Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.198 1865 1901 1907 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.382, Dunoon St Cuthbert’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.437; also Vol.10, p.260.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.108 1876 1900 Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.108 1870 1906 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.382.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.108 1898 Presbytery of Dunoon Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.208 1874 Presbytery of Dunoon (after local union) The Free Church church was used after the Union. Church, hall and manse. 1902 1911 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.45 and Vol.10, p.27.] 1914 1919 1923 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.382, Innellan West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.796; also Vol.10, p.27.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.108 1899 1906 1912 1919 1922 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.383; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.56.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.108 1894 1925 Palestine 1915-19, mentioned in Despatches; translated and inducted 30th June 1925. Married 2nd December 1896, Agnes Elizabeth Fleming. [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.383, Kames.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.109 1886 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.381, Colintraive.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.109 1867 1913 1921 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.384, Kilmun St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.229.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.109 1853 1890 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.381, Ascog.] Presbytery of Dunoon Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.205 1876 1924 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.385, Kirn St Margaret’s.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.109 1894 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.385, Lochgoilhead Gibson.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.109 1888 1914 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.386, Port Bannatyne St Bruoc’s; for an accountof this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.676.] Presbytery of Dunoon Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.182 1888 Thomas Galbraith and Mary Wardrop Richmond; educated at Glasgow Highland Society School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 12th July 1887; ordained and inducted 23rd October 1888; died 29th March 1922. Married (1) 27th June 1895, Jean Colvill; (2) 15th March 1921, Isabella Glass. 1923 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.386; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.144; also Vol.10, p.86. .] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.110 1885 1921 1926 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.387, Rothesay St James’; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.313; also Vol.10, p.184.] Presbytery of Dunoon Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.211 1894 1917 1923 1926 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.386, Rothesay Craigmore High; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.627; also Vol.10, p.359.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.110 1886 1902 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.387-8, Rothesay Trinity.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.110 1899 1907 1911 1920 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.388; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.312; also Vol.10, p.183.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.110 1894 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.388, Sandbank, St John’s.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.110 1883 1911 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.389, Strachur and Strathlachlan West.] Presbytery of Dunoon Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.110 1877 1893 1908 1916 1923 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.389-90, Tighnabruaich East; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.399.] Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.111 1868 1902 1907 1918 1925 [For an account of this congregation and of this ministerr after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.377, Ardrishaig North.] Presbytery of Inveraray Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.111 1889 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.378.] Presbytery of Inveraray Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.111 1877 1914 Presbytery of Inveraray Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.111 1914 1919 1927 Presbytery of Inveraray Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.111 1896 Presbytery of Inveraray Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.111 1886 Presbytery of Inveraray (after local union) 1906 1909 1916 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.379, Lochgilphead West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.392.] Presbytery of Inveraray Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.112 1896 1911 1924 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.379, Tayvallich.] Presbytery of Inveraray Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.112 1884 1907 1910 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.380, Tarbert East.] Presbytery of Inveraray This was a mission station during the whole period. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.113 1883 1911 Presbytery of Kintyre Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.185 1896 1908 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.391.] Presbytery of Kintyre Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.113 1890 1907 1919 1923 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.391.] Presbytery of Kintyre Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.113 1891 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.392.] Presbytery of Kintyre Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.113 1895 Presbytery of Kintyre Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.114 1875 Presbytery of Kintyre United with Killean in 1917 under the name Killean and Kilcalmonell. 1909 1912 Presbytery of Kintyre Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.114 1889 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.393.] Presbytery of Kintyre Church and manse. 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.393, Largieside.] Presbytery of Kintyre Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.114 1888 Presbytery of Kintyre Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.114 1897 Presbytery of Kintyre 1910 1924 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.393, Lochranza East and Pirnmill.] Presbytery of Kintyre Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.114 1885 1911 1918 1926 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.210; for further information on this minister, see Vol.9, p.726.] Presbytery of Kintyre Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.115 1874 1914 1921 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.394, Southend St Columba’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.650.] Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.116 1882 1911 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.395.] Presbytery of Islay Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.116 1873 1900 1910 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.396.] Presbytery of Islay 1914 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.397, Portnahaven.] Presbytery of Islay Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.116 1896 1912 1916 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.396.] Presbytery of Islay Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.116 1907 1918 1921 Presbytery of Islay Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.116 1891 Presbytery of Islay Manse and hall; school and kitchens. Served by ordained missionaries, but vacant 1905-20. 1900 1920 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.395.] Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.118 1867 1920 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.398, Appin St Moluag’s; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.238.] Presbytery of Lorn Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.118 1860 1907 1923 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.398, Benderloch; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.392.] Presbytery of Lorn Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.230 1878 The appointment of a colleague was not sanctioned, and an ordained missionary was appointed in 1918. The congregation applied for an ordained minister, and this was granted by the Commission of Assembly in November 1922. 1922 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.398.] Presbytery of Lorn Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.118 1872 1914 The congregation was suppressed at this stage and was served by an ordained missionary, but it was raised to full status in 1920. 1920 The congregation was again suppressed, and was served by short term ministry till the local union in 1931. 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.399, Glenorchy South.] Presbytery of Lorn Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.118 1877 1909 1912 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.400, Kilbrandon and Kilchattan North.] Presbytery of Lorn Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.119 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.400, Kilchrenan West and Portsonachan.] Presbytery of Lorn Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.119 The station at Craignish was attached to this congregation after 1902, and services were provided by the agent at Kilmelford. When the agent was withdrawn the minister at Kilbrandon provided services. 1894 1904 1911 1924 Presbytery of Lorn Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.163 1893 1902 1909 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.4, p.110; Vol.8, pp.338 and 329.] Lay missionaries served till the union with Appin in November 1919. After the dissolution of this union, 1924 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.796.] Presbytery of Lorn Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.119 1859 1898 of Rev. D.J. Martin, Oban, prefixed to his Gaelic sermons on the Parables, Edinburgh; The Massacre of Glencoe and the Campbells of Glenlyon, Stirling, 1910; musical editor of Gaelic Hymn Book; articles in Celtic Review, 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.401, Muckairn West.] Presbytery of Lorn Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.119 1897 1913 1917 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.402; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.240.] Presbytery of Lorn Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.161 1893 1905 1911 1915 1924 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.402; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.240.] Presbytery of Lorn Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.119 on 23rd January 1901 was separated from it and was later transferred to the Presbytery of Breadalbane. It was united with Strathfillan in 1911. 1889 1912 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.403, Strathfillan West.] Presbytery of Lorn This station was at first under supervision of the Presbytery of Inveraray, but was transferred after 1902 to the Presbytery of Lorn. Services were provided from Kilmelford, and when Kilmelford was without an agent, services were provided at Kilmelford and at Craignish by the minister at Kilbrandon. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.230 Presbytery of Abertarff The church and manse at Arisaig were allocated to the Free Church and a new church was built at Mallaig and opened in 1912. The station of Small Isles was united to this congregation in 1913. 1898 1920 1923 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.411, Mallaig; for further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.416.] Presbytery of Abertarff Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.230 1884 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.411, Nether Lochaber.] Presbytery of Abertarff Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.230 Presbytery of Abertarff Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.230 1889 1909 1913 1918 1922 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.408, Inveroich.] Presbytery of Abertarff Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.230 1881 1911 1915 1922 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.409, Fort William Macintosh Memorial.] Presbytery of Abertarff Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.231 1895 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.4, pp.116 and 122.] Presbytery of Abertarff Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.231 1892 1909 Presbytery of Abertarff Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.231 1895 Presbytery of Abertarff 1913 1924 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.410.] Presbytery of Abertarff Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.231 1867 Presbytery of Abertarff A station was placed here in 1908 under Rev. A. Hamilton Ross, appointed by the Highlands and Islands Committee. A temporary building was erected. In 1909 this became a mission station, with the Rev. John McCaskill as Interim Moderator. Mr Angus Macintyre was appointed missionary 31st March 1909. In 1910 the charge was raised to full status. The charge was united with North Ballachulish, with a missionary, 6th May 1914. In 1916 cooperation was established between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church missions. This was rejected in 1918, but a readjustment followed. 1911 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.410.] Presbytery of Abertarff This mission station was united to Arisaig in 1913. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.120 1899 Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.121 1891 Presbytery of Mull These three congregations united in 1907. The charge was suppressed in 1921, but restored in 1925. 1913 1923 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.408.] Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.121 1882 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.404.] Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.121 1891 Presbytery of Mull Status reduced after 1918. Served by lay missionaries till 1923, and thereafter vacant. 1907 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.405.] Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.122 1873 1913 Paterson House Hostel for boys at King William’s Town 1925. Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of South Africa and Rhodesia 1934-5. Editor of The Presbyterian Churchman, 1930-40. 1920 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.405.] Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.122 1882 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.405, Lochaline; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.687; also Vol.10, p.390.] Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.122 1891 Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.122 1866 Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.122 1882 1913 1919 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.404, Hylipol.] Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.122 1893 1917 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.406, Tobermory St Mary’s.] Presbytery of Mull Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.123 1890 1913 1918 1924 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.406, Salen and Ulva, and Vol.9, p.407.] Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.124 1878 1918 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.440; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.424.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane This congregation was formed in 1919, and became a full charge in 1921. Three halls. 1919 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.440; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.70; also Vol.10, p.44; Vol.11, p.45.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.124 1885 College; student missionary, Glasgow Finnieston 1880-4; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 17th April 1884; assistant Stair Free Church 1884-5; ordained and inducted 24th June 1885; retired October 1909; died 18th May 1918; [buried Sunnyside Cemetery, Sauchie, Clackmannanshire.] Married (1) 5th June 1880, Margaret Steele; (2) 2nd June 1918, Annie Cameron. Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.679 1874 1903 Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.682 1888 1920 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.441; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.261; Vol.11, p.225.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.708 1891 1903 1907 1912 1922 1926 Leven Academy, University of Glasgow; school teacher at Douglas 1910-14; St Andrews Burgh School 1914-18; Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Deeside July 1921; ordained and inducted Meigle 11th November 1921; translated and inducted 13th October 1926. Married 14th October 1925, Lucy Helen Young. [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.441; for this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.468; also Vol.10, p.277.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.124 1872 1914 1922 1926 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.441; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.330.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.127 1886 1912 1917 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.450, Lochearnhead.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.124 1897 1907 1924 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.442; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.276.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.706 1876 1924 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.442; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.62.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.695 1886 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.443.] 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.443, Blairlogie.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.127 1887 1918 1924 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.443; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.245; also Vol.10, p.144 and Vol.11, p.144.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.710 1897 1902 1918 1919 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.443.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.675 1867 1912 1926 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.444.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.127 1900 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.444, Buchlyvie North.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.127 1893 1905 1911 1920 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.444, Callander St Bride’s.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.713 1894 Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.124 1906 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.445, Cambusbarron.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.702 1900 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.445; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.263359.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.125 1894 and Christina Mclean; educated at Garelochhead Public School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; missionary at Newhaven Free Church 1885-94; ordained and inducted 25th July 1894; died 27th January 1907. Married 26th December 1900, Jane Stewart Gray. 1907 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.445.