SYNOD OF LOTHIAN
PRESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH
ADDIEWELL AND STONEYBURN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.15
Addiewell was a Home Mission station in 1902, served by a probationer. On 19th July 1910 the Presbytery ordained William Ewan, M.A., who was probationer in charge. In May 1919 the Presbytery agreed to create a congregation of Addiewell and Stoneyburn under one minister and Kirk Session. Mr Ewan resigned in December 1919. Mission work had been begun at Stoneyburn in 1917. A new church at Addiewell was opened on 29th November 1914, and another at Stoneyburn on 5th November 1925. A manse was built at Stoneyburn in 1927.
1920
GEORGE BRYAN GOLDIE
Formerly at New Pitsligo; inducted 29th January 1920; translated to Newarthill, 11th November 1926.
1927
GEORGE FRASER
Born 14th May 1883 at St Petersburg, Russia, son of George Fraser and Annie Angus; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1904), New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology); licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd June 1908; ordained and inducted Bonkle 10th November 1910; war service in H.M. Forces in France; translated to Calcutta Wellesley Square, September 1919; translated and inducted 5th October 1927. Married 25th February 1916, Mary Martin Inglis.
[For an account of this congregation in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.46, Stoneyburn; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.32 .]
BALERNO
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.619
Church and manse.
1856
WILLIAM SCOTT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.621
[Born 19th February 1827 at Carnwath, son of William Scott and Margaret Reid;] ordained and inducted 21st February 1856; retired 1900; died 1904. [Married 1856, Isabella Taylor.]
1901
DAVID BALFOUR TURNER
Ordained and inducted 21st March 1901.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.1]
COBBINSHAW
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Formerly in the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Lanark. The missionary in charge then was the Rev. Hugh Young. He retired in 1928, and owing to the depopulation of the district steps were taken to unite Cobbinshaw with the Church of Scotland Mission at Tarbrax. The congregation, being in danger of being left without a minister, Mr Young came forward and served as missionary till his death in 1938.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.2.]
CORSTORPHINE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.2
Church with large hall, session room and small room. In 1902, a pipe organ costing £500 was installed. In 1913, the church was enlarged at a cost of £3600, a new hall built and two rooms added.
1865
JAMES MORRISON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.276
Ordained and inducted 1865; died 26th August 1912.
1901
PETER BEITH
Born 23rd October 1872, son of Peter Beith and Margaret Dunbar; educated at Paisley, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1898), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Paisley 1901; assistant Pollokshields and Dundee St. Paul’s; ordained and inducted 29th November 1901; war service with Y.M.C.A. and Scottish Churches Huts in France. Publication – Dante (pamphlet), Madras, 1910.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.10, Corstorphine, St Ninian’s.]
CRAMOND
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.2
In 1927 the name was changed to Davidson’s Mains. In 1929 the Presbytery approved of plans for the erection of a new church hall at an estimated cost of £2200.
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1890
DAVID GIBB MITCHELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.272
Born 13th September 1861 at Glen Dye, Banchory Ternan, son of Robert Leyde Mitchell and Isabella Hogg Menzies; educated at Banchory Ternan, Longforgan Public School, Dundee High School, University of St Andrews, New College, Edinburgh; missionary in Pleasance Settlement 1888-1890; licensed 1890; assistant Inverness 1891; ordained and inducted October 1891; died 12th February 1921. Married 27th June 1899 Anna Maria Pirie. Publications – The Kirk i’ the Clachan, Paisley, 1917, Sermons in Braid Scots.
1921
ROBERT WESTLANDS LECKIE
Born 22nd February 1887 in Edinburgh, son of John Leckie and Margaret Runciman Westlands; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1910), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh, March 1914; assistant Edinburgh Newington East, St James’ Place, Leith St Andrew’s Place; war service in H.M. Forces in Greece and France, and as Education Officer in Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 16th September 1921.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.12, Davidson’s Mains; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.8.]
EAST CALDER
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.611
Church with session house and vestry attached.
1898
WILLIAM CHERRY
Ordained and inducted 8th September 1898; translated to Hamilton South, 25th March 1925.
1925
GEORGE SORLEY GILMOUR
Born 27th June 1873 at Boveedy Manse, Kilrea, Co. Derry, son of the Rev. James Gilmour and Agnes Muir Montgomery; educated at Coleraine, Glasgow, Nottingham University College, Chicago Theological Seminary, B.D. (1910); ordained by Leicestershire Congregational Union March 1902: admitted to United Free Church, 1912; inducted Hamilton Burnbank, 17th December 1913; resigned April 1917; inducted Longtown, 5th June 1919; translated and inducted 10th September 1925. Married 29th September 1903, Isabella Annie Hadden.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.2; for an account of this minister, see there and also Vol.9, p.425]
ABBEYHILL
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.482
For this congregation, which previously worshipped in Blackfriars Street, a new church was opened on 22nd December 1900, and a hall adjoining was added later. On 4th October 1910 Abbeyhill and Holyrood united under the name Holyrood-Abbey.
1890
WILLIAM ALLAN
Translated from Holywell, Cumberland and inducted 20th March 1890; resigned 1910; inducted Kinghorn Rosslands 1911.
ARGYLE PLACE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.480
The buildings, all in one block, include church, hall, session room, vestry, ladies’ room, church officer’s house. Electric light introduced 1903; pipe organ, costing £800, 1911.
1890
THOMAS STOREY DICKSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.481
Born 23rd March 1851 at Tinwald, son of John Dickson and Margaret Storey; educated at Anisfield School, Dumfries Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow; ordained and inducted Auchterarder North 1877; translated to Dundee Bell Street 19th February 1880; translated and inducted 11th February 1890; died 20th March 1909.
1909
ANDREW URQUHART
Ordained and inducted 30th September 1909; translated to Anstruther Chalmers Memorial 4th March 1914.
1914
PERCY HEPBURN
Born 4th November 1874 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, son of Thomas Hepburn and Hannah Isabella Bell; educated at Newcastle, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1897), B.D. (1900), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 11th September 1900; assistant Leith Junction Road; ordained and inducted Perth Bridgend 18th February 1902; translated and inducted 13th May 1914; war service in H.M. Forces in France and Belgium 1917-19. Married 3rd June 1903, Amy Isobel Smith Wilkie.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.2.]
ARTHUR STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.460
On the retiral of Mr Milroy, and after negotiations with the New College Missionary Society and the Advisory Committee of the Society, this congregation and the New College Settlement in the Pleasance
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were united in April 1919, under the ministry of the Warden of the Settlement, the Rev. J. Harry Miller. The congregation thereafter assumed the name, Pleasance.
1894
JAMES MILROY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.464
Translated from Freuchie and inducted 22nd May 1894; resigned April 1918; introduced Lethendy August 1919.
1919
JOHN HARRY MILLER, M.A.
Inducted 2nd May 1919. See under Pleasance.
BARCLAY
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.2
Church with halls, church officer’s house, manse. Mission hall with care-taker’s house in Grove Street. History of the congregation – These Fifty Years, 1865-1915, by the Rev. R. Sangster Anderson.
1864
JAMES HOOD WILSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.358
Translated from Edinburgh Fountainbridge and inducted 1864; resigned 1897; died 6th December 1903.
1897
WILLIAM MCCALLUM CLOW, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Aberdeen South and inducted as colleague and successor, 4th November 1897; translated to Glasgow Stevenson Memorial 27th February 1902.
1902
ROBERT SANGSTER ANDERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.84
Born 21st July 1865 at Edinkillie Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Alexander Anderson and Isabella Sangster; educated at Logie, Elgin, Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1885), D.D. (1919), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Elgin 1889; assistant Kirkcaldy St Brycedale; ordained and inducted Ferry-Port- on-Craig 17th September 1890; translated to Paisley Sherwood 15th May 1897; translated and inducted 30th June 1902; retired 1924. Married 6th July 1892, Minnie Watson Horn.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.3.]
1924
ALEXANDER IRVINE PIRIE
Born 29th September 1880 at Kirkwall, Orkney, son of Alexander Irvine Pirie and Elspeth Jamieson; educated at Rousay, Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1902), B.D. (1907), New College, Edinburgh, University of Marburg; licensed by Presbytery of Orkney 1906; assistant Dundee St John’s; ordained and inducted Coldstream Rodger Memorial 9th October 1907; translated to Aberdeen Carden Place, 6th February 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. Huts in France, and as Chaplain to the Forces in France 1916-18; translated to Kilmarnock King Street 3rd May 1921; translated and inducted 1st May 1924. Married 4th August 1909, Isabella Edith Anderson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.3; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.3.]
BRAID
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.493
Church with large and small halls and rooms.
1886
WALTER BROWN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.493
Born 26th September 1843 at Ancrum, son of James Brown and Helen Biggar; educated at Lilliesleaf School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1874), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1877; missionary at Edinburgh Queen Street; ordained and inducted Galashiels South 15th November 1877; translated and inducted 16th March 1886; retired 11th March 1919. Married 29th July 1908, Margaret Susan Swan.
1920
DUNCAN BLAIR, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Prestonkirk and inducted 25th February 1920; translated to Newlands, Glasgow 25th June 1926.
1927
ALASDAIR MACGILLIVRAY MACLEOD
Born 23rd May 1888 at Free Church Manse, Garrabost, Stornoway, son of Rev. George Macleod and Anna MacGillivray; educated Bayble Public School, Stornoway, Nicolson Institute, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1910), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Lewis 16th April 1914; assistant Aberdeen High; ordained and inducted Kirkhill, Inverness 15th May 1914; war service as Chaplain to the Forces, 1917-18; translated to Invergordon 1920; translated and inducted 20th January 1927. Married 22nd July 1914, Margaret Ingram Sangster.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.5; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.9, p.531.]
BRISTO
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.430
Church, session house, large hall, small hall, 2 classrooms, church officer’s house. Mission halls at Cowan’s Close, Crosscauseway. A famous member of Session was James Thin, veteran bookseller, Elder for 61 years and Session Clerk for 58 years. Made a large collection of
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Hymnological works, bequeathed to New College Library, Edinburgh. He died in 1915 in his 92nd year.
1877
GEORGE FITZPATRICK JAMES
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.433; Vol.2, p.286
Ordained and inducted Manchester 12th September 1867; translated to Kilmarnock Portland Road 9th January 1872; translated and inducted 18th January 1877; died December 1906. [Married Elizabeth Patterson.]
1898
JOHN ALEXANDER HUTTON, M.A.
Translated from Alyth and inducted 21st September 1898; translated to Jesmond, Newcastle 1901; translated to Glasgow Belhaven 1906.
1902
ALEXANDER GIBSON OLIVER
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.285]
Born 31st December 1866 at Fauldhouse, son of John Oliver and Janet Millwright; educated at Benhar, Harthill, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1892), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Bathgate December 1895; assistant Addiewell 1894-6; ordained and inducted Glasgow Martyrs’ Free Church 20th March 1896; translated and inducted 20th March 1902; died 5th September 1910. Married 22nd June 1896, Mary Gray Bell.
1911
ADAM FYFE FINDLAY, M.A.
Translated from Arbroath Erskine and inducted 8th June 1911; translated to Linlithgow High 2nd October 1921.
1922
WILLIAM POTTINGER
Translated from Carnoustie and inducted 5th October 1922; translated to Glasgow Sydney Place and East Campbell Street 8th March 1928.
1928
HENRY ARNOTT
Born 10th August 1870 in Glasgow, son of Henry Arnott and Anne Carter, educated at Dunfermline, University of St Andrews, New College, Edinburgh, McGill College, Montreal; licensed by Presbytery of Miramich, New Brunswick 30th April 1903; assistant Dunfermline Free Abbey, Edinburgh New North, and Erskine, Montreal; ordained and inducted St James’ Presbyterian Church, Newcastle, New Brunswick 30th April 1903; translated to Saline 2nd March 1908; translated to Alva West 25th September 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917-19; translated to Newbattle, January 1922; resigned August 1924; inducted 19th December 1928. Married 20th June 1903, Janetta Main Melville.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.5.]
BROUGHTON PLACE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.437
Church and halls. Manse acquired. This congregation for many years carried on extensive mission work in the Canongate Institute; Palmerston Place Church and St Andrew’s Free Church also worked there; and the missions were combined in connection with Moray-Knox Church by the Presbytery on 7th December 1915.
1885
JOHN SMITH, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.151, 439 and 651
Born in Forres, [son of Alexander Smith and Amelia McHenry;] assistant Fraserburgh; ordained and inducted Burghead 5th March 1873; translated to Fraserburgh 13th October 1875; translated to Berwick Wallace Green 1878; translated and inducted 26th March 1885; acted as Duff Lecturer in Evangelistic Theology 1902-3; died 13th December 1905; [buried Cluny Hill Cemetery, Forres.] D.D., University of Aberdeen 1893.
1906
JAMES MACDOUGALL BLACK, M.A.
Translated from Forres Castlehill and inducted 7th June 1906; translated to Edinburgh St George’s 1st May 1921.
1923
GEORGE MONCUR FAIRWEATHER
Born 29th July 1871 at Carmylie, Angus; educated at Dundee Harris Academy, Broughty Ferry, University of Edinburgh, M.A., Glasgow College; assistant Crieff South; ordained and inducted Wemyss Bay 9th October 1903; translated to Berwick Wallace Green 1908; translated to Glasgow Claremont 5th November 1914; war service in H.M. Forces 1916-17, awarded M.C.; appointed to Rome 1921; translated and inducted 10th January 1923. Married Helen Morrison.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.5; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.641-2]
BRUNTSFIELD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.453
Formerly Viewforth United Presbyterian. Church and halls. Manse acquired.
1900
ANDREW MURDOCH SMITH, M.A.
Translated from Ayr Darlington Place and inducted 19th July 1900; translated to Moffat St Mary’s 12th May 1920.
1921
ROBERT MOFFAT GILLON
Born 14th December 1883 at Shotts, son of Duncan Gillon and Janet Moffat; educated at Calderhead, Rutherglen, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1912), New College, Edinburgh, and Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 10th May 1911; assistant Motherwell Cairns; ordained and inducted
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Hebburn-on-Tyne 6th July 1911; translated to Glasgow Barony 1st September 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; translated and inducted 5th January 1921. Married 30th July 1913, Mary McDowall.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.6.]
BUCCLEUCH-GREYFRIARS
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, pp.2 and 4.
The minister and congregation adhered to the Free Church, and the buildings were allocated to the Free Church.
CAIRNS MEMORIAL
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.493
Formerly Gorgie United Presbyterian. The church was built just after the Union of 1900, and with the consent of the Cairns family, received its name.
1899
JAMES AITKEN CLARK
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.494
Ordained and inducted 17th January 1899; translated to Liverpool Queen’s Road 27th April 1906.
1906
ALEXANDER RODGER
Translated from Aberdeen Union and inducted 2nd April 1906; translated to Annbank, 1914.
1914
GEORGE SHAW STEWART
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.644
Born 28th March 1866 at Glasgow, son of George Stewart and Margaret Shaw; educated at Glasgow, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1891), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh May 1894; assistant Edinburgh Rosehall, 1894-5; ordained and inducted Inverness United Presbyterian 17th October 1895; missionary in Kaffraria October 1899 to April 1912; assistant Edinburgh St George’s 1912-14; inducted 7th October 1914, retired 6th March 1928; [died 1945.] Married 5th February 1896, Ellen Sinclair. Publications – Worship in the Sunday School, 1923; Practical Notes for S.S. Teachers, 1924; The Discipline of Prayer, 1925 (all published in Edinburgh); The Holy Spirit, London 1915; The Spirit of Worship, London 1925.
1928
WILLIAM ROXBURGH FORRESTER
Born 19th February 1892 at Logiealmond, son of Rev. David Marshall Forrester, D.D., and Annie Roxburgh; educated at Glasgow, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1914), B.D. (1923), New College, Edinburgh, University of Bonn 1921-2, Paris Faculté Libre 1922; assistant lecturer, Moral Philosophy, University of Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces in France, Mesopotamia, Persia and India, M.C. 1918; licensed by Presbytery of Dalkeith, 8th November 1922; ordained and inducted Roslin 9th December 1922; translated and inducted 20th September 1928; [died 1984.] Married 21st November 1922, Isobel Margaret Stewart McColl.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.6; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.770; also Vol.10, p.430.]
CANDLISH
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.4
The church was opened incomplete on 18th May 1901, but the buildings were finished and dedicated on 12th October 1913, the cost being over £18,000, and the whole was paid by 1917. The Fountainbridge congregation was transferred to the new church.
1901
GEORGE DUNCAN LOW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.211
Translated from Edinburgh Fountainbridge with the congregation 18th May 1901; applied for colleague and successor May 1902; died 13th August 1911. Married 1872, Jane Stuart Reith.
1902
WILLIAM BRASH MACLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.249
Born 21st November 1858 at Melfort, Argyll, son of John Macleod and Mary Brash; educated at Glasgow, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1891; assistant Glasgow Gorbals, London Upper Norwood; ordained and inducted St Helier’s, Jersey 14th January 1892; translated to Port-Glasgow Hamilton September 1897; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 10th October 1902; retired May 1924. Publications – Christianity and Theosophy, London 1892; Genius of Lord Tennyson, London, 1892; Paul’s Idea of Preaching, Jersey 1893; Frederick Tennyson, Glasgow 1896; The Lord’s Death, Jersey 1897; The Afflictions of the Righteous, London 1913 (also translated into Japanese).
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.6.]
1924
CLIFFORD NORMAN BUTTON
Born 9th February 1888 in London, son of James Norman Button and Kate Pizey; educated at Woodgrange College, London, University of Sydney, N.S.W., B.A. (1916), Melbourne, B.D. (1930), New College, Edinburgh, Ph.D. (1927); licensed by Presbytery of Sydney 1918; ordained Bingara, N.S.W. 1918; translated to Glebe, Sydney 1920; acting minister in Candlish from 29th October 1924; inducted as colleague and successor 17th June 1925; resigned October 1927; inducted to St Andrew’s, Ballarat 1928.
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1928
JAMES GRAHAM
Born 15th June 1884, at Swinton, Manchester, son of Arthur Graham and Sarah Graham; educated at Manchester, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1921), Hartley Primitive Methodist College, Manchester; ordained as Primitive Methodist minister in Bradford May 1914; admitted to United Free Church 1919; assistant Bellshill, Airdrie, and Glasgow Dowanhill; inducted Irvine Relief 8th April 1920; translated to Leven Forman 26th March 1925; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 26th April 1928. Married 1st July 1914, Rhoda Haigh. Publication – History of the Relief Church, Irvine, Ardrossan 1923.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.6; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.5]
CANONGATE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.488
This congregation entered into the buildings of the Abbeyhill congregation in Blackfriars Street shortly before the Union of 1900. United with Knox and Moray on 1st March 1910 to form Moray-Knox.
1874
ROBERT GRAY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.488
[Born or baptised 15th August, 1840, at Tarbolton, son of James Gray and Jane Stewart; educated at University of Glasgow;] ordained and inducted Cullybackey, Ireland 10th September 1868; translated and inducted 22nd December 1874; retired 1st March 1910 on the local union; [died 1930. Married 1870, Eliza Goold, daughter of Marshall Goold, minister. For more on the Goold family see William Henry Goold.] Clerk to the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh, 1883-1900; Joint-Clerk to the United Free Presbytery, 1900 to 4th January 1921.
CHALMERS TERRITORIAL
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.12
Church and manse. The old church was sold in 1927, and the proceeds were applied to the erection of a hall adjoining the new church.
1887
JOHN SHARP BOWIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.100
Translated from Dunblane and inducted 1887; died 20th February 1914.
1914
WILLIAM LINDSAY
Born 14th January 1862 in Fenwick Parish, son of William Lindsay and Isabella Barr; educated at Fenwick, Kilmarnock, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1887), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Irvine 1891; assistant Paisley Oakshaw; ordained and inducted Bishopbriggs June 1892; translated to Cathcart Free Church 1895; translated to Glasgow St Mark’s 23rd February 1906; translated and inducted June 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; died 9th August 1925. Married 25th January 1894, Margaret Douglas.
1926
HENRY FRANCIS TRAFFORD HEATH
Born 19th December 1885 at Kadina, South Australia, son of William Thomas Heath and Annie Maria Heath; educated at Paskerville and Wallaroo, University of Adelaide, Wesleyan Methodist Divinity Hall; ordained as chaplain to Australian Infantry Forces, at London, 4th August 1917; appointed to Renmark, South Australia 1920; translated to Rose Park, South Australia 1921; loc. ten. Dundee St Mark’s (Church of Scotland) 1924; inducted 13th January 1926. Married 12th September 1919, Irene Whellas Bain.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.8, Chalmers.]
COLLEGE STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.434
Church. On 25th September 1910 united with Cowgate and Pleasance to form Union.
1882
ARCHIBALD BORLAND CAMERON, M.A., B.D., D.D.
Translated from Arbroath Princes Street and inducted June 1882; translated to Bermuda Christ Church May 1904.
1904
JOHN FAICHNEY
Born 1st March 1866 in Glasgow, son of James Bruce Faichney and Annie Dale; educated at Leeds, Manchester, Lancaster, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1898; missionary work in Canada 1898-9; assistant Glasgow Copland Road 1899, Govan Fairfield 1900, Dundee Bell Street 1901-2; ordained and inducted Westray, Orkney 12th November 1902; translated and inducted 19th December 1904; translated to St George’s, Morton, Manchester October 1909; translated to Birkenhead Hamilton Memorial 30th April 1916; [died 23rd December, 1933; buried Flaybrick Memorial Gardens, Birkenhead. Married 1902, Jane Blakely Hamilton.]
COWGATE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.3
Church and manse. United with College Street and Pleasance to form Union on 25th September 1910.
1879
CHARLES WEDDERBURN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.353
Translated from Stirling West and inducted 1879; retired at the local union, 1910, died 1916.
CRAIGMILLAR PARK
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.3
The church was completed and opened in March 1899, and the manse was acquired
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in 1900. The manse was sold in 1920, and another in Suffolk Road was purchased. A handbook to the history of the congregation was published in 1906.
1865
JOHN FLEMING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.156
Translated from Forfar East and inducted 1865, retired 1896, died 19th December 1918 in the 90th year of his age and the 63rd of his ministry.
1896
JAMES RUTHERFORD, B.D.
Translated from Coldstream and inducted 1896; translated to Rothesay Craigmore 7th June, 1917.
1917
MILLAR PATRICK
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, pp.333 and 408
Born 28th June 1868 at Ladybank, son of James Patrick and Jessie Millar, educated at Ladybank, Dundee High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1890), D.D. (1924), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Cupar on 5th September 1893; assistant Glasgow Claremont; ordained and inducted Biggar Moat Park 17th May, 1894; translated to Ayr Trinity 12th July, 1899; translated to Perth North 29th January 1907; translated to Aberdeen Ferryhill 26th February 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated and inducted 8th November 1917. Married 5th September 1905, Jessie Tod. Publications – The Story of the Church’s Song, Edinburgh 1927; joint-editor, The Scottish Students’ Song-Book, Glasgow, 1891; The University Song-Book, London, 1901; editor, The Book of Common Order 1928, of the United Free Church, Oxford, 1928; part-author, Handbook to the Revised Church Hymnary, Oxford, 1927.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.11.]
DALRY
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.3
Church, hall and manse. The hall was reconstructed in 1926 to provide two halls at a cost of £4066. A pamphlet, Traditions of Dalry U.F. Church, Edinburgh, was edited by R. Mackeen Cant.
1894
ALEXANDER AITKEN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.78
Born 22nd September 1853 at Park Farm, Campbeltown, son of Robert Aitken and Isabella Tudhope; educated at Campbeltown Free Grammar School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kintyre, 8th July 1879; assistant Campbeltown Lorne Street 1879-80; ordained and inducted Gifford 20th October 1881; translated and inducted 11th January 1894; retired 4th December 1919; died 11th January 1920. Married (1) 2nd November 1881, Sarah Jane Greig; (2) 27th November 1903, Catherine Mary McMicking.
1919
JAMES WINCHESTER
Translated from Irvine Relief and inducted 4th December 1919; translated to Mordington and Paxton 22nd September 1927.
1928
DAVID McDOUGALL
Born 22nd December 1889 at Paisley, son of Robert McDougall and Jane McKay, educated at Paisley and Govan Schools, Bellahouston Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1910), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology); licensed by Presbytery of Paisley April 1914; assistant Johnstone East, Paisley High; ordained and inducted Uphall 18th November 1915; translated to Glasgow Martyrs’ 28th June 1922; translated and inducted 18th January 1928. Married 19th April 1916, Elizabeth Hopkins Hutton Dow.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.12; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.8.]
DAVIDSON CHURCH EYRE PLACE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.473
Church and halls.
1885
JOHN PATRICK MITCHELL
Born 27th June 1852 in Glasgow, son of Patrick Mitchell and Margaret Barr Bryson, educated at Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, B.Sc. (1874), Μ.Α. (1876), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1878; ordained and inducted Cupar Bonnygate 30th October 1878; translated and inducted 8th September 1885; retired 1908; died 23rd January 1923. Married 9th March 1881, Zoe Blanche Mason.
1908
WILLIAM THOMAS CAIRNS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.586
Born 16th January 1868 at Stitchel United Presbyterian Manse, son of Rev. David Cairns and Elizabeth Williamson Smith; educated at Ednam and Kelso Schools, Edinburgh, M.A. (1890), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, University of Berlin; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kelso October 1893; assistant Montrose St Luke’s and Paisley Oakshaw; ordained and inducted Abernethy 11th June, 1896; translated and inducted 22nd December 1908; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917. Married 6th January 1898, Christina Jane Cumming. Member of
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Revision Committee of Revised Church Hymnary and Psalter. Contributed to Handbook to the Revised Church Hymnary.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.12, Davidson.]
DEAN
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.3
Church and halls. On 16th May 1911, this congregation united with St Cuthbert’s under the name St Cuthbert’s.
1886
ARCHIBALD BELL
Ewing Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.94
Translated from Renton and inducted 1886; retired to facilitate local union, April 1911; died 26th December 1911.
DEAN STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.477
Church. United with St Bernard’s on 15th July 1915 under the name of St Bernard’s.
1892
THOMAS ANDERSON
Translated from London Kingston and Surbiton and inducted 16th February 1892; translated to Cabrach 18th March 1908.
1908
FRANCIS GORDON MACLEOD
Translated from Edinburgh Knox’s and inducted July 1908; translated to Fettercairn 1915.
EAST FOUNTAINBRIDGE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.494
Church. This congregation after a struggling existence for some years, was dissolved on 2nd May 1905.
1899
JOHN MUIR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.495
[Born 27th July 1855 at Penicuik, son of William Muir and Janet Temple; educated at University of Edinburgh, Evangelical Union College;] ordained and inducted Glasgow Calton Evangelical Union Church 26th April 1888; resigned 1891; inducted Fountainbridge Evangelical Union 10th November 1891; admitted to United Presbyterian Church with his congregation 30th May 1899; resigned 3rd February 1903; [ministered in New South Wales; died June, 1937. Married 1893, Jane Miller, daughter of John Miller, Forres, Congregational minister.]
FOUNTAINBRIDGE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.4
Church and manse. This congregation was transferred to the Candlish Church, Merchiston, on 18th May 1901, and the buildings at Fountainbridge were used as a Home Mission station.
1882
GEORGE DUNCAN LOW
Translated from Aberdeen North and inducted 1882; translated with the congregation to Edinburgh Candlish Church May 1901.
FOUNTAINBRIDGE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
The buildings of the old Fountainbridge congregation were used by the Home Mission Committee as a station under the supervision of St George’s. In 1927 the congregation was raised to full status.
1903
HARRY MACDONALD ROSS
Appointed missionary and ordained 1903; translated to Falkirk Bainsford 17th April 1907.
1907
THOMAS STRUTHERS SYMINGTON, M.A.
Appointed missionary and ordained 17th June 1907; translated to Glasgow Union 1918.
1918
IAN DARROCH NEILSON
Translated from Coldstream Rodger Memorial and introduced 15th August 1918; translated to Cambusnethan 19th May 1924.
1925
WILLIAM ALEXANDER GUTHRIE
Born 13th November 1874 at Ceres, Fife, son of Henry Guthrie and Christina Wallace; educated at Leven, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1896), New College, Edinburgh; teacher at Biggar High School, Lossiemouth Higher Grade School; headmaster in Foulford Public School, Cowdenbeath, and Beath to 1914; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1915-16, mentioned in Despatches June 1916; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel 1916, Major in Army Educational Corps 1920, Lieutenant-Colonel April 1921; promoted Commandant British Army School of Education; retired from Army 1922; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1924; appointed and ordained as preacher 11th June 1925; inducted when congregation became full charge in 1927. Married 30th March 1899, Agnes Gilmour Rattray.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.13.]
FOUNTAINHALL ROAD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.468
Church, etc. Formerly Mayfield United Presbyterian Church.
1878
ROBERT POLLOK WATT
Ordained and inducted 13th February 1878; translated to Glenbervie 19th March 1919.
1920
WILLIAM ROSS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.307
Born 26th May 1867 at Turriff, son of Alexander Ross and Elizabeth Ogilvie Taylor; educated at Forglen and Keith Schools, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1889), B.D. (1893), Aberdeen Free Church College, University of Göttingen; licensed by Free Church Presbytery
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of Turriff 1893; assistant Dundee McCheyne Memorial; ordained and inducted Cullen 16th September 1894; translated to Leith St John’s 1900: translated to Kilmarnock High 1905; war service as Chaplain to the Forces; translated and inducted 6th May 1920. Married 13th July 1909, E[liza] Lilian Clark, youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Clark, Bart., Edinburgh. Publications – Till He Come (Sermons), Edinburgh, 1928; articles in Hastings’ Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, etc.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.14.]
GILMORE PLACE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.486
Church. On the resignation of the Rev. J.W. Shannon, the congregation was dissolved, and the church was sold to the Free Presbyterian Church for £3000, which was handed over to the Home Mission Committee for Church Extension work, and was largely used for the church buildings at Lochend.
1898
ARCHIBALD MACAULAY CALDWELL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.488; Vol.2, p.271
[Born 1863 at Dumbarton, the son of William Caldwell and Janet Macaulay;] ordained and inducted Coldstream West 6th December 1892; translated and inducted 26th April 1898; resigned 12th July 1905; went to Australia; [died 19th July 1941; remains scattered Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Greater Dandenong City, Victoria. Married 1894, Jeanie Thomson.]
1906
JAMES WIGSTON SHANNON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.462
Born 13th August 1858 at Carluke, son of John Shannon and Mary Wigston; educated at Braidwood School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1886), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1888; assistant Edinburgh Pleasance and Dean Street; ordained and inducted Elgin South Street 11th June 1889; translated to Hawick Wilton 2nd February 1892; translated and inducted February 1906; resigned on proceeding to Morere, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, October 1921; translated to Matawhero, Poverty Bay, N.Z., 27th June 1924; died 8th January 1926. Married 27th June 1893, Agnes Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Alexander Renton, Edinburgh.
GORGIE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.4
Church opened in 1896. Hall with smaller hall and other accommodation built, and manse acquired, in 1904.
1891
WILLIAM KILPATRICK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.200
Born 5th May 1861, at Ardrossan, son of William Kilpatrick and Margaret Affleck; educated at Dumbarton, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1882), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dumbarton 1887; ordained and inducted 24th September 1891; war service with the Scottish Churches Huts in Belgium and France; applied for colleague and successor February 1929. Married 14th June 1892, Mary Brodie Fyfe.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.30.]
1929
JOHN EDGAR PENMAN
Born 14th December 1885 at Edinburgh, son of William and Margaret Philippa Penman [née Edgar]; educated at Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., and New College, Edinburgh; war service with Y.M.C.A. in East Africa, Mesopotamia, Persia and India; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 24th July 1919; ordained and inducted Armadale 11th February 1920; translated to Aberdeen Bon-Accord 19th April 1923; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 26th September 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.30, North Merchiston; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.345.]
GRANGE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.4
Church and manse. New vestry built in 1927-8. Sketch of history of the congregation in Diamond Jubilee Booklet, December 1926.
1887
JOHN MORRISON SLOAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.318
Translated from Glasgow Anderston and inducted 1887; died 31st October 1915.
1905
WILLIAM EWING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.148
Born 17th October 1857, at Corsock, Dalbeattie, son of John Ewing and Marion McCulloch; educated at Corsock School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1906), D.D. (1913), University of Leipzig, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Douglas Water, Eaglesham, and Glasgow St Matthew’s; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kirkcudbright 12th September 1887; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow as missionary to the Jews at Tiberias, 10th January 1888; inducted Broad Street, Birmingham, 3rd October 1893; translated to Glasgow Glasgow Rose Street 26th January 1899; translated to Stirling Allan Park 12th June 1902; translated and inducted 14th December 1905; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Palestine, 1914-19, twice mentioned in Despatches, awarded M.C.. Married 3rd June 1896, Elizabeth Mary Black. Publications – Arab and Druze at Home, Edinburgh, 1907; Cedar and Palm, London 1912; The Holy Land and Glasgow, Edinburgh, 1913; From Gallipoli to Baghdad,
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London, 1917; J.E.H. Thomson, D.D., London, 1925: Joint Editor of the Temple Bible Dictionary, London, 1910; many articles in Hastings’ Dictionaries, Expositor, Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly, etc.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.37, St Catherine-in-Grange.]
GREENBANK
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.494
Congregation formed on 16th July 1900. Hall at first used as church, with lower hall, session-room, board-room, and other offices, opened 13th May 1900. Church erected and opened 8th October 1927. History of the congregation in illustrated pamphlet.
1902
NORMAN FRASER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.215
[Born 1865 at Glasgow, the son of Henry Erskine Fraser, minister, and Eliza Jane Green; educated at University of Glasgow, B.D. (1887);] translated from Hamilton Saffronhall and inducted 1902; translated to Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, 1913. [Married 1902, Cecilia Craigie Gray, the daughter of William Gray, minister.]
1914
THOMAS RATCLIFFE BARNETT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.581
Born 23rd December 1868, at Burnbrae, Kilbarchan, son of James Barnett and Janet Ratcliffe; educated at John Neilson’s Institution, Paisley, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Ph.D. (1925); licensed by Presbytery of Paisley June 1893; assistant Glasgow Cambridge Street, Edinburgh Rosehall, Broughton Place; ordained and inducted Fala 20th October 1899; translated to Bo’ness St Andrew’s 23rd November 1905; translated and inducted 21st January 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. and as Chaplain to the Forces in France, 1917-19. Married 18th April 1900, Maggie Muirhead Forrest. F.S.A. (Scot.), 1895. Publications – The Dame of the Fine Green Kirtle, London, 1902; The Finest Baby in the World, Edinburgh, 1904; The Blessed Ministry of Childhood, Edinburgh, 1906; Fairshiels – Memories of a Lammermoor Parish, Edinburgh, 1906; Reminiscences of Old Scots Folk, London and Edinburgh, 1913; The Winds of Dawn, London, 1914; The Makers of the Kirk, London and Edinburgh, 1915; The Road to Rannoch, Edinburgh, 1924; Border Byways and Lothian Lore, Edinburgh, 1925; Margaret of Scotland, Queen and Saint, Edinburgh, 1926; The Land of Lochiel and the Magic West, Edinburgh, 1927; The Story of the Covenant, Edinburgh, 1928.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.15
GUTHRIE MEMORIAL
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.5
Church and manse. Pipe organ installed in 1924.
1894
ADAM ST CLAIR SUTHERLAND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.334
Ordained and inducted 1894; retired 1921; died 28th August 1924.
1921
HECTOR [COPLAND] MACPHERSON
Born 1st April 1888 in Edinburgh, son of Hector Macpherson (Editor of Edinburgh Evening News, and F.R.S.E.) and Mary Janet Copland; educated private tuition, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1912), Ph.D. (1923), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow, 1915), student assistant Edinburgh St Paul’s; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 5th May 1915; ordained and inducted Loudoun, Newmilns, 11th August 1916; war service with Y.M.C.A.; translated and inducted 1st December 1921. F.R.A.S., 1911; F.R.S.E., 1917; Thomson Lecturer in Aberdeen College, 1925-6. Publications – Astronomers of Today, Edinburgh, 1905; A Century’s Progress in Astronomy, Edinburgh, 1906; Through the Depths of Space, Edinburgh, 1908; Romance of Modern Astronomy, London, 1916; Practical Astronomy, Edinburgh, 1912; The Covenanters under Persecution, Edinburgh, 1923; Hector Macpherson, the Man and his Work, Edinburgh, 1925; Modern Astronomy, its Rise and Progress, Oxford, 1926; The Church and Science, London, 1927.
[For an account of this congregation 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.16; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.10.]
HAYMARKET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.489
Church. Pipe Organ installed in 1917; manse purchased in 1922.
1873
THOMAS KIRK
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.15 and 490
[Born 27th May 1838 at St Ninians, son of James Kirk and Janet Hamilton;] ordained and inducted Brechin Maisondieu, 22nd April 1868; translated and inducted 29th April, 1873; colleague and successor granted October 1901; died 21st January 1917.
1902
JAMES ROBERTSON
Translated from Edinburgh North Richmond Street and inducted 21st January 1902; translated to Glasgow Cowcaddens 5th October 1911.
1912
JAMES BARCLAY
Translated from Benwell, Newcastle and inducted May 1912; translated to Glasgow Govanhill West May 1922.
1922
CHARLES MACINTOSH MACLEAN
Born 6th June 1883 at Portree, son of Norman Maclean and Catherine Beaton; educated at Portree Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1905), B.D. (1916), Glasgow College: licensed by Presbytery of
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Glasgow April 1915; assistant Glasgow St Columba’s, Paisley Thread Street; ordained and inducted Coatbridge Coatdyke 18th April 1916; translated to Campbeltown Lorne Street 2nd July 1919; translated and inducted 29th November 1922.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.16; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.432; also Vol.10, p.256.]
HIGH
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.5
Church, vestry, etc.
1876
WALTER CHALMERS SMITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.322
Born 1824 at Aberdeen; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A., LL.D., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted London Chadwell Street 1850; translated to Orwell 1854; translated to Edinburgh Roxburgh 1858; translated to Glasgow Tron 1862; translated and inducted 1876; retired 1896; died 19th September 1908. Married 1853, Agnes Monteith. D.D., University of Glasgow; LL.D. University of Edinburgh. Published many poems and novels as well as religious works.
1896
ROBERT STEPHENSON SIMPSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.316
Born 28th June 1861 at Port Fairy, Victoria, son of Patrick Simpson and Emma Stephenson; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1883), D.D. (1911), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1888; assistant Brechin West; ordained and inducted Turriff 2nd October 1890; translated and inducted 20th February 1896; retired 1923; died 27th March 1926. Married 15th October 1890, Alexandra Mackintosh. Publication – Ideas in Corporate Worship, Edinburgh, 1927.
1924
JAMES MARSHALL ROBERTSON
Born 10th December 1881 at Edinburgh, son of David Robertson and Mary Ann Johnston Drummond; educated at Edinburgh Moray House, George Heriot’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1904), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd June 1908; assistant Edinburgh Broughton Place; ordained and inducted Newton Mearns 20th October 1910; translated to Enfield, Middlesex 26th January 1918: translated and inducted 2nd October 1924.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.34, Reid Memorial; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.20.]
HOLYROOD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.5
Church and hall were sold in 1910, and the congregation united with Abbeyhill on 4th October 1910 to form Holyrood-Abbey.
1896
PETER MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.224
Born 12th January 1861 at Coupar-Angus, son of George Macdonald and Margaret MacDougall; educated at Coupar-Angus Free Church School (pupil-teacher for 5 years), University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1883), B.D. (1887), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Meigle 3rd May 1887; assistant Airdrie West 1887-8; ordained and inducted Armadale Free Church 3rd July 1888; translated and inducted 14th May 1896; died 13th February 1906.
1906
WILLIAM YOUNG
Translated from Longside and inducted June 1906; became minister of the united congregation 4th October 1910.
HOLYROOD-ABBEY
Presbytery of Edinburgh
New church halls were erected and opened in 1915.
1906
WILLIAM YOUNG
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.363
Born 24th February 1856 at Innellan son of Thomas Young and Ann Finlay; educated at Innellan School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; missionary assistant Edinburgh Barclay; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 19th June 1890; ordained and inducted Longside 6th November 1890; translated and inducted Holyrood June 1906; became minister of the united congregation 4th October 1910; retired 7th November, 1920; died 7th February 1927. Married 15th September 1881, Agnes Fairbairn.
1920
JOHN GILMOUR
Born 10th August 1875 at Mountjoy Manse, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, son of John Gilmour, minister of Omagh Irish Presbyterian Church, and Lilian Harvey; educated at Castletown and Omagh Schools, St Enoch’s, Belfast, Belfast, Queen’s College, B.A. (1902), Princeton Theological Seminary, Assembly’s College Belfast; licensed by Presbytery of Belfast September 1903; assistant Cork Trinity Presbyterian Church; missionary work in Canada, 1905; deputation secretary to the Hibernian Bible Society 1906-8; assistant Glasgow Woodlands; ordained and inducted Kingskettle 31st December 1909; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; translated and inducted November 1920.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.17; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.11.]
HOPE PARK
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.444
Church. Manse purchased in 1924; hall extended and vestry added in 1925.
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History of the congregation in A Minor Secession, being the story of Hope Park U.F. Church, Edinburgh, 1792-1927.
1892
ROBERT DYKES SHAW, B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.447; Vol.2, p.221
[Born 29th April 1856 at Logie, Stirlingshire, son of Robert Shaw and Helen Sommerville;] ordained and inducted Hamilton Brandon Street 14th October 1880; translated and inducted 29th September 1892; resigned on appointment as Secretary of the Presbyterian Alliance 1913; died 1919. [Married 1882, Mary Logan Macrobie.]
1914
JOHN LEWARS
Translated from Kirkcaldy Victoria Road and inducted 3rd June 1914; translated to Burrelton 22nd November 1923.
1924
WILLIAM MORGAN ROBERTSON RUSK
Born 23rd March 1892 at Ayr, son of John Rusk and Jessie Stewart Robertson; educated at Ayr Grammar School and Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1914), B.D. (1918), Glasgow College, University of Edinbungh, Ph.D. (1927); licensed by Presbytery of Ayr, March 1918; in charge, Perceton and Dreghorn 1916-19: ordained and inducted Forfar East 23rd October 1919; translated and inducted 13th May 1924.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.17; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.269 and 271; also Vol.10, p.438.]
JOHN KER MEMORIAL
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.492
Formerly Merchiston United Presbyterian Church, etc. Manse acquired.
1892
DUNCAN SILLARS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.492
[Born 19th April 1848 at Glasgow, son of James Sillars and Jean Cumming;] ordained and inducted Leeds 4th December 1876; translated to London Oxendon 1884; translated and inducted 25th February 1892; resigned on being called to Caron Knox and Summerside united congregations in the Presbytery of Regina, Canada, 3rd October 1911; [died 25th February 1926; buried Prospect Cemetery, Toronto. Married 1876, Agnes Taylor Hamilton.]
1912
JOHN KEDDIE GRAHAM, M.A.
Translated from Alva Eadie and inducted 6th June 1912; translated to Ford 23rd September 1926.
1927
JOHN MAXWELL BLAIR
Born 1st June 1879 at Tillicoultry, son of Matthew Goldie Blair and Margaret Miller Knox; educated at Alloa Ludgate School and Academy (pupil teacher, 1894-8), University of St Andrews, M.A. (1903), first assistant in Secondary Department of Tillicoultry Public School 1902-3; Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 1907; assistant Perth East; ordained and inducted Perth East 12th May 1908; translated to Leith St. Andrew’s Place 30th September 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated to Paisley Abbey Close 9th September, 1919; translated and inducted 4th May 1917. Married 29th June 1909, Anna Elizabeth Klonborg.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.17.]
KNOX’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.5
Church and manse. This congregation united with Moray and Canongate to form Moray-Knox on 1st March 1910.
1863
JOHN MCEWAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.226
Translated from Ancrum and inducted 1863; died 30th March 1907.
1900
FRANCIS GORDON MACLEOD
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.247]
Translated from Maybole Crosshill and inducted 1900; translated to Edinburgh Dean Street, 1908.
LADY GLENORCHY’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.5
Church and manse.
1890
JAMES HARVEY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.182
Born 10th March 1859 at Aberdeen, son of George Thompson Harvey and Harriet Smith; educated at Aberdeen Silver Street Academy and Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1879), D.D. (1919), Aberdeen Free Church College, University of Göttingen and Strassburg; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen April 1883; assistant Broughty Ferry East and Stirling North Free Church; ordained and inducted Duntocher April 1885; translated and inducted 30th September 1890; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1914-16; retired 20th February 1929. Clerk, Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh, 1894-8, United Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, 1907-16; Junior Clerk of General Assembly, 1916-20; Senior Clerk, 1920-9; Moderator of General Assembly, 1925-6. Married 15th June 1897, Alexandra Georgina Peddie Waddell. Publications – How Can I Help Scotland? Edinburgh, 1904; Religion and Custom, Edinburgh, 1904.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.19, North Merchiston.]
1929
ROBERT RIDDOCK FISHER
Born 30th May 1890 at Glasgow, son of John R. Fisher and Annie Strang; educated at Glasgow Allan Glen’s School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1919), Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces in Egypt and the desert, 1915-19, awarded M.M.; student assistant Glasgow Lyon
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Street 1920-1; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1921; ordained and inducted Dalmellington 26th October 1921; translated to Greenock Mount Pleasant 18th July 1926; translated and inducted 20th February 1929. Married 11th October 1921, Mary Steven Ritchie.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.18, Lady Glenorchy’s North; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.94; also Vol.10, p.56.]
LAURISTON PLACE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.440
Church. Electric light and new heating system installed in 1905; Memorial Communion Table presented in 1911; manse bought in 1921.
1896
JAMES MACAFEE HAMILL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.443
Born 26th December 1867 at Ballmoney, Co. Antrim, son of James Hamill and Nancy Macafee; educated private tuition and Lurgan College, Armagh, Queen’s College, Belfast, B.A. (1889), Assembly’s College, Belfast, Princeton Seminary; mission work in Nebraska, U.S.A.; licensed by Route Presbytery 3rd May 1892; ordained and inducted to Magheramason, Derry, 23rd May 1893; translated and inducted 18th June 1896; resigned 7th May 1901; died at Philadelphia 5th December 1912; [probably buried Cedar Hill Cemetery, Maryland, USA. Married Margaret D.]
1901
ROBERT LAW
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, pp.138, 294, 403 and 711
Born 1860 at Broxburn, son of James Law and Agnes Black; educated at Edinburgh Daniel Stewart’s College (Dux), University of Edinburgh, M.A., B.D., D.D. (1911), University of Tübingen, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1884; assistant Edinburgh Braid, Dundee Ryehill; ordained and inducted Newton Mearns 9th June 1885; translated to Kilmarnock Princes Street 26th May 1891; translated to Bridge of Allan United Presbyterian 8th July 1897; translated and inducted 5th December 1901; resigned on appointment as Professor of New Testament in Knox College, Toronto, 1909; died at Toronto 7th April 1918. Married 8th July 1886, Ina M., daughter of Rev. Robert Brown, Markinch. Publications – The Tests of Life (Kerr Lectures), Edinburgh; The Grand Adventure, Toronto; The Hope of our Calling, Toronto; Optimism (Sermons), Toronto.
1910
WILLIAM TOPANG MORTON, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Mearns and inducted 17th March 1910; translated to Pollokshields East 27th June 1923.
1923
FERGUS FERGUSON
Born 12th November 1876, at Crosshill, Glasgow, son of Fergus Ferguson and Jane Naismith; educated at Queen’s Park Private School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1898), B.D. (1901), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, and Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1901; assistant Edinburgh Broughton Place, Barclay, and Glasgow St Enoch’s; ordained and inducted Coatbridge Middle 13th September 1906; translated to Perth North 9th September 1914; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in the East, mentioned in Despatches 1919, O.B.E. (military) 1919; translated and inducted 20th December 1923. Married 8th January 1907, Eliza Goodfellow Fleming. Publication – The Adventure: Sunday Talks with Young People, London, 1922.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.19, Lauriston; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.438; also Vol.10, p.260.]
LEITH BONNINGTON
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.509
Church. New Session-room added in 1906, manse purchased in May 1921. New mission hall erected and opened, 2nd September 1923. History of congregation in Bonnington Reminiscences, 1907.
1877
JOHN HUTCHISON, B.A., B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.509; Vol.2, p.541
[Born 13th December 1835 at Glasgow, son of John Hutchison and Marion Robertson;] ordained and inducted Renfrew United Presbyterian 16th February 1864; translated and inducted 8th February 1877; died [2]1st March 1901 [at Constantinople; buried Woodside Cemetery, Paisley. Married 1868, Jane Clark.]
1895
ROBERT SMALL, M.A.
Translated from Ecclefechan and inducted 16th May 1895; translated to North Berwick Abbey 19th November 1903.
1904
JAMES ADAMSON
[Born 1869 at Leith, son of Richard Adamson and Margaret Thomson;] translated from West Hartlepool and inducted 19th May 1904; translated to West Didsbury, Manchester October 1920; [later served in Jersey; died 1954. Married 1897, Jane Ballantyne Hogg.]
1921
GEORGE FERGUSON FORBES
Born 8th September 1884 at Callander, son of Daniel John Forbes and Jemima Ferguson; educated at Callander Public School, McLaren High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1907), New College, Edinburgh; missionary assistant Edinburgh Nicolson Street; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 5th June 1912; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road; ordained and inducted Tarbolton 13th February 1913; translated to Prestwick North 22nd September 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated and inducted 3rd March 1921.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.20; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.412; also Vol.10, p.245.]
LEITH DALMENY STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.510
Church.
1894
ALEXANDER BAIRD DYKES, M.A.
Translated from Gorebridge and inducted 15th February 1894; translated to Pollokshaws Pollok 17th June 1903.
1904
JAMES BANNATYNE GLASS ROUSE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.697
Born 9th January 1864 at Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, son of James Rouse and Ann Bannatyne Glass; educated at Church Street School, Alexandria, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; missionary at Ashington, Northumberland, and Pitlessie United Presbyterian; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dumbarton 1893; ordained and inducted Avonbridge 16th October 1894, translated and inducted 25th January 1904.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.20.]
LEITH EBENEZER
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.512
Church. Manse acquired. This congregation adhered to the United Free Church (Continuing) in 1929.
1893
JOHN DRYSDALE ROBERTSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.512; Vol.2, p.322
[Born 27th June 1856 at Glasgow, son of Charles Robertson and Jane Drysdale;] ordained and inducted Darvel 24th June 1884; translated and inducted 2nd August 1893; resigned 1922; died 24th April 1924. [Married 1886, Annie Elizabeth Swan.]
1922
WILLIAM SHANKLAND
Born 26th March 1881, at Lockerbie, son of Duncan and Margaret Shankland; educated at Breconbeds Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; missionary at Torry, Aberdeen, 1913-16; at Kinlochleven 1916-19, at Minard, Lochfyne, 1919, and Sauchie, Alloa, 1919-22; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 18th April 1922; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 20th September 1922; [died 1933.] Married 16th April 1908, Elizabeth Morris Harper.
LEITH ELDER MEMORIAL
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.14
Known as Trinity prior to 1899. A new church was opened on 15th December 1901. The building was offered to the Free Church in 1904, and was finally allocated to the Free Church by the Royal Commission on 7th May 1907. The congregation united with Leith St John’s on 11th August 1907.
1897
ALEXANDER MACKAY SUTHERLAND
Translated from Orwell and inducted 1897; owing to difficult situation consequent on the offer of the church to the Free Church, resigned 11th August 1907 and became assistant to Dr Buscarlet at Lausanne and appointed and introduced there by the Presbytery of Italy 11th May 1910.
LEITH JUNCTION ROAD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.507
Church in 1900. Manse acquired. Church reseated with individual cushioned chairs. History of congregation published in 1922.
1887
JAMES MAIL[L]ER SCOTT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.57 and 508
[Born 29th July 1854 at Orwell, Kinross-shire, son of Andrew Scott and Janet Mailler;] ordained and inducted Waterbeck 11th September 1877; translated and inducted 22nd February 1887; resigned 1921; died 8th July 1927. [Married (1) 1877, Elizabeth Chapman Mackay; (2) 1892, Eliza Agnes Stoddart.] Gave outstanding service in educational affairs.
1921
JOSEPH GRAY
Born 30th April 1886 at Newtyle, son of Charles Gray and Barbara Burchart; educated at Newtyle Public School, Dundee Harris Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1906); New College, Edinburgh; sub-warden, New College Settlement 1912-13; licensed by Presbytery of Blairgowrie 1913; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road; ordained and inducted Airdrie Broomknoll 8th April 1914; war service in H.M. Forces 1917-19, mentioned in Despatches 1919; translated and inducted September 1921. Publication – In Memoriam: A Record of Men of Broomknoll, Airdrie, who fell in the Great War, Airdrie, 1921.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.20; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.35; also Vol.10, p.20.]
LEITH, KIRKGATE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.495
1855
JAMES S[TRANGE] MILL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.501
[Born about 1823 at Dysart, Fife, son of James Mill and Elizabeth Strange;] ordained and inducted 10th November 1855; resigned 1903; died 8th October 1916. [Married 1857, Euphemia Pettigrew.]
1903
ROBERT ALEXANDER REID
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.296
Translated from Aberuthven and inducted as colleague and successor 24th September 1903.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.21.]
LEITH NORTH, COBURG STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.504
Church and hall. Manse acquired.
1882
JAMES STEVENSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.506 and 677
[Born 22nd April 1828 at Kilmarnock, son of Andrew Stevenson and Margaret Steel;] ordained and inducted Dennyloanhead 19th November 1850, called to Dublin 29th May 1866; translated and inducted 28th September 1882; granted colleague and successor 1906; died 14th July 1911. [Married 1858, Margaret Wilson Cochran.]
