 1899. He died in Wolverhampton, England, on 4th June, 1946. He was at one time an overseer with the General Post Office in Glasgow. For a picture see RWBrown.

(2) William McLellan born in Haddington, on 2nd July, 1866.

(3) John Walter McLellan born in Wick, Caithness, in 1868. He married Christina Campbell in Kelvin, Glasgow, in 1895. He was an insurance clerk. He died in St Andrew, Dundee, in 1938.

(4) Jane Kirkwood L. McLellan born in 1870 in Wick. She died there in 1871.

(5) Charles Smith W. McLellan born in 1873 in Wick. He died in Haymarket, Edinburgh, in 1946.

(6) Alexander Carson C. McLellan born in Salford, Lancashire, England, in 1877. He married Annie Currie in Stirling in 1909. He died in 1949 in Norwich, Norfolk, England.

(7) Robert Chalmers McLellan born on 28th July, 1888, in Carluke. He married Agnes Bennett in Lauder, Berwickshire, in 1915. He died on 4th May, 1933, in Lytham Saint Annes, Fylde, Lancashire, England, and was buried in Lytham Park Cemetery and Crematorium there (Findagrave).

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Maclellan William 22 / 11 / 1907 Rev. 15 Manse Crescent, St Ninians, Stirling, d. 19/07/1907 at St Ninians, Testate. Stirling Sheriff Court NRS SC67/36/136 and NRS SC67/40/12
Ross, James, (A History of Congregational Independency in Scotland, pp. 251, 254, 255 and 260).
Nightingale, B., Lancashire nonconformity, or, Sketches, historical & descriptive, of the Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county, p.217

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M’LEMAN, JOHN

 
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Born at Fraserburgh, 1857. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Rousay, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Rousay and Egilshay, Orkney. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.516). Thereafter he served in Methil from 1906 (FUFC, p.366, where a short biography is given).

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MACLENNAN, DUNCAN, M.A.

 
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Born at Kingussie, 1858. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Glenelg, 1887. Translated to Laggan, 1892. Married, 1893, Isabella M. Macpherson.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 4th May, 1858, the son of Alexander MacLennan and Helen MacRae. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1880-1884.

Marriage
He married Isabella Margaret MacPherson in Kelvin, Glasgow, in 1893. She was born in the Small Isles on 9th February, 1864, the daughter of Donald MacPherson and Mary MacRae.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Glenelg, Inverness-shire; and Laggan, Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.461). He resigned in 1902 and went to New Zealand: PCNZ, Ministers’ Register. He signed his charge on 30th June, 1914, and returned to Scotland.

Death
He died in Kingussie, Inverness-shire, in 1941 and was buried in Clachan Duich Old , Inverinate, Ross and Cromarty (Findagrave). His wife died in Inverness in 1927.

Family
They had issue born in Laggan, including:
(1) Norman MacPherson MacLennan born in 1895. He was a medical practitioner. He died in 1977.

(2) Roderick Diarmid MacPherson born in 1898. He was Professor of Philosophy in McGill University, Canada, and for eight years minister of Kintail, Ross and Cromarty. He married Mary Pierce Colby. He died on 18th February, 1977, and was buried in Clachan Duich Old Cemetery (Gravestones).

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MACLENNAN, JOHN

 
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Born in Ireland, 1826. Studied at the New College, Edinburgh, and English Presbyterian College, London. Admitted a probationer of the Free Church, 1854. Ordained at Crosshill, Ayrshire, 1856. Married, 1867, Agnes Cochrane. Died, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was the son of Finlay MacLennan, school master, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, and Charles Graham. He was born on 14th November and baptised on 11th December, 1825, in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Education
He matriculated at Glasgow University in 1844. He enrolled in New college, Edinburgh, 1852-53.

Marriage
He married Agnes Cochran Kirkwood on 25th December, 1861, at the bride’s home, 70 St George’s Road, Glasgow (Registration: 1861 644/6 422 Blythswood). She was born on 30th March, 1834, in Beith, Ayrshire, the daughter of Andrew Kirkwood, merchant, and Agnes Cochran.

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

Death
He died on 29th December, 1892, at 26 Montague Street, Glasgow. His wife died in 1908 in West Kilbride, Ayrshire.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Charles Graham MacLennan born on 17th September, 1862, in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire. He died in the 3rd quarter of 1902 in Kensington, London, England.

(2) Agnes Cochran Kirkwood MacLennan born on 29th October, 1863, in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire.

(3) Andrew Kirkwood Meek MacLennan born on 19th December, 1864, in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire. He died that same year in Dundonald, Ayrshire.

(4) Joanna MacLennan born on 30th May, 1866, in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire. She married Edouard Henri Lacaille on 23rd February, 1905, in Partick, Glasgow. She was a nurse at that time. He was a French teacher and an expert chess player.

(5) Henrietta Bell MacLennan born on 22nd June, 1867, in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire. She married Robert George Philip in 1898 in Partick, Glasgow. He was a Free Church minister. For some ministerial connections, see the Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.

(6) Francis Finlay Theophilos MacLennan born on 1st April, 1869, in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire. He died there in 1875.

(7) Frederick Ebenezer MacLennan born on 30th August, 1870, in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire. He died on 7th May, 1915, at sea, when the Lusitania was sunk by enemy action.

(8) Arabella Webb MacLennan born on 14th February, 1872, in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire.

(9) Graham Cochran Kirkwood MacLennan born on 8th September, 1873, in Kirkmichael, Ayrshire. He married Hannah. He became a naturalised citizen of the USA in 1917. He died in 1953.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 9/9/1893, F.C Minister, Crosshill, Maybole, d. 29/12/1892 at Glasgow, testate, Will, Ayr Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC6/46/23; 24/10/1893, Ayr Sheriff Court, NRS SC6/44/56
Application of Mr John McLennan to be admitted a Probationer, Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, John Greig & Son, 1854

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MACLENNAN, MALCOLM, B.D.

 
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Born at Uig, Lewis, 1862. Studied at Montreal, Canada. Ordained at Indian Lands, Glengarry, Ontario, 1888. Married, 1889, Catherine Link. Translated, 1891, to Kirkhill, Ontario; and, 1897, to St. Columba’s, Edinburgh.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in St. Columba’s, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.27, where a short biography is given).

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MACLENNAN, SIMON GEORGE, M.A.

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1865. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow; also at Leipzig. Ordained at Stonehaven, 1890. Translated to Sherbrooke, Glasgow, 1895. Married, 1896, Jessie Jane Taylor.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire; and Sherbrooke, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.252). Thereafter he served in Crieff South in 1907 (FUFC, p.342); and in Roseburn, Edinburgh, from 1909 (FUFC, p.26, where a short biography is given).

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MACLEOD, ADAM ANDREW GORDON

 
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Born at Inverness, 1856. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Ochiltree, Ayrshire, 1881. Married, the same year, Jessie R. Inglis.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Inverness on 27th November, 1856, the son of Adam Gordon Macleod, Free Church minister, and Catherine Eliza Mackay. For his extensive ministerial connections see the MacPhail Tree. There is no record showing that he studied at New College, Edinburgh.

Marriage
He married, firstly, Jessie Ronald Inglis in Gargunnock, Stirlingshire, in 1881. She was born about 1857 Long.

He married, secondly, Margaret Johnston Dow in Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, in 1916. She was born about 1881.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Ochiltree, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.130). He became senior minister in 1923.

Death
He died in Ochiltree in 1928. His first wife died there in 1913. His second wife died there in 1935.

Family
He had issue in Ochiltree by his first wife, including:
(1) Margaret Lang G. Macleod born in 1884. She died there in 1893.

(2) Adam George Gordon Macleod born in 1886. He married Sarah Reid Philp in Alva, Clackmannanshire, in 1913. He died in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, in 1931.

(3) Rhoda Anna Gordon Macleod born in 1895. She died there in 1907.

And perhaps by his second wife:
(4) Jessie Girvan [Gordon?] O. Macleod born in 1921.

Publication – about him
CumnockConnections

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MACLEOD, ADAM GORDON

 
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Born at Kildonan, 1823. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Paisley, Gaelic, 1855. Translated to Croy, 1856. Married, 1850, Catherine Eliza Mackay. Died, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 14th September, 1821, in Kildonan, Sutherland, the son of George Macleod and Mary Gordon. His father was schoolmaster there and is mentioned in Sage’s Memorabilia Domestica. His mother was related to the Gordons of Renovie, and they were connected with the lairds of Fetteresso; Fetteresso with the House of Gordon; and the House of Gordon with the Scottish royal family. For some family connections, see the MacPhail Tree.

Education
He studied in Tain Academy, Ross and Cromarty, where he excelled in athletics and was particularly fond of shinty. He entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1841 and graduated M.A. in March, 1845.

Marriage
He married Catherine Mackay on 17th February, 1849, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She was born (or baptised) on 12th June, 1827, the daughter of Andrew Mackay, general merchant, Helmsdale, Sutherland, and Catherine Mackay.

Ministry
He was licensed in 1851. After serving in Gaelic, Paisley, Renfrewshire, he was inducted into Croy, Inverness-shire, on 20th March, 1859.

Death
He died on 1st January, 1892, and was buried in Croy Cemetery. His wife died on 10th February, 1900, at 13 Charles Street, Inverness (Registration: 1900 098/ 130 Inverness).

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Catherine Eliza Macleod born about 1851. She married Alexander Fraser of Dunnedaw on the Irrawaddy.

(2) George Gordon Macleod born on 19th November, 1853, in Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire. He became a Free Church minister.

(3) Adam Andrew Gordon Macleod born in 1856 in Inverness. He became a Free Church minister.

(4) Ann Augusta Christina Macleod born on 9th February, 1858, in Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire. She married Thomson of Calcutta and died prior to 1898.

(5) Donald John Joseph Gordon Macleod born on 24th September, 1859, in Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire. He was a Free Church minister.

(6) Andrew Hugh Gordon Macleod born on 27th December, 1860, in Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire.

(7) Francis Gordon Macleod born on 17th August, 1864, in Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire. He became a Free Church minister,

(8) James Hood Wilson Gordon Macleod born on 4th October, 1866, in Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire. He is said to have been a clergyman.

(9) John Gordon Macleod born on 24th March, 1869, in Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire. He married Eleanor Rees in the 1st quarter of 1907 in Richmond, Surrey, England. He was a Presbyterian minister in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He died on 24th February, 1943, in North Liverpool, Lancashire, England.

(10) Jessie Alexina Lily Margaret Gordon Macleod born on 16th May, 1870, in Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire. She died aged seven.

(11) Jessie Margaret Lily Gordon Mackay Macleod born in 1876 in Croy, Inverness-shire. She married Allan Dyson Lawrie on 6th April, 1918, in Marylebone, London, England. She is said to have died on 25th August, 1956, in Middlesex, England

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 11/5/1893, F.C. Minister, Croy, Inverness-shire, d. 01/01/1892 at Croy, testate, Inverness Sheriff Court, NRS SC29/44/27
Biography of the Rev. Adam Gordon MacLeod, minister of the Free Church, Croy, Andrew Gordon MacLeod, privately printed, 1898
Nil desperandum. Jottings by a probationer, including biography of The Rev. Adam Gordon Macleod, Andrew Hugh Gordon Macleod, Inverness, 1900?

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MACLEOD, ALEXANDER

 
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Born in the parish of Assynt, Sutherlandshire, 1786. Ordained at Dundee, Gaelic, 1819. Translated to Cromarty, 1821, and to Uig (Lewis), 1824. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated to Lochalsh, 1844; and to Rogart, 1846. Died, 1869.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1819, Gaelic, Dundee, FES, Vol.5, p.333; 1821, Cromarty, FES, Vol.7, p.7; 1824, Uig, FES, Vol.7, p.208. In the Free Church, he served in Uig, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty; Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty; and Rogart, Sutherland.

Publications – by him
An address to the Honourable the Committee for Managing His Majesty’s Bounty for the Reformation of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland , Edinburgh, W. Bayne, 1820
Court of Session: Bill Chamber Processes: James Alexander Stewart McKenzie v Rev. Alexander McLeod & others, 1826, NRS CS271/19199
New Statistical Account, 1833, Uig, Vol.14, Ross, p.151
Seaforth Papers: Papers relating to churches and schools: Letter by Alexander McLeod, minister of Uig to J A Stewart Mackenzie of Seaforth, M P, requesting him to present two petitions to the House of Commons from the parish of Uig for the abolition of church patronage and for the better observance of the Sabbath, 14 Mar 1834, NRS GD46/12/63; Letter by Alexander Macleod, minister in Lewis, to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie relating to her work in Ceylon and the conditions of church and people in Lewis, 28 Aug 1840, NRS GD46/12/44; Letter by the Rev Alexander McLeod, Uig, to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie of Seaforth relating to Lewis schools, 1 Nov 1833, GD46/12/142
Seaforth Papers: Personal, family and household papers: Uig. Alexander Macleod, minister at Uig, to JAS Mackenzie. ‘If Mr Knox will set about the roads here I shall be most happy to give him all the assistance I can to get out the men Do spur him on’, 1836, February 10, NRS GD46/15/83; Miscellaneous bound volumes: Letter book of the Mackenzie of Seaforth family, Letters from Rev Alexander McLeod on presbytery business, 1829, NRS GD46/17/78; Miscellaneous items: Letter from Rev Alexander Macleod, Uig, on church affairs and Indian Patronage, NRS GD46/17/63

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 21/3/1870, minister of Free Church in Rogart, Sutherland. d.13/11/1869, Dornoch Sheriff Court, NRS SC9/36/5
Diary and sermons of the Rev. Alexander Macleod, Rogart (formerly of Uig, Lewis), with brief memoir by D. Beaton, Wick, Inverness, Robert Carruthers & Sons, 1925
John Finlayson, schoolmaster, Timisgary, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.275 [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.30
31st August, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.170 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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MACLEOD, ALEXANDER

 
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Born in the parish of Lochs, Lewis, 1827. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Strontian, 1868. Married, 1871, Christina Mackay; and, 1880, Mary H. M’Vean.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty about 1827. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1862-1866.

Marriage
He married, firstly, Christina Mackay in Anderston, Glasgow, in 1871. She was born (or baptized) on 24th December, 1842, the daughter of Alexander Macleod, tailor, and Mary McNiven.

He married, secondly, Mary Helen McVean in Kilmore and Kilbride, Argyll, in 1880. She was born in Iona, Argyll, on 2nd June, 1843, the daughter of Donald McVean, a Free Church minister, and Susan Mclean.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Strontian, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.301).

Death
He died at Oban, Argyll, on 11th April, 1903, and was buried in Pennyfuir Cemetery there (Findagrave). His first wife died in Strontian in 1877. His second wife died in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1918, and was buried in Pennyfuir Cemetery, Oban.

Family
He had issue in Strontian by his first wife, including:
(1) Alexander Malcolm Macleod born in 1872. He was a minister of the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church of Scotland, p.164) and latterly of the Church of Scotland. He died in Stirling in 1947 and was buried in Pennyfuir Cemetery, Oban (Findagrave).

(2) John Duncan Macleod born in 1874.
He was an architect (a href=” https://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=202506″>Scottish Architects). He died in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, in 1952.

(3) Duncan McKay Macleod born in 1876. He was a medical practitioner. He died of a heart attack at the wheel of his care while going to see a patient, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, in 1932 (Outwood).

(4) Unnamed Macleod born in 1877. He died there that same year. His mother was the next death registered there.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macleod Alexander 16 / 10 / 1903 Rev. U.F. Church, Strontain, 215 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh, D. 11/04/1903 at Oban, Intestate. Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC70/1/428; Non-Scottish Court NRS SC70/7/19

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MACLEOD, ARCHIBALD

 
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Born in Invemess-shire. Ordained at Acharacle, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Acharacle, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.300). Thereafter he served in Laggan from 1903 (FUFC, p.461); and to Enzie from 1922 (FUFC, p.453, where a short biography is given).

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MACLEOD, DONALD

 
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Born at Luss, 1793. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Gourock, 1831. Married, 1829, Elizabeth Cochran. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Demitted his charge, 1850, and proceeded to Canada. Settled at Coburg, 1851. Retired, 1860, and returned to Scotland. Died, 1868.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1833, Gourock, FES, Vol.3, p.196. In the Free Church, he served in Gourock, Renfrewshire. Thereafter in 1851, Ontario and Quebec, FES, Vol.7, p.643

Family
Alexander Fraser, Inverness

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, January, 1842, Gourock, Vol.7, Renfrew, p.525
Papers of the Rev. Forrest Frew: Testimonial by Donald MacLeod, minister in Gourock, in favour of Miss Catherine Frew, who has resided with his family for a year in the capacity of governess to his children, 6 Dec 1841, NRS GD1/1045/7

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Donald McLeod
J. Cameron, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.262 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
20th January, 1838, Eighth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.302 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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MACLEOD, DONALD, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.247
Born in Ross-shire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1873, as missionary to Burnshill, South Africa. Married, the same year, Mary J. MacRitchie. Died, 1878.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in November, 1839, at Cnoc Dubh, 8 Upper Garrabost, Knock, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. He was baptized on 5th August, 1840, the son of Donald Macleod, tenant and fisherman, and Christian MacDonald.

Education
He graduated M.A. from Glasgow University in 1872.

Marriage
He married Mary Johnston MacRitchie on 16th June, 1873, at the Free Church Manse, Knock, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. She was born about 1840 in Knock, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of Malcolm MacRitchie, minister, and Elizabeth Mackay. Her sister was the wife of Dugald Mackichan – another Free Church minister.

Ministry
A Donald Macleod was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow in 1872. He was ordained by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow in April, 1873, to Burnshill, Cape Province, South Africa.

Death
He died and was buried there and the stone marking his grave gives the following details: “Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Donald Macleod, MA. Missionary of the Free Church of Scotland at Burnshill, where he laboured faithfully and zealously for the advancement of Christ’s kingdom from 16th August 1875 till he entered into rest on 21st August 1878, aged 38 years.” There follows an inscription in Xhosa: “size ngokun galo sihlale sihleli sinda wonje ne-nkosi”, which is said to mean: “You, O great one, sleep quietly with God forever.” Below that is “1 Cor. 15 v. 57”, the verse which states “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

A Free Church building in Somerset East, Cape Province, South Africa, was named the “Donald Macleod Memorial Church.”

A stone was also erected in the old Eye cemetery near Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. The inscription reads: “In memory of Rev. Donald Macleod of the Free Church of Scotland in South Africa. Born at Garrabost he entered into his rest at Burnshill, South Africa on 21st August 1878, aged 38 years. Endowed with many gifts and talents he used all in the service of God for the good of his fellow men. He was beloved and lamented by many thousands of Christians and heathen, among with whom he laboured faithfully in the Gospel. Erected by his widow, Mary J. Macritchie.”

His wife died on 12th December, 1913, at 13 Queen’s Park Avenue, Cathcart, Glasgow.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Sources
Knockfreechurch; Glasgow Herald, 23rd June, 1873

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MACLEOD, DONALD FINLAY

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.247
Born in Ross-shire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Avoch, Black Isle, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Avoch, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.477). Thereafter he served in Partick Gardner Street, Glasgow (FUFC, p.238, where a short biography is given).

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MACLEOD, DONALD JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.247
Born, 1859. Son of Rev. A. G. MacLeod, Croy. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Boddam, 1886. Married, 1887, Camilla J. Moodie.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Croy and Dalcross, Inverness-shire, on 24th September, 1859, the son of Adam Gordon Macleod, Free Church minister, and Catherine Eliza Mackay. For his extensive ministerial connections see the MacPhail Tree. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1880-1884.

Marriage
He married Hamilla Jane Mudie in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, in 1887. She was born there in 1861, the daughter of William J.R. Mudie, chartered accountant, and Catherine Millar. Her first name also appears as Hamila, or Camilla.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Boddam, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.440). He retired at the 1929 Union.

Death
He died in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, in 1943. His wife died in Boddam on 10th April, 1923.

Family
They had issue in Boddam, including:
(1) Ion Keith Falconer Macleod born in 1889. He served in WW1 in the 75th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corp and was killed in action near Reninghelst on 27th April, 1918. He was buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium (Findagrave).

(2) Kathleen Millar Macleod born in 1892. She died in Peterhead in 1964.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macleod or Mudie, Hamilla Jane 12 / 6 / 1923 Wife of Rev. Donald John Macleod, U.F. Church Manse, Boddam, Parish of Peterhead, d. 10/04/1923 at Peterhead, Testate. Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC1/36/19; Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC1/37/144

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MACLEOD, DUNCAN DARROCH

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.247
Born at Gourock, 1840. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1867, at Campsie. Married, the same year, Annie Shaw MacLean. Left for Canada, 1872. Settled at Ancaster, Barton, and Paris, and finally at Barrie, 1884.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 20th October and baptized on 7th December, 1840, in Inverkip, Renfrewshire, the son of Donald Mcleod, minister, and Elizabeth Cochran.

Marriage
He married Annie Shaw Mclean on 21st August, 1867, in Glenorchy and Inishail, Argyll. She was born there on 4th September, 1841, the daughter of Duncan Mclean, minister, and Flora Macleod. See the tree of Alexander Fraser, Inverness for some family connections.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Campsie, Stirlingshire. He was appointed to Canada in 1872.

Death
He died on 9th March, 1917, in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada, and was buried in Barrie Union Cemetery there. His wife died on 16th February, 1914, and was buried there too.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Herbert T. Mclean born in 1872. He died on 10th June, 1926, and was also buried in Barrie Union Cemetery, Simcoe County, Canada.

Publications
See separate document here.

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MACLEOD, DUNCAN MATHESON

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.247
Born at Stornoway, 1850. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Fortingall, 1880. Translated to Ardersier, 1888. Married, 1889, Christina Rose Russell.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, about 1850.

Marriage
He married Christina Rose Russell in Petty, Inverness-shire, in 1889. She was born there on 4th March, 1859, the daughter of John Russell, farmer, and Christina Rose.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Fortingall, Perthshire; and Ardersier, Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.472). He resigned in 1907. Thereafter he served in Creich from 1910 (FUFC, p.499).

