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

Ewing – List of Ministers: T

 
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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TAINSH, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.336
Born at Crieff, 1847. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Strichen, 1872. Translated, 1878, to Aberdeen, John Knox Church. Married, the same year, Jane A. Gowans. Translated, 1883, to Glasgow, Tron.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Strichen, Aberdeenshire; and John Knox, Aberdeen. He was inducted to Tron, Glasgow , on 21st March, 1883. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.257, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1916 and died in 1926.

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TAIT, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.336
Born in Perthshire, 1852. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Glenboig, 1889. Died, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 21st August, 1852, in Peebles, the son of John Tait, ploughman, and Agnes Smith.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1883-87.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Dalkeith on 11th October, 1887. On 19th August, 1889, he was ordained in Glenboig, Lanarkshire. While he was minister there, on Saturday, 3rd October, 1891, the memorial stone of a new church building was laid by Captain Colt of Gartsherrie. The architect was George Arthur, of Airdrie. The building was designed to seat 384 people and to cost about £1300.

Death
He died on 27th March, 1892, at Glenboig, and his death was registered in Cadder, Lanarkshire.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 16/9/1892, M.A., minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Glenboig, d. 27/03/1892 at Glenboig, testate, brother of William Tait of 125 Ardgowan Street, Glasgow, Inventory; Settlement; Codicils, Airdrie Sheriff Court, NRS SC35/31/3

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TAIT, GAVIN JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born at Inverness, 1854. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Paisley, St. George’s, 1881. Married, 1883, Margaret Kerr.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in St. George’s, Paisley, Renfrewshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.172, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1921 and died in 1937.

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TAIT, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born at Paisley, 1824. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dumbarton, High, 1861. Married, the same year, Jane Inglis. Became senior minister, 1898.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in High, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.271). He died in 1903.

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TASKER, DAVID

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born at Dundee, 1837. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dunblane, 1868. Married, the same year, Janet M. Kerr. Translated to North Shields, 1873.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1837 in Dundee, the son of David Tasker, baker, and Christian Stirling.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1864-68.

Marriage
He married Janet MacAlpine Kerr on 5th September, 1868, at the bride’s home, 3 Findhorn Place, Ednburgh (Registration: 1868 685/5 335 Newington). He was then of 3 Davie Street, Edinburgh. She was born on 27th December, 1843, and baptized on 21st January, 1844, in Canongate, Edinburgh, the daughter of Andrew Kerr and Grace Watt. In 1861 her father was “First Clerk, Office of H. M. Works”; later he was described as an architect.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 24th June, 1868. He was an assistant for a time in St George’s, Edinburgh, and was ordained to Dunblane, Perthshire, on 23rd September, 1868. He responded positively to a call from the Scotch Church, Howard Street, North Shields, Northumberland, England, signed on 23rd October, 1873, by 531 members and adherents. He succeeded John Stewart who had moved to Glasgow. From there he retired in 1906.

Death
He died on 11th April, 1910 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England. His wife died there in the 4th quarter of 1922.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) John Kerr Tasker born on 8th September, 1869, at 3 Findhorn Place, Edinburgh. He graduated M.A. from Edinburgh University. On 9th April, 1902, he married Addie Henderson at St Michael’s Church, Cupar, Fife. He was a lawyer there, for a time at least. He died in 1926 in Perth.

(2) Grace Elizabeth W. Tasker born in 1870 in Dunblane, Perthshire. She died in the 3rd quarter of 1925 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England.

(3) Davina Leigh Tasker born in 1872 in Dunblane, Perthshire. She died in 1941 in Duns, Berwickshire. She was for 36 years headmistress of Berwick Girls’ High School.

(4) Janet Kerr Tasker born in the 3rd quarter of 1874, in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. She died in 1937 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.

(5) Andrew Kerr Tasker born on 26th March, 1876, in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. He married Etta Maughan there in the second quarter of 1902. He was an architect, practising in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England. He was admitted ARIBA in 1907 and FRIBA in 1924. He died in the 1st quarter of 1970 in Northumberland South, Northumberland, England.

(6) Anne Stirling Tasker born in the 4th quarter of 1877 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. She died on 19th August, 1878, at the Manse, North Shields, Northumberland, England.

(7) Isabella Dick Tasker born on 6th June, 1879, at the Manse, North Shields, Northumberland, England. She married John Murray Christie there in the 3rd quarter of 1904. She died in 1965 in Elie, Fife.

(8) Euphemia Russell Tasker born in the 3rd quarter of 1881 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. She graduated M.A. from Edinburgh, University. She died in 1956 in Newington, Edinburgh.

(9) William Watt Tasker born on 26th August, 1886, in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. He served in the Royal Engineers in WW1. He died in the 1st quarter of 1953 in Northumberland, South, Northumberland, England.

Sources
Scottisharchitects; Thegazette; Glasgow Herald, 25th September, 1868; 10th September, 1869; The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 23rd August, 1878; 13th June, 1879; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 10th April, 1902, p.10; 29th March, 1941, p.8

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TASKER, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born at Perth, 1811. After university studies Mr. Tasker became a teacher near Perth, at Tealing, and at Falkland. Studied at the New College, Edinburgh, and became missionary in the West Port, under Dr. Chalmers. Having formed a congregation in the district, was ordained there, 1847. Married Jane Miller. Became senior minister, 1872. Died, 1879.

Publications.—Territorial Savings Banks. Territorial Visitors’ Manual. Territorial Sabbath Schools.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born (or baptised) on 22nd October, 1809, in Perth, the son of David Tasker, sea captain, and Ann Kennedy. He supported some family members by teaching, first in Tealing, Angus, from 1836, and then from 1840 in Falkland, Fife.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-46. During this period he worked as a missionary in Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, before being chosen for the West Port work in Edinburgh.

Marriage
He married Jane Miller on 3rd March, 1839, in Madderty, Perthshire. She was baptized on 28th December, 1800, in St Martin’s, Perthshire, the daughter of George Miller and Margaret McLachlan.

Ministry
He was ordained to the West Port (Chalmers’ Territorial), Edinburgh, in 1847.

Death
He died on 20th March, 1879, at his home, 32 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh (Registration: 1879 685/5 247 Newington). His funeral took place on 25th March. First there was a service in the church conducted by R. J. Sandeman, Moderator of Presbytery, and Thomas Addis, of Morningside Free Church. Then the procession went to the family home in Gilmore Place; and from there to the Grange Cemetery.

His wife died on 23rd April, 1884, at Gilmore Place, Edinburgh. She left £453 6/6 to the Perth Infirmary.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Margaret Ann Tasker born on 15th February, 1842, in Falkland, Fife.

Publications – by him
Elijah’s translation, a sermon, preached in Chalmers’ Territorial Church, West Port, on June 6, 1847, being the Sabbath immediately following the death of Thomas Chalmers, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1847
“Help, Lord, for the Godly man ceaseth”, a sermon [on Psalm 12:1] preached in the Territorial Church Edinburgh, on 1st July 1847, on occasion of the ordination of the Rev. William Tasker … together with charges to minister and congregation, James Julius Wood, Edinburgh, J.D. Lowe, 1847
The Territorial visitors’ manual, Edinburgh: John Johnstone, 1849.
Territorial Sabbath schools, or, Hints on Sabbath school teaching, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1850
Rest in God: and other tracts, for times of refreshing, Edinburgh, John MacClaren, 1860
Reminiscences, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, edited by W. Tasker, Edinburgh, 1860
Memorials of the Rev. William Tasker, minister of the West Port Church, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, J. MacLaren & Son, 1880

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Tasker.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 15/4/1879, Minister, Chalmers Territorial Church, West Port, Edinburgh, d. 20/03/1879 at 32 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/193; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/178
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Tasker or Miller, Jane, 21/5/1884, Gilmore Place, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. William Tasker, First Minister, Chalmers Territorial Church, West Port there, d. 23/04/1884 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/232; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/206
The story of the West Port Church, with notices of Chalmers and Tasker, and an account of the territorial method, Edinburgh, Macniven and Wallace, 1882

Source
The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 24th June, 1884

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TAYLOR, CHARLES EDWARD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born at Nigg, Ross-shire, 1854. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Rafford, 1881. Married, 1885, Helen C. Wilson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Rafford, Moray. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.471). He resigned in 1908. Thereafter he served in Torrance from 1917 (FUFC, p.267, where a short biography is given).

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TAYLOR, DONALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born at Leith, 1842. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at West Calder, 1875.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in West Calder, West Lothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.34). He retired in 1917 and died in 1919.

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TAYLOR, GEORGE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born at Keith, 1832. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Longformacus, Berwickshire, 1870.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 21st May, 1832, in Keith, Banffshire, the 8th child and 4th son of Thomas Taylor, shoemaker, and Janet Roy.

Education
He was educated at King’s College and the University of Aberdeen, matriculating in 1850 and graduating M.A. in March, 1854; he then studied in the Free Church College, Aberdeen.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Strathbogie at Keith on 5th September, 1859. During his probationary period, he worked, amongst other places, in Dundee Overgate Mission, in the preaching-station at Lassodie, Fife, and at Longformacus, Berwickshire, at that time a preaching-station. He was ordained and inducted to Longformacus Free Church on 21st July, 1870. He entered the Union in 1900 and retired from Longformacus United Free Church on 9th June, 1908 (FUFC, p.72).

Death
He died at Rosehall, Keith, on 7 th June, 1918, and was buried in Keith Old Churchyard.

Family
He never married.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 31/7/1918, Rosehall, Keith, d. 07/06/1918 at Rosehall testate, Banff Sheriff Court, NRS SC2/40/78

Sources
Information contributed

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TAYLOR, GEORGE WALKER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born in Lanarkshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Carlops, 1895. Married, 1898, Mary D. Johnston.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Carlops, Peebles-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.54). Thereafter he served in Clydebank West from 1903 (FUFC, p.270); in South Leith from 1909 (FUFC, p.16); and in Stevenston from 1922 (FUFC, p.154, where a short biography is given).

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TAYLOR, JAMES WILLIAM, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born at Perth, 1813. Son of Rev. W. Taylor, Original Secession Church, Perth. Studied at the Universities, St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. Joined the Church of Scotland while a student. Ordained at Grangemouth, 1839. Translated to Flisk and Creich, Fife, 14th April 1843. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1846, Magdalene R. Walker. Became senior minister, 1884. Died, 1894.

Publications.—A Few Words to the Parishioners of Flisk in reply to Dr. Anderson’s (Newburgh) Induction Address. Memoir of D. M. Makgill Crichton, of Rankeillour. Biographical Notice of Rev. W. Taylor, of Perth. Historical Antiquities of Fife, chiefly Ecclesiastical, connected with some of its Districts. A Month’s Visit to Connaught. The Establishment Principle demanding Disestablishment in Scotland, 1885. An Historic Plea for Ecclesiastical and Educational Unity. The Broad School, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Scott, Annals, p.513; Small, History, Vol.2, p.554; 1839, Grangemouth, FES,Vol.1, p.210; 1843, Flisk, FES, Vol.5, p.156. In the Free Church, he served in Flisk and Creich, Fife.

Publications
See separate document here.

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TAYLOR, NEIL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.337
Born in the parish of Kilmun, 1830. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Supplied for a time at Tarbat, and was assistant in the Wynd Church, Glasgow. Ordained at Dundee, Gaelic, 1860. Married, 1866, Eliza M’Lauchlan. Translated, 1882, to Dornoch. Died, 1889.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in 1830 in Dunoon and Kilmun, Argyll, the son of James Taylor, farmer, and Mary Maclean.

Education
He attended Greenock Grammar School, Renfrewshire, and matriculated in Glasgow University in 1848. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1851-55.

Marriage
He married Eliza McLauchlan on 19th September, 1866, at 9 Fettes Row, Edinburgh (Registration: 1866 685/2 281 St Andrew (Edinburgh)). She was then of Dudhope House, Dundee. She was born about 1833 in Clachan, Argyll, the daughter of Archibald MacLachlan, building caretaker, and Mary Thomson.

Ministry
He was licensed in 1857 by the Free Presbytery of Dunoon and Inveraray. In the Free Church, he served in Tarbat, Ross and Cromarty; and the Wynd Church, Glasgow, before being ordained in Albert Square, Dundee. A new church building was opened there in 1869. On 10th May, 1882, he accepted a call to Dornoch, Sutherland.

Death
He died on 19th August, 1889, at the Free Church Manse, Dornoch, Sutherland.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Mary Maclean Taylor born on 22nd June, 1867, in Dundee. She died in 1941 in Haymarket, Edinburgh. She married William Logan, on 4th June, 1890, at 6 Hampton Court Terrace, Glasgow. He was a Free Church minister.

(2) Archibald James Taylor born on 13th September, 1868, in Dundee. In 1891 he was a grocer.

(3) Nelson Taylor born on 13th September, 1868, in Dundee.

(4) Margaret Anna Taylor born on 7th January, 1870, in Dundee.

(5) Campbell Taylor born on 28th December, 1871, in Dundee.

(6) Donald Taylor born on 18th September, 1873, in Dundee.

Publications – by him
The union question: viewed in the light of the historic testimony of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches, a speech delivered at the meeting of Free Church Presbytery in Dundee, on Wednesday, 14th December, 1870, Dundee, Chalmers & Winter, 1871
The Status and emoluments of Female Teachers, being report of proceedings of Special Committee, and of discussions at Dundee School Board, Dundee, A. Ewan, 1876
Eternal Life: its ground, experience, and practice, Edinburgh, J. Gemmell, 1884

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Neil Taylor
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 26/11/1889, F.C. Minister of Dornoch, d. 19/08/1889 at Dornoch, testate, Eik granted 04/04/1890 Dornoch Sheriff Court NRS SC9/36/7

Sources
Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 20th August, 1889; Glasgow Herald, 5th June, 1890

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TAYLOR, PETER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.338
Born at Parkside, King Edward, Aberdeenshire, 1857. Studied at the Universities, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Cluny, 1888. Married, 1896, Elsie Gray.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cluny, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.433). Thereafter he served in the united conbgregation (FUFC, p.433, where a short biography is given).

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TAYLOR, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.338
Born at Inverkeillor, Forfarshire, 1824. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kirkurd, 1850. Married, the same year, Susan M. Stoddart; and, 1863, Charlotte Mary C. Rattray. Translated to Blairgowrie, South, 1858; to Edinburgh, Greyfriars’, 1864; 1867, to London, Camberwell; then to Upper Norwood.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 28th October and baptized on 30th November, 1824, in Inverkeilor, Angus, the son of John Taylor, farmer, and Mary Greig.

Education
He attended Arbroath Academy, Angus. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1847-49.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Susan Matilda Stoddart on 23rd April, 1850, in Edinburgh. She was born on 17th October, 1821, in Edinburgh, the daughter of Admiral Pringle Stoddart and Frances Sprot.

(2) Charlotte Mary Clark Rattray on 16th April, 1863, at 36 George Square, Edinburgh (Registration: 1863 685/4 87 St Giles). She was born in Edinburgh about 1829 the daughter of Robert Clark Rattray, advocate and landed proprietor, and Christina Clark Richardson.

Ministry
He arrived in New South Wales on 13th April, 1845. After a short time in Brisbane, Queensland, he organised a congregation in Wollongong, New South Wales, and joined the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia on 12th October, 1846, two days after its formation. Returning to Scotland, he was ordained in Kirkurd, Peebles-shire, on 14th August, 1850. He was translated to South, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, on 6th October, 1858. On 2nd December that year, the church building was opened by Dr Thomas Guthrie. The services on Sabbath were conducted by Dr Robert Buchanan, Glasgow, and the new minister. Dr Buchanan preached in the forenoon, from Haggai 2:6-9: “For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth …”; and in the evening, from 1 Corinthians 3:16-17: “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? …”. The church was crowded during the day, while in the evening, many were unable to obtain admission. The collections amounted to £400 7/9, leaving a debt of only £400 on the building, the entire cost of which was £2000. This church was “a chaste Gothic structure, consisting of a principal nave, measuring about 85 feet in length by 44 feet in breadth, and from the floor to apex of ceiling 50 feet, having a tower at the left angle 16 feet square, and, rising 50 feet above all, a tapering octagon spire.”

On 10th March, 1864, Taylor was translated to Greyfriars, Edinburgh, as colleague and successor to Hugh Martin, remaining there till 1867. He then served in the Presbyterian Church of England, in Camberwell, London, from 28th November, 1867, till 10th March, 1874. He was inducted to a church extension work in Upper Norwood, London, on 29th June, 1874, where he served till 1st April, 1893. A church building was opened near the Crystal Palace on 27th March, 1878, It had accommodation for 600 and was erected at a cost of 7,500. He was the Moderator of his Synod in 1885.

Death
He died in on 5th March, 1906, at Easter Logie, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, and was buried in Edinburgh. His first wife died in 1859 in Blairgowrie, Perthshire. His second wife may have died in the 2nd quarter of 1899 in Eastbourne, Sussex, aged 70.

Family
He had issue including by his first wife:

(1) John Arthur Taylor born on 18th June, 1851, at 10 Bellevue Crescent, Edinburgh – the home of Mrs Stoddart. He married Jane McTaggart Paton in the 1st quarter of 1883 in Christchurch, Hampshire. He died in the 4th quarter of 1933 in Bournemouth, Dorsetshire.

(2) Francis Pringle Taylor born on 16th June, 1852, in Edinburgh. He married Rose Charlotte Hillyar on 5th August, 1882, in Sydney, New South Wales. She was a daughter of the late Rev. W. J. M. Hillyar and grand-daughter of Admiral William Hillyar. Francis Taylor had a naval career both in Australia – he was commandant of the Queensland colonial navy – and in Britain. He died on 16th February, 1913, in St Germans, Cornwall, England.