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.712 1893 1911 1918 1923 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.445.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane A church extension charge. Manse was gifted by Callander West in 1904. Church was dedicated and opened in 1905. 1903 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.446; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.181; also Vol.10, p.104; Vol.11, p.93.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.711 1872 Antiquaries of Scotland. Publications – Mors Janua Vitae, Edinburgh, N.D.; articles in Notes and Queries, and other periodicals; associated with editors of Murray’s Oxford Dictionary; sub-editor on letters, C, J, V, W. Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.125 1879 Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane (after local union) Two churches, manse and hall. The former East church was sold as a hall to St Columba Parish Church. 1911 1919 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.446; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.496; also Vol.10, p.294.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.128 1883 1913 1923 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.449, Kilmadock West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.632.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.128 1893 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.447.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.690 1856 1900 1907 1923 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.447; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.137.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.128 1864 1910 1919 London, 1898; The Covenanters, Edinburgh, 1905 and later editions; Give Me Thine Hand (sermon), Dundee, 1906; La Prediko sur la Monto (Sermon on the Mount in Esperanto), London, 1910; The Olaf Sagas, with introduction, notes, edited for Everyman’s Library, London, 1914. [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.448, Gartmore East.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.128 1888 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.449, Kippen Muirhead Memorial.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.128 1879 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.451.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane The congregation at Sauchie was formed at the end of 1913, and Fishcross was disunited from Coalsnaughton and united to Sauchie in 1917. Small church at Fishcross. At Sauchie the services were held in the Public Hall. The building fund amounted to £1150 in 1928. Adhered to the United Free Church (Continuing) in 1929. 1914 Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.673 1861 1902 1906 1912 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.452; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.267.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.126 1876 Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.663 section of the congregation elected to remain aloof and continued to use the buildings as the Erskine congregation. 1893 1909 1915 1918 1924 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.452; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.530.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.126 Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane (from 1909) In 1900, church, hall and manse. In 1902 the congregation moved to new buildings in Park Terrace, erected by means of a legacy left by a member of the congregation. These consisted of church, large hall, session room, four classrooms, vestry, ladies’ room, etc. Mission buildings in the Craigs consisted of large hall, club-room, retiring room, and bathrooms. These were transferred in 1909 when the Craigs congregation united with this congregation. 1877 1911 1920 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.453, Stirling St Columba’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.800.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.125 1883 Stirlingshire County Committee on Secondary Education; member of Executive Committee of the Scottish School Boards Association. 1914 Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.698 1885 1921 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.454.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane (after local union) 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.454, St Ninian’s St George’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.347; Vol.10, p.208.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.126 1868 1898 1921 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.454; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.79; also Vol.10, p.48 and Vol.11, p.33.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.670 1875 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.454.] 1909 Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Paisley 1892; assistant Skelmorlie 1892, Greenock Union Street 1893; ordained and inducted Stirling Erskine United Presbyterian 24th October 1893; became minister of the united congregation May 1909; retired June 1921; died 9th October 1923. Married 20th June 1899, Isabella Hamilton Ritchie. 1921 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.454; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.47.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.126 1883 1909 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.453, Stirling St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.268.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.128 1890 Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.704 1872 1908 Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane (after local union) The two congregations united on 1st January 1912. The North church and South manse were sold. A hall was built in 1926-7. 1912 1922 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.455, Tillicoultry West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.30; also Vol.10, p.3.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.126 1875 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.455.] Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.125 Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.130 1884 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.412; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.405.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.130 1874 1907 1912 1919 1926 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.412.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.129 1899 1903 1920 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.413, Blair Atholl St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.416.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.131 1889 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.414, Fortingall East.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.131 1876 1908 1911 1915 1920 Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.132 1888 1906 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.415, Kenmore St Columba’s.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.132 1888 1912 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.416, Breadalbane; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.65.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.132 1889 1911 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.416.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.130 1884 1907 1926 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.417, Pitlochry East.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.132 1875 1910 1924 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.417; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.472.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.132 1895 1904 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.4, p.18; Vol.8, p.315; Vol.9, p.379.] 1911 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.416, Kinloch Rannoch; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.497; also Vol.10, p.291.] Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.132 Presbytery of Breadalbane Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.132 Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.154 1872 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.524, Airlie South.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.154 1894 1908 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.524, Alyth Barony.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.327 1899 1908 Presbytery of Blairgowrie (after local union) The North church became the place of worship, and the South church was used for halls. The North manse was sold, and the South manse used as the manse. The other buildings remained the property of the united congregation. 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.533, Alyth Barony; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.634; also Vol.10, p.363 and Vol.11, p.346.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.315 1895 Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.154 1894 1907 1910 1919 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.525.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.154 1873 Presbytery of Blairgowrie (after local union) The local union between South and Mount Ericht took place on 16th August 1906. Pipe organ installed September 1924 at a cost of £1433. 1895 of the united congregation 16th August 1906; died (by drowning) 5th September 1914. Married 2nd June 1913, Agnes Siddons Young. 1915 1920 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.526, Blairgowrie, the South; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.489.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.129 1887 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.420.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.130 1880 1915 1923 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.526, Clunie New; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.718; also Vol.10, p.409.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.154 1884 1898 1918 Presbytery of Blairgowrie Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.565 1873 1910 Presbytery of Blairgowrie (after local union) The former North church was used as place of worship and the former South manse as the manse. The former North manse was let. 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.526, Coupar Angus St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, pp.527 and 33; also Vol.10, p.19.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.155 1894 1924 Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.155 1886 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.527.] 1924 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.527.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie (after local linking) The two congregations were linked in 1927. Services continued at both churches. Mural table in memory of Rev. Charles Swanson unveiled in Cray church August 1928. 1927 service as officiating minister to troops stationed at Wormit; translated and inducted 16th June 1927. Married 12th November 1922, Mrs Janet Turner Guild [née Guild, the widow of George Taylor Guild.] [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.527-8.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.155 1886 1918 1923 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.528, Kirkmichael Duff Memorial.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.130 1866 1902 1910 1911 1916 1919 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.528, Lethendy East.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.155 PETER MALTMAN 1921 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.529, Meigle South.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.155 1863 1896 1903 1920 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.530, Newtyle East.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.155 1894 1910 1918 1926 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.530, Rattray West; for this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.173; also Vol.10, p.100.] Presbytery of Blairgowrie A preaching station throughout the period. It was called Netherton only from 1921, being formally called Bridge of Cally. Church only. 1872 Various preachers from 1915 to 1919. 1919 1920 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.530, Netherton.] Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.133 1856 1899 Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.583 1896 Presbytery of Perth (after local union) In 1913 an old parochial school was acquired and used as a hall. Instrumental music introduced in 1913. 1909 1919 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.419.] Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.631 1851 1891 Presbytery of Perth Formed by union between Almondbank and Pitcairngreen in 1905. 1905 1922 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.419; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.250; also Vol.10, p.148 and 318; and Vol.11, p.293.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.133 1891 Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1890), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Hamilton 30th June 1891; ordained and inducted 19th November 1891; war service as bookkeeper with Carmore Quarry, Glenfarg, 1917-19. Justice of the Peace for Perthshire; Chairman of Development Committee and of Public Hall Committee, Glenfarg; President of Tennis Club; Hon. Secretary of Golf Club. Publications – Daybreak in Livingstonia, Edinburgh, 1901; After His Likeness, London, 1906; Glenfarg, Past and Present, Perth, 1902; Manual of French Pronunciation and Diction, London, 1922; The Date of the Exodus in the Light of External Evidence, Edinburgh, 1925; Samaria in Ahab’s Time, Edinburgh, 1928; numerous articles, reviews, poems and periodicals, and sermons in pamphlet form. [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.423, Glenfarg.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.129 1884 Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.645 1887 Presbytery of Perth (after local union) The two congregations united on 27th December 1908. The old United Presbyterian church was used as the place of worship, and the old Free church as the hall. The former United Presbyterian manse was sold. 1909 1923 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.420; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.319; Vol.10, p.188.] Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.650 1878 Presbytery of Perth The two congregations united in 1906. Both churches were retained, being three miles apart. Repairs to both were carried out, at Collace in 1911, at Balbeggie in 1918, each at a cost of about £350. 1906 Edinburgh; agent of Highland Committee at Farr, Sutherland, and Furnace, Lochfyneside, 1889-1902; licensed by Presbytery of St Andrews 1901; assistant Renfrew North 1902-3, Spittal-on-Tweed 1904, Greenock St Michael’s 1905-6; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 3rd April 1906. Married 27th November 1907, Margaret Brown 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.420, Balbeggie and Kinrossie.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.129 1869 1909 1915 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.432, Wolfhill.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.133 1857 Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.562 1884 1920 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.627.] 1925 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.421-2.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.130 1885 1926 Glasgow, M.A. (1892), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Annandale 5th May 1896; assistant Glasgow Tron Free Church 1896-9, Irvine Free Church 1899-1900; loc. ten. Armadale 1900, North Leith 1900-2, Glasgow Barrowfield 1902, Montrose St Paul’s 1902-4; ordained and inducted Montrose St Paul’s 13th May 1904; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, and with Scottish Churches Huts in France and Germany 1918-19; translated and inducted 4th February 1926. Married (1) 1st June 1912, Jessie Falconer Shaw; (2) July 1929, Christina Mundell Maben. [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.413.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.133 1858 1905 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.420, Bridge of Earn; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.507; also Vol.10, pp.90 and 301; and Va href=”https://electricscotland.com/bible/fastiecclesiaesc11scot.pdf#page=76″>Vol.11, p.70.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.130 1888 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.414, Dunkeld East.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.133 1871 Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.574 1880 Presbytery of Perth (after local union) 1913 1921 3 volumes, Edinburgh, 1924; editor, The Speaker’s Bible, Volumes X-XXXVI; joint editor, The Expository Times, since 1922. 1924 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.422, Errol South.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.134 1882 1914 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.423.] Presbytery of Perth This congregation was formed in 1912 by the union of Kinfauns and Pitrodie. 1912 1922 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.423.] Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.636 1865 1910 1912 licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 18th June 1901; ordained by Presbytery of Brisbane, Queensland, for Home Mission and Church Extension work 29th June 1902; assistant Rockhampton St Andrew’s; served in various congregations in Queensland; introduced 1st October 1912; inducted 21st July 1915. [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.424, Kirk o’ the Muir; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.252.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.134 1896 Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.134 1885 Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.616 1897 Presbytery of Perth (after local union) Formed by the union of the North and South congregations on 27th October 1907. The old Free church became the place of worship and the old United Presbyterian church was removed in 1912. The hall of the South church was enlarged and improved. The South manse reverted to the Earl of Mansfield in May 1914. A perpetual feu of church and manse ground was obtained from the Earl as from 1914. 1907 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.424, Heriotfield.] Presbytery of Perth In May 1905 a regular preaching station was established here, and Mr Charles Hutchison, M.A., was appointed to be in charge for six months. In August 1906, on the petition of the congregation, the station was placed under the charge of an ordained preacher, and Mr Charles Hutchison was ordained as preacher in charge for a period not exceeding three years. In November 1909 Mr Hutchison was translated to Garvald. On 12th April 1910 the Synod sanctioned the raising of Luncarty to full status. To the date of the Union of 1929 the congregation worshipped in the Memorial Hall. A manse was built in 1925. 1910 1914 1918 1920 1924 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.425.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.134 1895 Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.620 1892 Presbytery of Perth (after local union) 1907 1910 1921 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.425, Methven East; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.329; also Vol.10, p.194.] Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.561 1895 1902 1914 1923 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.426; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, p.578; also Vol.10, pp.49 and 336; and Vol.11, p.48.] Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.556 1888 M.A. (1883), B.D. (1886), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1886; assistant Helensburgh St Columba’s 1886-7, Edinburgh Bonnington 1887-8; ordained and inducted 4th December 1888; retired 1908; died 28th July 1937. Married 5th April 1892, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Rev. John Hutchison, D.D., Bonnington, Edinburgh. Acquired the estate of Orchill, Perthshire, 1907; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; Chairman of Ardoch School Board; Chairman of Ardoch Parish Council; representative for Ardoch on Perthshire County Council; Chairman of District Recruiting Committee and War Savings Committee; Justice of the Peace for Perthshire. Publications – Horae Serenae (poems), Edinburgh, 1911; Songs with Music, Edinburgh, 1915. 1908 1915 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.426; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.429; also Vol.10, p.255.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.134 1876 Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.135 1881 1915 1919 1926 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.427; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.253 and Vol.11, p.277.] Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.545 1897 1907 1914 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.427.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.135 1879 1903 1914 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.428, St Leonard’s-in-the-Fields; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.542.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.135, 1897 1909 1920 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.427, Perth St Columba’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.171.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.135 1899 1915 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.429; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.255.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.135 1873 1893 1921 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.429; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.619; also Vol.10, pp.259 and 356.] Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.551 1889 Oatlands School (pupil teacher 1877-81), Free Church Normal School; became certificated teacher; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1884), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow South June 1888; missionary, Belhaven Mission 1888-9; ordained and inducted 5th September 1889; retired 31st March 1920; died 6th December 1933. Married 26th June 1900, Catherine McCallum Dunn. Member of the General Assembly’s Youth Committee for 10 years, being Vice-Convener for four years, and Convener for four years; served on Home Mission, Central Fund, Education and College Committees. 1920 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.430; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.255.] Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.560 1867 1910 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.430; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.153; also Vol.10, p.90.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.136 1876 Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.578 Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.136 1873 1913 1921 1927 Presbytery of Dundee 6th May 1910; assistant Paisley Lylesland 1910-11; ordained and inducted Tummel Bridge and Kinloch Rannoch 2nd May 1911; translated to Dairsie and Guardbridge 26th November 1924; translated and inducted 20th July 1927. Married 15th September 1921, Ida Mary Chalmers. [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.431; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.489; also Vol.10, p.291.] Presbytery of Perth Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.639 1883 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.432.] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.136 1870 1909 1923 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.432, Stanley St James’; for an account of this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.260; Vol.10, p.153; and .Vol.11, p.136] Presbytery of Perth Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.132 Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.137 1891 1904 1910 1910 1924 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.433.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.137 1899 1904 1912 1924 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.433; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.514; also Vol.10, pp.305and 312; and Vol.11, p.261.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.596 1892 1905 Presbytery of Auchterarder Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.598 1881 Presbytery of Auchterarder Formed by the union of the Trinity and South congregations on 7th October 1913. The South church was used as place of worship and the Trinity church sold. Trinity manse became the manse and the South manse was let. Pipe organ and oak pulpit gifted in 1914 by Messrs A.T. and Walter Reid, Auchterarder House. Brass Mural Tablet dedicated as War Memorial on 19th January 1921. Some members adhered to and formed a congregation of the United Free Church (Continuing). 1913 1918 1922 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.434; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.556.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.137 1891 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.434;] 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.434, Blackford St Andrew’s.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.137 1893 Presbytery of Auchterarder The two congregations united on 3rd April 1904. Both churches continued in use; the manse at Braco was let; that at Greenloaning was improved by additions and the introduction of water. 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.433, Ardoch.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.610 1882 Presbytery of Auchterarder Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.137 1888 Presbytery of Auchterarder (after local union) Comrie East and West united on 2nd November 1924. The East Church was later sold to the Parish Church as a hall. The West manse became the manse of the united congregation and the East manse was life-rented to the minister. 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.435, Comrie St Kessog’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.113; also Vol.10, p.63.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.623 1878 1909 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.435; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.258.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.138 1862 1907 1909 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.435.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.138 1896 Presbytery of Auchterarder Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.588 1882 Presbytery of Auchterarder (after local union) The union of the two congregations took place on 5th January 1908. A new church was built, with hall attached, and dedicated on 8th May 1909. A carved oak pulpit was gifted by the Misses Archbold of Wooler; communion table gifted by Miss Jane Whyte of Baadhead; minister’s chair gifted by Mrs C. Jeffrey; organ and choir chairs installed; stained glass windows, gifted in 1909 by Sir John Wilson, Bart., D.L., of Airdrie and Kippen, by Miss Jane Ann Robertson, by the sons of John Whyte and Mary Wedderspoon his wife, the fourth in memory of Jane Anne Robertson; a fifth gifted by the relatives of the late Andrew Whyte. In 1917 Sir John Wilson gifted a two-light window in memory of his son, killed in France that year. In 1918 Sir John Wilson bequeathed £1000 for the upkeep of the church fabric or for other congregational purposes 1908 1921 [Page 343] 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.436, Dunning St Paul’s; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.259.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.685 1886 Presbytery of Auchterarder Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.606 1869 1909 1913 Presbytery of Auchterarder Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.138 1874 Presbytery of Auchterarder These two congregations united on 30th May 1915. Two churches and manse. 1915 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.437, Madderty High.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.138 1880 New College, Edinburgh, University of Leipzig 1878, University of Tübingen 1879; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1880; loc. ten. Broughty Ferry East 1880, Perth St Leonard’s 1880; ordained and inducted 25th November 1880; war service with Huts in France 1917. Married 18th April 1882, Lucy Ann Omond. Publications – Lady Nairn and her Songs, Paisley, 1899; The Bible a Revelation from God, Edinburgh, 1910; The Child in the Midst, Edinburgh, 1912; The Guild Handbook, Edinburgh, 1905; The Experiences of a Hut Leader at the Front, Paisley, 1918; editor of Primers for Teachers and Bible-Classes, Edinburgh, 1903, etc.; articles and 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.438, Monzie North.] Presbytery of Auchterarder Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.138 1890 1907 1925 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.438, Muthill St John’s.] Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.139 1878 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.456.] 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.456, Aberdour St Colme’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.24; also Vol.10, pp.14 and 266.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.393 1863 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Formed by the union of Balgedie with Portmoak and Flockhouse in 1908. The Flockhouse Mission Hall was transferred to Glencraig and Lochore. The Portmoak manse was sold. Both churches and the Balgedie manse were retained. 1909 1917 1920 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.456.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.360 1895 October 1895; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916, 1917. Married 10th December 1896, Jemima Law. Appointed Treasurer and Assistant Clerk to the Presbytery 3rd March 1908; Clerk 2nd April 1912; member of Carnock School Board and Education Authority for 21 years; member of Carnock Parish Council for 30 years, and chairman 1919-29; member and vice president of Dunfermline and West Fife Naturalists’ Society; Justice of the Peace for Fifeshire 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.457.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.139 1887 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.373 1886 1908 1923 1926 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.458; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.355.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.142 1896 1903 1907 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol. 7, p.320 and Vol.9, p.613.] 1918 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.458, Cowdenbeith Guthrie Memorial; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.439; also Vol.10, p.260.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.372 1887 1910 1919 1923 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.459; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.774; also Vol.10, p.431; and Vol.11, p.429; also Vol.12, pp.478 and 508.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.139 1877 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.459.] 1916 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.459, Culross St Kentigern’s.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.139 1890 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.462.] 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.462, Dunfermline St Columba’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.257; also Vol.10, pp.151 and 103.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.354 1877 1905 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.460.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.358 1885 1925 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.460; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.323; also Vol.10, p.456.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.140 1869 1904 Mountains of the Bible, Paisley; Church in the House, Paisley; monthly papers in Dayspring, and contributions to 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.462, Dunfermline St John’s.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.347 1873 1912 1922 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.461; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.460; also Vol.10, p.272.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.140 1876 1912 1922 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.461, Dunfermline St Andrew’s South; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.442.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.353 1891 1902 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.462; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.566; Vol.10, p.329.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross This congregation was transferred on 22nd May 1912 to the presbytery of Cupar (q.v.). Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.142 1895 1902 1909 1913 1919 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross These congregations united in 1921, but the union was dissolved in 1923. 1921 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross (after dissolution of local union) 1923 1928 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.463, Fossoway Devonside; also Vol.10, p.275.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Church and manse. This congregation was instituted in 1908. 1908 1925 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.466, Lochcraig; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.54; also Vol.10, p.31.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.362 1893 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.464, Inverkeithing St John’s.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.142 1876 Publications – Poems of Michael Bruce (collected and edited), Paisley; Armenia: A Historical Sketch, London; Torchbearers of Scottish History, Dunfermline. 1910 1915 1924 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.464, Kelty North; for an account of this minister. See Vol.10, p.275.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.378 1898 1901 1918 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.464, Kelty North; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.488.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.368 1875 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross 1914 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.465; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.276.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.142 1844 1902 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.390 1874 1917 1921 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.384 1866 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross United with East congregation in 1925. 1908 1914 1919 1924 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Formed by the union of East and West congregations in 1925. 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.465.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.140 1874 1900 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.466; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.488.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.370 1875 1907 1918 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.466; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.322; also Vol.10, p.189.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.366 1869 1909 1916 Academy and High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1895), B.D. (1898), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Glasgow Parkhead 1897; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1898; assistant Bellshill United Presbyterian 1898-9, Campbeltown Longrow 1899-1902; probationer in charge, Calderbank Mission Station, February-June 1902; ordained and inducted Calderbank 23rd June 1902; translated and inducted 17th May 1916. Married 11th September 1906; Mary Parlane Baird, sister of Rev. J.A. Baird and Rev. David Baird. [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.466.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.146 1856 1892 1916 1922 1928 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.466; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.32; also Vol.10, pp.19 and 241; and Vol.11, p.213.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.143 1902 [For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.467.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.378 1885 1927 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.467; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.277.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.380 1858 1886 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.140 1881 1909 1926 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.468.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.143 1898 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.391 1900 1903 1913 1928 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.595.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.143 1893 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.425.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.140. 1876 1904 1908 1914 1917 1920 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.470, Saline North.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.140 1867 1906 1925 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.468, Newmills; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.673.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.140 1887 1926 1929 [For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.463, Dunfermline Townhill; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.538.] Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.141 1894 1909 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross This station was under the supervision of Crossgates. 1924 Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross 1925 [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.705 and Vol.9, p.158;
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SYNOD OF ARGYLL
PRESBYTERY OF DUNOON
DUNOON ARGYLL
Church and manse. Choir pews constructed and pedestal pulpit installed in the period. Centenary celebration in 1928. History of the congregation was written by A.J.M. Bennett in 1928.
JOHN C[OCHRAN] JOHNSTONE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.199
[Born 25th October 1836 at Alyth, son of William Johnston and Jean Cochran;] ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 30th May 1865; became senior minister 1901; died 1921. [Married 1861, Jessie Mcdonald.]
ANDREW GEMMELL, B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.584
[Born 13th August 1859 at Glasgow, son of Andrew Gemmell and Mary Bisset;] ordained and inducted Ford 9th December 1886; translated and inducted 23rd April 1901; died [8th December] 1906; [buried Cranstoun Cemetery.]
JOHN C[UTHILL] CHALMERS, B.D.
Translated from Hamilton Saffronhall Associate Antiburgher and inducted 30th April 1907; appointed to Naples 1924.
ALFRED JOHN HALL
Born 22nd June 1886 at Balnoon, Inverkeithnie, Banffshire, son of George Hall and Janet Harper; educated at Edinburgh George Heriot’s School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1908), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1912; assistant Edinburgh St Andrew’s 1913-14, North Leith 1914-15; ordained and inducted St Monance 9th June 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, Egypt and Palestine 1918-19; translated and inducted 20th March 1925. Married 28th July 1915, Jane Lauder MacDonald [daughter of Peter MacDonald, minister.]