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1906
THOMAS ROWATT BROWN
Translated from Ellsridgehill and inducted 6th September 1906; translated to Glasgow Govan McGregor Memorial 14th March 1910.
1910
HUGH ALEXANDER, M.A.
Translated from Lamlash and inducted 29th September 1910; translated to Dundee Ogilvie 29th November 1923.
1924
WILLIAM LETTERT LLOYD
[Born 16th July 1873 at Carmarthen, son of David Lloyd;] ordained 1898; inducted Tranent Wishart, 12th May 1920; translated and inducted 18th June 1924.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.20, Harper Memorial.]
LEITH NORTH, FERRY ROAD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.13
Church. Manse purchased. New vestry and session-room built in 1922. A history of the congregation was written by the Rev. T. Crerar in 1910.
1879
THOMAS CRERAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.129
Born 22nd November, 1842 at Crieff, son of Alexander Crerar and Anne Edgar; educated at Crieff School, Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Cardross Free Church 1869; translated and inducted 1879; died 13th October 1913. Married 17th December 1889, Jessie Young Drummond, a sister of Professor Henry Drummond. Twice convener of the Publications Committee.
1903
ANDREW NISBET BOGLE, M.A.
Translated from Larbert and inducted July 1903; resigned on appointment as Secretary to Home Department No. 1, Central Fund, etc., 1916.
1917
DONALD CAMERON
Born 22nd January 1876 at Stornoway, son of Donald Cameron and Anne Fraser; educated at Tain Public School and Royal Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1898), B.D. (1902), Glasgow Free Church and United Free College, University of Marburg; licensed by Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk, 1902; assistant Glasgow St George’s, Aberdeen Queen’s Cross; ordained and inducted Montrose St George’s 29th March 1905; translated and inducted 1917; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1914-16, 1918-19.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.22-23, Leith St Nicholas.]
LEITH ST ANDREW’S PLACE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.502
Church. Manse acquired.
1881
PETER WILSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.504
Born 15th March 1845 at Renton, [son of William Wilson and Elizabeth McKirdy;] educated at Glasgow Free Church Normal College, University of Glasgow, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Partick Victoria Park United Presbyterian 29th March 1876; translated and inducted 6th October 1881; died 23rd February 1923. [Married 1876, Margaret Steel Paterson.] Publications – Leaders in Literature, 1898; The Great Salvation, 1907.
1914
JOHN MAXWELL BLAIR, M.A.
Translated from Perth East and inducted 30th September 1914; translated to Paisley Abbey Close 9th September 1919.
1920
JAMES REID CHRISTIE
Born 26th February 1882 at Paisley, son of John Naughton Christie and Catherine Murray Reid; educated at Glasgow Rutland Crescent Public School, Bellahouston Academy; in business 1897-1906; University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1910; assistant Aberdeen South 1910; ordained and inducted Coatbridge Coatdyke 18th November 1910; translated to Kirkcaldy Victoria Road October 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, and as Chaplain to the Forces 1917-19; translated and inducted 22nd April 1920. Married 27th August 1913, Jeannie Johnston, daughter of John J. McEachran, shipowner, Cardiff and Campbeltown.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.22; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.240; also Vol.10, p.13.]
LEITH ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.13
Church and manse. Large hall added to the buildings. Elder Memorial united with this congregation on 11th August 1907.
1866
JOHN KELMAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.117
Born 22nd July 1830 at Keith, son of John Kelman; educated at Keith School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1851), D.D. (1904), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed July 1856; ordained and inducted Port-Glasgow 1858; translated to Dundonald 20th March 1862; translated and inducted 1866; retired autumn 1900; died in Edinburgh January 1907. Married 29th July 1858, Margaret Harper Urquhart. Publications – The Sabbath of Scripture, Edinburgh, 1869; Redeeming Judgement, Edinburgh, 1902.
1900
WILLIAM ROSS, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Cullen and inducted as colleague and successor 1900; translated to Kilmarnock High 1905.
1905
DAVID REID, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.296
Translated from Calcutta Wellesley Square and inducted October 1905; translated to Calcutta Wellesley Square December 1925.
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1926
WILLIAM WATSON
Born 3rd February 1877 at Strichen, son of George Watson and Jessie McLean Whyte; educated at New Pitsligo Public School, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1904), Glasgow College; missionary at Broomielaw Students’ Mission 1906-7, 1908-10; Universities of Halle 1907, and Berlin 1908; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 5th October 1908; ordained and inducted Aberdeen Gallowgate 31st March 1910: war service as Chaplain to the Forces in France, Egypt and Palestine; translated to Alloa West 14th April 1920; appointed to Madeira 1st November 1924; inducted 26th February 1926. Married (1) 25th December 1911, Isabella Webster Angus; (2) 29th June 1926, Marion Eva Garnet Boyd. Publication – The Hope of Immortality, Edinburgh, 1917.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.22, Leith St John’s West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.468]
LEITH ST. NINIAN’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.13
Church and manse.
1882
JOHN DICKSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.137
Translated from Coatbridge East and inducted 1882; resigned 1904; died 1921. Married 1872 Christina Watson Ormiston.
1904
THOMAS PATERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.288
Born 27th January, 1864, at Johnstone, Dumfries, son of James Paterson and Mary Ann Rogerson; educated at Kirkpatrick-Juxta and Dumgree Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1890), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Annandale 1894; ordained under three years appointment scheme at Strathmiglo 1895; inducted Auchencairn July 1900; translated and inducted October 1904; died in London 27th November 1917. Married 16th January 1901, Jessie Munro.
1918
JOHN COOPER
Born 16th November 1868 at Arbroath, son of Charles Cooper and Eliza Storier; educated at Arbroath High School; in business in Arbroath and London, 1882-96; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1903), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh St David’s, 1900-04; ordained and inducted St Abbs 21st January 1904; translated to Glasgow Wynd November 1911; translated and inducted August 1918; translated to St Stephen’s Watford April 1921; died May 1930.
1921
DANIEL HARPER GERRARD, M.A.
Translated from Chapelton and inducted 7th November 1921; translated to Dundee Park 8th June 1926.
1926
THOMAS THOMSON ALEXANDER
Born 31st July 1881 at Penicuik son of James Alexander and Isabella Bruce Thomson; educated at Penicuik Public School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1903), New College, Edinburgh; missionary assistant Edinburgh Dean Street, 1903-5, and Colleston, Saskatchewan, Canada 1906-7; licensed by Presbytery of Manitoba 7th October 1907; ordained at Winnipeg 7th October 1907; inducted Deerness, Orkney 6th July 1911; missionary in Livingstonia 1913-15; inducted Holm, Orkney 2nd October 1915; translated to Luncarty 25th Sept 1918; missionary in Southern Rhodesia 1921-23; inducted Evie, Orkney 30th November 1923, translated and inducted 20th October 1926. Married 13th September 1907, Margaret Marwick. Publication – Psalms in Braid Scots, Edinburgh, 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.23; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.707.]
LEITH SOUTH
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.13
Church and halls. Manse acquired.
1899
ALFRED COUTTS, B.D., Ph.D.
Translated from Kirkcaldy Pathhead, and inducted 18th April 1899; translated to Wick 1909.
1909
GEORGE WALKER TAYLOR, M.A.
Translated from Clydebank West and inducted 1st July 1909; translated to Stevenston 28th March 1922.
1922
SAMUEL GREER, M.A.
Translated from Paisley Wallneuk and inducted 7th September 1922; translated to Ayr Darlington Place 19th December 1928.
1929
ROBERT WALDRUM
Born 15th September 1883 at Dundee, son of James Waldrum and Anne Findlay; educated at Dundee Blackness Public School and High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1905), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee 11th May 1910; assistant Glasgow Great Hamilton Street 1910-12; ordained and inducted Symington, Ayrshire, 25th January 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; translated to Irvine Mure 16th January 1924; translated and inducted 30th May 1929. Married
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24th September 1914, Constance Margaret Christian, daughter of Rev. Kirkwood Hewat, D.D., Prestwick.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.20, Leith Claremont; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.13.]
LEITH WARDIE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.511
Church. Manse purchased.
1885
JAMES MACLEOD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.511
[Born 14th July 1861 at Glasgow, son of Archibald MacLeod and Elizabeth McGeachy;] ordained and inducted 17th December 1885; died 1908 [5th October, 1907; buried Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh. Married 1886, Mary Trotter Fleming.]
1908
ARCHIBALD LAMONT, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.204
Ordained and inducted Singapore English Presbyterian Church 1889; resigned 1897; inducted Dailly 1898; translated to South Shields 1902; translated to Wembley 1906; translated and inducted 1908; resigned 1911; went to Durham [Durban,] Natal, South Africa. [He was mayor of Durban for three years. He died there in 1932.]
1912
JAMES BAIKIE
Translated from Ancrum and inducted 12th June 1912; introduced Torphichen 6th December 1922.
1923
JOHN DOUGLAS
Born 4th February 1881, at Nagpur, India, son of John Douglas (Free Church Mission, Nagpur) and Jeanie Mackenzie; educated at Tain Royal Academy, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1903), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh May 1907; loc. ten. Greenock Middle 1907-8; assistant Pollokshields Trinity 1908-9; ordained and inducted Dundee Strathmartine 9th September 1909; resigned to join the Army September 1915; served as Chaplain to the Forces 1915-19; inducted to Hamilton West 21st December 1919; translated and inducted 22nd March 1923. Married 21st March 1911, Ada Oliphant Jeffrey. Publications – The Incarnation and the Church, London, 1928; and various tracts for the Social Problems Committee, reprinted by the Home Mission Committee, 1922-8.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.24]
LIBERTON
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.14
Church and manse. Pipe organ installed in 1903; electric light introduced into manse in 1925 and into church in 1926.
1890
GEORGE DODDS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.138
Born 29th June 1861 at Bowden, St Boswells; educated at Bowden Parish School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1885), B.D. (1889), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Selkirk 1889; assistant Abington Free Church 1888-9, Galashiels Ladhope Free Church 1889, Edinburgh Warrender 1889, St Stephen’s 1889, Liberton 1890; ordained and inducted 9th September 1890; held continental chaplaincies at St Moritz 1898, Biarritz 1912, and Aix-les-Bains 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France and at home.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.25, Northfield.]
LOCHEND
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Extension charge; temporary hall opened 12th December 1926; Margaret Simpson Memorial Hall opened 20th October 1928; plan of church passed by Presbytery in February 1929.
1926
DAVID AUCHINVOLE DICK
Born 5th April 1881 in Glasgow, son of David Dick and Jessie Fairley; educated at Glasgow George Square Academy, Allan Glen’s School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1904), B.D. (1908), Glasgow College; missionary at Camelon Gymnasium and Social Institute 1905-7; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1907; assistant Perceton and Dreghorn 1907-8; ordained and inducted Dalbeattie Burnside 29th July 1908; translated to Glasgow Cuninghame 27th February 1913: war service in Salonika 1916-18; resigned 12th December 1926; introduced 12th December 1926; inducted 19th May 1927. Married 28th June 1910, Blanche Hay Spence.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.25; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.498; also Vol.10, p.294.]
LONDON ROAD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.490
Church and hall. Manse purchased.
1900
JOHN ANDERSON
Translated from Bradford and inducted 10th December 1900; translated to Hawick East Bank 3rd December 1918.
1919
THOMAS ALLAN BERTRAM SMITH, M.A.
Translated from North Shields and inducted 19th June 1919; translated to West Kilbride St Bride’s 21st June 1923.
1923
THOMAS MCEWEN
Born 23rd June 1880 at Glasgow, son of James Stevenson Mcewen and Janet Forfar; educated at High School, Stockton-on-Tees, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1903), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane May 1907; assistant Arbroath Ladyloan 1907-8; ordained and inducted Urr 14th February 1908; translated to Townhead, Dumfries
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11th July 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated to Glasgow Gorbals 16th September 1919; translated and inducted 31st October 1923. Married 8th December 1908, Elizabeth Marjorie, daughter of Alexander Bissett, Whiteshaw House, Strathaven.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.26; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.447.]
LOTHIAN ROAD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.464
Church and hall. Manse acquired. Organ installed in 1905 at cost of £1422; manse bought in 1926. When the United Free Church lost possession of their Offices in 1905, the Committees of the Church met in the hall.
1890
ROBERT JAMES DRUMMOND
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.468
Born 1st June 1858 in Leith, son of Robert Shiell Drummond and Jane Christina French; educated at Glasgow Academy, University College School, London, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1879), B.D. (1882), D.D. (1891), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow April 1883; ordained and inducted Kilmarnock Princes Street United Presbyterian 30th October 1883; translated and inducted 3rd December 1890; war service with Y.M.C.A. and Scottish Churches Huts in France 1916-17; applied for colleague and successor in 1926. Married 8th October 1889, Rhoda Constance Whitehorn. Closely identified with Home Mission work, being twice Convener of the Assembly’s Committee; also with Social Problems Committee, Women’s Home Missions, and Church Sisters; Joint Convener of the Union Committee, Moderator of General Assembly in 1918; Vice-President of the General Presbyterian Alliance; assisted in organisation of the Council of Social Service; and many other important activities. Publications – The Relation of the Apostolic Teaching to the Teaching of Christ (Kerr Lectures), Edinburgh, 1900, 1901; The Christian Knight, London, 1904; Faith’s Perplexities, London, 1904; The Christian as Protestant, London, 1905; Outcasts of Rome, London, 1908; Faith’s Certainties, London, 1909.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.26.]
1926
JAMES JARDINE
Born 21st December at Haddington, son of James Jardine and Margaret Whitson; educated at Haddington, Public School, Knox Institute, Haddington; pupil teacher, Haddington Public School 1900-4; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1901), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh St Paul’s; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 12th May 1914; assistant Edinburgh Broughton Place 1914-15; ordained and inducted Portobello Windsor Place 22nd September 1915; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1917-18, and as Chaplain to the Forces 1918-19 in France and Russia; translated to Milngavie Cairns 29th April 1924; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 22nd September 1926. Married 18th July 1929, Agnes L. Reid, D.A.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.26; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.15.]
MCCRIE-ROXBURGH
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.6
Church and manse. This congregation united with Newington on 30th June 1920 under the name Newington.
1891
JAMES STIRLING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.332
Ordained and inducted 1891; translated to Westmoreland Road Church, Newcastle 14th February 1905.
1906
JAMES LAWSON
Translated from Wembley Presbyterian Church, London and inducted 14th June 1906; resigned 30th June 1920 on the union of the congregation with Newington; appointed minister without charge Edinburgh Martyrs’ and St John’s 1925.
MCDONALD ROAD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.480
Formerly Rose Street United Presbyterian. In 1903 it was decided to move from Rose Street, and a site was secured in McDonald Road. A hall was built to accommodate 300, and services began there in May 1904. Church was opened on 27th July 1905.
1875
WILLIAM DOUGLAS MOFFAT, M.Α.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.480; Vol.2, p.710
[Born about 1840 at Glasgow, son of Robert Moffat and Catherine Morrison;] ordained and inducted Alva 4th October 1870; translated and inducted 16th November 1875; retired 1909; died 1911 [3rd October, 1912; buried Comely Bank Cemetery, Edinburgh. Married 1871, Christina Kirkland Bryan.]
1909
WALTER MUNDELL PATERSON, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Ratho and Kirknewton and inducted 6th May 1909; resigned on appointment as Chaplain to the Forces, in 1918; inducted Bearsden North 16th October 1919.
1918
WILLIAM CAMERON [CHARLES] MACCULLOCH
Born 2nd October 1877 at Petty, son of William MacCulloch and Margaret Leitch; educated at Petty West School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1904), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd June 1908; assistant Edinburgh St Mary’s 1908-9; ordained and
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inducted Kelso Edenside 7th April 1909; war service with Guild Hut 1915; translated and inducted 16th January 1918. Married 3rd July 1926, Janet Hardie Henderson Renwick.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.26; for an account of this minister, see there; also Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.10, p.16.]
MARTYRS’
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.6
Church. United with St John’s on 7th December 1909.
1896
JOHN DAVIDSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 6th October 1896; translated to Dunipace 6th July 1905.
1906
JOHN PARK NOBLE
Translated from Silvertown Church, London and inducted 19th April 1906; retired 7th December 1909, on union of Martyrs’ with Edinburgh St John’s; inducted Kirriemuir North 1914.
MARTYRS’ AND ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
United as full charge, but on 3rd March 1925 the congregation was continued as a temporary charge for three years, and then for a further period of three years.
1893
ROBERT LESLIE JAFFREY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.193
Born 21st March 1864 at Aberdeen, son of Thomas Jaffrey and Leslie Wink; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1881), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1889; ordained and inducted Camelon 1890; translated and inducted St John’s 1893; became minister of the united charge 7th December 1909; died 26th August 1910. Married 27th September 1904, Helen Orchiston Burnett. Much of his poetry appeared in church and other magazines. A short biography was published in 1911.
1911
WILLIAM HOOD
Translated from Glasgow Lyon Steet and inducted 12th January 1911; translated to Cleland Colville Memorial 2nd July 1918.
1919
GEORGE WHITE DALGLEISH
Translated from Kirkwall Orkney, and inducted 9th October 1919; translated to Culsalmond 15th May 1924.
1925
JAMES LAWSON
Ordained 1896; minister at Wembley Presbyterian Church, London; translated and inducted Edinburgh McCrie-Roxburgh 14th June 1906; resigned at local union 30th June 1920; introduced 1925; re-appointed 3rd April 1928; resigned 30th June 1930.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.26.]
MAYFIELD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.6
Church hall and manse. Mission hall in Gifford Park. History of the congregation published in 1925.
1884
LEWIS DAVIDSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.135
Translated from St Andrews and inducted 1884; died 3rd February 1912.
1912
JAMES LORIMER MUNRO
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.443
Born 23rd November 1870 at Moorfarm House, Tain, son of Thomas Stark Eliot Munro and Helen Mackenzie; educated at Fochabers Milne’s Institution, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1892), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1895; assistant Selkirk First 1895-6; ordained and inducted Selkirk First 30th April 1896; translated to Helensburgh St Columba’s 4th November 1902; translated and inducted 18th June 1912; war service as chaplain to volunteer battalion in Edinburgh, and as General Superintendent Scottish Churches Huts in France and Germany; resigned 4th December 1928. Married 21st June 1897, Annie Irving Stenhouse.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.26.]
1929
JAMES KYD THOMSON
Born 6th September 1886 at Forfar, son of William Hodge Thomson and Helen Anderson; educated at Forfar Academy (pupil teacher 1901-4), University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in English 1910), Moray House; taught in Stirling High School 1910-11; New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 12th May 1914; assistant Edinburgh North Morningside 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Egypt, Lemnos and Mesopotamia 1914-17; loc. ten. Lenzie 1917-18; ordained and inducted Lanark St Kentigern’s 6th June 1918; translated to Aberdeen East and Belmont Street 11th May 1922; translated and inducted 17th May 1929. Married 4th September 1918, Joan Drummond.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.26, Mayfield North.]
MORAY
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.6
United with Canongate and Knox’s on 1st March 1910 to form Moray-Knox.
1881
PETER WILSON PATERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.288
Translated from Hull Springbank and inducted 1881; resigned at local union 1st March 1910; died 1927.
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MORAY KNOX
Presbytery of Edinburgh
This congregation was formed on 1st March 1910 by the union of Canongate, Moray, and Knox’s. The Moray and Canongate churches were sold. The Sandeman Halls were built in 1916.
1910
JAMES LAW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.206
Born 16th September 1870 at Glasgow, son of Robert Law and Elizabeth Galbraith; educated at Glasgow, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1895), Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Rutherglen West, Glasgow Bridgegate and Cambusnethan; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow April 1898; ordained at Glasgow Broomielaw (Students’ Mission) May 1898; translated to Dumfries South 14th June 1904; translated and inducted 1910; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1918. Married 1899, Mary Paterson.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.43, Trinity College and Moray-Knox.]
MORNINGSIDE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.6
Church, hall, church officer’s house.
1898
DAVID FAIRWEATHER, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.150
Formerly at Kinfauns; inducted 1898; resigned for health reasons 6th October 1903; died 12th May 1906.
1904
JOHN ALEXANDER DUKE
Born 22nd November 1873 at Dundee, son of Rev. John Duke, minister in Campsie, and Catharine Jane Stuart; educated at Glasgow Albany Academy (Dux Gold Medal 1889), University of Glasgow, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Philosophy 1895), B.D. (1899), Glasgow Free Church College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1899, Thomson Fellow 1899); licensed 1899; assistant Glasgow Kelvinside 1899-1900; loc. ten. Glasgow St Stephen’s 1900; ordained and inducted Langholm Chalmers December 1900; translated and inducted 30th June 1904; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in France 1916-17, 1918-19. Married 8th August 1905, Ellen Martin. Publications – The Religions of our Allies, London 1916; The Untroubled Heart (Sermons), London 1929.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.27, Morningside High.]
NEWHAVEN
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.14
Church, with session house, vestry, two halls, reading room; manse.
1879
DAVID KILPATRICK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.200
Translated from Garelochhead and inducted 1879; retired 17th January 1917; died 6th January 1927.
1917
JAMES IRWIN
Born 25th July 1877 at Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, son of John Irwin and Sarah Jane Irwin; educated at Newbliss, Dundalk, University of Dublin, B.A. (1900), M.A. (1904), New College, Edinburgh, Assembly’s College, Belfast; licensed by Presbytery of Newry, Ireland, 1902; assistant Belfast Donegal Road Presbyterian Church; assistant chaplain, Belfast Work-house; ordained and inducted Drumbo, Ireland, 7th April 1904; translated to Melrose St Aidan’s April 1911; translated and inducted 17th January 1917. Married 28th September 1904, Janie Allan Webster, daughter of the Rt. Rev. Gordon Webster, of Girvan and Christ Church, New Zealand.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.28, Newhaven St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.414; also Vol.10, p.246.]
NEWINGTON
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.7
Church, hall, manse. Church and hall reconstructed in 1907. McCrie-Roxburgh united with this congregation on 30th June 1920, the McCrie-Roxburgh church being thereafter used as mission halls.
1885
WILLIAM WHYTE SMITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.322
Born 2nd December 1849 at Dum-Dum, Calcutta, India, son of Rev. Professor Thomas Smith, D.D., LL.D., and Grace Whyte; educated at Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., B.D., New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1872; assistant Dumfries 1872-3; ordained and inducted Galashiels Free Church 13th November 1873; translated and inducted 1885; died 1st March 1904. Married 9th September 1879, Janet, eldest daughter of William Brown, Galahill, Galashiels.
1904
DANIEL LAMONT, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Kilmarnock High and inducted October 1904; translated to Glasgow Hillhead 15th January 1909.
1909
ANDREW GILCHRIST
Born 21st November 1871 at Urie, Stonehaven, son of Andrew Gilchrist and Agnes Rea; educated at Stonehaven, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Edinburgh Institution, Royal University of Ireland, B.A. (1891), Queen’s College, Galway, New College, Edinburgh, Assembly’s College, Belfast; licensed by Presbytery
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of Dublin May 1894; assistant Rutland Square Presbyterian Church, Dublin 1894-5; ordained and inducted Downpatrick 15th August 1895; translated to Holywood High Street June 1899; translated and inducted 9th September 1909; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915. Married 12th October 1898, Catherine Hill, daughter of the Rev. Professor Thomas Withrow, D.D., LL.D., Londonderry. Publications – John Knox, His Life and Work, Belfast, 1905; The Weightier Matters, Belfast, 1902; Gifts Given in Sleep, London, 1908; Righteousness and Life, Edinburgh, 1915.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.29, Newington East.]
NEWINGTON SOUTH
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.474
Formerly Grange Road United Presbyterian. Church, two halls, session house and vestry.
1890
JAMES SLATER RAE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.475
[Born 6th September 1841 at Urr, Kirkcudbrightshire, son of James Rae and Agnes Slater;] ordained and inducted Ecclefechan 4th February 1873; translated to Sunderland Trinity April 1876; translated and inducted 9th October 1890; died 7th December 1903; [buried Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. Married 1874, Margaret Grainger Fernie.]
1904
JOSEPH MUIR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.277
Born 27th September 1870 at Kirkintilloch, son of Joseph Muir and Janet Munro; educated at Buchanan Institution, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1895), B.D. (1898), Glasgow Free Church College; missionary assistant Glasgow Barrowfield, Eaglesham Free Church; loc. ten. Glasgow Paisley Road; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow May 1899; ordained and inducted Montrose St George’s Free Church 28th September 1899; translated and inducted 14th December 1904; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France. Married (1) 5th June 1901, Ina Rennie; (2) 2nd July 1907, Eliza Paterson.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.29.]
NEW NORTH
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.7
Church and manse.
1866
ROBERT GORDON BALFOUR, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.90
Translated from Rothesay Free Parish and inducted 1866; resigned 1897; died 1905. Moderator of General Assembly 1904.
1897
JOHN KELMAN, M.A.
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.198]
Translated from Peterculter and inducted 4th March 1897; translated to Edinburgh St George’s, 5th March 1907.
1907
JOHN R[OBERT] P[ATERSON] SCLATER, M.A., D.D. (Edinburgh)
[Born 1876 at Chorlton, Lancashire, son of John Sclater and Ellen Gentle Paterson;] ordained and inducted Derby 1902; translated and inducted 12th September 1907; resigned for health reasons 9th January 1923; later in the Presbyterian Church of Canada; [died 1949. Married 1904, Nora Christian Turnbull.]
1923
WILLIAM WALLACE GAULD, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Langside Hill and inducted 3rd May 1923; translated to Aberdeen Queen’s Cross 5th January 1928.
1928
DUNCAN WILLIAM PARK STRANG
Born 17th May 1887 at Ardrishaig, son of Duncan Strang and Elspet Ann Park; educated at Ardrishaig Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1909), New College, Edinburgh; junior master in Heriot’s School 1908-10; assistant Edinburgh St Columba’s 1909-11, Lothian Road, 1911-12, Palmerston Place and Braid 1912-14; war service with H.M. Forces, 1914-18, awarded M.C., Chevalier Legion d’Honneur; licensed by Presbytery of Brechin and Fordoun 1918; ordained and inducted Inverness Crown 9th April 1919; translated to Dunfermline Queen Anne Street 11th January 1922; translated to Paisley Sherwood 28th October 1924; translated and inducted 8th July 1928. Married 23rd December 1916, Ella Graham Paul.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.29; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.15 and 389.]
NICOLSON STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.427
Church and halls. Main hall enlarged to accommodate 300, and smaller hall fitted as clubroom during period.
1897
DAVID CHRISTIE, M.A.
Translated from North Shields and inducted 16th February 1897; translated to Glasgow St Matthew’s 1903.
1904
CAMPBELL MACQUEEN MACLEROY, M.A., B.D.
Translated from East Kilbride and East Kilbride East and inducted 6th October 1904; translated to Whiteinch Victoria Park 3rd June 1909.
1909
GEORGE WYLLIE HOWIE, M.A.
Translated from Galashiels South and inducted 7th October 1909; translated to Penicuik North 30th September 1924.
1925
WILLIAM GALBRAITH TAYLOR
Born 21st May 1886 at Falkirk, son of Henry Taylor and Isabella Galbraith; educated at Arnothill, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A.
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(1909), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow, St James’, Sighthill, and White Memorial; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow March 1913; ordained and inducted Fraserburgh South 23rd July 1913; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1916-17; translated to Rothesay West 9th June 1920; translated and inducted 19th February 1925. Married.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.29; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.229 and 74; also Vol.10, pp.45 and 212.]
NORTH MORNINGSIDE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.478
Formerly Morningside United Presbyterian. Church with vestry, hall, session room, ladies’ room and church officer’s house. Memorial stained glass windows erected for the former ministers, Dr Mair, Dr Forrest and Mr Goold, and three windows as a War Memorial. Manse purchasd in 1923. Mission buildings, Edgar Hall, Chesser Avenue, opened for the services of Stenhouse Mission in 1912, and conveyed to the Presbytery of Edinburgh for the use of the new congregation there, June 1928.
1873
ALEXANDER MAIR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.479
Born 25th September 1834 at Stairhill, Mauchline, son of James Mair and Jean Logan; educated at Crosshill, Mauchline, Ayr Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1857), D.D. (1878), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock 1862; ordained and inducted Stow 19th June 1863; translated and inducted 8th October 1873; resigned 1902; died 24th March 1911. Awarded George Wood Gold Medal by American Tract Society for tract on The Glory of Christ; Moderator of the Synod of United Presbyterian Church 1900. Publication – Studies in the Christian Evidences, Edinburgh 1883.
1903
DAVID WILLIAM FORREST, M.A., D.D.
Translated from Wemyss Bay and inducted 30th April 1903; resigned on appointment to Chair of Systematic Theology in Glasgow College May 1914.
1914
JAMES GILCHRIST GOOLD
Born 6th March 1867 at Dumfries, son of Marshall Newton Goold, minister of Dumfries United Presbyterian Church, and Helen Crawford; educated at Dumfries Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1888), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, assistant Edinburgh Palmerston Place; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dumfries 1891; ordained and inducted Dumbarton Bridgend 12th January 1892; translated to Egremont, Liverpool 1st December 1899; translated to Eastbourne St Andrew’s 12th October 1910; translated and inducted 22nd October 1914; died 14th February 1923. Married 5th April 1892, Elizabeth Rhoda Watt. Publications – Divine Renewals, Edinburgh, 1907; First Communion, Edinburgh, 1922.
1923
DAVID HALL HISLOP
Born 6th January 1882 at Helensburgh, son of Rev. Prof. Alexander Hislop and Annie Johnstone Hall; educated at Helensburgh, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1902), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Claremont; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow May 1907; assistant Edinburgh Rosehall, Leith St Andrew’s Place; ordained and inducted Stranraer St Ninian’s 10th November 1908; resigned 10th October 1916; war service in H.M. Forces; inducted Milngavie Cairns 1st May 1919; translated and inducted 4th October 1923. Married June 1913, Frances L. Aitken.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.30; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.157.]
NORTH RICHMOND STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.485
Church and hall; small hall to be built in 1929.
1873
THOMAS KENNEDY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.391 and 486
[Born 1828 at Blantyre, son of John Kennedy and Isabella Stewart;] ordained and inducted Kinross East 20th March 1856; translated and inducted 10th September 1873; retired 4th October 1892; died 8th August 1913; [buried Grange Cemetery. Married 1860, Jessie Beveridge.] D.D. (Princeton) 1874; Clerk to United Presbyterian Synod 1879-1900, Moderator of United Presbyterian Synod 1893; joint Principal Clerk of General Assembly 1900-2, Moderator 1901.
1893
JAMES ROBERTSON
Ordained and inducted 30th May 1893; translated to Edinburgh Haymarket 21st January 1902.
1902
WALTER MUIR
Translated from Pathstruie and inducted 3rd July 1902; translated to Gordon East June 1924.
1925
JOHN ERSKINE STEWART
Born 26th June 1895 at Erskine Free Church Manse, Bishopton, son of Rev. Robert Mitchell Stewart and Agnes Isabella Orme; educated at Ayr Academy, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1920); war service in H.M. Forces 1915-19; Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1923), Union Theological Seminary, New York, S.T.M. (1924); licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 18th April 1923; assistant Glasgow St Mark’s; ordained and inducted 30th April 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.34, Richmond Craigmillar; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, pp.35 and Vol.9, p.522; also Vol.10, pp.308 and 309.]
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PALMERSTON PLACE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.456
Church and hall; mission in South Gray’s Close, High Street.
1892
JOHN B[URNS] HASTINGS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.458
[Born about 1849 in Dalmeny West Lothian, the son of Henry Hastings (or Haston) and Marion Burns;] ordained and inducted Newcastle Barras Bridge 8th June 1876; translated and inducted 21st July 1892; resigned 1914; died 1921. [Married 1882, Jane Rae Hannay.] D.D. 1897.
1914
JAMES ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, M.A.
Translated from Forfar West and inducted June 1914; inducted Ballater April 1918.
1918
JOSEPH JOHNSTON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.637
Born 3rd June 1874 at Aberdeen, son of Joseph Johnston and Jane Jack MacPherson; educated at Aberdeen Free Church Normal School, Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1894), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student assistant North Morningside; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1898; ordained and inducted Forres Castlehill 18th August 1898; translated to Lenzie 26th March 1903; translated to Paisley St James’ 16th May 1910; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in France 1915-17, mentioned in Despatches June 1917; translated and inducted 16th October 1918; translated to Frognal St Andrew’s, London, 21st October 1926. Married 2nd September 1916, Alice Anne Perry.
1927
WILLIAM CALDWELL MACDONALD
Born 24th December 1891 at Glasgow, son of George Macdonald and Marion Thomson; educated at Glasgow Whitehills Higher Grade School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1915), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma); licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow March 1918; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road 1918-19; ordained and inducted Chirnside 3rd September 1919; translated to Kilmarnock Portland Road September 1922; translated and inducted 23rd March 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.31; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.443; also Vol.10, p.262 and Vol.11, p.227.]
PILRIG
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.7
Church and manse.
1898
GEORGE MACAULAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.215
Born 8th June 1861 at Irvine Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Robert Sellar Macaulay and Euphemia Beith Elder; educated at Irvine Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1881), D.D., New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Irvine May 1885; assistant Edinburgh High 1885-6; ordained and inducted Kilmaurs Free Church 18th May 1886; translated and inducted 8th September 1898; applied for colleague and successor 4th November 1919; appointed Senior Clerk to the Presbytery of Edinburgh December 1916. Married 19th July 1887, Jane Elizabeth Ronaldson.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.31.]
1920
THOMAS JEFFREY
Born 24th January 1880 at Alloa, son of Archibald Jeffrey and Margaret Johnstone; educated at Alloa Burgh School, Dollar Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1901), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling 1904, assistant Dumfries Buccleuch Street 1904-5, Glasgow Sighthill 1905-6; ordained and inducted Kilchattan Bay 17th May 1906; translated to Glasgow North Kelvinside, 22nd February 1912; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1915-16, and as Chaplain to the Forces in England, Ireland, France and Belgium 1916-18; translated and inducted 29th September 1920.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.31; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.19
PLEASANCE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.7
Church and halls. United with College Street and Cowgate to form Union on 25th September 1910.
1860
THOMAS COCHRANE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.122
Ordained and inducted 1860; retired 1896; died 1902.
1896
THOMAS WILSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.359
Translated from Beith and inducted as colleague and successor 1896; resigned 1903.
1903
WILLIAM BAIRD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.359
Born 1st February 1849 at Hewnstone, Falkirk, son of William Baird and Mary Moir; educated at Banknock, Dr Waddle’s Academy, Cumbernauld, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; missionary assistant Glasgow Bridgeton 1870- 1, Ibrox 1871-2, Wellington 1872-3, Partick East 1873-4; assistant Liverpool Derby Road 1874-5; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Manchester and Liverpool October 1875; ordained and inducted Cambuslang United Presbyterian 2nd May 1876; resigned on appointment by the Synod as ministerial evangelist in United Presbyterian Church May 1896; resigned 1903; inducted 10th September 1903; became minister emeritus 25th September 1910 at the local union; resigned 7th March 1911; died 1936. [Married 1876, Margaret Brown.]
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PLEASANCE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
The united congregation of Arthur Street was re-named Pleasance in 1919.
1919
JOHN HARRY MILLER
Born 4th November 1869 at Glasgow, son of John Ritchie Miller and Georgina Baird; educated at Glasgow Albany Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1890); Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted Elie July 1895; translated to Edinburgh Roseburn 23rd December 1903; resigned on appointment as warden of New College Settlement 1st September 1908; inducted to Edinburgh Arthur Street, later Pleasance, 2nd May 1919; applied for colleague and successor 1927. D.D. 1917; C.B.E.; Moderator of General Assembly 1928. Married 26th April 1899, Marie de Joannis. Publications – Rapture of the Forward View, 1905; God and my Soul, Edinburgh, 1915.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.32.]
1927
RODERICK MURCHISON
Born 19th December 1897 at Edinburgh, son of David Malcolm Murchison and Agnes Murchison [née Scott]; educated at Edinburgh Leith Walk Public School and Broughton Secondary School; war service in H.M. Forces in France and Germany 1914-18; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1922), New College, Edinburgh; sub-warden, New College Settlement and assistant Pleasance 1924-7; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 9th April 1925; ordained and inducted 6th April 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.31; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, pp.32 and 78; also Vol.10, p.48.]
PORTOBELLO REGENT STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.549
Church and hall, Electric light introduced in 1922, pipe organ installed in 1923.
1879
JOHN SELLAR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.245 and 549
[Born 6th May 1844 at Keith, son of James Sellar and Mary Taylor;] ordained and inducted Sanquhar South 26th April 1870; translated and inducted 14th January 1879; died 1904. [Married 1872, Gordon Harper.]
1905
ROBERT WHYTE, B.D.
[Born 11th December 1873 at Cathcart, son of Robert Whyte, minister, and Annie Fleming;] ordained and inducted Annan Erskine 11th March, 1901; translated and inducted 1905; translated to Cape Town, St Andrew’s, 1916; [died 4th November 1952; buried Maitland Cemetery, Cape Town. Married 1903, Janet Isabella Cuthbertson.]
1916
WILLIAM LONIE FRASER
Born 30th June 1885 at Errol, son of George Fraser and Ann Wishart Angus; educated at Leith Lochend Road, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1905), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Cupar April 1911; assistant Cupar Boston, Inverness High, Perth St Stephen’s; ordained and inducted Ceres 4th December 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Scotland 1915, and in France, 1917; translated and inducted 19th October 1916. Married 17th October 1914, Ethel May King.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.32.]
PORTOBELLO ST PHILIP’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.14
Formerly Portobello Free Church. Church, hall, mission hall, and manse. Villa beside church bought in 1925, a new hall built on to this house, giving a large hall, two small halls, session house, and church officer’s house. New manse bought in 1927
1881
PATRICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.302
Translated from Edinburgh College Street and inducted 1881, retired 1898; died 27th December 1901.
1898
WILLIAM EWING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.149
Born 13th March 1859 at Forteviot, Perthshire, son of Robert and Ann Ewing [née Ross]; educated at St Andrews Madras College, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1884), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 5th December 1888; assistant North Leith 1888; ordained and inducted Perth St Stephen’s 14th January, 1890; translated and inducted 6th October 1898; died 1st April 1914. Married (1) 21st February 1890, Helen Ross; (2) 6th July 1897, Amy Gertrude Nepean Smith.
1914
WILLIAM FARQUHARSON
Born 8th January 1882 at Edinburgh, son of Andrew Farquharson and Margery Isabella Whytock; educated at Edinburgh North Merchiston and Royal High Schools, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1903), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 4th June 1907; assistant Dunfermline Queen Anne Street 1907-8; ordained and inducted Hawick St Andrew’s 8th June 1908; translated and inducted 4th November 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.33.]
PORTOBELLO WINDSOR PLACE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.548
Church and hall. Manse bought in 1922. Annexe to buildings forming additional hall, purchased in 1925.
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1875
WILLIAM PATERSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.549
Born 17th December 1848 at Glasgow, son of William Paterson and Annie Strathern; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A. (1869), B.D. (1873), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 12th October 1875; applied for colleague and successor 1915; died 1st November 1917. Married 1877, Dorothy Jackson.
1915
JAMES JARDINE
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 22nd September 1915; translated to Milngavie Cairns 29th April 1924.
1924
SAMUEL WOODBURN WILSON
Born 8th June 1889 at Castle-Douglas United Presbyterian Manse, son of Rev. Robert Steven Wilson and Jessie Kerr; educated at Castle-Douglas Public School, Dumfries Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1910), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Kirkcudbright April 1914; assistant Paisley St James’ 1914-15; ordained and inducted Airdrie Wellwynd 8th September 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated and inducted 10th September 1924; adhered to United Free Church (Continuing).
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.33; for an account of this minister, see Vol.10, p.20.]
QUEEN STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.8
Church, hall and manse. One flat of the manse was sold. A mission was run within the St John’s Free Church buildings, and after the buildings were allocated to the Free Church, the mission was carried on in halls belonging to St John’s Parish Church.
1876
JOHN GEORGE CUNNINGHAM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.131
Born 2nd December 1835 in Edinburgh, son of Rev. Robert Cunningham (minister of Polmont Free Church) and Elizabeth Jeffrey; educated at Edinburgh Institution, Blair Lodge Academy, Polmont, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1855), New College, Edinburgh, University of Berlin; licensed 1858; ordained and inducted Lochwinnoch Free Church 22nd December 1859; translated and inducted 1876; resigned 1892. D.D., University of Lafayette, Pennsylvania 1895; served the Continental Committee at stations at San Remo each winter till 1907, Aix-les-Bains each summer till 1906; died at San Remo 5th April 1907. Married 22nd April 1863, Margaret Wilson, daughter of Rev. James Munro, Rutherglen West Free Church. As an excellent linguist he was frequently delegate to the French Reformed Church and the Belgian Missionary Church, and at the Glorieuse Rentrée of the Waldenses in 1889. Publications – translation of Letters of Augustine (Post-Nicene Fathers), Edinburgh, 1874; Notes on the International S.S. Lessons, 1876-1901, Edinburgh.
1892
JAMES DURRAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.144
Born June 1853 at Bower Free Church Manse, Caithness, son of Rev. John Durran and Jane Martin Stuart Langlands; educated at Bower Free Church School, Dumfries Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1877), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1881; ordained and inducted Kilmalcolm Free Church 1881; translated to Willesden, London 24th April 1884; translated and inducted 5th June 1892; applied for colleague and successor 6th December 1921; died 18th December 1923.
1922
JOHN BEGG
Born 17th October 1878 in Dundee, son of William Begg and Helen Ewing; educated at Harris Academy, Dundee, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1900), B.D. (1904), New College, Edinburgh; assistant at Stewart Mitchell Mission, Glenlivet, 1901-2; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee April 1904, assistant Perceton and Dreghorn 1904-5, Edinburgh Barclay 1906-7; ordained and inducted St Monance 10th May 1907; translated to Maxwelltown 25th February 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1918; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 12th October 1922.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.33; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.520; also Vol.10, p.307.]
RESTALRIG
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.8
Church, hall and session-room. Organ costing £650 was installed in 1903, new hall opened in 1913 at a cost of £1650.
1890
DAVID PATERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.287
Born 17th August 1862 at Johnstone, Dumfries, son of James Paterson and Mary Anne Rogerson; educated at Kirkpatrick-Juxta and Dumgree Schools, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1884), B.D. (1888), Glasgow Free Church College; missionary assistant Glasgow Tron 1885-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lockerbie 1888; ordained and inducted 9th September 1890; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1915, and with Scottish Churches Huts 1917-18, in France. Married 20th July 1896, Susannah Simpson Ralston Kennedy, first lady to graduate M.A. in University of Edinburgh. Publication – Gleanings from a Gracious Ministry (Rev. James Paterson, B.D. [his brother]), Edinburgh 1913.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.34, Restalrig New.]
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ROSEBURN
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.8
Church and manse.
1885
DAVID SOMERVILLE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.323
Translated from Rothesay Free Parish and inducted 1885; died 26th February 1903.
1903
JOHN HARRY MILLER, M.A.
Translated from Elie and inducted 23rd December 1903; resigned on appointment as warden, New College Settlement 1st September 1908; inducted Edinburgh Arthur Street 1919.
1909
SIMON GEORGE MACLENNAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.246
Born 1862 at Glasgow, son of Simon Maclennan and Wilhelmina Christie; educated at Glasgow Western Academy, Dollar Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A., Glasgow Free Church College, University of Leipzig; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow; assistant Broughty Ferry; ordained and inducted Stonehaven 1890; translated to Glasgow Sherbrooke 1895; translated to Crieff South 5th June 1907; translated and inducted 7th January 1909. Married 10th January 1896, Jessie Jane Taylor.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.35.]
ROSEHALL
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.491
Church and hall; range of stained-glass windows installed in the church in 1921.
1880
WILLIAM MORISON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.492
Born 6th December 1843 at Moffat, son of Alexander Morison and Catherine Campbell; educated at Moffat Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1862), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Annandale 1866, ordained and inducted Leeds United Presbyterian 29th April 1868; translated to Pendleton 6th September 1870; translated to Leith St Andrew’s Place 26th June 1877; translated and inducted 28th December 1880; retired 1914; died 1937. Married 24th March 1869, Annie Douglas. D.D. (St Andrews) 1904. Publications – Andrew Melville, Edinburgh, 1899; Johnston of Warriston, Edinburgh, 1901; Milton and Liberty, Edinburgh, 1909.
1912
THOMAS PRIMROSE RANKINE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.57
Born 3rd November 1868 at Shiels United Presbyterian Manse, Aberdeenshire, son of Rev. Edward Rankine and Amelia Burnet Charles; educated at Grammar School, Old Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1889), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen June 1892; assistant Edinburgh College Street 1893-4; ordained and inducted Waterbeck United Presbyterian 3rd May 1894; translated to Glasgow Pollok Street, 3rd May 1900; translated to Aberdeen Carden Place 1st December 1906; translated and inducted 14th May 1912; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1917 and 1918-19. Married 24th March 1898, Janet Agnes Stothart Bell. F.S.A. Scot. (1926).
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.35.]
ROSE STREET
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.480
This congregation was renamed in 1905 McDonald Road.
ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.8
Church and manse.
1872
ROBERT JOHN SANDEMAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.310
Translated from Partick High and inducted 1872; became senior minister in 1898; died 26th April 1914.
1898
WILLIAM MALCOLM MACGREGOR, D.D.
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.230]
Translated from Glasgow Renfield and inducted 20th January 1898; resigned on induction to Chair of New Testament in Glasgow College 20th June 1919.
1920
ROBERT HARVEY STRACHAN
Born 7th February 1873 at Aberdeen, son of Robert Harvey Strachan and Mary Anderson; educated at Aberdeen Walker’s Academy and Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1893), D.D., University of Cambridge, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1899; assistant Aberdeen Queen’s Cross 1899-1901; ordained and inducted East Wemyss 6th June 1901; translated to Elie March 1904; translated to Cambridge 1910; translated to Glasgow Langside Hill 1918; translated and inducted 1920. Married 29th September 1908, Emily Rannie Mackenzie. Publications – The Individuality of St. Paul, London, 1916; The Fourth Gospel, London, 1917; The Soul of Modern Poetry, London, 1922; The Fourth Evangelist, London, 1925.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.36, St Andrew’s (Drumsheugh).]
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ST BERNARD’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.9
Church, etc.
1885
GEORGE STEVEN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.326
Born 23rd September 1845 at Arbroath, son of Richard Steven and Mary Wightman; educated at Arbroath Ladyloan Free Church School, Edinburgh Moray House, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1872), D.D. (1912), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Arbroath 1876; assistant Broughty Ferry West 1877; ordained and inducted Logiealmond Free Church 27th December 1877; translated and inducted 8th March 1885; retired June 1916; died 30th December 1930. Married 1893, May Cochrane Pedersen. Publications – The Kings and Prophets, The Exile and After, Life of Christ, Part 1. in Primers for Bible Classes, Edinburgh; The Psychology of the Christian Soul (Cunningham Lectures), London, 1911; The Warp and the Woof, London, 1917.
1917
HENRY LIDDELL MOIR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.273
Born 27th June 1864 at Edinburgh, son of George Stewart Moir and Catherine McBain; educated at Edinburgh Moray House, George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1887), New College, Edinburgh; assistant Abington Free Church 1889-90; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 19th June 1890; ordained and inducted Strichen Free Church 6th July 1892; translated to Braemar 6th February 1903; translated to Montrose St John’s 26th October 1911; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 5th January 1917; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Rouen 1918. Married 12th July 1892, Jeanie Raleigh.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.36, St Bernard’s South.]
ST COLUMBA’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.9
Church, hall, church officer’s house. Organ installed in 1924; electric light introduced, and extensive repairs in 1928. The buildings passed into possession of the Free Church in April 1905, but were returned to the congregation, by allocation of the Parliamentary Commission in October 1906.
1897
MALCOLM MACLENNAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.246
Born 22nd May 1862 at Valtos Uig, Lewis, son of Angus Maclennan and Ann Buchanan; educated at Valtos School, McGill University, Montreal, B.A. (1887), B.D. (1888), D.D. (1915), Presbyterian College, Montreal; licensed by Presbytery of Quebec May 1888; ordained and inducted St Elmo, Glengarry, Ontario, 10th July 1888; translated to Kirkhill, Ontario; translated and inducted 14th January 1897. Married 6th November 1889, Catherine Link. F.S.A. Scot.; active member of Royal Celtic Society, Irish Texts Society, Folklore Society of Ireland. Edited An Fhianuis Ghaidhealach (the Gaelic insert of The Record) from 1908 to 1929, and was Joint Editor of the Gaelic Supplement of Life and Work; edited the revision of the Gaelic Bible 1911; the Gaelic New Testament and Metrical Psalms 1916; compiled and edited many Gaelic publications, including A’ Christ Oir, 19 vols.; and translated many sermons and other works into Gaelic; edited Gaelic-English and English-Gaelic Etymological Dictionary, Edinburgh, 1925; editor of An Deò-Gréine, 3 vols. 1906-8; etc.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.37.]
ST CUTHBERT’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.9
Church situated in Spittal Street, halls under the church let as workshop and stores. Halls sold in 1911 at the union with Dean Street, for use as Tuberculosis Dispensary, and the manse in Chalmers Street was sold to the Queen Mary Nursing Home. Hall in Lady Lawson Street was taken over by St Andrew’s church, and the mission buildings in Riego Street were retained. The local union took place on 16th May 1911.
1898
GEORGE MURRAY REITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.297
Born 4th October 1863 at Aberdeen, son of Archibald Reith, M.D., and Margaret Skelton Murray; educated at Aberdeen Rattray’s School, Glasgow West End Academy, Aberdeen Chanonry House, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1884), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Marnoch 1885, Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1886, Edinburgh Viewforth 1886-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 21st June 1888; assistant Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1888-9; ordained by Presbytery of London and inducted Singapore 29th May 1889; translated and inducted 21st April 1898; resigned to facilitate local union 16th May 1911; short term ministry at Cumbernauld Baird 15th May 1916 to 31st December 1917. Editor of the Proceedings of the
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General Assembly. Publications – Handbook to Singapore, Singapore, 1892; A Padre in Partibus, Singapore, 1897; Dr Archibald Reith, Aberdeen, 1898; The Breezy Pentlands, Edinburgh, 1910; edition with notes and introduction of The Chinese Crisis from Within, by Wen Ching; articles in periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.4.]
ST CUTHBERT’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
(after local union)
Dean Street united with St Cuthbert’s on 16th May 1911 under the name St Cuthbert’s. The united congregation worshipped in the old Dean Church, Belford Bridge.
1911
ALFRED COUTTS, B.D., Ph.D.
Translated from Wick and inducted December 1911; translated to Temple and Carrington 1924.
1924
WILLIAM JAMES MASSON
Born 9th March 1885 at Banff, son of John Masson and Rachel Watson; educated at Banff Academy, University of Aberdeen, Μ.Α. (1906). B.D. (1911), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Banff and Strathbogie April 1911; assistant Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1911-12, Dundee St Andrew’s 1912-13; ordained and inducted Lockerbie St Cuthbert’s June 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1916, and Scottish Churches Huts 1917; translated and inducted 12th September 1924.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.4, Belford.]
ST DAVID’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.10
Church, two halls, vestry, etc.
1894
THOMAS HARVEY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.182
Ordained and inducted 14th December 1894; died 18th February 1928.
1928
JOHN JAMES ELLIOT
Born 1878 near Wamphray, Dumfries-shire; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., Glasgow College; ordained and inducted Larkhall Chalmers, 1st February 1909; translated to Dumfries South 21st December 1921; translated and inducted 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.38, St David’s Morrison Street.]
ST GEORGE’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.10
Church with hall and manse.
1870
ALEXANDER WHYTE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.355
Born 13th January 1836 at Southmuir, Kirriemuir, son of John Whyte and Janet Thomson; educated at Kirriemuir Free Church School and Webster’s Seminary, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1862), LL.D. (1911), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th June 1866; assistant Glasgow St John’s Free Church 1866; ordained and inducted Glasgow St John’s Free Church 27th December 1866; translated and inducted 9th October 1870; applied for colleague and successor 1896; appointed Principal, New College 1909; resigned the Principalship May 1918; died 6th January 1921. Married 9th September 1881, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of George Freeland Barbour of Bonskeid. D.D., University of Edinburgh 1881; Moderator of Free Church General Assembly 1898. Biography by G.F. Barbour, Edinburgh, 1923. Publications –Characteristics of William Law, Edinburgh, 1892; Fraser of Brea, Edinburgh, 1911; Thomas Shepard, Edinburgh, 1912; Thirteen Appreciations, Edinburgh, 1913; Rutherford and Some of his Correspondents, Edinburgh; Bunyan Characters, 3 vols., Edinburgh; Bible Characters, 6 vols., Edinburgh; Walk, Conversation and Character of Jesus Christ our Lord, Edinburgh, 1905.
1896
HUGH BLACK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.96
Born 26th March 1868 at Rothesay, son of Hugh Black and Isabella Macdougall Muir; educated at Rothesay Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1888), D.D. (1911), Glasgow Free Church College; assistant Greenock 1890; ordained and inducted Paisley Sherwood 1891; translated and inducted 1896; resigned on appointment to Chair of Practical Theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1906; retired 1938; died 6th April 1953. Married 28th June 1898, Edith Margaret Kerr. D.D. (Yale, 1907); D.D. (Princeton, 1911); Litt.D. (Pittsburgh, 1913). War service with American Y.M.C.A. in France and Germany, 1919. In charge, First Congregational Church, Montclair, New Jersey 1911-12; loc. ten. Edinburgh St George’s 1938-9. Publications – (all published in London and New York) The Dream of Youth Friendship, 1897; The Friendship Booklets (six), 1912; Listening to God, 1906; Christ’s Service of Love, 1907; The Gift of Influence, 1908; According to my Gospel, 1913; Happiness, 1911; Work; Comfort; Three Dreams; Culture and Restraint; The Practice of Self-Culture; Lest We Forget; The New World; The Open Door; The Cleavage of the World; Christ or Caesar, 1938.