Death
He died at Bonar Bridge, Creich, on 11th June, 1925. His wife died there in 1924.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macleod Duncan Matheson 8 / 10 / 1925 Rev. U.F. Church Manse, Boner Bridge, d. 11/06/1925 at Boner Bridge, Testate. Dornoch Sheriff Court NRS SC9/36/14
Macleod Christina Rose 14 / 11 / 1924 Wife of Rev. Duncan Matheson Macleod, U.F. Manse, Creich, Sutherlandshire, d. 10/05/1924 at Sutherlandshire, Intestate. Sheriff Court NRS SC9/36/14

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MACLEOD, EWAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.247
Born in Harris, 1847. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Duthil, 1876. Married, 1877, Ann Pass Lobban. Translated, 1895, to Oban. Mr. Macleod remained outside the Union of 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1847 in Harris, Inverness-shire, the son of Donald Macleod, farmer and ground officer, and Catherine McDonald.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1872-76.

Marriage
He married Ann Vass Lobban in 1877 in Duthil. She was born on 20th October and baptized on 12th November, 1849, in Duthil, Inverness-shire, the daughter of John Lobban, merchant and carpenter, and Betty (or Eliza) Cumming.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Skye on 21st June, 1876. He was ordained in Duthil (Carrbridge), Inverness-shire. In 1887 he received a call from Hope Street, Glasgow; one in 1889 from Rogart, Sutherland; and one in 1893 from Duke Street, Glasgow, but remained in Duthil. He was translated to High, Oban, Argyll, on 10th January, 1895. He remained in the Free Church at the Union of 1900. He was inducted to Dornoch, Sutherland, on 4th July, 1906. He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1905. He retired in 1910.

Death
He died on 26th April, 1928, in Nairn. He left a legacy for the improvement of Psalmody in Free Church congregations. His wife died suddenly on 22nd February,1916, at the Free Church Manse, Dornoch, Sutherland. She was buried on 25th February from Carr Bridge Free Church, Inverness-shire.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Catherine Macleod born about 1878.

(2) Elizabeth Macleod born about 1880. She was a missionary to India – the first missionary sent out by the Free Church after the Union of 1900.

(3) John Macleod born on 6th November, 1891, in Duthil, Inverness-shire. He died there that same year.

Sources
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 23rd February, 1916, p.12; 25th May, 1929, p.15

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MACLEOD, FRANCIS GORDON

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.247
Born, 1864. Son of Rev. A. G. MacLeod, Croy. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Crosshill, 1893. Married, the same year, Helen C. K. Weir. Translated to Knox’s Church, Edinburgh, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Crosshill, Ayrshire; and Knox’s, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.12). Thereafter he served in Dean Street, Edinburgh, from 1909 (FUFC, p.8); in Fettercairn from 1915 (FUFC, p.404); and in Patna from 1926 (FUFC, p.131, where a short biography is given).

Family
MacPhail Tree.

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MACLEOD, GEORGE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.247
Born at Lochs, Lewis, 1855. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Knock, Lewis, 1886. Married, 1887, Anna MacGillivray.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Knock, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.496, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1928 and died in 1929.

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MACLEOD, GEORGE GORDON, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born at Kildonan, Sutherlandshire, 1822. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Duke Street Gaelic Church, Glasgow, 1854. Married, 1858, Anna Ross Macphail. Resigned, 1868 [Vol. 2 says he finished there in 1867.] Died, 1888.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 25th April, 1825, in Rogart, Sutherland, the son of George Macleod and Anna Gordon. For some family connections, see the MacPhail Tree.

Education
He entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1845 and graduated M.A. in March, 1849. His name does not appear in the New College, Edinburgh, records.

Marriage
He married Anna Ross MacPhail on 24th June, 1858, in Banff. She was baptized on 22nd February, 1831, in Lochbroom, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of George MacPhail, fishery officer, and Anna Ross.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Duke Street Gaelic, Glasgow.

Death
He died suddenly at Dervaig school house, Isle of Mull, Argyll, in 1889, and his death was registered in Kilninian and Kilmore. His wife died in 1867 in Blythswood, Glasgow.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Anna Augusta Gordon Macleod born on 20th August, 1859, in Blythswood, Glasgow.

(2) George Somerville Macleod born on 11th January, 1861, in Blythswood, Glasgow. He became a Free Church minister.

(3) James Gordon Macleod, born on 6th December, 1863, in Blythswood, Glasgow.

(4) John Somerville Macleod born on 2nd May, 1865, in Blythswood, Glasgow.

(5) Helen Cowper Macleod born on 13th May, 1867, in Blythswood, Glasgow. She died there that same year.

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MACLEOD, GEORGE GORDON

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born at Croy, 1853. Son of Rev. A. G. MacLeod, Croy. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Carnwath, 1876. Married, 1878, Jessie Maclennan. Translated to English Presbyterian Church, Walsall, 1881; and, 1883, to Junction Street United Presbyterian Church, Leith. Died, 1886.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 19th November, 1853, in Croy, Inverness-shire, the son of Adam Gordon Macleod, Free Church minister, and Catherine Eliza Mackay. For some family connections, see the MacPhail Tree.

Marriage
He married Jessie MacLennan on 5th June, 1878, at the bride’s home, Fornighty, Ardclach, Nairnshire (Registration: 1878 120/ 2 Ardclach). She was born about 1856 in Croy and Dalcross, Nairnshire, the daughter of James McLennan, farmer, and Sophia Stewart.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1876. He was ordained in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, on 16th November, 1876, as colleague and successor to James Walker. He was translated to Walsall Presbyterian Church on 3rd February, 1881, and to Junction Road United Presbyterian Church Leith, Edinburgh, on 22nd February, 1883.

Death
He died very suddenly at Leith on 5th June, 1886, and was buried in Nairn Cemetery.

In his last address he seems to be predicting his own death: “The thing that should happen shall happen. Bravely therefore and steadily let us march to our destiny. Direct your chariot to the sun. Connect yourself with destiny and be calm. Ready to suffer, ready to rejoice, ready to live, ready to die, we must go on. We have vowed unto the Lord and we cannot go back.”

“Some of us must fall this year. Oh, that the survivors may be able to say of those who fall, “Soldier of God, well done!””

His wife died in the 2nd quarter of 1940 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Sophia Jessie Gordon Macleod born on 16th October, 1879, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire. She married Thomas Macfarlane Knott in the 2nd quarter of 1939 in Hammersmith, London, England. She died in the 1st quarter of 1974 in Kingsbridge, Devon, England.

(2) George Gordon Macleod born in the 2nd June, 1881, in Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He died on 2nd July, 1937, on Lindeman Island, Queensland.

(3) Adam Albert Gordon Macleod born in 1883 in Croy, Inverness-shire. He married Marion Scott in the 1st quarter of 1915 in Fulham, London, England. He died in the 2nd quarter of 1945 in Dorchester, Dorset, England.

(4) Rhoda Gordon Macleod born in 1885 in Leith, Edinburgh. She married Reginald F. Matthews in the 2nd quarter of 1915 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. She died in the 1st quarter of 1954 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England.

(5) Alexandra Black Gordon Macleod born in 1887 in Nairn. She married Thomas Macfarlane Knott in Bangkok, Thailand, on 11th January, 1923. He was of the staff of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. She was given away by her brother George.

Publications – by him
Satanic sacrifices: to the publicans of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1879
Hell: to the ministers of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1879
God’s arm: to the sceptics of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1880
Ancient light on modern life, London, Blackwood & Company, 1885

Publication – about him
A Memoir of the Rev. George Gordon Macleod, by James Halliday, Macniven and Cameron, Edinburgh, 1887.

Sources
The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 19th January, 1923; Glasgow Herald, 1st June, 1887

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MACLEOD, GEORGE GRANVILLE SUTHERLAND

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born at Assynt, 1845. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Stratherrick, Inverness-shire, 1880. Married, 1891, Madalen Macdonald.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Assynt, Sutherland, about 1845. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1875-1879.

Marriage
He married Madeline Gordon MacDonald in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1891. She was born in Boleskine, Inverness-shire, on 4th May, 1861, the daughter of Donald MacDonald and Margaret Boyd.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Stratherrick, Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.476). He retired in 1901.

Death
He died at Ashton, Inverness, on 10th April, 1903. His wife died at Dores, Inverness-shire, in 1895.

Family
They had issue in Dores, including:
(1) Mary MacDonald Macleod born in 1893.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macleod George Granville Sutherland 24 / 9 / 1903 Minister, United Free Church, Stratherrick, County of Inverness, d. 10/04/1903 at Ashton near Inverness, Intestate. Inverness Sheriff Court NRS SC29/44/45

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MACLEOD, GEORGE SOMERVILLE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born at Glasgow, 1861. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Carradale, Argyllshire, 1891. Married, the same year, Isabella Robb Hardy.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Carradale and Skipness, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.287, where a short biography is given).

Family
He was the son of George Gordon Macleod.

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MACLEOD, HENRY

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born at Rogart, 1805. Studied at Aberdeen, teaching during vacations at Resolis and Kincardine. Ordained at Ardclach, Nairnshire, 1844. Became senior minister, 1872. Died, 1876.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 26th and baptized on 30th April, 1805, in Rogart, Sutherland, the son of George Macleod and Katharine Rose. He was brought up in Invergordon, in the parish of Rosskeen, Ross and Cromarty.

Education
He attended the local parish school. A Henry Macleod “Rossiensis” entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1826. During his studies he taught schools at Resolis and at Kincardine, Ross and Cromarty.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Tain shortly before the Disruption. “Henry McLeod, Kincardine, Ross-shire” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was ordained in Ardclach, Nairnshire, on 16th August, 1844. Alexander Macdonald was ordained as his colleague and successor in 1872 and he retired to Ardersier, Inverness-shire.

Death
He lived at Connage Cottage, Ardersier, Inverness-shire, and died there on 19th February, 1876.

Family
There is no evidence that he ever married.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth grant and Sunday trains, 24th April, 1845 NRS GD112/51/183

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Henry McLeod
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 14/3/1876, Connage Cottage, Ardersier, County of Inverness, d. 19/02/1876 at Connage Cottage aforesaid, testate, Inverness Sheriff Court, NRS SC29/44/16

Sources
The Aberdeen Journal, 11th September, 1844

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MACLEOD, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born, 1809. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Hall, Reformed Presbyterian Church. Ordained at Stranraer, 1841. Married, 1842, Margaret T. Laird. Admitted to the Free Church, 1849. Settled at Alloa, West, 1850. Retired, 1870.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
FRPCS, p.20; Couper, The R.P. Church, p.117. In the Free Church, he served in West, Alloa, Clackmannanshire.

Publications – by him
The divine authority and perpetual obligation of the Sabbath, being the addresses of John Macleod and Major-General M’Douall, C.B., Stranraer, James McCoid, 1847
Reference from the Free Presbytery of Stranraer, in the case of Rev. John Macleod, Edinburgh, John Greig, 1849
Letter to the elders and members of the Reformed Presbyterian Congregation, Stranraer, relative to the views embraced in their terms of communion, on the subject of the National Covenants, magistracy, the British government, &c., Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1849
The smitten shepherd, and the banner of love, being discourses preached in the Scotch Church, North Shields, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1853

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Macleod
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 9/12/1875, Minister of Free Church at Alloa, Inventory, Alloa Sheriff Court, NRS SC64/42/15

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MACLEOD, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born in North Uist, 1823. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Glenelg, 1861. Died, 1886.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1823 in North Uist, Inverness-shire, the son of Roderick Macleod, farmer, and Mary McAskill. (In the 1861, he was a Free Church minister, living with Malcolm MacAskill and his wife Ann (née Ferguson) in Barra, Inverness-shire. He was designated a cousin. There too was Alexander Ferguson, a divinity student and later a Free Church minister, also designated a cousin. But Alexander Ferguson and John Macleod are not directly related: the former is a cousin of Ann MacAskill; the latter a cousin of Malcolm MacAskill.)

Education
He attended the local school and the Normal School in Edinburgh. He studied at Edinburgh University. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1850-51.

Ministry
He was ordained in Glenelg, Inverness-shire, in 1861.

Death
He died on 5th April, 1886, at the Free Church Manse, Glenelg (Registration: 1886 097/1 9 Glenelg).

Family
He never married.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Macleod
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 10/7/1886, F.C. Minister, Glenelg, Inverness-shire, d. 05/04/1886 at Glenelg, testate, Confirmation ad non executa granted 18/11/1904, Inverness Sheriff Court, NRS SC29/44/22

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MACLEOD, JOHN, M.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born, 1844. Studied at the University, Melbourne, and the Theological Hall of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. Ordained by the Synod of Eastern Australia at Grafton, 1869. Went to Canada, 1872. Studied medicine for four years at Montreal. In 1876 he came to Scotland, and was received into the Free Church, 1878. Settled at Tiree the same year. Returned to Canada, 1880.

Supplementary Information
In the Free Church, he served in Tiree, Argyll.

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MACLEOD, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born in Harris, 1845. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow, also Knox College, Toronto. Ordained at Strathalbyn, Prince Edward Island, 1881. Admitted to Free Church, 1889. Settled at North Uist, 1890 [1892 – Vol. 2]. Married, 1888, Caroline M. Gauld.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in North Uist, Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.494, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1918 and died in 1926.

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MACLEOD, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.248
Born in parish of Kilmuir, Skye, 1852. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Duke Street, Glasgow, 1894. Mr. MacLeod remained outside the Union of 1900.
Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1852 in Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, the son of Neil Macleod, farmer, and Marion McLean.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1891-94.

Ministry
He was ordained in Duke Street Gaelic, Glasgow, on 16th October, 1894, as colleague and successor to Evan Gordon. He remained in the Free Church at the Union of 1900. He retired on 2nd July, 1918.

Marriage
He married Maggie Calder Gunn on 8th December, at the bride’s home, 38 Second Avenue, Glasgow (Registration: 1914 633/B 226 Cathcart (Lanark)). She was born in 1877 in Kinning Park, Glasgow, the daughter of John Gunn, fire loss assessor, and Jeannie Buchanan Wilson. At the time of her marriage, she was a public school teacher.

Death
He died on 13th October, 1939, at 21 Auchnacloich Road, Rothesay, Bute, of gastro enteritis (Registration: 1939 558/ 143 Rothesay). His wife died in 1959 in Pollok, Glasgow.

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MACLEOD, MALCOLM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born at Lochs, Lewis, 1860. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Croy, 1893. In 1895 he resigned on account of ill-health and went to Canada.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 7th October or 7th November, 1861, in Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, the son of Angus Macleod and Ann Kennedy.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1888-1892.

Marriage
He married Catherine Macleod on 2nd December, 1902, in Prescott, Ontario, Canada. She was born about 1875, the daughter of John D. Macleod and Sarah McInnes.

Ministry
He was ordained in Croy, Inverness-shire, on 8th February, 1893. On 6th November, 1895, he resigned on health grounds and went to Canada. He served in the Presbyterian Church in Marsboro, Quebec, from 17th August, 1901, till 31st January, 1913; and in Hampden, Quebec, from 4th February, 1913 till 1921.

Sources
Collectionscanada; Hebrideanconnections

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MACLEOD, NEIL, D.D. (St. Andrews)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born at Edinburgh, 1827. Son of Rev. G. MacLeod of Lochbroom. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Newport, 1851. Married, 1855, Isabella M. Gordon. Became senior minister, 1891. Died, 1895.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 10th June, 1827, in Edinburgh, the son of George Macleod, minister, and Janet Macleod.

Education
He was educated at Edinburgh High School and entered Edinburgh University at the age of 12 and graduated M.A. in 1845. After leaving University he became tutor to the sons of David Maitland Macgill Crichton of Rankeillour. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1845-49. He was awarded the D.D. degree by St Andrews University, Fife, on 29th March, 1895.

Marriage
He married Isabella Margaret Gordon on 7th August, 1855, in Assynt, Sutherland. She was born on 18th January, 1834, in Assynt, Sutherland, the daughter of Charles Gordon, minister of Assynt, and Sarah Rose Tyre. For some family connections, see the tree of John Mackay of Kirtomy.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 4th July, 1851. He worked in Loanhead, Midlothian; in Forres, Moray; and in St John’s, Edinburgh, Midlothian, before being ordained in Newport, Fife, on 16th December, 1851. On 16th September, 1891, Frederick James Rae was ordained there as his colleague and successor.

Death
He died on 122nd November, 1895, in Forgan, Fife, and was buried in Dundee. His wife died at Braemore, Newport, Fife, in 1912.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Sarah Gordon Macleod born on 7th April, 1857, in Forgan, Fife. She died there in 1948.

(2) George Macleod born on 29th July, 1859, in Forgan, Fife. He died there in 1876.

(3) Charles Gordon Macleod born on 6th August, 1863, in Forgan, Fife. At the time of his father’s death he was an oculist in Sydney, New South Wales. He died in Chatswood, New South Wales, in 1949.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Neil Macleod
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 21/12/1895 and 3/1/1896. D.D., F.C. Manse, Newport, d. 22/11/1895 at Newport, testate, Last Will and Testament, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/73
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacLeod or Gordon, Isabella Margaret, 29/3/1912, Braemore, Newport, widow of Rev. Neil MacLeod, D.D. Cupar, d. 25/02/1912 at Newport, testate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/94; Cupar Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC20/56/12

Source
The Dundee Courier & Argus, 13th February, 1895, p.3

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MACLEOD, NEIL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born in Sutherlandshire. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Logie-Easter, 1896.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Logie-Easter, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.484, where a short biography is given).

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MACLEOD, NORMAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born at Swordale (Skye), 1801. After managing the farm of his father for some years he studied at the University, Glasgow. For about two years after licence he was in charge of the Saltcoats Mission. Ordained, 1835, at the Parliamentary Church at Trumisgarry, North Uist. Married, 1838, Julia MacLeod. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. At the Disruption Mr. MacLeod was evicted from a house which he had built on a small farm, rented from Lord MacDonald, for which all he obtained was £40. The nearest house he could obtain for himself and his young family was twenty miles distant from the scene of his labours. Died, 1881.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1835, Trumisgarry, FES, Vol.7, p.1977. In the Free Church, he served in North Uist, Inverness-shire.

Publication – by him
He gave evidence before the Committee on Sites (Scotland) – see the Report of this Committee from Question 4355 on p.18 of Third Report

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Norman McLeod
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 2/8/1881, Minister, Free Church of Scotland, Island of North Uist, d. 05/03/1881 at Paible, North Uist, intestate, Inverness Sheriff Court, NRS SC29/44/19
8th September, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.158 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
Hugh McLeod – Wiki

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MACLEOD, NORMAN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born in Inverness-shire, 1850. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kilberry, 1880, and translated to Portree, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, about 1853, his mother’s maiden name being MacSween. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1875-1879.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilberry and South Knapdale, Argyll; and Portree, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.490).

Death
He died at Portree on 21st August, 1912, and was buried in Stronurinish Cemetery there (Gravestones).

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macleod Norman 30 / 12 / 1912 Rev., U.F. Church, Portree, Skye, d. 21/08/1912 at Portree, Testate. Inverness Sheriff Court NRS SC29/44/54

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MACLEOD, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born at Lybster, 1845. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Cluny, 1873. Married, 1875, Jane Guthrie M’Walter. Translated, 1879, to Keith; and, 1884, to Knox’s Church, Aberdeen.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Clunie, Perthshire – not, as Ewing says, in Cluny, which is in Aberdeenshire; Keith, Banffshire; and John Knox, Aberdeen. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.415, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1915 and died in 1927.

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MACLEOD, RODERICK

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born in Inverness-shire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Clydebank, West, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry

In the Free Church, he served in West, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.270). Thereafter he served in London Frognal St Andrew’s from 1903 and as superintendent of Highland Missions from 1924 (FUFC, p.572, where a short biography is given).

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MACLEOD, WILLIAM B.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born in Argyllshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Jersey, 1892. Translated to Port-Glasgow, 1897.

Supplementary Information
William Brash Macleod

Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Hamilton, Port-Glasgow, Renfrewshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.162). Thereafter he served in Candlish, Edinburgh, from 1902 (FUFC, p.5, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1924.

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M’LEOD, DONALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born at Shawbost, Lewis, 1855. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Coigach, Ross and Cromarty, 1888. Married, 1890, Christina MacLellan. Mr. M’Leod remained outside the Union of 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1855 in Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, the son of Norman Macleod, farmer, and Anne Maclean..

Marriage
He married Christina McLellan on 17th July, 1890, at 3 Ashfield Place, Hillhead, Glasgow (Registration: 1890 646/3 175 Partick). She was at that time residing at 44 Abbotsford Place, Glasgow. She born about 1858 in the Isle of Islay, Argyll, according to a census. She was the daughter of John McLellan, farmer, and Mary McFadyen. The nearest in the Statutory Indexes is a Christian McLellan born in 1856 in Bowmore or Kilarrow.

Ministry
He was elected by Rogart, Sutherland, but was ordained in Coigach, Ross and Cromarty, on 19th September, 1888. He remained in the Free Church at the Union of 1900. He was inducted to Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, on 24th June, 1914.

Death
He died on 5th December, 1920, in Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. A Christina Macleod or MacLellan died in 1941 in Kildonan, Sutherland, born about 1858.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Norman Macleod born in 1891.

(2) Mary Ann Macleod born in 1892 in Coigach, Ross and Cromarty.

(3) Christina Margaret Macleod born in 1898 in Coigach, Ross and Cromarty. She died in 1979 in Helmsdale, Sutherland, aged 81.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 13/7/1921 and 9/12/1921, Free Church Manse, Carloway, Island of Lewis, d. 05/12/1920 at Carloway, testate, Dingwall Sheriff Court, NRS SC25/44/32

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M’LEOD, GEORGE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.249
Born in the parish of Latheron, 1803. After beginning life in business at Edinburgh he studied at the University there, acting at the same time as a city missionary. Ordained at Maryburgh, Ross-shire, 1840. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. In the years of stress succeeding the Disruption Mr. M’Leod took his full share of toil and hardship. In the West Highlands alone he travelled upwards of 9000 miles in open boats. Translated, 1844, to Lochbroom. Owing to failing health he retired in 1870. Died, 1871.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Maryburgh, Ross and Cromarty, FES, Vol.7, p.51. In the Free Church, he served in Maryburgh and Lochbroom, both Ross and Cromarty.