DUNOON GAELIC
United with Dunoon St John’s 26th June 1907.
DUNCAN MACNICOL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.254
Translated from Lochranza and inducted 1876; died 1907.
DOUGLAS M[ACLAUCHLAN] MACCALMAN
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 26th November 1900; resigned 1907; inducted Helmsdale 1910.
DUNOON ST JOHN’S
Church, hall and manse. Mission hall. United with Dunoon Gaelic 1907.
ROBERT MCMORRAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.252
Born 31st January 1838 at Quothquan, Lanarkshire, son of William McMorran and Janet Smith; educated at Liberton Free Church School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary North Leith; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lanark 1864; missionary assistant Edinburgh Stockbridge 1864; ordained and inducted Torphichen 12th January 1865; translated to Chryston 1869; translated and inducted 17th March 1870; retired 1906; died 21st August 1908. Married 21st September 1865, Margaret Kemp. Clerk to Presbytery of Dunoon 1875 to 1906.
JOHN FULTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.163
Born 21st September 1870 at Glasgow, son of John Fulton and Jeanie Bunting; educated at Glasgow Bishop Street Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1894), B.D. (1898), Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Helensburgh 1897, Kirkintilloch 1898; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1899; assistant Glasgow St Matthew’s Free Church 1899; ordained and inducted Loudoun Free Church, Newmilns April 1900; translated and inducted November 1906. Married 3rd June 1913, Barbara Pratt.
INNELLAN NORTH
United with Innellan Trinity 3rd December 1901.
WILLIAM STODDART, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 15th March 1898; translated to Aberdeen Trinity 1901.
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INNELLAN TRINITY
United with Innellan North 3rd December 1901.
ROBERT HENDERSON, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.209
[Born about 1849 in Canada;] ordained and inducted 14th April 1874; retired 1901. [Married 1878, Isabel Mary Douglas Glen.]
INNELLAN
JAMES PATERSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1st April 1902; translated to Brechin West 26th October 1910.
DAVID COLVILLE LUSK
Born 1881 at Broomhouse, Lanark, son of John Lusk [and Jessie Colville]; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., University of Oxford, Balliol College, B.A., New College, Edinburgh, University of Jena; acting professor in Madras Christian College 1907; assistant Glasgow Kelvinside 1909; ordained and inducted 23rd March 1911; appointed Presbyterian Chaplain at University of Oxford 1914; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1916-18, mentioned in Despatches, M.C. and bar; inducted Edinburgh West Coates 1933.
THOMAS MITCHELL AULD MACNAB, M.A.. B.D., Ph.D.
Ordained and inducted 1st December 1914; translated to Forfar West 8th October 1919.
IAN DUNCAN MACGREGOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 2nd December 1919; translated to Glasgow London Road September 1923.
MATTHEW BARR HOUSTON, B.D.
[Born 1882 at Erskine, son of John Houston and Catherine Barr;] ordained and inducted Kilmarnock St John’s 13th October 1913; resigned while Chaplain to the Forces 1919; inducted 4th December 1923.
KILCHATTAN BAY
Church and manse. Hall built in the period.
JAMES WALKER ANDERSON
Ordained and inducted 6th July 1899; translated to Port Glasgow Newark 30th January 1906.
THOMAS JEFFREY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 17th May 1906; translated to Glasgow North Kelvinside 22nd February 1912.
ROBERT INGLIS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 4th June 1912; translated to Ford 15th August 1919.
JAMES NAIRN
Translated from Perth St Paul’s and inducted 4th December 1919; translated to Stirling St Ninian’s South 1921.
JONATHAN TOWNSLEY, M.A.
[Born 1867 in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England, son of Jonathan Townsley and June Copland;] ordained and inducted Cullybackey 1909; translated and inducted 20th April 1922. [Married 1909, Mary Stirling Boyd.]
KILFINNAN
Churches at Kilfinnan, Millhouse and Kames, but the first two were not in use and were sold during the period. Manse. Hall added to Kames church, opened 29th December 1908. Improvements to the church and manse. Instrumental music introduced in 1911. The buildings were claimed by the Free Church, but as no signatures were obtained the claim was dropped.
DUNCAN MCNEILL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.253
Born 23rd September 1864 at Dunrostan, North Knapdale, son of Dugald McNeill and Sarah Graham; educated at Easdale Public School, Campbeltown Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1899), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lorn 19th April 1893; assistant Nairn 1893-4; ordained and inducted 5th July 1894; retired 6th July 1924; died 1st November 1931. Married 23rd March 1904, Jeanie Stewart.
JAMES ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE
Born 14th June 1870 at Innerleithen, son of John Somerville and Margaret Christiana Hendry; educated Dollar Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1890), Dunedin Theological College, New Zealand; student assistant Dunedin Knox Church 1895-6; licensed by Presbytery of Dunedin May 1896; ordained and inducted Waihola, Presbytery of Balclutha 9th June 1896; resigned 1900 and returned to Scotland; assistant Glasgow St George’s 1901-2, Crieff South 1902-3; admitted by General Assembly 1903; inducted Selkirk West 19th March 1904; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Gallipoli, Egypt and
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KILMODAN AND SOUTHHALL
Church and manse.
ALEXANDER MACGILP, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.228
Licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1886; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 28th September 1886. President of Celtic Society.
KILMUN
Church and manse at Kilmun. The former “Alliance Church” at Strone was taken over in 1921, and services conducted each Sunday in both. Two memorial tablets and communion chairs were dedicated 30th March 1928 in memory of Rev. Donald McKerchar and Rev. John D. MacGilp.
DONALD MCKERCHAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.240
Born 28th August 1842 at Kenmore, son of John McKerchar and Janet Crerar; educated at Acharn and Aberfeldy Public Schools, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Breadalbane 2nd August 1865; assistant Lybster, Inverness High; ordained and inducted 1867; retired 1913; died 19th January 1924. Married 30th September 1886, Annie Maclachlan.
DAVID BROMFIELD SMITH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th September 1913; translated to Dundee Mains and Strathmartine 21st June 1921.
JOHN DUNCAN MACGILP
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.228
Born 22nd February 1867 at Ayr, son of Donald MacGilp and Jessie Gordon Watt; educated at Kilchoman Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A., Glasgow Free Church College; assistant to Principal Douglas in Glasgow Free Church College 1890-1; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Islay 17th October 1891; assistant Edinburgh Martyrs’ 1891-2; ordained and inducted Lockerbie Free Church 6th December 1892; translated to Aberdeen Rutherford 29th March 1904; translated to Inverness Crown United Free 10th January 1908; resigned on appointment to Food Control 1919; inducted 25th October 1921; died 18th April 1924. Clerk to Free Church Presbytery of Lockerbie. Assistant Food Controller for North of Scotland during Great War. Chairman for Inverness Burgh School Board.
JOHN FINLAYSON YOUNG
Born 28th February 1874 at Craigie, Perth, son of William Young and Isabella Finlayson; educated at Sharp’s Educational Institution and Craigie Public School, Perth, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1900), United Presbyterian College and New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Perth 1902; assistant Greenock Trinity 1902-4, Newcastle-on-Tyne College Road 1904; ordained and inducted Bonhill North 2nd November 1904; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, 1918; translated to Thornton 22nd March 1922; translated and inducted October 1925.
KINGARTH
Church and manse. Manse was altered and enlarged. A history of the congregation was published in 1943.
ROBERT WILLIAMSON, D.D., LL.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.357
Translated from Dunkeld and inducted 1853; became senior minister 1890; died 1902.
WILLIAM WINTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.360
Born 11th December 1863 at Cortachy, Kirriemuir, son of James Winter and Helen Middleton; educated at Cortachy Public School, University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Forfar 1888; assistant Dumfries Maxwelltown 1888; ordained and inducted 20th October 1890; died 28th June 1924. Married June 1891, Mary H[enrietta] M. Rae.
ANDREW RANKIN COWIE
Born 1873 at Airdrie, son of George Cowie [and Catherine Rankin]; educated at Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; assistant Ayr; ordained Glasgow Crosshill May 1901; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1917-18; translated and inducted 21st June 1925; died 24th April 1938. Married 1905, Susan Miller Martin. Member of Bute Education Committee from 1927.
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KIRN
Church with hall, manse. Alterations to hall in 1929.
ADAM GRAY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.206
Born 5th August 1847 at Moss-side, Tarbolton, son of James Gray and Jane Stewart; educated at Tarbolton, Ayr Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1871), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; teacher in Ayr Academy 1869-71; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock 1872; ordained and inducted Sutton United Presbyterian, Chester, 30th January 1873; translated and inducted 6th June 1876; retired 30th September 1923; died 16th January 1937. Married 29th April 1873, Lizzie Jane Johnston.
JAMES ALEXANDER AITCHISON
Born 5th July 1878 at Erskine Manse, Falkirk, son of Rev. James Aitchison and Elizabeth Mason Craigie; educated at Lidell’s School and High School, Falkirk, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1898), United Presbyterian College and New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Linlithgow and Falkirk 3rd June 1902; assistant Campbeltown Longrow 1902-3, Pollokshields Albert Road 1903-4, Glasgow Camphill 1904-5; ordained and inducted Auchterarder South 9th March 1905; translated to Glasgow Erskine 15th May 1913; translated and inducted 10th January 1924; died 1944. Married 29th August 1905, Agnes Hunter Cosh. Publications: Hark! How Heaven is Calling (lecture on Rev. George Jacque), Auchterarder, 1911; Crossing the Bar (lecture on the poem and the life of Tennyson), 1912.
LOCHGOILHEAD
Church and small hall, manse.
JAMES MCKINNELL CAMPBELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.115
Born 12th August 1866 at Kirkmahoe, Dumfrieshire, son of James Campbell and Mary McKinnell; educated at Goodhope and Wamphray Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1888), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lockerbie May 1890; in charge, Cromdale 1890-2; assistant Newton Stewart 1892-3; ordained and inducted 20th November 1894. Married 4th September 1901, Margaret Elizabeth Browne. Clerk to Presbytery of Dunoon from 1914; Clerk to Synod of Argyll from 1919.
NORTH BUTE
Church and manse. War memorial pipe organ installed at a cost of £1500. The Free Church claimed and obtained the Thomson Bequest (an endowment of £90 per annum) after the House of Lords decision.
JOHN DUNLOP
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.144
Born 30th March 1857, near Larne, Co. Antrim, son of David Dunlop and Isabella Young; educated at Neilson and Glasgow, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow, January 1888; assistant Glasgow St Paul’s, Glasgow Rose Street; ordained and inducted 19th January 1888; died 19th December 1913. Married 14th February 1888, Catherine Ross Whyte. Clerk to the Presbytery of Dunoon 1st May 1906 till his death.
JAMES WYLLIE GIRVAN
Translated from Law and inducted 9th April 1914; translated to Douglas New St Bride’s 1928.
WILLIAM MACLEOD, B.D., Ph.D.
Born 15th September 1874 at Elphin, Sutherlandshire, son of Gregor and Catherine Macleod; educated at Elphin, Inverness Raining’s School, University of Edinburgh, Princeton Theological Seminary, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 8th June 1904; ordained and inducted Melness 5th October 1904; translated to Stratherrick August 1907; translated to Whiting Bay 22nd January 1913; translated to Lochgelly Macainsh 1916; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France and Belgium; translated to Fort William 22nd February 1922; translated to Glasgow Cowcaddens 22nd July 1924; translated and inducted 18th September 1928. F.S.A. (Scot.). Married (1) 25th December 1906, Marie M. MacLeod; (2) 2nd September 1914, Margaret Moffat Baird.