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1907
JOHN KELMAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.198
Born 20th June 1864 at Dundonald Free Church Manse, son of Rev. John Kelman, D.D., and Margaret Harper Urquhart; educated at Leith High School, Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1884), D.D. (1907), New College, Edinburgh, Ormond College, Melbourne; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen June 1890; assistant Aberdeen Queen’s Cross 1890-1; ordained and inducted Peterculter October 1891; translated to Edinburgh New North 4th March 1897; translated and inducted 5th March 1907; translated to New York Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church November 1919; translated to London Frognal St Andrew’s April 1924; retired September 1925; died 3rd May 1929. War service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916-17; awarded O.B.E.; D.D. (Yale, 1917), D.D. (Princeton), D.Litt. (Lafayette, U.S.A. 1921). Married 18th May 1892, Ellen Runcorn Bell. Publications – The Holy Land, London 1901; Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh; Honour Towards God, Edinburgh; Light That Saves, Edinburgh; Damascus to Palmyra, London; Courts of the Temple, Edinburgh, Ephemera Eternitatis, London; The Road, 2 vols., Edinburgh, Among Famous Books, London; Salted with Fire, London; War and Preaching, Yale; International Christianity, New York; Foundations of Faith, New York, Prophets of Yesterday and Their Message for Today, London.
1921
JAMES MACDOUGALL BLACK
Born 25th January 1879 at Rothesay, son of Hugh Black and Isabella Macdougall Muir, educated at Rothesay Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1899), Glasgow College, University of Marburg; licensed by Presbytery of Dunoon 1903; assistant Glasgow Berkeley Street 1902-3; ordained and inducted Forres Castlehill 3rd December 1903; translated to Edinburgh Broughton Place 7th June 1907; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1915-18, mentioned in Despatches 1918; translated and inducted 1st May 1921. Married 14th December 1909, Sarah Florence Bain. D.D. (Edinburgh, 1924); Warrack Lecturer 1923. Publications – The Pilgrim Ship, London and New York, 1910; The Burthen of the Weeks, London, 1914; Around the Guns, London, 1915; The Mystery of Preaching, London, 1924; The Dilemmas of Jesus, London, 1925; many articles and sermons in periodicals and collected volumes.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.39, St George’s West.]
ST JAMES’
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.10
Church and halls. Manse acquired.
1876
PETER CHARLES PURVES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.294
Translated from Morebattle and inducted 1876; retired 1899; died 14th February 1914.
1899
THOMAS LEITCH RITCHIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.299
Born 23rd May 1852 in Glasgow, son of John Ritchie and Mary Thomson Wright; educated at Glasgow Academy, Edinburgh Craigmount, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh, Presbyterian Hall of Victoria, Melbourne; student assistant St Kilda’s, Melbourne; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1879; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor, Brechin East Free Church 26th August 1880; translated and inducted as colleague and successor September 1899; died 15th February 1919. Married 13th April 1881, Margaret Anne, daughter of the Rev. Donald[son] Rose, his senior colleague in Brechin.
1919
ARTHUR AITKEN COWAN
Born 6th June 1883 in Glasgow, son of Adam Cowan and Jessie Christie; educated at Glasgow Hutcheson’s Boys’ Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1903), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow May 1906; assistant Glasgow Dowanhill 1906; ordained and inducted Giffnock, Glasgow 7th January 1907; translated and inducted 2nd October 1919. Married 23rd June 1908 Maggie Byrne Bennett.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.17, Inverleith; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.11.]
ST JAMES’ PLACE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.448
Church with vestry and session house; halls and classrooms for mission work in St James’ Place. Centenary Memorials of St James’ Place Church, published in Edinburgh in 1897.
1884
JOHN WILLIAM DUNBAR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.450
Born 2nd August 1847 in Manchester, son of William Dunbar and Ellen Wright Lane; educated at Weatherall’s School, Manchester, Annan Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1866), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, University of Berlin 1870; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Annan; assistant Ellison Road Presbyterian Church, Jarrow-on-Tyne; ordained and inducted Wolverhampton 21st August 1873; translated to Dunfermline Gillespie United Presbyterian 24th March 1875;
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translated and inducted 18th December 1884; retired June 1914; died 26th January 1922. Married 29th March 1876, Margaret Cleland McIntyre. Publication – Beatitudes of the Old Testament, Edinburgh 1906.
1914
ALEXANDER BAIN CONNON
Born 27th September 1871 in Aberdeen, son of Andrew Connon and Charlotte Margaret Bain; educated at Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1892), B.D. (1896), United Presbyterian College Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen May 1895; assistant Forres United Presbyterian 1895-7, Stirling Allan Park 1897; ordained and inducted Monifieth Panmure 3rd July 1901; translated to Glasgow Parkhead 4th February 1908; translated and inducted 18th June 1914; war service in France 1917-18. Married 6th June 1902, Sophie Marie Nicoll.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.39; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.116.]
ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.10
Church, etc. United with Martyrs’ on 7th December 1909 under the name Martyrs’ and St John’s.
1866
GEORGE PHILIP, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.291
Translated from Glasgow Union and inducted 1866, became senior minister 1893; died 1904.
1893
ROBERT LESLIE JAFFREY, Μ.Α.
Translated from Camelon and inducted 1893; became minister of the united congregation 7th December 1909.
ST MARY’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.11
Church with hall. Mission work in Broughton Halls.
1883
GEORGE DAVIDSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.134
Born 25th January 1850 at Peterhead, son of William Davidson and Joanna Jamieson; educated at Govan Free Church School, University of Glasgow, B.Sc. (1873), Glasgow Free Church College; assistant Glasgow City Mission, 1870-2, Torrance of Campsie, 1872-3, Clydebank Union 1873-5; licensed by Reformed Presbyterian Presbytery of Paisley 6th April 1875; ordained and inducted Renton Reformed Presbyterian 18th May 1875; joined the Free Church 1876; inducted Glasgow Barony Free Church 19th October 1876; translated to Glasgow Great Hamilton Street Free Church 20th January 1881; translated and inducted 29th March 1883; retired November 1915; died 11th January 1930. Married 4th July 1877, Elizabeth Brown.
1915
WILLIAM KING, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Dundee Downfield and inducted 18th November 1915; translated to Nairn Rosebank 27th June 1922.
1923
JOHN EBENEZER MCINTYRE
Born 13th March 1874 at Largs, son of Rev. John Brown King Mcintyre and Elizabeth Thomson Bell; educated at Largs Private School and Board School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1898); studied medicine in Anderson’s College, passed First Professional Exam. for Triple Qualification, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Pleasance; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Greenock May 1899; ordained as missionary to Manchuria by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Greenock 27th June 1899; resigned 1901; loc. ten. in Dufftown, East Kilbride West and Portobello Regent Street; inducted Hightae and Dalton 10th January 1905; translated to Motherwell Manse Road 10th August 1911; translated and inducted 10th January 1923. Married 13th April 1905, Catherine Campbell Morison. Publication – The Christian’s Perplexity: Christ and the War, London 1915.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.3, Barony; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.4.]
ST PAUL’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.11
Church and 5 halls. Historical sketch of the congregation was printed in December 1901.
1876
WILLIAM MEEK FALCONER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.150
Translated from Maryton and inducted 1876; died May 1913.
1913
HERBERT FRANCIS FALCONER
Son of the above, ordained and inducted 18th September 1913; translated to North Berwick Blackadder 9th July 1925.
1926
JOHN BAIN
Born 15th August 1878 at Big Sand, Gairloch, Ross-shire; educated at Sand Public School and Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh St Columba’s 1906-9, Leith St John’s 1909-11; ordained and inducted Shiskine, Arran, 5th July 1911; translated to West Kilbride St Bride’s 21st November 1917; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; translated to Aberdeen High 23rd March 1923; translated and inducted 29th April 1926. F.S.A. Scot.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.41.]
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ST STEPHEN’S
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.11
The church situated in Wemyss Place was sold, and that at Comely Bank was dedicated on 19th October 1901.
1891
HUNTER SMITH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th December 1891; translated to Crieff South, May 1909.
1910
ALEXANDER FRAZER
Translated from Tain and inducted 8th April 1910; translated to Aberdeen John Knox’s November 1924.
1925
OLIVER RUSSELL
Born 7th March 1882 at Leith, son of John Russell and Isabella Pentland; educated at Edinburgh Bonnington Academy, George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, Μ.Α. (1904), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1908; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road 1908; ordained and inducted Peebles Leckie Memorial 30th September 1908; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in France 1914-15; translated to Paisley Middle 6th June 1916; translated and inducted 23rd April 1925. Married 14th September 1909, Janet Henderson Sword.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.42, St Stephen’s Comely Bank.]
SLATEFORD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.613
Church and manse.
1899
JAMES GIRDWOOD CALDERWOOD
Ordained and inducted 11th April 1899; translated to Kirkcaldy Loughborough Road 6th June 1916.
1916
JAMES ANDREW BROWN
Born 23rd February 1875 at Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, son of James Hamilton Brown and Janet MacGilchrist; educated at Queen’s College, Belfast, B.A. (1901), United College, Bradford; ordained Stoke-on-Trent 4th October 1904 by the Staffordshire Congregational Union; inducted Sorbie 11th January 1912; translated and inducted 2nd November 1916; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918. Married 11th October 1905, Janet Millar Hamilton. Publication – The Pre-Communion Class, Edinburgh, S.A.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.42.]
SOUTH MORNINGSIDE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.11
Church, hall, session house, and vestry. Church officer’s house (not in church buildings). Electric light and pipe organ installed during the period.
1890
CHARLES ADAMSON SALMOND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.309
Born 13th June 1853 at Arbroath, son of William Salmond and Mary Adamson; educated at Arbroath High School, Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, Μ.Α. (1875), New College, Edinburgh, University of Göttingen; Princeton University D.D. (1902); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 20th May 1879; ordained and inducted Cults Free Church 21st August 1879; translated to Glasgow St Matthew’s 12th May 1881; translated to Rothesay West 1st February 1887; translated and inducted 22nd January 1890; applied for colleague and successor 1920. Married (1) 1st November 1883 Margaret Hammersley Johnston; (2) 12th June 1920, Mary Donald. Publications – An Exposition and Defence of Prince Bismarck’s Anti-Ultramontane Policy, 1876; The Saviour, 1880; Help in the Water and the Fire, 1880; Dead yet Speaketh, 1881; The Sacrifice of Praise, 1882; The Saying which is so Faithful, 1883; A Woman’s Work: Memorials of Eliza Fletcher, 1884; God and You, 1884; Romish Ascendancy Versus British Ascendancy, 1886; The Bible Doctrine of Sin, 1886; Princetoniana: Charles and A. A. Hodge, with Class and Table Talk of Hodge the Younger, 1888; The Compassion, The Challenge and the Call of Christ, 1889; Perfectionism: The False and the True, 1889; Pilgrims towards Plymouth, 1889; Heirs Wanted, 1889; Our Christian Passover, 1893; Private Devotional Aids to Young Communicants, 1893; For Days of Youth, 1896; Not Ashamed of the Gospel, 1899; The Present Crisis in the Church of England, 1899; The Short Catechism, 1903; Deus Consolator, 1904; Eli, Samuel and Saul, 1904; The Religious Question in France, 1905; Nevertheless – Afterward, 1911; The Protestant Institute of Scotland: its Origin, Object, and Work, 1911; Rome and Marriage Legislation, 1911; Irish Home Rule, 1914; The Voices of the Seasons, 1914; Truly God’s Servant, 1915; Christian and Patriotic Altruism, 1915; Martin Luther, 1917; The Romanizing Movement in the Church of England, 1917; To Rome – or the Bible? A Reply to Cardinal Bourne, 1918; Italy and the Vatican, 1920; The Popes of the Nineteenth Century, 1927. Also many articled in British and American periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.42.]
1920
JOHN FLEMING PHILIP
Born 24th April 1878 at Glasgow, son of James Philip and Margaret Wilson;
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educated at Carnoustie Public School, Dundee Harris Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1900), New College, Edinburgh, University of Marburg; licensed by Presbytery of Arbroath and Forfar June 1904, assistant Ayr West 1904-6; ordained and inducted Prestonpans 20th September 1906, translated to Keith North 25th September 1912; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1917, 1918, 1919; translated and inducted 15th January 1920.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.42; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.435; also Vol.10, p.259.]
STENHOUSE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
An extension charge authorised by the Synod of Lothian, April, and instituted 21st June 1928, as from the Stenhouse mission of North Morningside Church.
1928
WILLIAM DOWNIE
Born 12th January 1897 at Linlithgow, son of George Downie and Annie Tainsh; educated at Bo’ness Public School and Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1920); war service in H.M. Forces 1917-19; New College, Edinburgh; missionary assistant Edinburgh St James’ Place 1919-20, Musselburgh High 1920-2; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th May 1922; ordained and inducted Dunfermline St Andrew’s 28th September 1922; translated and inducted as first minister 21st June 1928. Married 30th January 1923, Janet Smith Maile Lumsden.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.42, Stenhouse Saughton; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.388; also Vol.10, p.232.]
STOCKBRIDGE
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.11
Church, two halls, session room, vestry, etc.; church officer’s house; manse. Pipe organ installed 16th March 1902 at a cost of £1114. Mission work carried on in a hall in Darling’s Buildings.
1878
ANDREW KEAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.196
Born 11th August 1834 at Glenshee, Perthshire, son of Andrew Keay and Elspeth Lamond; educated at Glenshee School, Blairgowrie Grammar School, Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Burntisland, Edinburgh Stockbridge; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of St Andrews; ordained and inducted Crail Free Church 15th September 1864; translated to Glasgow Trinity 7th November 1872; translated and inducted 3rd October 1878; retired June 1904; died 5th August 1908. Married 17th October 1866, Elizabeth Pott Elliot.
1904
DUNCAN CLARK MACNICOL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.254
Born 14th February 1861 at Lochranza, Arran, son of Duncan Macnicol and Margaret Clark; educated at home, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1881), B.D. (1885), Glasgow College, University of Halle; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dunoon, Spring, 1885; assistant Huntly 1885-6; ordained and inducted Dunipace 1886; translated to Glasgow Gorbals 20th May 1895; translated and inducted 20th October 1904; died 1910. Married 2nd August 1894, Emily Florence Bonar. Publications – Our Duty to the Heathen, Glasgow 1892, Companions of a Country Pastor, Glasgow, 1898; A Famous First Eleven, London, 1906, Master Robert Bruce, Edinburgh, 1907.
1910
HUGH ELDER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.147
Born 21st February 1867 at Carnwath, son of Hugh Elder and Janet Steele; educated at Morham Public School, Haddington Knox Institute, University of Edinburgh, M.Α. (1887), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar September 1881; assistant Galashiels Ladhope 1891-3; ordained and inducted Leven Free Church 1st June 1893; translated and inducted 5th October 1910; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915, 1917. Married 6th September 1900, Hannah Gilbert Macainsh. Convener of Youth Committee 1922-7; Chairman of Directors of National Bible Society of Scotland 1921-2 and 1927-8; Scottish President of Christian Endeavour Society 1910-11. Publications – The Christian’s Death, Leven 1896; For Such a Time as This, Edinburgh, 1915.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.43; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.136.]
STONEYBURN STATION
Presbytery of Edinburgh
See Addiewell and Stoneyburn.
UNION
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Formed on 25th September 1910 by the union of College Street, Cowgate and Pleasance.
WILLIAM BAIRD
Minister emeritus, see Pleasance.
CHARLES WEDDERBURN
Minister emeritus, see Cowgate.
1911
JAMES GEORGE DAWSON SCOTT, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Cowcaddens and inducted 21st February 1911; translated to Anstruther Chalmers Memorial 8th April 1925.
1925
DAVID MAIR, B.A.
Born 7th August 1872 at Killaig, Coleraine, son of Rev. David Mair, minister at Killaig; ordained and inducted Killaig 2nd November 1898; translated to Anstruther Chalmers Memorial 1904;
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translated to Hawick East Bank 7th July 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; translated to Aberdeen Ferryhill 1918; translated and inducted 1925. Married 1914, Elsie Margaret Bonthron.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.9, College.]
VIEWFORTH
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.12
Church with upper and lower halls in one building. Mission hall in Dundee Street was given up on 26th December 1909.
1872
JOHN MORGAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.273
Born 28th August 1839 at Fossoway Kinross-shire; educated at University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Edinburgh West Port, ordained and inducted Edinburgh Fountainbridge 3rd August 1865; translated and inducted 27th June 1872; died 15th April 1910. Publications – The Sacrament of Pain, London, The Ministry of the Holy Ghost, London, 1897, tracts in the series The Monthly Visitor.
1908
JAMES PATRICK, B.D., B.Sc.
Translated from Burntisland Couper and inducted 18th March 1908; translated to Ballater 25th November 1920.
1921
GRAHAM PARK, M.A.
Translated from Paisley George Street and inducted 11th May 1921; translated to Bearsden South 15th December 1926.
1927
JOHN HUBERT SAMMON
Born 24th April 1890 at Govanhill, Glasgow, son of John Joseph Sammon and Helen Harriet Saywell; educated at Glasgow Shawlands Academy, Pupil Teachers’ Institute, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1912), Glasgow College; war service with Scottish Churches Huts, Invergordon, and with Y.M.C.A. in Mesopotamia and India; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 17th May 1920; assistant Glasgow Dowanhill, 1920-1; ordained and inducted Stonehaven South 23rd March 1921; translated and inducted 27th April 1927. Married 18th March 1921, Jeanie Gertrude Douglas.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.44; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.26.]
WARRENDER PARK
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.12
Church and manse.
1899
JOHN HALL, O.B.E., D.D.
Translated from Glasgow Paisley Road and inducted 27th April 1899; resigned on appointment as Secretary to the Assembly’s Home Mission Committee, 1925.
1926
EDWARD JAMES HAGAN
Born 6th April 1879 at Belfast, son of Captain Samuel Hagan, Merchant Navy, and Isabella Cameron; educated at Belfast Preparatory School, Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen’s University, Belfast, B.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Classics 1901), New College, Edinburgh (Junior Cunningham Fellow 1905); licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1905; assistant Edinburgh New North 1905-7); ordained and inducted Cockenzie 11th April 1907; translated to Elgin High 18th January 1911; war service with Y.M.C.A. as lecturer 1915, as Chaplain to the Forces 1915-16,1917-19, mentioned in Despatches, awarded O.B.E.; translated to Glasgow Hillhead 5th February 1920; translated and inducted 18th March 1926. Married 2nd June 1908, Agnes Pairman, daughter of John Frederick Cormack, solicitor, Lockerbie.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.44, Warrender; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.27.]
JUNIPER GREEN
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.13
Church and hall. Two new classrooms added in 1906; pipe organ installed 15th February 1914.
1893
NORMAN CAMPBELL MACFARLANE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.227
Born 3rd September 1853 at Crobeg, Stornoway, son of John Macfarlane and Anne Macdonald; educated at Stornoway Free Church School, University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th June 1883; assistant Edinburgh Roxburgh 1882-3, Mayfield 1883-4, Warrender Park 1884-5; ordained and inducted Cruden Free Church 21st January 1885; translated and inducted February 1893; retired 29th September 1926. Married 8th April 1885, Annie Murray, daughter of David Livingstone. Publications – Life of Donald John Martin, Edinburgh, 1914, The Way of Sanctification, Edinburgh, 1917; Scotland’s Keswick, London, 1918, Dr Ian Macfarlane, Peterhead, 1921, Edinburgh, 1922; The Men of the Lews, Stornoway, 1926; Apostles of the North, Dingwall, 1926, sermons published by the Drummond Tract Society, etc.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.18.]
1926
GEORGE SINCLAIR GUNN
Born 7th September 1900 at Brough, Dunnet, son of James Gunn and Christina Mackenzie; educated at Dunnet Public School, Castletown Higher Grade School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1922), B.D. (1926), New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1925), student assistant Edinburgh Fountainbridge
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1923-24; licensed by Presbytery of Caithness 7th April, 1925; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road 1924-6; ordained and inducted 29th September 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.18, Juniper Green St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.5; also Vol.10, p.4.]
RATHO AND KIRKNEWTON
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.14
Church at Wilkieston; manse with stables and outhouses. New kitchen built at manse in 1914.
1899
WILLIAM SIMPSON
Ordained and inducted April or May 1899; translated to Johnstone Trinity, 6th December 1904.
1905
WALTER MUNDELL PATERSON, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 31st July 1905; translated to Edinburgh McDonald Road 6th May 1909.
1909
ROBERT FERGUSSON
Born 21st January 1869 at Milton Mill, Dunscore, Dumfries, son of Robert Fergusson and Charlotte Lorimer; educated at Glenesslin Public School, Roughtree School, Irongray, Dumfries Wallace Hall Academy, University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dumfries 3rd February 1897; assistant Maxwelltown 1896, Roberton 1897-9, Edinburgh Fountainbridge 1899-1901, Lethendy 1901-2; ordained and inducted Lethendy 19th June 1902; translated and inducted 10th August 1909; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.48, Wilkieston.]
SOUTH QUEENSFERRY
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.608
Church and manse.
1890
JOHN EDWARD KEIR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.611
Born 19th June 1862 at Dunbar, son of John Kelly Keir and Janet McDougal Lindsay; educated at Dunbar Grammar School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1885), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1889; ordained and inducted 20th February 1890.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.69, South Queensferry St Andrew’s.]
WEST CALDER: HARWOOD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.617
Church and manse. The manse field was sold during the period.
1893
THOMAS LOW, M.A.
Translated from Pathstruie and inducted 2nd March 1893; resigned owing to eye-trouble May 1918; appointed to Cumbernauld Baird June 1918.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.47.]
1918
THOMAS CRICHTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.129
Born 15th May 1867 at Newburgh-on-Tay, son of Thomas Crichton, J.P., and Mary Banks Hogg; educated at Ladybank, Hollis Academy, Bournemouth, Perth Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1887), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Cupar 5th May 1891; assistant Kirriemuir South Free Church 1893, Stirling South Free Church 1894-6, Henderson Mission, Dumfries, 1897-9; ordained and inducted Logie and Gauldry 14th December 1899; translated and inducted 7th November 1918. Married 24th July 1900, Mary Davidson, daughter of Rev. Robert MacKenna, Martyrs’, Dumfries. Publication – Logie and Gauldry U.F. Church (a short historical account), Dundee 1910; children’s sermonettes and address in The Christian Leader.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.47; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.127.]
WEST CALDER: LIMEFIELD
Presbytery of Edinburgh
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.15
Church and manse.
1875
DONALD TAYLOR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.337
Ordained and inducted 15th March 1871; retired 1917; died 2nd April 1919.
1917
JOHN SWAN, M.A.
Translated from High Bonnybridge and inducted 27th September 1917; translated to Auchtermuchty 7th March 1928.
1928
ROBERT CHRISTIE
Born 31st October 1873 at Lochton, Durris, Kincardine, son of Robert Christie and Marjory Morren; educated at Crossroads Public School, Durris, Aberdeen King Street Public School, Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1897), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1899; assistant Kilmarnock Princes Street 1899-1900, Bellshill West 1900-1, Glasgow Pollok Street 1901-3, Paisley Oakshaw West 1903-6, Glasgow Woodlands 1906-8; ordained and inducted Gorebridge East 1st October 1908; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918; appointed to united charge at Kinlochleven 31st January 1919; translated and inducted 1st October 1928. Married 29th July 1909, Mary Forsyth White. Publications –philosophical and theological papers in the Contemporary Review and the Holborn Review, 1904 to 1925.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.47.]
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PRESBYTERY OF BATHGATE
Synod of Lothian
ARMADALE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.16
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church and manse in 1900; hall built during the period.
1896
WILLIAM RUSSELL PATERSON
Ordained and inducted September 1896; appointed to Army Chaplaincy 1908; inducted Glasgow Dalmarnock 10th January 1925.
1908
WILLIAM GRANT KIRK
Ordained and inducted 7th August 1908; translated to Macduff 1919.
1920
JOHN EDGAR PENMAN
Ordained and inducted 11th February 1920; translated to Aberdeen Bon-Accord 19th April 1923.
1923
DAVID BAIRD
Born 25th April 1875 at Tranent, son of David Baird and Ann Margaret Campbell Donaldson; educated at Tranent Public School, Glasgow City Public School and High School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Victoria Park 1898-9, St Vincent Street 1899-1903 and St Paul’s 1903-7; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 19th April 1906; ordained and inducted Burghead 21st March 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated and inducted 3rd September 1923. Married 16th August 1910, Sara Kathleen Black.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.49, Armadale East; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.385 and 177; also Vol.10, p.102.]
AVONBRIDGE
Presbytery of Bathgate
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.695
Formerly in United Presbyterian Presbytery of Falkirk. Church and manse.
1894
JAMES BANNATYNE GLASS ROUSE
Ordained and inducted 16th October 1894; translated to Leith Dalmeny Street 25th January 1904.
1904
JAMES BEATSON GARVIE, Μ.Α.
Ordained and inducted 9th August 1904; translated to Grangemouth Grange 8th March 1922.
1922
THOMAS MUIR LINKIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 7th June 1922; translated to Falkirk St James’ 15th February 1927.
1927
WILLIAM GRAY
Ordained and inducted Ardersier 1925; translated and inducted 18th May 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.49; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.28.]
BATHGATE ST DAVID’S
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.16
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church with vestry in 1900; this was demolished and a larger church with two halls attached erected and opened in April 1906. Manse. A mission was carried on in Simpson Memorial Hall.
1892
DAVID KATER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted September 1892; translated to Glasgow Maryhill 31st August 1905.
1906
JOHN URQUHART MACGREGOR, M.A.
Translated from St Boswells and inducted 17th January 1906; translated to Perth St Leonard’s 28th October 1914.
1915
GEORGE GORDON CAMERON, B.D.
Translated from Alford and inducted 9th April 1915; translated to Aberdeen Rutherford 26th September 1923.
1924
MATTHEW BOWIE
Born 27th March 1890 at Campbeltown, son of Matthew Bowie and Christina McAllister; educated at Millknowe Public School and Grammar School, Campbeltown, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1910), B.D. (1915), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology and Clark Fellowship); licensed by Presbytery of Kintyre 1915; assistant Edinburgh North Morningside 1915-16; war service in H.M. Forces in the East, France and Cologne 1916-19; ordained and inducted Musselburgh Bridge Street 8th April 1920; translated and inducted 9th July 1924. Married 9th June 1924, Elizabeth Brunt Thomson.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.50; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.29.]
BATHGATE ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Bathgate
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.604
Church and manse. Electric light installed in church and manse, and pipe organ during the period.
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1887
JOHN LINDSAY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.605
Born 17th January 1862 at Milnathort, son of John Lindsay and Janet Mailer; educated at Milnathort, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1883), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Annandale 1886; assistant Greenock Union Street United Presbyterian 1886-7; ordained and inducted 6th July 1887; war service as Brigade Chaplain in East Lothian. J.P. for West Lothian; T.D.; Chairman of Education Authority of West Lothian from 1919. Married 15th July 1896, Helen Lumsden.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.50.]
BLACKBURN
Presbytery of Bathgate
This congregation was formed in 1906 having previously been a Mission, and was raised to full status in 1910. Church with seating for 270 was erected in 1908, and a small hall accommodating about 60. A gallery was added to the church in 1923. Manse was built in 1908.
1910
JAMES WEBSTER KERR
Formerly on Foreign Mission service; appointed November 1905; inducted 4th September 1910; translated to Glasgow Partick Anderson Partick Anderson 1st September 1921.
1921
SAMUEL OLIVER STEWART, B.A.
Translated from Bolton Somerset Road and inducted 2nd December 1921; translated to Findochty 18th December 1925.
1926
DAVID HANNINGTON TWEEDDALE
Born 10th June 1877 at Glasgow, son of John Tweeddale and Mary Hannington; educated at Albert Road Public School, Pollokshields, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1898), Glasgow Free Church and United Free Church College; student missionary, Thrumster 1899, Glasgow St Matthew’s 1900-1; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow May 1901; assistant Aberdeen East 1901-2, Struan 1903-5, Hawick East Bank 1905-6; loc. ten. Vienna 1907, Stockton-on-Tees St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 1907; assistant Isle of Whithorn 1907-8, Edinburgh Morningside 1908-9; ordained and inducted New Leeds, Aberdeenshire 9th February 1909; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Flanders 1916-17; translated and inducted 16th June 1926. Married 22nd November 1913, Elizabeth Bruce Milne.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.50; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.29.]
BLACKRIDGE
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.16
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church and manse. Vestry and hall completed in 1928.
1898
ANDREW BROWN, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.103
Ordained and inducted 12th July 1898 translated to Norham 12th November 1908.
1908
ROBERT DEWAR
[Born about 1863 in Scotland; in Calcutta, India, for some time where his older children were born; educated at New College, Edinburgh, 1901-2;] ordained as preacher February 1908, inducted 18th February 1909; resigned to go to Canada 13th June, 1911; [minister in Fort William, Ontario, in 1921. Married Helen Wardlaw Geddes.]
1911
JAMES ANDERSON BISHOP
Ordained and inducted 30th November 1911; translated Pelaw-on-Tyne January 1917; translated to Innerleven 29th April 1920.
1917
JOHN CRAWFORD COLLINGWOOD
Ordained and inducted 17th May 1917; translated to Bannockburn Murrayfield 11th June 1924.
1924
THOMAS DICKSON GRAY
Ordained and inducted 10th December 1924; translated to Bonhill South July 1927.
1927
DONALD MACLEOD
Born 11th April 1872 at Strath, Broadford, Skye, son of Lachlan Macleod and Christina Grant, educated at Torrin Public School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh, missionary in Kinbrae 1905-6, Barra, Sollas, North Uist 1906-7, Back, Lewis 1909-12; ordained as missionary in Tiree 1913; appointed to Ballachulish 1918; licensed by Presbytery of Lorn 28th June 1922; ordained and inducted Ballachulish North 13th December 1922; translated and inducted 23rd November 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.51; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.686; also Vol.10, p.390.]
BROXBURN EAST
Presbytery of Bathgate
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.621
Church and manse. In 1904-5 the church was extended by the addition of transepts and chancel and a hall. In 1924 a pipe organ was installed as a War Memorial at a cost of £899.
1895
HENRY FERGUSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.622
Born 16th June 1854 at Stirling, son of Alexander Ferguson and Lilias Hodge; educated at Paton’s School, Alloa, University of Aberdeen, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Dean Street 1886-7; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dunfermline 1887; assistant Loanhead Mission Church 1887-8; ordained and inducted Midmar 27th March 1888; translated and inducted 5th September 1895; died 14th March 1916. Married 29th August 1888, Elizabeth Erskine. Clerk to the Presbytery 1911-16.
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1916
ALEXANDER WRIGHT BAIN
Translated from Dunbar Erskine and inducted 1st September 1916; translated to North Queensferry 28th April 1926.
1926
JOHN KENNETH MURCHISON
Born 25th January 1888 at Grand River, Nova Scotia, son of John Murchison and Sarah MacKillop; educated at Grand River Public School, New Glasgow Public School, St Peter’s Academy and Arichat Academy, University of Dalhousie, Halifax, B.A. (1915), Halifax Theological College; war service with the Canadian Army in France, England and India 1915-19; appointed Estate Factor, Balmacara, Lochalsh 1919-24; admitted by the General Assembly 1924; New College, Edinburgh 1925-6; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th April 1926; ordained and inducted 22nd September 1926. Married 19th November 1920, Ann Macrae.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.51, Broxburn St John’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.22.]
BROXBURN WEST
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.17
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church, hall and manse in 1900.
1899
ROBERT ERSKINE
Ordained and inducted 12th December 1899; translated to Tranent St Andrew’s 7th March 1923.
1923
PETER LOCKHART, M.A.
Translated from Muirhead of Liff and inducted 6th June 1923; translated to Kirriemuir South 3rd February 1927.
1927
WILLIAM ALEXANDER
Born 24th March 1889 at Drumblade, Huntly, son of George Alexander and Elsie Dufton; educated at Drumblade, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1912); teacher in Banff Academy 1913-14; headmaster, Scottish Churches Collegiate School, Calcutta 1915-27; war service in Indian Army 1915-18; Aberdeen College 1921, New College, Edinburgh 1926-7; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1927; ordained and inducted 6th July 1927. Married 7th November 1916, Helen Fowler Fraser.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.51; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.615; also Vol.10, p.353.]
CALDERCRUIX
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.17
Formerly in Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church, hall and manse.
1893
JOHN MILLER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.268
Born 13th July 1850 at Stratherrick, son of John Miller and Charlotte Rose Morrison; educated at Dores Parish School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 21st June 1888; assistant Burntisland Free Church 1891-2; ordained and inducted 10th August 1893; became senior colleague 9th October 1924; died 15th November 1931. Married 20th June 1876, Christina Younger.
1924
DAVID MACKIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.257
Born 26th August 1868 at Stewarton, son of Robert Mackie and Mary Muir; educated at Kilmarnock Academy, University of Glasgow M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock and Ayr; ordained and inducted Dumfries Townhead 27th July 1893; translated to Glasgow Partick East October 1900; translated to Dyke 15th April 1921; translated and inducted 9th October 1924; died 16th July 1925. Married June 1913, Hildagarde Williams.
1925
JAMES BOYD MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.221
Born 11th February 1866 at Whitebridge, Boleskine, son of Donald Macdonald and Margaret Boyd; educated at Benchrubin, Dores, Royal Academy, Inverness, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1887), B.D. (1892), New College, Edinburgh; missionary, Laggan, Invergarry 1890, and Corrie, Arran 1891; assistant Invergordon Free Church 1891; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Inverness May 1892; ordained and inducted Dornoch Free Church 27th July 1892; chaplain 3rd Seaforth Highlanders at Cairo during the South African War 1900-1; translated to Langholm South 17th July 1908; translated and inducted 4th November 1925. Married 4th November 1914, Ada Graham. F.S.A. Scot. 1928.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.52, Caldercruix West.]
FAULDHOUSE
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.17
Formerly Crofthead in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church with small hall and vestry. Organ introduced in 1908.
1878
ROBERT KAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.196
Translated from South Ronaldshay and inducted 16th May 1878; became senior colleague 22nd September 1910; died 24th August 1913. Presbytery Clerk 1900-13.
1910
JAMES HENDERSON MECHIE
Born 17th September 1875 at Perth, son of James Mechie and Robina Scrymgeour Macdonald; educated at North Port School and Perth Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1897), New College, Edinburgh;
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missionary at Lybster 1900; licensed by Presbytery of Perth 7th May, 1901; assistant Rothesay 1901-2; Inverness East 1903, Hawick East Bank, 1904-5, Greenock Sir Michael Street 1906-7, Dunfermline Abbey 1907-8, Dundee St Paul’s 1908, Newtongrange 1909-10, ordained as ordained preacher Aberuthven, 9th August 1910; translated and inducted 22nd September, 1910. Married 3rd June 1912, Jean Hawton Minn.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.53, Fauldhouse Crofthead; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.337.]
HARTHILL
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.18
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church with small hall and vestry, and manse.
1878
JAMES FORREST
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.158
Born 31st March 1851 at Forfar, son of James Forrest and Ann Martin; educated at Parish and Free Church Schools, Carmyllie, Arbroath High School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1884), New College, Edinburgh; student missionary Edinburgh High, 1874-6; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Arbroath 3rd May, 1876; assistant Arbroath Ladyloan Free Church 1876-7, Glasgow St Stephen’s Free Church 1877-8; ordained and inducted 26th September 1878; died 31st May, 1924. Married 13th November 1878, Margaret Salmond Lindsay.
1924
HERBERT ALEXANDER DARG ALEXANDER, M.A.
Translated from Monquhitter and inducted 12th December 1924; translated to Glasgow Anderston, 13th December 1928.
1929
JOHN SHARP DINWOODIE
Born 14th November 1904 at Kelty, Fife, son of James Dinwoodie and Annie Sharp; educated at Kelty Public School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh M.A. (1925); New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Moray-Knox 1928-9; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1929; ordained and inducted 11th April 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.53, Harthill, Forrest Memorial; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.499; also Vol.10, p.295 and Vol.11, p.258.]
KIRKLISTON
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.18
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church and manse, with mission hall at Newbridge. Vestry added in 1927.
1890
ROBERT ALEXANDER LENDRUM, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 16th October 1890; translated to Glasgow St David’s 17th January 1907.
1907
WILLIAM CONNAN SMITH, M.A.
Translated from Fyvie and inducted June 1907; translated to Forgue March 1918.
1918
ALEXANDER FERGUSON MACINNES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.237
Born 27th October 1866 at Duirinish, Skye, son of Angus Macinnes and Marion Ferguson; educated at Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen M.A. (1891), B.D. (1896), New College, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Ph.D. (1923); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Tain 1895; assistant Nairn 1895; ordained and inducted North Knapdale, 2nd September 1896; translated to Ferintosh and Maryburgh March 1910; translated and inducted December 1918; resigned 30th June 1928; inducted Cadder 1929. Married December 1896, M[argaret] C. Ellis. Publications – The Kingdom of God in the Apostolic Writings, London, 1924; Cononside Echoes, Dingwall; Kirkliston Echoes, Bathgate, 1926; articles in periodicals.
1928
REDVERS BULLER ANDERSON
Born 22nd May 1900 at Stornoway, son of John Norrie Anderson and Mary Walters Peake; educated at Nicolson Institute, Stornoway, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, B.Sc. (Forestry) (1921), M.A. (1929), New College, Edinburgh, student assistant Edinburgh High 1925-7; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1927; assistant Edinburgh Moray-Knox 1927-8; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 19th September 1928. Married 7th September 1928 Marion Conachy Law Hyslop.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.67, Newliston; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.124; also Vol.10, pp.70 and 72; and Vol.11, p.204.]
LIVINGSTON
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.19
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church with hall etc., and manse with outbuildings.
1879
JAMES ALEXANDER KERR BAIN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.88
Born 1837 at Montrose; educated at Montrose Burgh School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., D.D., New College, Edinburgh, assistant Hawick; ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh for work in Rangoon 1873; translated and inducted 1879; became senior colleague 7th October 1909; died 25th May 1910. Publications – People of the Pilgrimage, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1888, 1896; For Heart and Life, Edinburgh.
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1909
GEORGE ANDERSON SMILLIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 7th October 1909; translated to Grangemouth Grange May 1918.
1918
JOHN SOUTER
Translated from Ardeonaig and inducted 19th September 1918; translated to Alva West 12th May 1926.
1926
JOHN WILLIAM BURNSIDE
Born 26th December 1896 at Edinburgh, son of John Burnside and Margaret Emerson Smith; educated at Broughton Public School and Higher Grade Schools, Edinburgh; booksellers’ apprentice in Edinburgh 1911-16; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1916-18; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1923); New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Moray-Knox 1924-25, Braid 1925-6; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 8th April, 1926; ordained and inducted 9th September 1926. Married 14th August 1926, Jemima Halcrow.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.54, Livingston Tulloch; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.220; also Vol.10, p.126 and Vol.11, p.122.]
LONGRIDGE
Presbytery of Bathgate
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.605
Formerly Whitburn United Presbyterian Church and manse; mission hall at Breich and Institute Hall at Longridge added during this period.
1887
JOHN GIBBON [GIBSON]
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.608
Born 7th August 1857 at Glasgow, son of Rev. Robert Malloch Gibbon [Gibson], minister of Partick East United Presbyterian and Mary Young Stewart; educated at Partick Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow; ordained and inducted 27th July 1887, died 22nd March 1923. Married 23rd December 1896, Ellie Brown Bogle.
1923
ALEXANDER PATERSON
Translated from Kinglassie (mission station) and inducted 24th October 1923; translated to Dunfermline St Andrew’s South 6th February, 1929.
1929
JOHN YOUNG, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 5th June 1929.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.54, Longridge and Breich; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.260; also Vol.10, p.153.]
LONGRIGGEND
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.19
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church, hall and manse. Pipe organ installed during the period.
1888
ROBERT PITTENDREIGH DICKIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 13th September 1888; translated to Coatbridge Drumpellier 8th October 1903.
1904
WILLIAM ROBERTSON MATTHEW
Born 17th November 1875 at Ardiffery Hill, Aberdeenshire, son of James Matthew and Margaret Rennie; educated Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; missionary Edinburgh Cowgate 1900; assistant Nairn 1902; ordained and inducted 17th March 1904; resigned 5th May 1908; died 20th October 1908. Married 25th November 1903, Margaret Graham Henry.
1908
DAVID BISSET, M.A.
Ordained 1883; introduced 15th October 1908; died 12th September 1914.
1915
ROBERT PITTENDREIGH DICKIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.137
Born 31st October 1860 at Coldholm, Tyrie, Fraserburgh, son of John Dickie and Jane Ferguson; educated at Tyrie Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Hamilton June 1888; ordained and inducted 13th September 1888; translated to Coatbridge Drumpellier 8th October 1903; translated and inducted 15th April, 1915. Married (1) 26th June 1886, Agnes Renwick Gemmill; (2) 19th July 1915, Margaret Brock Miller. Clerk to the Presbytery from 1919.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.54.]
MIDCALDER
Presbytery of Bathgate
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.594
Formerly in the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh. Church with session house and vestry. Hall opened in December 1912.
1900
THOMAS WHYTE PATERSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.597; Vol.2, p.420
[Born 18th April 1863 at Carnwath, son of Adam Paterson and Jean White;] ordained and inducted Roberton 30th July 1889; translated and inducted 25th October 1900; died 5th June 1920; [buried Midcalder Churchyard and Cemetery. Married 1900, Jessie Gray.]
1921
GEORGE MACLEAN WYLIE
Ordained and inducted 19th January 1921; translated to Ayr St Andrew’s 12th November 1924.
1925
JOHN MCLEAN JEFFREY
Born 16th June 1868 at Fortrose son of John Dempster Jeffrey and Catherine McLean; educated at Fortrose Public School and Academy (Dux 1883), University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery
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of Edinburgh October 1904; assistant Campbeltown Lorne Street, 1904-7; loc. ten. Kirkcaldy Dunnikier, 1907-8; ordained and inducted Dunning 8th July 1908; translated to Glasgow St Paul’s 7th April 1921; translated and inducted 30th April, 1925. [Buried Rosemarkie Churchyard.] Married 1st June, 1921, Mrs Margaret Rose or Macdonald.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.46, Midcalder Bridgend.]
SLAMANNAN
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.20
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church with hall; manse with outhouses. Hall enlarged and improved during the period.
1898
WILLIAM ROBERT STEWART, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th October 1898; translated to Levenside and Renton South 19th May 1921.
1921
JAMES CALDERWOOD BRACKENRIDGE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 9th November 1921; translated to Dunfermline Queen Anne Street 24th June 1925.
1925
WILLIAM MACKENZIE WHYTE
Translated from Savoch and inducted 11th April, 1925; translated to Strathtay 1928.
1928
REGINALD DUNCAN
Born 3rd August 1884 at Pendleton, Manchester, son of William and Ellen Ann Duncan [née Rider]; educated at Pendleton High School, Strawberry Road School, Pendleton, and Grecian Street Higher Grade, Broughton, University of Manchester, Lancashire College, Chicago Intercollegiate University, B.Litt. (1922), B.D. (1925); in business 1899-1907; ordained to ministry of Congregational Church in Heckmondwike 22nd October, 1914; admitted to English Presbyterian Church and licensed by Presbytery of Yorkshire May 1918; inducted Bedlington 22nd November 1918; translated to Swinton 1st August 1923; translated and inducted 5th August 1928. Married 27th April 1916, Clarice Ethel Hodgkinson. Publications – The Human Soul’s Final, Duns, 1924; Guiding Lights on Youth’s Pilgrim Way, London 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.69, Slamannan Balquatston; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.325 and 24.]
TORPHICHEN
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.20
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church and manse. Reduced in status after the death of the Rev. J. Stuart, and restored to full status after petition by the Kirk Session July 1923.
1875
ALAN FULLARTON MURRAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.280
Born 25th April 1846 at Glasgow, son of William Murray and Agnes Fullarton; educated at Collegiate School, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1870), Glasgow Free Church College, licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside 1874, assistant Greenlaw Free Church 1874-5; ordained and inducted 10th May 1875; became senior colleague 14th June 1910.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.55.]
1910
JAMES STUART
Born 12th March 1859 at Premnay, son of William Stuart and Anne Gordon; educated at Premnay and Insch Free Church Schools, Insch Parish School, University of Aberdeen, M.A., New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow); student assistant Edinburgh McCrie-Roxburgh, 1905-7; assistant Paisley St George’s 1908-10; ordained and inducted 12th December 1910; died 12th June 1922. Married 9th June 1915, Elizabeth Alexander.
1922
JAMES BAIKIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.88
Born 25th November 1866 at Lasswade, son of Hugh Malcolmson Baikie and Margaret McAndrew; educated privately and at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, D.D. (1928), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dalkeith April 1891; assistant Strathbraan and Dalguise 1891-2, Paisley Oakshaw 1892; ordained and inducted Ancrum Free Church 25th November 1892; translated to Edinburgh Wardie 12th June 1912; introduced 6th December 1922; inducted 1st May 1923; retired 1927; died 5th February 1931. Married 6th October 1903, Constance Newman Smith. F.R.A.S. 1892; Lecturer in Astronomy to troops on the Western Front 1918; Staff Lecturer on Egyptology, University of Oxford Delegacy for Extra-mural Studies, from 1923 onwards. Publications – Through the Telescope, London, 1906, The Story of the Pharaohs, London, 1908: The Sea-Kings of Crete, London, 1910, Peeps at the Heavens, London, 1911; Peeps at Ancient Egypt, London, 1912; Lands and Peoples of the Bible, London, 1914, Wonder Tales of the Ancient World, London, 1915; Peeps at Ancient Assyria, London, 1916; Peeps at Ancient Rome, London, 1917; Peeps at Ancient Greece, London, 1920; Life of the Ancient East, London, 1923; The Bible Story, London, 1923; A Century of Excavation, London, 1924; Egyptian Papyri and Papyrus Hunting, London, 1925; Peeps at Ancient Crete, London,
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1924; The Amarna Age, London, 1926; Peeps at Ancient Palestine, London, 1927; The Glamour of Near East Excavation, London, 1927; The Charm of the Scott Country, London, 1927; The English Bible and its Story, London; Peeps at the Men of the Old Stone Age, London.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.55.]
1927
PATRICK HUGH ROBSON MACKAY
Born 23rd January 1901 at Tranent, son of Patrick Robson Mackay and Harriet Sprot; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A.. (1924), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1926; assistant Glasgow Kelvinside 1926-7; ordained and inducted 22nd September 1927.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.55, Torphichen St John’s; for an account of this minister, see there; also and Vol.10, pp.32 and 346; and Vol.11, p.323.]
UPHALL
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.20
Formerly in Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church in 1900; manse built in 1902; vestry added to church 1914; new church built on old site, and opened 10th June 1926.
1898
GEORGE MILLAR
Ordained and inducted 2nd August 1898; translated to Kirkwall Paterson 18th May 1904.
1904
ROBERT GREIG BUCHANAN MILLAR, B.D.
Ordained and inducted October 1904; translated to Coatbridge Drumpellier 1915.
1915
DAVID MCDOUGALL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 18th November 1915; translated to Glasgow Martyrs’ 28th June 1922.
1922
ALEXANDER MACPHERSON
Ordained and inducted 1st November 1922; translated to Greenock Mount Park 20th June 1929.
1929
DONALD MCARTHUR CHALMERS
Born 27th June 1901 at Glasgow, son of Robert Chalmers and Jessie McArthur; educated at Glasgow Scotland Street Public School, Crookston Street Public School, Bellahouston Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow St Vincent Street 1924-8, Renfield Street 1928-9; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1929; ordained and inducted 25th September 1929. Married 15th January 1930, May Wigton Yuill.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.56, Uphall South; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.8; also Vol.10, p.5.]
WHITBURN
Presbytery of Bathgate
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.20
Formerly in Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow. Church and manse. After the resignation of Mr McKnight, the congregation was reduced to a preaching station and was served by the Rev. David Sutherland, late of Loanhead, from 1904 to 1907. It was raised to full status in 1908.
1863
JOHN MCKNIGHT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.242
Ordained and inducted 1863; retired 1904; died 4th September 1914.
1908
WILLIAM HENDRIE GLOVER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.170
Born 1852 at Paisley, son of James Glover and Mary Hendrie; educated privately, and at University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Paisley 1884; assistant Arbroath Ladyloan; ordained and appointed Uyeasound September 1888; appointed ordained preacher October 1907; inducted 23rd September 1908; died 30th September 1909. Married 1894, Agnes M. McReath.
1911
S[AMUEL] M[URRAY] JOHNSTON, B.A., D.Sc.
[Born 10th November 1871 at Glasgow, son of George Johnston and Elizabeth Murray;] ordained 1895; inducted Reay 1908; translated and inducted 18th January 1911; retired to teach in England 30th September 1916.
1917
ROBERT JAMES
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.587; Vol.2, p.499
Born 8th June 1856 at Glasgow, son of William James and Mary Tannahill; educated at Paisley High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1888; assistant Edinburgh Lauriston Place; ordained and inducted Westray, Orkney March 1891; translated to Gorebridge United Presbyterian 28th August 1894; translated to Airdrie South Bridge Street 18th December 1900; translated to Firth Paterson 1907; translated to Shapinshay 18th January 1911; resigned 10th August 1915; inducted 5th April 1917; died 1st July 1927. Married (1) 10th May 1891, Christina Hogg; (2) 3rd July 1906, Helen Gilbert Neil Waddell.
1927
JOHN WALKER
Ordained and inducted Douglas 1908; translated and inducted 30th November 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.56, Whitburn Brucefield; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.70; also Vol.10, p.43.]
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LIVINGSTON STATION
Presbytery of Bathgate
In 1904 a new station called Livingston Mission and Seafield was created under the supervision of the minister of Livingston. In 1909 Seafield was conjoined with Blackburn, and Livingston Station became the direct responsibility of the minister of Livingston.
PUMPHERSTON STATION
Presbytery of Bathgate
This station was worked by missionaries from 1906 to 1921. Thereafter the work was carried on jointly by the two ministers at Midcalder.
STANDBURN STATION
Presbytery of Bathgate
Before 1900 the United Presbyterian congregation of Avonbridge was responsible for this station but in October 1900 the Home Mission Board put it under direct Presbyterial supervision. The station was allowed to lapse in 1906, but was renewed at a later date by the Kirk Session of Muiravonside Church of Scotland
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PRESBYTERY OF LINLITHGOW AND FALKIRK
ABERCORN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.16
Church and manse; hall at Winchburgh.
1887
WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN
Ordained and inducted 4th January 1887; resigned in 1900 to become a chaplain in South Africa during the Boer War; introduced Kinnettles 1907.
1901
WALTER TAYLOR WISHART, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 28th February 1901; resigned 1911; inducted Balquhidder 22nd November 1912.
1912
JOHN NAISMITH BALFOUR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.89
Born 15th April 1867 at Edinburgh, son of Rev. Robert Gordon Balfour and Margaret Ewing Naismith; educated at Edinburgh Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1888), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1892; assistant Kirkcaldy St Brycedale 1892-5, Crieff South 1895-6; ordained and inducted Dallas May 1896; translated and inducted 4th June 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France. Married 28th September 1898, Agnes Beattie Wilson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.57.]
AIRTH
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.697
Church with hall and manse. Church reseated and stained-glass windows introduced in 1909.
1898
JAMES HAMILTON MILLER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.699
Born 26th December 1870, at Braidwood, Carluke, son of William Miller and Sarah Hamilton; educated at Braidwood School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Lanark 1897; ordained and inducted 11th January 1898.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae , Vol.9, p.57, Airth South; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.34.]
BO’NESS CRAIGMAILEN
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.682
Church, hall and manse. Memorial tablet in memory of Rev. Samuel Sleath and War Memorial Tablet, dedicated 24th October 1920. Short history of the congregation has been published. This congregation did not enter the Union of 1929.
1874
SAMUEL SLEATH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.684
Ordained and inducted 23rd June 1874; retired 1907; died 13th September 1913. [Married 1885, Louis Adams.]
1907
DAVID GILL YOUNG
Born 10th September 1870 at Perth, son of William Young and Isabella Finlayson; educated at Perth Sharp’s Educational Institution, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dumbarton 7th February 1899; assistant Dumbarton Bridgend United Presbyterian 1898-9; Govan Copland Road 1900-1, Motherwell Brandon Street 1901; ordained and inducted Lochwinnoch Calder 20th May 1901; translated and inducted 14th November 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918-19; acted as Officiating Chaplain to R.N. personnel stationed at Bo’ness; adhered to United Free Church (Continuing); [died 1st September, 1953; buried Cupar Cemetery.] Married 5th November 1901, Anna Maria Kirk.
BO’NESS ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.16
New Church in Grange Terrace opened in 1906, and organ installed in October 1926 at a cost of £1100. Mission Hall at Newtown. War Memorial window dedicated in 1920.
1884
WILLIAM SMITH HUNTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.188
Ordained and inducted 20th May 1884; died 2nd June 1905.
1905
THOMAS RATCLIFFE BARNETT
Translated from Fala and inducted 23rd November 1905; translated to Edinburgh Greenbank 21st January 1914.
1914
GERALD SCOTT FALCONER
Born 7th December 1882 in Edinburgh, son of Rev. William Meek Falconer and Isabella Catherine Paterson; educated at Edinburgh Morelands, and Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1905), New
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College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd June 1909; assistant Old Meldrum 1909-10; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor, Old Meldrum 27th July 1910; translated and inducted 14th April 1914; resigned on appointment as Chaplain to the Forces 7th November 1917; served as Chaplain to the Forces at Canterbury, Colchester and in Germany 1917-20; appointed Chaplain and Assistant Master in Cargilfield Preparatory School, Cramond, Midlothian 1920; died 11th December 1924. Married 30th August 1910, Harriet Lillias Gordon Douglas.