(3) Mary Fanny Taylor born on 15th January, 1856, at 10 Bellevue Crescemt, Edinburgh. She married William Foster Carslake in the 1st quarter of 1883 in Croydon, London, England.

(4) Unnamed Taylor born on 11th August, 1857, in Edinburgh.

(5) Susan Matilda Stoddart Taylor born on 26th September, 1859, in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.

And by his second wife:

(6) Frederick Robert Taylor born on 3rd July, 1865, in Newington, Edinburgh. He became a stock-broker. He married Paula Joanna.

(7) Charles Newton Taylor born on 22nd August, 1866, in Newington, Edinburgh. He married Helena Jessie Taylor in the 2nd quarter of 1895 in St George Hanover, London, England. He died in the 2nd quarter of 1949 in Honiton, Devon, England.

(8) Edith Susan Taylor born in the 2nd quarter of 1870 in Camberwell, London, England.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 10/7/1906, Easter Logie, Blairgowrie, d. 05/03/1906 at Easter Logie, testate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/205

Sources
Wiki; Trove; Caledonian Mercury, 19th June, 1851; 17th January, 1856; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 28th March, 1878, p.3

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TAYLOR, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.338
Born in Dumbartonshire. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at New Pitsligo, 1861. Died, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Robert Arrol Taylor

Background
He was born on 3rd March, 1827, in Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, the son of William Taylor and Mary Arrol.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1854-58.

Marriage
He married Isabella Burnett on 19th November, 1867, in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. She was baptized on 30th September, 1843, in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, the daughter of James Burnett, butcher, and Helen Andrews.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Dumbarton on 12th January, 1859. He was ordained in New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, by the Free Presbytery of Deer, on 24th October, 1861.

Death
He died on 12th September, 1897, in New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) William Arrol Taylor born in 1869 in New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire.

(2) Mary Arrol Taylor born in 1870 in New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire.

(3) Hellen Orchison Andrews Taylor born about 1871 in New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire.

(4) James Burnett Taylor born on 3rd September, 1873, in New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire. When his father died in 1897, he was living at 26 Crown Street, Aberdeen,

(5) Isabella Burnett Taylor born in 1874 in New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 13/12/1897, minister of the Free Church at New Pitsligo in the parish of Tyrie, residing at the Free Church Manse there, d. 12/09/1897 at New Pitsligo, testate, father of James Burnett Taylor residing at 26 Crown Street, Aberdeen, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/132; 23/12/1897, Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/118

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TAYLOR, ROBERT BRUCE, M.A., D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.338
Born at Cardross, Dumbartonshire, 1869. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Loudoun, 1896. Married, the same year, Harriet M’Kendrick. Translated to Aberdeen, Ferryhill, 1900 [Vol. 2 under Aberdeen – Ferryhill says the translation was in 1899.].

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Loudoun, Ayrshire; and Ferryhill, Aberdeen. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.412, where a short biography is given). Thereafter he served in St John’s Wood, London, from 1906; as a Professor in Canada from 1911 and later as Principal of McGill University, Montreal. Also this page and the following pages.

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TAYLOR, WALTER ROSS, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.338
Born at Tain, 1805. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen, and Divinity Halls, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Ordained at Shadwell Street Church, Islington, 1829. Translated to Thurso, 1831. Married, 1833, Isabella Murray; and, 1887, Isabella Macdonald. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Was Moderator of General Assembly, 1884. Became senior minister, 1891. Died, 1896.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1829, Chadwell Street, London, FES,Vol.7, p.495; 1831, Thurso, FES,Vol.7, p.137; FES, Vol.8, p.678. In the Free Church, he served in First, Thurso, Caithness.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, October, 1840, Thurso, Vol.15, Caithness, p.1
The reception of the Gospel, and a conversation becoming it, a farewell sermon, preached in the Scotch Church, Chadwell street, London, on Sunday, November 28, 1830, London, Steuart Basil, 1830
A sermon preached in the Old Church of Thurso on 30th December, 1832, Thurso, 1891
Memorials of Caithness ministers, memoirs and sermons of W.R. Taylor and Alexander Auld, Edinburgh, 1911
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.537, Christ the propitiation for the sins of the whole world, 1 John 2:2
The British Pulpit, Vol.1, p. 483, The Sword of the Spirit

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Walter Ross Taylor
Disruption Worthies on this website: Taylor, Walter Ross
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 26/1/1897, D.D., Castlegreen, Thurso, d. 05/10/1896 at Thurso, testate, Wick Sheriff Court, NRS SC14/40/15
Thomas Wightman, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.90 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 3 , p.32; Appendix 2, p.18 and p.244 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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TAYLOR, WALTER ROSS, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.338
Born at Thurso, 1838. Son of the foregoing. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at East Kilbride, 1862. Translated to Glasgow, Kelvinside, 1868. Married, 1876, Margaret I. Paterson. In 1890 he was appointed convener of the Sustentation Fund Committee. From that date he was led into a very large participation in the general business of the Church. As last Moderator of the Free Church Assembly, he took a prominent part in the proceedings at the Union with the United Presbyterian Synod and Church on 30th October, 1900.

Publications.—Moderatorial Addresses on the Development of Religious and Theological Thought and Church Life and Unity. Article in Our Churches (1898).

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 15th November, 1856 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.205). In the Free Church, he served in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire; and Kelvinside, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.229, where a short biography is given). He became senior minister in 1907 and died later that year.

Publication – about him
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, W. F. Gray, revised by H. C. G. Matthew, Taylor, Walter Ross (1838–1907), Free Church of Scotland minister

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TAYLOR, WILLIAM, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.338
Born at Tain, 1816. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen, and Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. Licensed by the Presbytery of Tain, 1840. Ordained at Glass, Strathbogie, in January 1843. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, the same year, to Pulteneytown. Resigned, on account of ill-health, 1856. In session 1863-64 Mr. Taylor conducted the class of Apologetics and New Testament Exegesis in the Free Church College, Glasgow. He subsequently became editor for the Stirling Tract Enterprise. Died, 1886.

Publications.—Diary of James Calder of Croy. Early History of Tain, 1865; Earlier and Later History, 1882. Memorials of Charles C. Mackintosh, D.D., with a Sketch of the Religious History of the Northern Highlands of Scotland. Posthumous.—The Autobiography of a Highland Minister. Edited by A. Taylor Innes, Advocate. With a letter of appreciation by Alexander Whyte, D.D., 1897.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 15th October and baptized on 1st November, 1816, in Tain, Ross and Cromarty, the son of Alexander Taylor, writer, and Isabella Munro.

Education
He attended Tain Academy. He studied in King’s College, Aberdeen, and graduated M.A. in March, 1834.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Tain in 1840. He is not mentioned in FES. In the Free Church, he served in Glass, Aberdeenshire.

After leaving the ministry, he was living in Tain with his brother in 1861; with his sister Johanna in Stirling in 1871; and again with his sister Johanna in Edinburgh, in 1881, when was a religious editor and retired Free Church minister.

Death
He died on 12th March, 1886. His death was recorded in St Giles, Edinburgh, but he is commemmorated in St Duthus Collegiate Churchyard, Tain, Ross and Cromarty.

Family
There is no evidence that he married.

Publications – by him
Fragments of the early history of Tain, from its origin to the middle of the sixteenth century, Tain, R. Douglas, 1865
Memorials of the life and ministry of Charles Calder Mackintosh, D.D. of Tain and Dunoon, with a sketch of the religious history of the northern highlands of Scotland, Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1870
Diary of James Calder, Minister of Croy, born 1712, died 1775, Stirling, Drummond, 1875
Researches into the history of Tain, Tain, Alexander Ross, 1882
Letters to David Laing, from Tain, 27th March, 19th April and 15th July, 1865; rom Tain, 30th June, 1868; from 2 Victoria Square, Stirling, 10th February and 5th March, 1870; from St Duthus Place, Tain, 19th August, 1878
Note: some of these publications have been ascribed to Rev. William Taylor, 1821-1902 in certain Libraries – but that William Taylor seems to have been an American preacher.

Publications – about him
The Free Church Monthly, June 1, 1886, Biographical Notices
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 6/5/1886, F 1878 Aug. 19,.C. Minister, 5 Chalmers Street, Lauriston, Edinburgh, d. 12/03/1886 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/249
Memorial by the Free Presbytery of Caithness, in the case of the Rev. William Taylor of Pulteneytown, Edinburgh, John Greig and Son, 1855
The Autobiography of a Highland Minister (W. Taylor), edited by A.T. Innes, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1897

Source
Findagrave

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TAYLOR, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.338
Born in Aberdeenshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at North Yell, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Yell – North, Shetland. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.525). Thereafter he served in Aitkenhead from 1905 (FUFC, p.176, where a short biography is given).

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TELFER, ALEXANDER PRENTICE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Edinburgh, 1854. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1888, missionary to Calcutta. Married, 1889, Margaret T. Lennox. Returned to Scotland, 1896. Settled at Arrochar, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Arrochar, Dunbartonshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.268). He applied for a Colleague and Successor in 1925.

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TELFER, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Ayr, 1857. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Glencairn, 1886. Married, 1887, Beatrice M. Steven. Translated, 1891, to Glasgow, Lyon Street Church. Went to the Transvaal, 1895. Returned to England, and, 1899, was appointed missionary in connection with Marylebone English Presbyterian Church, London.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 21st January, 1857, in Ayr, the son of James Telfer and Mary Cruickshank.

Marriage
He married Beatrice Marion Steven in the 4th quarter of 1887, in Bath, Somerset, England. She was born on 27th January, 1865, in Blythswood, Glasgow, the daughter of James Steven, merchant, and Betsy Carmichael.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow on 13th May, 1886. On 12th October, he was elected by the congregation in Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, as colleague and successor to Patrick Barrowman. On 26th January, 1891, he was unanimously elected by the Lyon Street, Glasgow, congregation and was settled there later that year. He lived at 10 Oxford Drive, Glasgow. He resigned that charge on 5th November, 1895. When he presented his resignation, he was unwell, but stated that if restored to health, he wished to dedicate himself to evangelistic work. Whatever happened after his resignation, his younger son died at his Glasgow address in 1897, and the Post Office Directoy records him there up till 1898-99. By July, 1899, he was preaching in Marylebone Presbyterian Church, London, England.

By 1922 he was minister of Bourtreebush United Free Church, Aberdeenshire; he was conducting weekly prayer meetings for healing in the Christian Institute in Aberdeen. In September, 1936, his ministerial Jubilee was recognised: tribute was paid to “the excellence of Mr Telfer’s work as a hymn writer, as exemplified in his published book of hymns.”.

Death
He died in 1939. His wife died on 30th December, 1931, at Bourtreebush Manse.

Publications – by him
There are several items that may be his: The coming kingdom of God, London, 1902, by Telfer, John, Presbyterian Minister in Bermondsey
Out of the depths and It is not wise to tarry, musical score, 1928, by John Telfer, Rev.
Lilies of Testimony, being 86 new and original hymns, songs and choruses, London; Edinburgh, Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1932

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Leigh Patteson Telfer born in 1890 in Glencairn, Dumfries-shire. He married Katherine Georgina Moore on 7th October, 1924, in Broadstone, Dorset, England. He died on 2nd December, 1958, in Poole, Dorset, England.

(2) Steven Carmichael Telfer born on 8th October, 1895, at 10 Oxford Drive, Glasgow. He died at 10 Oxford Drive, Glasgow, on 13th March, 1897, aged 17 months.

Sources
Glasgow Herald, 2nd October, 1895; 9th October, 1895; 15th March, 1897, p.4; The Pall Mall Gazette, London, England, 8th July, 1899; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 3rd May, 1922, p.7; 1st January, 1932, p.14; 9th September, 1936, p.12

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TELFORD, WILLIAM HALL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Wick, 1844. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Forgandenny, 1880. Translated in 1881 to Reston, Berwickshire.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Forgandenny, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.73). He died in 1924.

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TEMPLETON, ARCHIBALD, M.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Glasgow, 1843. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1871, missionary to the Santals of India. Retired on account of his health. Entered the service of the Glasgow Medical Missionary Society, 1880, and became superintendent of their Oxford Street Dispensary, 1886.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Glasgow, in 1843, the son of James Templeton and Mary Stewart. His father was the founder of a large carpet manufacturing business in the East End of Glasgow.

Education
He was a student in the Free Church College, Glasgow, by 1863. He graduated M.B., C.M. in 1869 and M.D. in 1871 from Glasgow University.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Helen Aitken in 1888 in Glasgow (Registration: 1888 644/14 168 Kinning Park – a record which is not at all clearly written). She was born about 1860 in Glasgow, her mother being Margaret Button Johnstone?

Ministry
He was ordained in 1871 by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow, to proceed to India, there to superintend the new Mission to the Santals. He sailed from Liverpool on 28th September that year on the City of Poonah, a steamer belonging to the Messrs Smith of Glasgow, who charged only half the normal fare. He arrived in Calcutta, India, on 12th November.

On returning to Scotland, he participated as an elder in the work of the courts of the Church and he described himself as a medical missionary. He was superintendent of the Oxford Street Dispensary of the Glasgow Medical Mission.

Death
He died on 24th June, 1923, in Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire. His wife died there in 1947.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Archibald Douglas Templeton born in 1889 in Kelvin, Glasgow. He was a Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and was killed on 28th June, 1915. He is commemorated on Helles Memorial, Turkey – Panel 92-97, and also on the family gravestone in Glasgow Necropolis.

(2) Dorothy Grace Templeton born in 1891 in Kelvin, Glasgow. She married Edward Taylor Wright in 1922 in Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire.

(3) Clement Bennet Templeton born in 1893 in Kelvin, Glasgow. He died in 1947 in Kilbride, Argyll.

(4) Joanna Marjorie Templeton born on 15th September, 1894, in Kelvin, Glasgow. She died on 4th June, 1962, in Perth. There is a memorial to her and her sisters Isabel and Constance in Pitlochry Cemetery, Perthshire.

(5) Isabel Nora Templeton born in 1896 in Glasgow. She died in November, 1979, in Newington, Edinburgh. There is a memorial to her and her sisters Joanna and Constance in Pitlochry Cemetery, Perthshire.

(6) Godfrey Allan Templeton born in 1897 in Partick, Glasgow. He served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and died of wounds received at Epernay, France, on 24th July, 1918.

(7) Kenneth Griffith Templeton born in 1899 in Partick, Glasgow. He died in 1976 in Doune, Perthshire.

(8) Constance Hope Templeton born on 15th November, 1902. She died on 13th August, 1975, in Pitlochry, Perthshire. There is a memorial to her and her sisters Isabel and Joanna in the cemetery there.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 19/2/1924, M.D., resided at Crookfur, Newton Mearns, d. 24/06/1923 at Newton Mearns, testate, Paisley Sheriff Court, NRS SC58/42/100; Paisley Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC58/45/27
Court of Session: Warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Decree removing Samuel Macadam Carrick and Hugh Andrew Aitken from the office of trustees under the Anti-Nuptial Contract of Marriage between the Rev Archibald Templeton, M.D., and Mrs Elizabeth Helen Aitken or Templeton and appointing John Stewart Templeton and James Templeton and the survivor of them to be trustees under said Anti-Nuptial Contract of Marriage, Mar 1897, NRS CS46/1897/3/120

Sources
Mearnshistory; Scottishwargraves; Theses.gla; Wikipedia; Findagrave; Glasgow Herald, 1st April, 1865; 4th May, 1887

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TERRAS, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Balmullo, Fife, 1832. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at St. Boswells, 1861. Married, 1879, Frances C. Sibbald. Became senior minister, 1893.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 10th June, 1832, in Balmullo, Fife, the son of Robert Terras, linen manufacturer, and Margaret Smith.

Education
He studied at the United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1849-53, and graduated M.A. on 30th April, 1853. He was the Madras Bursar in 1849; he won the Miller Prize in 1853. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1853-54 and 1856-57.

Marriage
He married Frances Christian Sibbald in 1879 in Newington, Edinburgh. She was born on 2nd November, 1842, in Galashiels, Selkirkshire, the daughter of John Sibbald, police magistrate and woollen manufacturer, and Jane Romanes.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in St. Boswells, Roxburghshire, till 1893 when his application for a colleague and successor was received by the General Assembly.

Death
He 2lived at 5 Cluny Drive, Morningside, Edinburgh, and latterly at Dunfillan, Crieff, Perthshire, where he died on 16th April, 1910. His wife died there on 6th April, 1920. He left a personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £10,951 14/9, of which £7,807 3/9 was in Scotland.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 7/7/1910, F.C. Manse, St Boswells, afterwards 25 Cluny Drive, Morningside, Edinburgh, latterly Dunfillan, Crieff, d. 16/04/1910 at Crieff, testate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/213; Perth Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC49/32/8
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Terras or Sibbald, Frances Christian, 14/9/1920, Dunfillan, Crieff, widow, d. 06/04/1920 at Crieff, testate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/234; Perth Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC49/32/29
St Boswells St Modan’s kirk session: Photographs: Rev Alexander Terras 1861-1910; Rev Terras and Rev Norman Nicholson 1906-1914, NRS CH3/823/7

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THAIN, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Dundee, 1821. Under the influence of M’Cheyne he gave up business and devoted himself to the ministry. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at New Machar, 1858. Married, the same year, Elizabeth Crombie. Died, 1863.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 28th June and baptized on 31st July, 1823, in Dundee, the son of John Thain and Janet Davidson.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1844-48.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Crombie on 23rd June, 1859, at the Old Manse, Fintray, Aberdeenshire. She was born about 1827 in Fintray, Aberdeenshire, the daughter of John Crombie, Cothalmills, manufacturer of tweeds, and Catherine Harvey.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1850 and was ordained in New Machar, Aberdeenshire, in January, 1858

Death
He died on 21st October, 1863, at his father’s home in Dundee. His widow lived at 21 Carden Place, Aberdeen, but died on 5th October, 1910, y at Murray Villa, Perth.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Catherine Susanna Thain born on 3rd March, 1862, in New Machar, Aberdeen. She died in 1888 in Old Machar, Aberdeen.