Family
His son Neil Macleod was a Free Church minister.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth grant and sabbath travel, 28th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/186; Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 12 June, 1846, Sites, NRS GD112/74/830
He contributed to the Parker Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 461 and 492. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
He gave evidence before the Committee on Sites (Scotland) – see the Report of this Committee from Question 6126 on p.108 of Third Report.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 8/6/1871, Minister of the Free Church at Lochbroom, Testament Test. Pp438-439, Dingwall Sheriff Court, NRS SC25/44/10
Campbell of Kiltearn, with sketches of Dr. Macdonald, Flyter of Alness, McAlister of Nigg, Nobel of Poolewe, Macleod of Lochbroom, Edinburgh, Maclaren & Macniven, 1875

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M’LEOD, HUGH, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.250
Born at Tongue, 1803. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. After graduating he became parish school-master of Tongue in 1827; thereafter he took his theological course in Edinburgh. Ordained, 1833, missionary at Melness and Eriboll. Translated to Edinburgh, Gaelic, 1837; and to Logie-Easter, 1839. Married, 1841, a daughter of Rev. Hugh Ross, Fearn. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. In 1845 Dr. M’Leod was one of the deputies sent by the Free Church to Canada, where he visited specially the Highland settlers. In 1848 he paid another visit to the same colony, and received a call from Mira, Cape Breton, where he was settled in 1850. Dr. M’Leod was Moderator of the United Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in 1877. Retired, 1885. Died, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, Gaelic, Edinburgh, FES, Vol.1, p.31; 1839, Logie Easter, FES, Vol.7, p.64. In the Free Church, he served in Logie-Easter, Ross and Cromarty. Thereafter in 1850, Cape Breton, FES, Vol.7, p.607

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Hugh Macleod
9th September, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.230 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
10th September, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.238 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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M’LEOD, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.250
Born at Coigach, Ross and Cromarty, 1840. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kilberry, 1876. Married, 1879, Catherine M’Conichy, and the same year was translated to Knockbain.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilberry and South Knapdale, Argyll; and Knockbain, Munlochy, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.478, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1912 and died in 1913.

Family
His son, Alexander Duncanson McLeod, was a minister of the United Free Church: Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.403.

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M’LEOD, RODERICK, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.250
Born in the island of Skye, 1794. Son of the parish minister of Snizort. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. Appointed, 1818, to the mission of Lynedale, in his father’s parish. Translated to Bracadale, 1823; and to Snizort, 1838. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. After the Disruption the island of Skye, containing eight ministerial charges, with a population of 20,000 souls, was the field he was called to occupy, and he held it for many years single-handed, together with that portion of the Long Island which extends from Harris to Barra Head with its population of 16,000. In 1865 Mr. M’Leod was Moderator of the General Assembly. Married Ann R. MacDonald. Died. 1868.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1823, Bracadale, FES, Vol.7, p.167; 1838, Snizort, FES, Vol.7, p.180; FES, Vol.8, p.686. In the Free Church, he served in Snizort, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire. Note: he was Moderator of the Free Church Assembly in 1863, not in 1865 as Ewing says.

Family
His sister Isabella Margaret McLeod married John Finlayson, Free Church minister of Bracadale.

Publications – by him:
Old Statistical Account, Bracadale, Vol.3, p.245
New Statistical Account, December, 1840, Bracadale, Vol.14, Inverness, p.295
He contributed to the Parker Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnote 172 . (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
He gave evidence before the Committee on Sites (Scotland) – see the Report of this Committee from Question 4618 on p.32 of Third Report.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Roderick Macleod
Disruption Worthies on this website: McLeod, Roderick; New Statistical Account, April, 1840, Snizort, Vol.14, Inverness, p.287
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 18/8/1868, Minister of Free Church of Snizort, Isle of Skye, Inverness Sheriff Court, NRS SC29/44/13
Report of the proceedings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 23rd May, 1826; in the case of the suspension of the Rev. Roderick Macleod, Minister of Bracadale, Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, J. Lindsay & Co., 1826
Sermon preached in the Free Church, Snizort, Skye, on the occasion of the decease of the Rev. Roderick MacLeod, Minister of the Free Church, Snizort, Mackintosh MacKay, Edinburgh, 1869
Brief memorials of the life, character and ministry of the Rev. Roderick Macleod, Snizort, Macintosh Mackay, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1869
James Dow, schoolmaster, Ulinish, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.171 [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.28 and Appendix 1, Table 3, p.40
15th September, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.132 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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MACLUSKIE, HUGH

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.250
Born at Hardgate, parish of Old Kilpatrick, 1863. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Fullarton, Irvine, 1895.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Fullarton, Irvine, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.138). Thereafter he served in Lansdowne, Glasgow, from 1902 (FUFC, p.231,); and in Ayr West from 1909 (FUFC, p.126, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1928.

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MACMASTER, DONALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.250
Born at Kilmallie, 1827. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Back, 1859. Married, 1861, Jane M’Rae. Translated to Kildalton, 1876. Resigned, 1895 [Vol. 2 says he finished in 1896.].

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in November, 1827, at Corriebeg, Kilmallie, Argyll, the son of John MacMaster, school-master, and Mary MacMillan. His sister, Isabella MacMaster, was the mother of Principal John Macleod, principal of the Free Church College, Edinburgh, 1927-1942.

Education
He attended school in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty; and in Fort William and Corpach, Argyll. He matriculated at Glasgow University in 1845. He was a teacher in the Free Church School, Stornoway, 1850-56. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1852-55.

Marriage
He married Jane McRae on 25th July, 1861, at Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty (Registration: 1861 087/ 17 Lochs). She was born on 29th August, 1839, in Knockbain, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of John McRae, later a Free Church minister, and Penelope Mackenzie.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Dunoon and Inveraray in 1857. He was ordained in Back, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, in 1859. While in Back, he served as Presbytery Clerk. In 1876 he was translated to Kildalton and Oa, Isle of Islay, Argyll. On 30th April, 1896, Daniel Munro was ordained there as colleague and successor.

Death
He died on 1st August, 1896, at 7 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh, and was buried at Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Argyll. His wife died in 1927 in Lochaber, Inverness-shire.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) a boy born on 8th April, 1862, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. He died there that year.

(2) a girl born on 19th May, 1862, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. She died there that year.

(3) John MacRae MacMaster born on 30th October, 1864, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(4) Donald MacMaster birth: 28 July 1866, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(5) Mary MacMaster born on 23rd February, 1868, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(6) Hugh Alexander MacMaster born on 1st January, 1870, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. He died there in 1873.

(7) Ebenezer MacMaster born on 17th August, 1871, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. He died there in 1873.

(8) Hugh Ebenezer MacMaster born on 18th June, 1874, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. He was a seaman. He died in 1923 as recorded in the Marine Register.

(9) Aeneas MacMaster born 1876 in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. He married Jean Martin in 1907 in Carluke, Lanarkshire. He died in 1963 in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Donald McMaster
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/10/1896, sometime F.C. Minister, Kildalton and Oa, Islay, latterly residing at 7 Marchmont Street, Edinburgh, d. 01/08/1896 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/353; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/292

Sources
Oxforddnb; Glasgow Herald, 7th November, 1872

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MACMICKAN, DAVID KIRKPATRICK, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.250
Born in County Derry, 1818. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Cumbernauld, 1844. Became senior minister, 1883. Died, 1890.

Supplementary Information
David Kilpatrick McMeikan

Background
He was born about 1824, the son of James McMeikan, farmer, in Faughanvale, Londonderry, Ireland.

Education
He attended Foyle College in Londonderry. He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1837, and graduated M.A. in 1840. In the 1871 census, he is recorded as David McMeikan, M.D..

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow in 1843. He was ordained in Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire, in 1844. Thomas Adam was ordained as his colleague and successor in 1883.

Death
He died at Campsie near Londonderry on 5th May, 1890.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: David K. McMeikan

Source
Wills

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MACMILLAN, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.250
Born at Campbeltown, 1862. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Peterculter, 1886. Translated to Paisley, Martyrs’, 1890; and to Cardiff, 1899. Married, 1893, Georgina M. S. Shanks.

Supplementary Information
In the Free Church, he served in Peterculter, Aberdeenshire; and Martyrs’, Paisley, Renfrewshire.

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MACMILLAN, ANGUS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.250
Born at Glen Sannox, Arran, 1776. Learned shoemaking in Kilmarnock. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Appointed, 1812, to Lochranza, Arran, then a mission station, supported by the Duchess of Hamilton. There Mr. Macmillan soon found himself in the midst of a remarkable revival, which spread over a large portion of the island. In 1821 he was, at the urgent entreaty of the people, presented to the parish of Kilmory. At the Disruption he left the parish manse, and went into a little thatched cottage at Clachig, which loyal members of his congregation had prepared for him. Died, 1843.

Publication.—A volume of his Gaelic Sermons said to have been the first original Gaelic sermons that ever appeared in print

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1822, Kilmorie, FES, Vol.4, p.63. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 29th November, 1806 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.153). In the Free Church, he served in Kilmory, Isle of Arran, Bute.

Publications– by him
Revivals of religion. No.5, Island of Arran, during the years 1804, &c. but especially in 1812, 1813, Glasgow?, William Collins?, 1834?
He contributed to the Parker Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnote 164 . (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/5/1844, lately minister of parish of Kilmory, island of Arran, co. Bute, Inventory, Rothesay Sheriff Court, NRS SC8/35/4
New Statistical Account, May, 1840, Kilmorie, Vol. 5, Bute, p.40
John Currie, schoolmaster, Shisken, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.87 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
William Eaglesham, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.86 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
20th October, 1836, Eighth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.470 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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MACMILLAN, HUGH, D.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E. (Scotland)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.251
Born at Aberfeldy, 1833. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kirkmichael, Perthshire, 1859. Married, the same year, Jane M. Pattison. Translated to St. Peter’s, Glasgow, 1864; and to the West Church, Greenock, 1878. Dr. Macmillan was a man of varied gifts and accomplishments, a close student of God’s two records—Nature and Scripture, and a traveller in many lands. He was Moderator of the Free Church General Assembly in 1897.

Publications.—First Forms of Vegetation. The True Vine. Holidays in High Lands. Bible Teachings in Nature. The Ministry of Nature. “Two Worlds are Ours.” The Gate Beautiful. The Riviera. Roman Mosaics. Our Lord’s Three Raisings from the Dead, etc.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, about 1833, his mother’s maiden name being MacFarlane. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, January, 1852 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.199). He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1852-1856.

Marriage
He married Jane M. Pattison (Patison) in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1859. She was born in Newhaven, Edinburgh, about 1833, her mother’s surname also being MacFarlane.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kirkmichael, Perthshire, Perthshire; St. Peter’s, Glasgow; and West, Greenock, Renfrewshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.160). He became senior minister in 1902.

Death
He died at Edinburgh on 25th April, 1903, and was buried in Dean Cemetery there (Findagrave). His wife died there in 1922.

Family
They had issue, including:
(1) Grace Winnifred MacMillan born in Kirkmichael 30th March, 1860. She married Walter Fitzhugh Worthington in Greenock in 1885. He became a Rear Admiral in the US Navy. She died on 13th June, 1933, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, USA, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, Los Angeles.

(2) Alexis MacMillan born in Kirkmichael on 25th May, 1861.

(3) Margaret Jane MacMillan born in Kirkmichael in 1863. She married William J. Baxter in Greenock in 1889.

(4) Jessie Hughina MacMillan born in Partick, Glasgow, in 1865. She married John W. Dods Kirkland in Greenock in 1897. She died in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1907.

(5) Ethel Belle MacMillan born in Partick, Glasgow, in 1867. She died in George Square, Edinburgh, in 1952.

(6) Hugh Pattison MacMillan born in Partick, Glasgow, in 1873. He died in 1962 and was buried in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh: “The Right Honorable Sir Hugh Pattison MacMillan P.C., G.C.V.O., Q.C., Baron MacMillan of Aberfeldy. He was a Scottish advocate, judge, Parliamentarian and civil servant” (Findagrave). For him see Hugh MacMillan.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macmillan Hugh 3 / 7 / 1903 Rev. D.D. Ll.D., U.F. West Church, Greenock, afterwards 10 latterly 2 Murrayfield Road, Edinburgh, d. 24/05/1903 at Edinburgh, Testate. Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC70/1/425; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC70/4/349; Non-Scottish Court NRS SC70/7/17
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Lionel Alexander Ritchie, Macmillan, Hugh (1833–1903), Free Church of Scotland minister and writer

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MACMILLAN, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.251
Born, 1797. Signed the Probationers’ Resolutions, 1843. Ordained at Culsalmond, December, 1843. Resigned, 1844, and acted for a short time as teacher at Port of Menteith. Settled at Clackmannan, 1845. Married, 1838, Helen G. Crawford. Died, 1854.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1799 in Kippen, Stirlingshire, the son of Daniel “artifex”.

Education
He studied at St Andrews, Fife: at United College 1824-25; and at St Mary’s College 1829-1831. He also matriculated at Glasgow University in 1822 and studied divinity there 1826-29. In 1841 he was a teacher in Port of Monteith, Perthshire. He had been appointed to the post in 1826 and also served as Session Clerk and Post-master.

Marriage
He married Helen G. Crawford on 23 April, 1838, the marriage being registered in Port of Monteith, Perthshire, and in Stirling. She was born in England about 1801, the daughter of Laurence Crawford.

Ministry
“John MacMillan, Port of Menteith, Doune” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was ordained in Culsalmond, Aberdeenshire, on 13th December, 1843; and was translated to Clackmannan, on 23rd October, 1845.

Death
His wife died on 19th March, 1849, at Forth Street, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, after a protracted illness.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, 1849 25th October, 1849, NRS GD112/51/220; Sites, 15th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/212

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 2/6/1854, Minister of Free Church of Scotland in Freefield, I & W, Alloa Sheriff Court, NRS SC64/42/9

Source
Glasgow Herald, 6th April, 1849

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MACMILLAN, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.251
Born, 1799. Ordained, 1828, by the Presbytery of Abertarff with a view to his proceeding to Nova Scotia; the same year he was settled at Ballachulish. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated to Cardross, 1844. While there he acted as a deputy to Canada, and served for some years as clerk of Synod. In 1858 Mr. Macmillan was suspended under libel, and carried his case to the Court of Session. For this appeal to the Civil Court he was forthwith deposed by the Assembly. He raised an action for the reduction of this sentence. The case—the celebrated “Cardross Case”—dragged on till 1862, when it was finally decided in favour of the Free Church. Mr. Macmillan subsequently resided in Glasgow, and obtained employment in the book trade.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1828, Ballachulish, FES, Vol.4, p.128. In the Free Church, he served in Ballachulish – North, Inverness-shire; and Cardross, Dunbartonshire.

Family
His son, John Kennedy MacMillan, became a minister in Victoria – see Ward and Prentis, Presbyterian Ministers, p.97.

Publications
See separate document here.

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MACMILLAN, JOHN, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.251
Born at Moffat, 1809. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kirkcudbright, 1837. Married, 1838, Ann S. Singer. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1874. Died, 1876.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, Kirkcudbright, FES, Vol.2, 419; FES, Vol.8, p.207. In the Free Church, he served in Kirkcudbright.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 15th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/212
Goads and nails, plain sermons by a country presbytery [i.e. the Free Presbytery of Kirkcudbright, including John Macmillan], Edinburgh, J. Maclaren, 1861

Publications – about him
New Statistical Account, nd, Kirkcudbright, Vol.4, Kirkcudbright, p.1
Obituary notice on this web-site: John McMillan
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 20/3/1877, D.D., Minister, Free Church, Kirkcudbright, lately residing at Ardenholm, Moffat, d. 29/11/1876 at Ardenholm, testate, Confirmation ad non executa granted 13/07/1882, Dumfries Sheriff Court, NRS SC15/41/16

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MACMILLAN, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.251
Born at Kilmallie, 1838. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Lochbroom, 1872. Married, 1873, Sarah Boyd.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lochbroom, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.488, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1905 and died in 1906.

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MACMILLAN, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.251
Born in Invemess-shire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained, 1864, missionary to Madras. Returned to this country, 1877, and conducted a school for some time at Aberdeen. [List of missionaries says he resigned in 1879.] Subsequently he went to South Africa to follow the teaching profession.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in 1832 in Glenurquhart, Inverness-shire, the son of John MacMillan, Drumclune.

Education
After attending the local school he went to the Gymnasium, Aberdeen. He entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1856 and graduated M.A. with 2nd class Honours in 1860. He then attended the Free Church College there.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Caird Lindsay. She was born about 1845 in Glasgow, the daughter of Robert Lindsay.

Ministry
He was ordained as a missionary to Madras, India, in 1864. Later he served in Nellore. He retired from the work in 1878. He then taught in the Gymnasium in Aberdeen, before founding his own school. He resigned from the Free Church in 1879. He went to South Africe in 1890 and became a teacher in Stellenbosch.

Death
He died on 20th October, 1909, in Stellenbosch, Cape Province. His wife died in Cape Town, Cape Province, in 1927.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Thomson MacMillan born on 4th October, 1868, in Madras, India. He graduated M.A. in 1890 from Aberdeen University. He married: (i) Annie Robertson; (ii) Elsie May Stocks. He was a missionary of the Presbyterian Church of South Australia in Whitesands, Tanna, New Hebrides: from 10th February, 1896 till 1936. He was awarded a D.D. degree by Aberdeen Unversity in 1937. He died on 10th May, 1938.

(2) Mary Macmillan born about 1870 in Madras, India.

(3) Christina Macmillan born about 1871 in Nellore, India.

(4) Catherine Macmillan born about 1873 in Nellore, India.

(5) Robert Macmillan born about 1876 in Nellore, India.

(6) Helen Macmillan born in 1879 in Old Aberdeen.

(7) William Miller Macmillan born on 1st October, 1885, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. He studied at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, and then was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, England. He studied divinity at Aberdeen and Glasgow, but did not become a minister. He also studied at Berlin. He had a distinguished career, especially in the field of African historiography. He died on 23rd October, 1974, in Long Wittenham, Berkshire, England.

Publications – by him
Outlines of Geography for the use of Junior classes, Madras, 1872
The Analysis of Sentences explained on grammatical principles, Madras, 1873
The English Text prescribed for the Matriculation Examination of 1875, with notes, Poetry edited by J. Macmillan, Madras, 1874
The English text prescribed for the Matriculation Examination of 1876, with notes and biographical notices, edited by J. Macmillan and D. Sinclair, Madras, 1875

Sources
Ward and Prentis, Presbyterian Ministers, p.97; Genealogyworld; Wikipedia; Allan, Ian M., West the Glen: a history of the Free Church just west of the Great Glen, Chapter 8, c.1997

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MACMILLAN, JOHN RAMSAY, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.251
Born in Aberdeenshire, 1865. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Fettercairn, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Fettercairn, Kincardineshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.404). Thereafter he served in Logiepert from 1914 (FUFC, p., where a short biography is given).

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MACMILLAN, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.251
Born at Corrie, Arran, 1850. Studied under Rev. John Blacklock, and at Free Church College, Glasgow. Settled at Congregational Church, Appin, 1877, Admitted to Free Church, 1879. Ordained at Iona, 1883. Translated to Kilmory, 1889. Married, 1894, Anna I. Dudgeon.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Iona, Argyll; and Kilmory, Isle of Arran, Bute. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.151). He resigned in 1902 to do evangelistic work in the Highlands. Thereafter he served in Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig from 1913 (FUFC, p.299, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1921 and died in 1926.

Family
His wife, Anna I. Dudgeon, was the daughter of George Dudgeon.

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M’MILLAN, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.251
Born at Glentrool, Kirkcudbrightshire, 1839. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Yetholm, 1869. Married, 1872, Margaret J. Ferguson; and, 1887, Annie M’Omish. Translated to Baillieston, 1878.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Yetholm, Roxburghshire; and Baillieston, Mure Memorial, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.176, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1919 and died in 1927.

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M’MILLAN, ANTHONY, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born at Glentrool, 1850. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Ceres, 1876. Translated to Abbotshall, Kirkcaldy, 1878. Married, 1882, Helen Meldrum; and, 1893, Margaret Gillespie.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Ceres, Fife; and Abbotshall, Kirkcaldy, Fife. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.361, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1910.

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M’MILLAN, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born at Campbeltown in 1837. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kilchoman, Islay, 1873.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilchoman, Isle of Islay, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.290, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1900 and died in 1911.

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M’MILLAN, JAMES, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born in Argyllshire, 1858. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kenmore, 1888. Married, 1896, Mabel Sophia Gill.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kenmore, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.318). He resigned in 1906 and took up work with the Highland Committee till 1910. Thereafter he served in Aberuthven from 1912 (FUFC, p.339); and in North Knapdale from 1924 (FUFC, p.285, where a short biography is given).

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MACMORRAN, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born in Lanarkshire, 1838. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1865, at Torphichen. Married, the same year, Margaret Kemp. Translated, 1868, to Chryston; and, 1870, to Dunoon. In 1875 he became Presbytery clerk.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Torphichen, West Lothian; Chryston, Lanarkshire; and Dunoon, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p. 277, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1906 and died in 1908.

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MACMURCHY, DUNCAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born at Kintyre, 1840. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at South Ballachulish, 1878.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized in Killean and Kilchenzie, Argyllshire, on 9th August, 1840, the son of Alexander McMurchy and Mary McMurchy.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Ballachulish – South, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.292). He resigned in 1917.

Death
He died at Connel, Argyll, on 6th April, 1921.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macmurchy Duncan 13 / 12 / 1921 Rev. Thistle Cottage, Connel, d. 06/04/1921 at Connel, Testate. Dunoon Sheriff Court NRS SC51/32/76; Dunoon Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC51/34/13

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M’MURCHY, ARCHIBALD KELLY, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born at Campbeltown, 1841. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. When a licentiate Mr. M’Murchy acted as missionary in Dundee, where he laid the foundation of what afterwards became the M’Cheyne Church. Ordained at Scone, 1873.

Publication.—Jubilee of the Presbytery of Perth with Brief Historical Sketches of Congregations.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born at Campbeltown, Argyll, on 9th January, 1842, the son of John McMurchy, businessman, and Isabella Sinclair. He matriculated at Glasgow University in 1858 and graduated M.A. in 1866.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Scone, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.337).

Death
He died in Scone on 18th May, 1913, and was buried in Kilkerran Cemetery, Campbeltown, Argyll (Findagrave).