ROTHESAY BRIDGEND
Church with vestry and session room built in 1836. New church with vestry, guildroom, hall, four shops and church officer’s house built on the old site in 1908. Manse.
WILLIAM GALBRAITH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.185
Born 19th June 1856 at Killallan, Campbeltown, son of
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JAMES ESSELMONT
Ordained and inducted 17th May 1923; translated to Greenock St Michael Street, 19th January 1928.
ROBERT LEE KIRK
[Born 24th May 1875 at Glasgow, son of Robert Kirk and Jane Thomson Baird;] ordained preacher introduced Hurlford Mauchline Road 18th December 1902; introduced Firth Paterson, Orkney 27th June 1905; inducted Evie 9th October 1906; translated to Greenock Greenbank 16th March 1911; translated to Kilmaronock 3rd December 1925; translated and inducted 29th June 1928; Married 1904, Primrose Adair Martin.]
ROTHESAY CHAPELHILL
Church and manse. Mission Hall in Tower Street shared with I.O.G.T. Gaelic service ceased in the period. The congregation lost church and manse to the Free Church, but retained their share of the mission hall. This share was sold when the new church and hall were built in the High Street. A manse was bought at a cost of £850, and the buildings were free of debt in 1928.
DUGALD MCCORMICK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.218
Born 3rd May 1846 at Kilchoman, Islay, son of Archibald McCormick and Euphemia [McGill]; educated at rural schools, Bowmore, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; taught in Uist; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 9th May 1877; assistant Rothesay Chapelhill; ordained and inducted Lochranza, Arran, 25th July 1877; translated and inducted 18th June 1885; retired 28th June 1920; died 18th September 1921. Married 16th December 1879, Jessie Carmichael.
CHARLES MATHESON, M.A.
Translated from Alness and inducted 8th September 1921; translated to Aberdeen King Street 12th November 1925.
GEORGE ROBERT HOWE
Born 14th June 1893 at Sunderland, son of John and Jane Howe; educated at Sunderland James William Street, Hudson Road, Valley Road Schools, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College, Lincoln Jefferson University, Atlanta, U.S.A., Ph.D. (1929); war service at sea 1914-19; assistant Glasgow Renwick 1920-1, Falkirk St Andrew’s 1921-4, Glasgow Lansdowne 1924-6; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 31st March 1926; ordained and inducted 10th June 1926. Married 17th June 1918, Margaret Edward.
ROTHESAY CRAIGMORE
Church and hall, and manse. Pipe organ installed 1903.
JAMES CAMERON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.211
[Born about 1864 at Glasgow;] ordained and inducted 22nd May 1894; resigned 8th January 1917. [Married 1901, Mary Kerr Williamson.]
JAMES RUTHERFORD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.309
Born 1861 at Hawick; educated at University of Edinburgh, D.D., New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh; assistant Edinburgh Barclay; ordained and inducted Coldstream 1887; translated to Edinburgh Craigmillar Park 1896; translated and inducted 7th June 1917; retired 1922; died 25th January 1933. Married sister of Professor James Seth. [Married 1927, Margaret Little Seth.]
ROBERT CLEPHANE MACANNA, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 25th January 1923; appointed to Pera Union Church, Constantinople (Jewish Mission), 10th November 1925.
WILLIAM GARDINER
Born 11th May 1889 at Hamilton, son of Archibald Gardiner and Mary Wilson; educated at Townhead Public School and St John’s Grammar School, Hamilton, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces 1917-19; missionary in Spain 1911-15; student missionary, Paisley Middle 1919-23; licensed by Presbytery of Paisley 3rd April 1923; ordained and inducted Falkirk St James’ 19th June 1923; translated and inducted 28th October 1926;. Married 20th June 1922, Jessie Thomson Hutson.
ROTHESAY FREE PARISH
Church and three halls. Manse. One hall, used for mission purposes, was disposed of.
ANDREW NEIL SUTHERLAND, M.A.
Translated from Muthill and inducted 11th May 1886; translated to Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1902.
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JOSEPH TRAILL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.345
Born 9th July 1865 at Burnthill, Newmachar, son of Joseph Traill and Mary Simpson; educated at Whiterashes, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (Hons. Classics, 1893), B.D. (1900), Aberdeen Free Church College (Lumsden and Sachs Fellow 1897); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen May 1897; ordained and inducted Wick 5th January 1898; translated and inducted 24th June 1902; died 25th February 1932. F.S.A. (Scot.) 1926. Married 17th October 1902, Margaret Boyd Macdonald. Published reviews and articles in various periodicals.
ROTHESAY WEST
Church and manse.
JOHN URQUHART
Translated from Glasgow Chalmers and inducted 1st June 1899; translated to Hamilton St John’s October 1906.
WILLIAM MUIR, B.D., B.L.
Translated from Blairgowrie St Andrew’s and inducted 13th June 1907; translated to Glasgow Shawlands South 1910.
JAMES FERGUSON PADKIN
Translated from Paisley George Street and inducted 1st March 1911; translated to Glasgow Central 30th September 1919.
WILLIAM GALBRAITH TAYLOR, M.A.
Translated from Fraserburgh South and inducted 9th June 1920; translated to Edinburgh Nicolson Street 1925.
HUGH DAVIDSON, M.A.
[Born 21st March 1886, son of John Davidson and Anne Clements – said to be born at Glengarnock, registered at Dalry; educated at Glasgow University, M.A. (1912), Trinity College, Glasgow;] ordained and inducted Kirkintilloch St Andrew’s 2nd February 1917; translated to Paisley George Street 1921; translated and inducted 5th August 1925.[Married 1919, Agnes Freeland Cochrane.]
SANDBANK
Church and manse.
CHARLES CALDER STEWART DRON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.141
Ordained and inducted 14th August 1894; died 1922.
JOHN A[RMSTRONG] OWEN
Born [30th December 1868] at Stirling, [son of George Owen and Joanna Armstrong]; educated at University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Corstorphine, Glasgow Barrowfield; ordained and inducted Hallside and Gilbertfield 1903; translated to Hamilton South 1914; translated and inducted 30th January 1923. [Married 1904, Phyllis McGregor.]
STRACHUR AND STRATHLACHLAN
Church and manse.
ARCHIBALD MCCALLUM
Ordained and inducted 17th October 1883; translated to North Knapdale 1911.
DOUGLAS M[CLAUCHLAN] MACCALMAN
[Dugald MacCalman, born in Morvern, Argyll, in 1862, the son of James MacCalman and Mary MacLauchlan]; ordained and inducted Dunoon Gaelic 26th November 1900; resigned 1907; inducted Helmsdale 1910; translated and inducted 13th April 1911; died 19th July 1922. [Married 1901, Jessie Bryce.]
JOHN MILLER OLIPHANT
Born October 1872 at Ruthers, Wick, son of James Oliphant and Mary Miller; educated at Barrock Public School, Bible Training Institute, Glasgow (1906-8), Manitoba College, Winnipeg, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Winnipeg; assistant Eastside, Handhills, Ceylon, Canada; ordained and inducted Wynot (Presbytery of Winnipeg) 29th March 1912; returned to Scotland; assistant Newtonmore, Glasgow Augustine; loc. ten. Hamilton Brandon; inducted Coalsnaughton February 1918; translated and inducted 3rd May 1923. Married 24th April 1918, Jean Hendry Winchcote.
TIGHNABRUAICH
Church, hall and manse. Manse improved in 1910. Status was reduced in 1922 and restored in 1924.
JAMES YOUNG
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.362
Ordained and inducted Selkirk Free Church 1860; resigned 1873 and appointed to Naples; inducted 1877; became senior minister 1893; died 1908.
HUGH MONTGOMERY RANKIN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 31st October 1893; translated to Galashiels Ladhope 19th September 1907.
GEORGE BENNETT
Formerly in Canada; inducted 18th May 1908; translated to East Wemyss 28th September 1916.
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ROBERT BARCLAY THOMSON
Born 1882 at Newbattle, son of William Thomson [and Marion A. Spence]; educated at Edinburgh and George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A.; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor Glenorchy 10th April 1914; translated and inducted 23rd November 1916; resigned 31st March 1922; [see also Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.389.] Married 1914, Isabella Macdonald.
JAMES ANDERSON WATT
Born 21st February 1857 at Kinning Park, Glasgow, son of George Henry Watt and Elizabeth Taylor Anderson; educated at Glasgow Ibrox Park Academy, High School, University of Glasgow, English Presbyterian Church College, London; missionary assistant London Clapham Road Church 1883-6; licensed by Presbytery of London April 1886; ordained and inducted Gateshead-on-Tyne September 1886; translated to Glasgow London Road, June 1898; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918; elected minister in charge 16th February 1923; inducted after restoration of congregation to full status 17th December 1924; resigned 31st May 1927; died 27th July 1932. Married 4th January 1887, Margaret Leckie. Wrote pamphlets on prophecy for Associations in Edinburgh and London 1905-27.
DUNCAN MCGREGOR
Born 25th December 1869 at Bonawe, Taynuilt, son of Gregor Mcgregor and Catherine McDonald; educated at Taynuilt Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Tongue June 1900; assistant Tain, Inverness Queen Street, Newtonmore; ordained and inducted Kiltarlity 13th February 1902; translated to Killin 3rd July 1912; war service as chaplain at naval ports to Gaelic-speaking naval personnel; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 24th January 1928. Married 3rd October 1906, Annie Findlater Allardyce Gordon.
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PRESBYTERY OF INVERARAY
ARDRISHAIG
Church in 1900. Manse acquired.
JOHN STEWART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.329
Ordained and inducted 1868; became senior minister 8th January 1902; died 1908. Clerk to the Free Church Presbytery for some years.
JOHN MACKERCHAR MACNAUGHTON
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 8th January 1902; translated to Campbeltown Lorne Street 1907.
ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 1st November 1907; translated to Crossford 1917.
EVAN MACKENZIE CAMPBELL
Translated from Knockando and inducted 27th March 1918; translated to Arbroath St Ninian’s 4th February 1925.
ALEXANDER CAIRNS HOGG
Born 4th September 1864 at Paisley, son of Walter Hogg and Catherine Blair Cairns; educated at Paisley John Neilson Institution, East Public School and Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A., Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Greenock St Thomas’ Free Church 1891-2; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Paisley 1892; assistant Glasgow St Paul’s Free Church 1892-5, Hamilton St John’s Free Church 1895; ordained and inducted Yetholm 15th August 1895; translated to Forest Hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne 6th September 1913; translated and inducted 24th June 1925; [buried Benton Cemetery, North Tyneside]. Married (1) 15th November 1899, Margaret Binnie Webster; (2) 27th August 1926, Mrs Jane Cole.
INVERARAY
Church and manse.
DONALD C[AMPBELL] STEWART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.328
Ordained and inducted 1889. [Married 1890, Susan Carson Meikle, daughter of Gilbert Meikle, minister.]
KILMARTIN
Church and manse. Reduced to a mission station in 1907. United with the Church of Scotland congregation in 1929.
MALCOLM MACPHAIL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.255
Ordained and inducted 1877; died 23rd December 1906.