(2) Alexander John Ramsay Thain born on 26th December, 1863, in Fintray, Aberdeenshire. He graduated M.A. from Aberdeen University in 1884 and became an advocate in Aberdeen. He married Ethel Douglas MacKinnon in 1897 in St Nicholas, Aberdeen. He died on 6th March, 1934, in Aberdeen.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander Thain
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 16/2/1864, minister of the Free Church in the parish of New Machar, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/54
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Thain or Crombie, Elizabeth, 31/10/1910, 21 Carden Place, Aberdeen, latterly temporarily at Murray Villa, Perth, widow, d. 05/10/1910 at Murray Villa, testate, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/162; Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/131

Source
The Aberdeen Journal, 29th June, 1859

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THOM, ANDREW, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Old Deer, 1840. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Was assistant in the Jewish Mission at Budapest. Ordained, 1875, at Tullibody. Married, the same year, Jane M. Richardson; and, 1880, Eleanor Wemyss.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.316, where a short biography is given). He died in 1928.

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THOM, DAVID, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Strathkinness, Fife, 1858. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Lochee, 1888.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lochee, Dundee. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.384, where a short biography is given). He died in 1928.

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THOM, ROBERT RIACH

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Montrose, 1831. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall, English Presbyterian Church, London. Ordained at Exeter, 1861. Translated to Worcester, 1864; to Glasgow, St. David’s, 1869; and to Kilmarnock, High, 1876. Married Marion Wilson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in St. David’s, Glasgow; and High, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.140, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1900 and died in 1916.

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THOMSON, ALEXANDER, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at Edinburgh, 1820. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1845, missionary to the Jews. For two years he was stationed at Budapest, and then at Constantinople. Married, 1847, Eliza Young. Resigned, 1860, and became agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Retired, 1895. Died, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 2nd December, 1820, in Edinburgh, the son of Robert Thomson, minister of Carnock, and Ann Allan. Some sources say he was born in Arbroath. He was baptised in Carnock, Fife, on 21st April, 1821. He was the brother of Robert Thomson, Free Church minister. For the minister of Carnock, see the General Index of Scottish Presbyterian Ministers here and scroll down to “Thomson, Robert: 1796, The Abbey, Arbroath.”

Education
He attended Arbroath Academy. He studied at St Andrews, Fife: at United College, 1836-41; and at St Mary’s College. 1840-41. He graduated M.A. on 24th April, 1840, and D.D. on 9th January, 1864. He was Exchequer Bursar in 1840. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, probably from 1843-45.

Marriage
He married Eliza Young on 22nd July, 1847, in Edinburgh. She was born (or baptised) on 18th April, 1817, in Dundee, the daughter of James Young and Margaret Mudie.

Ministry
In 1861 he was referred to as “Rev Alexander Thomson, of Constantinople”, when he made a contribution of £29 to the Wallace Monument Fund.

Death
He died on 15th January, 1899, in Bebek, Constantinople, Turkey.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Eliza Allen Thomson born about 1848 in Constantinople, Turkey, and educated in Edinburgh. She married Luther Allen Ostrander on 25th May, 1871, in Constantinople, Turkey. He was an American who had been teaching in Robert College there. He became a Presbyterian minister in the USA. She died at noon on 10th March, 1905, in Lyons, Wayne County, New York, USA.

(2) Margaret Ann Thomson born about 1849. She married Donald Fraser Sage, a Free Church minister.

(3) Robert Thomson born in Constantinople in 1851. He studied at Edinburgh University and Union Seminary, New York, USA. He married Agnes Catherine Turner, the daughter of Duncan Turner, a Free Church minister. He was a missionary in Samokov, Bulgaria. He died in 1921.

(4) James Young Thomson born on 21st May, 1856, in Warriston, Edinburgh. He married Eliza Drummond.

(5) Williamina Flyn Thomson born on 21st May, 1856, in Warriston, Edinburgh. She married Lawrence Gregson Binns.

(6) Alexander Thomson born about 1859 in Edinburgh. He was a general practitioner in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, before moving to Glasgow. He married Mary Jane Mackean Turner in 1886 in Monifeith, Angus. She also was a daughter of Duncan Turner, a Free Church minister.

Publications – by him
Eleh toldot bene Yisraʾel o sinkuenta i dos kuentas tiradam del Arbaʿah ṿe-ʿesrim, Constantinople, A.B. Churchil, 1854
Holy Bible in Turkish, a revision … [almost] a new translation … by G. Casakos and Avedis Asadourian … under the guidance of E. Riggs and Alexander Thomson, Istanbul, 1884

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 13/6/1899, D.D., of Bebek, near Constantinople, Probate of the will, non-Scottish Court, NRS SC70/6/75

Sources
Ebooksread; Nyshistoricnewspapers; Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul, Personnel records for Robert Thomson, American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul Center Library, online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #15696; Mocavo; The Morning Chronicle, London, England, 19th April, 1861; Scotsman, Edinburgh, 23rd January, 1899

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THOMSON, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.339
Born at West Linton, Peeblesshire, 1824. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Bradford, 1852. Resigned, 1857. Settled, 1863, at Millerston, Glasgow. Married, 1854, Charlotte Thomson; and, 1883, Margaret S. Turner. Died, 1892.

Publication.—Precious Promises, and Other Sermons.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 10th February, 1824, in West Linton, Peebles-shire, the son of James Thomson and Margaret Kello. From the age of five, he was brought up in Edinburgh. His parents were second cousins, and his paternal grand-parents were probably first cousins. His mother was instrumental in setting up the Free Church in Roseburn, Edinburgh. His sister, Joanna Thomson, married Robert Thomson, the brother of John Henderson Thomson, who became a Free Church minister.

Education
He attended the school of a Mr Lennie and, later, Edinburgh High School. He studied atEdinburgh University and enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1846-51.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Charlotte Thomson on 19th January, 1854, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. She was born on 19th October, 1825, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, the daughter of William Thomson, baker, and Charlotte Parker. Alexander and Charlotte were first cousins.

(2) Margaret Scott Turner in 1883 in Dunoon, Argyll. She was baptized on 21st February, 1838, in Dunoon and Kilmun, Argyll, the daughter of John Campbell Turner, farmer, and Margaret Scott R. Murray

Ministry
He was an assistant for a time in Dumfries. He was settled in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, in August, 1852. He removed to Millerston, Glasgow, on 17th September, 1862.

Death
He died on 31st August, 1892, at the Free Church Manse, Millerston, Glasgow, and he was buried on 5th September. His first wife died there on 13th March, 1880. His second wife died in the 3rd quarter of 1924 in Wandsworth, London, England.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) James Thomson born on 16th December, 1854 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England.

(2) William Thomson born in the 3rd quarter of 1856 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England.

(3) Charlotte Parker Thomson born on 11th February, 1858, in Edinburgh. She married Henry Pinkerton in 1887 in St Giles, Edinburgh. She died in 1923 in Rothesay, Bute.

(4) Alexander Thomson born on 19th April, 1860, in Edinburgh.

(5) Margaret Kello Thomson born on 8th July, 1861, at Charlotte Villa, Sciennes Hill, Edinburgh. She died in 1946 in Morningside, Edinburgh.

(6) Janet Thomson born on 15th December, 1862, in Edinburgh.

Publication – by him
Precious promises, Glasgow, Robertson, 1886

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 12/1/1894, Minister of the Free Church, Millerston, Will, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/109; 23/1/1894, d. 31/08/1892 at Millerston, intestate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/144

Sources
Genealogy; Fndagrave; Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 21st December, 1854; 9th July , 1861; 13th June, 1864 ; Glasgow Herald, 2nd September, 1892

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THOMSON, ALLAN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.340
Born at Greenock, 1816. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Signed the Probationers’ Resolutions, 1843. Ordained, 1846, at North Berwick. Resigned, 1851, and retired to London, where he engaged in teaching.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in 1816 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, the son of Dugald Thomson, shoemaker.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1834.

Ministry
“Alan Thomson, Greenock” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was called to be minister of North Berwick, East Lothian, on 26th March, 1846, and was ordained there later that year.

He was deposed from the ministry on Saturday, 24th May, 1851, when the General Assembly dealt with a reference from the Synod of Edinburgh. He had habitually absented himself from church services and had frequently been seen under the influence of liquor. In particular on one such occasion, he had given his name as James Smith at a police station.

Source
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 28th May, 1851, p.4.

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THOMSON, ANDREW

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.340
Studied at the Divinity Hall, Burgher Synod. Ordained at Paisley, 1824. Resigned this charge in 1834, and was settled at Garvagh, Ireland, 1835. In 1842 Mr. Thomson joined the Original Secession Synod in Scotland. He took part in the union with the Free Church of Scotland, 1852. He and his congregation became connected with the Irish Presbyterian Church, 1864. Died, 1871.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Burgher, Student, Scott, Annals, p.497; 1824, Paisley (Burgher), Scott, Annals, p.408; 1835, Garvagh, Ireland (Burgher), Scott, Annals, p.338; General, Scott, Annals, p.76; General, Scott, Annals, p.194; Call, Scott, Annals, p.430; Small, History, Vol.2, p.525

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THOMSON, ANDREW

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.340
Born, 1815. Son of Dr. Thomson, St. George’s, Edinburgh. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Maybole, Ayrshire, 1840. Married, the same year, Mary Thomson. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. In 1845 Mr. Thomson left Scotland. He was reported to have died in Australia, 1859.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, Maybole, FES, Vol.3, p.53; FES, Vol.8, p.222; archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com. In the Free Church, he served in Maybole, Ayrshire.

Family
Thomson Tree.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Thomson, Mary, 3/11/1898, 8 Craigkennochie Terrace, Burntisland, widow of Rev. Andrew Thomson of Maybole, d. 19/08/1898 at Burntisland, testate, Inventory, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/77; Will, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/78
Reference from the Free Presbytery of Ayr in the case of the Rev. Andrew Thomson, late minister at Maybole, Edinburgh, John Greig, 1845?

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THOMSON, ARTHUR

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.340
Born at Muckart, 1823. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Licensed by the Presbytery of Penpont, 1852, while supplying the station at Durrisdeer. Laboured for a short time near Manchester. Ordained at Salton, 1853. Married, 1856, Isabella Landsborough. Translated, 1874, to Yester. For eight years was clerk of the Free Presbytery of Haddington. Died, 1881.

Publications.—The Questions of Jesus. The Saviour’s Claim. The Way of Life and the Way of Death.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 31st May, 1823, at New Broad Meadow, Muckart, Perthshire, the son of David Thomson and Christian Smeaton.

Education
He attended the parish school in Muckart and entered Edinburgh University in 1840. He was for some time engaged in teaching in various parts of Scotland, and attended the Normal School. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1848-1852.

Marriage
He married Isabella Landsborough in October, 1856, the marriage being recorded on the 12th in Bolton, East Lothian, and on the 15th in Edinburgh. She was born on 28th May and baptized on 2nd June, 1828, in Stevenston, Ayrshire, the daughter of David Landsborough, minister there, and Margaret McLeish. She was the sister of David Landsborough, Kilmarnock.

Ministry
He served as a missionary at Canonmills, Edinburgh; and in 1852 was appointed to a preaching station in Durrisdeer, Dumfries-shire, before serving for a short time near Manchester, Lancashire, England. He was appointed to supply Salton, East Lothian, while the minister was supplying a chair in the Free Church College at Aberdeen; and on the minister being appointed to a permanent professorship, he was unanimously chosen to be minister of Salton and Bolton, East Lothian, and was ordained in the autumn of 1853. He was translated to Yester in 1874

Death
He died suddenly on 31st March, 1881, at 10 Lynedoch Place, Edinburgh. His widow lived at 19 Kilmaurs Road, Edinburgh, and died there on 12th May, 1905.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) David Landsborough Thomson born on 4th January, 1858, in Bolton, East Lothian. He died on 30th November, 1861, at the Free Church Manse, Salton.

(2) Christina Smeaton Thomson born on 26th August, 1859, in Bolton, East Lothian. She died on 4th April, 1916, in St Giles, Edinburgh.

(3) John Arthur Thomson born on 8th July, 1861, in Bolton, East Lothian. He married Margaret Robertson Stewart in 1889 in Newington, Edinburgh. He was a naturalist. He taught at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh, from 1893 until 1899 then at the University of Aberdeen from 1899 until 1930, in which year he was knighted. His popular works sought to reconcile science and religion. He died in the 1st quarter of 1933 in Godstone, Surrey, England. One of his sons was the ornithologist A. Landsborough Thomson.

(4) Margaret Landsborough Thomson born on 10th March, 1863, in Bolton, East Lothian. She died in 1887 in Newington, Edinburgh.

(5) George Keith Thomson born on 30th April, 1864, in Bolton, East Lothian. He died on 5th June, 1866, at the Free Church Manse, Salton.

(6) Jane Steel Thomson born on 20th October, 1866, in Bolton, East Lothian. She died in 1951 in Crail, Fife.

(7) James Stuart Thomson born on 21st July, 1868, in Bolton, East Lothian. He studied at Edinburgh, Freiburg and Berne. He had a varied teaching career, finishing up as Lecturer in Zoology in the University of Manchester, Lancashire, England. He also served as a biologist at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. He retired to Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, and died on 28th August, 1932, in Swansea, Wales.

Publication – by him
The questions of Jesus; or, The great physician dealing with souls, 52 expositions, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1867

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Arthur Thomson.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 16/12/1881 and 6/1/1882, Minister, Free Church of Scotland, Gifford, Haddingtonshire, d. 31/03/1881 at Edinburgh, testate, Haddington Sheriff Court, NRS SC40/40/23
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Thomson or Landsborough, Isabella, 21/7/1905, 19 Kilmaurs Road, Edinburgh, widow of Revd Arthur Thomson, minister of Salton and Gifford, East Lothian, d. 12/05/1905 at Edinburgh, intestate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/447
Records of Edinburgh, St Mary’s Free Church: Papers relating to Canonmills school: Printed testimonials in favour of Mr Arthur Thomson, 1841 -1849, NRS CH3/721/50

Sources
Wikipedia: John Arthur Thomson; Cambridge Journals 8383868; The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 5th December, 186; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 9th June, 1866; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 5th April, 1916, p.12

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THOMSON, CHARLES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.340
Born in the parish of Dalserf, 1795. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Ordained at North Shields, Scotch Church, 1823. Married, 1825, Janet Ballantine. Translated, 1840, to Wick. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. His congregation left the Establishment with him almost in a body. He preached in the open air in the summer of 1843; in the Temperance Hall during the subsequent winter; and again in the open air in the summer of 1844; and entered the new church in November of that year. Died, 1871.

Publication.—An edition of the Letters of Samuel Rutherfurd, with an Introduction.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1823, North Shields, FES,Vol.7, p.517; 1840, Wick, FES, Vol.7, p.142. In the Free Church, he served in Wick, Caithness.

Publications – by him
Papers of the Montague-Douglas-Scott Family, Dukes of Buccleuch: Petitions: Schedule of intimation and protest by Charles Thomson, preacher of the Gospel at Hawick, against the Duke of Buccleuch, notifying him of his engagement as assistant to the Rev James Arkel, minister of Hawick, and of the consequential financial arrangements, 1821 November 15, NRS GD224/588/4
New Statistical Account, March, 1841, Wick, Vol.15, Caithness, p.117
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites for Free churches and schools, 9 April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/171; Withdrawing petition about sites for Free churches, 12 April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/173; Maynooth grant, 16th May, 1845, NRS GD112/51/194; 20th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/216; Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 9th February, 1854, Education., NRS GD112/74/837
Sinclair of Ulbster Letter Books: 1850-1858, Volume XVI: Letters to Sir George Sinclair, 1823-1853. This volume contains letters concerning the Free Church of Scotland written to Sir George Sinclair: Charles Thomson, about 20 letters, NRS RH4/49/6
Letter to the Rev. Henry Grey, on certain passages contained in the letters of Anglicanus, Edinburgh, W. Whyte & Co., 1828
Second letter to the Rev. Henry Grey, containing strictures on his newspaper letters respecting the pamphlet of Anglicanus, Edinburgh, William Whyte & Co., 1828
Notices of the martyrs and confessors of Lesmahagow, Glasgow, W. Lang, 1832
The letters and life of the Reverend Samuel Rutherford: Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews, London, F. Baisler, 1836
The Scottish Christian Herald, 2nd series, Vol.3, p.241, On the Decline and Present Condition of Presbyterianism in England

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 23/6/1871, minister of Free Church of Scotland at Wick, husband of Janet Ballantyne, Wick Sheriff Court, NRS SC14/40/8
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Thomson or Ballantyne, Janet, 24/6/1892, West Park, Wick, widow of Rev. Charles Thomson, F.C. Minister, Wick, d. 21/02/1892 at Wick, testate, Wick Sheriff Court, NRS SC14/40/14
A letter to the Rev. Charles Thomson, of the Scotch Church, North Shields, containing remarks on the division of the Scotch Church, South Shields, Sunderland (England), Edward Smith, 1839

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THOMSON, EDMUND THOMAS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.340
Born at North Free manse, Kirriemuir, 1861. Son of Rev. J. P. Thomson. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Abington, 1891. Married, the same year, Catherine A. Bayne. Translated, 1900, to Brechin, East.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Abington and Crawfordjohn, Lanarkshire; and East, Brechin, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.402, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1918 and died in 1922.

Family
His father, John Petrie Thomson, and his brother, James Head Thomson, were both Free Church ministers.