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macmurchy Archibald Kelly 15 / 7 / 1913 Rev. Abbey U.F. Church Congregation, Scone, Perthshire, The Abbey Manse Perthshire, d. 18/05/1913 at Scone, Testate. Perth Sheriff Court NRS SC49/31/220; Perth Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC49/32/15

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MACNAB, DUNCAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born in the parish of South Knapdale, 1808. Studied at the University, Glasgow. In 1835 he became assistant to Dr. M. Mackay at Dunoon. Ordained at Campbeltown to the second or Lowland charge, 1839, and thereafter was presented by the Duke of Argyll to the first or Highland charge. Married, 1840, Mary Ann MacNab. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated to Renfield Church, Glasgow, 1856. Died, 1863.

Publication.—Posthumous.—A volume of Sermons. Edited by Dr. A. S. Patterson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1839, 2nd Campbeltown, FES, Vol.4, p.53; 1841, 1st Campbeltown, FES, Vol.4, p.51; Scott, Annals, p.348. In the Free Church, he served in Lorne Street, Campbeltown, Argyll; and Renfield, Glasgow.

Publications- by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth endowment, 19th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/179
Principles and history of the Australian union, report of discussion in the Free Presbytery of Glasgow, on the 27th February and 13th March, 1861, submitted to the editor of the Scottish Guardian from Duncan Macnab, Glasgow, 1861?
Discourses, edited by A. S. Patterson, with biographical sketch by W. Trail, Glasgow, 1864

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Duncan MacNab
November, 1843, New Statistical Account, July, 1843, Campbeltown, Vol.7, Argyll, p.453
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 18/3/1864, minister of Renfield Free Church, Glasgow, residing at 27 West Cumberland Street, there, who died at London, kin of Robert MacNab, I, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/51
Campbeltown Sheriff Court: Duke of Argyll v Rev Duncan MacNab, formerly minister of the first charge of Campbeltown, now one of the ministers in the Free Church: Action concerning heritable property: action for removing, from a park near the town, 1844, NRS SC50/5/1844/42

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M’NAIR, JOHN VIRTUE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born at Glasgow, 1853. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Port-Glasgow, West, 1880. Married, 1885, Elizabeth G. Shearer. Left for Australia, 1884. Settled at Chalmers’ Church, Melbourne, 1886; and at Geelong, 1889.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 10th February, 1853, in Gorbals, Glasgow, the son of Gilbert Beith McNair, fruiterer, and Mary McArthur. His brother, Gilbert Beith McNair, was a Presbyterian minister in Victoria – see Ward and Prentis, Presbyterian Ministers, p.113.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Grace Shearer in 1885 in Perth, Western Australia. She was born on 16th September, 1866, in Edinburgh, the daughter of David Shearer, minister, and Margaret Fisher Ballantine. Her father for years taught in Free Church schools in Scotland but became a minister in England and then was the founder of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia. See Ward and Prentis, Presbyterian Ministers, p.148.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow, on 13th May, 1879. He was ordained in West, Port-Glasgow, Renfrewshire, in 1880 and continued there till 1884. He was assistant in St Andrew’s, Perth, Western Australia, 1885-1886. He was received by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria on 15th June, 1886 and was inducted to Chalmers Church, Melbourne, on 28th September, 1886, continuing there till 5th November, 1889. After doing Supply elsewhere, he served in St Giles, Geelong, from 26th November, 1889, till his death. He was Moderator of his church in 1910-11.

Death
He died in Geelong, Victoria, on 18th July, 1915, and a tablet was erected in the church there in his memory. It read:

In Memoriam
Rev JOHN VIRTUE McNAIR
Born 10th February 1853
Died 18th July 1915.
For Twenty six Years
a faithful Minister of this Church
“I know whom I have believed.”

His wife died in 1942 in Victoria.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Gilbert Beith McNair born in 1887 in Melbourne, Victoria. He served in WW1 in the Dental Corp, leaving Australia on 5th June, 1918, and returning on 4th June, 1919. He was then married and living at 1 Talbot Street, Newtown, Geelong, Victoria . He had married Daisy Williams on 7th July, 1917, in Newton, Geelong, Victoria. She was the elder daughter of James T. Williams of Kurrawang, Western Australia. He died in Victoria in 1960.

(2) Mary McArthur McNair born in 1889 in Victoria. She married William Campbell in Victoria in 1920.

(3) Margaret Ballantine McNair born in 1891 in Victoria. She married James Stewart Gourlay in Victoria in 1923. She died there in 1961.

(4) Grace Elizabeth McNair born in 1894 in Victoria. She married Robert Archibald Dale in Victoria in 1919. She died there in 1984.

(5) David Shearer McNair born in 1895 in Victoria. He married Constance White there in 1924. He was a bank clerk, residing at one stage at 6 Fairview Grove, Glen Iris, and latterly at Knox Street, Malvern, Victoria. He died there on 28th November, 1946.

(6) Robert Elder McNair born on 7th March, 1898, in Australia – a twin. He died there in 1900.

(7) John Virtue McNair born on 7th March, 1898 in Australia– a twin. He married Gladys May Fagg in 1942 in Victoria. He died in 1980 in Victoria.

Sources
Monumentaustralia; Ancientfaces; The West Australian, 16th March, 1898; Adfa; Trove; Death-records; The Argus, 7th March, 1947; Austrlian Dictionary of Biography

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MACNAUGHT, JAMES, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born at Kilmarnock, 1832. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Maitland Church, Glasgow, 1862. Married, 1865, Jane Kinnear Gibson. Joined the Church of Scotland, 1876, and became minister of Abbotsford parish, Glasgow. Died, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Rose Street, Glasgow. Thereafter in 1877, Abbotsford, Glasgow, FES, Vol.3, p.389.

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MACNAUGHTAN, JOHN, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.252
Born at Greenock, 1807. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained, 1830, minister of Crown Court Church, London. Translated, 1832, to Paisley, High. Dr. Macnaughtan was twice married, his first wife being Jessie Buchanan. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. In 1844-45 Dr. Macnaughtan was a deputy of the Free Church to Canada. Translated, 1849, to Belfast. Died, 1884. [In Vol. 2 his surname is MacNaughton.]

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1831, Crown Court, London, FES, Vol.7, p.468; 1832, Paisley, FES, Vol.3, p.173. In the Free Church, he served in High, Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Publications
See separate document here.

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MACNAUGHTON, ROBERT W., M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born in Fife. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Milnathort, 1898.

Supplementary Information
Robert Wilson MacNaughton

Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Orwell (Milnathort), Kinross-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.354). He resigned in 1927 to facilitate a local union. Thereafter he served in Symington, Ayrshire, from later that year (FUFC, p.132, where a short biography is given).

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M’NEIL, CHARLES, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born, 1845. Son of Rev. R. M’Neil, Stoneykirk. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh, and at Berlin. Ordained, 1870, at Colinton and Currie. Married, 1873, Georgina E. W. Reddie. Translated to St. George’s, Dumfries, 1882.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire, on 24th June, 1845, the son of Robert McNeil, Free Church minister, and Margaret McLean. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1865-1870.

Marriage
He married Georgiana Eleanor Reddie in Blythswood, Glasgow, 1873. She was born in Glasgow about 1852.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Juniper Green, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.103). He became senior minister in 1909.

Death
He died at London, England, on 5th August, 1916. His wife died in Newton Abbot, Devon, England, in 1936.

Family
They had issue, including:
(1) Georgiana Eleanor McNeil born in Colinton in 1873. She died in Honiton, Devon, England, in 1935.

(2) Robert McNeil born in Colinton in 1875. He is said to have married Dorothy Sybil Montague Trenchard. He died in Honiton, in 1936.

(3) Charles James McNeil born in Colinton in 1877. He died in Honiton in 1942.

(4) Nellie Reddie McNeil born in Colinton in 1878. She married Henry Percival Hart in Burma in 1911 (Thepeerage). She died in Honiton in 1964.

(5) James Reddie McNeil born in Colinton in 1879. He is said to have married Mary Mildred and to have died in Egypt. However it should be noted that a nephew of his, of the same name, died in Egypt in 1942 (Axminsterheritage).

(6) Marion Campbell McNeil born in Colinton in 1880.

(7) Mabel Louisa McNeil born in Dumfries in 1884. She died in Honiton in 1959.

(8) Beatrice McNeil born in Dumfries in 1885. She died there that year.

(9) Arthur Anderson McNeil born in Dumfries in 1887. He died in Newton Abbot in 1938.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macneil Charles 28 / 11 / 1916 Retired, Rev., U.F. Church of Scotland, Juniper Green, Midlothian, afterwards Dumfries, Chichester, Felpham, and Bognor, latterly 1 Howden Road, South Norwood, London, d. 05/08/1916 at London, Intestate. Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC70/1/587

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M’NEIL, JOHN GEORGE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born at Islay, 1843. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1875, at Portnahaven. Married, 1876, Jessie Sinclair. Translated, 1880, to Cawdor. [Vol. 2 says he was translated to Cawdor in 1885 – and he was in Islay in the 1881 census.] Mr. M’Neil was an eminent Gaelic scholar, and edited for many years the Highland Witness.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Bowmore, Isle of Islay, Argyll, about 1843, the son of Donald McNeill, farm overseer.

Marriage
John George MacNeill married Jessie Sinclair in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, in 1876. She was born (or baptized) in Gorbals, Glasgow, on 7th May, 1845, the daughter of Archibald Sinclair and Agnes McEwan.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Portnahaven, Isle of Islay, Argyll; and Cawdor, Nairnshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.468).

Death
He died in Crieff, Perthshire, on 4th December, 1909. His wife died in Nairn in 1913.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macneill John George 23 / 5 / 1910 Minister, U.F. Church, Cawdor, Nairnshire, d. 04/12/1909 at Crieff, Testate. Nairn Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC31/34/3; Nairn Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC31/35/5

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M’NEIL, PATRICK

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born at Leswalt, 1830. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Auchencairn, 1863. Married, 1865, Mary H. Mitchell; and, 1878, Agnes Davidson. Was many years clerk of the Free Presbytery of Kirkcudbright. Died, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in 1830 in Leswalt, Wigtownshire, the son of Peter McNeil, farmer, and Margaret McNiel.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1848. He does not appear in the records of New College, Edinburgh, unless he is the Peter McNeil who enrolled there 1853-57.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Mary Harriet Mitchell on 7th June, 1865, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire. She was born on 6th December, 1841, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire, the daughter of Alexander Mitchell and Grace Rig.

(2) Agnes Davidson on 16th April, 1878, at the home of the bride, Auchencairn Place, Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire (Registration: 1878 879/ 3 Rerrick). She was born on 5th October, 1836, and baptised on 15th December, 1836, in an Independent Chapel, in Ludlow, Shropshire, England, the daughter of Alexander Davidson, banker, and Jane Gladstone.

Ministry
He became assistant in the South Church, Aberdeen. He was ordained in Auchencairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 12th November, 1863. He was for 26 years clerk of Presbytery.

Death
He died on 16th February, 1900, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire. He was survived by a widow, three married daughters and two sons. His first wife died there in 1877. His second wife died at Colin House, Auchencairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 19th June, 1904.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) Patrick McNeil born on 18th June, 1866, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire. He died there on 30th June, 1876.

(2) Grace McNeil born on 23rd March, 1868, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire. She married George Preston there in 1895.

(3) Alexander Mitchell McNeil born on 23rd June, 1869, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire. He worked for Syme and Co., in Singapore.

(4) Margaret Cowan McNeil born on 20th October, 1870, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire. She married John Milroy there in 1896. She died in the 1st quarter of 1950 in Wayland, Norfolk, England.

(5) William Robert McNeil born on 14th February, 1872, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire.

(6) Agnes Gladstone Mackie McNeil born on 24th April, 1873, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire. She married Henry Davidson there in 1896.

(7) John McNeil born in March and died on 30th May, 1875, in Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Patrick McNeil
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 21/4/1900, F.C. Minister, Auchencairn, d. 16/02/1900 at Auchencairn, testate, Inventory only, Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court, NRS SC16/41/54
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacNeil or Davidson, Agnes, 30/11/1904, Colin House, Auchencairn, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, d. 19/06/1904 at Auchencairn, testate, Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court, NRS SC16/41/57; Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC16/47/4

Sources
Rootsweb; Fullwiki

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M’NEIL, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born at Leswalt, 1807. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Stoneykirk, 1840. Married, 1841, Margaret M’Lean. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1852.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, Stoneykirk, FES, Vol.2, p.355; FES, Vol.8, p.192. In the Free Church, he served in Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 22/3/1853, Minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Stoneykirk, Wigtown Sheriff Court, NRS SC19/41/9

Publications – by him
Pastoral letter of the Synod of Galloway, on Sabbath observance, signed: Robert McNeil, Moderator, Edinburgh, R. Marshall, c.1840?
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 14th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/174

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M’NEILL, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born at Kilmory, Arran, 1842. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. After licence he became assistant in St. Columba’s, Edinburgh, and secretary of the Highland Committee. Ordained, 1878, at Cockburnspath. Married, 1882, Margaret MacNeil. Translated, 1881, to the Gaelic Church, Paisley. Died, 1887.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 5th and baptized on 16th April, 1843, at Auchenhew, Kilmory, Isle of Arran, Bute, the son of James McNiel, farmer, and Catherine Cook. Note the family name is variously spelled.

Education
He attended his local school and then Irvine, Academy, Ayrshire. He worked as a clerk in a shipping company. He studied at Glasgow University and the Free Church College there.

Marriage
He married Margaret McNeill on 18th August, 1882, at the Washington Hotel, 172 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow (Registration: 1882 644/7 299 Blythswood). She was then of Espedair Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire. She was the daughter of John MacNeill, gamekeeper, and Elizabeth Mackintosh

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow on 12th June, 1871. He was assistant and secretary in St Columba’s, Edinburgh. He was ordained in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire; and was translated to Gaelic, Paisley, Renfrewshire, in 1881.

Death
He died on 10th December, 1887, at the Free Gaelic Manse, Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander McNeill
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 6/2/1888, Minister, Free Gaelic Church, Paisley, d. 10/12/1887 at Paisley, intestate, Paisley Sheriff Court, NRS SC58/42/54

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M’NEILL, DANIEL, M.D., L.F.P.S.G.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born at Campbeltown, 1839. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Holm, Orkney, 1869. Married, 1872, Jessie J. Dewar. [In Vol. 2 his surname is spelled with a single l.]

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Campbeltown, Argyll, about 1840. He studied at Glasgow University and graduated M.D. in 1892.

Marriage
He married Jessie (Janet) Jane Dewar in Bellie, Moray, in 1872. She was born there on 14th May, 1849, the daughter of David Dewar, Free Church minister, and Charlotte Johnson.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Holm, Orkney. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.514). He retired in 1914.

Death
He died at Gorebridge, Midlothian, on 15th October, 1918. His wife died at Holm in 1897.

Family
They had issue in Holm, including:

(1) David Dewar McNeill born in 1873. He married Jessie Benn in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, in 1905. He was a medical practitioner in Leicester. During WW! He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He died in Leicester, England, in 1951.

(2) Mary Lauchline McNeill born on 27th September, 1874. She died on 10th Jine, 1928, in Uganda. Shortly before her death she converted to Catholicism. For her remarkable life see Mary McNeill.

(3) Charlotte Johnson McNeill born in 1875. She died in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1953.

(4) Jessie Jane McNeill born in 1876. She died there in 1877.

(5) John Campbell W McNeill born in 1877.

(6) Daniel Frederick McNeill born in 1878.

(7) James Louis McNeill born in 1880. He died there in 1893.

(8) William Alexand McNeill born in 1881.

(9) Patrick Kerr McNeill born in 1882. He died in 1917.

(10) Florence Marian McNeill born in 1885. She died in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1973.

(11) Isabella Frances McNeill born in 1886. She married James Smith Turner in Hillhead, Glasgow, in 1909. She died in Newington, Edinburgh, in 1968.

(12) Margaret Stewart McNeill born in 1888. She married James Donald R. McKinnon in Aberdeen in Aberdeen in 1939. She died in Cumbrae, Bute, in 1969.

(13) Eliza Anne Kerr McNeill born in 1888. She died in Newington, Edinburgh, in 1969.

(14) Arthur Earnest McNeill born in 1890. He died there that same year.

(15) Duncan Harold McNeill born in 1892. He died in Inverness in 1981.

For a fuller account of this family see SIB FOLK NEWS p.16

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.:
Macneill Daniel 7 / 1 / 1919 Rev. Church, Holm, Orkney, afterwards 14 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh, d. 15/10/1918 at Gorebridge, Midlothian, Testate. Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC70/1/621; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC70/4/516

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M’NEILL, DUNCAN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born at North Knapdale, 1864. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kilfinnan, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilfinnan, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.278, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1924 and died in 1931.

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M’NEILL, HECTOR

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born in Islay, 1807. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Ordained at Portnahaven, 1835. Translated to Hope Street, Glasgow, 1836; and to the second charge, Campbeltown, 1841. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1877. Died, 1879.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1835, Portnahaven, FES, Vol.4, p.79; 1836, Hope Street, Glasgow, FES, Vol.3, p.416; 1841, Campbeltown, FES, Vol.4, p.53; FES, Vol.8, p.323. In the Free Church, he served in Lochend, Campbeltown, Argyll.

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

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Hector McNeill
Second Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, Appendix 2, p.168 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]; Schedule of Queries and Additional Declarations, Appendix 3, p.529

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M’NEILL, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.253
Born at Tiree, 1849. Studied with Rev. John Blacklock, Arran, thereafter became a city missionary in Glasgow, and attended four sessions at the University. Settled at Oban, 1879. Admitted to Free Church, 1882. Translated to Auldearn, 1885. Married, 1879, Catherine Macfarlane.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Tiree, Argyll, about 1849.

Marriage
He married Catherine McFarlane in Maryhill, Glasgow, in 1879. She was born on 23rd July, 1849, in Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, the daughter of John McFarlane and Grace Glass.

Ministry
In 1881 he was minister of the Independent Chapel at Oban. In the Free Church, he served in Auldearn, Nairnshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.468).

Death
He died at Auldearn on 15th December, 1920. His wife died in Nairn in 1926.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macneill John 26 / 1 / 1921 Rev. U.F. Church Manse, Auldearn, Nairn, d. 15/12/1920 at Auldearn, Testate. Nairn Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC31/34/4; Nairn Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC31/35/7

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M’NEILL, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born at Houston, 1854. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at M’Crie-Roxburgh Church, Edinburgh, 1886. Married, 1879, Susan S. Scott; and, 1898, Margaret L. Millar. Translated to Regent Square Church, London, 1889. Resigned, 1891, and devoted himself to evangelistic work.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 7th July, 1854, in Houston and Killellan, Renfrewshire, the son of John McNeill – a quarryman, originally from Ulster, Ireland – and Catherine McTaggart.

The family moved to Inverkip, Renfrewshire, and he began working at the local railway. He was promoted and moved to Edinburgh, joined the Y.M.C.A. and began to study for the ministry

Marriage
He married:

(1) Susan Spiers Scott in 1879 in St George, Edinburgh. She was born on 22nd January, 1851, in Eccles, Berwickshire, the daughter of Mark Scott and Elizabeth Spiers. She was probably the brother of Mark Scott, a Free Church minister.

(2) Margaret Lee Millar in the 3rd quarter of 1898 in St George Hanover Square, London, England. She was born in the 2nd quarter of 1867 in Wandsworth, London, England, the daughter of Henry (Harry) Lee Millar and Helen Sharman.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow on 13th May, 1886. He was ordained in M’Crie-Roxburgh, Edinburgh, on 15th July, 1886. He was translated to Regent Square English Presbyterian Church, London, on 28th February, 1889. He resigned in December, 1891.

A brief account of his ministry after leaving London is given in the source mentioned below.

January 1892: preached with D.L. Moody in Aberdeen.

1893: Preached at the World’s Fair in Chicago (as assistant to Moody).

1894-1908: Spent many years as a travelling evangelist preaching at many US churches including Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and Central Presbyterian Church, New York City, and as far away as Australia and New Zealand.

1908: Became pastor of Christ Church, Westminster Bridge Road, London, England.

1910: Became minister of Free St George’s Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, Lancashire, England.

1912: Minister of Cooke’s Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1914: Minister of Central Presbyterian Church, Denver, Colorado, USA.

1916: Took up a war-time role with the Y.M.C.A., serving in France, Egypt and Malta

1919: Become minister of South Highlands Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

1920: Fort Washington Presbyterian Church (Broadway & 174th St, New York City, New York, USA.)

1928: Returned to Britain

Death
He died on 19th April, 1933, in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England, and was buried beside his parents in Inverkip, Renfrewshire. (FreeBMD has him recorded as “John Metteil”, died Tendring, Essex, aged 78 – Frinton-on-Sea being in Tendring District.)

Susan Spiers Scott died in the 3rd quarter of 1891, three weeks after giving birth to her fourth child, in Pancras, London, England.

Margaret Lee Millar died in 1960 in Urquhart, Inverness-shire.

Family
He had family including, by his first wife:

(1) John McNeill born on 8th July, 1880, in Edinburgh. He married Isabella Margaret Edgar on 18th July, 1905, in Greenlaw, Berwickshire. He was a librarian. He died on 14th October, 1956, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

(2) Elizabeth McNeill born about 1882 in Scotland. She married Thomas Wright Kinloch in the first quarter of 1912 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. She perhaps died in the 2nd quarter of 1955 in Croydon, London, England.

(3) Kate Steven McNeill born on 23rd July, 1885, in Kelvin, Glasgow. She died on 3rd January, 1979, in Inverness.

(4) Marcus Scott McNeill born on 13th June, 1891, in Pancras, London, England. He is said to have married Jemima Jackson in 1937 in London, England. He was a machinist/ engineer/ aircraft engineer. He died on 13th July, 1972, in Inverness.

And by his second wife:

(5) Helen McNeill born on 28th May, 1899, in Kilmalcolm, Renfrewshire. She married Horace Gordon Dean in the 2nd quarter of 1918 in Hendon, London, England. She died on 28th January, 1998, in Glenurquhart, Inverness, Inverness-shire.