PETER LIVINGSTONE
Ordained as missionary July 1914; appointed to Tiree 26th February 1919.
LOCHFYNESIDE
Church and manse. The senior and junior colleagues both adhered to the Free Church. Reduced to a mission station in 1907.
THOMAS COOPER
Ordained preacher, appointed 17th December 1914; resigned 31st October 1917.
NORMAN MACPHERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.256
Born 1st November 1847 at Trumisgarry, Uist, son of Norman Macpherson and Marion McLean; educated at Pitcairngreen, Perth, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed 1878; assistant Strathpepper 1878; ordained and inducted Yetholm 7th August 1878; translated to Glasgow Trinity 7th March 1895; resigned 1914; loc. ten. in Islay, Lochgilphead, Fort William, Nairn, Mallaig and Tain; appointed June 1919; died 23rd February 1925. Married 17th June 1879, Isabella Finlayson.
GEORGE MCLAREN, M.A.
Student missionary, Lochfyneside 1925; preacher at Lochfyneside 1926-7; ordained for Foreign Mission service 22nd November 1927, and appointed to Kalna, Calcutta.
LOCHGILPHEAD
Church and manse. United with Lochgilphead Martyrs’ in 1905.
ANGUS JOHN WATSON, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.351
Translated from Glenelg and inducted 1896; died 1904.
LOCHGILPHEAD MARTYRS’
Church and manse. United with Lochgilphead in 1905.
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ALEXANDER BANNATYNE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.90
Born 25th August 1844 at Largs, son of Duncan Bannatyne and Jean Houston; educated at Largs Free Church School and Brisbane Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1864), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Greenock August 1868; ordained and inducted Inverness West 19th March 1869; translated to Paisley South August 1872; translated to Manchester Longsight Presbyterian Church August 1879; translated and inducted August 1886; resigned to facilitate local union September 1906; died 28th April 1928. Married Rachel Kerr.
LOCHGILPHEAD
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND
Ordained and inducted 5th July 1906; translated to Glasgow Bath Street 13th May 1909.
KENNETH CAMERON, M.A.
Translated from Avoch and inducted 27th October 1909; translated to Greenock Crawfordsburn 27th August 1915.
MALCOLM MACLEOD, M.A.
Translated from Strath, Skye, and inducted 9th February 1916; translated to Glasgow John Knox and Tradeston 17th September 1924.
DONALD MACLACHLAN MACKENZIE
Born 25th December 1878 at Inverness, son of Donald Mackenzie and Annie Maclachlan; educated at Cromarty Peddiston Public School, Inverness Raining’s School; ordained to the ministry of the Baptist Church at Johnstone 1900; went to Canada and served in Huntsville, Ontario, Carleton Place, Ontario and West Point, Nova Scotia 1905-14; loc. ten. Lossiemouth 1914-18; admitted by General Assembly May 1918; inducted to Reay, Caithness 1918; translated to Coalsnaughton 1923; translated and inducted 1925. Married 5th January 1897, Annie Gill Bell.
NORTH KNAPDALE
Church and manse at Tayvallich; church at Bellanoch. The Tayvallich buildings were allocated to the Free Church in 1905. New manse and church were erected at Tayvallich. Gaelic services ceased in 1922.
ALEXANDER FERGUSON MACINNES, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 1896; translated to Ferintosh and Maryburgh 1910.
ARCHIBALD MCCALLUM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.216
Born 7th June 1853 at Kames, Tighnabruaich, son of Dugald McCallum and Margaret Mitchell; educated at Tighnabruaich, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College and New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dunoon 1883; assistant Inverness, Oban, Dingwall; ordained and inducted Strachur 17th October 1883; translated and inducted 5th February 1911; died 2nd July 1922. Married 4th March 1886, Mary Buchanan Ancell.
JAMES MACMILLAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.252
Born 29th November 1859 at Glencardoch, Glenbarr, Argyll, son of John MacMillan and Flora McKendrick; educated at Glenbarr Public School, Killean Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1883), Glasgow Free Church College (Clark Fellow 1887); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kintyre May 1887; assistant Carradale and Skipness 1887-8, Fodderty and Contin 1888; ordained and inducted Kenmore 24th October 1888; resigned 1st March 1906; in service of the Highland Committee 1906-10; introduced Aberuthven 25th December 1910; inducted Aberuthven 8th July 1912; translated and inducted 30th April 1924; retired 30th June 1929; died 1945. Married 9th September 1896, Mabel Sophia, daughter of Henry Gill, C.E., Berlin.
TARBERT
Church and small hall, which were allocated to Free Church in 1905. New church was erected. Manse.
MALCOLM C. CAMPBELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.115
Ordained and inducted 1884; resigned 1904; went to Canada.
ALEXANDER MACKINNON, B.D., Ph.D.
Ordained and inducted 17th May 1907; translated to Manchester Grosvenor Square 1909; inducted Glasgow St Columba’s (Church of Scotland) 1918; [Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.3, p.438; Vol.8, p.345; Vol.9, p.410; Vol.10, p.244.]
ALEXANDER MACRAE
Translated from Creich and inducted 14th April 1910; translated to Rattray 19th September 1918.
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DUGALD MACMILLAN
Born 10th May 1869 at Ardrishaig, son of Duncan MacMillan and Catherine Macfarlane; educated at Ardrishaig and Lochgilphead Public Schools, Greenock Kilblain Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed 24th December 1895; assistant Edinburgh St Columba’s 1899-1902; ordained and inducted Lismore 14th October 1902; translated to Rogart March 1908; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Cromarty and Invergordon; translated and inducted 7th May 1919. Married 28th October 1914, Annie Ross.
CRAIGNISH
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PRESBYTERY OF KINTYRE
CAMPBELTOWN LOCHEND
Church and hall, manse. Mission school and house.
JOHN MCQUEEN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.257
Born 19th March 1840 at Coatbridge, son of Peter McQueen and Mary McMillan; educated at Durrisdeer, Lesmahagow, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1864), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1868; assistant Glasgow Lyon Street; ordained and inducted Wamphray 1870; translated to Kilmarnock St Andrew’s 1877; translated and inducted 5th May 1883; retired 1910; died 8th March 1916. Married 26th July 1912, Margaret Leask Gillespie. Publications – After Fifty Years, Campbeltown, 1893; The Eastern Shepherd and his Sheep, Paisley; sermons.
BRUCE BEVERIDGE BLACKWOOD
Born 6th November 1885 at Camlachie, son of James Blackwood and Margaret Campbell; educated at Alexandria North School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1906), B.D. (1910), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology, 1910); licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton May 1910; assistant Campbeltown Lochend 1910-11; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 12th July 1911. L.R.A.M. 1916; [died 21st April 1968; buried Campbeltown Kilkerran Cemetery.] Married 7th September 1915, Annie Nisbet Hamilton. Did not enter the Union of 1929.
CAMPBELTOWN LONGROW
Church and manse.
JOHN ALEXANDER BAIRD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.189
Ordained and inducted 29th September 1896; translated to Glasgow Partick Broomhill, 9th May 1907.
DAVID SMALL BROWN
Born in Dundee [1877, son of David Brown and Margaret Neish]; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A.; ordained and inducted Barrhead Arthurlie 1902; translated and inducted June 1908.
CAMPBELTOWN LORNE STREET
Church and manse. The property was claimed by the Free Church in 1904, but was restored on 28th May 1907. The congregation was vacant during this period.
ALEXANDER BAIN
Translated from Blair Atholl and inducted 1890; translated to Kingussie 6th July 1904.
JOHN MACKERCHAR MACNAUGHTON
Translated from Ardrishaig and inducted 1907; resigned 1918 while Chaplain to the Forces; inducted Anstruther Chalmers Memorial 1919.
CHARLES MACINTOSH MACLEAN, B.D.
Translated from Coatbridge Coatdyke and inducted 2nd July 1919; translated to Edinburgh Haymarket 29th November 1922.
DONALD MCKILLOP CAMERON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted Ardchattan and Connel 8th August 1907; translated and inducted March 1923; translated to Leith St John’s (Church of Scotland) May 1929. See Fasti, Vol.8, p.29 [and Vol.9, p.22. Married 1909, Grace Rae.]
CARRADALE AND SKIPNESS
Church and manse at Carradale; church at Skipness. The property was claimed by the Free Church in 1900, but the claim was departed from before 1904.
GEORGE SOMERVILLE MACLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.248
Born 13th January 1861 at Glasgow, son of George Gordon MacLeod and Anna Ross MacPhail; educated at Glenorchy, Argyll, Corriemony, Inverness-shire, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), Glasgow Free Church College; served at mission stations at Ullapool, Bellanoch, Johnstone, Rothiemurchus, Arisaig, and Rothesay; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1890; ordained and inducted January 1891; war service as Gaelic chaplain at Naval Barracks, Chatham, Portsmouth, and Devonport, and with Y.M.C.A. in France, 1917-18. Married 1891, Isabella Robb Hardy.
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KILBERRY AND SOUTH KNAPDALE
Church and manse. United with Kilcalmonell in 1907.
DONALD MCLEAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.244
Born 16th June 1853 at Tiree, son of Neil McLean and Ann McInnes; educated at Tiree, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Tain 22nd July 1885; assistant Campbeltown Lorne Street, Glasgow Hope Street; ordained and inducted 18th June 1895; died 20th August 1905. Married 27th April 1898, Annie Harvie Martin.
KILCALMONELL
Church, no manse. United with Kilberry and South Knapdale in 1907.
ALEXANDER MCRAE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.257
Ordained and inducted 1875; became minister of the united congregation in 1907; became senior minister 1908; died 1919. Clerk to the Presbytery 1900-08.
KILCALMONELL, KILBERRY AND SOUTH KNAPDALE
GEORGE MACKAY
Translated from Altnaharra and inducted 1909; translated to Drumblade 12th February 1912.
DANIEL HARPER GERRARD
Ordained and inducted 20th August 1912; translated to Chapelton 10th September 1915.
KILLEAN
Church and manse.
JOHN STUART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.334
Born 3rd May 1852 at Altnaha, by Ballindalloch, Banffshire, son of James Stuart and Ann Grant; educated at Tomachlaggan Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1885), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Abernethy autumn 1885; assistant Nairn Free Church winters 1887-89, missionary at Arisaig summers 1887-9; ordained and inducted 19th December 1889; became minister of united charge at local union 1917; retired 30th September 1923. Married 19th March 1890, Annie Middleton.
KILLEAN AND KILCALMONELL
NEIL GALBRAITH MACARTHUR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.214
Born 17th May 1863 at Ardrishaig, son of Daniel MacArthur and Katharine Galbraith; educated at Ardrishaig Free Church School and Public School, Glasgow High School University of Glasgow, M.A. (1886), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1890; assistant Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1891-4; ordained and inducted Bowden September 1894; translated and inducted 1923. Married 16th June 1896, Flora Hall.
LENIMORE AND PIRNMILL
Church and manse. United with Lochranza in 1910.
JOHN KENNEDY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.199
Ordained and inducted 1888; died 3rd January 1910.
LOCHRANZA
Church and manse. United with Lenimore and Pirnmill in 1910.
ALEXANDER JAMES GRANT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.174
Ordained and inducted 1897; resigned 1908.
LOCHRANZA AND PIRNMILL
JOHN MACLELLAN
Translated from Tongue and inducted 1910; translated to Polmont 1924.
ALEXANDER SHAW, B.D.
Translated from Buckie South and inducted 15th August 1924; translated to Glasgow Govan St Columba’s 24th November 1927.