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THOMSON, EDWARD ANDERSON

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.340
Born at Edinburgh, 1817. Studied at the University, Edinburgh; Divinity Hall, Anti-Burgher Synod; and Divinity Hall of Edinburgh University. Ordained at Dundee, 1844. At the union of the United Original Seceders with the Free Church, in 1852, he and his congregation were removed from Meadowfield and joined the congregation of Dudhope Free Church. Ill-health obliged Mr. Thomson to resign in 1859; but he was able to resume ministerial work as colleague to Mr. Gillies in Free St. Stephen’s, Edinburgh, 1862. Became senior minister, 1887. Married, 1847, Ann Wright; and, 1888, Helen E. Logan. Died, 1890.

Publications.—Besides pamphlets, sermons, and articles, The Four Evangelists, with the Distinctive Characteristics of their Gospels. Posthumous.—Memorials of a Ministry. A Selection from the Discourses of Edward A. Thomson, with a Biographical Sketch by Professor Laidlaw, D.D.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 5th September, 1817, in Edinburgh, the son of Edward Thomson, tailor and glover, and Marion Laidlaw. He was connected with Davie Street Secession Church, Edinburgh.

Education
He studied in the Secession Divinity Hall under Drs McCrie and Laing. He was licensed by the Edinburgh Secession Presbytery on 28th November 1843

Marriage
His marriage to Ann Wright is recorded on 12th August, 1847, in both Edinburgh and Dundee. She was born on 22nd February, 1819 in Barony, Glasgow, about 1818, the daughter of Peter Wright, master linen draper, and Agnes Thomson.

He married Helen Elizabeth Logan in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1888. She was born on 24th September, 1840, in Edinburgh, the daughter of John Logan, W.S., and Helen Bowman.

Ministry
He was called both to Kirriemuir, Angus, and to Dundee, and was ordained in Dundee Secession Church on 15th August, 1844, and he remained there despite two calls at different to Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire. He entered the Free Church at the Union of 1852, but his congregation was divided. For an account of the division from the perspective of the United Original Secession Church see here.

In the Free Church, he served in Dudhope, Dundee; and St. Stephen’s, Edinburgh.

Death
He died on 14th October, 1890, at 29 India Street, Edinburgh. Ann Wright or Thomson died in Newington, Edinburgh, in 1887. Helen Elizabeth Logan or Thomson lived at 17 Learmonth Terrace, Edinburgh, and died there on 17th January, 1920.

Family
He had issue including:

(1) Edward Wright Thomson b 10th June, 1850, in Dundee. He died there in 1857.

(2) Robert Wright Thomson b 20th October, 1851, in Dundee. He died in Newington, Edinburgh, in 1861.

(3) Marion Laidlaw Thomson born in 1857 in Dundee. She married Francis Renton Barry, a Free Church minister. She died in Richmond, Surrey, England, in the 4th quarter of 1920.

(4) Edward Peter Thomson born in 1861 in Newington, Edinburgh. He was an Arts student in 1881. In 1911 he was a W.S., Principal Extractor of the Court of Session. He married Mary Lamond Haig Christie in St Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1889. His death is probably recorded in the Consular Returns of 1926, aged 64.

Publications
See separate document here.

Sources
Antiburgher, Student, Scott, Annals, p.583; 1844, Dundee (Constitutional), Scott, Annals, p.313; General, Scott, Annals, p.194; Call, Scott, Annals, p.387; Call, Scott, Annals, p.389; Call, Scott, Annals, p.393; Small, History, Vol.1, p.290
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THOMSON, GEORGE WEBSTER, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.341
Born at Stanley, Perthshire, 1835. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh; also at Berlin. Ordained at St. Brycedale, Kirkcaldy, 1867. Married, 1871, Mary Omond. Translated, 1874, to St. George’s, Glasgow; and, 1881, to Aberdeen, West.

Publications.—Alexander Henderson (Evangelical Succession Lectures; Second Series). Papers on Early Scottish Literature and Church History in Proceedings of Aberdeen Ecclesiological Society.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in St. Brycedale, Kirkcaldy, Fife; St. George’s, Glasgow; and West, Aberdeen. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.420). He retired in 1903 and died in 1907.

Family
Bayne Tree.

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THOMSON, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.341
Born at Ormiston, 1800. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Muckart, Perthshire, 1832. Was clerk of the Presbytery of Auchterarder. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Subsequent to 1843 the charge of Mr. Thomson became that of Dollar and Muckart, and was attached to the Presbytery of Stirling. Married, 1850, Mary M. Monteith. Retired, 1863. Died, 1871.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1832, Muckhart, FES, Vol.5, p.69. In the Free Church, he served in Dollar and Muckhart, Perthshire/Clackmannanshire.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, September, 1835, Muckhart, Vol.10, p.301
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.447, The danger and evil of being turned away from the simplicity that is in Christ
He contributed to the Disruption Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 28; 57; 154; 181; 251; 257; 271 and 313. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 19/4/1872, Minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Dollar latterly at No.7 Saxe Coburg Place in Edinburgh, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/157; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/138
Records of Messrs. Davidson & Syme, W.S.: Sederunt Book: Executry (intestate) of John Thomson, died Bordighera, North Italy, May 1878, son of the Rev. James Thomson, Minister of the Free Church, Dollar, NRS GD282/12/162; Sederunt Book: Executry of Rev. James Thomson, Minister of the Free Church, Dollar, later of Saxe Coburg Place, Edinburgh, died December 1871, NRS GD282/12/163
Andrew Morgan, schoolmaster, East Lees, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.258 [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 and Appendix 1 , Table 3 , p.8

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THOMSON, JAMES FLEMING, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.341
Born at Perth, 1839. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Stanley, Perthshire, 1870.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Stanley, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.338). He retired in 1909 and died in 1924.

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THOMSON, JAMES HEAD, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.341
Born, 1847. Son of Rev. J. P. Thomson, Kirriemuir. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Inverkip, 1880. Married, 1881, Eliza J. Henderson. Translated to Blackheath, London, 1884.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 28th June, 1847, in Kirriemuir, Angus, the son of John Petrie Thomson, minister, and Sarah Craig Young. His brother, Edmund Thomas Thomson, was also a Free Church minister.

Education
He studied at Glasgow University and graduated M.A. in 1878 and M.D. in 1879.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Jemima Henderson on 29th November, 1881, at 28 Glassford Street, Glasgow (Registration: 1881 644/7 361 Blythswood). She then lived at 3 Tennant Street, Glasgow. She was born in Devonshire, England, about 1855, the daughter of James Henderson, oil work foreman, and Elizabeth Shaw.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow on 3rd May, 1878. He was ordained to Inverkip, Renfrewshire, on 12th August, 1880. He was described on that occasion as of “Grangemouth”, which may mean that he ministered there briefly as a probationer. He accepted a call to Blackheath, London, England, on 24th September, 1884. In 1897, he was appointed Clerk of South London Presbytery.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Frederick Henry George Petrie Thomson born in 1883 in Inverkip, Renfrewshire. He married Margaret Mills in the 2nd quarter of 1914 in Greenwich, London, England. He was a chartered accountant. He died in the 1st quarter of 1946 in Westminster, London, England.

Source
The Dundee Courier & Argus, 5th July, 1897

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THOMSON, JAMES KERR

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.341
Born at Kilmarnock, 1818. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1875, at Port William. Resigned, 1888. Married Margaret Hogg.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 24th August, 1818, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, the son of William Thomson, shoe-maker, and Helen Kerr.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1847.

Marriage
He married Margaret Hogg. A James Thomson married Margaret Hogg in 1855 in Blythswood, Glasgow. She was born about 1826 in Aberdeen; she is said to have been the daughter of James Hogg and Margaret Stevenson.

Ministry
He was a teacher in London and Glasgow and a missionary in St John’s Free Church, Glasgow. He was ordained in Port-William, Wigtownshire, in 1875. He resigned his charge on 11th September, 1888.

Death
He died on 30th December, 1907, at 14 Glasgow Street, Hillhead, Glasgow.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Margaret Stevenson Thomson born on 9th September, 1856, in Milton, Glasgow. She died in 1916 in Hillhead, Glasgow.

(2) William Murray Thomson born on 12th January, 1858, in Blythswood, Glasgow.

(3) Helen Kerr Thomson born on 10th June, 1859, in Blythswood, Glasgow. In 1901 she was a costumier. She died on 24th November, 1929, in Hillhead, Glasgow.

(4) Jane Smith Thomson born on 3rd September, 1860, in Blythswood, Glasgow.

(5) Jemima Hogg Thomson born on 23rd August, 1862, in Govan, Glasgow. She died in 1944 in Hillhead, Glasgow.

(6) James Hogg Thomson born on 13th June, 1864, in Govan, Glasgow. In 1901 he was a bank clerk.

(7) Elizabeth Thomson born on 18th April, 1866, Govan, Glasgow.

(8) George Kerr Thomson born on 23rd July, 1868, in Govan, Glasgow. He married Christina Jane Pullar or Spence in 1899 in Eastwood, Lanarkshire. He died in 1931 in Springburn, Glasgow.

Source
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THOMSON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.341
Born in the parish of Kilberry, 1791. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Leith Wynd Chapel, Edinburgh, 1820. Translated, 1824, to Dysart. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1848.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1820, Leith Wynd, FES,Vol.1, p.185; 1824, Dysart, FES, Vol.5, p.90. In the Free Church, he served in Dysart, Fife.

Publications – by him
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.412, Going forth to Christ without the camp
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.2,Sufferings of the Crew of the Viewforth of Kirkaldy, one of the ice-bound whalers of 1835, pp. 12, 45, 76 and 176; Vol.3, p.625, The Power of Conscience; 2nd series, Vol.1, p.55, Anecdote of the late Rev. Dr Balfour of Glasgow; 2nd series, Vol.2, On the State of Feeling in Scotland in 1779 in Reference to Popery, pp.97, 97 and 113
He contributed to the Disruption Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 322; 902; 318. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 10/5/1848, minister of the Free Church Dysart, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/18
William Muir, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.138 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
20th December, 1837, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.438 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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THOMSON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.341

Born, 1803. Son of Dr. J. Thomson, Edinburgh. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Shettleston, 1829. Married, 1834, Beatrice Dempster; and, 1844, Jane Guthrie. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1843, to St. George’s, Montrose; and, 1846, to Aberdeen, Greyfriars’. Became senior minister, 1870. Died, 1893.

Publications.—The Nature and Import of Baptism. The Public Worship of God.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1829, Shettleston, Glasgow, FES,Vol.3, p.490. In the Free Church, he served in St. George’s, Montrose, Angus; Greyfriars’, Aberdeen.

Family
Thomson Tree.

Publications – by him
A Practical Treatise on the spiritual import of Baptism, and the duties connected with the observance of the ordinance, Glasgow, W.R. McPhun, 1832
The Public Worship of God Illustrated and Enforced in Its Different Practical Bearings, Glasgow, W.R. McPhun, 1835
The Obligation of Christian Ministers to execute the trust committed to them, as pleasing not men, but God, a sermon, Aberdeen, 1849
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.2, p.441, On Assurance of Salvation; Vol.4, p.341, Lay not up Treasures upon Earth, but in Heaven

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 23/1/1894, sometime residing in Perth, afterwards at 19 Albert Street, Aberdeen, d. 04/12/1893 at Aberdeen, testate, spouse of Jane Guthrie or Thomson, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/121; 25/1/1894, Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/113
Thomson or Guthrie, Jane, Mrs, 11/9/1899, sometime residing at 19 Albert Street, Aberdeen, afterwards at 68 Desswood Place there, widow of Revd John Thomson sometime minister of the Free Greyfriar’s Church, Aberdeen, d. 23/05/1898 at Aberdeen, testate, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/138; 28/9/1899, Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/120
Second Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, Appendix 2, p.180 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]; Schedule of Queries and Additional Declarations, Appendix 3, p.561

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THOMSON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.341
Born at Girvan, 1803. Son of Rev. James Thomson. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Ordained at Prestonkirk, 1831. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1845, Elizabeth Cunningham. Became senior minister, 1876. Was clerk of the Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar for twenty-eight years. Died, 1889.

Publication.—A volume of Sermons and Addresses on the occasion of his jubilee.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1831, Prestonkirk, FES, Vol.1, p.416. In the Free Church, he served in Prestonkirk, East Lothian.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, May, 1835, Prestonkirk, Vol.2, Haddington, p.18; and December, 1836, Spott, Vol.2, Haddington, p.224
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 15th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/175; Sites, 16th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/213
Memorials of a fifty years’ ministry, being Sermons and other Discourses, Edinburgh, John Maclaren & Son, 1881
He contributed to the Disruption Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 797. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 23/8/1889, F.C. Minister, Prestonkirk, d. 12/07/1889 at Prestonkirk, testate, Haddington Sheriff Court, NRS SC40/40/27
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Thomson or Cunningham, Elizabeth, 18/2/1897, 20 St Bernard’s Crescent, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. John Thomson, F.C. Minister, Prestonkirk, d. 02/12/1896 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/355; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/295
George P. Smith, schoolmaster, Linton, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.167 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 3, p.8 and Appendix 2, p.16

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THOMSON, JOHN, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.341
Born at Stirling, 1809. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Yester, 1834. Married, the same year, Margaret Buchanan. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated to St. George’s, Paisley, 1845. Became senior minister, 1881. Died, 1883. Dr. Thomson was largely instrumental in extending the work of the Church on the Continent of Europe.

Publications.—The Domestic Circle. The Life of Faith.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1834, Yester, FES, Vol.1, p.400. In the Free Church, he served in Yester, East Lothian; and St. George’s, Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Publications
See separate document here.

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THOMSON, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.342
Born at Edinburgh, 1808. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Was missionary of the Seamen’s Friend Society, Ordained at Mariners’ Church, Leith, 1840. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1848, Elizabeth G. Brown. Was clerk of the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale for over thirty years. Edited for a number of years the “Blue Book” of the Free Church; and executed some translations of theological works from the German. Died, 1881.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, Mariners’, Leith, FES, Vol.1, p.185. In the Free Church, he served in St. Ninian’s (originally Mariners’), Leith, Edinburgh.

Family
Brown Tree.

Publication – by him
Sabbath legislation, a duty incumbent on rulers by the word of God, and rendered especially necessary in present circumstances, by a regard to the preservation of civil and religious liberty, a sermon, Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1847
Commentary on the Psalms, E. W. Hengstenberg, translated by P. Fairbairn and J. Thomson, Edinburgh: T. &. T. Clark 1845-1848: Vol.1; Vol.2 and Vol.3
Proceedings and debates of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland: held at Edinburgh, May 1881, Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1881
The Scottish Christian Herald, 2nd series, Vol.3, p.776, The Gospel Hid to the Lost

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/11/1881, MA, minister of Free St Ninian’s Church, Leith, d.18/11/1881 at Leith, testate, Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/191; 1/12/1881, M.A., Minister, Free St Ninians Church, Leith, d. 18/11/1881 at Leith, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/210

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THOMSON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.342
Born in Dumbartonshire, 1856. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1888, missionary to South Africa. Stationed at Idudywa [Idutywa].

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.557, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1920 and died in 1932.

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THOMSON, JOHN EBENEZER HONEYMAN, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.342
Born at Glasgow, 1841. Studied at the University, Glasgow, Divinity Hall, United Presbyterian Church, and Free Church College, Glasgow. Married Margaret D. Gray. Ordained, 1895, missionary to Safed. Resigned, 1899.

Publications.—Life of George Thomson. Books which Influenced our Lord and His Apostles. Commentary on Daniel (Pulpit Commentary Series), etc.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 8th August and baptized on 19th September, 1841, in Glasgow, the son of Ebenezer Thomson and Catherine Ferguson Honeyman. Alexander “Greek” Thomson was his father’s brother; as was George Thomson – a Baptist missionary in Cameroon; and William Cooper Thomson, a Church Missionary Society missionary in Sierra Leone – the two sons of this man were also missionaries.

Education
He studied at Glasgow University and graduated M.A. in 1871 and B.D. in 1872. He was awarded the D.D. degree by St Andrews University, Fife, in 1897.

Marriage
He married Margaret Dalgleish Gray in March, 1893, in Dalkeith, Midlothian. She was born on 15th December, 1853, in Dalkeith, Midlothian, the daughter of James Gray, agent of the Commercial Bank of Scotland and Provost of Dalkeith, and Barbara Prentice.

Ministry
He went out to Safed in 1895 in an honorary capacity and he took charge of the Girls’ School there. He was highly respected amongst the Jewish population because of his extensive linguistic knowledge and acquaintance with Rabbinic laws. When he returned home for health reasons, he concerned himself mainly with literary activity.

Death
He died on 9th June, 1923, at 170 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh. His wife died there on 8th January, 1925.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications
See separate document here.

Sources
Kerry-Lorraine-Gray; Alexander Thomson; George Thomson; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 11th June, 1923, p.6

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THOMSON, JOHN EWING, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.342
Born at Dumbarton, 1859. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Stair, Ayrshire, 1886. Married, 1900, Jane M. C. Dodds.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Dumbarton on 4th November, 1885 (Minutes of the Free Presbytery of Dumbarton, NRS, CH3/80/2) and served in Stair, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.132, where a short biography is given).

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THOMSON, JOHN HENDERSON

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.342
Born at Edinburgh, 1824. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, Divinity Hall, Reformed Presbyterian Church, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Eaglesham, 1857. Joined the Free Church at the union, 1876. Translated to Hightae, 1877. Married, 1891, Mary Cunningham Young.

Publications.—Editor of Reformed Presbyterian Magazine, Christian Treasury, Free Church Children’s Record, and Free Church Year Book. The Martyr Graves of Scotland (two series). Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherfurd, transcribed and annotated along with Dr. Bonar, Glasgow.

Supplementary Information
This man does not appear in FRPCS.

Couper, The R.P. Church, p.134

Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Hightae, Dumfries-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.97, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1900 and died in 1901.