(6) Harry McNeill born on 27th August, 1900, in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire. He studied at Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, and at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Jefferson, Colorado, USA. He married Isabel MacNair Whitcomb on 24th May, 1924, in Buffalo Creek, Jefferson, Colorado, USA. He died on 2nd January, 2000, in Tempe, Maricopa, Arizona, USA.

(7) Joseph McNeill born on 27th November, 1902, in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire. He married Dorothy Lena May Johns on 3rd January, 1945, in Chelsea, London, England. He died on 23rd November, 1986, in Drumnadrochit, Inverness.

(8) Campbell White McNeill born on 30th September, 1904, in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire. He married (i) Ruth Slattery and (ii) Ethel Rosemary Begbie on 4th April, 1957, in Entebbe, Kalangala, Uganda. He died on 31st March, 1977, in Montserrat.

(9) Archie McNeill born 15th October, 1906, in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire. He married Alexandra Evangeline Duff on 28th January, 1936, in San Jose, Los Angeles, California, USA. He died on 5th August, 1952, in Cannon Beach, Clatsop, Oregon, USA.

(10) Margaret McNeill born in the 3rd quarter of 1909 in Wandsworth, London, England. She died in 1977.

Publications – by him
Sermons, New York, F. H. Revell, 1890, three volumes: Vol.1 and Vol.2
Regent Square pulpit: sermons, London, 1890
The Evangelical faith … Its need and worth in the life of to-day, Aberdeen, 1890
The people’s pulpit: sermons, with others, London, Charles Higham, 1891
The Old Testament Prodigal in The way of life, Chicago, Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1895
The twenty-third Psalm, New York, Fleming H. Revell company, c.1927
Bread to the full, striking addresses blessed to thousands the wide world over, London, Pickering & Inglis, 1931

Publications – about him
Rev. John McNeill: his life and work, Alexander Gammie, London, Pickering & Inglis, 1933
John McNeill in Great evangelists and how God has used them, Jesse Page, London, S.W. Partridge, 1905?

Sources
Clydesburn; The Pall Mall Gazette, London, England, 1st March, 1889; The North-Eastern Daily Gazette, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, 8th December, 1891

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M’NEILL, JOHN ROSS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born at Tiree, 1846. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Torosay and Salen, 1876. Translated to Tongue, 1880. Married, 1885, Mary Gunn.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Torosay and Salen, Isle of Mull, Argyll; and Tongue, Sutherland. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.504, where a short biography is given). He died in 1905.

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MACNICOL, ARCHIBALD JOHN, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born at Lochranza, 1863. Son of following. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Dundonald, 1891. Translated, 1896, to Cromarty.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dundonald, Ayrshire; and Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.477). Thereafter he served in Pitlochry from 1907 (FUFC, p.319, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1925 and died in 1937.

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MACNICOL, DUNCAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born at Lochfyneside, 1829. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Lochranza, 1857. Married, the same year, Margaret Clark. Was clerk of the Presbytery of Kintyre. Translated, 1876, to Dunoon, Gaelic.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Stralachlan, Strachur, Argyll, on 3rd September, 1829, the son of Archibald MacNicol, fish curer, and Helen Smith. See the Bonar Tree for some distant ministerial connections. He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1843. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1849-1855.
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Marriage
He married Margaret Clark (Clarke) in Strachur, Argyll, in 1857. She was born in Stralachlan, Strachur, Argyll, on 16th February, 1827, the daughter of Duncan Clarke, farmer, and Rachel Turner.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lochranza, Isle of Arran, Bute; and Dunoon, Gaelic, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.277).

Death
He died at Pitlochry, Perthshire, on 8th February, 1910. His wife died in Dunoon in 1899.

Family
They had issue, born in Lochranza, including:
(1) Archibald John McNicol born in 1858. He died there the following year.

(2) Rachel Turner McNicol born in 1859. She died in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1941.

(3) Duncan Clark McNicol born in 1861. He was a Free Church minister.

(4) Archibald John McNicol born in 1863. He was a Free Church minister. He married Davina Maria Allen in Canongate, Edinburgh, in 1912. He died in Haymarket, Edinburgh, in 1937, and was buried in Pitlochry, Perthshire (Findagrave).

(5) Malcolm McNicol born in 1867. He was a Free Church medical missionary in India. There he married Mary Harriet Simson, also a medical missionary. He died in Haymarket, Edinburgh, in 1936.

(6) Nicol McNicol born in 1870. He was a Free Church minister. He married Margaret Grant C. Brodie in Wandsworth, London, England, in 1904. He died in Newington, Edinburgh, in 1952.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macnicol Duncan 7 / 6 / 1910 Rev. Free Church, Lochranza, latterly the U.F. Church Manse, Pitlochry, d. 08/02/1910 at Pitlochry, Testate. Perth Sheriff Court NRS SC49/31/213; Perth Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC49/32/8

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MACNICOL, DUNCAN CLARK, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born at Lochranza, 1861. Son of foregoing. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow; also at Halle. Ordained at Dunipace, 1886. Married, 1894, Emily F. Bonar. Translated to Gorbals, Glasgow, 1895.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dunipace, Stirlingshire; and Gorbals, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.221). Thereafter he served in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, from 1904 (FUFC, p.32, where a short biography is given). He died in 1910.

Family
Bonar Tree.

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MACNICOL, MALCOLM, M.B., C.M.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born, 1867. Son of Rev. D. Macnicol, Lochranza. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1893, as medical missionary to Bengal; stationed at Hoogly.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.536, where a short biography is given). He resigned in 1909; took up medical practice and died in 1936.

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MACNICOL, NICOL, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born at Rothesay. Brother of foregoing. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1895, missionary to Bombay.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.539, where a short biography is given). He died in 1931.

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MACNIVEN, JAMES, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born at Kintyre, 1864. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Ardnamurchan, 1891.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Ardnamurchan, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.300). Thereafter he served in Uig, Isle of Lewis, from 1912 (FUFC, p.498); and in Lochcarron from 1920 (FUFC, p.488, where a short biography is given).

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M’OMISH, ROBERT, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born in Lanarkshire, 1859. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained missionary to Madras, 1886. [List of missionaries has him in Bombay.]

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.539, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1920 and died in 1929.

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MACPHAIL, EARLE MONTEITH, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born at Aberdeen, 1861. Son of Dr. J. C. Macphail. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained missionary to Madras, 1890. Married, 1892, Mary Stuart.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 14th November, 1878 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.229). His ministry in India was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.543, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1925 and died in 1937.

Family
MacPhail Tree.

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MACPHAIL, GEORGE ROSS, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born at Ullapool, 1858. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Albert Square, Dundee, 1887.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Ullapool, Lochbroom, Ross and Cromarty, on 19th November, 1858. He was the son of John MacPhail, who, it is argued, was the half brother of James Calder MacPhail, and Lillias Mackenzie. For some family connections, see the MacPhail Tree. He studied at Glasgow University and graduated M.A. in 1881. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1882-1886.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Albert Square, Dundee. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.380).

Death
He died in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1940.

Publication – about him
Youbelong

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MACPHAIL, JAMES CALDER, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.254
Born in Morayshire, 1820. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and Divinity Hall and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Aberdeen, East, 1849. Married, 1857, Annie B. Nicolson. Translated, 1868, to Pilrig Church, Edinburgh. In 1898 Dr. Macphail became senior minister. Dr. Macphail was an authority on all matters pertaining to Gaelic literature, and rendered valuable service to the Church in connection with the training of Highland students for the ministry. He devised and he himself conducted for more than thirty years a scheme of grammar school bursaries, which secured that Gaelic-speaking students had the chance of starting fair with others in the later competition of university life.

Publication.—Columba (Evangelical Succession Lectures; First Series).

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1820, the son of George MacPhail, fisheries officer, and Annie Ross. Although in the censuses it is stated that he was born in Lochbroom, Ross and Cromarty, there is some evidence that he was actually born in Moray, as Ewing states. This is bound up with his father’s alleged murky past – for which see the sources cited below. For some family connections, see the MacPhail Tree.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-46. He was awarded the D.D. degree by Edinburgh University in 1894.

Marriage
He married Annie Badenoch Nicolson on 4th August, 1857, in Glenbervie, Kincardineshire. She was born about 1834 in Edinburgh, the daughter of Robert Badenoch, Esq., of Arthurhouse, and Ann Wilson.

In 1851, her mother, Ann B. Nicolson, was described as a landed proprietrix. Indeed, she was the daughter of James Wilson, minister of Farnell (see FES, Vol.5, p.394) whose wife was the daughter of Sir William Nicolson of Glenbervie. She was the heiress of that estate and took the name Badenoch-Nicolson. Her grand-father, George Wilson, was minister of Kinnaird (see FES, Vol.5, p.396).

Ministry
After being licensed, he was assistant in Enzie, Banffshire. He was ordained in East, Aberdeen, in 1849, as colleague and successor of James Foote. He was translated to Pilrig, Edinburgh, on 17th December, 1868. By early 1898 attempts were made to find a colleague and successor for him.

Other
He was an active photographer. He toured Europe in 1847-48 in the company of Sir James Francis Dunlop and some of his photos are in the albums of the Edinburgh Calotype Club. Others appear in a privately published account of a journey to the Holy Land.

Death
He died on 12th February, 1908, in Prestonpans, East Lothian. His wife died on 23rd March, 1918, at Harlaw Hill House, Prestonpans.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) James Robert Nicolson Macphail born on 29th June, 1858, in Glenbervie, Kincardineshire. He married Nora Helen Gough in 22 March, 1900, in Whitechapel, London, England – she was the daughter of General Sir Hugh Gough. He was appointed Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannan in 1917. He was an antiquary. He died on 15th October,1933, in St Andrew, Edinburgh.

(2) Earle Monteith MacPhail born in 1861 in Old Machar, Aberdeen. He died in 1937 in Haymarket, Edinburgh. He was a Free Church missionary.

(3) Annie Catherine Phoebe MacPhail born on 20th June, 1863, in Old Machar, Aberdeen. She died on 26th August, 1932, at The Monklands, Bilston, Roslin, Midlothian. She was buried on 30th August, in the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.

(4) George Washington Macphail born on 25th August, 1865, in Old Machar, Aberdeen.

(5) Quinton Stuart Macphail born on 29th June, 1867, in Old Machar, Aberdeen.

(6) Sybella Mary Macphail born on 22nd June, 1869, in Edinburgh. She was for many years secretary of the Ladies Highland Association of the Church of Scotland. She died on 22nd April, 1944, in Morningside, Edinburgh, and was buried on 26th April in the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Publications – by him
Miscellaneous small collections of family, business and other papers: Letters from Rev. James Calder Macphail, D.D, Pilrig Church, Edinburgh to Dr Cosmo Innes, and four letters from Innes to Macphail (1862-1871) with reference to antiquarian research, NRS GD1/238/3
Papers relating to the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SSPCK): Printed and manuscript items, including correspondence from the papers of J Calder MacPhail, representing a campaign to change the SPCK so that it could apply its funds ‘for the benefit of the Highlands and Islands, and other destitute parts of Scotland’, NRS GD1/1338
Papers of Rev James Calder MacPhail and others: NRS GD1/1345 – this consistes of 30 extensive files. There is a wide range of material here, legal papers, family correspondence, including a short family tree (GD1/1345/15).
Addresses delivered at the induction of the Rev. W.H. Gualter, as collegiate minister of Free Trinity Church, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Milne, 1864
Report on Grammar School bursaries for gaelic-speaking young men, from March 1873 to February 1876, Edinburgh, Duncan Grant and Co., 1876
Old stones for a new church, the forgotten doctrine of Knox ‘tuiching the sustentation of ministers’, Edinburgh, 1877
Columba, in The evangelical succession, a course of lectures delivered at St. George’s Free Church, Edinburgh 1881-82, Edinburgh : Macniven & Wallace, 1882

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/4/1908, D.D., Edinburgh, Prestonpans, d. 12/02/1908 at Prestonpans, testate, Eik granted, 30/06/, to the above Executors, Haddington Sheriff Court, NRS SC40/40/34; Eik granted, 30/06/, to the above Executors, Haddington Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC40/43/5
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacPhail or Nicolson, Annie Badenach, 30/7/1918, Harlaw Hill House, Prestonpans, widow of Rev. James Calder Macphail, D.D., of Pilrig Church, Edinburgh, d. 23/03/1918 at Harlaw Hill House, testate, Haddington Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC40/43/10
Suggestions as to opinions on the disestablishment question, Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff in a letter to the Rev. J. C. Macphail, Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace, 1882?

Sources
Oxfordindex; Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, under Dunlop, Sir James Francis; The London Gazette, 22nd May, 1917; Forgottenbooks; Elgin Courier, (Moray), 14th August, 1857; Genesreunited; Youbelong; The Aberdeen Journal, 21st March, 1849; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 29th August, 1932, p.14; 16th October, 1933, p.11; 26th April, 1944, p.3

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MACPHAIL, JAMES MERRY, M.B., C.M., M.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.255
Born in Dorsetshire, 1863. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Appointed, 1888, medical missionary to Santalia. [List of missionaries says this was in 1889.] Stationed at Chakai. By authority of the General Assembly Dr. Macphail was ordained by the Presbytery of Calcutta, 1890. Married, 1898, Janet Russell Wells.

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 died in 1929.

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MACPHAIL, JOHN SINCLAIR

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.255
Born at Ullapool, 1824. Brother of Dr. J. C. Macphail. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Sleat, 1853. Married, the same year, Jane Reid. Translated, 1873, to Kilmuir, Skye; and, 1887, to Benbecula.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Ullapool about 1824, the son of George MacPhail, fishery officer, and Annie Ross. For his extensive ministerial connections, see the MacPhail Tree. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1847-1851.

Marriage
He married Janet (Jessie) Reid Finlayson in Elgin, Moray, on 8th November, 1853. She was born in Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty, on 21st June and baptized on 27th June, 1825, the daughter of John Finlayson, minister of the Gaelic Chapel there, and Christina Hoyes.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Sleat, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire; Kilmuir and Staffin, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire; and Benbecula, Inverness-shire .This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.493). He retired in 1902.

Death
He died at Nairn on 31st August, 1911, and was buried in the cemetery there (Findagrave). His wife died at Kilmuir in 1875.

Family
They had issue in Sleat, including:
(1) Anna Georgina MacPhail born in 1855. She died in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1916.

(2) Samuel Rutherford McPhail born in 1856. He married Mary Eleanora Main in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, in 1889. He died in Newington, Edinburgh, on 12th September, 1931, and was buried in Lasswade, Midlothian (Findagrave).

(3) Jessie Lydia S. MacPhail born in 1858. She married Francis Irvine MacKinnon in Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire in 1886. She died in Morningside in 1938.

(4) Alexandrina Matilda. MacPhail born in 1860. She was a medical practitioner (Rootschat). She died in Morningside in 1946.

(5) Isabel Finlayson MacPhail born in 1862. She married John Thomson in Kilmuir in 1887. He was a medical practitioner (RCP). She died in Morningside in 1948.

(6) Elizabeth Margaret MacPhail born in 1863. She died there the following year.

(7) Robina Mary McPhail born in 1866. She died in Morningside in 1948.

(8) John Finlayson McPhail born in 1869. He was surely the John Finlayson McPhail, medical practitioner, who died in Hull, Yorkshire, in 1914, of an accidental overdose of morphine (Archive).

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macphail John Sinclair 17 / 10 / 1911 Snr Minister of the United Free Church, Benbecula, afterwards 14 Queen Street, Nairn, d. 31/08/1911 at Nairn, Testate. Nairn Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC31/34/3; Nairn Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC31/35/5

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MACPHAIL, MALCOLM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.255
Born at Shawbost, Stornoway, 1837. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kilmartin, 1877. Married, 1878, Isabella Catherine Mackenzie.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Shawbost, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, about 1837, his mother’s maiden name being Mcleod. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1868-1872.

Marriage
He married Isabella Catherine Mackenzie in Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty in 1878. She was born there about 1853.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilmartin, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.284).

Death
He died at Kilmartin on 23rd December, 1906. His wife died in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1936.

Family
They had issue born in Kilmartin, including:
(1) Mary Reid MacPhail born in 1878. She died there in 1900.

(2) Hector Duncan MacPhail born on 4th July, 1881. He was a medical practitioner. He died in Lincoln, England, in 1970.

(3) John Murdo MacPhail born in 1882.

(4) Angus Donald MacPhail born in 1884. He died in George Square, Edinburgh, in 1953.

(5) Christina Harriet MacPhail born in 1886.

(6) William Reid MacPhail born in 1888. He died there in 1893.

(7) William Malcolm MacPhail born in 1894.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macphail Malcolm 20 / 3 / 1907 Rev. of Kilmartin U.F. Church, Kilmartin, Argyllshire, d. 23/12/1906 at Kilmartin, Intestate. Dunoon Sheriff Court NRS SC51/32/59

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MACPHAIL, SIMEON ROSS, D.D. (Edinburgh)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.255
Born at Forres, 1839. Brother of Dr. J. C. Macphail. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Forfar, East, 1866. Translated to Elgin, High, 1869. Married, the same year, Margaret Barry. Translated, 1878, to Great Hamilton Street, Glasgow [Vol. 2 there says he was translated 1879.]; and, 1880, to Canning Street, Liverpool.

Publications.—History of the Religious House of Pluscardyn, with Introduction. Liturgical Proposals to the Presbyterian Church of England.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 15th September, 1839, in Forres, Moray, the son of George MacPhail, fisheries officer, and Anna Ross. For some family connections, see the MacPhail Tree.

Education
He entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1856 and graduated M.A. with 3rd class Honours in 1861. He was awarded a D.D. degree on 3rd March, 1900. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1861-65.

Marriage
He married Margaret (Maggie) Barry on 1st September, 1869, in Forfar, Angus. She was born on 13th August, 1848, in Forfar, Angus, the daughter of William Barry and Agnes Coupar.

Ministry
He was ordained in East, Forfar, Angus, on 22nd February, 1866. He was translated to High, Elgin, Moray. There for a time in 1878 he had the services of John Hanson as his assistant. He was then translated to Great Hamilton Street, Glasgow. At the meeting of Glasgow Free Presbytery on 13th May, 1880, his translation to Canning Street Church, Liverpool, was agreed. He was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England in 1903.

Death
He died in 1912 in Blythswood, Glasgow. His wife may have died in the 3rd quarter of 1933 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, aged 85.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Ernest George William Macphail born on 29th June, 1870, in Elgin, Moray. He died there in 1877.

(2) Rhoda Mary Macphail born on 2nd October, 1871, in Elgin, Moray. A Rhoda M. MacPhail died in the 3rd quarter of 1959, in Wirral, Cheshire, England. The age given is 85 – which doesn’t fit exactly. On the other hand, the family were resident in this general area.

(3) Alice Maggie Macphail born on 19th April, 1873, in Elgin, Moray. She died in the 3rd quarter of 1958, in Wirral, Cheshire, England, aged 85.

(4) Frederick James MacPhail born 1875 in Elgin, Moray. He died in the 2nd quarter of 1908 in Warrington, Cheshire, England.

(5) Arthur John MacPhail born in 1878 in Dennistoun, Glasgow. He perhaps died in the 4th quarter of 1962 in Preston, Lancashire, England.

(6) Ada Rachael MacPhail born 1879 in Dennistoun, Glasgow. She died in the 2nd quarter of 1953 in Wirral, Cheshire, England, aged 75.

(7) Beatrice Whyte MacPhail born in 1880 in Dennistoun, Glasgow. She died in the 1st quarter of 1894, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England.

(8) Douglas Ross MacPhail born in the 4th quarter of 1882 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He died in the 1st quarter of 1937 in Stepney, London, England.

Publications – by him
Monumental witness to Old Testament history, edited by S. R. Macphail drawn by R.P. Simpson, London, 1879
History of the religious house of Pluscardyn, Convent of the Vale of Saint Andrew, in Morayshire, with introduction, containing the history and a description of the present state of the mother-house of the order of Vallis Caulium in Burgundy, Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1881
An illustrated guide to the Priory of Pluscardyn in St. Andrew’s Vale Morayshire, c.1883
Liturgical proposals to Presbyterians of England tried by history, experience and scripture, London, James Nisbet, 1891.
Historical geography of the Holy Land, Edinburgh, 1900?
Our mothers’ psalm: a fourfold summary of Psalm 23, London, Marshall Brothers, 1907?
The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1911

Publication – about him
In memoriam: the Rev. Simeon Ross MacPhail, M.A., D.D. 1839-1912, 1912?

Source
Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 5th March, 1900

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MACPHAIL, WILLIAM MERRY, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.255
Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1857. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Maybole, 1882. Married, the same year, Sarah S. Goldie. Translated to Streatham, London, 1885. In 1895 Mr. Macphail was appointed clerk of the Synod of the English Presbyterian Church.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in the 4th quarter of 1857 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, the son of Dugald MacPhail, clerk of works, and his wife Janet Merry.

Education
He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1879, M.A. (2nd, Philosophy). He won the Ferguson Ethical Scholarship – £80 for two years.

Marriage
He married Sarah Stone Goldie on 21st June, 1882, in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. She was born in the 1st quarter of 1855 in Wincanton, Somerset, England, the daughter of William Goldie and his wife, Ann Horn Goldie.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow on 10th May, 1881. He was ordained in Maybole, Ayrshire, on 16th May, 1882. On 15th October, 1885, the Presbytery loosed him from his charge as he was under call to Streathan Presbyterian Church, London, England.

Death
He died in the 3rd quarter of 1916 in London City, England. His wife died in 1932 in Partick, Glasgow.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Margaret Goldie MacPhail born on 20th February, 1884, in Maybole, Ayrshire. She married Robert Hill Thornton in the 3rd quarter of 1907 in Wandsworth, London, England. He was the son of Robert McAlpine Thornton, a Free Church minister. He became a minister of the Presbyterian Church of England. Margaret Goldie Thornton died in the 2nd quarter of 1973 in Oxford, England.

(2) Dorothy Mary MacPhail born in the 4th quarter of 1887 in Wandsworth, London, England. She died in 1966 in Lochgilphead, Argyll.

(3) Kenneth William MacPhail born in the 2nd quarter of 1891 in Wandsworth, London, England. He died in the 3rd quarter of 1961 in Sturminster, Dorset, England.

(4) Alan Campbell MacPhail born in the 4th quarter of 1899 in Wandsworth, London, England. He probably died in the 2nd quarter of 1915 in London City, London, England.