1918
THOMAS ALEXANDER
Born 24th June 1882 in Perth, son of David Alexander and Christina McKenzie Geekie; educated at Perth Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1900), University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology); licensed by Presbytery of Perth 1904; assistant Stirling North 1904-6; ordained and inducted Johnstone and Wamphray 19th June 1906; translated to Kiama, New South Wales 21st September 1910; translated to Alford 24th June 1915; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1917; translated and inducted 9th June 1918.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.57; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.544.]
BONNYBRIDGE
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
This mission was established in 1904 and was raised to full status in 1914.
1914
JOHN SWAN, M.A.
Ordained probationer in charge 1912-14, inducted 22nd October 1914; translated to West Calder Limefield 27th September 1917.
1918
ROBERT WEBSTER, M.A.
Ordained as preacher at High Bonnybridge 28th February 1918; itinerant preacher in Orkney 1921; appointed to Stenness 1st September 1922.
1921
THOMAS MILLER
Born 3rd March 1869 at The Myres, by Stirling, son of Thomas Miller and Mary Hay; educated at Sauchie Infant School, Dunipace Public School, Edinburgh Institution, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh, Glasgow College; Catechist in the Canadian Presbyterian Church at Rockville, Chebogue, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia 1891-3; licensed by Presbytery of Halifax, Canada 1895; ordained at Richmond by Presbytery of St John, Canada 19th November 1895; admitted by General Assembly on return from Canada 1914; loc. ten. Kirkwall St Magnus 1915-16, Alloa Parish Church 1916-17, Fyvie Parish Church 1917-18, Alva Parish Church 1918; appointed 1921; inducted 18th June 1924. Publications – The Parochial Law of Tithes, Edinburgh, 1924; part-writer of The Haldanes of Gleneagles (pp.313-331), Edinburgh, 1929; articles in The Scottish Historical Review; The Juridical Review; and Stirling Archaeological Society Proceedings.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.65, High Bonnybridge St Helen’s.]
CARRON
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.700
Church, hall, vestry, session room. Booklet with history of the congregation was published in 1904 at semi-jubilee celebrations.
1879
JOHN YELLOWLEES
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.701
[Born or baptised on 1st Janury 1847 at Stirling, the son of David Yellowlees and Margaret McRob(b)ie;] ordained and inducted 17th April 1879; retired 4th November 1909; died February 1920. [Married 26th October, 1881, Cecilia Adams.]
1909
ANDREW FERGUSON ANDERSON, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 5th November 1909; translated to Glasgow Tron 26th September 1917.
1917
JOHN WOOD MACPHAIL, M.A.
Translated from Forgue and inducted as colleague and successor 17th December 1917; translated to Glasgow Queen’s Cross 1st June 1921.
1921
DAVID FRAME STEELE
Born 15th May 1886 at Hamilton, son of John Steele and Isabella Frame; educated at High Blantyre Public School, Hamilton St John’s Grammar School, and Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1908), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 7th May 1912; assistant Edinburgh Braid 1912-13, Morningside 1913; ordained and inducted Thornton 23rd January 1914; war service in H.M. Forces in German East Africa 1916-18; translated and inducted 23rd October 1921. Married 2nd July 1914, Mary Weir Murray Cassels.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.58.]
CUMBERNAULD BAIRD
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.672
Church and hall. United with Bridgend on 28th February 1920 under the name Cumbernauld.
1892
HUGH DYKES MORTON
Ordained and inducted 16th June 1892; translated to Dundee Lochee West March 1901.
1901
JAMES MARR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 15th October 1901; translated to Paisley Thread Street 9th November 1905.
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1906
PETER MACPHERSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1906; went to South Africa 1910.
1911
FRANK JEFFREY, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 26th April 1911; translated to Glasgow Greenhead 16th December 1915.
1916
GEORGE MURRAY REITH
Minister emeritus of Edinburgh St Cuthbert’s, introduced 15th May 1916; resigned 31st December 1917.
1918
THOMAS LOW, M.A.
Formerly of Harwood, introduced June 1918; became minister of the united charge 28th February 1920.
CUMBERNAULD BRIDGEND
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.90
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow. Church, hall and manse. United with the Baird congregation on 28th February 1920.
1882
THOMAS ADAM
Ordained and inducted 1882; translated to St Paul’s, Kingston, Jamaica, January 1903; inducted Wolflee 13th July 1927.
1923
DAVID HAMILTON KENNEDY
Ordained and inducted 11th July 1903; translated to Renfrew Moorpark 13th January 1920.
CUMBERNAULD
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
(after local union)
The local union took place on 28th February 1920. The old Baird church and the Bridgend manse were sold in September 1920.
1920
THOMAS LOW
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.393 and 619
Born 13th May 1857 at Edinburgh son of John Campbell Low and Isabella Hardie; educated at Edinburgh McLean’s School, Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1878), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, in charge of station on Holy Island, by Berwick, 1880; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1881; ordained and inducted Pathstruie, 2nd May, 1882; translated to West Calder United Presbyterian 2nd March 1893; resigned owing to eye trouble 1918; introduced Cumbernauld Baird June 1918; inducted as minister of united congregation 28th February 1920; retired 1921. Married 2nd December 1896, Helen Mungle.
1922
JOHN ALEXANDER GUNN, M.A.
Translated from Rosehall and inducted 7th June 1922; translated to Fraserburgh St Andrew’s 8th June 1927.
1927
WILLIAM PATERSON
Born 10th January 1897 at Glassford, Lanarkshire, son of William Paterson and Isabella Hunter; educated at Glassford Public School, Hamilton Academy; war service in France 1916-18; University of Glasgow, B.Sc. (1925), Glasgow College; student assistant Dreghorn and Perceton 1926; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 24th June 1927; ordained and inducted 14th December 1927. Married 3rd December 1927, Elizabeth Kirkland McLean.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.59, Cumbernauld, St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.522; also Vol.10, pp.259 and 308; and Vol.11, p.271.]
DENNY BROOMPARK
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.692
Church. During the period hall added, church re-roofed, and pipe-organ installed.
1889
DUNCAN CAMPBELL MCKELLAR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.694
[Born 17th April 1860 at Glasgow, son of John McKellar and Ann Campbell;] ordained and inducted 7th September 1889; died 22nd December 1905; [buried Denny Cemetery. Married 1888, Mary McLaren Oliphant.]
1906
DAVID MAILLER YULE
Inducted 6th June 1906; translated to Glasgow, Alexandra Parade, 18th April 1915.
1915
ROBERT JAMES BAIN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th October 1915; translated to Selkirk West 2nd October 1925.
1926
FRANCIS JOSEPH LAUCHLAN MACLAUCHLAN
Born 28th April 1902 at Dundee, son of Rev. Francis Joseph Maclauchlan and Isabella Macaulay; educated at Glasgow Shawlands Academy and Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1922), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1st March 1925; assistant Stirling North 1924-5; Dundee St Paul’s 1925-6; ordained and inducted 14th April 1926. [Married 2nd April 1929, Elizabeth Howieson Johnston, daughter of Rev. George Johnston.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.60; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.654; also Vol.10, pp.62 and 73; and Vol.11, p.52.]
DENNY DUNIPACE
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.125
Formerly in Free Church Presbytery of Stirling. Church and manse, halls and church officer’s house added in the period.
1895
WILLIAM DOUGLAS MILLER
Ordained and inducted October 1895, translated to Glasgow Ruchill 2nd March 1905.
1905
JOHN DAVIDSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.134
Born 20th July 1870 at Lochans Schoolhouse, Stranraer, son of John Davidson and Anna Pringle; educated at Lochans Public School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1891), University of Kiel 1893, New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Roseburn 1894-5; licensed, by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 13th June 1895; assistant Edinburgh Martyrs’ 1895-6; ordained and inducted Edinburgh Martyrs’ 6th October 1896; translated and inducted 6th July 1905. Married 15th June 1905, Aileen Smeaton.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.60.]
DENNY WEST
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.125
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Stirling. A new church was opened in December 1900, taking the place of an old Disruption church, dating from 1843.
1890
PETER CALDER DURWARD, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.144
Ordained and inducted 13th November 1890; resigned 4th December 1906; went to New Zealand; inducted at Leeston, Canterbury; translated to Lawrence, where he died 13th December 1924.
1907
WILLIAM CAMPBELL SMITH, M.A.
Translated from Boyndie and inducted 15th March 1907; translated to Paisley George Street 1912.
1912
ROBERT RODGER
Born 1st January 1872 in Glasgow, son of Rev. Alexander Rodger and Margaret Reid Aitken; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow College, Aberdeen College; student missionary, Greenock St Thomas’ 1901-2; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 5th March 1906; missionary assistant Kilmarnock Princes Street 1906-7; ordained and inducted Dundonald 29th August 1907; translated and inducted 18th January 1912. Married 2nd April 1913, Ann Jamieson Bannatyne Panton.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.60; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.36.]
DENNYLOANHEAD
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.674
Church, manse, and Muirhead Memorial Hall; also meeting place for Sunday School at Holland Bush. The history of the congregation was issued in book form.
1879
DAVID KEIR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.677
Born 4th September 1850 at New Scone, son of David Keir and Ann Gardiner; educated at Scone Public School, private tuition, University of Edinburgh. M.A. (1876), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Edinburgh Palmerston Place 1877; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Perth November 1878; assistant Lochee United Presbyterian 1878; ordained and inducted 1st July 1879; retired 28th November 1922; died 2nd April 1933. Married 31st October 1879, Maybell, daughter of Robert Mackenzie, Scone, and sister of Sir James Mackenzie, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Rev. Robert Mackenzie, Alloa, and Sir William Mackenzie, G.K.B.E., K.C. Publications – Four lectures in booklet form; sermons in local periodicals.
1922
FREDRIC SYDNEY MESS WALKER, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Newtyle and inducted 29th November 1922; translated to Glasgow Gairbraid 29th November, 1925.
1926
THOMAS LOUDON COX
Born 7th November 1897 in Glasgow, son of Charles William Cox and Helen Leith Loudon; educated at Glasgow Wellshot Public School, Tollcross, and Whitehill Higher Grade School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1923), Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces 1917-19; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 30th March 1926; ordained and inducted 13th May 1926. Married 28th April 1926, Leonainie Violet Robertson Watson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.60; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, pp.61 and 506; also Vol.10, p.300.]
FALKIRK BAINSFORD
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.18
Church and small hall. Large hall and session house added in 1910. North End Hall gifted in 1923 by Trustees of the Rev. Aeneas Rate, probationer, who held services there before the Free Church congregation was formed.
1890
CHARLES JAMES TENNANT MERRYLEES, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1890; translated to Paisley South 1901.
1901
DUNCAN MACRAE MUNRO
Translated from Rochdale Trinity and inducted 24th October 1901; translated to Aberdeen High 31st January 1907.
1907
HARRY MACDONALD ROSS, M.A.
Translated from Edinburgh Fountainbridge and inducted 17th April 1907; translated to Aberdeen Bon-Accord December 1916.
1917
THOMAS BREMNER ROBERTSON, M.A.
Translated from Aberdeen Bucksburn and inducted March 1917; translated to Auchterarder West 29th March 1922
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1922
WILLIAM HERON
Born 27th March 1881 at Crosshouse, by Kilmarnock, son of John Heron and Elizabeth Smith; educated at Crosshouse Public School, Bible Training Institute, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; served in the Lanarkshire Christian Union for 5 years as Evangelist and 9 years as Superintendent 1905-19; licensed 4th April 1922; ordained and inducted 21st June 1922. Married June 1912, Jessie Harvie Findlater.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.61; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.306; also Vol.10, p.180..]
FALKIRK CAMELON
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.17
Church, hall and manse. The hall was rebuilt in 1906 to make two halls accommodating 270 and 98 respectively. The congregation was re-named Irving in 1906.
1894
JOHN MUIRHEAD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.278
Born 25th October 1858 at Quarter Farm, Dunipace, son of Thomas Muirhead and Mary Adair; educated at Barony Parish School, Glasgow, Glasgow Highland Society School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; missionary, Glasgow Hutchesontown United Presbyterian 1884-7; Students’ Mission Broomielaw 1887-92; licensed by the Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 10th May 1892; assistant Glasgow Barony Free Church 1892-4; ordained and inducted 3rd April 1894; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917. Married 27th April 1905, Isobel Cumming, M.A.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.62, Falkirk Irving.]
FALKIRK ERSKINE
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.657
Formerly in the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Falkirk. Church and manse.
1875
JAMES AITCHISON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.661
Born 6th May 1846 at Glasgow, son of Alexander Aitchison and Jean Aitken; educated at St Matthew’s Sessional School, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; trained and worked as watch- and clock-maker 1859-66; missionary, Paisley Canal Street 1870-1; home tutor, Canonmills House, Edinburgh 1871-2; English Master, Grange Academy, Edinburgh 1872-3; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd December 1873; ordained and inducted 19th January 1875; retired 24th November 1920; died 28th February 1930. Married (1) 24th February 1875, Elizabeth Mason Craigie; (2) 19th June 1917, Mary Harvie Hogg. Publications – The Chronicle of Mites and other Pieces, London, 1887; Signa Cristi, London, 1890; A Bag with Holes, Edinburgh and London, 1896; The Cross of Christ as set forth in the Apostolic Writings, Falkirk, 1896; The Children’s Own, Edinburgh and London, 1905; poems, lectures and sermons in periodicals.
1920
JOHN ANDREW FOWLER DEAN
Born 3rd April 1875 at Rothes, son of William and Helen Dean [née Black]; educated at Pitcalnie, Nigg, Tain Royal Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1897), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Tain 1901; assistant Edinburgh Dalry 1901-2; ordained and inducted Wishaw Chalmers May 1902; war service in H.M. Forces; translated and inducted November 1920. Married 3rd April 1913, Ann Gertrude McLaggan.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.61; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.37..]
FALKIRK GRAHAM’S ROAD
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.663
Church and manse.
1888
THOMAS TAYLOR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.665
Ordained and inducted Banchory United Presbyterian 1880; translated and inducted 7th February 1888; died 1911; [died 24th December, 1919. Married (1) 1884, Catherine Wilson Reid; (2) 1894, Mary Ann Moir or Duncan.]
1911
THOMAS LORIMER BEVERIDGE
Ordained and inducted Rosneath 18th February 1902; translated and inducted 21st May 1911; resigned 1915; appointed to Gold Coast 1920.
1916
JAMES LAMONT
Born 6th August 1875 at Ballymena, Co. Antrim, son of Joseph Lamont and Isabella Lamont; educated at Guy’s Free National and the Model School, Ballymena; served apprenticeship in printing office; Cliff College, Derbyshire, Harley College, London, Queen’s College, Belfast B.A. (1910), University of London, B.D. (1918), New College, Edinburgh; chaplain at Brannocksburn, Co. Kildare, to John la Touche, Harristown; agent for Irish Baptist Home Mission; ordained to the Baptist ministry by the President of the Irish Baptist Church, at Wick, Caithness, December 1902; translated to New Prestwick, Ayrshire, July 1909; translated to Leith 1912; admitted by the General Assembly 1915; licensed by the Presbytery of Glasgow July 1915; loc. ten. in Scotstoun 1915, Paisley St James’ 1915; inducted January
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1916; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918-19; translated to St Aidan’s English Presbyterian Church, Berwick-on-Tweed 31st January 1924; translated to Silloth 1935; retired 1940. Married 7th August 1912, Isabella Wood McGeachin.
1924
WILLIAM GRANT
Born 31st December 1885 at Aberdeen, son of George and Helen Grant; educated at Aberdeen Marywell Street Public School and Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen, March 1917; loc. ten. in Fraserburgh South, assistant Kirkcaldy St Bryecdale 1917-18; ordained and inducted Catrine 16th October 1918; translated and inducted 29th July 1924. Married 10th August 1921, Jean Walker Muir.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.62; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.274.]
FALKIRK IRVING
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
See Falkirk Camelon.
FALKIRK ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.17
Church, hall with class rooms, etc. Mission carried on in Callander Riggs Hall.
1888
JAMES BROWN JOHNSTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.194
Born 21st May 1862 in Edinburgh, son of William Johnston and Mary Eliza Anderson; educated at Edinburgh Mr Hunter’s School, York Place, and Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1881), B.D. (1886), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh May 1886; assistant Glasgow St Matthew’s Free Church 1886-8; ordained and inducted 30th August 1888; retired 18th December 1928. F.R.Hist.S. Married 12th December 1888, Catherine Elizabeth Macmichael. Publications – Place Names of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1892, and later editions; Place Names of Stirlingshire, Stirling, 1903; Place Names of England and Wales, London, 1914, The Scottish Macs, Paisley, 1922.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.63.]
1928
ALEXANDER FERGUSON
Born 19th July 1891 at Glasgow, son of Daniel Ferguson and Margaret McNaught; educated at Glasgow Woodside Higher Grade and High School, North Kelvinside Higher Grade, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1912), B.D. (1916), Glasgow College; loc. ten. Glasgow Dowanhill 1914, and Port-Glasgow Princes Street 1915; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow March 1916; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1916-19; ordained and inducted Barrhead Westbourne 12th May 1919; translated to Perth West 9th November 1921; translated and inducted 12th December 1928. Married May 1918, May Margaret Buchanan, M.A.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.63.]
FALKIRK ST JAMES’
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.667
This congregation joined the United Presbyterian Church from the Congregational church in May 1898. Church and halls were opened 20th October 1900; gallery was added to the Church 21st October 1925.
1898
JOHN D. BUCHAN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.667
Admitted to the United Presbyterian Church along with the congregation from the Congregational Union 7th June 1898; resigned on appointment to the Presbyterian Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, in 1907.
1907
ALEXANDER FLEMING KERR
Translated from Linlithgow Shieldhill and inducted 12th September 1907; translated to Kinkell and Madderty 26th January 1923.
1923
WILLIAM GARDINER
Ordained and inducted 19th June 1923; translated to Craigmore, Rothesay, 28th October 1926.
1927
THOMAS MUIR LINKIE
Born 15th June 1892 at Edinburgh, son of David Linkie and Helen Henderson; educated at Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1916), New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology); war service in H.M. Forces in France 1916-19; student assistant Edinburgh Nicolson Street 1920; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 4th January 1921; ordained and inducted Avonbridge 7th June 1922; translated and inducted 15th February 1927. Married 31st July 1925, Marion Elizabeth Reid, M.A., M.B., Ch.B.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.63; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.39..]
FALKIRK TRINITY
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
This congregation began in Camelon Gymnasium on 29th May 1904, and the church was opened on 19th November 1905. A manse was purchased in 1920.
1906
JOHN SOUTER
Translated from Abernethy North and inducted 5th June 1906; translated Ardeonaig 18th December 1912.
1913
JOHN MARTIN MUNRO
Born 8th September 1882 at Leith, son of Martin Munro and Elizabeth Smith; educated at
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Barrhead, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1906), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Paisley June 1912; assistant Alloa Moncrieff 1912-13; ordained and inducted 22nd April 1913. Clerk to the Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk from 1923. Married 31st July 1913, Jessie McNicol Purdon Maxton, M.A..
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.61, Falkirk Camelon Trinity; for an account of this minister, see ther; also Vol.10, p.37..]
FALKIRK WEST
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.665
Church and manse.
1893
JAMES AITKEN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.666
[Born 4th April 1863 at Eccles, Berwickshire, son of James Aitken and Jane Cavers;] ordained and inducted Aberdeen St Paul’s United Presbyterian 1888; translated and inducted 12th January 1893; died [6th July] 1927; [buried Springbank Cemetery, Aberdeen. Married 1894, Marion Isabella Kilgour.]
1917
WILLIAM MORTON GRANT
Born 21st July 1895 at United Free Manse, Drumoak, son of Rev. William Milne Grant, D.D., and Marion Morton; educated at Drumoak Central School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Μ.Α. (1920), B.D. (1922), Ph.D. (1928), Union Seminary, New York, S.T.M (1923); war service in H.M. Forces and with Y.M.C.A. in France and on the Mediterranean; assistant Aberdeen Ferryhill 1921-2, Church of the Covenant, New York 1922-3; licensed by the Presbytery of Aberdeen April 1923; ordained and inducted Auchtergaven 28th November 1923; translated and inducted 14th April 1927. Married 29th December 1925, Margaret Christian Gillon.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.63; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.39 and Vol.11, p.221.]
GRANGEMOUTH CHARING CROSS
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.18
Church and hall, both improved in 1928. Small mission hall at Beaucross.
1881
GEORGE WATSON CUMMING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.130
Translated from Whiteinch and inducted 1881; retired March 1908; died 30th September 1915.
1908
THOMAS FRASER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.162
Born 22nd November 1871 at Nairn, son of Roderick Fraser and Christina Mackay, educated at Nairn Academy, Inverness Raining’s School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1893), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Nairn 3rd June 1897; assistant Blair Atholl 1897, Invergordon 1897-8; ordained by Presbytery of Fordoun 22nd September 1898, inducted Kinneff 27th October 1898; translated to Craig 27th March 1901; translated and inducted 18th September 1908; war service as Officiating Chaplain to Presbyterian troops at Grangemouth. Married 8th June 1899, Annie Helen Munro.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.63.]
GRANGEMOUTH DUNDAS
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.700
Church.
1893
JOHN SANDERSON, B.A.
Ordained and inducted 25th May 1893; translated to Dunfermline St Margaret’s 1902.
1903
ROBERT LEIGHTON THOMAS BLAIR, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 1903; translated to Montrose St George’s 1922.
1922
ROBERT MACMILLAN
Translated from Howgate and inducted 9th November 1922; translated to Glasgow Martyrs’ West 13th September 1928.
1928
DANIEL PATTERSON
Born 18th April 1904 at Glasgow, son of Daniel Patterson and Mary Patterson [née Weir]; educated at Glasgow Wellshot Public School and Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1925), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow St Stephen’s 1926-8; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 26th March 1928; ordained and inducted 22nd November 1928. Married [1934, Jessie McGilchrist Aitken] J. Aitken, Grangemouth.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.63; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, pp.64 and 252.]
GRANGEMOUTH GRANGE
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.699
Church and manse. New church and hall in Park Row opened 29th October 1903.
1892
ROBERT HAMILTON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.700
Ordained and inducted 22nd December 1892; resigned 1912 to take up work in Canada; died 1927.
1912
DAVID GORDON CARMICHAEL, M.A., B.D.
Formerly of Johannesburg, inducted 1912; translated to Ayr Cathcart Street 1918.
1918
GEORGE ANDERSON SMILLIE, M.A.
Translated from Livingston and inducted 1918; translated to Glasgow St Matthew’s 1921.
1922
JAMES BEATSON GARVIE
Born 14th August 1875 at Perth, son of William Garvie and Elizabeth Janet Hope; educated at Perth Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A (1895), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Perth
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June 1898; assistant Calderbank Mission 1900, Inverness East 1901-2, Greenock Sir Michael Street 1902-3; Glasgow Camphill 1903-4; ordained and inducted Avonbridge 9th August 1904; translated and inducted 8th March 1922. Married 28th August 1912, Margaret Adamson Jamieson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.64; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.98; also Vol.10, p.59..]
GRANGEMOUTH WEST
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.18
Church with two halls, manse.
1885
SAMUEL MURDOCH RIDDICK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.298
Born 17th December 1854 at Haugh of Urr, son of Thomas Riddick and Grace Murdoch; educated at Hardgate Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1880), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kirkcudbright 1894; assistant Dundee St Paul’s 1894; ordained and inducted 27th January 1885; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Cromarty 1918. Married 7th May 1889, Catherine McGeorge.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.65.]
KILSYTH ANDERSON
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.684
Church and manse.
1847
ROBERT ANDERSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.687
[Born or baptised 27th April 1824 at Kilsyth, son of John Anderson and Jean Muir;] ordained and inducted as colleague and successor to his father 27th July 1847; retired July 1889; died 1908.
1897
JOHN WEIR
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 23rd November 1897, translated to Glasgow Fairbairn 1908.
1908
JOSEPH DAVID CASKEY
Born 25th January 1870 at Ballywildrick, Coleraine, Co. Derry, son of David Caskey and Martha Millen; educated at Academical Institution, Coleraine, Magee College, Londonderry, Assembly’s College, Belfast; licensed by the Presbytery of Coleraine May 1893; ordained and inducted Greenbank, Derry, 13th April 1894; translated to Magheramason 19th November 1896; translated and inducted 16th June 1908. Married 23rd February 1897, Elizabeth Manson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.245; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.145.]
KILSYTH HIGH
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.105
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow. Church and hall. Vestry added to the church in 1913.
1889
WILLIAM JEFFREY, M.B.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.193
Translated from Glasgow St Paul’s and inducted 1889; died 1910.
1911
ANDREW GILMOUR MILLAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.267
Translated from Kincardine O’Neil and inducted 31st January 1911, retired May 1925; died March 1926.
1925
WILLIAM McINTYRE
Born 26th April 1900 at Kilmarnock, son of John Mcintyre and Margaret Girdwood; educated at Glasgow Dowanhill Public School, Bellahouston Academy; war service in R.N.V.R. 1918-19; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1922), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology); student assistant Govan St Mary’s 1922-4; loc. ten. Carluke Original Secession Church 1924-5; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 31st March 1925; ordained and inducted 13th December 1925. Married 14th April 1927, Agnes MacGregor.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.246, Kilsyth Burns; and for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, p.30.]
LARBERT EAST
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.125
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Stirling. Church and manse. A new church was built on the old site in 1903, and new halls in 1924 costing £3400 to replace halls destroyed by fire in 1918.
1896
ANDREW NISBET BOGLE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 19th March 1896; translated to North Leith July 1903.
1903
ALEXANDER EASTON SPENCE, M.A.
Translated from Insch and inducted 23rd September 1903; translated to Dollar 6th April 1911.
1911
WILLIAM CHISHOLM MITCHELL
Born 13th July 1872 at Glasgow, son of Charles Mitchell and Agnes Campbell Chisholm; educated at Glasgow St Stephen’s Parish School, Pupil Teachers’ Institute, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1896), Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow Tradeston Free Church 1896; missionary assistant Greenock St Thomas’ Free Church 1897-9; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Greenock 26th April 1899; loc. ten. Greenock North Free Church 1899-1900; ordained and inducted Greenock North 21st May 1900; translated and inducted 3rd August 1911; Officiating Chaplain to troops in Larbert area 1916; retired 7th April 1925. Married 12th October 1927, Margaret Drysdale Herman. Publication – Communion Tokens of Greenock, Greenock, 1903; many articles in periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.647.]
1925
JOHN WILSON FULTON
Born 10th March 1876 at Kilmarnock, son of Maxwell Frame Fulton and Margaret Galbraith Wilson; educated at Glasgow Kent Road and Garnethill Schools, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1897), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow July 1900; assistant Stirling Allan Park 1901-3; ordained and inducted Shaw Street Presbyterian Church, Liverpool 5th February 1903; translated to Bishop Auckland June 1908; translated to Glasgow Candlish Memorial October 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917; translated to Kilmaronock 9th June 1921; translated and inducted September 1925. Married 22nd April 1908, Nora Scott Morton.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.66.]
LARBERT WEST
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.702
In 1900 the only building was the hall, built in 1898, but in 1901 the church was erected adjoining the hall.
1899
COLIN MCFARLANE GIBB, M.A.
Translated from Morebattle and inducted 23rd February 1899; translated to Glasgow Albert Street 30th September 1907.
1908
THOMAS C[HALMERS] MACAULAY, M.A.
[Born 1875 at Irvine, the son of Robert Sellar Macaulay and Euphemia Beith Elder;] ordained 1901; inducted 9th January 1908; resigned to become Chaplain to the Forces March 1917; appointed chaplain to Ministry of Pensions 1922 and chaplain to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 1926 [Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.796.]
1917
NEIL MUNRO MURRAY
Born 14th February 1877 at Rosehall, Sutherlandshire, son of Alexander Murray and Annie Wallace; educated at Aberdeen Rubislaw School, Keith Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1905), Congregational Hall, Edinburgh (Baxter Scholar), ordained to ministry of Congregational Church at Sion Hall, Alnwick, Northumberland 26th September 1906; translated to Beechgrove Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne 1909; admitted by General Assembly 1917; inducted 29th July 1917. Married 29th May 1907, Frances Tennant Scott.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.66; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.332.]
LAURIESTΟΝ
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.19
Church, small hall, and vestry, manse with outhouse. Hall built in James Street as Young Men’s Club Room.
1870
JAMES HUNTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.188
Born 15th March 1840 at Beith, son of John Hunter and Mary Hamilton; educated at Beith, Greenock, University of Glasgow M.A. (1863), B.D. (1868), Reformed Presbyterian College, Glasgow and Edinburgh; licensed by Reformed Presbyterian Presbytery of Paisley 2nd April 1867; assistant Glasgow Great Hamilton Street Reformed Presbyterian Church; ordained and inducted Laurieston Reformed Presbyterian Church 24th May 1870; retired May 1920; died 28th August 1926. Married 4th April 1871, Margaret, daughter of Prof. W. Binnie, D.D. Clerk to Reformed Presbyterian Presbytery of Stirling till union with Free Church, clerk to Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow 1884-1900; clerk to United Free Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk till 1923; clerk to the Reformed Presbyterian Synod Quoad civilia for 48 years; secretary to the Free Church General Assembly’s Committee on Temperance 1888-92, and Convener 1892-7.
1920
JOHN HERBERT ROSS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted October 1920; translated to Glasgow Renwick December 1925.
1926
JAMES WHYTE
Born 19th March 1862 at Ardrossan, son of Peter Whyte and Ann McCutcheon; educated at Ardrossan Miss Graham’s School and Public School, Glasgow Knightswood Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1888), B.D. (1895), Glasgow Free Church College, licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow May 1892; assistant Glasgow Kinning Park Free Church 1889-93, Glasgow St Mark’s Free Church 1893-5, Glasgow Cuninghame Free Church 1896-7; ordained and inducted Deerness, Orkney, 16th December 1897; translated to Rayne 8th September 1910; translated to Ceres and Strathkinness 8th June 1917; translated and inducted 18th April 1926. Married 7th July 1891, Elizabeth McSporran.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.62, Falkirk Laurieston West.]
LINLITHGOW CRAIGMAILEN
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Formed by the union on 1st March 1917 of the East and Trinity congs. The East church was sold on 15th January 1923.
1917
ROBERT WILSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.692
Born 14th October 1853 at Rigmuir, Hamilton, son of Andrew Wilson and Agnes Stewart; educated at Chapelton School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; assistant Greenock Union Street; ordained and inducted Linlithgow East 24th October 1884; became minister of the united congregation 1st March 1917; retired 4th July 1919, died
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5th September 1933. Married 5th March 1890, Mary Yellowlees, daughter of Rev. John Miller, Linlithgow.
1919
JAMES A. MACLAUCHLAN
Translated from Kirkcaldy Invertiel, and inducted 26th November 1919; resigned 22nd January 1922, inducted Airdrie Broomknoll 1922.
1922
ARCHIBALD ANGUS CAMPBELL
Born 14th November 1885 at Dalmellington Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Dugald Campbell and Jessie Stewart, educated at Dalmellington Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1905), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Aут, 18th June 1912; assistant Glasgow St George’s and St Peter’s 1912-13; ordained and inducted Annan Erskine 25th September 1913; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1918-19: translated and inducted 6th December 1922. Married 8th August 1916, Jemima Urquhart.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.66.]
LINLITHGOW EAST
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.691
Church and manse. United with Trinity congregation to form Craigmailen on 1st March 1917.
1884
ROBERT WILSON
Ordained and inducted 24th October 1884; became minister of the united congregation 1917.
LINLITHGOW HIGH
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.19
The church was enlarged in 1901. The hall was improved and a church officer’s house constructed in 1926.
1883
ALEXANDER MITCHELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.271
Ordained and inducted 1883; died April 1921.
1921
ADAM FYFE FINDLAY, M.A., D.D.
Translated from Edinburgh Bristo and inducted 12th October 1921, resigned on induction as Professor of Church History in Aberdeen College 26th June 1924.
1925
JOHN LLEWELLYN MORGAN
Born 9th September 1891 at Glasgow, son of John Morgan and Catherine Blair Porteous; educated at Glasgow Watson’s Academy, Shawlands Academy; war service as furnaceman and machine setter 1915-18; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1918, Hons. Economics 1923), Glasgow College; sub-warden, Students’ Settlement 1920-1; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1921; loc. ten. Glasgow Rutherford 1921; ordained and inducted Paisley Oakshaw East October 1921; translated and inducted January 1925. Married 23гd June 1931, Isabel Bisset.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.67, Linlithgow St Ninian’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.423.]
LINLITHGOW TRINITY
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.689
Church with vestry, session room and small hall, manse with stable and coach-house. United with East on 1st March 1917 to form Craigmailen.
1892
JAMES CRAIG BUCHANAN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.691
[Born 22nd February 1868 at Linlithgow,] son of a former minister James Buchanan [and Jane Craig;] ordained and inducted 3rd November 1892; resigned 4th October 1909 went to U.S.A.; [died 3rd July 1938 at Buffalo, Erie County, New York; buried Pine Hill Cemetery, Gowanda, Erie County, New York.]
1910
JAMES MACKINNON MURRAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted May 1910; resigned January 1917 on appointment as Chaplain to the Forces; inducted Uddingston Park, September 1920.
POLMONT
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.19
Church and manse.
1873
JAMES ANDERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.83
Translated from Armadale, and inducted 1873; retired 1907; died 1914.
1907
DAVID KINNEAR BOGIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1907; translated to Fossoway 1923.
1924
JOHN MACLELLAN
Ordained and inducted Tongue 1905; translated to Lochranza and Pirnmill 1910; translated and inducted 1924.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.68, Polmont South; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.655.]
SHIELDHILL
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.19
Church and hall, with Blackbraes Hall for mission work; manse.
1890
ALEXANDER FLEMING KERR
Ordained and inducted 14th August 1890; translated to Falkirk St James’ 12th September 1907.
1907
RODERICK McIVER
Ordained and inducted 24th October 1907; translated to Craig 29th July 1915.
1915
DAVID CROSS MURRAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 7th December 1915; resigned 1918; inducted Keith North 2nd June 1920.
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1918
ALEXANDER MACDONALD WATSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 19th December 1918; translated to Gateshead Park Terrace 1922; translated to Motherwell Clason Memorial 27th April 1927.
1922
ALEXANDER PLENDERLEITH BATHGATE
Born 3rd December 1873, in Edinburgh, son of James Bathgate and Mary Plenderleith, educated at Edinburgh Leith Walk and George Heriot’s School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh November 1899; assistant Arbroath Ladyloan 1900, Glasgow Springburn Wellfield; ordained as probationer Glencaple 19th June 1908; translated to Deerness, Orkney, 10th September, 1914; translated and inducted 12th July 1922; died 3rd July 1929. Married 2nd September 1908, Mary Wood.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.68.]
WESTER PARDOVAN
Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.701
Church with classroom and vestry, manse. Mission hall in Bridgend Village, built of corrugated iron in 1901. Brick wall built round church in 1915.
1892
ROBERT SMITH SMILLIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.702
Born 1st February 1850 at Newmilns, son of James Smillie and Frances Smith; educated at University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow; ordained and inducted Elgin 1880; translated and inducted 8th December 1892; died 22nd December 1914. Married 30th March 1880, Jane Nicoll Anderson.
1915
WILLIAM HAY, B.D.
Translated from Barrow-in-Furness and inducted 13th May 1915; translated to Newport-on-Tay Trinity 15th May 1917.
1917
ROBERT GEORGE PHILIP
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.292
Born 22nd November 1868 at Free Church Manse, Fordoun, son of Rev. John Philip and Janet Morison Littlejohn; educated at Fordoun Free Church School and Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1888), Aberdeen Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Fordoun 3rd May 1892; assistant Glasgow St Matthew’s 1894-6; ordained and inducted Glencairn Free Church 10th September 1896; resigned to facilitate local union July 1911; acted as loc. ten. in various churches; inducted 24th July 1917. Married 20th May 1895, Henrietta Bell MacLennan. Publications – A Vision and a Voice, London, 1913; five articles in The Temple Dictionary of the Bible, London, 1910.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.67, Pardovan and Kingscavil.]
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PRESBYTERY OF DALKEITH
CARLOPS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.23
Church and manse.
1895
GEORGE WALKER TAYLOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 26th November 1895; translated to Clydebank West 1st October 1903.
1904
WILLIAM FRANCIS BRUCE
Born 19th February 1875 at Largo, son of Rev. William Bruce and Mary Frances Glegg; educated at Largo Public School, Waid Academy Anstruther, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Presbytery of St Andrews 1900; assistant Dumfries Martyrs’, Stirling North; ordained and inducted 25th February 1904. Married 6th January 1929, Ann Lennox Snodgrass. Clerk to the Presbytery from May 1919.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.77; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.44..]
COCKPEN
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.23
Church and manse.
1885
ROBERT THOMSON LOUDON, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.211
Ordained and inducted 1885; became senior minister 1929.
[For an account of its minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.77, Bonnyrigg.]
1929
OLIVER DRYER
Born 29th November 1881 at Sanquhar, son of Rev. Oliver Dryer and Jane Poole; educated at Airdrie Academy (Dux 1896), Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. 1902), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1909); licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1909; assistant Dreghorn and Perceton 1909-10, Edinburgh Rosehall 1910; ordained and inducted Gartmore 21st October 1910; resigned on appointment as General Secretary, International Fellowship of Reconciliation 1918; inducted 14th February 1929. Married September 1911, Lilian McFarlane. Member of two Copec Commissions, Birmingham 1924; member of “Life and Work” Ecumenical Conference, Stockholm 1925. Lectured on international questions in Universities throughout Europe and America.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.77, Bonnyrigg.]
DALKEITH BUCCLEUCH STREET
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.551
Church and manse.
1877
JAMES FRASER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.556 and 619
[Born 22nd January 1845 at Cathcart, Glasgow, son of John Fraser and Elizabeth Giffin Walker;] ordained and inducted West Calder, 30th April 1872; translated and inducted 10th April 1877; died 1917; [buried Dalkeith Cemetery. Married 1873, Elizabeth Shedden Caldwell.]
1918
JOHN CROY GRAHAM CUMMING
Born 1877 at Grangemouth, son of George Cumming and Elisa Simpson; educated at Grangemouth Dundas and Grange Schools, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1904), New College, Edinburgh; teacher in Falkirk High School; student assistant Newhaven; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1912; ordained and inducted Edinkillie, 1912; translated to Lanark St Kentigern’s 6th October 1914; translated and inducted January 1918; translated to Hull 1922; translated to Cardiff 1932; retired September 1937; died 26th March 1943. Married 26th December 1904, Jeanie Wilkie. Fellow of the Zoological Society.
1922
THOMAS CASSELS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.118
Born 10th August 1870 at Lanark, son of James Cassels and Janet Harvey; educated at Lanark Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1890), Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary, Torrance of Campsie; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lanark 1893; assistant Paisley Sherwood 1893-4; ordained and inducted Stewarton John Knox 19th May 1894; translated to Greenock Wellpark 5th September 1903; translated and inducted 23rd December 1922. Married 3rd June 1902, Elizabeth Boyd Smith.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.78.]
DALKEITH KING’S PARK
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.560
Church and manse. United with St John’s in 1912.
1873
ANDREW HUNTER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.563
Born 19th August 1844 at Ayr, son of John Hunter and Margaret Reid, educated at Ayr, University of Glasgow, M.A., B.D., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, licensed
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July 1873; ordained and inducted 16th December 1873; retired April 1911; died 23rd February 1915. Married 6th January 1874, Jessie Burrell.
DALKEITH ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.23
Church and manse. United with King’s Park in 1912.
1880
NEIL DUNCAN MACLACHLAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.243
Born 20th February 1855 at Greenock, son of Donald Maclachlan and Jean McVicar; educated at Greenock Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A., B.D., Glasgow Free Church College; lecturer in Hebrew, Aberdeen 1879-80; ordained and inducted May 1880; retired 1912; died 21st February 1915.
DALKEITH ST JOHN’S and KING’S PARK
Presbytery of Dalkeith
(after local union)
1915
JOHN SOMERLED MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.223
Born 5th September 1871 at Free Church Manse, Kilmuir-Easter, son of Donald Campbell Macdonald and Anne Mackenzie; educated at Tain Academy, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Philosophy, 1891), D.D. (1926), New College, Edinburgh (Hamilton Scholar in Hebrew, Cunningham Fellow); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Tain 1897; ordained and inducted Stornoway English Free Church August 1897; translated to Nairn High 2nd October 1901; translated to Wemyss Bay 18th March 1909; translated and inducted September 1915; translated to Liverpool Sefton Park February 1921. Publications – Sermons Preached in Time of War, 1914; War into Peace He Turns, 1918.
1921
GEORGE GALBRAITH
Born 25th July 1878 at Falkirk, son of William Galbraith and Rachel Thomson; educated at Falkirk High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1899), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Falkirk 1902; assistant Greenock Middle 1902; ordained and inducted Kilmaurs Smyton 8th January 1903; translated to Glasgow Rutherford 5th March 1908; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated and inducted 28th July 1921. Married 10th April 1906, Grace Fyfe Robertson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.78; for an account of this ministers see there; also Vol.10, p.48..]
FALA
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.578
Church and manse.
1899
THOMAS RATCLIFFE BARNETT
Ordained and inducted 20th October 1899; translated to Bo’ness St Andrew’s 23rd November 1905.
1906
MURDO McIVER
Ordained and inducted 1906; translated to Airdrie West 1913.
1914
GEORGE SWANSON
Born 29th September 1869 at Edinburgh, son of George Swanson and Jane Sutherland; educated at Church of Scotland Normal School, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1897), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 11th May 1898; assistant Arbroath Ladyloan, Dundee St John’s, Motherwell Dalziel, Rosewell; ordained and inducted Annbank December 1903; translated and inducted 27th March 1914. Married 5th April 1905, Jemima Howden Ross.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.79, Fala and Soutra West.]
FORD
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.582
Church and manse.
1886
ANDREW GEMMELL, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 9th December 1886; translated Dunoon Argyll 23rd April 1901.
1901
ALEXANDER GILLIES
Ordained as missionary, Tanna, New Hebrides 1897; inducted November 1901; translated to Bonkle March 1919.
1919
ROBERT INGLIS, M.A.
Translated from Kilchattan Bay and inducted 15th August 1919; translated to Carnoustie Erskine 7th April 1926.
1926
JOHN KEDDIE GRAHAM
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.330
Born 14th February 1875 at Galashiels, son of James Graham and Mary Slater Keddie; educated at Galashiels Episcopal School and Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1895), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Melrose, September 1898; ordained and inducted Alyth South 8th January 1899; translated to Alva Eadie 24th September 1907; translated to Edinburgh John Ker Memorial 6th June 1912; translated and inducted 23rd September 1926. Married 15th May 1899, Margaret Golder Burns. Publications – Anno Domini, Edinburgh, 1914; A Stepson of Edinburgh, and other papers, London, 1925; articles in periodicals.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.79.]
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GOREBRIDGE EAST
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.585
Church and manse. United with St Paul’s in 1921.
1901
ANDREW HUNTER, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 25th June 1901; translated to Carluke Kirkton 14th May 1908.
1908
ROBERT CHRISTIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1st October 1908; translated to Kinlochleven 21st June 1919.
1919
JOSEPH HUNTER
[Born 1877 at Tulliallan, son of Alexander Hunter and Isabella Stewart; went to Manitoba in 1902; a preacher there in 1911;] ordained 1905; appointed to short term ministry 1919; resigned 1921; [returned to Manitoba; 1931 a clergyman of the United Church; died 6th July, 1954; buried Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg. Married Annette Louisa Carnie.]
GOREBRIDGE ST PAUL’S
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.23
Church and manse. United with the East congregation in 1921.
1884
HECTOR MCLEAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.245
Born 1st October 1858 at Paisley, son of Neil Mclean and Catherine Munro; educated at Paisley Nelson School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1880), B.D. (1883), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Paisley 1883; ordained and inducted 22nd November 1884; retired 11th July 1921; died February 1925. Married 6th January 1885, Catherine Barr.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.79.]
GOREBRIDGE
Presbytery of Dalkeith
(after local union)
The Rev. Hector McLean continued as senior minister after the local union.
1922
HAROLD ROSS
Ordained and inducted 8th February 1922; translated to Troon St Meddan’s 16th June 1927.
1927
JOHN ALEXANDER HALL
Born 10th June 1903 at Broughty Ferry, son of Peter Hall and Maude Palmer Ingram; educated at Mertoun Public School, Kelso High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1924), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh New North 1926-27; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th April 1927; ordained and inducted 17th November 1927. Married 1st November 1927, Margaret McLean Reid.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.79, Gorebridge St Paul’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.129; also Vol.10, pp.74 and 296; and Vol.11, p.259.]
HOWGATE
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.567
Church and manse.
1867
DAVID THOMAS, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.569
[Born about 1839 at Mauchline, son of David Thomas minister, and Grace Shaw;] ordained and inducted 19th February 1867; died 1901.
1902
JOHN GILVRAY TAYLOR, M.A.
Translated from Firth Paterson, Orkney, and inducted 3rd July 1902; translated Glasgow Lyon Street, 12th June 1911.
1911
W[ILLIAM] J[AMES] FALSIDE, M.A.
[Born 1884 at Eskdalemuir, son of John Tully Falside and Elizabeth Semple; educated at Glasgow University (M.A. 1906);] ordained and inducted 1911; [served in Army Chaplains’ Department;] died 7th October 1918; [buried Faenza Communal Cemetery, Faenza, Provincia di Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.]
1919
ROBERT MACMILLAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 11th April 1919; translated to Grangemouth Dundas November 1922.
1923
JAMES HEADRICK FORDYCE, M.A.
Translated from Withington Manchester and inducted 19th April 1923; translated North Berwick Blackadder 26th January 1928.
1928
ROBERT HENDERSON GLENDINNING
Born 26th January 1887 Over Cassock, Eskdalemuir, of James Glendinning and Mary Henderson; educated at Lockerbie Academy, Dumfries Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1909), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Annandale 5th May 1914; assistant Campbeltown Lorne Street 1914-15, Aberdeen Queen’s Cross 1916-17; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918; ordained and inducted Lochlee 3rd July 1919, translated and inducted 17th May 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.80; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.49..]
KIRKURD
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.21
Church and manse.
1897
WILLIAM JAMES COUPER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1897; translated to Glasgow Great Hamilton Street 3rd September 1902.
1903
WILLIAM ARNOTT
Ordained and inducted 1903; translated to Glasgow Elgin Place April 1910.
1910
DAVID CHALMERS WISEMAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 18th November 1910; translated to Monifieth North and Newbigging 3rd February 1921
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1921
GUSTAVUS AIRD SIM
Formerly minister at Malta; inducted 1921; translated to Ochiltree South 7th February 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.71, Blythbridge; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, p.181.]
LASSWADE
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.590
Church and manse.
1886
WILLIAM PATRICK RODGERSON, M.A., B.Sc.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.593
[Born 8th August 1858 at Annan, son of James Rodgerson and Jane Robertson;] ordained and inducted 21st April 1886; died 13th January 1902; [buried Cockpen and Carrington Churchyard. Married 1887, Elizabeth Margaret Johnston.]
1903
JOHN NIVISON
Ordained and inducted 5th February 1903; resigned 1917; inducted Eday, Orkney 11th January 1922.
1917
ANDREW BROWN
Translated from Norham and inducted 29th November 1917; translated to Dunscore 22nd September 1927.
1928
DAVID GRAY
Born 5th November 1877 at Lochee, Dundee, son of John Young Gray and Mary Young; educated at Dundee Ancrum Road Public School, High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1899), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee 10th June 1903; assistant Edinburgh Dean 1902-3, Dundee Martyrs’ 1903-4, Dundee St Peter’s 1904-5; ordained and inducted Crailing 21st September 1905; translated to Biggar Gillespie 20th March 1919; translated and inducted 2nd February 1928. Married 17th May 1907, Margaret Hadden Cassie.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.80, Lasswade Strathesk; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.49.]
LOANHEAD ERSKINE
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.593
Church. United with the South congregation in 1904.
1895
DAVID SUTHERLAND
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.227 and 593
Ordained and inducted Renton 24th May 1887; resigned 26th December 1893: inducted 3rd April 1895; resigned 1904; short term ministry at Whitburn 1904-7.
LOANHEAD SOUTH
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.24
Church and manse. United with the Erskine congregation in 1904.
1895
WILLIAM JOHNSTON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted April 1895, translated to Troon St Meddan’s 3rd September 1903.
LOANHEAD
Presbytery of Dalkeith
(after local union)
1904
JAMES PETRIE
Born 26th October 1870 at Walkerton, Leslie, Fife, son of Patrick William Robertson Petrie and Georgina Anderson Smith; educated at Corstorphine Public School, Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1897-9; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1899; assistant Edinburgh St John’s 1899-1902; ordained and inducted Bow Road, London 3rd May 1902; translated and inducted 8th June 1904; war service as Officiating Chaplain to troops billeted in Loanhead. Married 31st July 1902, Cecilia Sinclair Oliver.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.81, Loanhead East.]
MUSSELBURGH BRIDGE STREET
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.532
Church and manse.
1882
ALEXANDER SCOTT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.536; Vol.2, p.21
Born July 1839 at Winchburgh, son of Thomas Scott and Margaret Chapman; educated at Winchburgh and Kirkliston, University of Edinburgh, M.A, B.D., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Ballyfrenis, Ireland 12th March 1868; translated to Kirkcowan 18th October 1876; translated and inducted 11th July 1882; retired 1908; died 7th May 1916. Married 17th April 1868, Margaret Irvine Scott.
1908
PETER DRUMMOND GRAY, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 21st July 1908; translated to Dollar West December 1919.
1920
MATTHEW BOWIE, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 8th April 1920; translated to Bathgate St David’s 9th July 1924.
1925
WILLIAM GRACIE CROZIER
Born 2nd January 1874 at Auchinleck, son of Andrew Crozier and Eliza Gracie; educated at Auchinleck Public School, Dunoon Baptist College; ordained as minister of Paisley George Street Baptist Church 6th Sept 1896; translated to Dumfries October 1909; admitted to United Free Church 1915; appointed to Leghorn Stewart Memorial May 1915; acted as chaplain to British seamen at Leghorn; inducted Kinross East October 1921; translated and inducted 28th January 1925. Married 18th December 1913, Martha Gibson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.81; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.167.]
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MUSSELBURGH HIGH
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.24
Church and manse
1876
ALEXANDER WRIGHT, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.361
Ordained and inducted 1876; died 1901.
1902
ROBERT GILMOUR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.169
Born 6th April 1869 at Kirkmaiden, son of Alexander Gilmour and Margaret Murray; educated at Public Schools in Orkney and Cromarty, Newton Stewart, Ewart Institute, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Cockpen, North Leith; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dalkeith; ordained and inducted Temple 6th June 1895; translated and inducted 13th March 1902; died 6th December 1925. Married 29th June 1898, Helen Elizabeth Storie. Publications – Samuel Rutherford, 1904; The Approach to Union, 1923.
1926
CHARLES SIMMERS
Born 18th November 1878 at Lossiemouth, son of John Simmers and Margaret Hardie; educated at Daviot P.S, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1900), B.D. (1904), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 2nd May 1904; assistant Aberdeen Ferryhill 1904-6; ordained and inducted Ellon 7th March 1906; translated to Brechin Maisondieu 20th August 1914; translated and inducted 1st July 1926. Married 10th Sept 1913, Isabel B[arbara] Mann.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.81.]
MUSSELBURGH MILLHILL
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.536
Church. Manse acquired during the period.
1886
DAVID GILCHRIST
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.539
Born 14th April 1858 at Edinburgh, son of Robert Gilchrist and Margaret Thompson; educated at Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1886; assistant Edinburgh Bristo Place, Montrose, Newport; ordained and inducted 8th July 1886; translated to Boulder, West Australia, January 1908; translated to St Andrew’s, Carlton, Melbourne, January 1909; retired September 1925; died 9th August 1926. Married (1) July 1891, Emily Augusta Reid; (2) 17th August 1909, Jane Lawson Wilson.
1908
JOHN ANDERSON, M.A.
Translated from Norham and inducted 23rd April 1908; translated to St Monance 20th June 1928.
1928
HENRY TAYLOR FERGUSON
Born 4th December 1895 at East Manse Broxburn, son of Rev. Henry Ferguson and Elizabeth Erskine; educated at Public School Broxburn, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1920), New College, Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1915-19; student assistant Edinburgh Union 1921-23; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1923; ordained and inducted Johnstone and Wamphray 10th October 1923; translated and inducted 6th December 1928. Married 11th August 1926, Margaret Munro.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.82; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.12; also Vol.10, p.8.]
NEWBATTLE
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.24
Church and manse.
1884
ALEXANDER HARDIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.181
Ordained and inducted Dudley 1880; translated and inducted 1884; retired 1916; died 1919.
1916
JAMES NEIL MACPHERSON
Ordained and inducted 16th October 1916; translated to Elgin High 5th October 1921.
1922
HENRY ARNOTT
Translated from Alva West and inducted January 1922; resigned August 1924; inducted Edinburgh Bristo 19th December 1928.
1924
WILLIAM G[EORGE] JEFFREY
Ordained 1905; inducted 2nd December 1924.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.83, Newtongrange; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, p.83 and Vol.9, p.373.]
NEWLANDS
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.587
Church and manse. United with West Linton in 1910.
1891
THOMAS GOLDIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 19th November 1891; translated Coupar Angus South 21st September 1910.
ORMISTON
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.24
Church and manse.
1887
THOMAS ROBERTSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.302
Ordained and inducted 1887; died 1924.