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THOMSON, JOHN PETRIE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.342
Born at Kirriemuir, 1811. Studied at the University, St. Andrews. Became parish teacher at Galston. Ordained at Kirriemuir, North, 1844. Married, 1846, Sarah C. Young; and, 1852, Catherine Thomson. Died, 1881.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 9th and baptized on 26th January, 1811, in Kirriemuir, Angus, the son of Thomas Thomson, tailor and clothier, and Ann Milne. Prior to entering the ministry, he was a parish teacher in Golspie, Sutherland.

Education
He studied in St Andrews, Fife: at United College, 1828-32; and at St Mary’s College, 1832-34 and 1835-36. He was the Foundation Bursar in 1828. He was a teacher in Galston.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Sarah Craig Young on 31st May, 1846, in Kirriemuir, Angus, the marriage also being registered on 2nd June, 1846, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. She was born about 1825 in England.

(2) Catherine Thomson on 15th August, 1852, in Kirriemuir, Angus, the marriage also being registered on 17th August in Perth. She was born about 1832 in Perth.

Ministry
He was licensed in 1844. On 10th October, 1844, he was called to North, Kirriemuir, Angus. William Roy was appointed as a colleague and successor for him on 7th July, 1879.

Death
He died on 13th May, 1881, in Kirriemuir, Angus, and was buried on 17th May. His second wife died in Kirriemuir in 1879, aged 46.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) James Head Thomson baptized on 28th June, 1847, in Kirriemuir, Angus. He became a Free Church minister.

(2) Mary Thomson born about 1848 in Kirriemuir, Angus.

(3) William Thomson born about 1851 in Kirriemuir, Angus.

And by his second wife:

(4) Catherine Thomson born about 1853 in Kirriemuir, Angus.

(5) George Ballingall Thomson born on 18th August, 1855, in Kirriemuir, Angus. He died at the beginning of March, 1881, at the Manse of his brother, in Inverkip, Renfrewshire.

(6) Alfred John Thomson born on 14th July, 1857, in Kirriemuir, Angus. He died there in 1859.

(7) Frederick Thomson born on 26th June, 1859, in Kirriemuir, Angus.

(8) Edmund Thomas Thomson born on 3rd April, 1861, in Kirriemuir, Angus. He was a Free Church minister.

(9) Caroline Ann Thomson born on 9th May, 1864, in Kirriemuir, Angus.

(10) Alfred Earl Thomson born on 20th December, 1865, in Kirriemuir, Angus.

(11) Eliza Jane Thomson born on 4th June, 1867, in Kirriemuir, Angus.

(12) Jessie Anderson Thomson born on 24th December, 1869, in Kirriemuir, Angus.

(13) Annie Burns Macintyre Thomson born on 29th April, 1871, in Kirriemuir, Angus.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, 17th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/177
Premillennialism weighed in the balances of Scripture, and found wanting, Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter, 1854.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Thomson, Petrie

Sources
The Belfast News-Letter, Belfast, Ireland, 7th March, 1881; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 16th May, 1881

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THOMSON, JOHN WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.342
Born, 1803. Son of Dr. W. A. Thomson, Perth. Ordained, 1828, at Moneydie, Perthshire. Married, 1831, Janet Moncrieff. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Was for many years clerk of the Synod of Perth and Stirling, and of the Presbytery of Perth. Died, 1864.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1828, Moneydie, FES, Vol.4, p.226. In the Free Church, he served in Pitcairngreen, Perthshire.

Family
Thomson Tree.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, April, 1837, Moneydie, Vol.10, p.198
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 12 April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/173; Maynooth, 17th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/177

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John W. Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 18/11/1864, minister of Free Church at Pitcairngreen, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/78
G. Porter, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.257 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 2, p.20
23rd March, 1838, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.202 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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THOMSON, PETER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.342
Born at Guildtown, Perth, 1824. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1858, at Berwick. Married, 1860, Christina Martin. Translated, 1863, to Crawfurdsburn, Greenock. Died, 1890.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 5th and baptized on 11th November, 1824, in St Martin’s, Perthshire, the son of James Thomson and Elspeth MacFarlane.

Education
Prior to his University studies he worked in a merchant’s office. During his studies he was worked as missionary in the West Port, Edinburgh. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1853-57.

Marriage
He married Christina Anne Martin or Reid on 19th June, 1860, in St George, Edinburgh. She was born in 1819 in Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire, the daughter of Matthew Martin and Rachel Brown. She had previously been married to Adam F. Reid.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 27th August, 1857, and he then worked as assistant in Newcastle on Tyne, Engand. He was translated from a congregation that is variously described as Berwick or Bankhill near Newcastle, Northumberland to Finnieston, Greenock, or as it was later to be called Crawfurdsburn, Greenock, Renfrewshire, on 12th March, 1863. In January, 1866, the Manse was broken into and some silver plate and other valuables were carried off.

Death
He died suddenlyof heart disease on 25th March, 1890, in his Manse, Ratho Street, in Greenock, Renfrewshire, having preached the previous evening.

Family
There is no evidence that he had issue, though his wife did from her previous marriage.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Peter Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 26/4/1890, Minister of Crawfurdsburn Free Church, Greenock, d. 25/03/1890 at Greenock, testate, Greenock Sheriff Court, NRS SC53/41/3; Will, Greenock Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC53/47/2

Sources
Glasgow Herald, 3rd January, 1866; 26th March, 1890; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 26th March, 1890

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THOMSON, PETER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.342
Born at Portsoy, 1851. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh; also at Leipzig and Strassburg. Ordained at St. Fergus, 1877. Died, 1880.

Publications.— Life of David (” Bible Class Primers “). Posthumous.—A Scottish Student. Memorials of Peter Thomson, M.A. By Rev. George Steven, M.A, Edinburgh.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 14th April, 1851, in Fordyce, Banffshire, the son of James Thomson, farm overseer, and Mary Duncan.

Education
He attended the Free Church school in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. He entered Aberdeen University in 1868 and graduated M.A. in 1872. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1872-76. He was a Cunningham fellow and received a Bursary of £200. He studied thereafter at Strassburg, then at Leipsic.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Strathbogie on 2nd May, 1876. He assisted in Regent Square, London, England, for a short time. In the Free Church, he served in St. Fergus, Aberdeenshire.

Death
He died on 29th May, 1880, in Old Machar, Aberdeen.

Family
There is no evidence that he ever married.

Publication – by him
The life of David, Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace, 1881

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Peter Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 23/8/1880, M.A., minister of the Free Church, St Fergus, Aberdeenshire, d. 29/05/1880 at Aberdeen, testate, Extract Inventory, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/87; 3/9/1880, Will, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/86
A Scotch student memorials of Peter Thomson, A.M., minister of the Free Church, St. Fergus, by George Steven, Edinburgh, MacNiven and Wallace, 1881

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THOMSON, PETER DONALD, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.343

Born in Lanarkshire, 1872. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Peterculter, 1897.

Supplementary Information
In the Free Church, he served in Peterculter, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.425). Thereafter he served in St Brycedale, Kirkcaldy, from 1901 (FUFC, p.363); and in Kelvinside, Glasgow, from 1907 (FUFC, p.229, where a short biography is given).

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THOMSON, RICHMOND SCOTT, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.343
Born at Stirling, 1831. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1858, at Arbirlot, Forfarshire. Married, the same year, Janet Inglis. Died, 1878.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 10th and baptized on 22nd May, 1831, in Stirling, the son of Robert Thomson, writer, and Mary Jaffray. His mother was a daughter of Robert Jaffray, the Seceder minister of Kilmarnock (see Small. History, Vol.2, p.285). His brother, James Thomson, is said to have been a minister and to have married Jeanette Gaskin Gunning. And indeed there is a minister in the USA who married that lady.

Education
After the death of his parents, he attended school in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. He gained his M.A. from Edinburgh University and enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1853-57.

Marriage
He married Janet Inglis on 31st August, 1858, at the bride’s home, Elm Park, Leven, Fife (Registration: 1858 456/ 9 Scoonie (Fife)). She was born (or baptised) on 22nd April, 1828, in Kirkcaldy, Fife, the daughter of Andrew Inglis and Janet Balfour.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Stirling on 2nd September, 1857. Prior to his ordination, he served in Cambusbarron, near Stirling, and in Dumfries. He was ordained by the Free Presbytery of Arbroath to Arbirlot, Angus, on 19th August, 1858. While minister there, he served one winter in Cannes.

Death
He died on 20th June, 1878, in Arbirlot, Angus, and was buried on 25th June in the New Cemetery, Arbroath, Angus. His wife died in 1893.

His congregation erected a memorial tablet in the church building. It read: “Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Richmond Scott Thomson, M.A., who was for twenty years the minister of this church, and who died on 20th June, 1878, aged 47 years. This tablet is erected by the congregation in remembrance of his kind and faithful servies. ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord’”

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Jeanette Balfour Thomson born on 24th June, 1859, in Arbirlot, Angus. She died in 1872 in Cannes.

(2) Mary Jaffray Thomson born on 24th November, 1860, in Arbirlot, Angus.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Richmond S. Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 20/9/1878, Minister, Free Church of Scotland, Arbirlot, d. 20/06/1878 at Arbirlot, testate, Forfar Sheriff Court, NRS SC47/40/45

Sources
www.geni.com; Dundee Courier, 8th September, 1858; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 26th June, 1878; 16th October, 1878

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THOMSON, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.343
Born in the parish of Rothes, 1814. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. Ordained, 1840, at Peterculter. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1845.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, Peterculter, FES, Vol.6, p.73. In the Free Church, he served in Peterculter, Aberdeenshire.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 17/4/1845, Minister of the Free Church in Peterculter, T. 16/04/1845 NRS SC1/37/22/p511, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC1/36/22; Extract Testament, Aberdeen Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC1/37/22

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THOMSON, ROBERT, LL.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.343
Born at Edinburgh, 1826. Brother of Rev. Dr. A. Thomson, Constantinople. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, Free Church College, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1863, to Continental work, and proceeded to Landerneau. Resigned, 1865. Settled at Roslin, 1870. From 1878 to 1886 he was minister at Niagara Falls in Canada. Married, 1861, Elizabeth Walsh; and, thereafter, Mary E. Taylor.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 15th January, 1826, in Edinburgh, the son of Robert Thomson, minister of Carnock, and Ann Allan. He was baptised in Carnock, Fife, on 4th February that year. His brother, Alexander Thomson, was a Free Church minister. For the minister of Carnock, see the General Index of Scottish Presbyterian Ministers here and scroll down to “Thomson, Robert: 1796, The Abbey, Arbroath.”

Education
There was a Robert Thomson who enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1857-58.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Walsh on 18th April, 1861, at the bride’s home, 18 Union Street, Greenock, Renfrewhire (Registration: 1861 564/3 61 Greenock Old or West). She was born there on 19th June, 1826, the daughter of Nicholas Walsh, shipowner, and Elizabeth Kerr.

Ministry
He was ordained in 1863 by the Free Presbytery of Kelso and Lauder to the pastoral charge of Landernau, Brittany, France. In 1868 he was called to Roslin, Midlothian, as assistant to David Brown. Two years later he received another call from Roslin, presumably now to be their minister, as David Brown had died on 3rd March that year. He was duly admitted there on 16th June, 1870. During his time in Canada, his wife appears to have been living in Scotland: she was there in 1881 and she died there in 1883. In 1881 she seems to record her status as divorced and at her death she was described as “sometime wife of Rev Robert Thomson.”

Death
Elizabeth Thomson or Walsh latterly lived at 18 Leopold Place, Edinburgh, and died there on 21st February, 1883.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) James Kerr Thomson born in 1862 in Greenock, Renfrewshire. He died there that year.

(2) Eliza Kerr Thomson, born in St Andrew, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, in 1863. She married Andrew Gifford Yorston in the Regent Hotel, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, on 9th October, 1891. She died in 1933 in Lasswade, Midlothian.

(3) Andrew Thomson born about February, 1866. He died at Troon, Ayrshire, on 14th October, 1868, aged two years and eight months.

Publications – by him
The atonement of Christ the believer’s passover, and the heart-preparation with which it should be commemorated, a sermon preached in the Scotch Church, Filature de Lin, Landerneau, on Sabbath 4th Dec. 1864, Landerneau, P. B. Desmoulins Fils, 1865

Publication – about him
Thomson or Walsh, Elizabeth, Inventories, Wills, etc.: 12/5/1883, 18 Leopold Place, Edinburgh, sometime wife of Rev. Robert Thomson, lately Free Church Minister, Roslin, d. 21/02/1883 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/223; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/200

Source
Glasgow Herald, 17th October, 1868

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THOMSON, SAMUEL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.343

Born at Edinburgh, 1855. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Portmoak, 1887. Married, 1888, Charlotte Robertson. Died, 1893.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 11th December, 1855, in Leith, Edinburgh, the son of Samuel Thomson, gardener, and Helen Christie.

Education
He studied at Edinburgh University and then enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1882-86.

Marriage
He married Charlotte Robertson on 13th March, 1888, at the school house Letham, Angus (Registration: 1888 283/ 2 Dunnichen). She was then a school teacher of Laurencekirk. She was born on 6th August, 1852, in Leith, Edinburgh, the daughter of John Robertson, cooper, later general merchant, and Isabella Swanson. She was baptised on 21st November, 1852, in the Relief Church, Leith.

Ministry
As a student he served as missionary in Lochgelly, Fife, and the Pleasance, Edinburgh. He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 18th May, 1886. He was ordained in Portmoak and Flockhouse, Kinross-shire, on 29th September, 1887.

Death
He took ill while attending the General Assembly in Edinburgh and died on 9th June, 1893, in Grange, Edinburgh. He was buried in Edinburgh on 12th June. His wilived thereaffter in Kirknewton, Mid Calder, \nd afterwards at 1A Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh. She died at Queensberry Lodge, Edinburgh, on 17th February, 1916.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Samuel MacAinsh Thomson born in 1890 in Portmoak, Kinross-shire.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Samuel Thomson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 5/7/1893, F.C. Manse, Portmoak, d. 09/06/1893 at Edinburgh, intestate, Inventory, Kinross Sheriff Court, NRS SC22/44/10
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Thomson or Robertson, Charlotte, 23/3/1916, Kirknewton, Mid Calder, afterwards 1A Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. Samuel Thomson, Portmoak, d. 17/02/1916 at Queensberry Lodge, Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/578; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/482

Source
Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 12th June, 1893

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THOMSON, WILLIAM AIRD, D.D. (Glasgow)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.343
Born, 1773. Son of Dr. Thomson, minister of Sanquhar. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dalziel, 1801. Married, 1802, a daughter of Luke Fraser. Translated to Perth, Middle, 1808. Was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1835. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1844. Died, 1863.

Publications.—Memoirs of Rev. James Scott. A Catechism on the Gospel of Luke. Questions for Young Communicants.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1801, Dalziel, FES,Vol.3, p.249; 1808, Middle, Perth, FES,Vol.4, p.237; 1835, Moderator, FES,Vol.7, p.444. In the Free Church, he served in Middle, Perth.

Family
His daughter, Helen Mary Thomson, married Patrick Campbell MacDougall, a Free Church minister. See there for the ramifications of this family. He had a daughter Margaret Thomson who married John Reid Omond, a Free Church minister. He had a son John William Thomson, who was a Free Church minister.

Publications
See separate document here.

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THOMSON, WILLIAM DUNCAN, M.A.

 
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Born at Gallatown, Kirkcaldy, 1842. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1874, at Lochend and New Abbey. Married, 1885, Jane C. S. Stewart. Resigned, 1900.

Publications.—The Christian Miracles and Science (“Bible Class Handbooks”), Revelation and the Bible.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lochend and New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.106). He resigned in 1900 and died in 1907.

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THOMSON, WILLIAM JOHN

 
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Born in Ireland, 1852. Settled, 1879, at Bridgeton, Glasgow. Retired, 1882.

Supplementary Information
According to the Bridgeton Kirk Session Minutes he was William James Thomson.

Background
He was from Auchmoy in Ireland, where he was born about 1852. He was also referred to as “late of Amoy”.

Ministry
On 3rd September, 1879, he was elected as colleague and successor to Alexander Wilson in Bridgeton, Glasgow; and on 20th November that year was inducted there. He was suspended from the functions of the ministry and the pastoral tie was dissolved by the Presbytery of Glasgow on 27th February, 1882. He had confessed to intoxication, an offence for which he had been previously rebuked while under the Presbytery of Route in Ireland.

Source
Bridgeton Free Kirk Session Minutes, NRS, CH3/152/3

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THORBURN, ADAM

 
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Born, 1812. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Became teacher at Watson’s Hospital. Signed the Probationers’ Resolutions, 1843. Ordained, the same year, at Strathkinness. Married, 1855, Rebecca Clason. Died the same year.

Supplementary Information
Birth
He was born about 1812 in Edinburgh, the son of Adam Thorburn and Jean Noble.

Marriage
He married Rebecca Clason on 28th March, 1855, in Newington, Edinburgh. She was born on 4th November, 1812, in Dalziel, Lanarkshire, the daughter of James Clason, minister, and Janet Harvie. Family
Thomson Tree.

Ministry
“Adam Thorburn, Edinburgh” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. In the Free Church, he served in Strathkinness, Fife.

Death
He died in 1855 in St Andrews, Fife. His widow lived subsequently at Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, and afterwards at 4 Merchiston Crescen. Edinburgh, where she died on9th May, 1888.

Family
There is no evidence that they had any issue.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 8/4/1856, minister of the Free Church of Scotland, Strathkinness, Inventory, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/27; Testament, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/27
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Thorburn or Clason, Rebecca, 22/8/1888, sometime residing at Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, afterwards 4 Merchiston Crescent there, widow of Rev. Adam Thorburn, F.C. Minister, Strathkinness, near St Andrews, d. 09/05/1888 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/268; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/233

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THORBURN, DAVID, D.D.