SHISKINE
Church and manse. The property was allocated to the Free Church. The congregation worshipped in the Public School till new church and manse were built in 1910.
JOHN WILLIAM MCDOUGALL
Ordained and inducted 6th March 1886; translated to Farr 5th April 1911.
JOHN BAIN
Ordained and inducted 5th July 1911; translated to West Kilbride St Bride’s 21st November 1917.
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DONALD ROSS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 12th March 1918; translated to Glasgow Ruchill 12th March 1925.
WILLIAM JAMES JACK
Born 9th September 1864 at Carlisle, son of James Crichton Jack and Isabella Butter; educated at Duns Academy, University of Edinburgh, Theological College of English Presbyterian Church; licensed by Presbytery of London North 8th May 1894; ordained and inducted Trinity Presbyterian Church, Manchester, 14th October 1895; translated to Newcastle-on-Tyne St George’s February 1909; appointed to Rio Tinto Spain, 9th August 1922; inducted 21st October 1926. Married 14th October 1899, Czarina Olliffe. S.T.D., conferred by Theological Seminary of Evangelical Association of America, affiliated with North-Western College, Naperville, Illinois, 1922. Convener of Newcastle Presbytery’s Training School for Lay Preachers; Hon. Secretary Newcastle Free Church Council; Secretary, North Federation of the Free Churches of England; member of Executive of National Free Church Council; served on numerous public committees. Publications – Pamphlets and sermons; contributions to Christian World Pulpit.
SOUTHEND
Church and manse.
ANDREW MCLAREN YOUNG
[Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.198]
[Born 31st July 1843 at Kinclaven, Perthshire, son of David Young and Elisabeth McLaren]; ordained and inducted 1874; died 1913.
JOHN GILKISON TRAIN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.395
Born 5th February 1847 at Glasgow, son of Thomas Train and Mary Ann Gilkison; educated at Glasgow Collegiate School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, Universities of Leipzig and Tübingen; assistant Jarrow-on-Tyne; ordained and inducted Buckhaven 1874; translated to Hull 1886; translated to Norwood, London, 1892; translated to Hull 1905; translated and inducted 1914; died 17th November 1920. Married (1) 1874, Agnes Blyth; (2) 1886, Julia Landale Watt. Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England 1907. Publications – The Four Words of the Great Ministry, London, 1907.
JOHN MACRAE, M.A.
Formerly of Calcutta; inducted 9th October 1921; translated to Glencraig and Lochore 8th June 1927.
JAMES ROBERTSON CAMERON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.225; Vol.2, p.207
Born 17th March 1869 at Glasgow, son of Rev. Robert Cameron and Margaret Johnstone Robertson; educated at Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Philosophy, 1885), D.Phil. (1915), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, Universities of Marburg, Berlin, Oxford; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1895; ordained and inducted Craigs and Duntocher 19th February 1895; translated to Cove and Kilcreggan 7th June 1898; translated to Glasgow Queen’s Park East 1906; translated to Helensburgh Park 28th June 1909; war service with Churches Huts 1917; translated to Aberdeen Queen’s Cross 30th January 1919; retired 31st January 1927 owing to ill-health; inducted 19th September 1928. Married 19th August 1909, Florence Evelyn Cortis-Stanford. Member of Mind Society. Publications – The Renascence of Jesus, London, 1915; In Fashion as a Man, Edinburgh, S.A.; The Church and the War (Tracts for Today), Edinburgh, S.A.; Jesus and Art, London, S.A.; Prayers, Glasgow, 1917; Prayers (Companion Volume), Glasgow, 1927; Articles in Expositor, etc.
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PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY
BOWMORE
Church, manse and school.
PETER MCIVER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.233
Translated from Morven and inducted 1882; became senior minister 1910; died 1921.
RODERICK MACKENZIE
Born 24th March 1862 at Poolewe, son of Donald Mackenzie and Annie Macleod; educated at Poolewe, Glasgow (in business 1880-90), University of Glasgow, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lochcarron June 1898; ordained and inducted Waternish, Skye, 24th December 1902; translated and inducted 9th March 1911. Married 2nd June 1904, Elizabeth Macdonald.
KILCHOMAN
Church and manse. United with Portnahaven in 1913.
JAMES MACMILLAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.252
Born 17th April 1837 at Druimfionn, Campbeltown, son of Alexander MacMillan and Mary MacConechy; educated at Free Church School, Drumlemble, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 22nd June 1870; assistant Irvine, Kilmallie; ordained and inducted October 1873; retired May 1900; died 1st July 1911. Clerk to the Presbytery 1873-1900. Member of School Board. Honorary member of the Celtic Society of the Free Church.
DONALD JOHN MCINNES
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 23rd November 1900; translated to Fort Augustus 15th June 1909.
ALEXANDER MCDIARMID
Translated from Glenelg and inducted 9th March 1910; translated to Applecross 17th September 1913.
KILCHOMAN AND PORTNAHAVEN
CHARLES MONCRIEFF ROBERTSON
Born 31st March 1864 at Aberfeldy, son of John and Anne Robertson; educated at Aberfeldy, Strathtay, Daniel Stewart’s School, University of Edinburgh, New College; licensed by Presbytery of Breadalbane 1894; missionary work in Highlands; ordained and inducted 19th March 1914; died 11th June 1927. Married 7th November 1894, Katherine Cook. Manuscript collections on Gaelic subjects and place-names now in National Library of Scotland. Many contributions to Celtic Review and other periodicals.
KILDALTON AND OA
Church, school hall, manse. The church was allocated to the Free Church and a new church was built.
DANIEL MUNRO
Ordained and inducted 1896; translated to Helmsdale 1911.
ARCHIBALD DAWSON
Ordained and inducted 5th June 1912; translated to Fort William 15th September 1915.
GILBERT GEORGE MACARTHUR
Born 3rd October 1873 at Greenock, son of Peter MacArthur and Christina Macleod; educated at Greenock Sir Michael Street School, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Congregational College, New College, Edinburgh; engaged in journalism prior to ordination; ordained Market Drayton, Salop, 1900; in charge at Glenlyon 1915; inducted 24th December 1916; died 6th August 1929. Married (1) 1900, Jessie Macinnes; (2) 1928, Flora Hunter.
KILARROW
Church and manse. The minister adhered to the Free Church. Reduced in status in 1918.
JAMES FRASER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1907; translated to Sorbie 1917.
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DUNCAN MACINTOSH
Ordained missionary; born 17th August 1876 at Barbreck, Kilchrenan, son of Hugh MacIntosh and Margaret Black; educated at Kilchrenan Public School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute; teacher in the Highlands under the Highland Ladies Association; lay missionary, Port Charlotte, Islay, 1907-11; ordained as missionary, Little Lochbroom July 1911; appointed to Eddrachillis, Tongue, 28th March 1915; appointed Kilarrow March 1918; died 11th May 1920. Married 6th August 1912, Alexina Mackenzie.
DONALD MACKINNON
Ordained missionary, appointed 1921; remained till 1929.
PORTNAHAVEN
Church and manse. United with Kilchoman in 1913.
ARCHIBALD STEWART MCINTYRE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.232
Born 14th January 1856 at Sandaig, Glenelg, son of Alexander McIntyre and Catherine McDonald; educated at Garvan, Locheilside, Fort William Grammar School, Glasgow Free Church Normal School and Training College, University of Glasgow, University of London, B.A. (1886), University of Edinburgh, B.D. (1890), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1890; served as probationer in Ferintosh, Dornoch, Contin, Moy, Iona and Portnahaven; ordained and inducted 13th February 1891; retired 1913. Married (1) 22nd June 1893, Elizabeth Lowe; (2) 23rd January 1913, Annie MacFadyen.
JURA
HUGH GUNN
Ordained missionary 1900; appointed to Kilninver and Kilmelford 3rd March 1904.
DAVID MUNN
Born 1849 at Hilapool, Tiree, son of Neil Munn and Margaret Kennedy; educated at Parish School, Tiree, Independent Church College 1875-9; served in the Independent Church to 1914; served in preaching stations, 1914-20; appointed 1920; remained till 1929; [died 1936.] Married 1879, Christina C. Maclucas.
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PRESBYTERY OF LORN
APPIN
Church and manse. United with Lismore, November 1919, a missionary being continued at Lismore. The union was dissolved 13th August 1924.
DUNCAN CAMPBELL ROSS, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.305
Ordained and inducted 1867; became senior minister 28th April 1920; died 6th May 1926.
KENNETH EWEN MACAULAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 28th April 1920; translated to Neilston 30th July 1925.
JAMES GILBERT NAIRN
Born 24th May 1876 at Perth; ordained and inducted Dalry, Kirkcudbright, 26th September 1918; resigned 22nd May 1922; inducted 17th December 1925.
ARDCHATTAN AND CONNEL
Church and manse at Barcaldine. At Connel, church and missionary’s house. In 1900 Ardchattan congregation and Connel station were separate, but united to form one congregation 17th June 1909. New church built in Ledaig 1912.
JOHN SUTHERLAND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.335
Ordained and inducted 16th June 1860; retired 1906; died 6th November 1923. Clerk to the Presbytery 1900-9.
DONALD MCKILLOP CAMERON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 8th August 1907; translated to Campbeltown Lorne Street, March 1923.
ALEXANDER MACKINNON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 7th June 1923; translated to Glasgow Lyon Street 28th December 1926.
ROBERT PATRICK AITCHISON
Born 18th October 1891 at Strathbungo, Glasgow, son of James Aitchison and Jessie Patrick; educated at Glasgow Public Schools, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 19th April 1922; assistant Glasgow Young Street, Henry Drummond Memorial and Possilpark; ordained and inducted Bonhill North 21st September 1922; translated and inducted 4th November 1927.
BALLACHULISH SOUTH
Transferred from the Presbytery of Abertarff by General Assembly 1909, because completion of railway from Connel to Ballachulish opened communication with the south. Church and manse.
DUNCAN MACMURCHY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.252
Ordained and inducted 1878; resigned 28th March 1917; died 6th April 1921.
DONALD MACLEOD
Ordained missionary formerly at Tiree, appointed 1918; took divinity classes and was licensed by Presbytery of Lorn 28th June 1922; ordained and inducted 13th December 1922; translated to Blackridge 1927.
PETER LIVINGSTONE
Born 22nd April 1862 at Easdale, Kilbrandon, son of Donald Livingstone and Margaret McQueen; educated at Easdale Public School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute; appointed agent of Highlands and Islands Committee 1910; ordained missionary, Kilmartin, 21st July 1914; appointed to Tiree 26th February 1919; appointed to Acharacle and Strontian 1923, and inducted there 27th August 1925; translated and inducted 14th February 1929. Married 24th September 1924, Mary Mitchell.
GLENORCHY
Church and manse allocated to the Free Church, and the congregation worshipped in the schoolhouse till a new church was opened, 11th November 1908.
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DONALD MCALISTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.213
Ordained and inducted 1872; became senior minister 1914; died 1st February 1922.
ROBERT BARCLAY THOMSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 10th April 1914; translated to Tighnabruaich 23rd November 1916.
WILLIAM MACPHERSON
Born 25th June 1869 at Inch, near Kingussie; served under the Scottish East Coast Mission; assisted in Thurso; ordained missionary at Strathglass 20th July 1909; appointed to Glenorchy 4th April 1917; petitioned for ministerial status in January 1920, and this was granted by General Assembly 1920; inducted 7th July 1920; died 6th May 1924. Married 23rd December 1897, Isabella Ann Grigor.