Publications – by him
Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, a lecture, London, Hitchcock, 1892
The Presbyterian Church , a brief account of its doctrine, worship, and polity, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908

Sources
Rootsweb; The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 12th October, 1880

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MACPHERSON, ALEXANDER, B.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.255
Born at Glasgow, 1807. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Was for a time chaplain in Burns’ steamers, also assistant to Dr. Munro, Manchester. Ordained, 1841, at Dudhope, Dundee. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1843, to Mortlach; and, 1845, to Meigle. Married, 1847, Eliza Bartie. Died, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1841, Dudhope, Dundee, FES, Vol.5, p.313. In the Free Church, he served in Dudhope, Dundee; Mortlach, Banffshire; and Meigle, Perthshire.

Publications – by him
Perhaps Lectures doctrinal and practical on the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans, Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1838
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 1st May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/205
Lectures on the book of Jonah, Edinburgh, Charles Zeigler, 1849

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander MacPherson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 20/8/1892, Minister, Meigle, d. 17/06/1892 at Meigle, testate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/149

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MACPHERSON, ALLAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.255
Born, 1814. Ordained at Dores, 1847. Married, 1849, Helen Sinclair. Died, 1886.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1814 in Strontian, Argyll, the son of Alexander MacPherson, farmer, and Mary Cameron. He may have been related to John MacPherson.

Education
He studied in St Andrews, Fife: at United College, 1828-32; and at St Mary’s College 1832-35

Marriage
He married Helen Sinclair in January, 1849, the marriage being recorded on the 3rd in Urquhart and on the following day in Dores, Inverness-shire. She was born on 21st March, 1818, the daughter of Robert Sinclair, tacksman/farmer, and Mary MacDonald. For some family connections, see the Shaw Tree.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dores and Bona, Inverness-shire.

Death
He died on 28th September, 1886, at the Free Church Manse, Dores, Inverness (Registration: 1886 096/A 16 Dores). His wife died in 1886 in Fodderty, Ross and Cromarty.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) John MacPherson born on 17th November, 1857, in Dores, Inverness-shire. He probably married Rachel Annie Wallace in 1890 in St Andrew, Edinburgh.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 12/2/1887, F.C. Minister, Dores, County of Inverness, d. 28/09/1886 at Dores aforesaid, intestate, Inverness Sheriff Court, NRS SC29/44/22

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MACPHERSON, COSMO

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.255
Born at Tomintoul, 1797. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. Signed the Probationers’ Resolutions of Adherence to the Free Church, 1843. Ordained, 1845, at Dalguise and Strathbraan. Married, 1856, Rachael B. Black. Died, 1869.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 3rd April, 1797, in Tomintoul, Banffshire, the son of Cosmo MacPherson and Margaret Riach or MacIntosh – this being recorded in the Roman Catholic records. He is therefore the brother of Charles MacPherson, a Church of Scotland minister who didn’t come out at the Disruption. (For him see FES, Vol.6, p.372)

Education
He attended the local parish school before going on to Aberdeen where he matriculated in King’s College in 1824..

Marriage
He married Rachel Bogie Black on 13th November, 1856, in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She was born on 13th and baptized on 16th July, 1826, in Kirkcaldy, Fife, the daughter of Roger Black, Procurator in Sheriff Courts, and Rachel Law.

Ministry
He was licensed a few years prior to the Disruption. He served as an assistant in Aberdeen for a time. “Cosmo McPherson, Tomintoul” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was ordained in Dalguise and Strathbraan, Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, on 9th December, 1845.

Death
He died on 13th February, 1869, at the Strathbaan Free Church Manse, Perthshire. His wife died at Strathbraan, Milnathort, Kinross-shire, on 12th March, 1919.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Rachel Law MacPherson born on 4th January, 1858, in Little Dunkeld, Perthshire. She died on 17th June, 1873, at Strathbraan Cottage, Dollar, Clackmannanshire.

(2) John Charles MacPherson born on 31st July, 1859, in Little Dunkeld, Perthshire.

(3) Margaret Ann MacPherson born on 10th October, 1861, in Little Dunkeld, Perthshire. She married Thomas H. Ross, F.E.I.S., Ladybank, on 3rd August, 1893, at Strathbraan Cottage, Dollar, Clackmannanshire. She died in 1945 in Newington, Edinburgh.

(4) Roger Cosmo MacPherson born on 20th April 1863, at the Strathbraan Free Church Manse, Perthshire. He died in 1942 in Orwell, Kinross-shire.

(4) Mary Isabella MacPherson born on 30th November, 1864, in Little Dunkeld, Perthshire. She was a painter.

(5) Katherine Inglis MacPherson born on 6th September, 1866, in Little Dunkeld, Perthshire. She died there in 1869.

(6) Magdalene Black MacPherson born on 5th January, 1868, in Little Dunkeld, Perthshire. She died in 1965 in Orwell, Kinross-shire.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Cosmo MacPherson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/3/1869. minister of Free Church in Trochrie, Strathbraan, in parish of Little Dunkeld, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/87
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacPherson or Bogie, Rachel Black, 20/5/1919, Strathbraan, Milnathort, d. 12/03/1919 at Millnathort, testate, Kinross Sheriff Court, NRS SC22/44/18

Sources
Otago Daily Times (New Zealand), Issue 9859, 3 October 1893, p.2; Linleyfh; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 24th April, 1863; 19th June, 1873

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MACPHERSON, DOUGAL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.255
Born at Callander, 1822. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dunkeld, 1854. Married, 1855, Margaret M. Clark; and, 1881, Christina Thomson. Became senior minister, 1888. Died, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 22nd and baptized on 29th September, 1822, in Callander, Perthshire, the son of Duncan MacPherson, parochial school master, and Margaret MacGregor. For some family connections, see the MacPherson Tree.

Education
He studied at Edinburgh University 1844-48. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1848-52.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Margaret Murray Clark on 5th December, 1855, at Claremont, Alloa, Clackmannanshire (Registration: 1855 465/ 50 Alloa (Clackmannan)). She was born on 17th May, 1822, in Edinburgh, the daughter of William Clark, WS, Sheriff of Clackmannanshire, and Margaret Bennet.

(2) Christina Thomson in the 2nd quarter of 1881 in St George Hanover Square, London, England. She was born about 1825 in Callander, Perthshire, according to one census, and was the daughter of John Thomson, doctor of medicine, of Haymarket, Canada, and Christina McGregor.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Stirling in 1854 and ordained in Dunkeld, Perthshire, that same year. During his ministry, a new church building was erected, the foundation stone being laid by Lord Dalhousie, on 18th June, 1874.

Death
He retired to 22 Morningside Park, Edinburgh,. He was admitted to James Murray’s Royal Asylum, Perth, on 18th April, 1893. He died there on 5th November, 1897. Margaret Murray Clark or MacPherson died on 18th September, 1879, in Dunkeld, Perthshire. Christina Thomson or MacPherson died on 6th September, 1898, at 46 Morningside Park, Edinburgh (Registration: 1898 685/5 903 Newington). They left a legacy of £500 to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) Margaret MacPherson born on 3rd November, 1860, in Dunkeld, Perthshire. She died there the following year.

(2) Mary Archibald Macpherson born on 12th April, 1862, in Dunkeld, Perthshire. She died there the following year.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Dougal MacPherson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/3/1898, senior Minister, Dunkeld Free Church, sometime residing at 22 Morningside Park, Edinburgh, latterly at Murray’s Royal Asylum, Perth, d. 05/11/1897 at Perth, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/366; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/303
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macpherson or Clark, Margaret Murray, 15/9/1881, wife of Rev. Dougal Macpherson, Minister, Free Church, Dunkeld, d. 18/09/1879 at Dunkeld, testate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/114
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macpherson or Thomson, Christina 24/1/1899, 46 Morningside Park, Edinburgh, widow, d. 06/09/1898 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/375; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/310
Mental Health Records: NRS MC7/8 p. 20 and NRS MC2/409

Sources
The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 19th June, 1874; Glasgow Herald, 31st July, 1900

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MACPHERSON, EBENEZER BROWN HILL, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born, 1869. Son of Rev. F. MacPherson, Larbert. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Panbride, 1895. Married, the same year, Margaret Alice Craig.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Panbride, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p. 401, where a short biography is given). Thereafter he served in Willesden St George’s Presbyterian Church from 1905. He died in 1922.

Family
MacPherson Tree.

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MACPHERSON, FINLAY

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born at Strontian, 1796. Ordained at Kincardine and Croick, 1830. Translated, 1834, to Tobermory; and, 1838, to Kilbrandon. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Mr. MacPherson was mainly instrumental in organising the charges within the extensive bounds of the Presbytery of Mull. Died, 1852.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1834, Tobermory, FES, Vol.4, p.122; 1838, Kilbrandon, FES, Vol.4, p.90. In the Free Church, he served in Kilbrandon and Kilchattan, Argyll.

Family
MacPherson Tree.

Publication – by him
New Statistical Account, July, 1843, Kilbrandon and Kilchattan, Vol.7, Argyll, p.71
He gave evidence before the Committee on Sites (Scotland) – see the Report of this Committee from Question 3106 on p.78 of Second Report.
Breadalbane Muniments: Kilbrandon and Kilchattan: 1843 June 21. Letter from Rev Finlay Macpherson to Breadalbane. Reports on state of the old distillery; writer preached the previous Sunday at Kilbride in Seil at 11 and in Luing at 3; thinks the building near the distillery could be fitted up as temporary accommodation; writer still occupies the manse but wonders how long he should continue to do so, NRS GD112/51/231/1; 1844 April 26. Kilbrandon Manse; Letter from Rev Finlay Macpherson to Breadalbane. Parish is becoming anxious about provision of a place of worship; tent cannot be kept up in a storm so that they have usually assembled in the open the whole winter and spring; several people have taken seats in the covenanters’ church; still thinks plan of building churches in Seil and Luing a good one; harsh treatment received by Mr McNaughton; allowance to poor, NRS GD112/51/231/4
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth endowment, 25th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/184

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 12/11/1852, Minister of the Free Church, County of Argyll, Dunoon Sheriff Court, NRS SC51/32/7

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MACPHERSON, FINLAY

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born at Callander, 1821. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Larbert, 1848. Married, the same year, Eliza Johnstone; and, 1855, Christina Hill. Resigned, 1891. Died, 1893.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 21st March, 1821, in Callander, Perthshire, the son of Duncan MacPherson, teacher, and Margaret MacGregor. He was a brother of Dougal MacPherson, a Free Church minister.

Education
He worked in a lawyer’s office before entering Edinburgh University to do his Arts Course. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, in 1843-47. He worked as Thomas Chalmers’ private secretary.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Eliza Johnston on 18th October, 1848, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. She was the daughter of John Johnston, parish minister, and Elizabeth Home. For John Johnston see FES, Vol.1, p.187. David Purves, a Free Church minister, married Charlotte Johnston a sister of Eliza Johnston.

(2) Christina Gillies Hill on 27th November, 1855, in Stirling. She was born about 1829 in Stirling, the daughter of Robert Hill, writer, and Janet Brown. She was the brother of Ebenezer Brown Hill, a Free Church minister.

Ministry
He received a call from Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty, but he chose elsewhere and on 20th July, 1848, he was ordained to Larbert, Stirlingshire. He was for a time a Trustee of Drummond’s Stirling Tract Enterprise. Peter G. Balfour was ordained there as his colleague and successor on 24th September, 1891.

Death
He retired in May, 1891, and settled in Edinburgh where he died on 7th December, 1893. He was buried on 9th December in the Free Church graveyard, Larbert. His first wife died in 1853. His second wife died in 1887 in Larbert, Stirlingshire.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) Duncan Macpherson born on 23rd September, 1849, in Larbert, Stirlingshire.

(2) Eliza Home Macpherson born on 1st May, 1851, in Larbert, Stirlingshire. She married John Baillie MacGregor in 1883 in Larbert, Stirlingshire.

(3) Charlotte Finlay Macpherson baptized on 10th June, 1853, in Larbert, Stirlingshire. She died at the Free Church Manse, Larbert, on 18th May, 1862.

And by his second wife:

(4) Robert Hill Macpherson 25 August, 1856, in Larbert Stirlingshire. He died in 1909 in Athelstaneford, East Lothian.

(5) Jessie Brown Macpherson born on 14th November, 1857, in Larbert Stirlingshire.

(6) Finlay George Macpherson born on 27th February, 1859, in Larbert, Stirlingshire. He married Jean Rollo Vost in 1883 in St Andrew, Edinburgh. In 1901 he was secretary of a Life Association.

(7) Margaret Mc Pherson born on 1st December, 1860, in Larbert, Stirlingshire. She died there on 8th November, 1885.

(8) Alexander Hill Macpherson born on 13th January 1863, in Larbert Stirlingshire. He was a medical doctor: L.R.C.P. & S. Ed.

(9) Dougal Macpherson born on 21st June, 1865, in Larbert Stirlingshire.

(10) John Hill Macpherson born on 18th February, 1867, in Larbert, Stirlingshire.

(11) Norman Macgrigor Macpherson born on 22nd August, 1872, in Larbert Stirlingshire. He married Adeline Jane Buchanan Craig. He was an Edinburgh solicitor and was knighted by the King on Friday, 13th June, 1930. He died in 1947.

(11) Ebenezer Brown Hill Macpherson born on 16th August, 1869, in Larbert Stirlingshire. He became a Free Church minister.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Finlay MacPherson

Sources
Mytrees; The London Gazette, 20th June, 1930; Issue 33617; Page 3874; The Transactions: Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXIX: 1909-1910, p.145; Onegreatfamily; The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 22nd May, 1862; Glasgow Herald, 11th December, 1893

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MACPHERSON, JAMES MARTIN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born in the parish of Insh, Inverness-shire, 1823. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. After licence Mr. MacPherson laboured for a short time in North Knapdale and Islay. Ordained, 1853, at Killean, Argyllshire. Married Ann Cunningham. Died, 1888.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 29th April, 1823, in Kingussie, Inverness-shire, the son of James McPherson, farmer, and Ann Martin. Through his mother he was related to Alexander Duff.

Education
He taught a school in Muthill, Perthshire, prior to commencing his studies in St Andrews University, Fife, though there is no trace of him in the records there. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1846-50.

Marriage
He married Ann Miller Cunningham in July, 1844, the marriage being recorded on the 7th in Muthill, Perthshire, and on the 12th in Abdie, Fife. She was born on 16th and baptized on 28th July, 1815, in Abdie, Fife, the daughter of James Cunningham, farmer, and Janet Miller.

Ministry
He was licensed in 1851. In the Free Church, he served in Killean, Argyll.

Death
He died on 4th October, 1888, at the Free Church Manse, Killean, Argyll (Registration: 1888 519/ 15 Killean and Kilchenzie). His wife died in 1856 according to his obituary, but her death is registered (SP) in 1859 in Killean, Argyllshire, and she died on 26th July, that year. He was survived by two daughters, married and residing abroad.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Jessie (Janet) Miller MacPherson born on 29th August and baptized on 15th September, 1845, in Abdie, Fife, according to the census and in Muthill, Perthshire, according to OPR. She married Duncan McGill Mathieson on 4th September, 1873, in Killean, Argyll. She died on 9th March, 1892, in Springfield, Canterbury, New Zealand.

(2) Ann Eliza Cunningham MacPherson born on 3rd and baptized on 8th August, 1852, in Abernethy, Perthshire. She married Duncan MacMillan in 1877 in New Zealand.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James M. McPherson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 31/8/1889, F.C. Clergyman, United Parish of Killean and Kilkenzie, d. 04/10/1888 at F.C. Manse, Killean, intestate, Dunoon Sheriff Court, NRS SC51/32/38

Sources
Clark

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MACPHERSON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born at Strontian, 1796. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained, 1837, at the Gaelic Church, Rothesay. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1843.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, Rothesay, FES, Vol.4, p.43. In the Free Church, he served in Gaelic, Chapelhall, Rothesay, Bute.

Family
He was perhaps related to Allan MacPherson.

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MACPHERSON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born, 1812. Ordained at Lairg, 1845. Married, 1857, Georgina R. M. R. Campbell. Died, 1885.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1812 in Laggan, Inverness-shire, the son of Graham MacPherson, farmer, and Ann Stewart.

Marriage
He married Georgina Campbell on 23rd April, 1857, at the Free Church Manse, Kiltearn, Ross and Cromarty (Registration: 1857 070/ 5 Kiltearn). She was born on 26th June, 1836, in Kiltearn, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of Duncan Campbell, Free Church minister, and Margaret MacDonald.

For family connections, see the Bayne Tree.

Ministry
“John MacPherson, Laggan” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was ordained in Lairg, Sutherland, on 2nd December, 1845, as colleague and successor to Duncan MacGillivray.

Death
He died on 11th March, 1885, in Lairg, Sutherland. His wife died there in 1877.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Margaret MacDonald MacPherson born on 25th June, 1858, in Lairg, Sutherland.

(2) John Graham MacPherson born on 8th September, 1860, in Lairg, Sutherland. He emigrated to Australia and lived at one stage at Red hill, Boorowa, New South Wales, where he was a J.P. He died there on 6th November, 1933.

(3) Duncan Campbell MacPherson born on 5th April, 1862, in St Giles, Edinburgh. He died on 15th November, 1935, in Liverpool, New South Wales.

(4) James Simpson MacPherson born on 14th October 1863, in Lairg, Sutherland. He studied at Edinburgh University and graduated as a medical doctor. He was for 10 years in British East Africa. He married the daughter of Mr Nathan Thornley and their daughter Mary was born to them in Borneo. His first wife died; he married again – May Elizabeth Flora – and lived in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He was a Major with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in WW1. He returned to Britain but emigrated to Australia in 1926. He died in 1935 at his home: Keston Avenue, Mosman, New South Wales.

(5) Ann Stuart MacPherson born on 8th October, 1865, in Lairg, Sutherland. In 1911 she was living in Poole, Dorset, England. She may have died in 1946 in Upton, Worcestershire, England.

(6) Eleanor Rose MacPherson born on 4th December, 1866, in Lairg, Sutherland. She died in 1867 in Kiltearn, Ross and Cromarty.

(7) Georgina Mary MacPherson born on 18th October, 1868, in Lairg, Sutherland. She died in the 4th quarter of 1955 in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.

(7) Elizabeth Catherine MacPherson born on 26th March 1871, in Lairg, Sutherland.

(8) David Campbell MacPherson born on 20th September, 1873, in Lairg, Sutherland. He enlisted with the Australian Imperial Forces in WW1 and died on 27th April, 1915, in Gallipoli. Previously he had served for 12 years with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 91st/93rd.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 1st May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/205
A Philological System Delineated; or, the Japhetic Languages Derived from the Hebrew, Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter, and Co., 1859

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 29/10/1885, F.C. Minister, Lairg, d. 11/03/1885 at Lairg aforesaid, intestate, Dornoch Sheriff Court, NRS SC9/36/7

Sources
The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria) 6th September, 1919; Canadiangreatwarproject; The Sydney Morning Herald (New South Wales), 3rd June, 1935; The Sydney Morning Herald, 8th November, 1933

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MACPHERSON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born at Cullen, Banffshire, 1827. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Dundee, Hilltown, 1859.

Publications.—The Christian Hero. Life of Duncan Matheson. Revival and Revival Work. A Devoted Life, etc.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Cullen, Banffshire, on 23rd August, 1827, and baptized on 15th September, 1827, the son of Donald McPherson, road contractor, and Christian Fraser. His sister, Isabella MacPherson, married James Anderson Simpson, a Free Church minister. He matriculated in King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1844.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Hilltown, Dundee. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.384). He retired in 1904.

Death
He died in Dundee on 3rd February, 1915, and was buried in the Eastern Cemetery there (Findagrave).

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macpherson John 4 / 3 / 1915 Revd., Minister of Hilltown U.F. Church, Dundee, Albyn Villas, 32 Forfar Road Dundee, d. 03/02/1915 at Dundee, Testate. Dundee Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC45/34/29

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MACPHERSON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born in the island of Barra, 1830. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Lochalsh, 1862. Married, the same year, Harriet MacLean; and, 1874, Margaret S. MacLean. Translated to Cawdor, 1876. Died, 1884.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1830 in Barra, Inverness-shire, the son of John MacPherson, gardner, and Catherine McLeod. His youth was spent in the islands of Harris and Skye, Inverness-shire, and of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

Education
He worked as a clerk and then at a trade before matriculating in Glasgow University in 1852; he studied in the Free Church College, Glasgow, from 1858.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Harriet Maclean on 10th July, 1862, at the bride’s home, 28 Arlington Street, Glasgow (Registration: 1862 644/7 134 Milton). She was baptized on 1st September, 1833, in Kilchoman, Isle of Islay, Argyll, the daughter of Norman Maclean, parochial school-master, and Agnes McGilvray.

(2) Margaret Stewart Maclean on 21st January, 1874, at 6 Howe Street, Edinburgh. She was baptized on 8th October, 1851, in Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyll, the daughter of Peter Maclean, a Free Church minister, and Flora Campbell.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Islay in 1860. He was ordained in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty, on 27th February, 1862; and was translated to Cawdor, Nairnshire, in 1876, as colleague and successor to Simon F. MacLauchlan, who died in 1881. He translated religious works into Gaelic.

Death
He took ill on a Saturday evening while revising two sermons for the next day and died within two hours – on 29th March, 1884, in the Free Church Manse, Cawdor, Nairnshire. Margaret Stewart MacPherson or Maclean died in 1912 in Inverness.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) Norman Maclean MacPherson born about 14th June, 1863, in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty.

(2) John MacPherson born on 18th March, 1865, in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty.

(3) Agnes Joanna MacPherson born on 30th September, 1867, in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty.

And by his second wife:

(4) Peter Maclean MacPherson born on 31st October, 1874, in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty. He died there the following year.

(5) Donald James MacPherson born in 1877 in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty. He died on 3rd January, 1903, in Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyll.

(6) Flora MacPherson born in 1878 in Cawdor, Nairnshire.

(7) Catherine Ann MacPherson born in 1879 in Cawdor, Nairnshire.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John MacPherson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 4/8/1884 Minister, Free Church, Cawdor, d. 29/03/1884 at Cawdor, testate, Nairn Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC31/35/2; Will, Nairn Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC31/34/2

Sources
Archiver; The Dundee Courier & Argus (Dundee, Scotland), Saturday, January 24, 1874

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MACPHERSON, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born at Greenock, 1847. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kinloss, 1878. Married, 1898, Margaret Bowie.