 
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Born at Leith, 1805. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Became assistant in South Leith, 1832. Ordained there, 1833. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1843, Jane Hay. Died, 1893.

Publications.—The Divine Origin of Tithes (anonymous). The Support of the Clergy and the Poor. The Constitution of the Deacons’ Court. The Sustentation fund of the Free Church, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1833, South Leith, FES, Vol.1, p.169. In the Free Church, he served in South, Leith, Edinburgh.

Publications
See separate document here.

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THORBURN, JOSEPH

 
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Born at Edinburgh, 1799. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1829, at Union Church, Aberdeen. Translated, 1831, to Forglen, Banffshire. Married, the same year, Catherine Brown. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1844, to Inverness, High. Died. 1854.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1829, Union, Aberdeen, FES,Vol.6, p.41; 1831, Forglen, FES, Vol.6, p.252. In the Free Church, he served in Forglen, Banffshire.

Family
Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.

Publications
See separate document here.

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THORBURN, ROBERT

 
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Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained missionary to Falmouth, Jamaica. Retired, 1844, in consequence of ill-health. Thereafter he was inducted minister of Warwick Presbyterian Church, Bermuda. His ministry lasted for about thirty years.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1834, Jamaica, FES, Vol.7, p.671.

Family
He was the brother of Walter Thorburn, a Free Church minister.

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THORBURN, WALTER

 
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Brother of the foregoing. Ordained, 1844, for Falmouth, Jamaica. Transferred to Bermuda, 1852. Married Jane Millar. Resigned, 1881. Died, 1888.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 9th February, 1815, in Bowden, Roxburghshire, the son of Robert Thorburn and Margaret Cochrane. His brother, Robert Thorburn, was a Free Church minister.

Marriage
He married Jane Miller on 20th July, 1851, in Edinburgh. She was born about 1817, the daughter of Andrew Millar.

Ministry
He served in Falmouth, Jamaica; resigned on account of ill health and withdrew to the USA. He then returned to Bermuda and ministered there for about thirty years.

Death
He died on 13th January, 1888, in Hastings, Sussex, England, and his wife died on 9th November, 1900, in Greenwich, London, England.

An inscription in Hastings Cemetery reads:

Sacred to the Memory of
The Rev. Walter Thorburn.
Minister to the Free Church of Scotland in Bermuda
Died January 13th 1888
Aged 72 Years
‘And he was not, for God took him’
Also of Jane Thorburn, his wife,
Who died at Blackheath, November 9th 1900

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Walter Millar Thorburn born on 22nd May, 1853. He married Olive Smith in the 2nd quarter of 1898 in Greenwich, London, England. He died in the 3rd quarter of 1921 in Headington, Buckingham/Oxfordshire, England.

(2) Jane Cochrane Thorburn born on 26th February, 1855, in Bermuda. She died in the 4th quarter of 1927 in the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England.

(3) Emma Wyllie Thorburn born on 18th September, 1857, in Newington, Edinburgh. She died in the 1st quarter of 1937 in the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England.

Sources
Thorburn; Balfour, Presbyterianism in the Colonies, p.296

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THORNTON, JAMES

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1791. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Hall of Burgher Synod. Ordained Burgher minister at Milnathort, 1816. Was for several years clerk of the Original Secession Presbytery of Perth and Dunfermline. Joined the Church of Scotland, 1839. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1848. Died, 1874.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1816, Burgher, Student, Scott, Annals, p.489; Small, History, Vol.1, p.377; 1839, Milnathort, FES,Vol.5, p.73. In the Free Church, he served in Orwell (Milnathort), Kinross-shire.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Thornton.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 16/7/1875, Milnathort, d. 04/09/1874 at Milnathort aforesaid, testate, Kinross Sheriff Court, NRS SC22/44/7
18th December, 1837, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.408 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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THORNTON, ROBERT, M.A.

 
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Born at Forfar, 1844. Studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1877, at Martyrs’, Glasgow. Married, the same year, Christina Gibb. Resigned, 1881, and went to New Zealand. Became headmaster of Greymouth District High School.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 16th October, 1844, in Forfar, Angus, the son of Thomas Thornton, shoemaker, and Elizabeth Petrie.

Education
He attended the West Burgh School, Forfar, Angus. He studied at Edinburgh University. He studied at United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1868-70, and graduated M.A. on 27th April, 1870. He won the Carstairs Prize in 1869. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1870-74. In 1871 he was a divinity student and also a “tutor, guardian”.

Marriage
He married Christina Gibb in 1877 in Rhu, Dunbartonshire. She was born on 19th August and baptized on 26th September, 1847, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, the daughter of David Gibb, road man, and Margaret Shirley.

Ministry
He was assistant in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, before being ordained in Martyrs’, Glasgow, in 1877 as colleague to David Menzies. All was perhaps not going too well in the congregation for it was reported in July 1881 that he had been missing for three weeks. Although the circumstances were mysterious there was no suspicious of foul play. The circumstances of his congregation had given cause for great concern; he had been despondent; and it was thought that he may have sought a temporary retirement from his ministerial duties. After a month he turned up in London, England. What the outcome of this was, we don’t yet know – but according to Ewing he resigned in 1881.

In New Zealand, he was headmaster of Greymouth Grammar School but also received recognition as a minister and served in various congregations until inducted to Waikiki, Invercargill, Southland Presbytery in 1890. He was for a time clerk of Presbytery. He resigned on 31st December, 1897.

Death
He died on 1st April, 1898, at Myross Bush, Southland, New Zealand. His wife died in 1924 in New Zealand.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Elizabeth Petrie Thornton born in 1879 in Dennistoun, Glasgow. She died in 1883 in New Zealand.

(2) David Gibb Thornton born in 1880 in Dennistoun, Glasgow. In 1910 he was a commercial traveller for the Consolidated Dental Co. He married Mabel Lillian Wharfe in 1922 in New Zealand. He died there in 1954.

(3) Christina Gibb Thornton born in 1884 in New Zealand. She married Richard James Shakes there in 1910. She died there in 1957.

(4) Marion Gilchrist Thornton born in 1885 in New Zealand. She married Robert Blair on 18th May, 1937. He was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand (PCNZ, Ministers’ Register). She died on 17th March, 1976.

(5) Roberta Thornton born in 1887 in New Zealand. She married Howard Walsh Speare there in 1917.

(6) Mary Agnes born in 1891 in New Zealand. She married John Hughes Dick in 1920 in New Zealand.

Sources
Manawatu Standard, Volume 9187, Issue XLI, 11 April 1910, Page 7; PCNZ, Ministers’ Register; The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 8th July, 1881; Liverpool Mercury, 13th July, 1881

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THORNTON, ROBERT M’ALPINE, D.D. (Toronto)

 
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Born at Oscawa, Ontario, 1841. Studied at the University, Toronto, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Knox Church, Montreal, 1871. Married, the same year, Elizabeth Buchanan. Translated, 1874, to Wellpark, Glasgow; and, 1883, to Camden Road English Presbyterian Church, London.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1841 in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, the son of Robert Hill Thornton, Presbyterian minister there, and Margaret Thompson.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1869-70.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Buchanan on 20th July, 1871, in Anderston, Glasgow. She was born about 1845 in Glasgow. She was the daughter of Robert Buchanan, a Free Church minister, and Elizabeth Stoddart.

Ministry
He was called from Montreal to Wellpark, Glasgow, in 1874 and was duly inducted there at the end of that year. He was translated to London in 1883.

Death
He died on 19th July, 1913, in Kensington, London, England.

Family
There is conflicting information about this family but they had issue including:

(1) Kenneth Buchanan Thornton born on 26th June, 1873 in Canada. He married Sara Florence Grier in 1904 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an electrical engineer. He died on 10th February, 1938, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

(2) David Stoddart Thornton born in January, 1875 in Dennistoun, Glasgow. He married Grace Grier and lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

(3) Robert Hill Thornton born in 1877 in Dennistoun, Glasgow. He married Margaret Goldie MacPhail in the 3rd quarter of 1907 in Wandsworth, London, England. (She was the daughter of William Merry MacPhail, a Free Church minister.) He became a minister of the Presbyterian Church of England.

(4) Margaret Elizabeth Thornton born in 1883 in Dennistoun, Glasgow. She married Walter Wingate Gray in the 4th quarter of 1925 in Paddington, London, England.

(5) Edith Wilson Thornton born in the 3rd quarter of 1885 in Islington, London, England.

(6) John MacLaren Thornton born in the 3rd quarter of 1889 in Islington, London, England. A person of this name served in the Royal Engineers and was killed in May 1915.

Sources
Ancestry board; Images: Our Ontario; The Montreal Gazette – Feb 12, 1938; Heffel, Online auctions; Durham Record Office

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TOD, DAVID MACRAE, B.D.

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1860. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Logiealmond, 1885. Married, 1893, Jessie M. Livingstone.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Logiealmond, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.332). He was translated to Huddersfield in 1907.

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TODD, ALEXANDER

 
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Born at Moniaive. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Licensed, 1876, by authority of the Assembly for mission work in Madras. Ordained the same year. Returned to this country owing to ill-health, 1879. Went to New Zealand, and died there.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 13th October, 1845 in Moniaive, Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, the son of John Todd, mason, and Marion MacMillan. He himself became a mason and helped to build the walls of the Glasgow University building in Gilmorehill where he later studied.

Education
As a student he engaged in missionary work in various congregations in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow University.

Marriage
He married Jane Goldie on 29th August, 1876. She was baptized on 4th December, 1846, in Holywood, Dumfries-shire, the daughter of James Goldie and Jane Blacklaw

Ministry
He was licensed on 18th June, 1876, and ordained on 3rd August, 1876, in Free St Mary’s, Govan, Glasgow, for work in the Central Institution in Madras and was later transferred to Chingleput, Madras.

After going to New Zealand, in December 1883 he work in North East Valley and was then called to Hampden in April, 1884.

Death
He died in New Zealand on 10th February, 1887.

Family
They had three children who all predeceased him including:

Jeanie Todd born in 1880 and died in 1881 in Holywood, Dumfries-shire.

Isabella Todd died on 13th October, 1886, in New Zealand, aged 8 months.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander Todd.
Brief memorials of the rev. Alexander Todd, Edinburgh, 1888

Sources
Alexander-Todd; North Otago Times (New Zealand), Volume XXXI, Issue 6284, 21st February 1887, p.2; Corrie, John, Glencairn: The Annals of an Inland Parish, Thomas Hunter and Co., Dumfries, 1910, p.123; PCNZ, Ministers’ Register

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TODD, ALEXANDER BRUCE

 
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Born at St. Andrews, 1821. A cabinetmaker by trade. His course of study was interrupted by a three years’ engagement as teacher in connection with the Free Church congregation at Falmouth, Jamaica. After concluding his curriculum at New College, Edinburgh, he went to New Zealand in 1859. For ten years he laboured at Tokomairiro, a charge which subsequently developed into four; and for twenty-five years in Oamaru, where the original congregation grew into seven. The closing years of Mr. Todd’s life and ministry were spent in Dunedin.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 2nd and baptized on 16th February, 1821, in St Andrews and St Leonards, Fife, the son of David Todd, painter, and Cecilia Bruce. In 1841 he was a cabinet maker.

Education
He studied at United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1843-44. He possibly studied at Edinburgh University 1848-50. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1851-1855.

Marriage
He married Agnes Hunter Train on 7th October, 1858, at the bride’s home, Whitehill, Dailly, Ayrshire. She was born (or baptised) on 27th May, 1827, in Maybole, Ayrshire, the daughter of William Train, surgeon, and Jane Doig.

Ministry
He was licensed in 1856 by the Free Presbytery of St Andrews and was ordained by the Free Presbytery of Ayr in 1858 and worked in Cowdenbeath, Fife, for a time. He arrived in Dunedin, New Zealand on 1st June, 1859. He was inducted at Tokomairiro (Milton, Clutha Presbytery) on 7th July, 1859, and was translated to St Paul’s, Oamaru, in May 1869; and retired in 1895.

Death
He died on 18th August, 1903. An Agnes Todd died in New Zealand in 1892 aged 64,

Family
They had issue, all born in New Zealand, including:

(1) Cecilia Jane Todd born in 1859. She married John McCaw on 20th April, 1881, and died on 29th April, 1890. John McCaw was a significant figure in the development of farming in New Zealand.

(2) Alexander Bruce Todd born on 29th September, 1860. He studied in Dunedin, New Zealand, and in Edinburgh. He studied in New College, Edinburgh, 1883-1885. He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 24th June, 1885. He married Maggie Young Stevenson on 11th January, 1893. He served in various churches in the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand and occupied prominent positions in the Church in general. He died on 10th May, 1932.

(3) William Train Todd born on 30th March, 1862, in Milton, New Zealand. He married Evangeline Payne on 10th October, 1900. For some years he was in business and played an active role in the Presbyterian Church. He then studied for the ministry and was licensed in 1906. He too was minister of various Presbyterian Churches in New Zealand but was dogged with poor health. He died suddenly on 29th January, 1930, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

(4) James Henry Todd born in 1864. He was also active in business while helping in his local church. He then became a minister himself, served in Hunterville, Wanganui Presbytery, and was latterly attached to the China Inland Mission.

(5) David Todd born in 1866.

(6) Agnes Mary Todd born in 1869. She probably died in 1948 in New Zealand.

Sources
Mccaw; PCNZ, Ministers’ Register

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TODD, CHARLES HESSEL, M.A.

 
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Born at Kinross, 1853. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Ratho, 1886. Translated to Maxwelltown, 1890; and to Aberdeen, East, 1895. Married, 1890, Martha Owen Simpson; and, 1895, Sarah Simpson or Prophit.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Ratho and Kirknewton, Midlothian; Maxwelltown, Dumfries-shire; and East, Aberdeen. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.412). He died in 1925.

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TODD, WILLIAM, M.A.

 
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Born at Stevenston, Ayrshire, 1864. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Auchterarder, 1893. Translated, 1899, to Crown Church, Inverness.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Auchterarder, Perthshire; and Crown, Inverness. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.473). Thereafter he served in St Brycedale, Kirkcaldy, from 1907 (FUFC, p.364); and in Braemar from 1919 (FUFC, p.429, where a short biography is given). He died in 1929.

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TOMORY, ALEXANDER

 
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Born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, 1818. Studied at the University, Keczkemet, Hungary, and became a medical student at Budapest; also studied theology at New College, Edinburgh. While a student at Budapest Mr. Tomory was brought to the knowledge of Christ by the missionaries of the Free Church, and was the first Jewish convert in connection with the mission there. Licensed, 1847, and proceeded to Constantinople. Ordained, 1858. Married, 1859, Caroline E. Kay. Died, 1895.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, on 23rd May, 1818.

Education
He studied Arts in Keczkemet, and medicine at Pesth. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-47.

Marriage
He married Caroline Elliot Kay. She was baptized on 7th June, 1828, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen, the daughter of John Kay and Jane Morrice. Her father taught adults in Bridewell Prison, Aberdeen; and she herself served for four years with the Free Church mission as a teacher in Haaskeny.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1847. He then worked in Constantinople. He was ordained to Jewish missionary work by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 13th December, 1858. Professor George Smeaton preached and presided in a most able manner and the Presbytery unanimously requested the publication of the discourse. Till 1863 he was stationed at Hasskeui and thereafter at Galata.

Death
He died on 16th July, 1895, at 7 Perchembe Bazar, Galata, Constantinople. His wife died on 5th March, 1893, in Constantinople.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) John Kay Tomory born about 1853 in Constantinople, Turkey. He married Marie Werder in 1888 in Newington, Edinburgh. He was a medical practitioner. He died on 26th September, 1909, in Croydon, London, England.

(2) Alexander Tomory born on 3rd June, 1862, in Constantinople, Turkey. He became a Free Church minister.

(3) Another son who became a medical practitioner.

(4) James Innray Tomory born about 1869 in Constantinople, Turkey. He became a ship broker.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander Tomory
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 8/10/1895, Principal, Free Church of Scotland’s Mission to the Jews at Constantinople and Almoner of the Dutch Legation at the Sublime Porte, d. 16/07/1895 at 7 Perchembe Bazar, Galata, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/343; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/285

Sources
The Lass o’ Pairts, Social Mobility for women through education, 1851-1901, McCall, Alison Taylor, p.169; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 21st June, 1862; Glasgow Herald, 19th July, 1895; Robert J. Dickie, Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal, 12 (2022), 127-194, Jewish ministers of the nineteenth century Free Church of Scotland, especially pp.136-142

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TOMORY, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
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Born at Constantinople, 1862. Son of the foregoing. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen, and Leipzig. Ordained, 1887, missionary to Calcutta. Married, 1890, Mary Campbell Macdonald.

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 died in 1910.

Family
He was the son of Alexander Tomory, a Free Church minister.

Source
The Harvest Field, p.195

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TOPP, ALEXANDER, D.D.

 
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Born at Sheriffmill, Elgin, 1814. Studied at the University, Aberdeen. Ordained at Elgin, High, 1838. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1850, Jane Mortimer or Clark. Translated to Edinburgh, Roxburgh Church, 1852, and to Toronto, Knox Church, 1858. Was twice Moderator of the Canadian General Assembly. Died, 1879. Took an active part in the negotiations for union of the four Synods of Canada, which took place at Montreal, 1875.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1838, High, Elgin, FES,Vol.6, p.395; 1841, Elgin, FES,Vol.6, p.391; FES, Vol.8, p.636. In the Free Church, he served in High, Elgin, Moray; and Roxburgh, Edinburgh.