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1924
GRIGOR GALLETLY FRENCH
Born 17th October 1898 at Mosstowie, Elgin, son of Alexander French and Mary Ann Scott; educated at Alves Public School, Elgin Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1921), B.D. (1923), Aberdeen College; war service with H.M. Forces in France and Germany 1917-20; licensed by Presbytery of Elgin May 1923; assistant Glasgow Kelvinside 1923-4; ordained and inducted 6th November 1924.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.93, Ormiston St John’s.]
PENICUIK NORTH
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.584
Church and manse.
1865
JOHN McKERROW, B.A.,
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.585
Ordained and inducted 9th September 1865; died 1919.
1920
ERNEST DAVID JARVIS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 4th May 1920; translated to Muswell Hill, London, May 1924; translated to Glasgow Wellington 15th June 1929.
1924
GEORGE WYLLIE HOWIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.336
Born 27th March 1871 at Dundee, son of George Wyllie Howie and Jane Powrie Stewart; educated at Dundee West End Academy and High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1892), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Edinburgh Pleasance 1894-5; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dundee 1895; assistant Blackburn 1895-6; ordained and inducted Newbigging, by Dundee, 10th June 1896; translated to Galashiels South 22nd February 1906; translated to Edinburgh Nicolson Street 7th October 1909; translated and inducted 30th September 1924. Married 18th April 1898, Jemima Elizabeth Swan. Published articles in periodicals. Clerk to the Synod of Lothian 1924-9.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.83.]
PENICUIK SOUTH
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.25
Church and manse.
1895
ROBERT THOM JACK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.192
Born 1st April 1868 at Glasgow, son of Thomas Jack and Isabella Thom; educated at Glasgow Free Normal School, Garnethill Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1890), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1893; assistant Strathaven Free Church 1893-5; ordained and inducted 16th July 1895; during Great War organised Coast Guard work for Boy Scouts; served with Penicuik Company of Volunteer Battalion 3rd Royal Scots 1917. Married 2nd July 1907, Margaret Taylor Patrick.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.84.]
ROSLIN
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.25
Church and manse.
1875
DAVID BARNETSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.92
Ordained and inducted 1875; died 1st September 1908.
1909
JOHN MACALPINE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1909; resigned 1922.
1922
WILLIAM ROXBURGH FORRESTER, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 9th December 1922; translated to Edinburgh Cairns Memorial 20th September 1928.
1928
ADAM GORDON CAMPBELL
Born 16th April 1874 at Petty Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Adam Gordon Campbell and Isabella Fraser; educated at Inverness Royal Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1894), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1899; assistant Edinburgh Pilrig 1900-2; ordained and inducted New Cumnock Afton 1902; translated to Portsoy 10th October 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918; translated and inducted November 1928. Married 1st June 1907, Isabella Catherine Forbes Monro.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.84, Roslin St David’s.]
TEMPLE and CARRINGTON
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.25
Church and manse.
1895
ROBERT GILMOUR
Ordained and inducted 6th June 1895; translated to Musselburgh High 13th March 1902.
1902
WILLIAM BARCLAY
Ordained and inducted 16th October 1902; translated to Glasgow Whitevale 25th November 1909.
1910
JAMES SCOTT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 17th March 1910; translated to Doune 15th May 1913.
1914
ALLAN SHIELDS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.275
[Born 10th November 1856 at Strathaven, son of Hugh Shields and Marion Lindsay; was stone mason in 1881;] ordained and inducted Yetholm Border View 11th November 1897; translated and inducted September 1913; left in 1914; [died at Temple 1914. Married 1884, Grace Douglas Young.]
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1914
ANDREW JOHN YOUNG
Born 29th April 1885 at Elgin, son of Andrew Young and Maria Adams; educated at Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1908), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1912; assistant Berwick Wallace Green, 1912-13; ordained and inducted July 1914; translated to Hove Presbyterian Church March 1920; [admitted to the Anglican ministry; became vicar of the rural parish of Stonegate in East Sussex in 1941; died at Chichester Sussex 25th November 1971.] Married 1914, Janet Green. Publications – The Adversary, London, 1923; The Bird Cage, London, 1926.
1920
ALEXANDER RENSHAW MACKAY, M.A
Ordained and inducted 1st July 1920; translated to Glasgow Anderston 1st November 1923.
1924
ALFRED COUTTS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.126
Born 20th May 1865 at Leith, son of Donald Coutts and Margaret Hobson; educated at Leith Lorne Street School, Edinburgh St James’ School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1884), B.D. (1888), Ph.D. (1921), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow 1888); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1888; assistant Dunfermline Abbey Free Church 1888-9; ordained and inducted Kirkcaldy Pathhead 18th April 1889; translated to South Leith 18th April 1899; translated to Wick April 1909; translated to Edinburgh St Cuthbert’s December 1911; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in France 1914-18; translated and inducted April 1924. Married (1) 1894, Jane E[uphemia] Cant; (2) 1924, Elizabeth S. Addison. Publications – Hans Dench, Humanist and Heretic, Edinburgh, 1927; sermons, etc.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.85, Temple St John’s.]
WEST LINTON
Presbytery of Dalkeith
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.563
Church and manse. United with Newlands in 1910.
1867
JAMES MCLAREN KINLOCH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.567
Born 9th April 1833 at Methven, son of Peter and Ann Kinloch; educated at Methven Public School, Perth Academy, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1861; missionary at Camelon; ordained and inducted Ballyfrenis, Ireland 13th March 1862; translated and inducted 17th April 1867; retired May 1910; died 23rd July 1911. Married 17th June 1862, Margaret Shearer Black. Publication – History of West Linton Church, Edinburgh, 1887.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.75, West Linton Trinity.]
WEST LINTON and NEWLANDS
Presbytery of Dalkeith
(after local union)
1910
JAMES GEORGE LUNN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 1910; translated to Paisley Sherwood 1916.
1916
COLIN JAMES STEWART MACKENZIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 26th October 1916; translated to Glasgow Parkhead 28th September 1921.
1922
GEORGE CALDWELL DALZIEL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.132
Born 27th March 1859 at Kilmarnock, son of John Dalziel and Jessie Caldwell; educated at Glasgow Free St Matthew’s, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1882), B.D. (1886), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 18th May 1886; assistant Dundee St Paul’s 1886-9; ordained and inducted Kinglassie 18th December 1890; translated to Glasgow Martyrs’ 26th January 1910; translated and inducted 26th January 1922; died 9th August 1923. Married 17th February 1890, Agnes Nelson Davidson.
1924
ALEXANDER JAMES FALCONER MONRO
Born 22nd January 1885 at Fraserburgh, son of Alexander Monro and Evelyn Falconer; educated at Fraserburgh Academy, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (Hons. in Mental Philosophy 1906), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 1909; assistant Rutherglen West 1910-11, Edinburgh St Mary’s 1912; ordained and inducted Ancrum 18th October 1912; resigned September 1914 to join the Army; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1914-17; served in various government departments 1917-24, awarded O.B.E.; inducted 24th January 1924. Married 12th January 1926, Anna Muriel, daughter of Sir J. Halliday-Croom of Edinburgh.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.75, West Linton Trinity; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.580; also Vol.10, p.336..]
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PRESBYTERY OF HADDINGTON AND DUNBAR
ABERLADY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.550
Church and manse.
1891
ALEXANDER C[ARRICK] WEDDERSPOON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.550
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 21st April 1891; resigned 7th October 1901; [ministry continued in New Zealand.]
1902
JOHN MITCHELL MURRAY
Born 19th April 1850 in Glasgow, son of Henry Murray and Ann Mitchell; educated at Glasgow Bridgeton Parish School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, organist in Tron Parish Church, Glasgow, 1870-88; licensed by Church of Scotland Presbytery of Glasgow; assistant New Monkland Parish Church 1893, South Shields 1895, Saltcoats West Free Church 1897, Hamilton Avon Street Free Church 1899, Inverkeithing 1901; ordained and inducted 1st April 1902; retired June 1927; died 5th August 1930. Married 27th June 1877, Isabella McConnell. Member of School Board and Parish Council for many years.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.86.]
COCKBURNSPATH
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.27
Church and manse. Stockbridge united with this congregation in 1901.
1882
DAVID HEWITT
Formerly at Sutton, inducted 1882, became minister of the united congregation 1901.
COCKBURNSPATH and STOCKBRIDGE
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
1901
DAVID HEWITT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.186
Ordained at Sutton, Cheshire 1877; resigned 1879; inducted Cockburnspath 1882, became minister of the united congregation 1901; died 1928.
1929
ROBERT SMITH FRASER LAIDLAW
Born 9th July 1891 at Edinburgh, son of Robert Laidlaw and Johann Murray Smith; educated at Edinburgh, Moray House School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1912), New College; student assistant North Leith Coburg Street 1915; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd May 1916; loc. ten. Cupar Boston 1916-17; ordained and inducted Westerdale 3rd April 1917; translated to Alness April 1922; translated and inducted 28th March 1929. Married (1) 1st June 1917, Ethel Hope Cook; [(2) 1943 Christina Elizabeth Cameron.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.87, Cockburnspath St John’s and Innerwick; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.595; also Vol.10, p.343.]
COCKENZIE
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.26
Church and manse.
1888
WILLIAM OGG
Ordained and inducted 1888; translated to Glasgow Mount Florida February 1907.
1907
EDWARD JAMES HAGAN
Ordained and inducted 11th April 1907; translated to Elgin High 18th January 1911.
1911
ROBERT BONNINGTON HASTIE
Ordained and inducted 27th April 1911; translated to Renfrew Trinity April 1919.
1919
ROBERT HOWIE
Born 13th June 1873 at Law, Dreghorn, Ayrshire, son of John Howie and Jane Gilmour; educated at Dreghorn, Irvine Royal Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1894), Glasgow Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Irvine and Kilmarnock May 1898; assistant Newhaven Free Church 1898-1900; ordained and inducted Lochend and New Abbey, Dumfries, 18th October 1900; translated to Gullane 1st February 1906; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916, and as Chaplain to the Forces 1917-18; translated and inducted 18th April 1919.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.87, Cockenzie, Chalmers Memorial; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.637; also Vol.10, p.364.]
DIRLETON
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.26
Church and manse. Manse greatly improved during the period.
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1890
JAMES GRACIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.172
Born 22nd Dec 1857 at Wanlockhead, son of William Gracie and Isabella Moffatt; educated at Wanlockhead Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1886), B.D. (1890), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar 1890; assistant Cockpen 1888, Burntisland 1890; ordained and inducted 18th December 1890; in charge of station at Gullane till it became a full charge in 1902; war service as chaplain to West Fenton Aerodrome. Married 13th January 1892, Jane Shearer.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.88, Dirleton South.]
DUNBAR ABBEY
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.26
Church and manse. United with Dunbar Erskine in March 1917.
1886
JOSEPH AGNEW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.78
Born 11th June 1856 at May Island, son of Joseph Agnew and Sarah McCready; educated at University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar; assistant Newhaven Free Church, Belgrave Church, London; ordained and inducted 1886; died 9th November 1912. Married (1) 4th December 1886, Margaret Stenhouse; (2) 2nd June 1898, Isabella Redpath Grahame.
1913
GEORGE SINCLAIR
Translated from Glasgow Queen’s Cross and inducted 1913; became minister of the united charge March 1917.
DUNBAR ERSKINE
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.529
Church and manse. United with Dunbar Abbey in March 1917.
1875
JOHN SUTHERLAND
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.531
[Born 5th September 1841 at Drainie, Moray, son of James Sutherland and Elspet Watson;] ordained and inducted 8th June 1875; died 1904 [17th November, 1903. Married 23rd September, 1829, Isabella Elizabeth Brydon.]
1904
ALEXANDER WRIGHT BAIN
Ordained and inducted 18th August 1904; translated to Broxburn East 1st September 1916.
DUNBAR
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
(after local union)
The united congregation worshipped till September 1927 in the Erskine Church, which was then sold for £1400; the Abbey Church was repaired and the congregation worshipped there from October 1927.
1917
GEORGE SINCLAIR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.317
Born 4th July 1855 at Ballantra, Dunbeath, Caithness, son of John Henderson Sinclair and Anne MacGregor; educated at Torbeg School, Dunbeath, Hamilton St John’s Grammar School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 24th June 1885; assistant Bridge of Allan; ordained and inducted Uphall 8th September 1885; translated to Glasgow Queen’s Cross September 1899; translated to Dunbar Abbey September 1913; became minister of the united charge, March 1917; war service as Officiating Chaplain to Presbyterian troops in Dunbar; retired May 1925; died 14th May 1937. Married 17th March 1886, Louisa Agnes Griffin. Publications – Bible Occupations, Glasgow, 1910; Bible Occupations (Second Series), Glasgow, 1913; Ambassadors, Glasgow, 1925; tracts for The Monthly Visitor, 1919 to 1927.
1926
ROBERT KERR GOODFELLOW
Born 27th February 1881 at Irvine, son of Robert Goodfellow and Janet Fraser; educated at London Street School and Royal Academy, Irvine, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1903), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Kilmarnock April 1907; assistant Glasgow Erskine 1907-8, Dundee St Paul’s 1908-9; ordained and inducted Kilbirnie East 16th May 1909; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917, 1918; translated to Glasgow Henry Drummond Memorial 18th December 1919; translated and inducted 13th January 1926. Married 6th August 1924, Margaret Houston.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.88, Dunbar Abbey; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.528.]
GARVALD
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.27
Church and manse. The status of the congregation was reduced in 1909, and an ordained preacher, Rev. Charles Hutchison, M.A. served from November 1909 to 1912, being then inducted to Culsalmond. The congregation remained vacant from 1915 to 1921 when it was linked with Yester.
1867
DAVID ALEXANDER BEATTIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.93
Translated from Towie and inducted 1867; retired 1909; died 1911.
1913
JAMES BURNET
Translated from Dundee Lochee Road and introduced 31st May 1913; translated to Kinkell and Madderty 28th October 1915.
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GULLANE
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
In 1900 there was only a mission hall worked from Dirleton, but the congregation received full status in 1906. The church was completed in 1908.
1906
ROBERT HOWIE, M.A.
Translated from Lochend and New Abbey, Dumfries and inducted 1st February 1906; translated to Cockenzie 18th April 1919.
1920
DAVID BARCLAY MELLIS SMITH MELLIS
Born 11th February 1885 at Swatow, China, son of George Smith and Mary Campbell Mellis; educated at Crieff Morrison’s Academy, Cambridge Leys School, University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College, B.A. (1908), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh May 1912; ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh as missionary to China 1912, and served with English Presbyterian Mission, Wukingfu 1912-15; war service in H.M. Forces in Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria 1915-19; inducted 1920. Changed his name from Smith to Mellis by deed poll in 1919. Married 4th January 1913, at Hong Kong, Margaret Blaikie, daughter of Rev. Murdo Mackenzie of Wukingfu, and Margaret Alison, daughter of Prof. W.G. Blaikie.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.89, Gullane, St Peter’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.548; also Vol.10, p.318.]
HADDINGTON EAST
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.516
Church and manse. The congregation was dissolved in 1903.
1891
ROBERT L[ANGLANDS] WALKER, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.520
[Born 21st April 1864 at Glasgow, son of James Walker and Mary Nisbet; attended Kirkcaldy Burgh School; educated at St Andrews University (M.A. 1887);] ordained and inducted 10th September 1891; left in 1902; [served thereafter in New Zealand; died 25th March, 1956; buried Birkenhead-Glenfield Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand. Married (1) 1892, Mary Ann Douglas; (2) 31st July 1922, Mary Margaret Waite.]
HADDINGTON ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.27
Church, hall and manse.
1873
JAMES MATTHEW, M.A., B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p264
Ordained and inducted 1873; retired 1909; died 1916.
1909
JOHN MCPHERSON FLECK
Born at Fairlie, son of Rev. William S. Fleck, United Presbyterian [Free Church] Manse, Fairlie, and Mary L. McPherson; educated at Fairlie, Hillhead High School, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1903), B.D. (1909), Glasgow College, New College, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Ph.D. (1924); licensed by Presbytery of Ardrossan 15th June 1907; assistant Glasgow Claremont 1907-8, Glasgow Trinity 1908-9; ordained and inducted 18th November 1909.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.90.]
HADDINGTON WEST
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.523
Church, vestry, hall and manse. Pipe organ introduced in 1903.
1891
WILLIAM B. TOUGH, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.524
Ordained and inducted 27th January 1891; died January 1914 [died 1918].
1914
ALEXANDER DUNCAN
Born 3rd April 1874 at Aberdeen, son of Alexander Duncan and Janet Sangster; educated at Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, and Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1895), Aberdeen Free Church College (Hons. Diploma in Theology); licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen May 1902; assistant Strathbogie 1902-4; ordained and inducted Mortlach 20th April 1904; translated and inducted 9th July 1914. Married 7th July 1905, Margaret Helen Hendry.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.90; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.135.]
HUMBIE
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.27
Church and manse. Alterations and improvements on the church in 1903 at a cost of £130.
1888
MATTHEW DUNNETT FINLAYSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.155
Born 29th December 1853 at Bower, Caithness, son of Peter Finlayson and Janet Manson; educated at Bower Free Church School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kintyre June 1878; assistant Campbeltown Lorne Street 1878-9, Abercorn 1879, Stromness 1880-1, Gargunnock 1881-2, Castle-Douglas 1883-6, Hillside 1886-7; ordained and inducted 9th October 1888; retired 1st July 1929; died 8th February 1931. Publication – Ordination Addresses (pamphlet), Haddington, 1894.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.90.]
INNERWICK
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.27
Church with two rooms, manse. United with Cockburnspath St John’s in October 1928.
1896
ARCHIBALD W. AULD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.87
Ordained and inducted 6th October 1896; joined the Free Church in 1918.
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1920
GEORGE ROBERT FRYER
Appointed minister without charge 26th June 1920; translated to Paisley Mossvale, 16th May 1923.
1923
JOHN WHITE, M.A.
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.355]
Formerly minister of Glasgow East Park; introduced 8th July 1923; resigned to facilitate local union October 1928.
NORTH BERWICK ABBEY
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.541
Church, hall and manse. New pulpit and platform, pipe organ installed, two stained-glass windows, War Memorial tablet, and heating apparatus renewed in the church. Gallery reconstructed and new lighting installed in the hall. Roof of manse renewed.
1886
JOHN DUNDAS ROBERTSON, D.Sc.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.545
Ordained and inducted 23rd September 1886; resigned in summer of 1903 on appointment as Professor of Apologetics and Practical Training in Knox College, Toronto; died 21st Sept 1919.
1903
ROBERT SMALL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.46 and 509
Born 29th April 1866 at Southend, Campbeltown, son of Rev. Robert Small, D.D., and Agnes Berwick Mitchell; educated at Southend, Edinburgh James Gillespie’s School and George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, Μ.Α. (1886), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1889; assistant Edinburgh Palmerston Place United Presbyterian 1889; ordained and inducted Ecclefechan United Presbyterian 3rd December 1889; translated to Leith Bonnington 16th May 1895; translated and inducted 19th November 1903. Married 10th April 1900, Marion Cavet, daughter of the Rev. James MacEwen, Sydney Place, Glasgow. Publications – Studies in the Fourth Gospel in The Expository Times; Union More or Less, Dundee, 1923.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.91-92; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.55.]
NORTH BERWICK BLACKADDER
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.27
Church, two halls and manse.
1886
JAMES DAVIDSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.134
Born 9th October 1853 at Dudwick Farm, Ellon, son of James Davidson and Margaret Black; educated at New Pitsligo Parish School, Edinburgh Training Centre, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1881), New College, Edinburgh, B.D. (Edinburgh, 1886); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Peebles 1886; ordained and inducted 12th December 1886; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918; retired March 1925; died 11th December 1930. Married April 1898, Rosina Constance, daughter of Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., of Lochnaw Castle, Wigtownshire.
1925
HERBERT FRANCIS FALCONER, M.A.
Son of Rev. William Meek Falconer, Edinburgh St Paul’s; ordained and inducted Edinburgh St Paul’s 18th September 1913; translated and inducted 9th July 1925; died 16 July 1927.
1928
JAMES HEADRICK FORDYCE
Born 1st June 1876 at St David’s, Madderty, son of James Fordyce and Anne Lamb; educated at Madderty Public School, Morrison’s Academy, Crieff, pupil teacher in Commissioner Street School, Crieff, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1899), New College, Edinburgh, University of Göttingen 1903; missionary assistant Edinburgh New North 1899-1901; licensed by Presbytery of Auchterarder 6th October 1903; ordained 7th April 1904, Boulder City, West Australia, by Goldfields Presbytery; translated to Claremont, West Australia 14th February 1907; superintendent of North West 12th January 1909 to 13th February 1911; inducted Wigtown 20th November 1911; war service in H.M. Forces 1915-19; translated to Withington, Manchester, 15th September 1920; translated to Howgate 19th April 1923; translated and inducted 26th January 1928. Married 6th September 1907, Kate Russell Strang. Moderator of Presbyterian Church of Western Australia 1908-9.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.92; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.134; also Vol.10, p.79..]
PENCAITLAND
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.28
Church; manse built in 1900.
1891
THOMAS CHALMERS STILL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.331
Born 10th February 1861 at Inverurie, son of Thomas Still, M.A., and Margaret Cardno; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1881), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 18th May 1886; assistant Dundee St John’s Free Church 1886-90; probationer in charge, Pencaitland, then a preaching station, April 1890-December 1891; ordained and inducted 17th December 1891. Married 12th April 1893, Sarah Spence. Clerk to the Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar 1917-29.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.93, Pencaitland West.]
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PRESTONKIRK EAST LINTON NORTH
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.505
Church and manse. United with Prestonkirk St Andrew’s on 19th June 1910, to form the congregation of Prestonkirk.
1890
ALEXANDER WATT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.546
Born 14th November 1850 at Aberdeen, son of Alexander Watt and Elizabeth Robertson; educated at Aberdeen, Rathen, Strichen, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1875), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 6th November 1877; ordained and inducted Burghead United Presbyterian 25th July 1877; resigned owing to ill-health 1882; inducted 21st October 1890; retired 15th June 1910 to facilitate local union; died 27th February 1942. Married 6th November 1877, Jessie Robina Dewar.
PRESTONKIRK ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.28
Church and manse. United with Prestonkirk East Linton North on 19th June 1910 to form the congregation of Prestonkirk.
1885
ROBERT GEORGE RODGER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.303
Born 5th February 1861 at Coldstream, son of Rev. Alexander Rodger and Agnes Jane Hogg; educated at Edinburgh Academy, University of Edinburgh, Μ.Α. (1880), New College, Edinburgh (Senior Cunningham Fellow 1884); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1884; assistant Edinburgh High Free Church 1884-5; ordained and inducted 27th January 1885; retired to facilitate local union 15th June 1910; died 27th February 1919. Married 13th September 1886, Caroline Agnes Bankier.
PRESTONKIRK
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
(after local union)
The former North Church was sold in 1910, the proceeds being used to repair the former North Manse.
1910
DUNCAN BLAIR, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 22nd October 1910; translated to Edinburgh Braid 25th February 1920.
1920
JOHN HENDERSON EDGAR
Born 22nd December 1873 at Hamilton, son of Charles Campbell Edgar and Jean Alister Henderson; educated at Glasgow Henderson Street Public School; in business 1886-96; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1902), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow West Scotland Street 1904-6, Partick High 1906-7; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1907; ordained and inducted Dundee Butterburn September 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1915, 1917, and as Chaplain to the Forces 1918-19; Croix de Guerre; translated and inducted 18th August 1920. Married 1st June 1909, Annie Clanachan.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.93-94, Prestonkirk St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.56.]
PRESTONPANS
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.28
Church and hall. Mission hall at Cuthill erected 1910. Memorial windows for Rev. Patrick Mackay, D.D.
1899
DONALD IVERACH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.191
Translated from Nenthorn and inducted 1899; translated to East London, South Africa February 1906; [died 9th October, 1923.]
1906
JOHN FLEMING PHILIP, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 20th September 1906; translated to Keith North 25th September 1912.
1913
ALEXANDER WESTWATER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.354
Born 23rd March 1857 at Lochgelly, son of James Stuart Westwater and Margaret Danks; educated at Lochgelly Public School, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1886), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Viewforth Free Church 1889-91; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kirkcaldy 1891; assistant Edinburgh Dalry Free Church 1891-93, Edinburgh Mayfield Free Church 1893-4; ordained and inducted Hawick West Port 12th April 1894; translated and inducted 19th February 1913; retired May 1928; died 17th October 1941. Married (1) 13th July 1894, Agnes Chrystall Dey; (2) 19th July 1899, Christina Henderson.
1928
ΚΕΝΝΕΤΗ MACLENNAN
Born 10th March 1873 at Kingussie, son of Alexander Maclennan and Helen MacRae; educated at Kingussie Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Μ.Α. (1896), B.D. (1902), New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology); licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh, Spring, 1902; assistant Edinburgh Mayfield 1902-4; ordained and inducted Insch 12th February 1904; translated to Fortrose 29th June 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, and as Chaplain to the Forces in Salonika, 1919-20; translated to Alexandria North 27th February 1924; translated and inducted 7th November 1928. Married 19th September 1914, Mary MacNiven Campbell. Acted as Classical Master, Stornoway Nicolson Institute 1895-8.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.94, Prestonpans Grange; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.57.]
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SALTON AND BOLTON
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.28
Church and manse. This congregation dissolved in 1916.
1896
HORATIUS NINIAN BONAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.99
Born 2nd April 1860 at Free Church Manse, Kelso, son of Rev. Horatius Bonar and Jane Catherine Lundie; educated at Craigmount School, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 21st June 1888; missionary assistant Edinburgh Grange Free Church 1890-96; ordained and inducted 23rd July 1896; retired 20th December 1914; loc. ten. Edinburgh Grange 1915-6; missionary assistant Edinburgh High 1916-22; missionary assistant Edinburgh Grange 1922-6; died 16th May 1930. Member of the Zoological Society of London, and of the British Ornithologists’ Union. Publications – Historical Introduction to Edition of Hymns of Horatius Bonar, D.D., London, 1904; articles in periodicals.
STOCKBRIDGE
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.413
Church and manse. United with Cockburnspath in 1901.
1872
ROBERT SIMPSON, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.414
[Born about 1843 at Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire;] ordained and inducted 21st August 1872; died 1901 [died 15th June, 1921. Married 1874, Henrietta Georgina Hardie.]
TRANENT ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.29
Church, vestry, hall, small hall, manse. Mission hall at Elphinstone.
1888
HUGH MILLER WILLIAMSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.356
Born 27th November 1855 at Edinburgh, son of Andrew Williamson and Margaret Fowler Macdonald; educated at Edinburgh Newington Free Church School and Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 18th May 1886; assistant Edinburgh Dalry Free Church 1886-8; ordained and inducted October 1888; war service as Officiating Chaplain to H.M. Forces, Home Service; retired 1920; died 4th October 1922. In business 1871-7. Clerk to the Free Church and the United Free Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar 1890-1916. Married 27th July 1909, Fanny Bruce Young.
1920
JAMES THOMSON
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 1920; translated to Glasgow Springbank 1922.
1923
ROBERT ERSKINE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.148
Born 23rd September 1867 at Gowkshill, Cockpen, son of David Erskine and Euphan Stirling; educated at Newtongrange, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; missionary assistant Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1895-6, Barclay 1896-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dalkeith 10th May 1898; assistant Leith St John’s 1898-9; ordained and inducted Broxburn Free Church 12th December 1899; translated and inducted 7th March 1923. Married 27th March 1900, Eliza Campbell Dickison.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.95.]
TRANENT WISHART
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.539
Church with hall, manse. Old manse and cottage.
1894
JOHN DICK FLEMING, B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.541
[Born 1863 at Whithorn, son of James Fleming and Isabell McClelland;] ordained and inducted 23rd October 1894; retired 7th May 1907, on appointment as Professor in Manitoba College, Winnipeg; [died 19th October, 1938; buried Kildonan Presbyterian Cemetery, Old Kildonan, Manitoba. Married 1900 Margaret Davidson McClelland.]
1908
ANDREW MCLACHLAN, M.A.
Translated from Dunscore Renwick and inducted January 1908; resigned 3rd May 1910; inducted Hawick Wilton 1913.
1910
GEORGE ROBERT ROBERTSON
Ordained and inducted 16th December 1910; translated to Stonehouse Hamilton Memorial 25th June 1919.
1920
WILLIAM LETTERT LLOYD
Ordained 1898; inducted 12th May 1920; translated to Leith North Coburg Street 18th June 1924.
1925
PETER ALISON
Born 27th January 1865 at Kirkcaldy, son of Peter Alison and Jessie Fleming; educated at Gallatown Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1889), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kirkcaldy June 1892; assistant at Roberton and Ashington, Northumberland; ordained and inducted Bavington, Northumberland 21st October 1896; translated to Lilliesleaf and Ashkirk 21st September 1909; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, 1918; translated and inducted 1st July 1925. Married 5th January 1897, Maggie Pow.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.95.]
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YESTER
Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.29
Church and manse. Garvald was linked with this congregation in 1921.
1894
JAMES CROCKET
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.129
Born 11th September 1864 at Balmaghie, son of John Crocket and Marion Young Moffat; educated at Liverpool Queen’s Road School, and Liverpool Institute, University of Edinburgh, Μ.Α. (1887), B.Sc. (1891), University of Göttingen 1888; New College, Edinburgh, University of Berlin; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1891; assistant St Boswells 1891-2, Edinburgh St James’ 1893-4; ordained and inducted 28th June 1894; war service in 1st Haddingtonshire Volunteers 1915-18. Married 5th April 1898, Eleanor Mary Ramsay Williamson.
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SYNOD OF MERSE AND TEVIOTDALE
PRESBYTERY OF DUNS AND CHIRNSIDE
ALLANTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.31
Church and manse; the site was purchased by the church in 1926.
1887
CHARLES BLADES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.97
Born 29th November 1854 at Cumbernauld, son of Daniel Blades and Janet Russell; educated at Cumbernauld and Armadale Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow May 1886, assistant Stirling North Free Church 1886; ordained and inducted 10th August 1887. Married 22nd November 1887, Sarah Pow.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.97.]
AΥΤΟΝ
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.406
Church and manse.
1869
WILLIAM WILSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.408
[Born 21st September 1835 at Dysart, Fife, son of John Wilson and Isabella Adamson;] ordained and inducted 1869; applied for colleague and successor 1895; died 11th August 1924. [Married 1870, Catherine R. Campbell.]
1895
DAVID SMITH CAIRNS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 14th March 1895; resigned on appointment as Professor of Apologetics and Dogmatics in Aberdeen College May 1907.
1907
JOHN MACLAREN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 21st November 1907; translated to Jedburgh Abbey 26th June 1919.
1919
WILLIAM DUNCAN OGILVIE ROSE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 23rd October 1919; translated to Tullibody 4th July 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.97, Ayton West.]
BERWICK
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Formerly Berwick Chapel Street United Presbyterian; transferred to English Presbyterian Church 1st July 1917.
1875
ROBERT CHARLES INGLIS
[Born 29th January 1849 at Kirkcaldy, son of James Inglis and Isabella Scarlett;] ordained and inducted 28th December 1875; retired 30th June 1917; died 15th June 1928; [buried Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. Married 1876 Elizabeth Mary Park.]
BURNMOUTH
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.412
Church. Manse acquired.
1898
ALEXANDER URQUHART
Ordained and inducted 28th April 1898; translated to Jedburgh Boston 14th April 1904.
1904
ALEXANDER ADAM RUSSELL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.81
Born 24th December 1859 at United Presbyterian Manse, Blairgowrie, son of Rev. Robert Russell and Elizabeth Paterson; educated at Blairgowrie and Rattray Public School; University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dundee 1887; assistant Auchtermuchty 1888, Newport-on-Tay 1889, Inverness 1889; ordained and inducted Johnshaven 27th November 1889; translated and inducted 12th May 1904; retired 1915.
1915
JOHN WILLIAM DOWNIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 23rd December 1915; translated to Tarland and Cromar 21st June 1922.
1922
JOHN WALLACE ROSS, M.A.
Formerly in New Zealand; inducted 22nd August 1922; translated to Denholm 6th March 1929.
1929
ROBERT HAMILTON
Born 5th June 1899 at Addiston Mains, Ratho, son of James Arnot Hamilton and Elisabeth Wight Paterson; educated at Hermiston, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Divinity Hall and New College; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1928; assistant Alloa Moncrieff, 1928-9; ordained and inducted 26th September 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.98; for an account of this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.10, p.59.]
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CHIRNSIDE ERSKINE
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.422
Church, hall and manse. United with the West congregation on 1st June, 1919.
1869
WILLIAM RUTHERFORD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.423
Born 9th July, 1845 at Grangemouth, son of William Rutherford and Elizabeth Addison; educated at Falkirk Grammar School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed February 1868; ordained and inducted 3rd February 1869; retired August 1903; died 10th October 1905. Married (1) 22nd August 1882, Elizabeth Mill Henderson; (2) 19th November 1895, Mary Elizabeth Reoch.
1904
JAMES WATCHMAN, M.A.
[Born 18th May, 1873 at Kilsyth, son of William Watchman and Jane Barrowman;] ordained and inducted 1904; died 1915 [1916.]
CHIRNSIDE WEST
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Church, hall and manse. United with the Erskine congregation on 1st June 1919.
1891
JOHN SOMERVILLE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.323
Born 25th September 1860 at Coatbridge, son of John Somerville and Elizabeth Watson; educated at Carstairs, Moray House Training College, University of Edinburgh, M.A., B.D., New College, Edinburgh; assistant teacher at Whithorn; ordained and inducted 7th May 1891; retired 1919; died 25th June 1927. Married 27th September 1906, Isabella Marion Gibson.
CHIRNSIDE
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
(after local union)
The Rev. John Somerville continued as senior colleague till his death in 1927.
1919
WILLIAM CALDWELL MACDONALD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 3rd September 1919; translated to Kilmarnock Portland Road September 1922.
1923
JOHN OSWALD WESTWATER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 24th January 1923; translated to Glasgow Woodlands 26th March 1926.
1926
ARCHIBALD GLEN
Born 29th September 1897 at Dunbar, son of Robert and Janet Glen [née Clark]; educated at Glasgow Wellshot and Carntyne Schools, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1923), Glasgow College; war service in R.A.F. 1917-18; student assistant Forth and Wilsontown 1922-3; Govan St Columba’s 1925-6; licensed by Presbytery Glasgow 30th March 1926; ordained and inducted 23rd June 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.98, Chirnside North; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.261; also Vol.10, p.154 and Vol.11, p.146.]
COLDINGHAM
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.421
Church, hall and manse. War Memorial Tablet unveiled 14th June 1920, at Jubilee of the church.
1899
JOHN TAYLOR DEAN, M.A.
Formerly missionary to Calabar; inducted 30th November 1899; acted as Substitute Principal, Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar 1917-18; resigned when appointed missionary to Calabar October 1919.
1920
JAMES SCOTT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 14th January 1920; translated to Glasgow Gorbals 6th June 1924.
1924
MATTHEW AITKEN TUDHOPE
Born 29th December 1889 at Cambuslang, son of Robert Greenshields Tudhope and Catherine Manners Aitken; educated at West Coates School, Cambuslang, Glasgow High School; war service in H.M. Forces in India 1915-19; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1922), Glasgow College; student assistant Springburn North 1923-4; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 24th June 1924; ordained and inducted 26th September 1924. Married 10th September 1924, Kathleen Blanche Victoria Peace.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.99, Coldingham St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.255; also Vol.10, p.150.]
DUNS BOSTON
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.30
Church, hall and manse. The old Free Church School let as dwelling house and Masonic Hall, also belonged to the congregation and was sold in 1923. Pipe organ installed in 1911.
1868
JOHN MILLER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.268
Born 19th January 1839 at Glasgow, son of John Miller and Janet Gardiner; educated at Glasgow Normal School, University of Glasgow, M.A., Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1865; assistant Alloa Free Church; ordained and inducted 1868; retired May 1909; died 16th June 1914. Married 9th June 1875, Eliza Wilson Webster.
1909
JOSEPH CORKEY
Born 16th July 1868 at Waterside, Londonderry, son of Joseph Corkey, LL.D., and Isabella Sloane; educated at Faughanbridge National
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School, Foyle College and Academical Institution, Londonderry, Magee College, Londonderry, Certificate in Arts (1891); missionary in Connemara district 1894; licensed by Presbytery of Glendermott 1894; ordained and inducted Armagh 3rd October 1895, translated and inducted 3rd December 1909; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915, 1916, 1918; retired 30th September 1927.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.99.]
1928
OSWALD H[AMILTON] EWING, M.A.
Ordained 1909, inducted 22nd February 1928.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.99.]
DUNS EAST
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.398
Church and manse.
1900
JOHN BLACKWOOD MUNRO
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.401
Born 16th March 1866 at Govan, son of John Munro and Isabella Cramb; educated at Glasgow Board Schools and Established Church Normal School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student assistant Glasgow Govanhill United Presbyterian 1895-8: licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1898; assistant Govan St. Mary’s Free Church 1898-1900; ordained and inducted 10th January 1900; translated to Grange Road West Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, November 1904; translated to North Bridge Street Presbyterian Church, Durham, September 1920. Married 24th May 1906, Winchie Lee Collom, teacher of history at Onconta Normal College, New York.
1905
DAVID ROBERT MACKENZIE KEIR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th September 1905; translated to Greenock North 11th January 1912.
1912
LOUIS CARRICK PHILLIPS, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 5th June 1912; translated to Buckie South 25th March 1925.
1925
JAMES STANLEY FYFE
Ordained and inducted 12th August 1925; translated to Bellshill Macdonald Memorial 23rd January 1929.
1929
ALEXANDER JOHN BLAIR PATERSON, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.400 ; Vol.2, p.541
Ordained and inducted Duns East 1891; translated to Kilmacolm St James’ 25th May 1899; retired 1921; inducted 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.99; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.387; also Vol.10, p.137.]
DUNS SOUTH
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.401
Church and manse.
1895
JAMES EASON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.405
Born 8th October 1860 at Carluke, son of John Eason and Catherine Forrest; educated at Carluke Parish School, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student assistant Forth 1887-9; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Lanark 1888, assistant Dumbarton Bridgend United Presbyterian; ordained and inducted Glasgow Cumberland Street 17th September 1889; translated and inducted 29th August 1895. Married 10th April 1894, Jeannie Allan Wilson.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.100.]
EYEMOUTH EAST
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.424
Church and manse. United with the St John’s congregation in 1917.
1880
DAVID K[INLOCH] MILLER, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.425; Vol.2, pp.81 and 276
[Born 19th June 1837 at Clunie, Perthshire, the son of David Miller and Christian Baillie;] ordained and inducted Leitholm 8th May 1867; translated to Glasgow Elgin Street 29th October 1878; translated and inducted 27th April 1880; became senior colleague at local union 18th March 1917; died 31st January 1926. [Married 1869, Sarah Agnes Sloane.]
EYEMOUTH ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.30
Church and manse. United with the East congregation in 1917.
1887
JOHN MILLER
Ordained and inducted 1887; became colleague minister at the local union March 1917.
EYEMOUTH
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
(after local union)
The Rev. D.K. Miller and the Rev. John Miller acted as colleagues till the death of the former.
1917
JOHN MILLER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.268
Ordained and inducted 1887; became colleague minister at the local union March 1917; became sole minister 31st January 1926; died 11th November 1928. Married (1) 1890, Jane E. Laing; (2) 1893, Jane B. Murray.
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1929
ARTHUR ROY STARK
Born 13th October 1893 at York, son of Arthur David Stark and Harriet Penistone House; educated at Hull elementary school, Technical College; works chemist in Hull and Warrington; war service in H.M. Forces as chemist 1915-19; University of Cambridge, Westminster College, Cambridge; licensed by Presbytery of Yorkshire 21st July 1927; ordained and inducted North Sunderland 28th September 1927; translated and inducted 29th August 1929. Married 17th January 1928, Minnie Augusta Penman.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.100 Eyemouth St John’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.419; also Vol.10, pp.58 and Vol.10, p.249.]
GORDON
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.33
This congregation was transferred to this Presbytery from the Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso by the General Assembly of 1912. For the years 1900-12, see the Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso.
1911
JOSEPH KEAY JOHNSTON
Born 28th February 1869 at Glasgow, son of William Johnston and Jessie Keay; educated at Glasgow Free Church Normal Seminary, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1889), B.D. (1892), United Presbyterian College Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow August 1892; loc. ten. at Tranent United Presbyterian 1893-4, teacher in Glasgow Athenaeum, University Professional Department 1899-1905 and in the University and Professional Preparatory College, Glasgow 1905-11; ordained and inducted 1st March 1911; translated to Middlesborough Trinity Presbyterian Church 19th December 1917; translated to Felton, Northumberland June 1921, translated to Sunderland St Peter’s 1929; retired October 1935; [died 1956.] Married 6th July 1911, Jane McNish McCreath.
1918
ALEXANDER SWANSON MAIR
Ordained and inducted 12th April 1918; translated to Rosneath 21st February 1924.
1924
WALTER MUIR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.393
Born 15th December 1863 at Fordell, Dalgetty, Fife, son of Walter Muir and Isabella Mitchell; educated at Fordell Public School, University of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, Knox College, Toronto; served 4½ years as Edinburgh Church Missionary; licensed by Presbytery of Toronto 5th June 1890; ordained and inducted Carluke, Ontario 3rd July 1890; translated to Brucefield, Ontario, 10th July 1895; translated to Pathstruie 3rd June 1900; translated to Edinburgh North Richmond Street 3rd July 1902; translated and inducted June 1924.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.101, Gordon East.]
GRANT’S HOUSE
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.30
Church, hall and vestry, manse with stable.
1882
JAMES MARSHALL, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.261
Ordained and inducted 24th August 1882; died 31st August 1910.
1911
WILLIAM FINLAYSON YOUNG
Born 12th May 1872 at Perth, son of William Young and Isabella Finlayson, educated at Perth Sharp’s Educational Institution and Craigie Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College, licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1906; preacher in charge at Struan 1906, missionary assistant Glasgow Renwick 1906-9, Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1909-10, preacher in charge, Kinglassie 1910-11; ordained and inducted 16th March 1911. Married 25th April 1911, Bertha Annie Wilson.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.101, Grantshouse.]
GREENLAW EAST
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.415
Church and manse. The history of the congrgation is in chapter xxi of An Old Berwickshire Town, by Robert Gibson Edinburgh, 1905. United with the West congregation on 1st May 1903.
1895
JAMES FERGUSON PADKIN
Ordained and inducted 5th March 1895; translated to Paisley George Street 14th May 1903.
GREENLAW WEST
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.31
Church, manse, schoolhouse and hall. The history of the congregation, is found in chap. xxi. of An Old Berwickshire Town, by Robert Gibson, Edinburgh, 1905. United with the East congregation on 1st May 1903.
1875
ALEXANDER CAMERON
Ordained and inducted 11th November 1875; resigned 11th November 1902, introduced Roberton January 1906.
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GREENLAW
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
(after local union)
The East and the West congregations united on 1st May, 1903. The East church and manse were sold; the West church and manse together with the church hall and house were retained.
1904
HUGH GWYNNE HARPUR
Born 1st December 1870 at Strabane, Co. Tyrone, son of William Harpur and Mary Ann Stewart; educated at Strabane Academy, Queen’s University Belfast, B.A. (1892), University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Strabane 1896; assistant 1st Derry Presbyterian Church 1897-9; Edinburgh Stockbridge 190o-4; ordained and inducted 31st March 1904; retired 31st December 1924.
1925
GEORGE CALVERT
Born 16th February 1890 at Hethersgill, Carlisle, son of Rowland and Margaret Calvert; educated at Shawfoot, Hethersgill, Carlisle; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1915-19; Westminster College, Cambridge, 1919-22; licensed by Presbytery of Carlisle 18th July 1922; ordained and inducted Tow Law, Durham 20th September 1922; translated and inducted 29th April 1925. Married 20th July 1915, Isabella Broatch Graham.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.102, Greenlaw Fairbairn Memorial; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.146; also Vol.10, p.87.]
HORNDEAN
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.418
Church and manse. The congregation came to an end, and the property was disposed of and the records handed over to the Presbytery. A church was built at Paxton to take its place.
1896
JAMES F[LEMING] G[ORDON] ORR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.420
Ordained and inducted 1896; resigned 31st July 1903, and appointed by Colonial Committee to Presbyterian Church of New Zealand; [later minister in Nairobi (Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.745).]
LANGTON
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.31
1880
JOHNSTONE WALKER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.349
Born 10th February 1851 at Edinburgh, son of Robert Walker and Marion Fairrie Johnstone; educated at Edinburgh Southern Academy, Scottish Naval and Military Academy, Edinburgh, Craigmount School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1873), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Wigtown, July 1877; assistant Whithorn 1877; New Zealand, Wellington, Canterbury and Dunedin 1878-9, Durban Natal 1880, Lanton 1880; ordained and inducted 30th September 1880; retired August 1920; thereafter gave service in Hawaiian Islands, Edmonton, Alberta, Assiout, Upper Egypt and in Scotland; died 9th October 1940. Married 3rd August, 1887, Margaret Isabella Gray.
1921
THOMAS ANDERSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.478
Born 22nd July 1850 at Camelon, son of Andrew Anderson and Janet Meikle; educated at Auchingee School, Falkirk and Glasgow, University of Glasgow; Glasgow Free Church College, English Presbyterian Church College, London; student assistant Glasgow Cuninghame and Wellpark, Kirkmichael, Banffshire; licensed by Presbytery of London 10th May 1879; ordained and inducted Kingston-on-Thames 19th June, 1879; translated to Edinburgh Dean Street 16th February 1892; translated to Cabrach 18th March 1908; translated and inducted 24th March 1921; retired 30th June 1927; died 26th August 1940. Married 22nd January 1880, Margaret Louisa Darling.
LONGFORMACUS
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.31
Church and manse. Dissolved in 1930.
1870
GEORGE TAYLOR, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.337
Ordained and inducted 1870; retired 1908; died 7th June 1918.
1909
SIMSON WALLACE
Formerly at Eshaness; introduced lst February 1909; translated to Cunningsburgh and Sandwick 2nd February 1912.
1912
J. MARSHALL
An ordained missionary; ordained and introduced 1912; retired 23rd April 1918.
1920
THOMAS REID
Ordained missionary, appointed as lay missionary September 1919; ordained as missionary 1920; appointed to Tomatin September 1923; appointed to Leswalt 1st November 1925.
1923
GEORGE WATSON ALISON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.80
Born 9th March 1856 at Kilwinning, son of John Brown Alison and Mary Watson; educated at Harwood
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School, Kilwinning, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow Cuninghame and White Memorial 1881-3; Govan St Mary 1883-6; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1886; ordained and inducted Cairnie 9th June 1886; translated to Peterhead South 7th June 1888; retired for health reasons 1922; introduced 21st November 1923; died 24th April 1925. Married 9th October 1886, Jessie Clarke Crichton.
MORDINGTON and PAXTON
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.31
Church and manse at Mordington in 1900. In consequence of depopulation at Mordington, a new church was built at Paxton, and opened June 1908; a new manse was built at Paxton November 1912, and the name was changed from Mordington to Mordington and Paxton.
1894
PETER GEDDES HENDRY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.185
Born 8th July 1863 at Braemar, son of John Hendry and Janet Geddes; educated at Braemar Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1886); New College, Edinburgh; licensed Free Church Presbytery of Kincardine O’Neil 29th July 1890; assistant Corstorphine 1890-4; ordained and inducted 11th January 1894; died 11th December 1926. Married 12th April 1894, Margaret Jones.
1927
JAMES WINCHESTER
Born [baptised 11th June 1876] at Crosshill Glasgow, son of Wishart and Mary Winchester; educated at Edinburgh Newington School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1897); B.D. (1901); United Presbyterian College and New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1902; assistant Leith Junction Road 1902; ordained and inducted Irvine Relief 8th May 1903; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918; translated to Edinburgh Dalry 4th December 1919; translated and inducted 22nd September 1927. Married 5th April 1904, Katherine Spence.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.103, Paxton; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.336.]
RESTON
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.31
Church with vestry and manse.
1881
WILLIAM HALL TELFORD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.339
Translated from Forgandenny and inducted 1881; died 1924.
1925
WILLIAM ALEXANDER BRANDER GALL, M.A.
[Born 5th June 1873 at Elgin, son of William Gall and Margaret Anne Wylie;] ordained and inducted Cromarty 17th July 1907; translated to Cromdale and Advie 11th May 1911; translated to Sunderland St Peter’s 6th February 1916; translated and inducted 21st January 1925; died 19th December 1927. [Married 1907, Jessie Thomson Calder.]
1928
HARRY JOHN DODD
Born 5th February 1902 at Jedburgh, son of John Dodd and Bessie Wood Lamb; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1924), B.D. (1927); licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1927; Edinburgh Broughton Place 1927-8; ordained and inducted 9th May 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.103; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.128; also Vol.10, pp.46 and 74; and Vol.11, p.48.]
ST ABBS
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.32
Church in 1900; manse acquired.
1895
JOHN STEEL ALLISON
Ordained and inducted 1895, translated to Aberdeen Belmont Street 1903.
1904
JOHN COOPER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 21st January 1904; translated to Glasgow Wynd November 1911.
1912
HUGH SHIELDS
Born 25th May 1886 at Uddingston, son of Allan Shields and Grace Douglas Young; educated at Kelso High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1907), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Oban Argyle Square, summer 1909; Edinburgh Viewforth 1910; licensed by Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso 1911; assistant Edinburgh Mayfield 1911; ordained and inducted March 1912; died 27th January 1919. Married 24th September 1912, Dorothea Marion Bain.
1919
GEORGE MCGREGOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 18th June 1919; translated tο Aberdeen St Paul’s 1st March 1923.
1923
JONATHAN DARBY BROWN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 18th July 1923; translated to Lochgelly Macainsh 25th April 1928.
1928
MAGNUS ROBERT NICOLSON
Born 8th July 1897 at Edinburgh, son of David Nicolson and Agnes Nicolson; educated at Edinburgh East Mayfield Private, James Gillespie’s, Broughton Secondary Schools, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1920); war service in H.M. Forces in France 1917-19; University of Manchester, Didsbury Wesleyan Methodist College; assistant tutor, Didsbury College 1922-4; ordained at Wesleyan
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Methodist Conference, Nottingham July 1924; London East Ham Central Mission September 1924; Willenhall Circuit, Staffs. August 1925; Haworth Circuit, Yorks. 1927; admitted by General Assembly May 1928; inducted November 1928. Married 6th June 1925, Elizabeth Mitchell.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.104; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, pp.9 and 360.]
SPITTAL
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Church. This congregation was removed from the Roll of the Presbytery by the Synod at the request of the Presbytery on 13th October 1908.
1893
GILBERT LANG
Ordained and inducted 1893; died 2nd February [April] 1903; [buried Tweedmouth Cemetery, Northumberland, England.]
SWINTON
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.32
Church. Hall constructed by erecting partitions below the gallery, stone font in memory of the Rev. William Shearer erected June 1917.
1870
WILLIAM SHEARER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.313
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 22nd July 1870; applied for colleague and successor 20th January 1908; died June 1917. Presbytery Clerk for 26 years and Synod Clerk for 13 years.
1908
DUNCAN MACDONALD JOHNSTON
Ordained and inducted 23rd October 1908; translated to Forfar East 1915.
1916
BENJAMIN SCOTT WILLIAMS
Born 20th May 1877 at Runcorn, Cheshire, son of Evan [Presbyterian minister] and Elizabeth Williams; educated at County School, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, University College of Wales, B.A. (1900), B.D. (1903), Bala Theological College; licensed by Presbytery of Montgomery and Salop 1903, tutor in preparatory school for Bala Theological College 1903-5; ordained at Manrwst 9th June 1904; inducted Rossett 1905; admitted to United Free Church May 1914; missionary assistant Falkirk Erskine 1914-16; inducted 9th March 1916; translated to Stockton-on-Tees St Andrew’s 22nd May 1923; translated to Leeds Trinity 16th March 1926; [died 19th August 1965; buried Symington Churchyard, Ayrshire.] Married 5th June 1917, Helen Wallace Craigie Aitchison.
1923
REGINALD DUNCAN, B.Litt., B.D
Translated from Bedlington and inducted 1st August 1923; translated to Slamannan 5th August 1928.
JAMES NAIRN
Born 29th July 1864 at Carluke, son of Andrew Nairn and Flora McCallum; educated at Taynuilt Public School, Lesmahagow Public School, Strathaven Sandford Public School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh, Montreal, Canada; licensed in Canada 1897; ordained at Montreal 1897; assistant Hull Prospect Street 1899; inducted London East India Road Presbyterian Church 1900; translated to Smallwell, Newcastle 1907; translated to Perth St Paul’s 1909; translated to Kilchattan Bay 4th December 1919; translated to Stirling St Ninian’s South 1921; retired to facilitate local union 1928; introduced 1928. Married 20th October 1905, Lydia Cameron.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.104, Swinton West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.71.]
WESTRUTHER
Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.34
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Kelso. Church and manse. Church renovated in 1923 at a cost of £110.
1888
ROBERT ARTHUR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.87
Born 30th March 1860 at Torphichen, son of William Arthur and Agnes Carland; educated at Torphichen Public School, Bathgate Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1880), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow June 1885; loc. ten. in Presbyterian Church, Lisbon 1885; assistant Kilmun 1885-6, Kirkcolm 1887; ordained and inducted 26th January 1888. Married 8th August 1901, Margaret Isabella Burnet.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.105.]
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PRESBYTERY OF JEDBURGH AND KELSO
ANCRUM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.35
Church and manse.
1892
JAMES BAIKIE
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 25th November 1892; translated to Edinburgh Wardie 12th June 1912.