Publications.—In addition to handbooks on the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Sum of Saving Knowledge, Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians. Christian Dogmatics. A Bible Dictionary, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kinloss, Moray. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.470, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1900 and died in 1902.

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MACPHERSON, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born in Perthshire. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, 1898. [His name is John B. according to Vol. 2]

Supplementary Information
John Bisset McPherson

Background
He was born in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, on 24th August, 1869, the son of Angus McPherson, draper, and Catherine MacLaren. His father died in1880, and by the following year, his mother was in business in Edinburgh as a draper and grocer. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1890-1892.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.143).

Death
He died in Hillhead, Glasgow, on 28th June, 1927, and was buried in Kilmaurs Cemetery (Findagrave).

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MACPHERSON, NORMAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.256
Born in North Uist, 1847. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Yetholm, 1878. Married, 1879, Isabella Finlayson. Translated to Glasgow, Trinity, 1895.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Yetholm, Roxburghshire; and Trinity, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.256). He resigned in 1914. Thereafter he served in Lochfyneside from 1919 (FUFC, p.284, where a short biography is given). He died in 1925.

Family
His son, James Neil MacPherson, was a minister of the United Free Church: Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.264.

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MACPHERSON, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born in Perthshire, 1854. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Paisley, Gaelic, 1888. Married, 1893, Margaret R. Baillie.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, on 22nd October, 1855, the son of John McPherson and Catherine McEwan.

Marriage
He married Margaret Russell Baillie in Tradeston, Glasgow, in 1893. She was born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, on 8th October, 1862, the daughter of William Baillie and Halket Forrest Russell.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Gaelic, Paisley, Renfrewshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.169).

Death
He died in Paisley on 23rd November, 1926, and was buried in Woodside Cemetery and Crematorium there. His wife died there on 25th December, 1920.

Family
They had issue in Paisley, including:
(1) Halketta Baillie McPherson born in 1894. She died in Dunoon, Argyllshire, in 1969.

(2) Ian McPherson born in 1895. He died there the following year.

(3) Catherine Fern McPherson born in 1896. She died in Partick, Glasgow, in 1953.

(4) William Baillie McPherson born in 1898. He served in the Royal Flying Corp. (AirHistory). He was engaged to Daisy Eleanor Smout but she died before they could be married (Mill Road Cemetery). He married Margaret Philip Gray in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 1929. He died in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, in 1970.

(5) Alastair Menzies McPherson born in 1900. He died there the following year.

(6) Robert Baillie McPherson born in 1902. He died there the following year.

(7) Margaret Baillie McPherson born in 1903. She died in Dunoon, Argyllshire, in 1969.

(8) Stephen Hugh McPherson born in 1905. He died there the following year.

(9) Bessie Cameron McPherson born in 1907. She died there that year.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macpherson or Baillie, Margaret Russell 30 / 3 / 1922 Resided at Gaelic U.F. Manse, Calside W., Paisley, d. 25/12/1920 at Paisley, Intestate. Paisley Sheriff Court NRS SC58/42/96

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MACPHERSON, WILLIAM, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born at Aberchirder, 1855. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at North Ronaldshay, 1891. Married, 1892, Jessie Ingram.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Ronaldshay – North, Orkney. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.515). Thereafter he served in Kintore from 1903 (FUFC, p.436, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1929 and died in 1933.

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M’PHERSON, LEWIS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born at Kingussie, 1858. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Fearn, 1890. Married, 1892, Katherine Fraser.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born at Kingussie, Inverness-shire, on 28th December, 1858, the son of John MacPherson and Anne Collie.

Marriage
He married Katherine Fraser in Logie, Perthshire, in 1890. She was born in Tain, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of John Fraser and Margaret Gallie.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Fearn, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.483). Thereafter he served in Stanley from 1909 (FUFC, p.338).

Death
He died at Stanley, Perthshire, on 29th March, 1923. His wife died in Tain in 1933.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macpherson Lewis 18 / 5 / 1923 Rev. U.F. Church Manse, Stanley, d. 29/03/1923 at Stanley, Testate. Perth Sheriff Court NRS SC49/31/239; Perth Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC49/32/34

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MACQUEEN, ANDREW, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born at Glasserton, Wigtownshire, 1843. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1875, at Holburn, Aberdeen. Married, the same year, Isabella Milroy.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1867, Couper, The R.P. Church, p.169. In the Free Church, he served in Holburn, Aberdeen. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.414, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1915 and died in 1924.

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MACQUEEN, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born at Uig, Skye, 1814. Studied at the New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Strontian, 1853. Translated to Daviot, 1867. Married, 1841, Ann M’Innes; and, 1880, Elizabeth MacPhail. Died, 1891.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1814 in Snizort, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, the son of Murdo McQueen, farmer, and Mary Fraser.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1847-51. In 1841 he was a teacher in Kilfinichen, Isle of Mull, Argyll. In 1851 he was the Free Church school master in Kilmodan, Argyll.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Ann McInnes. She was born about 1818 in Snizort, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, the daughter of John McInnes, farmer, and Isabella McNeil.

(2) Elizabeth MacPhail on 16th September, 1880, at Laird House, Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty (Registration: 1880 065/ 5 Fodderty). She was baptized on 23rd January, 1833, in Daviot and Dunlichity, Inverness-shire, the daughter of Angus MacPhail, farmer, and Janet Fraser.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Dunoon and Inveraray in 1851. He was ordained in Strontian, Argyll, in 1853; and translated to Daviot, Inverness-shire, on 14th March, 1867.

Death
He died on 7th May, 1891, in Inverness. Ann McInnes or MacQueen died on 14th October, 1878, at the Free Church Manse, Daviot, Inverness-shire (Registration: 095/ 16 Daviot and Dunlichity). Elizabeth MacPhail or MacQueen died in Daviot in 1886.

Family
He had issue by his first wife including:

(1) Catherine Fraser MacQueen born about 1842 in Kilfinichen, Isle of Mull, Argyll. She married Edwin Feist in 1868 in Masterton, New Zealand. She died in 1906 in New Zealand.

(2) Margaret MacQueen born about 1843 in Kilfinichen, Isle of Mull, Argyll. She married Hector Cameron, a Free Church minister, in 1872 in Anderston, Glasgow. She died in 1915 in Kiltearn, Ross and Cromarty.

(3) John MacQueen born about 1845 in Snizort, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire.

(4) Murdoch MacQueen born about 1848 in Kilfinichen, Isle of Mull, Argyll. He became a Free Church minister.

(5) Adam MacQueen in 1850 in Kilfinichen, Isle of Mull, Argyll. He married Jeanie King Russell on January 30th, 1879, in Dalziel, Lanarkshire. He is said to have been a solicitor in Glasgow but he seems to have resided throughout in Dalziel. He died in 1908 in Dalziel, Lanarkhire.

(6) Thomas MacQueen born on 19th January, 1855, in Acharacle, Argyll. It is said that he was a Free Church minister and that he died in Campbeltown, Argyll, in 1882. There is indeed a Thomas Riddell MacQueen dying there in that year. There was however no Free Church minister of that name. He perhaps was just a probationer of the Free Church.

(7) John Malcolm MacQueen born on 4th October, 1856, in Acharacle, Argyll. He married Margaret Cameron. He died on 22nd January, 1913, in Louth Cobar, New South Wales.

(8) Jane Crawford MacQueen born on 15th January, 1859, in Acharacle, Argyll. She married Donald Mackenzie, a farmer, in 1906 in Inverness. She died in 1953 in Kiltearn, Ross and Cromarty..

Publication – by him
Papers of the Family of Mackintosh of Mackintosh: Letter to The Mackintosh [McIntosh] from Rev John Macqueen [McQueen] regretting that he does not know if Mr Simpson [Rev D M Simpson?] speaks Gaelic, 7/6/1872, NRS GD176/2305

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John MacQueen, Daviot

Sources
Rootschat; Rootschat.com; Boards

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MACQUEEN, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born at Braemar, 1824. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen, New College, Edinburgh, and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Kirkmichael (Banffshire), 1855. Married, 1856, Ann M. Tulloch. Died. 1880.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 25th September and baptized on 14th October, 1824, in Crathie and Braemar, Aberdeenshire, the son of William MacQueen, schoolmaster, and Henrietta Leslie. He was the brother of Richard Rose MacQueen, a Free Church minister.

Education
He entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1846 and graduated M.A. in March, 1850. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1852-54.

Marriage
He married Ann Margaret Tulloch in 1856 in Auchbreck, Banffshire. His wife was born on 15th December, 1835, and baptized on 4th February, 1836, in Kirkmichael, Banffshire, the daughter of Alexander Tulloch, then parish minister there, and Katharine Stuart.

Ministry
He was licensed in 1855 and was ordained the following year in Kirkmichael, Banffshire, as colleague and successor to Alexander Tulloch, who died later that year.

Death
He died on 18th April, 1880, at the Free Church Manse, Kirkmichael, Banffshire. Ann Margaret Tulloch or MacQueen died in 1884 in Killearnan, Ross and Cromarty.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Alexander Tulloch McQueen born on 12th August, 1857, in Kirkmichael, Banffshire. He married Julia Sim Cowan in Elgin, Moray, in 1888. He died in 1914 in Forres, Moray.

(2) Henrietta Edith Leslie MacQueen born on 6th June, 1863, in Kirkmichael, Banffshire. She married William Cowan in 1891 in St George, Edinburgh. She died in 1947 in Dirleton, East Lothian.

(3) Katharine Stuart MacQueen born on 24th May, 1866, in Kirkmichael, Banffshire. She died in the 4th quarter of 1917 in Hampstead, London, England.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John MacQueen
Inventories, Wills, etc.:21/7/1880, Minister, Free Church, Kirkmichael, County of Banff, d. 18/04/1880 at Free Manse, Kirkmichael, testate, Banff Sheriff Court, NRS SC2/40/31

Source
Boards

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MACQUEEN, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born at Coatbridge, 1840. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Johnstone and Wamphray, 1870. Translated to Kilmarnock, St. Andrew’s, 1877; and to Campbeltown, Lochend, 1883.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Johnstone and Wamphray, Dumfries-shire; St. Andrew’s, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire; and Lochend, Campbeltown, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.287, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1910 and died in 1916.

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MACQUEEN, MURDOCH

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born in Mull, 1848. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Tarbert, 1876. Translated to Kiltearn, 1884. Mr. Macqueen remained outside the Union of 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1848 in Kilfinichen, Isle of Mull, Argyll, the son of John MacQueen, later to become a Free Church minister, and Ann McInnes.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1869-73.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 25th June, 1873. He was ordained in Tarbert, Argyll, in 1876; and translated to Kiltearn, Ross and Cromarty. He remained in the Free Church at the Union of 1900.

Death
He died on 2nd January, 1912, in his home: the Free Church Manse, Kiltearn, Ross and Cromarty, apparently by his own hand. He was buried in Kiltearn burying ground on 5th January.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 6/3/1912, Free Church of Kiltearn, Evanton, d. 02/01/1912 at Kiltearn, Evanton, intestate, Dingwall Sheriff Court, NRS SC25/44/27

Sources
Rootschat; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 4th January, 1912, p.10

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MACQUEEN, RICHARD ROSE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born at Braemar, 1833. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Westport, Hawick, 1869. Married, 1870, Margaret Phillips. Translated, 1872, to a home mission charge in Dundee; and, 1875, to Knockando.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in West Port, Hawick, Roxburghshire; and Knockando, Moray. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.465, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1899 and died in 1915.

Family
His brother John MacQueen was a Free Church minister.

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MACRAE, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born at Stornoway, 1839. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1857, at Kilcalmonell. [Vol. 2 says 1875.] Married, 1877, Annie MacRae.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, on 25th March, 1839, the son of Alexander MacRae, gardener Lewis Castle, and Mary MacRae. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1867-1871.

Marriage
He married Annie MacRae in Greenock, Renfrewshire, in 1877. She was born in Knockbain, Ross and Cromarty, on 4th October, 1844, the daughter of John McRae, a Free Church minister, and Penelope Mackenzie.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilcalmonell, Argyll. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.288). He became senior minister in 1908.

Death
He died at Edinburgh on 2nd February, 1919. His wife died in Morningside, Edinburgh, on 14th February that year.

Family
They had issue in Kilcalmonell. For this family see DesignRoots:
(1) John MacRae born in 1878. He married Olive Moir Hately in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1920. She was the sister of Agnes Isobel Hately who married John’s brother Duncan Graham. John was a minister of the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church, p.350).

(2) Alexander MacRae born in 1879. He married Louisa Isabella Ruth Bryce. He became a Doctor of Medicine and was an Ophthalmic Surgeon and frequently traveled abroad.

(3) Ebenezer James MacRae born in 1881. He married Dorothy Craigie in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1922. He was an architect. He died in Newington, Edinburgh, in 1951. For an account of his life, see Ebenezer James MacRae.

(4) Duncan Graham MacRae born in 1885. He married Agnes Isobel Hately in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1919 and died there the following year. He was then an engineering student.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macrae Alexander 14 / 6 / 1919 Rev. Kintyre, afterwards 3 Hartington Gardens, Edinburgh, d. 02/02/1919 at Edinburgh, Testate. Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories NRS SC70/1/63 Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC70/4/523
Macrae Annie 16 / 1 / 1920 3 Hartington Gardens, Edinburgh, Widow, d. 14/02/1919 At Edinburgh, Testate. Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories Sc70/1/642; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills NRS SC70/4/531

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MACRAE, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born at Kinlochbervie, Sutherlandshire, 1865. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Partick, Gaelic, 1898. Married Annie Victoria Waters.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Gaelic, Partick, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.238). Thereafter he served in Creich from 1903 (FUFC, p.499); in Tarbert, Lochfyne, from 1910 (FUFC, p.285); in Rattray from 1918 (FUFC, p.326); and in Tongue from 1926 (FUFC, p.504, where a short biography is given).

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MACRAE, DUNCAN MACKENZIE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.257
Born in Ross-shire, 1847. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Helmsdale, 1878. Translated to Balquhidder (Lochearnhead), 1886. Married, 1890, Jane C. Watters.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Helmsdale, Sutherland; and Balquhidder, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.305, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1912 and died in 1935.

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MACRAE, FINLAY

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born at Applecross, 1857. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Knockbain, West, 1890.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 2nd November, 1857, in Applecross, the son of Norman MacRae and Margaret MacNair.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth MacLennan in 1930 in Rosskeen, Ross and Cromarty. She was born in 1891 in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of Alexander MacLennan, master mariner, and Eliza Mackay. She was the sister of John Mackay MacLennan, a Free Church minister.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Knockbain, West, Ross and Cromarty. He remained in the Free Church at the Union of 1900. He was called to Poolewe and Aultbea, Ross and Cromarty, but the Assembly of 1909 agreed that he should remain in Knockbain. He was translated to Plockton, Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty on 16th August, 1911. Thereafter he was translated to Glenshiel, Ross and Cromarty. He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1914.

Death
He died in April, 1939, in Glenshiel, Ross and Cromarty. His wife died in 1968 in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty.

Source
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 21st May, 1909, p.11

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MACRAE, KENNETH

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born in Ross shire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Glenshiel, Ross-shire, 1898. Mr. MacRae remained outside the Union of 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1852 in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty, the son of Donald McRae, farmer, and Catherine Matheson.

Marriage
He married Christina Macleod on 24th December, 1918, at Plockton, Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty (Registration: 1918 074/ 3 Lochalsh). She was born about 1870, the daughter of James Macleod, joiner, and Mary MacDougall. At the time of her marriage she was resident at 210 Berkeley Street, Glasgow.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Glenshiel, Ross and Cromarty. He remained in the Free Church at the Union of 1900. He was inducted to Fort Augustus and Glenmoriston, Inverness-shire, on 22nd December, 1909; and to Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty, on 14th July, 1915.

Death
He died on 10th October, 1928, in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty.

Family
They had three children.

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MACRAE, RODERICK

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born at Lochcarron, 1835. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Carloway, Lewis, 1876.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Lochcarron, Ross and Cromerty, on 24th March, 1834, the son of Ewen MacRae, lotter, and Isabel Murchison.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.495). He retired in 1902.

Death
He died in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1916.

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M’RAE, ANGUS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born at Kintail, 1827. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Glenurquhart, 1866. Married, 1878, Mary Grant. Died, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1827 in Kintail, Ross and Cromarty. He was the son of John McRae, farmer, and Christy Mackay.

Education
He attended school there in Dornie, and later in the Free Church Institution, Inverness. He briefly taught a school in Buntoit, Glenurquhart, and more regularly in Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1856-60.

Marriage
He married May Grant on 23rd April, 1878, at the bride’s home, Gallonie (?), Duthil, Inverness-shire (Registration: 1878 096/B1 1 Duthil). She was born on 22nd February, 1844, in Grantown, Moray, the daughter of Alexander Grant, farmer, and Jane Allan.

Ministry
He was ordained in Glenurquhart, Inverness-shire, on 12th September, 1866.

Death
He died in Urquhart, Inverness-shire, on 15th February, 1892. After his death, his widow became matron of the Dalry Reformatory for Girls, which was located at first in Edinburgh and then in Loanhead, Midlothian. She served there from November, 1897, till 4th December, 1906; and for a few months from October, 1910. She then retired to Grantown, Moray, and died in August, 1927, in Inverallan, Moray.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Angus McRae

Source
Edinburgh Reformatory for Girls

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M’RAE, DONALD, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born in the parish of Lochcarron, 1800. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. After graduating he became schoolmaster at Applecross. Ordained, 1829, as missionary in Benbecula and Carinish. Translated, 1830, to Poolewe. Married, 1834, Jessie Russell. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. After the Disruption Mr. M’Rae became minister of Tarbert, Lochfyne; and, 1845, of Kilmory, Arran. Died, 1868.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1829, Benbecula, FES, Vol.7, p.187; 1830, Poolewe, FES, Vol.7, p.163. In the Free Church, he served in Poolewe, Ross and Cromarty; Tarbert, Argyll; and Kilmory, Isle of Arran, Bute.

Family
His wife was Jessie Russell, daughter of James Russell, minister in Gairloch. For her connections, see the tree of Alexander Fraser, Inverness.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, September, 1836, Gairloch, Vol.14, Ross, p.90
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 16th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/176 ; Sites, 2nd June, 1846, NRS GD112/51/219

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Donald McRae
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 22/10/1868, minister of the Free Church in Kilmory, Arran, Inventory; Last Will and Testament; Confirmed Testament Testamentar, Rothesay Sheriff Court, NRS SC8/35/1
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macrae or Russell, Jessie, 21/3/1884, of Broomieknowe House, Bonnyrigg, widow of Rev. Donald Macrae, Kilmorie, Arran, d. 18/12/1883 at Broomieknowe House, aforesaid, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/231; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/205; 13/6/1884, First Eik, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/232
26th August, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.204 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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M’RAE, DONALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born near Inverness, 1802. He became teacher in the parish of Knock, Lewis. While there he carried on evangelistic work. Signed the Probationers’ Resolutions, 1843. Ordained at Cross, 1844. Married, 1842, Ann Matheson. Died, 1876.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1802 in Kintail, Ross and Cromarty, the son of Murdoch McRae. He became a teacher in the parish of Knock, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

Marriage
He married Ann Matheson. She was born about 1816 in Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty.

Ministry
“Donald MacRae, Carloway, Stornoway” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. In the Free Church, he served in Cross or Ness, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

Death
He died on 15th November, 1876, in Cross, Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Flora Ann McRae baptized on 20th September, 1844, in Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. She died on 26th July, 1906, at Linlithgow, West Lothian. She was buried on 28th July at Craigton Cemetery, Glasgow.

(2) Mary Stewart Mckenzie McRae baptized on 13th November, 1846, in Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(3) John McRae baptized on 23rd July, 1848, in Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(4) Murdo McRae baptized on 13th September, 1850, in Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(5) Donald Fraser McRae baptized on 1st August, 1852, in Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(6) Lillingston McRae baptized on 25th August, 1854, in Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(7) Jane McRae born on 26th November, 1856,in Barvas, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

Publication – by him
Seaforth Papers: Papers relating to churches and schools: Letter by Donald McRae, Stornoway, to the Hon Mrs Stewart Mackenzie of Seaforth, narrating his call to the Free Church at Ness and requesting the use of a dwelling there as a manse, 23 Jan 1844, NRS GD46/12/47

Publication – about him
Notice in Obituaries section: Donald MacRae

Source
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 27th July, 1906, p.10

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M’RAE, FARQUHAR

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born at Kintail, 1805. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. Licensed by the Presbytery of Lochcarron, 1829, while parish teacher there. Ordained at South Uist, 1833. Translated, 1841, to Braemar. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1853, to Knockbain. Married, 1859, Ann Murray. Became senior minister, 1879. Died, 1882. [Vol. 2 says he finished there in 1883.]

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1833, Braemar, FES, Vol.6, p.86. In the Free Church, he served in Braemar, Aberdeenshire; and Knockbain, Munlochy, Ross and Cromarty.

Publications – by him
Correspondence between Rev. Farquhar McRae, Presbyterian Clergyman, and Rev. John S. McCorry, Catholic Priest, Aberdeen, John Finlayson, 1843
He contributed to the Disruption Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 607; 793 and 798. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
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; Sites, 4th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/205

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Farquhar MacRae
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 2/2/1883, Minister of the Free Church at Knocklam, Testament, Nairn Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC31/34/1; 3/2/1883, residing at Woodcliff Villa, Nairn, d. 19/10/1882 at Woodcliff Villa aforesaid, testate, Nairn Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC31/35/2
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacRae or Murray, Ann, 27/10/1883, Woodcliff Villa, Nairn, widow of Rev. Farquhar M’Rae, Senior Minister, Free Church, Knockbain, d. 07/08/1883 at Woodcliff Villa aforesaid, testate, Nairn Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC31/35/2; Will, Nairn Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC31/34/2

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M’RAE, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born at Lochalsh, 1794. Became teacher of a school at Glenelg, and studied at the Universities, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Ordained, 1833, at Ness (Lewis). Married, the same year, Penelope MacRae. Translated, 1839, to Knockbain. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1849, to Greenock, Gaelic; 1857, to Lochs (Lewis); and, 1864, to Carloway. Resigned, 1871. Died, 1876.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1839, Knockbain, FES, Vol.7, p.16. In the Free Church, he served in Knockbain, Munlochy, Ross and Cromarty; Gaelic, Greenock, Renfrewshire; Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

Family
His daughter Jane McRae married Donald MacMaster, a Free Church minister. His daughter Anne McRae married Alexander MacRae, a Free Church minister.