Publications – by him
The kingdom of Christ in the world, or the nature, object, and end of the Church of Christ, as laid down in scripture, a lecture, Elgin, A. Russell, 1844
System of lessons for the classes of the Sabbath schools connected with Knox’s Church, Toronto, Toronto, printed at the Globe Steam Press, 1862
New Year addresses to the young, Toronto, J. Bain, 1880?
The river of life in Ezekiel’s vision: a plea for home missions, Toronto, J. Campbell, 1860
The all-seeing eye of God, a New Year’s address to the young connected with Knox Church, Toronto, Toronto?, 1878?
The perpetuity of the reign of Christ, the last sermon preached by late Rev. Alexander Topp, D.D., Toronto?, 1879

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander Topp
Alexander Topp, D.D., Elgin, by Rev. R. Cowan, in Our Church Fathers: being Biographical Sketches of Disruption Fathers in and around the Presbytery of Elgin, p.9
Bill Chamber, Processes in Actions of Suspension and Interdict: Earl of Moray: Suspension & Interdict.: Respondent: Rev. Alexander Topp, 1840, NRS CS275/2/97
“Remember your leaders”, a sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. Alexander Topp, D.D., of Toronto, formerly of Elgin, preached in the Free High Church, Elgin, on Sabbath, October 19, 1879, Elgin, 1879
Biographical sketches and review: first Presbyterian church in Toronto and Knox Church, 1820-1890, Henry M. Parsons, Toronto, Oxford Press, 1890

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TORRANCE, DAVID WATT, M.B., C.M.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.345
Born, 1862. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Appointed medical missionary at Tiberias, 1884. Ordained by authority of the General Assembly, 1895. Married, 1890, Lydia M. Huber; and, 1896, Eleanor A. Downie.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.533). He retired in 1923 and died later that year.

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TORRANCE, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.345
Born at Carluke, 1828. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Hall, Reformed Presbyterian Church. Ordained at Colmonell, 1859. Translated, 1861, to Grant Street, Glasgow. Married, 1866, Margaret M. Symington. Joined the Free Church at the union in 1876.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
FRPCS, p.32; Couper, The R.P. Church, p.138. In the Free Church, he served in St. George’s Road, Glasgow.This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.225, where a short biography is given). He died in 1901.

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TORRANCE, JOHN, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.345
Born at Glasgow, 1867. Son of the foregoing. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow; and at Tübingen. Ordained, 1892, missionary to Poona. [List of missionaries says he was appointed in 1890.] Married, 1894, Jessie Gilchrist.

Publications.—Three Handbooks in the Marathi Language for Indian Christians.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.540). He resigned in 1901. Thereafter he served in Dailly from 1902 (FUFC, p.128); and in Chapelton from 1922 (FUFC, p.182, where a short biography is given).

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TRAIL, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.345
Born, 1819. Ordained at Skene, 1843. Married, 1848, Margaret Barrie. Translated, 1849, to South Shields; 1855, to Inverness, High; 1858, to Glasgow, Tron; 1862, to Kelvinside; and, 1867, to Elgin, South. Died, 1874.

Publications.—The Messenger of the Messiah. The Christian Graces, being Discourses on Faith and its Fruits. Unseen Realities: The World to Come. Literary Characteristics of the Bible. The Decalogue not Buried when Christ Died. The Decalogue as a Law of Morals.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born (or baptised) on 18th July, 1819, in Aberdeen, the son of James Trail, cabinet maker, and Ann Walker or Dobie.

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

Marriage
He married Margaret Barry on 31st August, 1848, at Pitmedden, Dyce, Aberdeenshire. She was born in Aberdeenshire, about 1818, the daughter of John Barry of Aberdeen Foundry and Margaret Ferrier.

Ministry
From references in The Monthly Record, it appears that he served in Skene, Aberdeenshire. He was inducted to High, Inverness, on 10th May, 1855. In the Free Church, he served in Tron, Glasgow; he was called to Kelvinside, Glasgow, and was translated there on 19th June, 1862. He moved to South, Elgin, Moray, on 19th September, 1867.

There is one obituary that says that he was minister in eight places. This source inserts Strichen, Aberdeenshire, after Skene; and Manchester, Lancashire, England, after South Shields – as in Ewing. For the latter, there is amply evidence. There are newspaper references to William Trail, minister of St Andrew’s Free Church, Oxford Road, Manchester; and the births of his children suggest that he was in Manchester from at least 1851 till 1854. There is no place for Strichen or indeed for South Shields if we are to go by the births of his children. Another source has him in Sunderland, after being in Inverness. The places and dates of this man’s movements require further examination.

Death
He died on 28th February, 1874, at 26 Hay Street, Elgin, Moray, of heart degeneration (Registration: 1874 135/ 41 Elgin). His wife died on 23rd July, 1883, at The Cottage, Penicuik, Midlothian (Registration: 1883 697/ 32 Penicuik). Her usual address was 14 Pentland Terrace, Edinburgh.

Family
They had issue including:
(1) John Barry Trail born on 18th June and baptized on 8th July, 1849, in Skene, Aberdeenshire.

(2) Anna Walker Trail born on 25th January and baptized on 23rd February, 1851, birth registered in Chorlton, Lancashire, England.

(3) Margaret Eliza Trail born on 21st May and baptized on 20th June, 1852, birth registered in Chorlton, Lancashire, England.

(4) Helen Shepherd Trail born on 17th January and baptized on 19th February, 1854, birth registered in Chorlton, Lancashire, England.

(5) William Roderick Trail born on 5th March, 1856, in Inverness.

(6) James Francis Clugston Trail born on 18th May, 1859, in Blythswood, Glasgow.

Publications
See separate document here.

Sources
Electricscotland; Elgin Courier, Elgin, Moray, September 20th , 1867 ; The Aberdeen Journal, 6th September, 1848; Liverpool Mercury, Lancashire, England, 4th March, 1874

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TRAILL, JOSEPH, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.345
Born in Aberdeenshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Wick, 1898.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Wick, Caithness. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.510). Thereafter he served in Rothesay Free Parish from1902 (FUFC, p.282, where a short biography is given). He died in 1932.

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TRAILL, ROBERT, LL.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346

Born, 1805. Son of Rev. D. Traill, Panbride. Studied at the University, St. Andrews. Became assistant to his father. Laboured for a time in the Presbytery of Wigtown. Ordained at Boyndie, 1846. Married, 1858, Olivia D. Macgregor. Became senior minister, 1867. Died, 1880.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 23rd February, 1805, in Panbride, Angus, the son of David Traill, Parish minister there, and Catherine Biss. See also Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.

Education
He studied in St Andrews, Fife: at United College 1819-23; and at St Mary’s College 1823-27. He graduated M.A. on 6th December, 1823. He was the Exchequer Bursar in 1823. He is said to have also studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The LL.D. degree was conferred on him in 1866 by the Tusculum College, Tennessee, USA.

Marriage
He married Olivia Duff MacGregor on 16th March, 1850, in Banff. She was born on 1st and baptized on 6th January, 1816, in Banff, the daughter of Ronald MacGregor, accountant, and Margaret Farquharson.

Ministry
“Robert Trail, Panbride, Fife” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was called to Boyndie, Banffshire, on 4th June, 1846, and was ordained there on 9th July that year. Richard Rose McQueen was called as colleague and successor in 1867, but nothing came of that and William Anderson was ordained as colleague and successor on 30th January, 1868. After travelling for some time on the Continent, he settled in London, England.

Death
He died in the last quarter of 1880 in Kensington, London, England. His wife died there on 20th January, 1892. She was then of 42, Royal Crescent, Notting Hill, Middlesex, England.

Family
There is no clear evidence that they had family.

Publication – by him
Probably New Statistical Account, October, 1838, Flisk, Vol.9, Fife, p.595

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Robert Traill.

Sources
The London Gazette, 16th February, 1892, Issue: 26258; p.872; The Aberdeen Journal, 12th September, 1866

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TREADWELL, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born in Gloucestershire, 1835. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Harrow, Victoria, 1860. Married, 1861, Helen M. Anderson. Resigned, 1865; returned to Scotland; settled at Stevenston, 1867. Went to New Zealand, 1876, and was settled at Wanganui. Died, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Background
He is said to have been born on 18th April, 1835, in Marshfield, Gloucestershire, England, the son of Charles and Harriet Treadwell.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1854.

Marriage
He married Helen Mather Anderson on 20th August, 1861, in Melbourne, Victoria. She was born on 25th May, 1835, in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, the daughter of Thomas Anderson, bank agent, and Janet Burns.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Blairgowrie, in 1859. For health reasons he went to Australia and was ordained at Balmoral-Harrow on 6th June, 1860, and resigned on 17th October, 1864. He then returned to Scotland and was settled at Stevenston, Ayrshire, in 1867. In 1876 he resigned his charge on being invited by the Colonial Committee to go to Wanganui, New Zealand, where he was inducted in November, 1876. He and his whole family sailed from London on 23rd July, 1876, on the ship St Leonards.

Death
He died on 24th January, 1897, in New Zealand.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Charles Herbert Treadwell born in 1862 in Balmoral, Victoria. He married Ada Mary Lawrence in 1887 in New Zealand and raised a family there. He died in 1936 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was a lawyer: “Charles Herbert Treadwell subsequently practised as Treadwell & Sons and was succeeded by four subsequent generations of Treadwells: his two sons, Charles Archibald Treadwell and Adrian Herbert Lawrence Treadwell, followed by two of Adrian Treadwell’s sons being Shane Jervis Treadwell and Alistair Jervis Treadwell, with Shane Treadwell’s son Mical Shane Jervis Treadwell now being senior partner of the existing firm.” (www.treadwells.co.nz/milestones.html)

(2) Thomas Anderson Treadwell born on 27th November, 1863, at the Manse, Balmoral, Victoria. He died 16th December, 1873, in Stevenston, Ayrshire.

(3) Archibald Hamilton Treadwell born on 29th January, 1866, at the Commercial Bank, Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He married Elizabeth Hamilton Bell in 1892 in New Zealand and raised a family there. He was a minister in the New Zealand Presbyterian Church. He died there in 1906.

(4) William James Treadwell born on 26th November, 1867, in Stevenston, Ayrshire. He married Isabella Hurley Bell in 1892 in New Zealand. He died on 5th July, 1942, in Wanganui, Taranaki, New Zealand.

(5) Janet Burns Treadwell born on 21st June, 1869, in Stevenston, Ayrshire. She died in 1946 in New Zealand.

(6) Hilda Mary Treadwell born on 25th May, 1871, in Stevenston, Ayrshire. She died in 1948 in New Zealand.

(7) Helen Bethea Treadwell born on 28th May, 1873, in Stevenston, Ayrshire. She married Alexander Malcolm McIntyre in 1893 in New Zealand. She died there in 1934.

(8) James Henry Alford Treadwell born in 1875 in Stevenston, Ayrshire. He married Katherine Jessie Sargeant in 1897 in New Zealand and raised a family there. He died there in 1954.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Treadwell.

Sources
Evening Post Wellington, New Zealand), Volume XIV, Issue 66, 15th September 1876, p.2; Geni; PCNZ, Ministers’ Register; Dundee Courier and Daily Argus, 22nd October, 1861; Glasgow Herald, 15th February, 1864; 30th January, 1866

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TRIPNEY, DAVID, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born in Renfrewshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kirkwall, 1899. Married, 1900, Jane R. Couper.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kirkwall, Lerwick. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.515). He was translated to Union Church, Kirkdale, Liverpool, in 1910.

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TROTTER, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born at Jedburgh, 1865. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Bannockburn, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Bannockburn, Stirlingshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.305). He resigned in 1906 and went to New Zealand. For his ministry there, see PCNZ. He died in 1937.

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TROUP, GEORGE ELMSLIE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born at London, 1855. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained 1880, at Broughty-Ferry, West. Married, 1881, Eliza Jane Gardiner.

Publication.— Words to Young Christians.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in West, Broughty-Ferry, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.380, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1918.

Family
He had a son, George Elmslie Troup, who was a United Free Church minister: Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.100.

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TULLO, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born at Dundee, 1821. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Smethwick, Birmingham, 1856. Resigned, 1858. Settled at Slamannan, 1861. Married, 1871, Mary Wilson. Translated, 1874, to Glasgow, Rose Street. Died, 1883.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 14th June and baptized on 6th July, 1821, in Dundee, the son of Henry Tullo, draper, and Isabella Mitchell. In 1841 he was a clerk.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1849-53.

Marriage
He married Mary Wilson on 5th October, 1871, in Newington, Edinburgh. She was baptized on 30th November, 1840, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, the daughter of James Wilson, merchant, and Elizabeth Leslie Clark.

Ministry
After license, he worked to build up the congregation in Cambuslang. He then was invited to Smethwick, Warwickshire, England, to do a similar work and was ordained there in 1856. He then returned to Scotland and served as assistant in different places. He was settled in Slamannan, Stirlingshire in 1861, but he resigned his charge in 1874 to undertake a mission station in Glasgow. He was inducted to the charge when it was sanctioned as Rose Street, Glasgow.

Death
He died at 23 Albert Road, Crosshill, Glasgow on 10th October, 1883. His wife died in 1936 in Boroughmuirhead, Edinburgh.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) James Wilson Tullo born on 2nd August, 1872, in Slamannan, Stirlingshire.

(2) Elizabeth Leslie Clark Tullo born on 29th August, 1873, in Slamannan, Stirlingshire. She died in 1950 in Morningside, Edinburgh.

(3) Isabella Mitchell C. Tullo born in 1875 in Cathcart, Glasgow.

(4) Henry Tullo born in 1876 in Cathcart Glasgow. He died there that same year.

(5) Mary Wilson Tullo born in 1877 in Cathcart, Glasgow. She is said to have married Kenneth Arnold Forbes on 30th April, 1910, in Ontario, Canada. Certainly, a Mary Wilson Tullo or Forbes died in 1965 in Haymarket, Edinburgh.

(6) Sophia Jane Tullo born in 1879 in Cathcart, Glasgow. She died in 1973 in Morningside, Edinburgh.

(7) Charlotte Leslie C. Tullo born in 1881 in Cathcart, Glasgow. She died in 1965 in George Square, Edinburgh.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Tullo
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 28/7/1886, Minister, Rose Street Free Church, Hutchesontown, Glasgow, residing at 23 Albert Road, Crosshill, Glasgow, d. 10/10/1883 at 23 Albert Road, intestate, Paisley Sheriff Court, NRS SC58/42/53

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TULLOCH, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born at Lybster, 1780. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Kirkmichael, Banffshire, 1820. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1855. Died the same year.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1820, Kirkmichael, FES, Vol.6, p.368. In the Free Church, he served in Kirkmichael, Banffshire.

Family
He was the brother of George Tulloch and of Patrick Tulloch. His daughter Ann Margaret Tulloch married John MacQueen a Free Church minister.

Publications – about him
New Statistical Account, April, 1842, Kirkmichael, Vol.13, Banff, p.296
Kirkmichael Free church manse, by Ballindalloch Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 21st May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/216
William Grant, schoolmaster, Tomintoul, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.74 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
John Fraser, schoolmaster, Tomachlaggan, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.73 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.62

Source
Boards

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TULLOCH, CHARLES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born at Cawdor, 1829. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Lossiemouth, 1858. Married, 1865, Joanna Black.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lossiemouth, Moray. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.465). He retired in 1902 and died in 1905.

Family
For his family connections see under John Tulloch.

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TULLOCH, CHARLES L. C.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born at Dallas, 1825. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Livingston, 1857 [Vol. 2 says 1851.]. Married Christian Law. Died, 1874.

Supplementary Information
Charles Lennox Cumming Tulloch

Background
He was born on 27th June, 1824, in Dallas, Moray, the son of William Tulloch, the minister there, and Jane Cumming. For his family connections see under John Tulloch.

Education
He entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1839; and enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1845-49.

Marriage
He married Christian Law on 13th September, 1851, in Mid Calder, Midlothian; recorded also on 24th September, 1851, in Elgin, Moray. She was born about 1822 in Dornoch, Sutherland, probably the daughter of John Law and Mary Hay.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Elgin, on 12th June, 1849. He was ordained by the Free Presbytery of Linlithgow to Livingston, West Lothian, on 10th April, 1851,

Death
He died on 31st October, 1874, in Livingston, West Lothian. His wife died at 13 Kingsley Road Brondesbury, London, on 6th April, 1891.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) William Tulloch baptized on 22nd August, 1852, in Mid Calder, Midlothian. He is said to have married Louisa Jane Barker in the 2nd quarter of 1893 in Hampstead, London, England; and to have died in the 2nd quarter of 1896 in Islington, London, England.

(2) Mary Hay Tulloch baptized on 8th June, 1854, in Livingston, West Lothian. She died there in 1862.

(3) John Law Tulloch born on 2nd January, 1856, in Livingston, West Lothian. In 1901 he was lodging in East Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a medical doctor and single.

(4) Elizabeth Anne Tulloch born on 22nd April, 1859, in Livingston, West Lothian. She died there that same year.

Publication – by him
The Common Salvation, and other discourses, Adam Forman, with a memorial sketch of the Author by C. L. C. Tulloch, London, 1866

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Charles L. C. Tulloch
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/12/1874, Minister of the Free Church at Livingston Residing at Linlithgow, Linlithgow Sheriff Court, NRS SC41/53/10
Papers of Rev James Calder MacPhail and others: Guarantee by Rev Charles Lennox Cumming Tulloch and his cautioner to free Rev James Calder MacPhail from any claim against him after his resignation of the office of trustee under the contract of marriage between Tulloch and Christian Law, 1871, NRS GD1/1345/2

Source
Libindx Moray

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TULLOCH, GEORGE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born in the parish of Reay, 1793. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Melness and Eriboll, 1829. Translated, 1831, to Eddrachillis. Married, 1835, Mary M. Clarke. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1875. Died, 1880.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1831, Eddrachillis, FES, Vol.7, p.105. In the Free Church, he served in Eddrachillis, Sutherland.