1912
ALEXANDER JAMES FALCONER MONRO, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 18th October 1912; resigned 13th September 1918; inducted West Linton 24th January 1924.
1919
JAMES ROBERTSON GILLIES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.168
Born 25th March 1855 at Edinburgh, son of Francis Cowan Gillies and Jessie Archer; educated at Edinburgh Academy, University of Edinburgh, D.D. (1915), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh, June 1879; assistant Elie Free Church 1879; ordained and inducted Coldstream 21st August 1879; translated to Hampstead, London April 1887; translated and inducted 4th June 1919; resigned 30th June 1927; died 26th January 1938. Married 6th May 1890, Nora Mary Innes. Publication – Mantle and Staff, London, The Ministry of Reconciliation, London; Jeremiah, London.
1927
IAN LISLE LINTON
Born 9th August 1901 at North Manse, Coupar Angus, son of Rev. John Linton and Margaret Ferooza Macnaughten, M.B., C.M.; educated at Coupar Angus Public School, Dundee High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1923), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Nicolson Street 1925-6; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee 13th October 1926; assistant Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1926-7; ordained and inducted 8th September 1927.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.106, Ancrum East.]
COLDSTREAM EAST
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.272
This congregation was dissolved in 1905.
1881
JOHN L. ELDER, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.273
[Born about 1850 at Glasgow, son of David Elder and Jane Lockhart;] ordained and inducted 18th January 1881; resigned 14th February 1905; [died 1926. Married 1882 Grace Jane Main.]
COLDSTREAM RODGER MEMORIAL
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.33
Church and manse.
1896
ALEXANDER HAY
Ordained and inducted 25th September 1896; translated to Glasgow Chalmers 15th September 1902.
1902
JOHN WILLIAM COUTTS, M.A.
Formerly minister at Rangoon, inducted 16th December 1902; translated to Aberdeen Ferryhill 13th June 1907.
1907
ALEXANDER IRVINE PIRIE, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 9th October 1907; translated to Aberdeen Carden Place 6th February 1913.
1913
IAN DARROCH NEILSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 15th May 1913; translated to Edinburgh Fountainbridge 15th August 1918.
1918
JAMES NICOLL DICK, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 19th December 1918; translated to Rutherglen West 5th September 1924.
1925
JAMES GORDON LOGAN CHRISTIE
Born 18th November 1888 at Helensburgh, son of William Gordon Christie and Janet Logan Robertson; educated at Helensburgh Hermitage Higher Grade School; war service in H.M. Forces, awarded M.C.; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1921); Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton 11th April 1923; assistant North Berwick Blackadder 1924; ordained and inducted 8th January 1925. Married 3rd June 1925, Isobel Fyfe Small.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.106; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.63.]
COLDSTREAM WEST
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.270
Church and manse. New church and halls built during the period.
1898
JOHN ADAMSON CLARK, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 10th November 1898; translated to Bellshill West 1904.
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1904
WILLIAM JARDINE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th November 1904; translated to Dumbarton Bridgend 8th June, 1910.
1910
DOUGLAS MACKINTOSH JOSS
Ordained and inducted 29th September 1910; translated to Uddingston Chalmers 6th February 1918.
1918
JAMES MACKNwhitburnIGHT
Ordained and inducted 9th May 1918; translated to Dundee Downfield 1924.
1924
HENRY LEES ADAMSON, M.A., B.Phil.
Ordained and inducted 18th September 1924; resigned on appointment to Foreign Mission Field at Poona, India, 19th April 1927.
1927
JAMES CLARK BROWN
Born 19th May 1899 at Glasgow, son of Hugh McInnes Brown and Margaret Clark; educated at Glasgow Eastbank Academy; war service in H.M. Forces 1917-19; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1924), Glasgow College, student assistant Glasgow Gallowgate 1923-4; Paisley Middle, 1924-5; Greenock Martyrs and North 1925-7; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 24th 1927; ordained and inducted 22nd December 1927. Married 18th April 1928, Jessie Main.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.106; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.267; also Vol.10, p.159.]
CRAILING
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.35
A new church and hall were built and opened on 7th February 1901. Manse.
1883
WILLIAM BAILLIE HUTTON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 3rd September 1885; translated to Glasgow Gorbals 12th May 1905.
1905
DAVID GRAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 21st September 1905; translated to Biggar Gillespie 20th March 1919.
1919
ALEXANDER LEITH DAVIDSON
Born 27th December 1852 at Newmachar, Aberdeen, son of Alexander Davidson and Isabella Leith; educated at Newmachar, Edinburgh Moray House, University of Edinburgh; headmaster, Ruthwell Public School 1877-1916; ordained and inducted Davington, Eskdalemuir 1916; appointed minister without charge 15th July 1919; died 1922. Married 11th September 1878, Charlotte Ann Lindsay Shand.
1922
JAMES BRAND SCOTT, B.D.
Appointed minister without charge 1922; appointed to Kildonan, Arran 1925.
1925
ARTHUR CRAWFORD WATT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.352
Born 30th August 1858 at Free Church Manse, Elgin, son of Rev. Robert John Watt and Martha Mawhinny; educated at Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Elgin Academy, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1881), University of Tübingen, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1885; assistant acting chaplain at Malta; assistant Inverness High Free Church; ordained and inducted Comrie Free Church 18th January 1888; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1917-18, 1918-19; chaplain at Algiers 1923-4; resigned 2nd November 1924; introduced July 1925. Married 5th June 1890, Laura Thomson.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.107, Crailing Samuel Rutherford Memorial.]
ECCLES
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.33
Church and manse. Owing to the fall in membership due to rural depopulation after 1912 lay agents carried on the work till the congregation was dissolved on 10th April 1923.
1880
DUNCAN McLEAN BLACK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.96
Born 1842 at Tarbert Loch Fyne, son of Alexander Black and Mary McLean; educated at Free Church School, Tarbert, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kintyre, in charge of stations at Holytown and at Carradale; assistant Glasgow Tollcross; ordained and inducted 11th January 1880, retired 1912; died 10th February 1916. Married 11th February 1892, Annie McMillan.
GORDON
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.33
Church and manse. This congregation was transferred to the Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside (q.v. for details after 1912) by the General Assembly of 1912.
1895
WILLIAM ADAMSON MACCALLUM, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.216
Ordained and inducted April 1895; resigned on appointment as Secretary to the Drummond Tract Society, Stirling, 1911.
1911
JOSEPH KEAY JOHNSTON
Ordained and inducted 1st March 1911. For further details see Presbytery of Duns and Chirnside.
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JEDBURGH ABBEY
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.36
Church with hall and vestrry, and church officer’s house. Manse.
1878
RICHARD CAMERON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.113
Born 5th March 1847 at Pluscarden, Elgin, son of John Cameron and Janet Ross; educated at Pluscarden Public School, Elgin Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1871), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow, 1877), University of Göttingen; classical master, Ayr Academy, 1871-3; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 31st October 1877; assistant Greenock St Thomas’ Free Church; ordained and inducted 28th March 1878; died 29th December 1918.
1919
JOHN MACLAREN
Born 23rd March 1880 at Anie Farm, Callander, son of Robert Maclaren and Agnes Crawford; educated at Callander Free Church School, and McLaren High School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1902); New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh May 1906; assistant Stirling Peter Memorial 1906-7; ordained and inducted Ayton 21st November 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, 1918; translated and inducted 26th July 1919. Married 5th January 1921, Ethel Pearson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.108; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.66.]
JEDBURGH BLACKFRIARS
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.253
Church and manse. The Boston congregation united with this on 14th October 1917; the Boston church was used till 1930, when the Blackfriars church again came into use for worship.
1891
JAMES THOM DEMPSTER
Ordained and inducted 22nd January 1891; translated to Glasgow East Campbell Street 18th September 1902.
1903
JAMES PAUL ALEXANDER
Born 16th October 1868 at Leslie, Fife, son of James Alexander, M.D., and Janet Borthwick; educated at Dunfermline High School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; assistant Glasgow Clyde Street Mission 1897; Kilmarnock Grange 1900; Glasgow Camphill; ordained and inducted 3rd June 1903; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916; became minister of the united congregation in October 1917. Married 1st June 1904, Alice Douglas Cunningham. Publication – Jesus in the New Testament, London, 1924.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.108, Boston-Blackfriars.]
JEDBURGH BOSTON
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.258
Formerly Jedburgh High Street United Presbyterian. United with Blackfriars on 14th October 1917.
1898
JOHN FORSYTH
Translated from Kilwinning and inducted September 1898; translated to Dundee Victoria Street September 1903.
1904
ALEXANDER URQUHART
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.413
Born 8th February 1865 at Aberdeen, son of Alexander Urquhart and Mary Ann Connal; educated at Aberdeen South Free Church School and Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; missionary in Aberdeen St Nicholas and Edinburgh Dean Street; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen 1896; ordained and inducted Burnmouth 28th April 1898; translated and inducted 14th April 1904; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1916-17; died 29th June 1917. Married 31st August 1910, Helen Caverhill.
KELSO EAST
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.33
Formerly Sprouston Free Church. Church with hall and classrooms, sold in 1906 after local union. Manse retained as manse after local union. United with the North congregation on 15th July 1906, and the united congregation was called St John’s.
1872
ALEXANDER McRAE CRAIG, M.Α.
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.127]
Translated from Dundonald and inducted 27th August 1872; became senior colleague on 17th October 1906; [see also Kelso St John’s.]
KELSO EDENSIDE
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.268
Formerly Kelso East United Presbyterian Church and manse.
1875
WILLIAM RUSSELL INGLIS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.270
Born 8th November 1846 at Blackswell Manse, Hamilton, son of Rev. John Inglis and Elizabeth Russell; educated at Hamilton Academy and St John’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery
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of Hamilton 1870; ordained and inducted Kilmarnock United Presbyterian 9th September 1873; translated and inducted 10th March 1875; retired 1909; died 10th February 1918. Married 1875, Jessie Scott Wilson.
1909
WILLIAM CAMERON MCCULLOCH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 7th April 1909; translated to Edinburgh McDonald Road, 16th January 1918.
1918
WALTER STEWART WATT
Born 12th January 1892 at Falkirk, son of James Watt and Margaret Wright; educated at Falkirk Northern, Victoria and High Schools, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1913), New College, Edinburgh (Senior Cunningham Fellow 1917); licensed by Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk June 1917; assistant Leith St John’s 1914-15, Edinburgh Lothian Road 1916-17, Aberdeen Gallowgate 1917-18; ordained and inducted 17th July 1918, translated to Newcastle-on-Tyne John Knox Presbyterian Church 12th March 1924; translated to Barrhead Arthurlie 2nd April 1930. Married 25th February 1919, Isabella Ann Carson Macgregor.
1924
THOMAS RITCHIE SNADDON
Born 7th November 1892 at Alloa, son of Robert Ritchie Snaddon and Christina Macgregor; educated at Alloa Sunnyside School and Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1921), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 8th April 1924; ordained and inducted 30th July 1924. Married 10th September 1924, Ada Simpson Anderson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.108; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.494.]
KELSO NORTH
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.33
Formerly Kelso Free Church. United with Kelso East on 15th July 1906 to form the congregation of St John’s.
1896
JOHN WATSON, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.352
Ordained in 1880 as missionary of English Presbyterian Church to China, stationed at Amoy; inducted 1896; resigned 28th September 1905, to return to mission work in China under the English Presbyterian Church.
KELSO ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Formed on 15th July 1906 by the union of the East and North congregations. The North church and the East manse were retained. The East church was sold in 1908, and the North manse in 1909.
1906
ALEXANDER McRAE CRAIG
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.33
Born 16th February 1839 at Ayr, son of William Craig and Marion McRae; educated at Ayr Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A., New College, Edinburgh, University of Tübingen; assistant Queen’s Park Free Church; ordained and inducted Dundonald 28th March 1867; translated and inducted 27th August 1872, became senior colleague at the local union on 17th October 1906; became minister emeritus 16th February 1909; died 2nd December 1917. Married 18th May 1869, Margaret Forrest.
1906
JOHN LAIDLAW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.202
Born 2nd August 1862 at Kilwinning, son of John Laidlaw and Margaret Montgomery; educated at Paisley John Neilson Institution, Bellahouston Academy, University of Glasgow, М.А. (1883), B.D. (1889); Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow June 1888; loc. ten. Glasgow Renwick Free Church 1888-9; assistant Birkenhead St Andrew’s English Presbyterian Church 1890; ordained and inducted Muthill Free Church 2nd July 1890; translated and inducted 17th December 1906; war service in Volunteers. Married 28th July 1892, Johanna Mary Young. Member of the British Astronomical Association. Presbytery Clerk from 1912 to 1929.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.109.]
KELSO TRINITY
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.262
Church, hall, session room and vestry in one building. Manse. Pipe organ installed January 1901.
1880
THOMAS CRAUFORD KIRKWOOD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.265
Born 4th August 1849 at Beith, Ayrshire, son of William Kirkwood and Anne Love; educated at Barrmill Public School, Beith Public School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student assistant Paisley Abbey Close United Presbyterian 1874-5; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Orkney 6th December 1875; assistant Kilmarnock Holm Church 1875-6; ordained and inducted Stromness 20th July 1876; translated and inducted 30th June 1880; retired 30th June 1926; died 11th August 1930. Married 4th September 1881, Margaret Renton Mein.
1927
NORMAN ERIC OAKLEY
Born 27th June 1893 at Overdale, Canterbury, New Zealand, son of Robert Oakley and Margaret Jane McVinnie; educated at
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Overdale, Ashburton High School; war service in N.Z. Expeditionary Force in Egypt and Palestine 1918-19; University of Otago, B.A. (1922); New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1923; ordained and inducted Dunscore August 1923; translated and inducted 23rd March 1927. Married 11th January 1922, Margaret Doyle Taylor.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.109; also in New Zealand.]
LEITHOLM
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.276
Church and manse.
1879
JOHN MITCHELL WATSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.276
Born 20th December 1949 at Douglas, Lanarkshire, son of James Watson and Christina Mitchell; educated at University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow; ordained and inducted May 1879; retired October 1911; died 5th April 1919. Married 9th June 1880, Margaret Adamson Dodds.
1912
THOMAS NOTMAN
Ordained and inducted 16th May 1912; translated to Glasgow Gallowgate 16th February 1922.
1922
WILLIAM MORRICE
Born 26th April 1890 at Aberdeen, son of William Morrice and Helen Smith; educated at Aberdeen Church of Scotland Normal School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1920), B.D. (1921); in business 1904-16; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen April 1921; assistant Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1921-2; ordained and inducted 18th May 1922. Married 10th August 1927, Mary Moore Gorman.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.110; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.609; also Vol.10, p.351.]
MAKERSTOUN
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.34
Church with halls and manse.
1896
GEORGE SHIER
Ordained and inducted January 1896; translated to Glasgow Garngad 5th June 1918.
1918
JOHN BROWN YOUNG, M.A.
[Born 2nd August 1865 at Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, son of David Young and Janet Young;] ordained and inducted Paisley Ralston, 25th July 1901; translated to Burntisland Erskine 1903; translated and inducted 17th October 1918; resigned 30th June 1923; joined the United Free Church (Continuing) 1934; [died 5th March, 1945; buried Kinclaven Parish Churchyard. Married 1890, Emily Jane Smart.]
1923
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.236
Born 10th September 1856 at Alves, Forres, son of John Mackenzie and Elspeth Laing; educated at Alves Parish School, Aberdeen South Church School, University of Aberdeen, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Elgin 8th June 1880; assistant Denholm 1880; ordained and inducted Innerleithen St John’s Free Church 23rd December 1880, became senior colleague at local union in Innerleithen 27th April 1919; introduced 9th September 1923; died 27th May 1934. Married 27th September 1881, Katherine Howden Todrick.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.110, Makerstoun West.]
MOREBATTLE GATESHAW BRAE
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.246
Formerly Morebattle United Presbyterian Church and manse. United with St Lawrence congregation on 9th June 1907. History of the congregation is referred to in James Tait, Border Church Life, Vol. 1.
1864
MUNGO GIFFEN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.249
[Born about 1832 at Strathaven, son of Robert Giffen and Martha Brownlie; educated at Glasgow University;] ordained and inducted 1864; applied for colleague and successor 8th May 1889; died [10th November,] 1910. [Married 1867, C. Isabella Haxton.]
1900
THOMAS PULLAR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.250
[Born 18th April, 1873, at Perth, son of James Pullar and Mary Young;] ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 15th February 1900; resigned 14th May 1907 in view of the local union; reported to have emigrated to Australia; [became a medical practitioner; died 6th March 1959 in New Zealand; commemorated in Wellshill Cemetery, Perth.]
MOREBATTLE ST LAWRENCE
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.34
Formerly Morebattle Free Church. Church and manse. United with Gateshaw Brae on 9th June 1907.
1876
ALEXANDER STUART MACTAVISH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.259
Born 8th August 1847 at Waterside, Doune, son of Alexander Mactavish and Christina Stewart; educated at Doune, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh St Bernard’s Free Church 1873-4; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dunblane 1875; assistant Morpeth English Presbyterian Church 1875-6; ordained and inducted 9th August 1876; retired 1st November 1907; died 21st October 1916. Married 2nd August 1881, Wilhelmina M.B. Forgan.
MOREBATTLE
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
(after local union)
The Gateshow Brae church was retained for worship.
1908
JAMES DICKSON LINDSAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 12th March 1908; translated to Perth East 25th February 1915.
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1915
JAMES RAE, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 15th June 1915; translated to Leslie Logan May 1921.
1921
WILLIAM ROBERTSON LAWRENCE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 17th August 1921; translated to Keith North 5th December 1928.
1929
ALEXANDER SPRING ARCHIBALD
Born 11th November 1904 at Aberdeen, son of Alexander Archibald and Margaret Spring; educated at Skene Central School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1926), Aberdeen College; University of Tübingen; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 1st April 1929; ordained and inducted 15th May 1929. Married 17th March 1936, Margaret Rendall Liddell, M.A.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.110, Morebattle St Aidan’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.346; also Vol.10, p.208 and Vol.11, p.114; also in New Zealand.]
NENTHORN
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.34
Dissolved by the Synod on 14th April 1914.
1899
WILLIAM GALLOWAY
Ordained and inducted 11th August 1899; translated to South Shields St Andrew’s 14th February 1914; translated to Udny 1916.
STITCHEL
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.250
Church with hall and stables and manse.
1855
DAVID CAIRNS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.253
[Born or baptised 1st September 1825 at Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, son of John Cairns and Alison Murray;] ordained and inducted September 1855; died 1910. [Married 1856, Elizabeth Smith.]
1900
THOMAS MACREADY NAPIER, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 2nd May 1900; translated to Hamilton Avon Street 6th June 1916.
1916
LINDSAY LEITH DAVIDSON, Μ.Α.
Ordained and inducted 1st November 1916; translated to Newcastle Arthur’s Hill April 1925; translated to Thurso First 21st February 1929.
1925
JAMES GLEN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 21st October 1925; translated to Hamilton Burnbank 30th October 1928.
1929
JOHN STEWART
Born 26th June 1861 at Hopetoun, South Queensferry, son of William Stewart and Catherine Brown; educated at Woodend Free Church School, Abercorn; in business 1876-84; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1901), Ph.D. (1925), New College, Edinburgh, student missionary, Edinburgh West Port 1886-9; Manitoba Canada 1889, Sandness, Shetland 1890, Edinburgh Barclay Grove Street Mission, 1890-2; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1892; appointed to Madras Mission and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 9th October 1892; resigned 31st March 1929; inducted 17th April 1929. Married 21st September 1892, Elizabeth Mabel Jennings. Secretary of Madras Mission Council 1895-1928. Publications – Nestorian Missionary Enterprise: The Story of a Church on Fire, Edinburgh, 1928; several pamphlets privately printed.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.112, Stichill Cairns Memorial.]
YETHOLM BORDER VIEW
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.274
Church and manse. United with St James’ in 1914.
1897
ALLAN SHIELDS
Ordained and inducted 11th November 1897; translated to Temple September 1913.
YETHOLM ST JAMES’
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.34
Church and manse. United with Border View in 1914.
1895
ALEXANDER CAIRNS HOGG, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 15th August 1895; translated to Newcastle Forest Hall 6th September 1913; translated to Ardrishaig North 24th June 1925.
YETHOLM
Presbytery of Jedburgh and Kelso
(after local union)
1914
JAMES HOGG, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 30th September 1914; translated to Glasgow Young Street 2nd June 1925.
1926
NORMAN MACLEISH
Born 16th November 1898 at Lochee, Dundee, son of Thomas Cox Macleish and Elizabeth Macleish; educated at Dundee Ancrum Road Public School and Harris Academy (Dux, 1915), University of St Andrews, M.А. (1921), B.Phil. (1922); assistant to Professor of Moral Philosophy 1922; New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology, 1925); war service in H.M. Forces in France 1917-19, student assistant Edinburgh Broughton Place 1924-5; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee March 1925; ordained and inducted 24th February 1926. Married 9th February 1926, Gladys Margaret Burnett, M.A.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.112, Yetholm St James’; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.644.]
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PRESBYTERY OF HAWICK
CANONBIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.40
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Lockerbie. Church, manse and manse lodge.
1892
JOHN JAMIESON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.193
Born 11th December 1846 at Arbroath, son of Robert Jamieson and Mary Anderson; educated at Ladyloan East Free Church School and High School Arbroath, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1875), Glasgow Free Church College and New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1879; assistant Elie Free Church 1879; ordained and inducted Firth, Orkney 2nd September 1880; translated and inducted 12th September 1892; retired 17th June 1917, died 16th September 1929. Married 16th July 1884, Helen Watt.
1917
JOHN BROWN MILNE
Born 29th January 1890 at St Andrews, son of James Ferguson Milne and Margaret Elizabeth Milne; educated at Leith Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1913), New College, Edinburgh; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915; student assistant at Smeaton Mission 1913-14, Edinburgh St Cuthbert’s 1915; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1916; loc. ten. Monikie 1916-17; ordained and inducted 15th November 1917; died at Oudtshoorn, South Africa, when on leave of absence to act as loc. ten. in Pretoria 23rd November 1920.
1921
JOHN EDWARD MCINTOSH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 12th May 1921; translated to Dumfries Buccleuch Street 22nd April 1926.
1927
FREDERICK SMITH, B.D.
Translated from Glencraig, Fife and inducted 21st February 1927; translated to Alloa Greenside 23rd July 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.113, Canonbie West.]
DENHOLM
Presbytery of Hawick
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.35
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Lockerbie. Church and hall, manse, stable and coach-house. Improvements to church and manse in 1901 and 1927.
1892
JOHN SMITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.321
Born 14th August 1859 at Haddington, son of John Smith and Janet Young; educated at private schools and Haddington Parish School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1888), Glasgow Free Church College; Glasgow City Missionary under Partick Free Church 1885-7; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 14th May 1889; missionary assistant Paisley St George’s Free Church 1889-92; assistant Darvel Easton Memorial 1897; ordained and inducted 6th September 1892; retired 1928; died 23rd October 1928. Married 3rd December 1901, Agnes Hume.
1929
JOHN WALLACE ROSS
Born 14th October 1886 at Turakina, New Zealand, son of Rev. John Ross and Williamina Duff Wallace; educated at Wellington College, Victoria University College, N.Z., Μ.Α. (1909), Knox College, Dunedin 1912-14; licensed by Presbytery of Wanganui, 18th December 1913; ordained by Presbytery of Dunedin 16th August 1914; war service as Chaplain to New Zealand Forces 1914-20; inducted Burnmouth 22nd August 1922; translated and inducted 6th March 1929. Married 31st October 1922, Ruth M. McGlashan, [daughter of Rev. Robert Blackstock McGlashan.]
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.114; Vol.10, p.64.]
HAWICK ALLARS
Presbytery of Hawick
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.460
Church, hall and manse. Pipe organ installed and church restored at a cost of £1700 in 1926.
1898
JAMES WOTHERSPOON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.462
Born 13th August 1872 at Langbar, Beith, Ayrshire, son of William Waddell Wotherspoon and Jane Knox; educated at Glengarnock Public School, Coatbridge High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1894), B.D. (1897), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, University of Berlin; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1897; ordained and inducted 18th May 1898. Married 25th April 1899, Margaret Ure Ballardie. Publications – Kirk Life and Kirk Folk, Edinburgh, 1909; An Old Border Kirk, Hawick, 1909; edited with introductions, Craig’s In Borderland, Hawick, 1922, and Craig’s Hawick and the Borders, Hawick, 1927.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.114.]
HAWICK EAST BANK
Presbytery of Hawick
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.457
Church and hall with session room and vestry.
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1900
JAMES BRAND SCOTT, B.D.
Translated from Saltcoats West United Presbyterian and inducted 6th February 1900; resigned March 1907; inducted Alva Eadie 29th October 1912.
1907
ROBERT JAMES WRIGHT, B.A.
Ordained and inducted 15th December 1907; translated to Bowden, Cheshire 1913; inducted Stirling Erskine 1924.
1913
DAVID MAIR, B.A.
Translated from Anstruther Chalmers Memorial and inducted 7th July 1913; translated to Aberdeen Ferryhill 1918.
1918
JOHN ANDERSON
Born 28th May 1869 at Findon, Gamrie, son of Frank Anderson and Barbara Cruickshank; educated at Bracoden and Clinterty Public School, University of London, Presbyterian College, London, Presbyterian College, Cambridge; licensed by Presbytery of London April 1896; assistant Brondesbury Presbyterian Church, London; ordained and inducted Bradford English Presbyterian Church 15th September 1896; translated to Edinburgh London Road 10th December 1900; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917-18; translated and inducted 3rd December 1918; retired 19th February 1922; died 1st February 1929. Married 4th August 1897, Isabella Chalmers.
1922
STEWART RICHMOND SCOTT
Born 3rd April 1886 at Irvine, son of Stewart Scott and Jessie McAlpine; educated at Irvine London Street Public School and Royal Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1908), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Irvine and Kilmarnock; assistant Leith St Andrew’s 1912-13; ordained and inducted Old Cumnock West 11th February 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1918; translated and inducted 5th September 1922. Publication – History of East Bank Church, Hawick, Hawick, 1923.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.115; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.64.]
HAWICK ORROCK PLACE
Presbytery of Hawick
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.455
Church, hall and manse. Pipe organ installed March 1928.
1906
THOMAS COCKBURN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.457
[Born about 1842 at Berwick-on-Tweed;] ordained and inducted 21st December 1869; retired 17th September 1905; died 1st December 1923; [buried Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh. Married (1) 1874, Ann Bertram; (2) 1907, Jemima Euphemia Millar Linn.]
1906
JAMES STEEDMAN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.479
Born 28th November 1859 at Dunfermline, son of Adam and Christian Steedman; educated at Forfar, Brechin, Bankfoot Schools, pupil teacher in Tayport Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1881), B.D. (1884), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Arbroath September 1884; ordained and inducted Wick, Orkney, 4th February 1885; resigned 22nd April 1889; appointed to preaching station at Makerstoun 1889; loc. ten. Aberdeen Carden Place 1890-1, and Pittenweem 1891-2; appointed to preaching station, Straiton and Pentland 1893; inducted Redcar English Presbyterian Church 4th April 1893; translated and inducted 30th January 1906; retired 30th June 1925; died 27th October 1932. Married 11th August 1887, Annie Hatton Fenton.
1926
PETER REVIE
Born 29th July 1888 at Kilchenzie, by Campbeltown, son of Archibald Revie and Janet Armour; educated at Kilchenzie School, Campbeltown Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1911), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Kintyre April 1914; assistant Paisley St George’s 1914-15; ordained and inducted Colinsburgh 6th October 1915; became minister of the linked charge of Colinsburgh and Lathones March 1924; translated and inducted 26th January 1926. Married 30th December 1919, Mabel Walker MacDonald, [daughter of Rev. Peter MacDonald.]
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.115; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.195; also Vol.10, p.112.]
HAWICK ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Hawick
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.35
Church and manse. New halls opened 22nd December 1914; church destroyed by fire 8th October 1922; restored and reopened 23rd March 1924.
1868
DUNCAN STEWART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.328
Born 18th September 1841 at Dunblane; educated at Perth High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 6th February 1868; died January 1908. Married 1890, Miss Mitchell of Cluny. Publication – Covenanters of Teviotdale and Neighbouring Districts, Galashiels.
1908
WILLIAM FARQUHARSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 8th June 1908; translated to Portobello St Philip’s 4th November 1914.
1915
JAMES ARCHIBALD TURNER KENNEDY, M.A.
Translated from Dornoch and inducted January 1915; translated to Glasgow Partick Broomhill December 1921.
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1922
JOHN MOWAT
Born 6th October 1894 at Craigard House, Lybster, son of John Mowat and Janet Thomson; educated at Lybster Higher Grade School, Pulteneytown Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1914), New College, Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1917-19; licensed by Presbytery of Caithness March 1920; assistant Edinburgh New North 1920-2; ordained and inducted 4th April 1922. Married 30th August 1924, Janet Craig Rugg, M.B., Ch.B.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.115; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.144; also Vol.10, p.263 and Vol.11, p.299.]
HAWICK ST GEORGE’S
Presbytery of Hawick
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.35
Church and manse. New church and halls built 1913-16. Pipe organ installed 1920, manse presented 1925.
1880
WILLIAM ANDREW PATTON JOHNMAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.194
Born 1837 at Rumbling Bridge; educated at Dollar Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Darlington English Presbyterian Church 18th August 1865; translated and inducted 29th April 1880; applied for colleague and successor 1911; died 14th April 1923. First Moderator of Hawick United Free Presbytery. President of Hawick Archeological Society.
1911
DONALD GEORGE ROSS
Born 20th February 1874 at Trevandram, Travancore, South India, son of John Ross and Julia Swanson Keith; educated at Thurso Miller Institution, Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1895), New College, Edinburgh, licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 11th May 1899; assistant North Leith Free Church 1899-1900; ordained and inducted Irvine Free Church 25th October 1900; translated to Glasgow Pollok Street 25th April 1907; translated and inducted 28th September 1911; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1915. Married 12th December 1900, Williamina Martin. Acted for a time as Presbytery Clerk.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.115.]
HAWICK WEST PORT
Presbytery of Hawick
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.36
Church, manse and halls. Pipe organ installed 1902.
1894
ALEXANDER WESTWATER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 12th June 1894; translated to Prestonpans 19th February 1913.
1913
IAN MCDONALD. M.A.
Ordained and inducted 16th May 1913; translated to Bridge of Allan Trinity 12th March 1919.
1919
JAMES HUTCHISON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th June 1919; translated to Uddingston Chalmers 10th January 1924.
1924
DONALD MASTERTON SWANSON
Born 18th November 1897 at Leith, son of Donald Swanson and Jane Harrison; educated at Leith Links Place School, and Leith Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1920), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1923; assistant Edinburgh Broughton Place 1923-4; ordained and inducted May 1924. Married 24th July 1924, Elsie Wright Munro.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.117; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.227.]
HAWICK WILTON
Presbytery of Hawick
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.462
Church only.
1892
JAMES WIGSTON SHANNON
Translated from Elgin South Street United Presbyterian and inducted 2nd February 1892; translated to Edinburgh Gilmore Place February 1906.
1906
CHARLES LOGAN THOMSON, M.A., LL.D.
[Born abour 1860;] translated from Caledon, Ireland and inducted 12th June 1906; resigned 1st December 1912; died 17th June 1927; [buried Corstorphine Hill Cemetery, Edinburgh. Married 1887, Agnes Isles Roger.]
1913
ANDREW McLACHLAN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.400
Born 22nd March 1872 at Rothesay, son of Andrew Mclachlan and Jessie Muir; educated at Rothesay Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1895), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh, August 1897; assistant Edinburgh Bristo United Presbyterian 1897-8; ordained and inducted Anstruther Erskine December 1898; introduced Dunscore Renwick 12th April 1904; translated to Tranent Wishart January 1908; resigned 3rd May 1910; inducted 26th October 1913. Married 1st August 1900, Titava Brander.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.117, Hawick Wilton South; Vol.10, p.66.]
HOLYWELL
Presbytery of Hawick
Formerly in the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Annandale. Church and manse. Mission buildings at Moat School, Reddings.
1893
JOHN GUTHRIE
Born 14th January 1855 at Carluke, son of John Guthrie and Janet Brownlie; educated at Carluke, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Lanark
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27th July 1886; assistant Newcastle-on-Tyne 1888-9; Dunfermline 1890; Dundee Lochee Road 1891-2; ordained and inducted 14th February 1893; retired 15th February 1925; died 2nd January 1929. Clerk to the Presbytery 1900-17.
1926
EWEN HUGH FRASER
Born 19th January 1876 at Free Church Manse Nigg, Ross-shire, son of William Fraser and Jane Irvine Harley; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1897), New College, Edinburgh (Hon. Diploma in Theology); licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1901; mission work in Western Canada 1901; assistant Leith Junction Road 1903-6, Glasgow Great Hamilton Street 1906-9; ordained and inducted North Queensferry June 1909; translated and inducted January 1926.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.117.]
LANGHOLM CHALMERS
Presbytery of Hawick
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.41
Church, hall and manse.
1900
JOHN ALEXANDER DUKE, B.D.
Ordained and inducted December 1900; translated to Edinburgh Morningside 30th June 1904.
1905
DAVID WILLIAM INGLIS
Born 23rd July 1875 at Edinburgh, son of David Inglis and Janet McPhail; educated at Howick, Northumberland, Edinburgh Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1897), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1902; assistant Edinburgh Roseburn 1902-3, Glasgow Kelvinside 1904, Glasgow St George’s 1904-5; ordained and inducted 10th March 1905; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1916-18. Married 14th June 1905, Mary Fox Bishop.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.118; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.439.]
LANGHOLM NORTH
Presbytery of Hawick
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.50
Formerly in United Presbyterian Presbytery of Annandale. United with South in 1925 to form Langholm Erskine.
1893
GEORGE ORR
Ordained and inducted 26th January 1893; introduced Borgue 1926.
LANGHOLM SOUTH
Presbytery of Hawick
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.52
United with North in 1925 to form Langholm Erskine.
1890
JOHN WALLACE MANN
Ordained and inducted 20th March 1890; translated to Shettleston Eastbank 20th May 1901.
1902
THOMAS SCOTT CAIRNCROSS, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 23rd January 1902; translated to Old Kilpatrick Bankside 21st March 1907.
1908
JAMES BOYD MACDONALD, B.D.
Formerly at Dornoch, inducted 17th July 1908; translated to Caldercruix 4th November 1925.
LANGHOLM ERSKINE
Presbytery of Hawick
Formed by the union of the North and South congregations in 1925.
1926
GEORGE BARLAS GILLIES
Born 21st October 1879 at Alexandria, son of John Gillies and Ann Anderson Barlas; educated at Vale of Leven Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Cuninghame 1911-13, St Vincent Street 1913-15, Lansdowne 1915-16, St Enoch’s 1916, North Kelvinside 1916-18; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton 6th November 1917; ordained and inducted Coatbridge Drumpellier 13th March 1918; translated to Glasgow Central 19th May 1921; translated and inducted 2nd September 1926. Married 9th April 1918, Marjorie Barr McMurray.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.118; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.302.]
LILLIESLEAF
Presbytery of Hawick
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.470
Church and manse. Ashkirk, formerly in the Presbytery of Galashiels, united with this congregation on 14th October 1909.
1897
GEORGE MINTO
Ordained and inducted 2nd February 1897; translated to Clydebank Bank Street 30th October 1908.
LILLIESLEAF and ASHKIRK
Presbytery of Hawick
1909
PETER ALISON, M.A.
Translated from Bavington and inducted 21st September 1909; translated to Tranent Wishart 1st July 1925.
1926
JOHN HENRY OGILVIE
Born 31st August 1858 at Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa, son of John Ogilvie and Sarah Grant; educated at Selborne College, East London; in business till 1913; served in mission field in Canada 1913-14; war service in Canadian Army in
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France, and in H.M. Forces 1915-19; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1922), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant New College Settlement 1919-22, Edinburgh High 1922-25; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 9th April 1926; ordained and inducted 3rd June 1926; resigned 30th September 1928 to take up appointment as chaplain in the Royal Air Force.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.126, Lilliesleaf; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.726.]
LONGTOWN ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Hawick
Church and manse.
1892
JAMES GILFILLAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1892; appointed to Bermuda 1919.
1919
GEORGE SORLEY GILMOUR, B.D.
Formerly at Hamilton Burnbank; inducted 5th June 1919; translated to East Calder 10th September 1925.
1926
JOHN PATTON
Born 15th March 1876 at the Manse, Waterside, Londonderry, son of Samuel Patton and Esther Dunn; educated at Foyle College and Magee College, Londonderry, Royal University of Ireland, B.A. (1897), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh March 1902; assistant Edinburgh High 1902-6; ordained and inducted Borgue 30th August 1906; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1916, 1918; translated to Laggan 7th December 1922; translated and inducted 24th February 1926.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.119, Longtown; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.118; also Vol.10, p.66.]
NEWCASTLETON NORTH
Presbytery of Hawick
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.36
Church and manse.
1876
JOHN ANDERSON SMITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.321
Born 24th May 1843 at Nitshill, Renfrewshire, son of William Fairley Smith and Jane Anderson; educated at Innellan and Kirn Schools, Govan Free Church School, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, Glasgow Free Church College; assistant Buckie Free Church; ordained and inducted Bewcastle 1873; translated and inducted 1876; applied for colleague and successor 1898; acted for a time as chaplain of Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow; died 28th May 1911. Married (1) 1873, Jane W. Steele; (2) 1882, Eliza J. Reid; (3) 11th February 1908, Alice Kirkhope.
1898
ALEXANDER LOWE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.212
Born 15th September 1865 at Edinburgh, son of David Lowe and Margaret Dudgeon; educated at Young Street School, Newington Academy, George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1884), B.D. (1890), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1900; assistant Newton Stewart Princes Street 1890-1; Glasgow Union Free Church 1894-8; ordained and inducted 28th January 1898.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.119, Newcastleton Park.]
NEWCASTLETON SOUTH
Presbytery of Hawick
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.452
Church and manse.
1880
JAMES SNADDEN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.455
Born 1854; ordained and inducted 20th April 1880; retired 30th September 1929; died 12th March 1934. Married 20th July 1881, Jessie McNair.
WOLFLEE
Presbytery of Hawick
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.36
Church, hall and manse in 1900, garage added later. After the demission of Mr Adam the congregation was ministered to by the minister of Hobkirk.
1898
DAVID WILSON BAIRD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.89
Ordained and inducted 6th December 1898; translated to Ramsbottom Presbyterian Church, Lancashire 1908; appointed to Edinburgh Blackhall (Church of Scotland) 1918.
1909
THOMAS ADAM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.77
Born 8th May 1853 at Johnstone Hall, near Holytown, son of Robert Adam and Ann Good; educated at Legbrannock School, Glasgow Andersonian University, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1878), Glasgow Free Church College, mission work at Bellshill 1878-9, and Hamilton 1880-1; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow May 1882; ordained and inducted Cumbernauld Bridgend Cumbernauld Free Church 18th January 1883; translated to St Paul’s, Kingston, Jamaica January 1903; translated and inducted 7th December 1909; retired 13th July 1927; died 10th November 1932. Married (1) 4th July 1883, Elizabeth Stewart Patterson; (2) 1st June 1923, Margaret Alexander.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.120.]
ROBERTON
Presbytery of Hawick
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.419
Preaching station during the period.
1889
THOMAS WHYTE PATERSON
Ordained and inducted 30th July 1889; translated to Midcalder 25th October 1900.
1906
ALEXANDER CAMERON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.111
Born 9th July 1845 at Pluscarden, Elgin, son of John Cameron and Janet Ross; educated at Pluscarden School, Elgin Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1869), Aberdeen Free Church College, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 17th June 1874; assistant Greenock Middle Free Church 1874-5; ordained and inducted Greenlaw West 11th November 1875; resigned 11th November 1902; introduced January 1906; died 26th November 1911.
1912
DAVID BRUNTON
Born 25th May 1842 at Kinfauns, Perth, son of David Brunton and Janet Dewar; educated at Ruthwell Free Church School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dumfries 15th July, 1871; assistant Cambusnethan Free Church, Dundee St Paul’s Free Church; ordained and inducted Lochend and New Abbey 25th April 1872; translated to Wishaw 16th July 1874; resigned 1894; introduced Hurlford Mauchline Road 16th February 1907; introduced Lethendy 20th February 1910; introduced 26th June 1912; retired 26th May 1925; died 1936.
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PRESBYTERY OF GALASHIELS
Synod of Merse and Teviotdale
ASHKIRK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.36
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Selkirk. Church and manse. United with Lilliesleaf in the Presbytery of Hawick on 14th October 1909.
1897
WILLIAM FREDERICK BELL, M.A.
Ordained as preacher 15th October 1897, and inducted July 1899; translated to Tulliallan 17th June 1909.
BOWDEN
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.36
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Selkirk. Church with hall, and manse. United with Newtown on 5th August 1929.
1894
NEIL GALBRAITH MCARTHUR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted September 1894; translated to Killean and Kilcalmonell 1923.
1924
JOHN MANDEVILLE MACFIE
Born 30th December 1871 at Cathcart, Glasgow, son of John Macfie and Jean Smith Gowans; educated at Glasgow City Public School and High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1892), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1894; ordained as foreign missionary for Rajputana, India, by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 3rd September 1895; inducted Glasgow Tollcross Park 1st April 1902; reappointed to Rajputana 28th October 1909; war service as chaplain to British troops in India; resigned 15th April 1923; introduced 11th June 1924; retired on union of Bowden with Newtown 5th August 1929; reappointed to Rajputana 1929; died 7th April 1935. Married 27th March 1902, Anne Elizabeth Stiven. Publications – Laws of Manu, Madras, 1921, Mahabharata, Madras, 1921; Myths and Legends of India, Edinburgh, 1924; Ramayana of Valmiki, Madras, 1923; Vishnu Purana, Madras, 1926; Life of Christ (in Hindi), Allahabad, 1912; Life of Christ (in Urdu), 1916; Selections from Psalms and Prophets (in Hindi, 1927 and Urdu, 1926), Allahabad.
EARLSTON
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.434
Church and manse; church hall built in 1904. United with Earlston Parish Church on 2nd October 1929. [Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.122: In FUF delete “united with… 1929”.]
1891
HENRY BROWN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 12th March 1891; translated to Kilmarnock Portland Road, 1901.
1901
ANDREW BURT TAYLOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 29th October 1901; translated to Motherwell Brandon Street 1st September 1910.
1911
ROBERT HARVIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 13th January 1911; translated to Hamilton St John’s 13th January 1921.
1921
FREDERICK T[HOMAS] PATON, M.A..
Ordained and inducted 22nd June 1921; translated to Kilmarnock St Andrew’s 1925.
1925
JAMES ALEXANDER LAURIE
Ordained and inducted 28th October 1925; translated to Dumfries South 7th March 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.122; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, pp.141 and 271.]
ETTRICK
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.36
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Selkirk. Two churches and manse.
1880
ROBERT BIRKETT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.96
Born 4th November 1846 at Abdie Newburgh, Fife, son of James Birkett and Agnes Forrester; educated at Abdie Public School, University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Cupar 6th July 1880; ordained and inducted October 1880.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.123, Ettrick Tushielaw.]
GALASHIELS EAST
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.466
Church, small hall and manse in 1900; suite of halls added, organ rebuilt and made three-manual, electric light installed, two stained-glass windows erected, all completed in 1928 at a cost of £12,000.
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Separate mission hall and caretaker’s rooms. History of the congregation published in Centenary Volume 1905.
1865
JOHN BARR POLLOCK
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.468
Born 26th November 1835 at Pollokshaws, son of William Pollock and Marion Barr; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College Edinburgh; private tutor at Rochdale; ordained and inducted 12th September 1865; became senior minister 29th June 1916; died 2nd April 1923. Married 26th November 1865, Margaret Donald.
1916
JOHN RONALD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.313
Born 23rd April 1869 at Douglas, Lanarkshire, son of James Ronald and Jane Dick Drysdale; educated at Annan and Dumfries Academies, private tuition, University of Glasgow, M.A., (1890), B.D. (1894), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, University of Marburg; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Annandale 1893; assistant Brechin City Road United Presbyterian, Glasgow Cambridge Street United Presbyterian and St Vincent Street United Presbyterian; ordained and inducted Stewarton Cairns United Presbyterian, 29th June 1897; translated and inducted 2nd June 1916. Married 2nd October 1907, Jessie Taylor Laughland. Publication – History of Cairns U.F. Church, Stewarton, Ardrossan, 1926.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.123.]
GALASHIELS LADHOPE
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.37
Church, hall and manse in 1900. Pipe organ introduced, hall enlarged, and vestry and session room added during the period. History of Ladhope Free Church in book form, and of subsequent years in pamphlet form, by Robert Hall, Galashiels.
1866
JAMES SPENCE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.394
Translated from Stobhill and inducted 1866; became senior minister in 1898; died 20th August 1907.
1898
IVOR JOHNSTONE ROBERTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.279
Born 15th October 1865 at Free Church Manse, Dunipace, son of Rev. Thomas Roberton and Elizabeth Greig; educated at Dunipace Free Church School, Denny Public School, Stirling High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1886), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling 1st October 1889; assistant Dysart Free Church 1889-90; ordained and inducted Ratho and Wilkieston Free Church 12th February 1891; translated and inducted 15th September 1898; translated to London Regent Square 25th April 1907; translated to Bristol St James’ 18th June 1925; translated to Whitby 1934; retired 1941; died 1942. Moderator of Assembly of Presbyterian Church of England 1922. D.D. (University of Glasgow) 1923.
1907
HUGH MONTGOMERY RANKIN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.295
Born 12th May 1867 at Greenock, son of William Rankin and Agnes Buchanan Montgomery; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1889), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow June 1893; ordained and inducted Tighnabruaich 31st October 1893; translated and inducted 19th September 1907. Married 2nd March 1897, Margaret Craig Kelly.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.123, Galashiels St Andrew’s.]
GALASHIELS ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.36
Church with small hall and vestry, and manse. Large hall and classrooms added in 1910.
1885
WILLIAM SIMPSON MATHESON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.264
Born 16th July 1859 at Free Church Manse, Forgue, son of John Matheson and Katharine Stewart Simpson; educated at Preparatory School, Hampstead, London, University College School, London, University of Aberdeen M.A. (1880), New College, Edinburgh, University of Tübingen; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Turriff 12th June 1883; assistant London Willesden Presbyterian Church 1882, Dundee St John’s 1883-5; ordained and inducted 9th July 1885; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in France and at home 1914-18; retired 1929; died 24th September 1944. Married 7th September 1887, Isabella Cochrane Brown.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.124.]
GALASHIELS SOUTH
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.469
Church, hall and manse.
1886
WILLIAM BURNET THOMSON, M.A., B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.470
[Born 4th August 1860 at Greenock, son of Robert Thomson and Sarah Jane Burnet; educated at University of Glasgow, B.D. (1885);] ordained and inducted 13th July 1886; resigned 19th October 1905; went to Natal, South Africa; died 11th February 1929. [Married 1899, Emma Christin Lowe.]
1906
GEORGE WYLLIE HOWIE, M.A.
Translated from Newbigging and inducted 22nd February 1906; translated to Edinburgh Nicolson Street 7th October 1909.
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1910
JOHN ROGERSON
Born 9th January 1871 at Greenlaw, son of George Rogerson and Helen Elliot; educated at Greenlaw Public School, Lauder Public School, Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1893), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dumfries 2nd February 1897; assistant Dumfries Buccleuch Street United Presbyterian 1896-1902; ordained and inducted North Middleton, Morpeth, 18th June 1903; translated and inducted 9th February 1910. Presbytery Clerk from 1923 to 1929.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.124.]
GALASHIELS WEST
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.468
Church and manse.
1881
WILLIAM MOWAT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.469
Born 4th June 1855 at Edinburgh, son of James Mowat and Anne Duncan; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1876), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1879; assistant Dumbarton High Street 1879-81; ordained and inducted 21st June 1881; died 12th October 1919. Married 21st August 1895, Elizabeth Sime Mercer. Publication – Dictionary of Bible Names.
1920
JOHN GORDON TOSH
Born 31st December 1877 at Brechin, son of James Tosh and Elizabeth Mitchell; educated at Brechin Damacre Road and High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1901), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh St Cuthbert’s 1901-3; licensed by Presbytery of Brechin and Fordoun 1904; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road 1904-7; ordained and inducted Rochdale Trinity Presbyterian Church July 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Flanders 1917; translated and inducted April 1920. Married 14th November 1907, Janet Waldie Wright.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.125, Galashiels Trinity; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.551.]
INNERLEITHEN LAW
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.473
Church, small hall, and manse. United with St John’s on 27th April 1919.
1872
ANDREW MORTON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.475
Born 30th August 1847 at Glasgow, son of Rev. Andrew Morton, LL.D.; educated at Greenock Academy, Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 17th December 1872; retired 18th July 1911; died 25th March 1927.
1911
JAMES NEIL ALEXANDER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 18th July 1911; translated to Glasgow Tollcross Central, February 1919.
INNERLEITHEN ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.21
Formerly in the Free Church Presbytery of Biggar and Peebles. Church with small hall and manse. United with Law on 27th April 1919.
1880
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
Ordained and inducted 23rd December 1880; became senior minister at date of local union 27th April 1919; introduced Makerstoun 9th September 1923.
INNERLEITHEN
Presbytery of Galashiels
(after local union)
The former Law church was used for worship, the former St John’s Church as a hall. Both manses were used by the ministers till the senior minister’s demission in 1923, when the Law manse was sold.
1919
JAMES STEWART SIMPSON
Born 17th November 1891 at Peebles, son of James Simpson and Agnes Geddes Thompson; educated at Galashiels Burgh School, Glasgow Shawlands Academy, High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1912), Glasgow College; student missionary Perceton 1915-16; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 12th September 1916; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Malta and at Brindisi 1916; assistant at Glasgow Ruchill 1916-19; ordained and inducted 29th August 1919. Married 26th September 1946, Marion McGregor Chapman.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.72, Innerleithen Craigside; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.267; also Vol.10, p.159.]
LAUDER EAST
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.38
Church and manse. United with West congregation on 1st March 1908.
1882
DUNCAN TURNER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.347
Born 11th May 1855 at Bridge of Weir; educated at Bridge of Weir and Houston Free Church Schools; pupil teacher in the latter; University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; assistant at Carnock and St Ninians; ordained and inducted 27th June 1882; died 7th June 1907. Married 1891, Janet King Hamilton.
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LAUDER WEST
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.446
Church with hall and session house, manse and stable. History of the congregation is in James Tatit, Border Church Life, Vol. II. United with East congregation 1st March 1908.
1886
THOMAS KEIR
Ordained and inducted 27th October 1886; retired at the local union 1st March 1908; introduced Dunscore Renwick 1908.
LAUDER
Presbytery of Galashiels
(after local union)
The Free Church church was sold in 1910; the Free Church manse was occupied by Mrs Turner till her death, and was sold in 1921; the United Presbyterian Church buildings were used for worship.
1908
GEORGE MCNAB, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 24th July 1908; translated to Gourock Ashton 1918.
1918
JOHN ROBERTSON
Born 2nd May 1873 at Pilkim Toll, Auchtertool, Fife, son of Andrew Robertson and Isabella Grant; educated at Lochgelly Public School, Edinburgh Heriot-Watt College, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1905), Aberdeen College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1909); missionary at Warrock estate, Kinross 1903-5; loc. ten. Aberdeen St Clement’s 1906-7; licensed by Presbytery of Kirkcaldy 4th May 1909; assistant Fraserburgh Saltoun Place 1909; ordained and inducted Fraserburgh Saltoun Place 26th July 1909; translated to Luncarty 7th May 1914; on munition work 1916-17; translated and inducted 2nd May 1918.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.125, Lauder West.]
MELROSE HIGH CROSS
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.472
Church, hall and manse. History and record of centenary celebrations in The Border Telegraph 1st and 8th November 1921.
1860
HUGH STEVENSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.473
Born 2nd March 1836 at Kilmarnock, [son of Andrew Stevenson and Margaret Steel;] educated at Kilmarnock, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed 1860; ordained and inducted 9th October 1860; died 8th May 1916; [buried Wairds Cemetery, Melrose.] Clerk of United Presbyterian Presbytery of Melrose for 38 years.
1916
WILLIAM FALCONER BOYD
Born 12th October 1878 at Free Church Manse, Glenbervie, Kincardineshire, son of Rev. Robert Masson Boyd, M.A., and Mary Falconer; educated at Glenbervie Public School, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, Mackie Academy, Stonehaven, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1900), B.D. (1904), University of Halle, University of Tübingen, D.Phil., (1906); licensed by Presbytery of Brechin and Fordoun 14th May 1906; loc. ten. Glasgow Belhaven 1906, Aberdeen Ferryhill 1906-7; assistant Brechin West 1907-8; ordained and inducted Methlick 8th June 1908; translated and inducted 11th June 1916. Married 4th April 1917, Mary Lucia Smith. Contributed articles to the Temple Dictionary of the Bible, to Hastings’ one volume Dictionary of the Bible, and Dictionary of the Apostolic Church. Member of Roxburghshire Education Authority from 1924; clerk to Synod of Merse and Teviotdale from 1927.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.126.]
MELROSE ST AIDAN’S
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.38
Church and manse.
1878
ROBERT SANDERS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.310
Born 21st October 1845 at Lockerbie, son of John Sanders; educated at Lockerbie, University of Edinburgh, M.A., B.D., New College, Edinburgh; assistant in Gourock and Paisley; ordained and inducted Livingstone Free Church 1875; translated and inducted 3rd October 1878; died 8th November 1910. Clerk to Free Church and United Free Presbytery of Galashiels. Author of short poems.
1911
JAMES IRWIN, B.A., M.A.
Translated from Drumbo, Ireland, and inducted 21st April 1911; translated to Edinburgh Newhaven 17th January 1917.