Publication – by him
He gave evidence before the Committee on Sites (Scotland) – see the Report of this Committee from Question 4240 on p.10 and from Question 4988 on p.46 of Third Report

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on tshis web-site: John McRae
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 13/1/1877, Minister, 26 Brisbane Street, Greenock, d. 10/10/1876 at Greenock, intestate, Paisley Sheriff Court, NRS SC58/42/44
An t-urramach Iain Mac-Rath (“Mac-Rath Mor”), a bha ann an leodhas beagan iomraidh m’ a bheatha agus criomagan de ‘theagasg, Nicol Nicolson, Inverness, G. Young, 1894
The Reverend John MacRae of Knockbain, Greenock, and Lewis, a short account of his life and fragments of his preaching [Translated from Gaelic], Nicol Nicolson, Inverness, Young, 1895

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M’RAE, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born at Glenshiel, 1823. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1869, at Carinish, Outer Hebrides. Translated to Du[i]rinish, Skye, 1871. [Vol. 2, under Carinish, says he moved from there in 1873.] Died, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in 1823 in Letterfern, Glenshiel, Ross and Cromarty, the son of Alexander McRae, crofter, and Mary MacRae.

Education
He attended school in Glenshiel and in Inverness. He taught in Lochalsh, Applecross and Lochbroom, Ross and Cromarty, for some years, before, in 1860, beginning his studies at Edinburgh University. He finished his studies in Glasgow University in 1864 and studied in the Free Church College there from 1865-69.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Skye and Uist in 1869 and then ordained as first minister of the Carinish congregation, North Uist, Inverness-shire. He was translated to Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire in 1871.

Death
He retired to his native parish – Glenshiel, Ross and Cromarty – and died there – at Gaster Achnatud (?) – on 5th January, 1900.

Family
He never married.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John McRae
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 29/6/1900, sometime F.C. Minister, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, thereafter residing at Letterfearn, Lochduich, Parish of Glenshiel, d. 05/01/1900 at Letterfearn aforesaid, testate, Dingwall Sheriff Court, NRS SC25/44/21

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M’RAE, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born in Ross-shire, 1856. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Aberfeldy, 1884. Married, 1887, Catherine C. Mackerchar.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Aberfeldy, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.317, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1927 and died in 1936.

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M’RAE, JOHN FARQUHAR

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.258
Born at Kilmory, 1852. Son of Rev. D. M’Rae. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh, and at Erlangen. Ordained at Cockpen, 1877. Married, 1883, Berta C.L. Learmonth. Translated, 1884, to St. Andrews; and, 1891, to Toorak, Melbourne.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1852 in Kilmory, Isle of Arran, Bute. He was the son of Donald McRae, Free Church minister, and his wife Jessie Russell. See the tree of Alexander Fraser, Inverness, for some family connections.

Education
Family records say that he studied at Trinity College, Glasgow, and completed his studied at the New College, Edinburgh. According to the records of New College, Edinburgh, he enrolled there 1886-88 – which certainly doesn’t make sense. I can only suggest that he is the Farquhar McRae who enrolled in New College, 1872-76.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Bertha Christian Livingstone Learmonth in 1883 in Muiravonside, Stirlingshire. She was born in 1863 near Ballarat, Victoria, the daughter of Thomas Livingstone Learmonth and Louisa Valiant.

(2) Jean Murray Calvert in 1903 in Victoria. She was born in 1880, the daughter of Robert Calvert and Maria Stodart Murray.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, on 25th October, 1876. He served as a probationer in Cupar, Fife. He was called to Cockpen, Midlothian, on 19th March, 1877, and ordained there shortly thereafter, He was translated to St. Andrews, Fife, on 13th November, 1884, as colleague and successor to John Ainslie. He served there till 1891 though in 1889 he was called to Aberdeen.

He arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, on board the Rimutakaon 8th August, 1891. He travelled on to Melbourne, Victoria, on board the Flora. He served in the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in Toorak from 21st August, 1891, till 27th April, 1914.

Death
He was on the way to see his son in Korea when he was taken ill on board ship and was put ashore at Shanghai, China. He died on 27th April, 1914, and was taken to Australia and buried in Toorak, Victoria. Bertha Learmonth or McRae died on giving birth to her fifth child, on 19th June, 1896, in Toorak, Australia. Jean Calvert or McRae died in 1954.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) Frederick John Learmonth McRae born in 1884 in Cockpen, Midlothian. He studied in Melbourne, Victoria, and Glasgow. He became a missionary of the Victorian Presbyterian Church to Korea. He married Nancy Margaret Hall in Tokyo , Japan, on the 9th January, 1915. He died in 1973.

(2) Norman McRae born on 9th July, 1885, at the Free Church Manse, St Andrews, Fife. He was a Major in the 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion the Royal Engineers and was killed in action in France on 2nd October, 1917.

(3) Ethel McRae born in 1886 in St Andrews, Fife. She died in 1944.

(4) Frances Edith Muriel McRae born in 1889 in St Andrews, Fife. She married a Thomas F. Gilkison, a New Zealander, in the 1st quarter of 1919 in Marylebone, London, England, in 1919. They settled in New Zealand. She died in 1971. Their son Norman Farquhar Gilkison became a minister (PCNZ, Ministers’ Register).

(5) Bertha McRae born in 1896 in Toorak, Victoria. She died in 1902.

And by his second wife:

(6) Ian McRae born in 1905. He died in 2001.

(7) Finlay McRae born in 1908. He died in 2002.

(8) Joan McRae born in 1910. She died in 1968.

(9) Stanley McRae born in 1912. He died in 1940.

(10) Donald McRae born in 1913. He died in 1988.

Sources
Normanmacrae; The Argus (Melbourne, Victoria), 15th October, 1917; Robert Calvert; The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 17th July, 1885; Glasgow Herald, 16th September, 1891

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M’RAE, JOHN R.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born at Gairloch, 1852. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kilmorack, 1890. Married, 1891, Alice Garven.

Supplementary Information
John Ross McRae

Background
He was born in Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty, about 1852.

Marriage
He married Alice Garven in Cathcart, Glasgow, in 1891. She was born on 2nd May, 1853, the daughter of John Garven and Christina Ferguson

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kilmorack (Beauly), Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.480).

Death
He died at Beauly on 12th March, 1918, and was buried in the New Kilmorack Cemetery there (Findagrave). His wife died in Urquhart and Logie Wester on 15th November, 1920.

Family
They had issue, born in Urray, Ross and Cromarty, including:
(1) Christina Margaret MacRae born in 1892. She married Alexander Matheson in Nairn in 1920. She died in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty, in 1975.

(2) Murdo John MacRae born in 1896.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacRae John Ross 25 / 1 / 1919 U.F. Church Manse, Beauly, d. 12/03/1918 at Beauly, Intestate. Dingwall Sheriff Court NRS SC25/44/30
MacRae Alice 21 / 11 / 1922 Mrs Alice Garven, Teanahinch Conon Bridge, d. 15/11/1920 at Conon Bridge, Intestate. Dingwall Sheriff Court NRS SC25/44/32

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MACRITCHIE, MALCOLM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born in the parish of Uig, Lewis, 1803. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at North Knapdale, 1854. Translated to Strathy, 1862; and to Knock, 1869. Married, 1832, Elizabeth Mackay. Died, 1885.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1803 in Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, the son of Malcolm MacRitchie, farmer, and Mary Buchanan. It is recorded that when the first evangelical minister to be settled in Lewis – Alexander Macleod of Uig – came to the Island he was told: “You will find no Christian or hypocrite in the parish of Uig. There is one believer there who is a herd boy, and one only.” That herd boy was Malcolm MacRitchie.

Education
He attended the local parish school. He became a teacher of the Gaelic School Society and later worked under the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge till he was dismissed because of his allegiance to the Free Church. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1849-53.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Mackay. She was born about 1812 in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of Malcolm Mackay, master cooper, and Christian Anderson.

Ministry
He was ordained in North Knapdale, Argyll, in 1854. He was settled in Strathy and Halladale, Sutherland, in 1862. When he was called here, the Free Church Record describes him as a probationer. He was translated to Knock, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, in 1869.

Death
He died on 8th July, 1885, in Bridge of Allan, Logie (Registration: 1885 374/ 54 Logie (Perth)). His wife died on 8th May, 1884, at the Free Church Manse, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty, of gastritis, 6 months (Registration: 1884 088/ 47 Stornoway).

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Mary Ann MacRitchie born about 1834 in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(2) Christina MacRitchie born about 1837 in Knock, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty.

(3) Margaret MacRitchie born about 1838 in Knock, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. She probably married, Thomas Ross Robb: A Thomas R. Robb, brother-in-law, registered the death of Mary Johnston MacRitchie or Macleod, in 1913. He was then living in Cathcart. There was a Thomas R. Robb living in Cathcart in 1911 along with Margaret aged 72. Other censuses show that he was Thomas Ross Robb and that his wife Margaret was born about 1838 in Stornoway. Moreover, a Margaret MacRitchie or Robb died in 1914, in Cathcart, Glasgow, born about 1838.

(4) Mary Johnston MacRitchie born about 1840 in Knock, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. She married Donald Macleod, a Free Church minister, in 1873 in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. She died on 12th December, 1913, at 13 Queen’s Park Avenue, Crosshill, Glasgow.

(5) Eliza MacRitchie born about 1843 in Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. She was the wife of Dugald Mackichan, a Free Church minister.

(6) John M. MacRitchie born about 1848 in Edinburgh.

(7) Jane Borthwick MacRitchie born on 7th June, 1855, in North Knapdale, Argyll. She married Colin Murray in 1877 in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Ross and Cromarty. She is buried in St Andrew’s Scots Cemetery, Calcutta, India.

Publications – by him
Gaelic hymns, Glasgow, William Gilchrist, 1864
Orain na stuaimeachd, air son oigridh leoghais, Edinburgh, 1879

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Malcolm McRitchie

Sources
Macdonald, Kenneth, Social and Religious Life in the Highlands, p.97, R.W. Hunter, Edinburgh, 1902; Kabristan

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M’ROBBIE, WILLIAM, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born at Kincardine O’Neil, 1849. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at New Aberdour, 1875. Married, 1877, Isabella Macfarlane. Translated to Leslie and Premnay, Aberdeenshire, 1878.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in New Aberdour, Aberdeenshire; and Leslie and Premnay, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p. 436, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1921 and died in 1932.

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MACROBERT, JAMES, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born at Glasgow, 1859. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Levenside, Renton, 1886. Married, the same year, Margaret Graham Boyd. Appointed, 1897, to Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Supplementary Information
James Eason MacRobert

Background
He was born on 29th March, 1859, in Bridgeton, Glasgow, the son of John MacRobert, general clerk, and Catherine Patrick.

Marriage
He married Margaret (or Maggie) Graham Boyd on 16th December, 1886, at the bride’s home, 36 Whitevale Street, Glasgow (Registration: 1886 644/2 200 Camlachie). Her birth was registered in High Church, Glasgow, in 1857, the daughter of Joseph Boyd, grocer, and Martha Jane Hanson.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow on 3rd June, 1886. He was elected to Levenside, Renton, Dunbartonshire, on 22nd July, 1886, and he was ordained there on 1st September, 1886. He resigned his charge on 22nd November, 1897. He was minister of Hill Presbyterian Church, Port Elizabeth, from 1897 to 1929.

Death
He died on 4th September, 1948, and was buried in St George’s Park Cemetery, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province. His wife died on 19th January, 1942, and was also buried there.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) John Alfred McRobert born in 1887 in Renton, Dunbartonshire.

(2) George Hanson McRobert born on 11th April, 1889, in Renton, Dunbartonshire. He graduated M.B. from Glasgow University in 1911.

(3) James Eason McRobert born in 1890 in Renton, Dunbartonshire. He died on 6th April, 1904 and was buried in St George’s Park, Cemetery, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province.

(4) William Graham McRobert born in 1895 in Renton, Dunbartonshire. He married. He died and was buried in St George’s Park, Cemetery, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province.

(5) Kenneth MacLean McRobert born November, 1896, in Renton, Dunbartonshire. He died in January, 1966, and was buried in St George’s Park, Cemetery, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province.

(6) Norman Mitchell McRobert born in 1896 in Renton, Dunbartonshire. He died there the following year.

(7) Margaret Elizabeth McRobert born September 1899. She died in October, 1981, and was buried in St George’s Park, Cemetery, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province.

Sources
Minutes of the Free Presbytery of Dumbarton, NRS, CH3/80/2; Eggsa

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MACTAGGART, JAMES CAMERON, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born at Gourock, 1843. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Free Church College, Glasgow; also at Leipzig. Ordained at Isle of Whithorn, 1876.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.122, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1913 and died in 1918.

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MACTAVISH, ALEXANDER STEWART

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born at Doune, 1847. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Morebattle, 1876. Married, 1881, Wilhelmina M. B. Forgan.

Supplementary Information
Alexander Stuart MacTavish

Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Morebattle, Roxburghshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.79, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1907 and died in 1916.

Family
He married Wilhelmina Forgan, sister of John Forgan, a Free Church minister.

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MACTAVISH, JOHN, D.D. (Montreal and Toronto)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born in Jura, 1816. Ordained, 1844, at Ballachulish. Married, 1851, Elizabeth Russell. Translated to Killean, 1851. Resigned, 1852. Volunteered to accompany a band of emigrants from Argyllshire to Canada, 1854. Having returned to this country, he was settled at Inverness, East, 1877. Became senior minister, 1891. At his ministerial jubilee he was the sole survivor of the band of deputies sent by the Free Church to Canada immediately after the Disruption. Died, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 12th June, 1816, in Jura, Argyll, the son of Archibald MacTavish, minister, and Mary Macfarlane. For some family connections, see the MacTavish Tree.

Education
He entered Glasgow University in 1829. He was awarded the D.D. degree in 1887 both by Knox’s College, Toronto, and the Presbyterian College, Montreal.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Russell on 5th August, 1851, in Killean and Kilkenzie, Argyll. She was born about 1826 in Cadder, Lanarkshire.

Ministry
He was licensed in 1838 and as a probationer worked in several parts of Argyll. A “John MacTavish, Brodick, Arran” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was ordained in Ballachulish – North, Inverness-shire, in 1843. He had difficulties over a place of worship. For example, in January, 1844, it was reported that an interdict had been served on him prohibiting the use of a tent, and the assembling of the people on a piece of land belonging to Maclean of Ardgour. In 1845 he served as a Free Church deputy to Canada. He was translated to Killean, Argyll, in 1852. Shortly thereafter he set out with a large group of Argyllshire emigrants to Australia, but because of illness on the ship (the Hercules) he was forced to leave the ship. A year later he went to Canada and served in Beaverton, in Woodville and in Woodstock. In 1877 he visited the Red River Settlement on behalf of his church. In 1864 he was called to the Moderatorial Chair of his church. On his return, he was settled in East, Inverness, in 1877. On 15th June, 1892, Allan Cameron was inducted here as his colleague and successor.

Death
He died on 11th May, 1897, at Dunardarigh, Inverness. His wife predeceased him by a few years.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Margaret Ann MacTavish born on 25th August,1853, in Scotland. She married John Mackay and lived in Woodville, Victoria North, Ontario, Canada. She died in 1936 in Lincoln, Ontario, Canada.

(2) Archibald MacTavish born on 28th August, 1856, in Scotland. He married – probably someone Armstrong. He worked as a real estate agent. He died in May, 1930, of myocarditis, in York, Ontario, Canada. He was buried in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

(3) Mary MacTavish born in Canada about 1858. She married Archibald Graham in 1897 in Stirling. She died in 1940 in St Andrew, Edinburgh.

(4) Alexanderina McTavish about 1864 in Eldon, North Victoria, Ontario, Canada.

(5) Elizabeth Catherine MacTavish born about 1868 in Eldon, North Victoria, Ontario, Canada. In 1901 she was a teacher in a private school. She died in 1942 in North Berwick, East Lothian.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth grant and Sunday travel, 21st April,1845, NRS GD112/51/180; Against marriage affinity bill, 28th May, 1850, NRS GD112/51/221; Against this vile measure of Stuart Wortley, 26th June, 1850, NRS GD112/51/221
An address to Free Churchmen, Inverness, James Melvin, 1882
Remarks on Dr. Kennedy’s pamphlet on disestablishment, Inverness, James Melvin, 1882

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John McTavish
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 28/6/1897, D.D., Minister, Free East Church, Inverness, d. 11/05/1897 at Inverness, testate, Inverness Sheriff Court, NRS SC29/44/3

Sources
Findagrave; Glasgow Herald, 5th January, 1844

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M’TAVISH, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born in Midlothian. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Rothiemay, Banffshire, 1897. Married, 1898, Jane Mackay.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Duddingston, Edinburgh, on 20th October, 1869, the son of Peter McTavish, Managing Salesman Cooperative Store, and Ann Forsyth. He studied at New College, Edinburgh, 1890-1894.

Marriage
He married Jane Mackay in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1898. She was born in Portobella, Edinburgh, about 1872.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Rothiemay, Banffshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.458).

Death
He died at Rothiemay on 12th April, 1914. His wife died in Morningside, Edinburgh, in 1945.

Family
They had issue born in Rothiemay, including:
(1) Helen Fleming McTavish born in 1900.

(2) Annie Forsyth McTavish born in 1902.

(3) Alistair Kenneth McTavish born in 1905.

(4) Patricia May McTavish born on 4th May, 1907. She died in Yeovil, Somerset, in 1976.

(5) Isobel Robertson McTavish born in 1909. She married Alexander H. Brown in Gretna, Dumfries-shire, in 1934. She died in Kelso and Smailholm, Roxburghshire, in 1951.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: MacTavish Alexander 22 / 6 / 1914 Rev. U.F. Church Manse, Rothiemay, d. 12/04/1914 at Rothiemay, Testate. Banff Sheriff Court NRS SC2/40/74

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M’TURK, ANDREW, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born at New Cumnock, 1833. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Inchinnan, 1864. Married, 1865, Euphemia D. Tyre. Died, 1891.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1833 in New Cumnock, the son of George McTurk, agricultural labourer, and Margaret McClement. According to the Glasgow University records, he was the brother of James Wilson McTurk, Church of Scotland minister in Langholm. However, FES, Vol.2, p.238 has James Wilson McTurk, born 1824, the son of John McTurk of Old Cumnock. But this can’t be right: in 1851 James W. McTurk is in Old Cumnock, a probationer of the Church of Scotland, and he is the son of George McTurk, tea dealer.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1853.

Marriage
He married Euphemia D. Tyre on 28th November, 1865, in Tynron, Dumfries-shire. She was baptized on 10th January, 1841, in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, the daughter of John Tyre, coach driver, and Marion Lammie.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Ayr, on 8th July, 1863. He was ordained in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, on 26th January, 1864.

Death
He died on 23rd April, 1891, in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. His widow lived at Woodside, Busby, Lanarkshire, and died there on 22nd January, 1895.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Marion Lambie McTurk born on 2nd May, 1868, in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. She died in the 1st quarter of 1944 in Croydon, London, England.

(2) Margaret Eliza McClement McTurk born on 30th June, 1870, in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.

(3) George John William McTurk born on 21st April, 1872, in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.

(4) John McTurk born on 20th January, 1874, in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. He was a merchant seaman.

(5) William Macturk born in 1876, in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. He died in 1927 in Kilbride, Argyll.

(6) Mary Henderson Macturk born in 1877, in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. She died in 1898 in Cathcart, Glasgow.

(7) Jessie Euphemia McTurk born on 10th September, 1881, in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. She married Herbert Stanley Allen there in 1907. He was an outstanding physicist. She died on 2nd November, 1943, in St Andrews, Fife.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Andrew McTurk
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Macturk or Tyre, Euphemia, 5/3/1895, Woodside, Busby, widow of Rev. Andrew MacTurk, F.C. Minister, Inchinnan near Paisley, d. 22/01/1895 at Busby, intestate, Hamilton Sheriff Court, NRS SC37/42/8

Sources
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 3rd November, 1943, p.6

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M’VEAN, DONALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born at Kenmore, 1808. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Iona, 1835. Married, 1837, Susan Maclean. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Resigned, 1878. Died, 1880.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1835, Iona, FES, Vol.4, p.111; FES, Vol.8, p.338. In the Free Church, he served in Iona, Argyll.

Publications – by him
He contributed to the Parker Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnote 229 . (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
Memorials of a student, by H. A. B., Edinburgh?, 1869? This is a Memorial of “D.H.M … the son of a respected minister of the Free Church of Scotland … born in Iona, in 1845”; it includes narrative by “D.H.M.”‘s father. The student is surely Dugald Hector McVean, the son of the Iona Free Church minister.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Donald McVean
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 21/4/1880, formerly Free Church Minister, Iona and Ross, afterwards residing in Oban, d. 16/01/1880 at Oban, testate, Dunoon Sheriff Court, NRS SC51/32/26
1st September, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.76 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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M’WATT, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.259
Born at Inverness, 1801. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Rothes, Morayshire, 1839. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. For twenty-seven years Mr. M’Watt was clerk of the Free Presbytery of Aberlour. Became senior minister, 1878. Died, 1880.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1839, Rothes, FES, Vol.6, p.350. In the Free Church, he served in Rothes, Moray.

Publication – by him
New Statistical Account, March, 1842, Rothes, Vol.13, Elgin, p.228
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.433, Pardon for sin

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander McWatt
Alexander Macwatt, M.A., Rothes, by Rev. James Hendry, M.A., in Our Church Fathers: being Biographical Sketches of Disruption Fathers in and around the Presbytery of Elgin, p.53
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 7/1/1881, Free Church Minister, Rothes, Parish of Rothes, County of Elgin, d. 27/11/1880 at Rothes, testate, Inventory, Elgin Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC26/39/14; 1/7/1881, Elgin Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC26/38/13

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