Family
He was the brother of Alexander Tulloch and of Patrick Tulloch.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: George Tulloch
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Tulloch, Mary M’Intosh, 21/4/1897, 9 Waverley Road, Nairn, d. 15/02/1897 at Nairn, intestate, Inventory, Nairn Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC31/35/3
New Statistical Account, August, 1840, Eddrachillis, Vol.15, Sutherland, p.118
Bill Chamber, Processes in Actions of Suspension and Interdict: Patrick Davidson & ors (Duncan Davidson’s Trustees): Suspension & Interdict: Respondent: Rev. George Tulloch & another (Dr. John Tulloch’s Executors) & Others, 1858 NRS CS275/20/133
7th September, 1836, Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.222 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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TULLOCH, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.346
Born, 1813. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Logierait, 1845. Married, 1847, Margaret Dewar. Translated, 1856, to Perth, Gaelic. Became senior minister, 1884. Died, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 19th and baptized on 23rd March, 1813. in Croy, Inverness-shire, the son of John Tulloch and Elizabeth Thomson.

He was related to various ministers, thus. There were three brothers: William, Hugh and John Tulloch.

William Tulloch had a son Charles Tulloch who had a daughter Lillias Tulloch. She married John Falconer and they had sons John Falconer and Charles Falconer, who were both ministers.

Hugh Tulloch produced a son William Tulloch who was the parish minister of Dallas (FES, Vol.6, p.415), and he was the father of Charles Lennox Cumming Tulloch.

John Tulloch had a son John Tulloch who married Elizabeth Thomson and produced this John Tulloch and Charles Tulloch.

Education
He matriculated at King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1835 and graduated M.A. in March, 1839. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-44.

Marriage
He married Margaret McKain Dewar on 21st October, 1847, at the Chapel Manse of Avoch, Ross and Cromarty. She was born on 4th and baptized on 11th February, 1824, in Avoch, Ross and Cromarty, the daughter of Alexander Dewar and Madalina Fraser. In 1841, she was with her father Rev. Alexander Dewar – he was minister of the Congregational Church there (Ross, A History of Congregational Independency in Scotland, p.220).

Ministry
He was called to Strathtay (Logierait), Perthshire, on 27th November, 1844, and was ordained there on 12th February, 1845. He was translated to St. Stephen’s, Perth, on 3rd September, 1856. On 8th September, 1884, Hugh Ross was ordained to be his colleague and successor as he was retiring on account of failing health.

Death
He died on 17th January, 1894, at his home: Chester House, Westcroft Road, West Hampstead, London, England. His wife died on 14th December, 1873, at Free St Stephen’s Manse, Perth.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Madeline Flora Tulloch born on 12th August and baptized on 30th September, 1849, in Logierait, Perthshire. She married George Wilson in 1868 in Perth. He was a minister – at one stage in Banbridge, Ireland. She died in 1911 in Hillhead, Glasgow.

(2) Elizabeth Isabella Tulloch born on 9th September and baptized on 13th October, 1850, in Logierait, Perthshire. She founded St Margaret’s School, Hampstead, London, England. She died in the 3rd quarter of 1934 in Hampstead, London, England.

(3) Roza Frazer Tulloch born on 19th April and baptized on 30th May, 1852, in Logierait, Perthshire. She married William Ballantyne Tulloch, her cousin, in the 4th quarter of 1888 in Marylebone, London, England. She died in the 2nd quarter of 1900 in Hampstead, London, England.

(4) Margaret Dewar Macleod Tulloch born on 4th and baptized on 27th February, 1854, in Logierait, Perthshire. She married Duncan Forbes Dallas, solicitor, of 4 Great King Street, Edinburgh, on 6th August, 1873, at 35 York Place, Perth. She died in 1901 in St George, Edinburgh, and was buried in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.

(5) Flora Tulloch born on 19th September, 1855, in Logierait, Perthshire. She married James George Findlay, merchant, in the 3rd quarter of 1887 in Marylebone, London, England. They lived in Kenya. She died on 16th January, 1933, and was buried in Kiambu Cemetery there.

(6) John Patrick Tulloch born on 26th May, 1857, in Perth. He seems to have been a medical doctor, who lived in Tobago.

(7) Alexander Tulloch born on 28th March, 1859, in Perth. He married Henrietta Tulloch, his cousin, on 30th September, 1885, in Cape Colony. He was a seaman, a gold-miner and latterly a farmer in Rhodesia. He died on 28th June, 1940, on Durris Farm, Umtali, Southern Rhodesia.

(8) Isabella Tulloch born on 6th December, 1860, in Perth.

(9) Patrick Tulloch born on 22nd July, 1862, in Perth.

(10) Agnes Dewar Tulloch born on 24th February, 1864, in Perth. She died there that same year.

(11) Hugh Daibhidh Tulloch born on 14th March, 1865, at the Free St Stephen’s Manse, Perth.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth grant and Sabbath desecration, 26th April, 1845 NRS GD112/51/185; 11th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/209; Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 17 June, 1846, NRS GD112/74/830; 22nd March, 1850, Mr Wortley’s bill and sabbath labour in the Post Office, NRS GD112/74/833

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 31/3/1894, Senior Minister, Free St Stephen’s Church, Perth, residing at Chester House, Westcroft Road, West Hampstead, London, d. 17/01/1894 at Chester House aforesaid, testate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/155

Sources
Tullochs; Gravestonephotos; Records; Genforum; Saxonlodge; Tutorgigpedia; The Aberdeen Journal, 3rd November, 1847; The Caledonian Mercury, 16th March, 1865; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 17th December, 1873; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 24th January, 1894

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TULLOCH, PATRICK

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.347

Born, 1805. Brother of Revs. Alexander and George Tulloch. Ordained at Strathglass, Presbytery of Dingwall, 1842. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated 1844 to Inveravon. Died, 1871.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 18th January, 1797, in Reay, Caithness, the son of James Tulloch, farmer, and Ann Swanson. His brothers Alexander Tulloch and George Tulloch both became Free Church ministers.

Ministry
His ministry in Strathglass, Inverness-shire, is not recorded in FES. He also served in Inveravon.

Death
He died in 1871 in Glenlivet, Banffshire.

Family
There is no sign that he ever married.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 14/11/1871, Minister of Free Church at Inveraven, Banff Sheriff Court, NRS SC2/40/25; 8/7/1898, Banff Sheriff Court, NRS SC2/40/58

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TULLOCH, WILLIAM HUGH

 
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Born at Beauly, 1860. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Fortingall, Perthshire, 1889. Married, 1893, Eleanor A. C. Rose.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Fortingall, 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 1922 and died in 1928.

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TULLY, JOHN, M.A.

 
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Born at Fochabers, 1832. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Bonhill, 1861. Retired, 1877.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 25th and baptized on 29th April, 1832, in Bellie, Moray, the son of Thomas Tully and Janet Innes.

Education
He matriculated at King’s college, Aberdeen, in 1848 and graduated M.A. in March, 1852. He won the Simpson Mathematics Prize. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1853-58.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Bonhill, Dunbartonshire. He withdrew from there on health grounds. For four years he lived in Lossiemouth. The Mutual Improvement Society there made a presentation to him in recognition of his services on his departure for Dunedin, New Zealand, in January, 1883. He sailed for New Zealand from Glasgow on 12th January, on board the Wild Deer. The ship was wrecked on the North Rock – a dangerous reef about three miles from Clougher, Ireland. The passengers were safely taken to shore, though John Tully lost part of his luggage. Whether or not he got to New Zealand, we do not know. He certainly seems to have been resident in Moray from at least 1891 till his death.

Death
He died on 3rd November, 1906, at South Row, Fochabers, Moray, and was buried in the Bellie churchyard there.

Family
There is no evidence that he ever married.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 29/1/1907, M.A., Lossiemouth, latterly Fochabers, d. 03/11/1906 at Fochabers, testate, Elgin Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC26/39/31; Elgin Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC26/38/19

Sources
Glasgow Herald, 11th January, 1883; 15th January, 1883

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TULLY, THOMAS, M.A.

 
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Born at Fochabers, 1865. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Rattray, Blairgowrie, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Rattray, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.326). Thereafter he served in Glasgow Whiteinch from 1909 (FUFC, p.260); and in Liff from 1923 (FUFC, p.391, where a short biography is given).

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TURNBULL, GEORGE

 
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Born, 1820. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Cunningsburgh, Shetland, 1846. Married, 1847, Elizabeth G. Leslie. Resigned, 1859. Spent a short time in Monte Video, and finally settled in Rupert’s Land, Canada

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 19th November, 1820, and baptized on 14th January, 1821, in Coldstream, Roxburghshire, the son of Mark Turnbull and Barbara Robertson.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-44.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Georgina Gordon Leslie on 9th July, 1847, in Kelso, Roxburghshire, the marriage being conducted by Horatius Bonar. She was born on 21st December, 1827, and baptized on 15th May, 1828, in Eckford, Roxburghshire, the daughter of Sir Charles Abram Leslie, Bart. of Findrassie and Wardes, and Anna Walker.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cunningsburgh, Shetland.

Death
They are both said to have died in Binscarth, Manitoba, Canada, he on 22nd March, 1902, and she on 9th August, 1904.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Anna Walker Turnbull born on 23rd May, 1848, in Dunrossness, Shetland. She is said to have married Rev. William Hamilton Lowry. She died on 18th October, 1914, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

(2) Mark Turnbull born on 21st June, 1851, in Dunrossness, Shetland. He became a rector in the Church of England in Canada. He married Jane M. MacKenzie. He died on 22nd September, 1933, in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.

(3) Charles Turnbull born on 24th August 1852, in Dunrossness, Shetland.

(4) Barbara Robertson Turnbull born on 18th August, 1854, in Dunrossness, Shetland.

(5) George Turnbull born on 18th April, 1856, in Dunrossness, Shetland.

(6) Ada Turnball born on 25th November, 1857, in Dunrossness, Shetland.

(7) James Norman Robert Turnbull born on 9th April, 1868, in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. He became a farmer in Canada. He married Cecilia Scarth on 5th March, 1898, in Silver Creek, Manitoba, Canada. He died in 1943 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

Sources
Rootsweb; Turnbullclan

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TURNBULL, JAMES

 
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Ordained by the Presbytery of Kelso, 1859, for Beaufort West, South Africa, which he left in 1867.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 23rd January, 1829, in Kelso, Roxburghshire, the son of Walter Turnbull, ostler, and Agnes Scott.

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

Marriage
He married.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Kelso and Lauder on 30th July, 1850; thereafter he was a missionary in Sprouston, Roxburghshire, for five years, and in Genoa for one year. He was ordained on 6th July, 1859, for the English speaking congregation in Beaufort West, Cape Colony. On 8th March, 1867, he was received into the Dutch Reformed Church and later that year was settled in Greytown, Natal. He was sympathetic to the Boer cause in the war of 1880-81. Under his ministry there was a remarkable revival which transformed church life there.

On retiral, he moved to Cape Town and died at Seapoint there on 9th January, 1894, leaving a widow.

Sources
MacKenzie, John M., and Dalziel, Nigel R., The Scots in South Africa: Ethnicity, Identity, Gender and Race, 1772-1914, p.172; THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ON THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH OF SOUTH AFRICA, A Thesis presented to the Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy by FREDERICK WILLIAM SASS, 1956, pp.66, 109 ff.

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TURNBULL, JOHN

 
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Born at Eyemouth, Berwickshire, 1797. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Eyemouth, 1822. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1855, Christina S. Reid. Became senior minister, 1868. Died, 1870.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1822, Eyemouth, FES, Vol.2, p.46. In the Free Church, he served in Eyemouth, St. John’s, Berwickshire.

Family
Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, January, 1835, Eyemouth, Vol.2, Berwick, p.318
Breadalbane Muniments, Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 26 April, 1844, Against act for the regulation of suits relating to meetinghouses and other property held for religious purposes by persons dissenting from the Church of England, NRS GD112/74/825; Personal Correspondence: 1846 November 17, Eyemouth, John Turnbull, minister, Free church, Eyemouth, to Breadalbane, Asks for assistance for building a manse and school, NRS GD112/74/50; Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth grant and Sunday trains, 1st May, 1845, NRS GD112/51/189
Papers of the Home-Robertson Family of Paxton, Berwickshire: Miscellaneous Documents connected with the lands and estate of Billie, Berwickshire: Letter of Engagement by the Reverend John Turnbull for his brother Richard Turnbull one of the Tenants for Rents amounting to £651.13.2d, 11 Aug 1830, NRS GD267/27/250/4052

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Turnbull
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 18/4/1870, minister at the Free Church of Scotland at Eyemouth, Inventory and Extract Registered Trust Disposition and S, Duns Sheriff Court, NRS SC60/41/23; 30/4/1870, Minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Eyemouth. d.03/03/1870, Testament Testamentar, Duns Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC60/44/5
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Turnbull or Reid, Christina Short, Mrs, 21/6/1870, wife of Revd. John Turnbull, minister of the Free Church of Scotland, Eyemouth, Inventory and Contract of Marriage, Duns Sheriff Court, NRS SC60/41/23
Memorial of the late Rev. John Turnbull, Eyemouth, consisting of a funeral sermon, preached at Eyemouth, on 13th March 1870, J. C. Fairburn, with a sketch of the life and character of the deceased and outline of discourse, preached on the same day, by Alex. Ogilvy, Edinburgh, G. Johnston & Co., 1870
James J. Trotter, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.79 [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.6

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TURNBULL, ROBERT

 
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Born at Leith, 1842. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Cambusbarron, 1879. Resigned, 1896.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 28th April and baptized on 29th May, 1842, in Leith, Edinburgh, the son of Henry Turnbull, cooper, and Isabella Jack.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1874-78.

Ministry
He was licensed in October, 1878, by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh and was ordained in Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire, on 3rd April, 1879.

Death
He died on 13th August, 1913, at his home: 276 High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh.

Family
There is no sign that he ever married.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 28/8/1913, 276 High Street, Portobello, d. 13/08/1913 at Portobello, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/543; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/452

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TURNER, DUNCAN, M.A.

 
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Born at Glasgow, 1819. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1851, missionary to Constantinople. [List of missionaries says appointed 1852.] Married, 1852, Henrietta Wilson. Resigned, 1857. Laboured for a time at Newtyle. Settled at Tealing, 1862. Became senior minister, 1883.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in 1819 in Glasgow, the son of John Turner, merchant, and Catherine Mitchell.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1840 and graduated M.A. in 1844. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 23rd March, 1844 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.193). He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1844-48.

Marriage
He married Henrietta Wilson on 8th September, 1852, in Glasgow. She was born about 1822 in Glasgow, the daughter of William Wilson, brickmaker, builder, and Ann Russell. She was a sister of Mary or Maria Wilson, the wife of John Fairbairn, a Free Church minister.

Ministry
He was assistant to Miller of St Matthew’s, Glasgow and was elected to Henderson, Glasgow, but nothing came of that. Tealing, Angus, called “Duncan Turner, Newtyle”; and Duncan Turner, “formerly of Constantinople”, was inducted to Tealing on 26th December, 1862. He resigned his charge in 1882 on account of failing health.

Death
After retirement, he lived in Broughty Ferry, Huntly and Glasgow. He died, of old age and heart failure, on 17th January, 1908, at 8 Hamilton Park Terrace, Glasgow, the home of his son-in-law, Dr Alexander Thomson (Registration: 1908 644/12 59 Hillhead). His wife died on 4th July, 1897, in Partick, Glasgow (Registration: 1897 646/3 371 Partick).

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Agnes Catherine Turner born about 1855 in Constantinople, Turkey. She married Robert Thomson, in Tealing, Angus, in 1881. He was the son of Alexander Thomson of Constantinople and the nephew of Robert Thomson. He was a missionary in European Turkey. For a time they lived in Samokov, Bulgaria.

(2) Mary Jane Mackean Turner born on 3rd January, 1858, in Ayr. She married Alexander Thomson in 1886 in Monifieth, Angus He was also the son of Alexander Thomson of Constantinople and the nephew of Robert Thomson. He was a general practitioner in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, before moving to Glasgow. She died in 1944 in Haymarket, Edinburgh.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 28/2/1908, minister of Free Church of Scotland, 8 Hamilton Park Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow, d. 17/01/1908 at Glasgow, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48

Sources
Mocavo; Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 21st October, 1850

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TURNER, DUNCAN

 
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Born at Bridge of Weir, 1855. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Lauder, 1882. Married, 1891, Janet King Hamilton.

Supplementary Information
In the Free Church, he served in Lauder, Berwickshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.89, where a short biography is given). He died in 1907.

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TWEEDIE, JOHN A.

 
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Born in Midlothian. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Wormit, 1898. Married, the same year, Jessie E. Baxter. John Alexander Tweedie

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Wormit, Fife. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.378). Thereafter he served in Arbroath High Street from 1908 (FUFC, p.395, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1924 and thereafter gave service in Naples (FUFC, p.528).

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TWEEDIE, WILLIAM KING, D.D. (St. Andrews)

 
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Born at Ayr, 1803. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrews. Ordained at London Wall, 1832. Married, 1835, Margaret Bell. Translated, 1836, to Aberdeen, South; and. 1842, to the Tolbooth, Edinburgh. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Was convener for a time of the Sustentation Fund Committee, and for fifteen years of the Foreign Mission Committee. Died, 1863.

Publications.—Life of Rev. John Macdonald, India. Calvin and Servetus. Lights and Shadows of the Life of Faith. Jerusalem and its Environs. Ruined Cities of the East. Fifteen Years of Foreign Missions. The Life and Work of Earnest Men. The Sacrament of Baptism. Seed Time and Harvest. Home: A Book for the Family, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1832, London Wall, London, FES,Vol.7, p.491; 1836, South, Aberdeen, FES,Vol.6, p.31; 1842, Tolbooth, Edinburgh, FES,Vol.1, p.121; FES, Vol.8, p.24. In the Free Church, he served in Tolbooth, Edinburgh.

Publications
See separate document here.

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