1919
HENRY CROMBIE
Born 30th July 1867 at Grangemouth, son of James Borwick Crombie and Isabella Walker; educated at Hull and East Riding College, and Berkeley School, Hull, University of Glasgow, Presbyterian Church of England College, London; licensed by Presbytery of London North May 1893; preacher in charge at Finchley, London; ordained and inducted Finchley 3rd September 1893; translated to Liverpool Fairfield June 1900; translated to Helensburgh Park 20th April 1905; translated to Croydon St Paul’s 18th March 1909;
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war service with Y.M.C.A. on Headquarters Staff and as Presbyterian Chaplain to War Hospitals in Croydon 1916-19; translated and inducted July 1919. Married 12th July 1898, Catherine Stewart.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.126.]
NEWTOWN
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.463
Church with session house and manse. For history of the congregation see J. Tait, Border Church Life, Vol. II. Bowden united with this congregation on 5th August 1929.
1879
ROBERT INGLES
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.466
Born 10th February 1831 at Polmont, son of George Ingles and Marion Binnie; educated at Edinburgh Grange Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1878; ordained and inducted 7th January 1879; retired 30th May 1926; died 26th September 1926. Married Sarah Hislop. Clerk to the Presbytery from 6th December 1910 to 13th February 1923.
1924
IAN MATHESON MACALISTER
Born 6th February 1895 at Jaipur, Rajputana, India, son of George Macalister, D.D., and Mary Murray Procter; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1920), New College, Edinburgh; war service 1916-18; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 3rd May 1922; sub-warden, New College Settlement, and assistant Edinburgh Pleasance 1922-4; ordained and inducted 3rd September 1924.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.127; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.632; also Vol.10, p.362.]
PEEBLES LECKIE MEMORIAL
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.573
Formerly in United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh. Church with halls and manse.
1868
ROBERT BURGESS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.576
Born 5th June 1843 in Glasgow son of Rev. William Burgess, M.A., minister of Eglinton Street United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow, [and Marion McCall;] educated at Glasgow High School and private schools; in business for some years; University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Cupar December 1867; ordained and inducted 25th August 1868; became senior minister 30th September 1908; died 2nd May 1912; [buried St Andrew’s Cemetery, Peebles. Married 1869, Christina L.D. Brown.]
1908
OLIVER RUSSELL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 30th September 1908; translated to Paisley Middle 6th June 1916.
1916
KENNETH EDWARD, M.A., D.Phil.
[Born 1881 at Dundee, son of James Edward and Jessie Soutar;] ordained and inducted Moyness 18th May 1910; translated and inducted 1916; resigned 1928 on appointment as Professor of Theology in Sydney, New South Wales; [died there 1941. Married 1916, Margaret B.L. McColl.] Publication – Religious Experience: its Nature and Truth (Kerr Lectures, 1923) Edinburgh.
1928
ALEXANDER BROWN
Born 5th August 1875 at Gateshead-on-Tyne, son of George Brown and Helen Grant; educated at Port Bannatyne Public School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1900), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow May 1905; assistant Glasgow Wellpark, St Matthew’s; ordained and inducted Watney, Barrow-in Furness 4th March 1909; translated to St Andrew’s, Stockton-on-Tees May 1914; munition worker at Stockton during 1915; translated to St Andrew’s Alnwick October 1922; translated and inducted July 1928. Married 1st August 1918, Maud Frederica Сraig.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.73.]
PEEBLES ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.22
Church, hall and manse. United with the West congregation on 14th July 1918 by decision of the General Assembly of 1918.
1880
ROBERT BALLANTINE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.90
Born 1856 at Dunkeld; educated at Kinnoull Public School and Perth Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1877), New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted July 1880; resigned on appointment as organizing secretary for the Eastern Division of the United Free Church Temperance Union January 1913; died August 1927. Clerk to the Free Church Presbytery of Biggar and Peebles for some years. For 30 years member of Peebles School Board. Married [1882, Rachel Todd,] daughter of Robert Todd, Provost of Peebles. Publications – Excelsior; A Champion Cyclist; On the Way to the Throne; Skating on Thin Ice; Our Scholars for Christ; Our New Name and its Message; The Aristocracy of Grace.
1913
DAVID CECIL MITCHELL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted July 1913; became minister of the united charge in 1918.
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PEEBLES ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Galashiels
(after local union)
The West church was retained as the church, and the St Andrew’s church was altered for use as a hall. The name of St Andrew’s was retained.
1918
DAVID CECIL MITCHELL, M.A.
Minister of St Andrew’s, continued as minister of the united congregation; translated to Aberdeen North 14th November 1920.
1921
JOHN ALEXANDER BAIRD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.189
Born 21st February 1872 at Tranent, son of David Baird and Anne Margaret Campbell Donaldson; educated at Tranent Public School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1892), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1895; assistant Campbeltown United Presbyterian 1895-6; ordained and inducted Campbeltown United Presbyterian 29th September 1896; translated to Glasgow Partick Broomhill 9th May 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated and inducted 12th May 1921. Married 7th April 1908, Janie Colville Boyd.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.74; Vol.10, p.45.]
PEEBLES WEST
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.576
Church and manse. United with St Andrew’s on 14th July 1918.
1876
DAVID YOUNG CURRIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.577
Born 4th January 1851 [at Edinburgh, son of Peter Currie and Jessie Young;] educated at Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College Edinburgh; assistant at Carlisle; in charge of Scots Church, Florence, Italy; inducted as colleague and successor 18th April 1876; died 16th September 1917; [buried St Andrew’s Cemetery, Peebles. Married 1876, Elizabeth Cinnamon.]
ST BOSWELLS
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.38
Church and manse.
1894
JOHN URQUHART MACGREGOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 12th July 1894; translated to Bathgate St David’s 17th January 1906.
1906
NORMAN NICHOLSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted November 1906; translated to Castle-Douglas Queen Street 14th January 1914.
1914
J. J. O. [JOHN OLIVER] NAISMITH, M.A.
[Born 1884 at Chirnside, son of Robert Naismith and Mary Bertram;] ordained and inducted 1914; left after induction for war service; resigned 1918. [Major Royal Field Artillery in WW1; D.S.O. 1917; headmaster John Watson’s, Edinburgh 1926-1941; died 1961. Married 1917, Maria Cecilia Bell.]
1919
W[ILLIAM] R[ANKIN] MCKINNON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1919; translated to Prestwick North 1921.
1922
ROBERT RUTHERFORD YOUNG MINTO
Born 26th July 1895 at Edinburgh, son of James Minto and Katharine Small; educated at Edinburgh Bruntsfield Public School and Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1916); war service 1916–18; New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 6th July 1820; assistant Edinburgh Barclay 1920–1; ordained and inducted 5th April 1922. Married 28th April 1922, Christina Howden.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.127, St Boswells St Modan’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.155; also Vol.10, p.91.]
SELKIRK FOREST
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.38
United with the West congregation in 1915 under its minister.
1873
WILLIAM STEVEN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.326
Born 15th May 1837 at Muthill, son of Joseph Steven and Mary Goold; educated at Muthill Free Church School; trained in lawyer’s office in Crieff; University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow May 1871; ordained and inducted Gordon Free Church 2nd January 1872; translated and inducted 25th December 1873; died 26th December 1915. Married (1) 12th July 1879, Mary Gowans; (2) 4th December 1906, Katharine Alexa Munro. Publication – Yarrow in History, Literature and Romance, Galashiels, 1916.
SELKIRK LAWSON MEMORIAL
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.440
Church with hall, session room, vestry, etc. Manse. Improvements of the church and manse during the period.
1896
JAMES LORIMER MUNRO, O.B.E., M.A.
Ordained and inducted 30th April 1896; translated to Helensburgh St Columba’s 4th November 1902.
1903
ANDREW ROSS
Born 17th July 1871 at Balintore, Fearn, Ross-shire, son of Andrew Ross and Jessie McDonald;
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educated at Balintore Public School, Hilton Public School, Tain Royal Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1892), B.D. (1895), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; missionary, Inveraray United Presbyterian Kedslie Mission 1894; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Stirling 6th August 1895; assistant Stirling Allan Park United Presbyterian; ordained and inducted St George’s Presbyterian Church, Stockton-on-Tees 21st October 1897; translated and inducted 23rd April 1903; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1918. Married 22nd June 1899, Elizabeth Elder Sinclair.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.128.]
SELKIRK WEST
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.445
The Forest congregation united with this congregation in 1915.
1878
GEORGE MCCALLUM
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.446
[Born 28th June 1841 at Blairgowrie, son of George McCallum and Jean Young;] ordained and inducted 26th February 1878; retired 19th March 1903; died 28th July 1904; [buried Craigton Cemetery, Glasgow. Married 1866, Elizabeth Campbell.]
1904
JAMES ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE, M.A.
Admitted by General Assembly 1903; inducted 19th March 1904; translated to Kilfinnan 30th June 1925.
1925
ROBERT JAMES BAIN
Born 29th December 1887 at Brechin, son of James McPherson Bain and Margaret Ann Grant; educated at Bank Street Public School and High School, Brechin, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1909), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Brechin and Fordoun 16th June 1913; assistant Dundee St Paul’s 1913-14, Kirkcaldy St Brycedale 1914-5; ordained and inducted Denny Broompark 27th October 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Salonika 1917 and as Chaplain to the Forces in France, Belgium and Germany 1917-19; translated and inducted 2nd October 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.129; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.91; also Vol.10, p.55.]
STOW NORTH
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.38
Church and manse. United with the South congregation on 6th August 1901.
1890
THOMAS BLACKWOOD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 21st October 1890; resigned to facilitate local union 12th July 1901; inducted to Braco and Greenloaning 11th May 1904.
STOW SOUTH
Presbytery of Galashiels
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.428
Church and manse. United with the North congregation on 6th August 1901.
1894
ANDREW MARTIN GENTLES, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 17th April 1894; translated to Glasgow St Stephen’s 29th April 1901.
STOW
Presbytery of Galashiels
(after local union)
The North church and manse were sold and the South church and manse used by the united congregation.
1902
SAMUEL KNOX
Ordained and inducted 4th April 1902; translated to Glasgow Govan Linthouse 27th August 1909.
1909
JOHN THOMAS CRAIG IRELAND
Born 3rd March 1872 at Buckhaven, son of William Ireland and Jessie Craig; educated at Buckhaven, Edinburgh Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1891), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kirkcaldy 1896; assistant Inverness High Free Church 1896-7, Glasgow St George’s Free Church 1897-8; ordained Dundee Natal, South Africa June 1899; translated to Potchefstroom, Transvaal 1904; translated to Greyville, Durban June 1907; translated and inducted November 1909; war service as Chaplain to the Forces at Salisbury, in France and in Salonika; drowned when torpedoed in the Mediterranean 4th May 1917. Married 28th April 1899, Agnes Walker.
1918
JOHN RIDDELL HUTTON, B.D.
Translated from Helensburgh St Columba’s and inducted 20th June 1918; translated to Dunblane Leighton 19th October 1927.
1928
ROBERT ELLIOTT
Born 17th October 1883 at the Manse, Naas, Co. Kildare, son of William Elliott and Annie Gilmour; educated at St Andrew’s College, Dublin, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1907), Assembly’s College, Belfast, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 3rd October 1911; assistant Dumfries Buccleuch Street 1911-13, Perth St Stephen’s 1913-14; ordained and inducted Oban Dunollie Road 11th February 1915; war service in H.M. Forces 1915-19; translated to Renfrew Trinity 22nd November 1923; translated and inducted 9th February 1928. Married 19th June 1919, Marjorie Glencarse Inglis.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.129, Stow St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.74.]
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YARROW
Presbytery of Galashiels
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.39
Church and manse, the latter improved and enlarged in 1900. Church, house and disused school at Cappercleuch.
1882
MALCOLM CARMENT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.117
Born 19th April 1856 at Free Church Manse, Comrie, son of Rev. James Carment and Elizabeth Charlotte Maxwell; educated at Comrie Free Church School, Dalkeith Academy, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1876), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Auchterarder 29th June 1880; preacher in charge of New Byth 1880; assistant Anstruther Free Church 1880-1, Yarrow Free Church 1881-2; ordained and inducted 24th August 1882. Married 3rd June 1886, Christina Drummond.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.129, Yarrow St Mary’s.]
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SYNOD OF DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
PRESBYTERY OF ANNANDALE
ANNAN ERSKINE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.60
Church and manse. Church hall and vestry added, and new manse purchased in the period.
1901
ROBERT WHITE, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 11th March 1901; translated to Portobello Regent Street 1905.
1905
ROBERT GEORGE PATERSON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 14th September 1905; translated to Pollokshields Albert Road 11th June 1913.
1913
ARCHIBALD ANGUS CAMPBELL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 25th September 1913; translated to Linlithgow Craigmailen 6th December 1922.
1923
ROBERT ALEXANDER ROBERTSON
Born 29th August 1896 at Blairhill, Coatbridge, son of Robert Alexander Robertson and Elizabeth Ewen Mack; educated at Coatdyke Public School, Coatbridge Higher Grade School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1919), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology, Maxwell H. Forsyth Scholarship 1922); war service in H.M. Forces in Belgium, France and Germany 1915-19; student assistant Glasgow Queen’s Park West 1921-22; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 4th April 1922; assistant Glasgow Woodlands 1922-23; ordained and inducted 15th March 1923; translated to Liverpool Fairfield 3rd May 1928. Married 9th August 1923, Olive Moultrie MacLeod, M.B.E.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.436; also Vol.10, pp.18 and 259.]
1928
WILLIAM CRUICKSHANK HAY
Born 12th July 1902 at Ayr, son of William Hay and Margaret Jean Chalmers; educated at St Aubyn’s School, Barrow-in-Furness, Barrow Municipal Secondary School, Linlithgow Academy, Dundee High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1923, 1st Class Hons. in Philosophy 1924), New College, Edinburgh, Union Theological Seminary, New York, S.T.M. (1928); licensed by Presbytery of St Andrews 11th May 1927; ordained and inducted 25th October 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.130; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.61; also Vol.10, p.37.]
ANNAN ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.40
Church, hall, caretaker’s house and adjoining cottage, manse.
1888
WILLIAM STEWART PEEBLES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.290
Born 15th February 1859 at Kilmarnock, son of Peter Peebles and Elizabeth Stewart; educated at Newcastle St John’s School, Edinburgh Free Church Normal School, University of Glasgow; lay missionary at Old Calabar 1880-3; Edinburgh United Presbyterian College, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow White Memorial 1885-7; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1887; assistant Govan St Mary’s 1887-8; ordained and inducted 23rd December 1888. Married 3rd February 1881, Margaret Henderson Duncan.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.130.]
CHAPELKNOWE
Presbytery of Annandale
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.62
Church and manse. United with Half Morton and Gretna in 1904.
1854
JOHN C. [JAMES CHARLES] MEIKLEJOHN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.63
[Born 16th November 1828 at Denny, son of James Meiklejohn and Marion Thomson; educated at University of Glasgow;] ordained and inducted 25th April 1854; retired 6th July 1886; died [17th November] 1908; [buried Newington Cemetery, Edinburgh. Married 22nd December 1854, Agnes Cairns.]
1887
ANDREW LAING
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 8th February 1887; translated to Lochmaben Barras and Kirkmichael 8th September, 1903.
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CHAPELKNOWE and GRETNA
Presbytery of Annandale
Formed by the union of Chapelknowe and Half Morton and Gretna in 1904. The Chapelknowe church was used. A new church was built at Gretna.
1904
DAVID EAGLESHAM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.145
Born 8th February 1859 at Craigie, Ayrshire, son of Robert Eaglesham and Helen Sillar; educated at Crosslands Public School, Kilmarnock Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Irvine 1889; assistant Half Morton 1889-90; ordained and inducted Half Morton 1890; became minister of the united congregation 1904; died 1923. Married, 1898, Elizabeth Barr.
1924
JOHN WILLIAM MORRIS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 14th April 1924; translated to Rothiemurchus and Aviemore 9th March 1927.
1927
WILLIAM HARLAND COGHILL
Born 15th August 1901 at Belmont, Thurso, son of David and Elizabeth Coghill [née Jamieson]; educated at Thurso Miller Institution, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1922), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Guthrie Memorial 1922-4, St Paul’s 1924-5; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th April 1925; assistant Aberdeen North 1925-7; ordained and inducted 8th June 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.131, Chapelknowe and Springfield; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.335.]
ECCLEFECHAN EAST
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.40
Church and manse. Served by ordained preachers from 1911-15. United with the West congregation in 1915.
1873
WILLIAM HOWIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.188
Born 1841 at Kilwinning, son of John Howie and Mary Stevenson; educated at Dalgarum [Dalgarven?] Public School, Irvine Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1866), Glasgow Free Church College; assistant Gordon and Gargunnock; ordained and inducted 1873; retired 1911; died March 1918.
ECCLEFECHAN WEST
Presbytery of Annandale
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.44
Church and manse. United with the East congregation in 1915.
1896
ALEXANDER STEELE
Ordained and inducted 15 September 1896; became minister of the united congregation in 1915.
ECCLEFECHAN
Presbytery of Annandale
(after local union)
1896
ALEXANDER STEELE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.44
Born 27th June 1870 at Barrow-in-Furness, son of Thomas Steele and Mary Young; educated at Lochwinnoch, Edinburgh Stockbridge Public School and Church of Scotland Normal, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1895; probationer in charge, Carsphairn 1895-6; ordained and inducted Ecclefechan United Presbyterian 15th September 1896; became minister of the united congregation 1915; applied for colleague and successor 1928. Married 25th December 1896, Elizabeth Dodds.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.132.]
1928
ROBERT SMITH WILSON
Born 17th November 1892 at Tynemouth, son of John and Mary Wilson; educated at elementary schools; held Civil Service appointments in Britain and in Malabar, South India; University of Cambridge Christ College, B.A. (Hons. 1925), Westminster College, Cambridge; ordained by Presbytery of Newcastle for Foreign Mission service 17th April 1925; served in Madras; resigned 31st October 1927; inducted as colleague and successor 24th September 1928. Married 12th July 1928, Hedwig Kuhn.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.132; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.77.]
ESKDALEMUIR
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.41
Church and manse. From 1912 this congregation was served by ordained missionaries.
1879
JOHN TULLY FALSIDE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.151
Ordained and inducted 1879; died 1903.
1903
JOSEPH CLARK NICOL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted May 1903; translated to Pelaw-on-Tyne June 1912; translated to Eccles June 1916; translated to Symington, Ayrshire 16th July 1924.
1919
GEORGE RAMSAY
Ordained missionary, from Scalloway 18th December 1919, to Rigg of Gretna 1st March 1923.
1924
JOHN MCLEAN FLOCKHART
Ordained missionary, appointed 22nd July 1924; appointed to Boharm 7th October 1928.
GRETNA ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Annandale
This congregation was formed in 1921. Rigg of Gretna was linked to it in 1926.
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1921
JOHN ERNEST REID, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th June 1921; translated to Glasgow Cranstonhill 28th November 1923.
1924
GEORGE DUNCAN LOW, M.A.
[Born 1873 at Old Machar, Aberdeen, the son of George Duncan Low and Jane Stuart Reith;] ordained and inducted East Wemyss 2nd August 1904; resigned on appointment as Chaplain to the Forces May 1916; inducted 1924.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.133.]
HALF MORTON and GRETNA
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.41
Church and manse. United with Chapelknowe in 1904, under the name Chapelknowe and Gretna.
1890
DAVID EAGLESHAM, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1890; became minister of the united congregation in 1904.
HIGHTAE
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.44
Church and manse. United with Dalton from the Presbytery of Dumfries in 1904.
1876
JOHN HENDERSON THOMSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.342
Born 7th October 1824 at Edinburgh, son of Alexander Thomson and Margaret Henderson; educated at University of Edinburgh, Reformed Presbyterian Divinity Hall, Paisley; licensed by Reformed Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd March 1852; ordained and inducted Eaglesham Reformed Presbyterian Church 2nd November 1857; translated and inducted 6th November 1876; retired 1900; died 19th January 1901. Married 1891, Mary Cunningham, daughter of Dr James Young, Edinburgh. (See also W. J. Couper, The Reformed Presbyterian Church, pp.134 f.) Publications – Martyr Graves of Scotland; edited an addition of Cloud of Witnesses, 1871; edited with Dr A.A. Bonar, Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford; editor for many years of Reformed Presbyterian Magazine, Christian Treasury, and The Children’s Record.
1900
CHARLES DAVIDSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.133
Born 13th October 1843 at Sanquhar, son of Charles Davidson and … Nicholas [Nicholas Gilchrist;] educated at Gately Bridge School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; missionary, Glasgow Cowcaddens 1877, Barony Torrance 1883; licensed 1885; ordained and inducted Strathmiglo 11th March 1886; translated and inducted 6th August 1900; died 6th January 1904; [buried Lochmaben Cemetery, Dumfries-shire.] Married November 1872 [5th December 1871,] Helen Slimmon.
HIGHTAE and DALTON
Presbytery of Annandale
The two congregations united in 1904. Church and manse at Hightae, church at Dalton.
1904
WILLIAM H[AMILTON] FULLARTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.163
Ordained and inducted Dalton 1877; became senior minister of the united congregation in 1904; died 7th February 1928.
1905
JAMES EBENEZER MCINTYRE, M.A.
Formerly in Foreign Mission service in Manchuria; inducted 10th January 1905; translated to Motherwell Manse Road 10th August 1911.
1911
WILLIAM JOHNSTONE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th December 1911; resigned 30th September 1915; inducted Dalrymple 1917.
1916
GEORGE PATERSON
Born 12th September 1863 at Glasgow, son of Hugh Wishart Paterson and Marion Train; educated at Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; Secretary to the Tract and Colportage Society of Scotland 1906-16; ordained and inducted 17th February 1916; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1917, and with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918; resigned 4th November 1920; inducted Auckland St James’ Presbyterian Church, New Zealand 29th July 1921; died 10th October 1923. Married 14th December 1898, Edith Minnie Bennis.
1921
ANDREW SCOBIE
Born 19th June 1861 at Crosslee, Thornliebank, son of John Scobie and Jean Blackwood; educated at Thornliebank Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1882), B.D. (1885), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow South May 1885; assistant Liverpool Sefton Park 1885-9; ordained and inducted Rochdale 13th November 1889; translated to Glasgow Plantation 25th April 1899; translated and inducted 13th January 1921.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.133.]
JOHNSTONE and WAMPHRAY
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.41
Church and manse. Church reseated and renovated in 1907.
1896
JOHN YOUNG, M.A.
Ordained and inducted August 1896; translated to Renfrew Trinity 5th January 1906.
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1906
THOMAS ALEXANDER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 19th June 1906; translated to Kiama, New South Wales 21st September 1910; translated to Alford 24th June 1915.
1910
DAVID W[ILLIAM] MAIN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1st August 1910; translated to Greenock Wellpark 8th May 1923.
1923
HENRY TAYLOR FERGUSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th October 1923; translated to Musselburgh Millhill 6th December 1928.
1929
CYRIL ERNEST MARVIN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 3rd May 1929.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.133, Hope Memorial.]
KIRKMICHAEL
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.41
Church only. Served by ordained missionaries till the linking with Lochmaben Barras in 1902.
KIRKPATRICK-FLEMING
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.41
Church and manse. Mission Hall in Eaglesfield Village.
1887
GEORGE DONALDSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.139
Born 23rd January 1855 at Kilwinning, son of James Donaldson and Agnes Barr; educated at Montgreenan Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1886; assistant Airdrie 1886; ordained and inducted May 1887; retired 1926; died 10th January 1928. Married July 1887, Dora Buglass.
1926
ROBERT FULTON
Born 15th December 1870 at Kilwinning, son of Thomas Fulton and Elizabeth Smith; educated at Kilwinning Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1889), B.D. (1894), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock and Ayr 1894; assistant Stirling Allan Park 1898, Lochee West 1899, Glasgow Parkhead 1900-2, Lisburn 1902-6; ordained and inducted Lisburn 14th November 1906; translated to Corsock 10th November 1908; translated to Upton, Liverpool, 2nd June 1921; translated and inducted 18th November 1926. Married 13th December 1906, Mary McAvoy.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.132, Eaglesfield.]
LOCHMABEN BARRAS
Presbytery of Annandale
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.268
Church and manse. Kirkmichael was linked with this congregation in 1902.
1867
ALEXANDER MCDONALD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.269
[Born or baptised 29th March 1820, at Gordon, Berwickshire, son of Andrew McDonald and Barbara Douglas;] ordained and inducted 16th July 1867; died 1902.
LOCHMABEN BARRAS and KIRKMICHAEL
Presbytery of Annandale
Church and manse. This united congregation united with Lochmaben Victoria in 1920.
1903
ANDREW LAING
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.63
Ordained and inducted Chapelknowe 8th February 1887; translated and inducted 8th September 1903; became minister of the united congregation 1920.
LOCHMABEN VICTORIA
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.42
Church and manse. United with Barras congregation in 1920.
1899
ALBERT GLENTHORNE TAIT MACKINNON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 21st January 1899; translated to Greenock St Andrew’s 30th April 1908.
1908
ARCHIBALD FLEMING
Ordained and inducted 20th October 1908; translated to Kirkcaldy Gallatown 2nd June 1920.
LOCHMABEN-KIRKMICHAEL
Presbytery of Annandale
The local union took place in 1920. Three churches and two manses. The Victoria manse was sold in April 1928.
1920
ANDREW LAING
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.63
Born 14th June 1861 at Aberdeen, son of Andrew Laing and Mary Taggart; educated at Aberdeen Charlotte Street Free Church and Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen September 1886; ordained and inducted Chapelknowe 8th February 1887; translated to Lochmaben Barras and Kirkmichael 8th September 1903; became minister of the united congregation 1920; retired 8th August 1925. Married 13th April 1887, Jessie Hay. Clerk to the Presbytery from 6th February 1906.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.135.]
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1926
RICHARD KIRKPATRICK SOMERVILLE
Born 23rd May 1900 at Glasgow, son of William Francis Somerville and Janet Wilson Hutton; educated privately, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1920), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1924); student assistant Glasgow St Mark’s 1923-4; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow June 1924; Union Theological Seminary, New York 1924-5; ordained and inducted 2nd February 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.135, Lochmaben St Margaret; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.452; also Vol.10, p.60 and 267.]
LOCKERBIE ST CUTHBERT’S
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.42
Church and manse.
1892
JOHN DUNCAN MACGILP, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 6th December 1892; translated to Aberdeen Rutherford 29th March 1904.
1904
JOHN RIDDELL HUTTON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 5th July 1904; translated to Helensburgh St Columba’s 19th February 1913.
1913
WILLIAM JAMES MASSON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted June 1913; translated to Edinburgh St Cuthbert’s 12th September 1924.
1924
GILBERT M[EIKLE] STEWART, M.A.
[Born 1894 at Inveraray, the son of Donald Campbell Stewart, minister, and Susan Carson Meikle;] ordained and inducted 1924; left in 1927.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.135.]
1927
EDGAR PRIMROSE DICKIE
Born 12th August 1897 at Maxwelltown, Dumfries, son of William Dickie and Jane Paterson; educated at Dumfries Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics 1921), B.D. (1926); war service in Palestine and France 1916-19, awarded M.C. October 1918, wounded November 1917; University of Oxford Christ Church B.A. (1st Class Litt. Hum. 1923), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh New North 1924-6; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1st July 1926; University of Tübingen; ordained and inducted 11th October 1927. Married 31st August 1927, Ishbel Graham Holmes Johnston.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.135; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.769; also Vol.10, p.430 and Vol.11, p.425.]
LOCKERBIE TRINITY
Presbytery of Annandale
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.42
Church, hall and manse.
1865
DAVID THOMAS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.43
Born 5th September 1836 at Balfron, son of David Thomas and Agnes Russell; educated at Balfron Public School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, University of Heidelberg; licensed 1861; ordained and inducted 15th March 1865; died 21st July 1906. Married 17th July 1866, Agnes Blackwood.
1906
JAMES JACK, M.A., B.D., D.Litt.
Ordained and inducted 12th December 1906; translated to Rutherglen Greenhill 29th December 1912.
1913
DAVID WHITEFORD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 11th April 1913; translated to Coatbridge Middle 23rd December 1924.
1925
JOHN STEWART HASTIE
Born 4th June 1870 at Maryhill, Glasgow, son of Robert Hastie and Mary Stewart; educated at Glasgow Eastpark Public School, Free Church Normal School (pupil teacher 1886-8), University of Glasgow, M.A. (1892), B.D. (1897), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 4th May 1897; assistant Govan St Mary’s 1898-1900; ordained and inducted Glasgow Govan Linthouse 11th April 1900; translated to Liverpool Trinity 15th April 1909; translated to Gosforth, Newcastle 8th September 1918; translated and inducted 2nd June 1925. Married 21st February 1900, Charlotte Anne Bell McKean. Publications – Under the Blue Dome, London, 1909; The War and God’s Providence, Liverpool, 1915; The Threshold of the Temple, London, 1920; Triumphant Goodness, London, 1925.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.136.]
MOFFAT ST MARY’S
Presbytery of Annandale
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.42
Church with hall and manse.
1868
KENNETH MOODY-STUART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.334
Born 13th March 1842 at Edinburgh, son of Alexander Moody-Stuart and Jessie Stuart; educated at Edinburgh Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; assistant Glasgow St Matthew’s; ordained and inducted 17th December 1868; died 1904. Married Susan Walker. Publications – Life of Brownlow North; Alexander Moody-Stuart, D.D.: A Memoir by his Son, London.
1904
WILLIAM LANG STEPHEN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1904; translated to Dumbarton North 4th March 1910.
1910
CHARLES HILL DICK, B.D.
Translated from Bellshill East and inducted 24th June 1910; appointed to Port of Spain, Greyfriars, 22nd October 1919.
1920
ANDREW MURDOCH SMITH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.456; Vol.2, pp.215 and 330
Born 28th October 1863, son of David Smith and Mary Taylor; educated at
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Cumnock Free Church and Public School, Ayr Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1884), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Moffat, summer 1886; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Ayr 1887; assistant Greenock Union Street 1887-8; ordained and inducted Hamilton Saffronhall 21st February 1888; translated to Sunderland Trinity 1891; translated to Ayr Darlington Place 26th September 1895; translated to Edinburgh Bruntsfield 19th July 1900; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1918; translated and inducted 12th May 1920. Married 22nd June 1888, Margaret Latta.
MOFFAT WELL ROAD
Presbytery of Annandale
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.48
Church and manse. Hall added.
1894
JAMES TODD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.50 and 403
Born 24th November 1853 at Kinross, son of James Todd and Margaret Smith; educated at Kinross Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., B.D., United Presbyterian College; ordained and inducted Duns South 6th January 1881; translated and inducted 15th November 1894; retired 23rd December 1910. Married 28th February 1884, Isabella Brown.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.136.]
1911
GEORGE ELMSLIE TROUP
Born 13th March 1882 at Broughty Ferry, son of Rev. George Elmslie Troup and Eliza Jane Gardiner; educated at Broughty Ferry privately and Grove Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A., University of Oxford Balliol College, B.A., New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh St George’s 1909-11; licensed by Presbytery of Annandale 1911; ordained and inducted 16th June 1911; resigned while Chaplain to the Forces 1916; war service as Chaplain to the Forces, R.N.V.R. 1915-19; appointed first Secretary of Scottish National Council of Juvenile Organizations 1920; appointed first Secretary of the Scottish Juvenile Welfare and After-care Office 1930; retired 1942. Married (1) 1915, Agnes Dorothy Cowan; (2) 1940, Mary de M. Leathes. Founder and first Chairman, Scottish Association of Boys’ Clubs; Vice-chairman, National Association of Boys’ Clubs; member of Administrative Council of King George’s Jubilee Trust; Chairman of Board of Management of Society for Education of the Sons and Daughters of Ministers of Church of Scotland. C.B.E. Publications St. Columba; The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land, Edinburgh, 1913; reports, pamphlets, etc. connected with social service and youth welfare.
1917
B[ENJAMIN] R[OBERT] MEIN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted Thropton, Northumberland 1888; left in 1903; in charge Algiers winter services for several years; appointed temporary minister November 1915; inducted May 1917; resigned 7th September 1922.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.136.]
1923
ALFRED PATMAN MUIRHEAD, M.A.
Translated from Stirling Erskine and inducted 18th April 1923; translated to Dunfermline Townhill 20th March 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.136; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, pp.463 and 538.]
RIGG OF GRETNA
Presbytery of Annandale
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.63
Church and manse. Linked with Gretna St Andrew’s from 1926.
1892
WILLIAM HOGARTH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.64
Ordained and inducted 25th October 1892; retired 1908.
1908
WILLIAM H[ENRY] ALLAN, M.A.
[Born 1882 at Leith, son of William Allan, later minister, and Anne Jane Harvey;] ordained and inducted 1908; translated to Crewe 1922. [Married 1915, Agnes Beattie.]
1923
GEORGE RAMSAY
Ordained missionary from Eskdalemuir 1st March 1923; appointed to Craigend 30th December 1925.
WATERBECK
Presbytery of Annandale
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.55
Church and manse. Four stained-glass windows, one as War Memorial, added.
1900
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 13th September 1900; translated to Ayr Trinity 1907.
1907
HUGH WATT, B.D.
Ordained and inducted December 1907; translated to Bearsden North September 1912.
1913
ALISTER JOHN STEWART, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 21st January 1913; translated to Paisley St James’ 7th September 1919.
1920
ALLAN MACDONALD CRAIG
Ordained and inducted 7th January 1920; translated to Comrie 1st April 1925.
1925
DAVID LYNDESAY SMITH
Born 30th May 1900 at Montrose, son of David Smith and Annie Milne; educated at Montrose Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. Classics 1921), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1922-4; licensed by Presbytery of Brechin and Fordoun May 1924; assistant Paisley St James’ 1924-5; ordained and inducted 1st July 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.137; for an account of this minister, see and Vol.9, p.121; also Vol.10, p.71.]
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PRESBYTERY OF DUMFRIES AND PENPONT
Synod of Dumfries and Galloway
BURNHEAD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.265
Church and manse. United with Penpont West on 8th October 1911 to form Scaurbridge and Burnhead.
1901
JOHN PRYDE MURDOCH, M.A., B.D.
Inducted April 1901; translated to Cambusnethan June 1911.
CLOSEBURN
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.47
Church, hall and manse. Organ introduced in 1908. Status reduced in 1924. Adhered to the United Free Church (Continuing).
1851
JAMES HUTTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.189
Born 1822 at Cramond, son of James Hutton and Margaret Cleghorn; educated at Cramond School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Markinch; ordained and inducted 1851; became senior minister 1895; died 17th January 1902. Married 1855, Mary Baillie. Publication – Line upon Line (addresses), Dumfries. Clerk to the Free Church Presbytery of Penpont for some years.
1895
JAMES MAIN, B.D.
Missionary of English Presbyterian Church for China; inducted 1895; resigned April 1905; inducted Pathstruie 1913.
1905
JAMES DICK
Born 23rd September 1850 at Kilbirnie, son of John Dick and Agnes Wilson; educated at University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Carlisle, Glasgow Tron; ordained and inducted 23rd October 1905; retired 20th July 1924; [died 1931. Married 1883, Elizabeth Wyllie Murdoch.]
1924
CHARLES WILLIAM HORN
Ordained missionary appointed 5th December 1924; introduced Coatbridge Drumpellier 13th February 1929.
1929
BARNARD PEARCE VERRAL
Ordained missionary; born 1st April 1870 at Brighton, son of Barnard Verral and Kate Pearce; educated at Brighton Haddington House School, York Place School, Ardingly College, Sussex, London Stepney College; war service in Mine Sweepers 1915, in H.M. Forces in France 1916-7; loc. ten. Tranent St Andrew’s 1917-19; missionary, Dunrossness 1920-2; ordained as missionary, Kirkwall, 11th September 1923; appointed Westray 1923; introduced Kennethmont 15th February 1927; introduced 5th June 1929; [died 1938.] Married 21st August 1897 Rose Mary Verral [née Gibbons].
DALBEATTIE BURNSIDE
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.276
Church, hall and vestry, and manse. United with Colliston on 19th October 1919 to form Park.
1859
DAVID KINNEAR, B.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.276
[Born about 1828, Wemyss, Fife;] ordained and inducted 30th August 1859; died 26th November 1903; [buried Dalbeattie Cemetery. Married 1862, Jane Murray Burnie.]
1904
ALEXANDER MCPHERSON JOHNSTON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 11th June 1904; translated to Ayr Cathcart Street 8th February 1908.
1908
DAVID AUCHENVOLE DICK, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 29th July 1908; translated to Glasgow Cuninghame 27th February 1913.
1913
JOHN RANKINE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th November 1913; continue as minister of the united congregation.
DALBEATTIE COLLISTON
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.43
Church and manse. United with Burnside on 19th October 1919 to form Park.
1879
JAMES ALEXANDER PATON, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.289
Translated from Portmoak and inducted 1879; died 29th July 1919.
DALBEATTIE PARK
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
The Colliston church and the Burnside manse were used by the united congregation, and the Burnside church was used as a hall till 1944 when it was acquired by the County Council of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright as a youth centre.
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1919
JOHN RANKINE
Formerly minister of Burnside, continued as minister of the united congregation; translated to Banff 1921.
1922
GEORGE BAIN BURNET, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 16th March 1922; translated to Glasgow Sydney Place June 1925.
1925
DUNCAN MACDOUGALL NICCOL
Born 21st August 1876 at Greenock, son of Thomas Niccol and Helen Jackson Macdougall; educated at Partick Academy, Glasgow Hamilton Crescent School, University of Glasgow; in business 1901-19; Westminster College, Cambridge; licensed by Presbytery of Newcastle July 1922; ordained and inducted St George’s Presbyterian Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne 20th December 1922; translated and inducted 16th September 1925. Married 4th April 1904, Jessie Campbell McKellar.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.139; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.83.]
DALTON
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.43
Church and manse. United with Hightae in the Presbytery of Annandale in 1904.
1877
WILLIAM H[AMILTON] FULLARTON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1877; became senior minister of the united congregation 1904.
DUMFRIES BUCCLEUCH STREET
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.257
Church and session house. Mission carried on in Johnston Mission Hall. Pipe organ installed in 1902.
1884
JOHN CAIRNS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.258
Born 13th April 1857 at United Presbyterian Manse, Stitchel, son of Rev. David Cairns and Elizabeth Williamson Smith; educated at Edrom Parish School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1878), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, University of Leipzig; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kelso June 1882; assistant Dumbarton Bridgend 1882-3, Dumfries Buccleuch Street 1883-4; ordained and inducted 16th October 1884; retired April 1922; died 30th May 1922. Vice-Convener of Continental Committee 1907-8, and Convener 1909; Convener of Colonial and Continental Committee 1913-22. Publications – Principal Cairns (Famous Scots Series), Edinburgh 1903; Our Continental Mission Field and its Historic Background, Edinburgh, 1921.
1923
GEORGE DOUGLAS REITH
Born 16th January 1880 at Glasgow, son of Rev. George Reith, D.D.; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons.), B.D., Glasgow College; appointed Professor of English Nagpur Hislop College, and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow, 22nd June 1907; resigned 19th November 1912; inducted Clunie 12th August 1915; translated and inducted 18th January 1923; resigned for health reasons 4th November 1925; died 5th January 1929. Married 15th September 1915, Ada Kathleen Binns.
1926
JAMES EDWARD MCINTOSH
Born 25th June 1892 at Willington-on-Tyne, son of William Bowie Mcintosh and Jane Soutar; educated at Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-on-Tyne, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1913), New College, Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces 1915-18; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1919; ordained and inducted Canonbie 12th May 1921; translated and inducted 22nd April 1926; [died 24th May 1945; buried Dumfries High Cemetery.] Married August 1921 Annie Tocher, M.A..
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.139.]
DUMFRIES LOREBURN
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.252
Church and hall. Electric light and new organ installed 1923; new heating system 1928. History in the Tercentenary Book published in 1911 by Maxwell, Dumfries. This congregation adhered to the United Free Church (Continuing).
1881
GEORGE W[ILLIAM] URE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.254
[Born 18th August 1858 at Glasgow, son of John Ure and Barbara Holmes;] ordained and inducted 17th March 1881; resigned owing to ill-health 6th September 1904; died 1904. [Married 1883, Helen Agnes Rodan.]
1905
DAVID R[USSELL] W. SCOTT
Translated from Darvel Irvine Bank and inducted 16th February 1905; resigned 1st September 1920 on appointment to Lisbon.
1921
ARCHIBALD JAMIESON
Born 9th March 1880 at Kilmarnock, son of John Jamieson and Christina Macartney; educated at Kilmarnock Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; in business to 1919; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 6th April 1919; loc. ten. Glasgow White Memorial; ordained and inducted 17th March 1921.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.286.]
DUMFRIES MARTYRS’
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.43
Church and manse. This congregation was dissolved in 1924.
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1867
ROBERT MCKENNA, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.236
Translated from Port-Glasgow and inducted 1867; became senior minister 1909; died 1917.
1909
THOMAS KEIR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.450
Born 7th August 1855 at Scone, son of David Keir and Ann Gardiner; educated at Scone Parish School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1880), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; in charge Springfield Mission, Fife 1882; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Perth, 1883; ordained and inducted Lauder United Presbyterian October 1885; retired to facilitate local union 12th March 1908; short term ministry, Dunscore Renwick 1908-9; introduced 1909; inducted 4th April 1912; retired October 1924; died 21st March 1926. Married 4th January 1905, Lily Jane Cross.
DUMFRIES ST GEORGE’S
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.44
Church, halls and manse. Mission halls in Buccleuch Street.
1882
CHARLES MCNEIL, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.253
Translated from Colinton and Currie [Juniper Green] and inducted June 1882; became senior minister September 1909; died 6th August 1916.
1909
DUNCAN ROSS
Born 21st May 1869 at Rutherglen, son of George Ross and Amelia Black; educated at Glasgow Eastfield School and John Street School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1895), B.D. (1899), Glasgow Free Church College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1899); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow April 1899; assistant Glasgow Fairbairn 1899-1900; ordained and inducted Carluke St John’s April 1900; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 10th September 1909; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1917. Married 25th June 1902, Margaret Scott Harvie.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.141.]
DUMFRIES SOUTH
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.44
Church and halls. New halls built in 1909 at a cost of £1250. Mission hall at Trench. New pipe organ installed as War Memorial in 1923 at a cost of over £1100. The Henderson Mission, formerly carried on by the Martyrs’ congregation, was transferred to this congregation in 1926.
1875
JOHN DONALD MCKINNON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.241
Translated from Liverpool English Presbyterian Church and inducted 1875; died 1904.
1904
JAMES LAW, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Broomielaw and inducted 14th June 1904; translated to Edinburgh Moray-Knox 1910.
1911
JAMES YOUNG WILSON, M.A.
Translated from Kirkcaldy Gallatown and inducted 7th April 1911; translated to Strathaven East 1921.
1921
JOHN JAMES ELLIOTT, M.A.
Translated from Larkhall Chalmers and inducted 21st December 1921; translated to Edinburgh St David’s 1928.
1929
JAMES ALEXANDER LAURIE
Born 18th June 1896 at Edinburgh, son of James Masterton Laurie and Janet Denholm; educated at private school, Edinburgh George Heriot’s College, Presbyterian Church College, Australia 1915-20, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 5th May 1925; ordained and inducted Earlston 28th October 1925; translated and inducted 7th March 1929. Married 5th October 1925, Margaret Esson Blair Gillon.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.141; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.271; also Vol.10, p.160.]
DUMFRIES TOWNHEAD
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.254
Church, hall and manse. Pipe organ installed at the cost of £1000; War Memorial in the form of stained-glass windows.
1893
DAVID MACKIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th July 1893; translated to Glasgow Partick East October 1900.
1901
PETER WILSON, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.418
[Born or baptised 31st May, 1854 at Fraserburgh, son of Peter Wilson and Margaret Hay;] ordained and inducted Greenlaw 12th February 1879; resigned to go to South Africa 1894; returned 1895; appointed to Wamphray 1895; inducted 11th April 1901; resigned 12th September 1903; [died 1922. Married 1892, Margaret Wilson Gibson.]
1904
HERBERT ANDERSON WHITELAW
Translated from Haltwhistle and inducted 21st April 1904; translated to Gateshead 1st May 1912; translated to Glasgow Burnbank 18th October 1917.
1912
THOMAS MCEWEN, M.A.
Translated from Urr and inducted 11th July 1912; translated to Glasgow Gorbals 16th September 1919.
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1919
WILLIAM THOMSON
Born 15th June 1873 at Fife Keith, Banffshire, son of William Thomson and Joanna Mortimer Sutherland; educated at Fife Keith Junior School, Keith Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A., Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Strathbogie; assistant Falkirk St Andrew’s, Edinburgh St Paul’s; ordained and inducted Auchencairn 31st March 1905; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; in Germany 1919; translated and inducted 5th December 1919.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.141.]
DUNSCORE EAST
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.44
Church and manse. United with the Renwick congregation on 17th February 1918.
1861
JAMES POLLOCK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.293
Born 3rd November 1835 at Dalsholm, New Kirkpatrick, son of Robert Pollock and Mary Shearer; educated at Maryhill Free Church School, University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1859; in charge of station at Crawfordjohn 1859-61; ordained and inducted 16th May 1861; retired August 1917; died 29th December 1918. Married 17th October 1905, Christina Macmaster.
DUNSCORE RENWICK
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.270
Church and manse. Organ installed in 1909. United with East congregation on 17th February 1918.
1859
GEORGE BARCLAY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.271
[Baptised 12th March 1833 at Cargill, Perthshire, son of James Barclay and Mary Bell; educated at University of St Andrews;] ordained and inducted 31st May 1859; died 14th April 1903. [Married 1859, Jeanie Millar Robertson.]
1903
WILLIAM RISK THOMSON
Introduced 3rd November 1903; inducted Paisley Ralston 17th March 1904.
1904
ANDREW MCLACHLAN, M.A.
Introduced 12th April 1904; inducted Tranent Wishart January 1908.
1908
THOMAS KEIR
Introduced 4th March 1908; introduced Dumfries Martyrs’ 1909.
1909
ARCHIBALD MARR
Introduced 1st December 1909; introduced Cromar 1914.
1914
MATTHEW MURE DICKIE, B.D.
[Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.520]
[Born 1849 at Bristol, son of Matthew Dickie, minister, and Agnes Arthur Stevenson;] ordained as preacher [at Haddington East] 1876; appointed minister in charge, Rathillet 1905; resigned 1907; introduced Tillicoultry South 7th November 1908; introduced 14th October 1914; resigned 1918; [died 1923; commemorated in Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol.]
DUNSCORE
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
(after local union)
1918
THOMAS WILSON
Ordained and inducted 15th July 1918; translated to Johnstone West 1923.
1923
NORMAN ERIC OAKLEY, B.A.
Ordained and inducted August 1923; translated to Kelso Trinity 23rd March 1927.
1927
ANDREW BROWN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.103
Born 20th December 1865 at Kirkintilloch, son of John Brown and Mary Buchanan Hendry; educated at Kirkintilloch Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed 10th June 1890; in charge of Chapelhall Mission 1892-3, and Blackridge Mission 1893-8; ordained and inducted Blackridge 12th July 1898; translated to Norham 12th November 1908; translated to Lasswade 29th November 1917; translated and inducted 22nd September 1927. Married 28th November 1894, Janet Hopkin.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.142, Dunscore East and Renwick.]
DUNSCORE CRAIG
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.44
Church with vestry and manse. Shed for stabling erected 1905; church reseated 1925.
1898
WILLIAM BARROWMAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.92
Born 7th September 1864 at Glasgow, son of James Barrowman and Elizabeth Dunn; educated at Glasgow Buchan Street School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow King’s Park Free Church 1893-6; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1897; assistant Gorbals Free Church 1896-8; ordained and inducted 1st September 1898; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917; died 30th January 1928. Married 12th December 1899, Georgina Thomson Stevenson.
1929
FRANK [FRANCIS] JOHN LOGAN
Born July 1888 in Galashiels, son of William Logan and Euphemia Russell; educated at various public schools, Salvation Training College, London; ordained as missionary at Glencaple 22nd December 1927; transferred 6th February 1929; resigned 12th June 1932. Married 28th April 1922, Elizabeth Hogg Spiers.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.142.]
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GLENCAIRN
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.46
Church and manse. United with Moniaive in July 1911.
1896
ROBERT GEORGE PHILIP, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th September 1896; resigned to facilitate local union July 1911; inducted Wester Pardovan 24th July 1917.
GLENCAIRN AND MONIAIVE
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
After the local union in July 1911 both churches were used till 1919, when the Moniaive church was sold to the Glencairn War Memorial Committee and was reconstructed to form the War Memorial Institute. The Moniaive manse was sold.
1911
HARRY MACDONALD WILSON
Born 6th May 1883 at Broughty Ferry, son of Adam Wilson, M.A., LL.D., Classics Master in Dundee High School, and Agnes Rankine, daughter of Rev. John Rankine, Cupar, Fife; educated at Dundee High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1904), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1908; assistant Alloa Moncrieff, 1908-10; Edinburgh North Morningside 1910-11; ordained and inducted 13th October 1911; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917-18.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.146, Moniaive.]
GLENCAPLE
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.44
Church only. Reduced to a mission station in 1908, and provisionally united on 20th February 1929 with Caerlaverock Parish Church after the transfer of the Rev. F.J. Logan.
1863
WILLIAM LORIMER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.211
Ordained and inducted 1863; became senior minister 1892; died 1902.
1895
JAMES MALCOLM, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.260
Ordained and inducted 1895; resigned in 1907; died in New Zealand.
1908
ALEXANDER PLENDERLEITH BATHGATE
Ordained probationer 19th June 1908; transferred to Deerness, Orkney, 10th September 1914.
1914
THOMAS HAVRE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.182
[Born 1850 at Newcastle, England;] ordained to Congregational ministry, Inch 1879; translated to Glasgow Hutchesontown Congregational Church 1883; admitted to Free Church 1885; inducted Boharm 1886; translated to Glasgow Somerville Memorial 1889; retired 1906; introduced as ordained probationer Maryculter June 1907; introduced as ordained probationer Aberdeen Union February 1909; resigned at local union 1911; introduced Lethendy 1911; introduced 1914; resigned 1920. [Married 1879, Jane Hay Byres. See Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.306]
1921
CHARLES WILLIAM HORN
Ordained missionary 14th June 1921; transferred to Closeburn 5th December 1924.
1927
FRANK JOHN LOGAN
Ordained as missionary 22nd December 1927; transferred to Dunscore Craig 6th February 1929.
IRONGRAY
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.45
Church, manse, and two mission halls, one at Shawhead, the other at Lochfoot, both former Free Church schools.
1887
THOMAS MAXTON MAILER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.260
Born 10th March 1858 at Dunning, son of Robert Mailer and Ann McKillop; educated at Dunning Free Church School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; missionary assistant Glasgow King’s Park 1878-83, Glasgow Great Hamilton Street, 1883-6; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow July 1866; ordained and inducted 20th January 1887; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France. J.P. for Stewartry of Kirkcudbright; member of School Board and of Parish Council of Irongray. Married 5th June 1887, Annie Margaret Alston Lockhart.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.143, Irongray Shawhead.]
KIRKBEAN AND SOUTHWICK
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.45
Church and manse; church divided in the period to form church and hall.
1895
GEORGE HIGGS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 24th January 1895; transferred to Cardenden 16th May 1910.
1910
ARCHIBALD MCCALL
Translated from Shapinshay and inducted August 1910; resigned 1915; inducted Ardeonaig March 1919.
1916
JOHN GEORGE FINDLAY MCGARVA
Born 3rd June 1867 at Glasgow, son of John Brown McGarva and Jessie Findlay; educated at Glasgow Elmbank Street Public School and St Stephen’s
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Public School, University of Glasgow, Evangelical Union and Congregational Union College; ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church at Shotts 1897; translated to Glasgow Springburn Congregational Church 1906; introduced Hamilton Greengairs July 1915; translated and inducted 2nd March 1916. Married January 1905, Margaret Adamson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.146, Mainsriddle; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.216.]
KIRKCONNEL
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
This congregation, formerly a mission station, was raised to full status in 1914.
1914
THOMAS CUNNINGHAM FRASER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1st October 1914; translated to Dundee Bell Street 16th September 1917.
1918
ROBERT SUTHERLAND
Ordained and inducted 10th January 1918; translated to Kingussie 22nd February 1921.
1921
JAMES MACKIE, M.C., M.A.
Ordained and inducted 9th June 1921; translated to Paisley Wallneuk 15th March 1923.
1923
JOHN POLLOCK
Ordained and inducted 21st June 1923; translated to Law 26th May 1925.
1925
WALTER ALEXANDER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.79
Born 29th July 1866 at Millerston, son of John Alexander and Margaret Menzies; educated at Ruchazie, Hogganfield, and City Public School, Glasgow; University of Glasgow M.A. (1888), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1893; assistant Glasgow Sighthill 1893, Torrance Mission Station 1893-6, Glasgow London Road Free Church 1896-8, Paisley St George’s 1898; ordained and inducted Kirkmaiden 20th October 1898; translated to Greenock Martyrs’ 2nd September 1919; translated and inducted 3rd September 1925. Married 5th January 1899, Marion Dunlop Cunningham.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.144, Kirkconnel, St Mark’s.]
KIRKMAHOE
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.45
Church and manse.
1844
WILLIAM ANDSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.85
Ordained and inducted 1844; retired 1884; died April 1909.
1884
WILLIAM MCDOWALL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.226
Born 27th April 1851 at Ballantrae, son of John McDowall and Grace Gordon; educated at Glenapp and Ballantrae Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1880), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kirkcudbright 1883; assistant Glenkens 1883, Glencairn 1883-4; ordained and inducted 16th October 1884; became senior minister 30th June 1927; died 5th April 1929. Married (1) 1885, Jessie Crocket; (2) 1894, Agnes Jane Edgar.
1927
WILLIAM BALD
Born 27th June 1891 at Cairneyhill, Dunfermline, son of William Bald and Helen Duncanson; educated at Dunfermline High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1911), New College, Edinburgh; war service 1914-16; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh, 1917; loc. ten. Makerstoun 1917, Campbeltown Lorne Street 1918; assistant Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1919; ordained at Umtali Southern Rhodesia, by Presbytery of Rhodesia 6th June 1920; translated to Glenthorn, Cape Province, 15th November 1922; translated and inducted 30th June 1927; resigned 2nd October 1929; adhered to United Free Church (Continuing). Married 20th July 1914, Margaret Douglas Simmons.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.145.]
LOCHEND AND NEW ABBEY
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.45
One church at Lochend and one at New Abbey; manse in Beeswing village. Improvements in manse 1914.
1874
WILLIAM DUNCAN THOMSON, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.343
Ordained and inducted 1874; resigned 1900; died 1907.
1900
ROBERT HOWIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 18th October 1900; translated to Gullane 1st February 1906.
1906
GEORGE MILLIE GIBB
Born 16th September 1866 at Edinburgh, son of George Gibb and Mary Ballintine; educated at Edinburgh James Gillespie’s School, Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1888), New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 11th May 1898; assistant Edinburgh St Mary’s 1898-1902 and 1902-3, and St Bernard’s 1904-6; ordained and inducted 18th May 1906; died 21st January 1932. Clerk to Presbytery 1926-9, and to Synod 1927-9.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.145, Lochend.]
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MAXWELLTOWN
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.46
Church, halls and manse. The original church building was let as a Drill Hall. This was awarded to the Free Church in 1905 but was bought back by the congregation for £400 in 1909, and was sold to the School Board in 1919 for £350. In 1922 the old manse was sold and another purchased. In 1923 a small hall was erected as an addition to the church, and in 1927 a further addition was made to the premises and electric light installed.
1895
RONALD GEORGE MACINTYRE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.232
Born 30th August 1863 at Melbourne, Australia, son of Angus MacIntyre and Catherine Cameron; educated at Fort William Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., (1885), B.D. (1889), D.D. (1919), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh St Bernard’s Free Church 1886; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Abertarff 1889; assistant Galashiels 1889; ordained and inducted St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Birkenhead, June 1890; translated and inducted June 1895; resigned August 1903 on appointment to Woollabra, Sydney, Australia; appointed Professor of Systematic Theology, St Andrew’s College, University of Sydney May 1909; retired May 1927; [died 1954.] Acted as Director of Recruiting for New South Wales during the Great War. Awarded O.B.E. (1918), C.M.G. (1926). Married 1895, Christina W. Cromb. Publications – Elijah and Elisha, Edinburgh, 1900; The Other Side of Death, London, 1920; Comfort and Courage, London, 1927.
1903
WILLIAM JEREMIAH STREET, M.A.
Translated from Portsoy and inducted 10th September 1903; translated to London Willesden 1907; translated to Glasgow Stevenson Memorial 1911.
1908
JAMES MCNEILL LITTLE, M.A.
Translated from Sunderland Trinity and inducted 1908; translated to Glasgow St Mark’s 1914.
1915
JOHN BEGG, B.D.
Translated from St Monance and inducted 25th February 1915; translated to Edinburgh Queen Street 12th October 1922.
1923
JAMES ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, M.A.
Translated from Forres Castlehill and inducted 22nd February 1923; translated to Glasgow St John’s-Renfield 6th June 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.140, Dumfries Maxwelltown West.]
MONIAIVE
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.259
Church and manse. United with Glencairn in July 1911 to form Glencairn and Moniaive.
1871
THOMAS KIDD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.261
Born 6th November 1846 at Chesterhall, Dunbar, son of James Dunlop Kidd and Janet Auld Campbell; educated at Irvine High School, University of Glasgow, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1871; ordained and inducted 31st October 1871; died 7th February 1911. Married 8th May 1877, Marion Johnston Beck.
PENPONT EAST
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.47
Known as Penpont after Penpont West united with Burnhead in 1911. It united with Thornhill under the name Thornhill and Virginhall on 28th May 1924.
1868
DAVID BLACK, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.96
Ordained and inducted 1868; died 1914.
1915
JOHN PATERSON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 28th January 1915; translated to Dumbarton Bridgend 12th March 1924.
PENPONT WEST
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.48
Church and manse. United with Burnhead on 8th October 1911 under the name Scaurbridge and Burnhead.
1893
WILLIAM SIMPSON
Ordained and inducted 3rd August 1893; translated to Glasgow Renwick 3rd September 1901.
1902
THOMAS CLARK
Ordained and inducted 26th February 1902; became minister of the united congregation 8th October 1911.
RUTHWELL
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.46
Church, manse, schoolhouse, church officer’s house.
1886
ANDREW ANGUS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.85
Born 12th July 1860 at West Cannabars, Whiterashes, Aberdeen, son of George Angus and Elspeth Gray; educated at New Machar School, Aberdeen Grammar
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School, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1884; assistant Ruthwell Free Church 1886; ordained and inducted September 1886; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1918, and in Germany 1919; died 2nd June 1925. Married 22nd June 1887, Anne Sivewright Batcham [“Annie Sievwright Batchen” in marriage record; “Anne Sievewright Batchan” in birth record.]
1925
DANIEL WILLIAM MONTGOMERY
Born 29th January 1886 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, son of Robert Montgomery and Ellen Aitken; educated at Newcastle Hozier Street and Rumford Street Public School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; served in Glasgow City Mission 1918-23, students’ mission, Broomielaw, 1924-5; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow March 1925; ordained and inducted 26th November 1925. Married 6th July 1926, Hellen Dougan.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.146, Mount Kedar; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.239; also Vol.10, p.140.]
SANQUHAR NORTH
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.246
Church and manse.
1868
JAMES HAY SCOTT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.247
Ordained and inducted 2nd June 1868; retired 1910; died 1915.
1911
H[UGH] S[TEWART] ANDERSON, M.A.
[Born 6th April 1859 at Glasgow, son of George Stewart Anderson and Margaret Simson; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A. (1882); ministered in Australia;] short term ministry 1911-13; [returned to Australia; died 30th July 1938 at Longueville, New South Wales.]
1914
JOHN EDMOND MARTIN
Born 12th April 1871 [1870] at London, son of Rev. Gavin Martin of Rajputana [and Mary Paulin;] educated at Irvine Academy, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; missionary at Uphall; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1883; appointed to Grand Cayman 23rd July 1895 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 29th March 1896; resigned 30th June 1914; introduced 1914; died 29th July 1916. Married 11th December 1897, Marion [Watson] Cochrane.
1917
DAVID MCQUEEN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1917; translated to Bellshill West 1922.
1922
TIMOTHY WIGHTMAN STIRLING
Translated from Glasgow Henderson Memorial and inducted 16th November 1922; translated to Chapelhall 29th March 1928.
1928
JAMES CAMPBELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.115
Born 9th March 1857 at Castcraigs, Pollokshaws, son of William Campbell and Jane Calder; educated at Langside Academy, Glasgow Anderson’s Academy, Gilbertfield House, Hamilton, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1881; assistant Liverpool Walton; ordained and inducted Blantyre Anderson 15th May 1882; retired July 1928; introduced 20th September 1928. Married (1) 15th October 1885, Mary Jane Scott; (2) 17th September 1928, Fanny Edith Capel.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.148.]
SANQUHAR SOUTH
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.243
Church, hall, session house, vestry and manse. United with the West congregation on 31st December 1916.
1879
MATTHEW DICKIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.245
Born 6th April 1847 at Errol, son of John Dickie and Jean Todel; educated at Sanquhar Parish School, New Cumnock, Ochiltree Free Church School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1874), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; in charge of mission station at Gateside of Wamphray 1876; assistant Edinburgh Palmerston Place 1877, Dundee Butterburn 1877-8; licensed 1878; ordained and inducted 28th October 1879; retired 31st December 1916; died 11th October 1929. Married 22nd January 1885, Jane Wallace.
SANQUHAR WEST
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.48
Church with vestry and manse. United with the South congregation on 31st December 1916.
1883
JOHN FLEMING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.156
Born 1854 at Strathaven, son of John Fleming and Ann Craig; educated at University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1881; assistant Edinburgh Dean, Glencairn; ordained and inducted 1883; retired 31st December 1916; died 25th February 1918.
SANQUHAR
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
(after local union)
The South and West congregations united on 31st December 1916. The West church and manse were sold to the Evangelical Union Congregational Church in Sanquhar, and the proceeds were used for the improvement of the South church.
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1917
JAMES BAILLIE, M.A.
Translated from Beith Mitchell Street and inducted 6th June 1917; translated to Dundee Dudhope 10th April 1923.
1923
DAVID MAILLER YULE
Born 11th September 1874, son of David Mailler Yule and Mary Crawford; educated at Hamilton St John’s Free Church Grammar School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Hamilton June 1897; loc. ten. Galashiels South 1898; assistant Ayr Darlington Place 1898-9; loc. ten. Motherwell Brandon Street 1899-1900; ordained and inducted Roberton 6th December 1900; translated to Denny Broompark 6th June 1906; translated to Glasgow Alexandra Parade 18th April 1915; war service with Scottish Churches Huts, Invergordon, 1917; translated and inducted 6th September 1923. Married 16th April 1901, Elizabeth Scott.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.148, Sanquhar St Ninian’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.423.]
SCAURBRIDGE AND BURNHEAD
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Formed by the Union of Burnhead and Penpont West on 8th October 1911.
1911
THOMAS CLARK
Born 14th June 1862 at Cardenden, son of William Clark and Mary Goodall; educated at Kirkcaldy Cluny School, Edinburgh Heriot-Watt College, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Bo’ness 1897-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kirkcaldy June 1898; assistant Edinburgh High 1898-1902; ordained and inducted Penpont West 26th February 1902; war service in France with Y.M.C.A. 1916, and Scottish Churches Huts 1918; became minister of the united congregation 8th October 1911. Married 25th January 1918, Louisa Irvine.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.148.]
THORNHILL
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.261
Church and manse. United with Penpont East on 28th May 1924 under the name of Thornhill and Virginhall.
1893
JOSEPH BROWN PIRRET
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.262
Son of Rev. David Pirret, minister of Burnbank United Presbyterian, and Violet Brown; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1892; assistant Glasgow Wellington 1892, Broughty Ferry Union 1892-3; ordained and inducted 18th April 1893; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; retired to facilitate local union June 1924; died 29th June 1943.
THORNHILL and VIRGINHALL
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
1924
GEORGE KINNEAR WOOD
Born 2nd July 1899 at Yoker, Clydebank, son of William James Wood and Marjory Kinnear; educated at Clydebank Higher Grade School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1921), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Woodlands 1923-4; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton 1st April 1924; ordained and inducted 6th November 1924. Married 1st September 1917, Rose Kinnell McKenzie.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.149; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.221; also Vol.10, pp.71 and 126; and Vol.11, p.43.]
WANLOCKHEAD
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.48
Church, manse and cottage.
1896
DUNCAN MACKINNON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.241
Born 4th March 1855 at Slackristock, Carron Valley, Kilsyth, son of Donald and Lily MacKinnon [née Curr]; educated at local schools, University of Glasgow, M.A., Divinity Hall of Original Secession Church; student missionary, Torrance of Campsie 1891-2; assistant Dundee St Paul’s Free Church 1893-6; ordained and inducted 20th February 1896; retired 29th September 1916; died 26th February 1924. Married 11th November 1897, Jessie Archibald.
1916
GEORGE CAMERON GRANT
Translated from Oldham and inducted 19th October 1916; translated to Glasgow Govan McGregor Memorial 1919.
1919
GEORGE GRANVILLE RAMAGE
Ordained and inducted 10th July 1919; translated to Bellshill McDonald Memorial 28th February 1923.
1923
ANDREW SCOULLAR
Ordained missionary, appointed to three years’ ministry September 1923.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.484.]
1927
JOHN OLIVER DICK
Born 15th April 1861 at Glasgow, son of William Dick and Jean Oliver; educated at Glasgow Free Church Normal School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 11th May 1896; assistant Glasgow Paisley Road Free Church 1895-7, Inverness High Free Church 1898-9; ordained and inducted London College Park Church 28th January 1899; translated to Eskbank, New South
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Wales, August 1906; translated to Oatlands, Tasmania, March 1911; translated to Woodburn, New South Wales, August 1916; translated to St Andrew’s Longueville, November 1918; translated and inducted 28th July 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.354, Wanlockhead Hastings Memorial; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.556.]
DURISDEER
Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.48
Church with manse connected thereto. A mission station throughout the period. United with Durisdeer Parish Church on 28th July 1929.
1926
JOHN FRASER
Born 11th August 1847 at Perth, son of William Fraser and Charlotte Gow; educated at National School, Perth, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Selkirk 1891; missionary at Airth and Carronshore for five years; appointed as licensed probationer January 1902; ordained as preacher 8th July 1926; died 23rd May 1929.
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PRESBYTERY OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT
Synod of Dumfries and Galloway
AUCHENCAIRN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.53
Church, hall and manse. In 1908 the hall, originally the Free Church School, was enlarged and made available as the village hall under the name Murray Hall.
1900
THOMAS PATERSON, M.A.
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.288]
Translated from Strathmiglo and inducted July 1900; translated to Leith St Ninian’s October 1904.
1905
WILLIAM THOMSON
Ordained and inducted 31st March 1905; translated to Dumfries Townhead 5th December 1919.
1920
WILLIAM BROWNLEE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1st April 1920; translated to Macduff September 1928.
1929
JOHN PRYDE MURDOCH
Born 8th July 1874 at Dalkeith, son of Robert Murdoch and Anna Milne Neilson; educated at Dalkeith, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1895), B.D. (1906), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; assistant Trinity Presbyterian Church, Claughton, Birkenhead, 1898; ordained assistant ditto 1899-1901; inducted Penpont Burnhead April 1901; translated to Cambusnethan June 1911; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in France 1918; translated to Darvel Easton Memorial November 1923; translated and inducted 17th January 1929. Chaplain to Territorial Army from 1922.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.151, Auchencairn St John’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.53.]
BALMAGHIE
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.53
Church, hall and manse. Hall extended in 1907.
1880
ANDREW BLACK CRAIG
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.127
Born 1854 at Montrose; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; assistant Abercorn, Lochgelly, Leith; ordained and inducted 24th June 1880; died 29th May 1915. Married 1881, Elizabeth Dick. Clerk to Free Church Presbytery; Clerk to United Free Presbytery 1900-15; Clerk to Synod of Dumfries and Galloway 1903-15.
1915
ALEXANDER GRAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 23rd September 1915; translated to Belhelvie and Shiels February 1920.
1920
JOHN WILLIAMS TODD DICKIE
Born 14th November 1886 at South Manse, Sanquhar, son of Rev. Matthew Dickie and Jane Wallace; educated at Sanquhar Public School, Ayr Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1908), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont 1912; assistant Campbeltown Lorne Street 1912-13, Biggar Moat Park 1913-14, Dundee St Andrew’s 1914; war service in H.M. Forces in Egypt and Palestine 1915-18, France 1918, Germany 1919, awarded M.C. and Croix de Guerre (Belgian); ordained and inducted 17th June 1920; [died 1978.] Married 1935, Agnes Jean Alison Jamieson, daughter of Rev. William Jamieson of Castle-Douglas.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.156, Laurieston; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.152; also Vol.10, p.89.]
BORGUE
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.53
Church, hall and manse. Church restored and manse enlarged before 1916. The status was reduced in 1923.
1899
JOHN BONAR ATHOL GORDON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 14th December 1899; translated to Kenmore 13th July 1906.
1906
JOHN PATTON
Ordained and inducted 30th August 1906; translated to Laggan, 7th December 1922.
1923
JOHN LENNOX
Formerly of Beith Head Street; introduced 18th May 1923; translated to Greengairs 27th January 1926.
1926
GEORGE ORR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.51
Born 11th January 1862 at Glasgow, son of James and Marion Orr [née Allan]; educated at Hutcheson’s Hospital, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 21st January 1893; assistant Edinburgh Hope Park United Presbyterian, Langholm North United Presbyterian; ordained and inducted Langholm 26th January 1893; introduced May
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1926; re-appointed 1929. Married 23rd January 1893, Helen S. McEwen. Publication – Violets in the Grass, Annan, 1928.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.152, Borgue St John’s.]
CARSPHAIRN
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.277
Church and manse.
1897
WILLIAM FRASER
Ordained and inducted 21st July 1897; translated to Rothiemurchus and Aviemore 26th June 1912.
1912
JOHN MCNICOLL SIBBALD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 31st October 1912; translated to Balgedie and Portmoak 12th August 1920.
1921
JAMES ALLAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.80
Born 5th April 1858 at Rutherglen, son of Archibald Allan and Margaret Wilson; educated at Hozier Street School, Rutherglen Free Church School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; Glasgow City missionary 1883-5; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 15th June 1886; in charge Blackridge mission station 1885-8, Shettleston West Territorial Mission 1888-90; ordained and inducted Shettleston Carntyne 4th September 1890; translated and inducted 6th January 1921; retired August 1924; died 16th June 1938. Married 7th September 1886, Mary Muir.
1924
THOMAS BARCLAY
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor August 1924; translated to Glasgow London Road December 1927.
1928
DAVID SHEARER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, pp.480 and 504
Born 28th December 1862 at Stromness, Orkney, son of John Aim Shearer and Duncana Drever; educated at Stromness Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Orkney November 1888; ordained and inducted Shapinsay, Orkney 22nd October 1889; translated to Wick United Presbyterian, Caithness, 24th June 1894; translated to Glasgow Cumberland Street 10th March 1902; became minister of Glasgow Oatlands on union of Cumberland Street with Oatlands 11th March 1908; translated and inducted 29th March 1928; died 16th March 1929. Married 17th March 1897, Margaret Jane Logie.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.153, Carsphairn North.]
CASTLE-DOUGLAS QUEEN STREET
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.54
Formerly Macmillan Free Church. United with the Trinity and St George’s congregations in January 1923.
1876
GEORGE LAURIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.205
Ordained Castle-Douglas Reformed Presbyterian 1872; joined Free Church with the congregation 1876; retired 1914; died September 1920.
1914
NORMAN NICHOLSON, M.A.
Translated from St Boswells and inducted 14th January 1914; translated to Lausanne September 1923.
CASTLE-DOUGLAS ST GEORGE’S
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.53
Church and manse; mission hall in Rhonehouse. United with the Queen Street and Trinity congregations in January 1923.
1843
GEORGE BROWN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.103
Ordained and inducted December 1843; died 26th December 1903.
1887
WILLIAM JAMIESON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.193
Born 18th March 1859 at Pulteneytown, Wick, son of William Jamieson and Barbara Cameron; educated at Pulteneytown Academy, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student in charge Pencaitland 1883-5; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Caithness 1886; assistant Pulteneytown Free Church 1886, Castle-Douglas Free Church 1886-7; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 10th November 1887; became joint minister after local union 1st January 1923; retired 15th August 1923; died June 1935. Married 29th September 1897, Jessie Campbell Lowe.
CASTLE-DOUGLAS TRINITY
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.267
Church and manse. United with Queen Street and St George’s on 1st January 1923.
1877
ROBERT STEVEN WILSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.268
Born 5th October 1851 at Stewarton Ayrshire, son of Robert [Wilson] and Jean S[teven;] educated at Stewarton Institution, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock December 1876; ordained and inducted 6th November 1877; retired 1922; died 11th September 1924. Married 25th November 1879, Jessie Kerr. Member of Kelton School Board for 34 years, and chairman 1909-19; J.P. for the Stewartry; chairman of Castle-Douglas Savings Bank.
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CASTLE-DOUGLAS
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
(after local union)
The St George’s church was at first used for the worship of the united congregation, but was sold in 1928. Queen Street church, at first used as a hall, then became the place of worship.
1924
JAMES NASH GOURLAY
Born 20th February 1882 at Glasgow, son of John Gourlay, C.A., and Elizabeth Murray; educated at Kelvinside Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1902), B.D. (1906), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1906; assistant Glasgow Fairbairn 1906-7; ordained and inducted Glasgow St Luke’s 4th November 1907; translated to Greenock Trinity 16th February 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Belgium 1917, and as Chaplain to the Forces in France 1918-19; translated and inducted 1st May 1924. Married 9th October 1912, Elizabeth Ogilvie daughter of Rev. William M. Rankin, D.D.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.153, Castle-Douglas St Ringan’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.37.]
CORSOCK
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.43
Church and manse.
1894
DUNCAN MCLEAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.245
Ordained and inducted 1894; died 1908.
1908
ROBERT FULTON, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Lisburn and inducted 10th November 1908; translated to Upton, Liverpool, 2nd June 1921; translated to Kirkpatrick-Fleming 1926.
1921
WILLIAM WALKER DAWSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.417
Born 9th August 1855 at Glasgow, son of Walter Dawson and Catherine Walker; educated at Church of Scotland Training College, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; teacher in Stirling High School 1875-6; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1878; ordained and inducted Lanark Hope Street [Greyfriars] United Presbyterian 27th February 1879; became minister of Lanark Cairns United Free, by local union of congregations 28th April 1918; translated and inducted 29th November 1921; retired 30th June 1926; died 1936. Married 9th March 1885, Wilhelmina Gilroy.
1926
JAMES BRAND SCOTT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, pp.311 and 460
Born 27th February 1864 at Milnathort, son of John Scott and Margaret Mailler; educated at Brand’s School, Milnathort, Dollar Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1886), B.D. (1889), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kinross 1886; assistant Saltcoats West United Presbyterian 1889-90; ordained and inducted Saltcoats West United Presbyterian 5th August 1890; translated to Hawick East Bank 6th February 1900; resigned March 1907; inducted Alva Eadie 29th October 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918; retired 1921; introduced Crailing 1922; inducted Kildonan, Arran, 11th June 1925; introduced 30th September 1926; resigned to facilitate local union 7th April 1929. Married September 1892, Edith Caroline Ross.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.153, Corsock Murray-Dunlop; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.368; also Vol.10, p.220.]
DALRY GLENKENS
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.54
Church and manse. Instrumental music introduced in 1901. United with St John’s in 1907.
1883
NEIL BUCHANAN
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 27th November 1883; became minister of the united congregation 1907.
DALRY ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.273
Church and manse. United with Glenkens in 1907.
1885
JAMES MATHER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.543; Vol.1, p.275
[Born 17th May 1839 at Eaglesham, son of William Mather and Marion Carsewell;] ordained and inducted Langbank 26th March 1867; translated and inducted 31st March 1885; retired 1907; died 1908. [Married 1867, Henrietta M. Mather.]
DALRY
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
(after local union)
The Glenkens Church and manse were disused, and in 1926 reverted to the superior who gave compensation. The St John’s buildings were used by the united congregation.
1907
NEIL BUCHANAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.108
Born 30th May 1850 at East Kilbride, son of William Buchanan and Helen Ingram; educated at East Kilbride, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow May 1883; missionary assistant Glasgow Great Hamilton Street; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 27th November 1883; became minister of the united congregation 1907; died 18th May 1918.
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Married Grace Lennox. Publications – translation of Beyschlag, Theology of the New Testament, 2 volumes, Edinburgh; and other works.
1918
JAMES GILBERT NAIRN
Ordained and inducted 26th September 1918; resigned 22nd May 1922; inducted Appin 17th December 1925.
1923
ALEXANDER AITCHMAN
Born 22nd May 1896 at Hamilton, son of Alexander Aitchman and Isabella Milne Caird; educated at Bothwell Public School, Uddingston Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1918), Glasgow College; student assistant Kinloch Rannoch summers of 1919, 1920, 1921; loc. ten. Glasgow Rutherford 1921-2; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 4th April 1922; loc. ten. Annan 1922; ordained and inducted 17th May 1923.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.154.]
GATEHOUSE ANWOTH
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.19
Formerly Gatehouse United Presbyterian. Church only in 1900. United with Girthon in 1905.
1889
JAMES GRAHAM CLARK, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 15th January 1889; translated to Montreal November 1904; inducted Barrhead Arthurlie 25th January 1909.
GATEHOUSE GIRTHON
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.54
Church and manse. United with Anwoth 1905.
1883
ROBERT BLACKSTOCK MCGLASHAN
Ordained and inducted 1883; became minister of the united congregation 1905.
GIRTHON AND ANWOTH
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Formed by the local union in 1905.
1905
ROBERT BLACKSTOCK MCGLASHAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.229
Born 7th May 1858 at Granton, son of Alexander McGlashan and Ann Blackstock; educated at Edinburgh Bonnington Academy, Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1887), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1881; assistant Edinburgh McCrie-Roxburgh, Burntisland Couper 1882; ordained and inducted 1883; became minister of the united congregation 1905. Married 29th October 1886, Mary Bardsley Reid.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.154, Gatehouse Rutherford.]
KIRKCUDBRIGHT ST CUTHBERT’S
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.271
Church, hall and manse. United with St Mary’s on 18th October 1914.
1895
RICHARD GLAISTER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.273
Born 1862 [12th November 1861] at Lanark, [son of Thomas Glaister and Janet Watson;] educated at University of Glasgow, B.D., D.D., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 30th July 1895; resigned on appointment as Principal and Professor of Theology in Emmanuel College, Brisbane, 1914; retired 1919; died March 1945. Publication – The Beauty of the Lord.
KIRKCUDBRIGHT ST MARY’S
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.54
Church and two halls. United with St Cuthbert’s on 18th October 1914.
1874
ALEXANDER MARSHALL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.261
Born 10th February 1845 at Bothwell, Maybole, son of James Marshall and Margaret Martin; educated at Dumfries Academy, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1867), assistant to Professor Masson (English Department), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1871; assistant Kirkcudbright Free Church 1872-4; ordained and inducted 24th August 1874; died 16th August 1914. Married 1878, Anne Stewart McMillan.
KIRKCUDBRIGHT
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
(after local union)
The buildings of St Mary’s were used by the united congregation and the St Cuthbert’s buildings were sold in 1917.
1915
GEORGE JOHNSTON JEFFREY, B.D.
Translated from Stewarton John Knox and inducted 28th January 1915; translated to Kilmarnock High 22nd September 1920.
1921
JOHN MILLER HUNTER, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Queen’s Cross and inducted 20th January 1921; translated to Cambuslang Rosebank 7th June 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.155.]
KIRKPATRICK-DURHAM
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.45
Church, small hall and manse. American organ introduced in 1906; church and manse renovated and improved in 1912.
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1888
JAMES CRAIG
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.128
Born 31st May 1856 in Glasgow, son of James Craig and Jeanie Eadie; educated at St John’s Parish School, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; missionary, Rutherglen West Free Church 1878-85, Roughrigg Free Church mission station 1885-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow June 1886; ordained and inducted 16th February 1888; retired 1928; died 6th April 1938. Married 1st June 1893, Mary Jane McCririe.
1928
GEORGE RIDDELL AITKEN
Born 14th May 1866 at Original Secession Manse, Midlem, Selkirk, son of Rev. William Ferguson Aitken and Hannah Riddell; educated at Lilliesleaf and Midlem Public School, Hampton Court Academy and High School, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1894), Original Secession Divinity Hall, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by United Original Secession Presbytery of Glasgow autumn 1895; ordained and inducted Kirkintilloch Original Secession 2nd July 1896; inducted to same congregation by Presbytery of Glasgow June 1902; resigned 1927; inducted Ochiltree 2nd June 1927; translated and inducted 27th September 1928. Married 12th April 1906, Annie Clark McArthur, authoress of several works of fiction.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.155, Kirkpatrick-Durham Craig.]
TONGLAND AND TWYNHOLM
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.54
Church and manse; hall at Twynholm. Four stained-glass windows (two as War Memorial) put in during the period.
1877
PETER FISHER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.155
Born 18th November 1849 at Blackford, son of Alexander Fisher and Isabella McDougall; educated at Ardtalnaig, Perthshire, Edinburgh Newington School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1872), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1876; assistant Aberdeen South Free Church 1876-7; ordained and inducted 9th August 1877; retired August 1925; died 17th October 1929. Married 30th June 1880, Catherine Abernethy, daughter of James Bryce, advocate, Aberdeen.
1925
GEORGE TUTON
Born 27th July 1884 at Ayr, son of John Tuton and Mary Lawson; educated at Ayr Russell Street Public School, University of Glasgow, Original Secession College, Glasgow, Glasgow College; student assistant Paisley South 1921-5; licensed by Presbytery of Paisley July 1925; ordained and inducted 26th November 1925. Married 29th June 1927, Margaret Spalding Milne.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.156, Tarff Valley; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.10, p.92.]
URR
Presbytery of Kirkcudbright
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.247
Church and manse. Church destroyed by fire Easter Sunday 1909. New church dedicated 3rd July 1910. Reduced in status in 1927.
1896
DAVID RICHIE ALEXANDER, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 22nd September 1896; translated to Dunblane Leighton 15th October 1907.
1908
THOMAS MCEWEN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 14th February 1908; translated to Dumfries Townhead 11th July 1912.
1913
JAMES WILLIAM MORE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 21st February 1913; translated to Blairgowrie South 12th August 1920.
1920
PERCY CHARLES GASKIN
Ordained and inducted 4th November 1920; translated to Hurlford Reid Memorial 21st July 1927.
1927
GEORGE GOODFELLOW
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.239
Born 27th May 1861 at Hawick, son of John McDougall Goodfellow and Elizabeth Anderson; educated at Teviot Grove Academy, Hawick, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1889; assistant Penruddock Presbyterian Church, Cumberland, Stirling Allan Park; ordained and inducted Newarthill 22nd July 1891; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; retired 28th September 1923; introduced November 1927. Married 28th March 1905, Margaret Jane Nicol. Publications – History of Newarthill Church, Glasgow; Christ’s Beloved, Plea for Humility, The Finger of God.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.143, Hardgate.]
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PRESBYTERY OF WIGTOWN AND STRANRAER
Synod of Dumfries and Galloway
CREETOWN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.15
Church and manse. Vestry and hall added.
1895
ALEXANDER WILSON BLACK
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.17
Born 26th October 1863 at Cupar, Fife, son of John Adamson Black and Anne Wilson; educated at Cupar Academy, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Free Presbytery of Glasgow 1894; assistant Dunfermline Gillespie 1894-5, Edinburgh Bristo 1895; ordained and inducted 12th September 1895.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.163, Creetown Trinity.]
ERVIE
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Formed in June 1929 by the union of Kirkcolm and Leswalt.
1929
ROBERT WELSH ANDERSON, M.A.
[Born 18th September 1903 at Edinburgh, son of John Anderson and Isabella Chalmers;] ordained and inducted 4th April 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.158, Ervie and Leswalt West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.464; also Vol.10, pp.275 and 368.]
GLENLUCE LADYBURN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.14
Church only. United with Wilson Memorial on 3rd September 1911.
1868
ROBERT CARSLAW
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.15
[Born 16th February 1834 at Eaglesham, son of James Carslaw and Mary Strang; educated at University of Glasgow;] ordained and inducted 22nd September 1868; died 1908. [Married 1872, Barbara Simpson.]
1909
WILLIAM DAWSON SCOTT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted September 1908; resigned 13th June 1911; introduced Maryton 1922.
GLENLUCE WILSON MEMORIAL
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.49
United with Ladyburn on 3rd September 1911.
1898
JOHN URQUHART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.348
Ordained and inducted 1898; deposed 31st May 1911.
GLENLUCE
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
(after local union)
1912
ROBERT INGLES
Born 25th May 1872 at Crieff, son of John Caithness Ingles and Margaret Mann; educated at Crieff Morrison’s Academy, University of St Andrews, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1895), University of Munich, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Perth 1900; assistant West Hartlepool 1900-1, Campbelltown Lorne Street 1901-2, Glasgow Bath Street 1902-3, Greenock Sir Michael Street 1903-4; ordained and inducted Innerleven, Methil, May 1904; translated and inducted 25th January 1912. Married 7th September 1905, Erskine Bremner Neave.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.158.]
INCH
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.49
Church with session house and cloakroom, manse.
1895
QUINTIN DICK WHYTE
Ordained and inducted 14th August 1895; translated to Glasgow Carmyle 21st January 1913.
1913
DAVID HAIR
Ordained and inducted 15th May 1913; translated to Glasgow Alexandra Parade 20th December 1923.
1924
THOMAS CHRISTIE HENDRY, M.A.
Translated from Greenock North and inducted 10th April 1924; translated to Grange May 1927.
1927
ROBERT STUART GUTHRIE ANDERSON
Born 2nd November 1864 at Ceres, Fife, son of Robert Anderson and Jessie Dickie; educated at Ceres, Milnathort Brand’s School, Dollar Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1884), B.D. (1887), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1887; assistant Auchtermuchty North 1887-8; ordained and inducted St Helen’s, Ontario, Canada, by Maitland Presbytery 13th May 1889; translated
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to Wroxeter, Ontario, 18th November 1894; resigned owing to ill-health 1902; admitted to United Free Church 1911; loc. ten. Glasgow Erskine 1912-13; in charge of station at Newluce 1913-17; inducted Ramsey, Isle of Man, 24th June 1917; translated to Isle of Whithorn, 28th December 1919; translated and inducted 2nd November 1927. Married 24th January 1920, Elizabeth Fisher. F.S.A. (Scot.).
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.159, Inch Castle Kennedy.]
KIRKCOLM
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.48
Reduced in status in autumn 1921. In June 1929 it united with Leswalt and the united congregation was named Ervie.
1888
GEORGE PEATTIE, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.290
Ordained and inducted 1888; died 1908.
1908
DONALD MARTIN, M.A.
Formerly of Queensland, inducted 8th August 1908; translated to Walney, Liverpool, 7th July 1921; inducted Aberuthven, 1924.
1922
JAMES WILKIE FINDLAY
Formerly of Glasgow Buchanan Memorial; introduced 1922; retired 9th September 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.158, Ervie and Leswalt West.]
KIRKCOWAN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.20
Church and manse. Known as Dawson Memorial.
1883
WILLIAM HENDERSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.22
[Born 13th March 1855 at Selkirk, son of John Henderson and Elizabeth Heatlie;] ordained and inducted 26th June 1883; died 14th June 1922. [Married 1884, Catherine Linton.]
1922
THOMAS ROBERTSON
Translated from Glasgow Milton, Church of Scotland and inducted 14th November 1922; resigned 10th May 1925; inducted Bower 28th January 1927.
1925
JAMES ALEXANDER HIGGINS
Born 16th March 1873 at Bonnybridge, son of James Higgins and Elizabeth Gentles; educated at Bonnybridge, Falkirk High School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; assistant Paisley Oakshaw East; war service 1914-18; ordained as probationer Kilninver and Kilmelford 2nd January 1924; translated and inducted 22nd December 1925. Married (1) Marion Martin; (2) 10th December 1913, Elizabeth G. Webster.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.163, Kirkcowan Dawson.]
KIRKMAIDEN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.49
Church and school. New church built in Drummore 1903. The school was sold, and the old church was remodelled for use as a hall.
1857
JAMES CAVAN, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.118
Ordained and inducted 1857; became senior minister 1898; died 14th February 1917.
1898
WALTER ALEXANDER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 20th October 1898; translated to Greenock Martyrs’ 2nd September 1919.
1919
JOHN MUIR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 30th October 1919; translated to Leslie, Fife, 24th March 1926.
1926
WILLIAM CLAUDE LAMBIE GILFILLAN
Born 27th March 1887 at Cambusnethan; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 30th March 1926; ordained and inducted 23rd June 1926. Married 7th April 1916 Jessie Torrance.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.159, Kirkmaiden St Medan’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.492; also Vol.10, pp.292 and 312.]
LESWALT
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.50
Church, manse and schoolhouse. The status was reduced in 1925. United with Kirkcolm in June 1929 to form Ervie.
1864
ALEXANDER WARRACK, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.351
Ordained and inducted 1864; died 29th March 1916.
1905
ALEXANDER CLEMENT F. W. WILSON, B.A.
Ordained and inducted 1905; died 24th July 1940.
1925
THOMAS REID
Ordained missionary, born 25th April 1856 at Markinch, son of James Reid and Marion Bethune; missionary for the town of Kirkcaldy and harbours of Dysart and Wemyss; appointed to Eccles as lay missionary 1st February 1914; appointed as lay missionary at Longformacus 1919; and ordained as missionary 1920; appointed to Daviot and Moy, 1st September 1923; appointed 1st November 1925.
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NEWTON STEWART CREEBRIDGE
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.51
Church and manse. On 2nd July 1905 the church was taken by the Free Church, but it was restored by the Commission on 2nd June 1907. United with Rutherford on 11th July 1909 to form Trinity.
1884
ALEXANDER STEWART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.327
Born 30th May 1852 at East Kinkell, Ferintosh, Inverness, son of Thomas Stewart and Jessie Cameron; educated at Dingwall Academy, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Edinburgh Newington; ordained and inducted 1884; retired 1909; died 10th April 1923. Married (1) 1885, Georgina Elizabeth Murray; (2) 1890, Mary T. Rae.
NEWTON STEWART RUTHERFORD
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.51
Church and manse. United with Creebridge on 11th July 1909 to form Trinity.
1894
WILLIAM HENRY BROWN DOUGLAS, B.A.
Ordained and inducted 5th September 1894; became minister of Trinity at the local union 11th July 1909.
NEWTON STEWART TRINITY
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Formed on 11th July 1909 by the union of Creetown and Rutherford congregations. Rutherford Church was converted into a church hall, and the Creetown Manse was altered internally in 1910. Both manses were retained, the Creetown manse being let. United with York Road congregation on 13th January 1924 to form St John’s.
1909
WILLIAM HENRY BROWN DOUGLAS, B.A.
Minister of Rutherford, became minister of the united congregation 11th July 1909; became minister of St John’s at the further local union 1924.
NEWTON STEWART YORK ROAD
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.11
Church and manse. United with Trinity on 13th January 1924 to form St John’s.
1891
JAMES ANDERSON DAWSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.13
Ordained and inducted New Plymouth, New Zealand, 26th May 1885; resigned owing to ill-health 1886; inducted 10th February 1891; retired 13th January 1924; died 11th April 1932.
NEWTON STEWART ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Formed by the union of Trinity and York Road on 13th January 1924. The former Rutherford manse continued to be used as the manse; the York Road manse was assigned to the minister emeritus; the Creebridge manse was let. The Creebridge church, later Trinity church, was sold, and the York Road Church was used for worship.
1924
WILLIAM HENRY BROWN DOUGLAS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.140
Born 29th January 1867 at Edinburgh, son of Francis Brown Douglas and Marianna Leslie Melville; educated at Edinburgh Oliphant’s School, Academy, Haileybury College, Hertford, Neuchatel, University of Cambridge Trinity College, B.A. (Hons. 1888), Universities of Leipzig and Marburg, New College, Edinburgh; warden, New College settlement 1892-3; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 14th June 1893; assistant Newton Stewart 1894; ordained and inducted Newton Stewart Rutherford 5th September 1894; became minister of Trinity at the local union 11th July 1909; and of St John’s at the local union 13th January 1924; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918. Married 26th July 1893, Edith Katherine Grainger Stewart.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.165.]
PORTPATRICK TRINITY
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.50
Church and small hall, manse.
1885
JOHN BROWNLIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.106
Born 6th August 1857 at Glasgow, son of James Brownlie and Margaret McTaggart; educated at University of Glasgow, D.D. (1908), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1884; in charge of mission station at Camelon; assistant Portpatrick 1884-5; ordained and inducted July 1885; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1914-18; died 18th November 1925. Married 17th August 1885, Alison Kerr Rutherford. Awarded V.D. Publications – Hymns of Our Pilgrimage, London, 1889; Zionward: Hymns
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of the Pilgrim Life, London, 1890; Pilgrim Songs, London, 1892; The Rest of God, London, 1894; Hymns of the Early Church, London, 1896; Hymns from East and West, London, 1898; Hymns and Hymn-Writers of the Church Hymnary, London, 1899; Hymns of the Greek Church, Edinburgh and London, 1900; Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church, Paisley, 1902; Hymns from the Greek Office-Books, Paisley, 1904; Hymns from the East, Paisley, 1907; Hymns of the Apostolic Church, Paisley, 1909; Hymns from the Morning Land, Paisley, 1911; Hymns of the Early Church, London, 1913; Hymns of the Russian Church, London, 1920.
1926
ARCHIBALD MCCALL
Translated from Ardeonaig and inducted March 1926; translated to Helmsdale 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.161.]
PORT WILLIAM HIGH
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.51
Church, hall and manse. An attempt was made to unite this congregation and the old United Presbyterian congregation in 1900, but agreement could not be reached on the position of the minister of the latter, the High congregation refusing to unite under him and the Main Street congregation desiring him to continue. The High congregation was supplied until 1907 by retired and other ministers. After 1900 a serious disruption in the congregation took place and this lasted till the local union in 1907.
PORT WILLIAM MAIN STREET
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.17
Church with small hall and manse.
1887
JOHN LANGLANDS, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.18
[Born 30th May 1858 at Montrose, son of John Langlands and Elizabeth Ryrie;] ordained and inducted 22nd June 1887; died 1906. [Married 1890, Sophia Romilly Young.]
PORT WILLIAM
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
(after local union)
The Main Street property reverted to the landowner.
1907
ROBERT HART
Ordained and inducted 21st February 1907; translated to Leslie and Premnay 30th March 1922.
1922
JOHN STUART LEISHMAN, B.D., B.L.
Formerly of Abington, inducted 20th July 1922; translated to Bonhill North 3rd April 1928.
1928
JOHN HILL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.130
Born 1st March 1862 at Glasgow, son of John Hill and Mary McKim; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1888; ordained and inducted Coatbridge Coatdyke 2nd April 1888; translated to Glasgow St George’s Road 1901; translated and inducted 1928. Married (1) 1889, Janet Russell Nutt; (2) 1921, Marjorie Drummond Balfour.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.165.]
SORBIE
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.51
Church and manse.
1864
JAMES GORRIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.173
Born at Gilmerton, Perthshire, son of John Gorrie and Margaret Smith; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted 27th October 1864; retired 1902; died 1912. Married Jeanie Rodger.
1902
JOHN WILKIE
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 4th September 1902; translated to Glasgow St Rollox 30th August 1911.
1912
JAMES ANDREW BROWN, B.A.
Translated from Stoke-on-Trent and inducted 11th January 1912; translated to Edinburgh Slateford 2nd November 1916.
1917
JAMES FRASER, M.A.
Translated from Kilarrow and inducted 8th March 1917; translated to Petty October 1925.
1926
ANGUS DUNCAN
Born 25th September 1888 at Schoolhouse, Obbe, Harris, Inverness-shire, son of William Smith Duncan and Marion MacInnes; educated at Scarp Public School, Harris, Inverness Royal Academy; war service in H.M. Forces; University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1923), B.D. (1926), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen July 1925; ordained and inducted 2nd March 1926. Married 10th February 1917, Jane Mary MacLeod.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.166, Sorbie West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.490; also Vol.10, p.291]
STONEYKIRK
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.50
Church, hall, two cottages and stable; manse with outhouses.
1877
GEORGE PHILIP ROBERTSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.300
Born 4th July 1851 at Rickarton, Stonehaven, son of George Buchan Robertson and Rebekah
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Young; educated at Rickarton and Stonehaven Public School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1873), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen June 1877; assistant Mauchline 1877; ordained and inducted 25th October 1877; retired 25th October 1922; died 1925 [15th June 1937.] Married 12th August 1884, Martha Hawthorn Urquhart. Member of Parish Council, County Council, etc. Published articles in Transactions of Dumfries and Galloway Archaeological Society, Expository Times, etc.
1922
JAMES FAIRWEATHER
Admitted to full status 1922; inducted as colleague and successor 25th October 1922; translated to Sunderland Roker 2nd April 1924; translated to Old Meldrum 3rd March 1926.
1924
WILLIAM LINDSAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.208
Born 29th December 1863 at Wishaw, son of John Lindsay and Helen Young; educated at Cambusnethan Primary School, Hamilton St John’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1884), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Hamilton 1888; assistant Ayr Sandgate Free Church 1888-9; ordained and inducted Rutherglen East Free Church 21st November 1889; translated and inducted 5th November 1924; died 20th October 1928. Married 6th December 1894, Mary Jamieson Cook.
1929
JOHN LINDSAY ROBERTSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.696
Born 17th January 1855 at Blairgowrie, son of John Robertson and Catherine Duffus; educated at Forres Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1881), B.D. (1883), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1881; ordained and inducted Avonbridge 26th September 1883; resigned for health reasons and went to Canada; inducted Merritton, Canada, 1895; resigned 1899; inducted Glasgow Barrowfield 24th August 1904; introduced Bridge of Teith 21st April 1926; inducted as colleague and successor 16th May 1929. Married 30th June 1891, Jessie Maxwell.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.161, Sandhead.]
STRANRAER IVY PLACE
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.4
Church and manse. United with St Mark’s to form St Andrew’s in 1927.
1890
JAMES SOMERVILLE SMITH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th June 1890; translated to Glasgow North Woodside April 1908.
1908
JAMES SALMOND
Translated from Cullybackey and inducted 30th September 1908; translated to Cowdenbeath Cairns 7th April 1926.
STRANRAER ST ANDREW’S
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Formed by the union in 1926 of Ivy Place and St Mark’s.
1926
FRANK JEFFREY
Born 19th February 1884 at Carluke, son of John Jeffrey and Marion Inglis; educated at Carluke Public School, Hamilton Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1905), B.D. (1910), Glasgow College; missionary Glasgow Wellpark 1907-10; licensed by Presbytery of Lanark April 1910; loc. ten. Airdrie Wellwynd 1910; assistant Paisley St James’ 1910-11; ordained and inducted Cumbernauld Baird 26th April 1911; translated to Glasgow Greenhead 16th December 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917; translated and inducted 24th November 1926. Married (1) 22nd June 1911, Elizabeth Bow Watson; [(2) 12th September 1931 Ruth Aitken; (3) 11th July 1940, Elizabeth Mary Aitken.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.162.]
STRANRAER ST MARK’S
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.50
Church and manse. United with Ivy Place in 1926 to form St Andrew’s.
1881
DAVID MILLER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.267
Born 27th January 1857 at Glasgow, son of David Miller and Jessie Macrae; educated at Glasgow Gorbals Youth School and Southern Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1878), Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary assistant Burnbank Free Church 1879-80; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 13th May 1880; assistant Abdie and Newburgh Free Church 1880-1, Glasgow St Matthew’s Free Church 1881; ordained and inducted 28th June 1881; retired to facilitate local union 13th June 1926; died 13th November 1935. Married 14th June 1905, Mary Helen White Stewart. Assistant Clerk to Free Church Presbytery of Stranraer 1893-4; Clerk 1894-1900; Senior Clerk to United Free Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer 1900-5; sole Clerk 1911-21; Clerk to Synod of Dumfries and Galloway 1915-27. Publication – Memorials of Robert T. Cunningham, M.A., Edinburgh, 1890.
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STRANRAER ST NINIAN’S
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.9
Formerly Stranraer West. Church and manse.
1875
WILLIAM MUIRHEAD, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.9
[Born 14th May 1841 at Peebles, son of John Muirhead and Christian Shillinglaw;] ordained and inducted 9th March 1875; retired 1908; died [13th January] 1919; [buried Inch New Parish Churchyard. Married 1890, Helen Maclymont.]
1908
DAVID HALL HISLOP, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor November 1908; resigned 10th October 1916; inducted Milngavie Cairns May 1919.
1917
JAMES BEATTIE, M.A.
[Born 31st March 1872 at Teviothead, Roxburghshire, son of John Beattie and Margaret Campbell Turnbull;] ordained 1897; inducted 9th May 1917; died 21st February 1923. [Married Helen Orr Alexander.]
1924
JAMES STUART HALL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted April 1924; translated to Elie Wood Memorial 17th May 1928.
1929
THOMAS GRAHAM
[Born 21st January 1895 at Belfast, son of John McLachlan Graham and Catherine Baldwin;] ordained and inducted 2nd July 1929. Married 11th July 1918, Margaret Bell.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.162; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.97.]
STRANRAER SHEUCHAN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.50
Church and manse. Hall built in 1906; pipe organ installed in 1916.
1852
GEORGE SHERWOOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.313
Ordained and inducted 1852; became senior minister 1891; died 1906.
1891
THOMAS RUSSELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.308
Born 12th April 1866 at Motherwell, son of Archibald Russell and Margaret Henderson Stevenson; educated at Motherwell, Hamilton St John’s school, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Hamilton 1890; assistant Hamilton West Free Church 1890-1; ordained and inducted 29th September 1891. Married 9th April 1901, Elizabeth Nivison McConnell.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.162, Stranraer St Margaret’s.]
WHITHORN ST JOHN’S
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.9
Church and manse. Status reduced in 1910. United with St Ninian’s in 1913.
1896
ADAM FYFE FINDLAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 29th July 1896; translated to Arbroath Erskine 7th January 1903.
1903
JOHN YOUNG, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 29th October 1903; translated to Greenock Union Street 1st June 1909.
1910
JOHN MCRAITH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.128
Born 25th January 1844 at Beith, son of John McRaith and Martha Snodgrass; educated at University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed 1871; ordained and inducted Aberchirder 29th November 1871; retired December 1906; introduced 17th March 1910; died January 1911. Married (1) 1871, Maria Charlotte Smith; (2) 16th September 1879, Helen Warden.
1911
ROBERT DAVIDSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.166
Born 20th January 1860 at Glasgow, son of Joseph Davidson and Catherine Watson; educated at Glasgow Alexander’s Public School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Portree 18th April 1888; introduced July 1911; retired July 1913; died 9th June 1944. Married 1st January 1895, Isabella Johanna Martin Matheson.
WHITHORN ST NINIAN’S
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.52
Church. United with St John’s in 1913.
1878
DAVID KENNEDY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.198
Ordained and inducted 1878; died 4th April 1913.
WHITHORN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
(after local union)
The St Ninian’s church was sold, and the St John’s church and manse were used by the united congregation.
1914
WILLIAM MCNAUGHT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 17th January 1914; translated to York 28th April 1921; translated to Aberdeen Causewayend 1927.
1921
ROBERT GILMOUR PATERSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th July 1921; translated to Calderbank 25th March 1926.
1926
NEIL CAMPBELL
Born 29th October 1900 at Glasgow, son of John Campbell and Christina MacQueen; educated at North Kelvinside Higher Grade School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 30th March 1926; ordained and inducted 30th June 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.166; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.63; also Vol.11, p.220.]
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ISLE OF WHITHORN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.61
Church.
1876
JAMES CAMERON MACTAGGART, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.259
Born 1845, son of James MacTaggart and Margaret Cameron; ordained and inducted 1876; retired 1913; died 19th November 1918.
1914
ANDREW STEWART, M.A.
Born at Carluke, son of William Stewart and Helen Brownlee; educated at Carluke Public School, Hamilton Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A., Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Lanark 1913; assistant Hamilton West 1913; ordained and inducted January 1914; war service in Coast Watches 1914-15, in R.N.D. 1915, and in H.M. Forces; killed in action 1917, awarded M.C.
1919
ROBERT STEWART GUTHRIE ANDERSON, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Ramsey, Isle of Man, and inducted 28th December 1919; translated to Inch 2nd November 1927.
1928
JOHN ERNEST REID
Born 19th April 1895 at Paisley, son of Edward Reid and Agnes Tannahill; educated at Paisley John Neilson Institution, Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1919); war service in H.M. Forces in France and Italy; Glasgow College; student assistant Paisley Thread Street 1919-21; licensed by Presbytery of Paisley February 1921; ordained and inducted Gretna 27th June 1921; translated to Glasgow Cranstonhill 28th November 1923; translated and inducted 22nd March 1928. Married 4th October 1921, Deans Aitken.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.163.]
WIGTOWN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.52
Church and manse. United with the United Presbyterian congregation in 1901.
WIGTOWN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.1
Church and manse. United with the Free Church congregation in 1901.
1859
JOHN SQUAIR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.3
Born 10th November 1829 at Newmill, Auldearn; ordained and inducted 24th May 1859; retired 4th August 1901; died 13th November 1906.
WIGTOWN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
(after local union)
The United Presbyterian Church was used for worship, and the Free Church as a hall. The United Presbyterian manse was let, and the Free Church used as the manse.
1902
CAMPBELL TAYLOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 9th January 1902; translated to London Palmer’s Green 1911.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.119.]
1911
JAMES HEADRICK FORDYCE
From West Australia; inducted 20th November 1911; translated to Withington, Manchester 15th September 1920; translated to Howgate 1923.
1921
WALTER MILLAR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 17th May 1921; resigned to become missionary in Santalia, India 1926.
1926
WILLIAM GRAY MURRAY
Born 20th August 1874 at Abbat, Calder, by Thurso, son of Donald Murray and Christina Sinclair; educated at Scotscalder, Aberdeen Grammar School, Thurso Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1903), B.D. (1908), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Barrowfield 1903-4, Gorbals 1904-5; in charge of station at Forth 1905-07; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1907; assistant Alloa West 1907-8; ordained and inducted Cunningsburgh and Sandwick 17th December 1908; translated to Reay 6th June 1911; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1918 and as Chaplain to the Forces in France and Belgium 1918-19; resigned to become Principal of the Training College at Akropong, Gold Coast, 1920; inducted 19th November 1926. Married 26th June 1912, Margaret Campbell McMillan, M.A.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.167, Wigtown West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.704.]
CAIRNRYAN
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.49
Served by probationers and missionaries.
1854
JOHN JAMIESON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.193
Ordained and inducted 1854; retired 1900; died 1908.
NEWLUCE
Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer
This was regarded as a mission station from its commencement in 1863 till it united with the Church of Scotland congregation on 2nd March 1930.