JOHN JAMES MACPHAIL COWPER
Born 24th June 1865 at Castle Douglas, son of John Cowper and Helen Macphail; educated at Castle Douglas Academy, Edinburgh High School, University of of Edinburgh, M.A. (1890), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1892; assistant Malta 1890-3; ordained at Genoa by Presbytery of Italy May 1893; appointed acting chaplain to H.M. Forces May 1893, chaplain 1901; served in London 1893-1900, South Africa 1900-04, London 1905-10, Glasgow 1910-12, Egypt 1912-14, France 1914-17, London, Aldershot and Malta 1917-20, Assistant Chaplain General Scottish Command and Higher Grades 1924; retired from Army 1st January 1925; introduced 16th April 1925; reappointed 1928. Married 3rd April 1894, Mary Gavin.
KILBRANDON
The church and manse were allocated to the Free Church and the congregation worshipped in the Volunteer Hall. New church was erected one mile from Easdale and opened 9th February 1909. A manse was acquired in Ellanabeich, Easdale. Gaelic Services held only on alternate Sundays in the winter.
DONALD MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.221
Born 15th August 1840 at Glendale, Skye, son of Murdo Macdonald and Mary Shaw; educated at Boncraig [Borreraig?], Glendale, Glasgow Free Church Normal School; (taught at Canisbay), University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed 1875; served in Uig, Lewis and Tiree; ordained and inducted 6th July 1877; died 27th July 1908. Married 2nd June 1887, Margaret Isabella MacKirdy.
ALEXANDER MACLEAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 28th July 1909; translated to Kildonan and Bennecarrigan, Arran, 11th January 1912.
DUNCAN MACPHERSON
Ordained and inducted 18th April 1912; translated to Torosay and Salen 18th September 1924.
DONALD MACLEAN MACKENZIE
Born 7th September 1881 at Ansay, by Dervaig, Mull, son of Donald Mackenzie and Christina Maclean; educated at Kilninian Public School, Mornish Public School; engaged in business 1896-1916; served in H.M. Forces 1916-18; Glasgow School of Study and Training, University Tutorial College, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; assistant Glasgow Cowcaddens 1923-4; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 24th June 1924; ordained and inducted 17th December 1924; [see also Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.406; Vol.10, p.241.] Married 24th March 1927, Jean Macpherson.
KILCHRENAN AND PORT SONACHAN
Church and manse in one building at Kilchrenan; a “spiersesque” church at Port Sonachan. The charge was served by missionary agents, and was under the supervision of the minister and Kirk Session of Muckairn.
KILNINVER AND KILMELFORD
Church and manse at Kilmelford, church at Kilninver. In 1909 the latter was allocated to the Free Church. The congregation was suppressed in 1902. From 1902 to 1925 the congregation was served by ordained missionaries, whereafter the Kilbrandon missionary provided services. In February 1929 the congregation agreed to unite with the Church of Scotland congregation and the union was effected 3rd December 1929.
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GEORGE MURRAY
Ordained and inducted Kilmelford 15th February 1894; translated to Tarbat 28th October 1902.
HUGH GUNN
Ordained missionary from Jura; appointed 3rd March 1904; appointed to Sleat 1912.
JOHN M. FRASER
Ordained missionary, appointed 28th October 1911; received status of probationer 1921; inducted Rosehall 9th August 1923.
JAMES ALEXANDER HIGGINS
Probationer; ordained 2nd January 1924; translated to Kirkcowan 22nd December 1925.
LISMORE
Church and manse. The charge was suppressed in 1908, was united with Appin in November 1919, and the union was dissolved 13th August 1924. Negotiations for local union were entered upon on 25th April 1928, but without success, and the charge did not enter the Union of 1929.
JAMES SPITTAL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.165
Ordained and inducted 25th September 1893; resigned 15th April 1902, and went to Australia; inducted Healesville-Yarra Glen, Victoria, 15th December 1904; left 1912; inducted Lake Rowan, Victoria, 6th September 1917; resigned on account of ill-health 1923; acted as elder in Toorak church 1930-41; died 27th February 1943.
DUGALD MCMILLAN
Ordained and inducted 14th October 1902; translated to Rogart March 1908.
ALEXANDER MACBEAN, M.A.
Ordained in 1906; introduced 30th June 1909; resigned 20th January 1914 on being called to Hylipol, Mull (Church of Scotland.
JAMES LOCHORE
Ordained missionary, appointed 12th December 1924; resigned 28th September 1927 to become agent of the Church’s Temperance Committee; later Superintendent of the Sabbath Free Breakfast Mission, Edinburgh.
MUCKAIRN
Church and manse. The property was claimed by the Free Church but was allocated to the United Free Church on 23rd October 1906. Only three members with a few adherents adhered to the Free Church, and they eventually joined the Parish Church. Gaelic services were stopped in 1907 owing to the small attendances.
THOMAS MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.239
Born 20th September 1826 at Evanton, Kiltearn, Ross-shire, son of Robert Mackenzie and Margaret Stewart; educated at Ferintosh Parish School, Aberdeen Grammar School, Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1855; in charge, Rothiemurchus, Morvern; ordained and inducted 18th April 1859; retired April 1898; died 10th November 1907. Married 23rd August 1876, Sarah Jean Christian Campbell. Served at Montreux, winter, 1872-3.
MALCOLM NICOLSON MUNRO
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.279
Born on 17th April 1869 at Stornoway, son of James Munro and Mary Ann Nicolson; educated at Barvas, Crowlista Uig, Inverness Raining’s School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1891), (taught in Ladies’ Association Schools 1888-9), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Inverness East Free Church 1894, Edinburgh Pilrig 1896; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lorn 23rd September 1897; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 24th February 1898; war service as chaplain to Gaelic-speaking naval personnel at Chatham, Portsmouth and Devonport 1918. Married 6th April 1915, Eleanor M. Deane. Member of Royal Celtic Society and Pan-Celtic Society. Convener of Mod and Music Committee of Highland Association 1908-24. Lecturer on Gaelic music for Inverness Summer School for Teachers 1920. Clerk to the Presbytery 1913-27. Publications – Mod Collection of Gaelic Music, Volume 1, 1912; Volume 2, 1925, Glasgow (Staff and Solfa Editions); Children’s Song Book in Gaelic, Glasgow, 1926; two song sheets of Gaelic Songs for Choirs, E. Tr. By M.N.M., music arrangements by Granville Bantock; Gaelic biography
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OBAN ARGYLL SQUARE
Church and hall. Church renovated and organ installed 1929.
DONALD JOHN MARTIN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.262
Born 5th August 1847 at Roshven, Arisaig, son of Donald Martin and Mary Macleod; educated at Polmont Blairlodge Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1866), University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow 1874;) student assistant Leith Walk Mission (Pilrig Free Church) 1871-2, Forfar West Free Church 1873; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Elgin 1874; assistant Elgin Free Church 1874, Stornoway Free English 1875-6; ordained and inducted Stornoway Free English 9th September 1876; translated and inducted 30th April 1897; died 11th February 1913. Married (1) January 1882, Margaret Williamina Ross; (2) 14th September 1887, Letitia Tennant Stuart. Deputy to Indian Missions 1874. Vice-convener, Highlands and Islands Committee 1911-12. Clerk to the Presbytery 1910-13. A biography by Rev. Norman C. Macfarlane was published, Edinburgh, 1914: [Rev. Donald John Martin, preacher, soul winner, social reformer]
DONALD MACKENZIE, M.A.
Translated from Craigdam and inducted 23rd October 1913; translated to Tain 2nd August 1916.
MALCOLM MACRITCHIE MACLEOD
Born 14th April 1889 at Stornoway, son of John and Christina Macleod; educated at Aird Public School, Stornoway Nicolson Institute, University of Glasgow M.A. (1911, Hons. in Philosophy, 1913), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Langside Hill 1915-16; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1916; ordained and inducted 19th January 1917. Married 14th June 1917, Jeannie Ross Hay.
OBAN DUNOLLIE ROAD
Church and hall, manse. Hall enlarged, church reseated and pipe organ installed at a cost of over £1200 in 1902. Manse repaired and extended at a cost of over £200 in 1911. History of the congregation in Oban and the District Round, by Alexander M. Faichney, Oban, 1902.
JAMES HUTCHISON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 26th January 1893; translated to Glasgow Caledonia Road 15th March 1905.
JAMES REID, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 3rd August 1905; translated to Paisley Sherwood 1910. Clerk to the Presbytery 1909-10.
WILLIAM MANSON, M.A., B.A. (Oxon.)
Ordained and inducted 20th January 1911; translated to Glasgow Pollokshields East 1914.
ROBERT ELLIOTT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 11th February 1915; translated to Renfrew Trinity 22nd November 1923.
ROBERT MILLER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 15th May 1924; translated to Leven Forman 1928.
JOHN YOUNG
Born 30th September 1875 at Glasgow, son of William Young and Margaret McWhannel Auld; educated at Glasgow Thomson Street, Meadowpark Street, John Street, Bridgeton, Public School, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1896), B.D. (1898), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1898; assistant Perth North 1898-1901, Lisburn 1901-2, Glasgow Fairbairn 1902-3, Glasgow Albert Road 1903; ordained and inducted Whithorn St John’s 29th October 1903; translated to Greenock Union Street 1st June 1909; translated and inducted 14th March 1929. Married 5th September 1916, Janet Gilmour McGown. Member of Whithorn School Board 1906-9; of Greenock School Board 1911-18, of Assembly’s Praise Committee, Vice-Convener 1910-13, of Joint Committee on Revision of Church Hymnary 1922-7.
STRATHFILLAN AND CRIANLARICH
Manse and two churches. New manse built at Tyndrum, and church at Crianlarich; all buildings renovated. Crianlarich was attached to Strathfillan in 1900, but
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HUGH FRASER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.161
Born 1st June 1845 at Inverness, son of Hugh Fraser and Ann Smith; educated at Inverness Raining’s School; engaged in office of Inverness Advertiser; University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; student assistant in Perth and at Temple; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 12th June 1878; ordained and inducted St Monance June 1878; translated and inducted 18th June 1889; retired 30th September 1911; died 15th December 1916. Married 19th March 1885, Jessie Matheson.
ALEXANDER MACCOLL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.217
Born 21st May 1861 at Achosnich, Ardnamurchan, son of Hugh MacColl and Sarah MacLachlan; educated at Achosnich Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1894; assistant Kildalton, Islay, 1894; ordained and inducted Kilmallie 29th January 1895; translated and inducted 9th February 1912. Married 6th April 1898, Joan Clark Ross or Alexander. Clerk to the Presbytery 1927-9.
CRAIGNISH
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PRESBYTERY OF ABERTARFF
ARISAIG
ARISAIG AND SMALL ISLES
MURDO SMITH MACLEAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.345
Born 14th April 1862 at Shacher [Shader?], Barvas, Stornoway, son of Donald Maclean and Catherine Smith; educated at Shacher [Shader?], Barvas, Airidhantium Public School (pupil teacher 1879-83), headmaster, Kershader Public School, Lochs 1883-6; University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lewis 25th December 1895; assistant Manish (Harris), Stornoway, Tain, Connel; ordained and inducted 12th October 1898; resigned 6th March 1917; inducted Sandringham Road, West Hartlepool, Durham, 15th September 1920; retired 31st August 1928; went to Australia; died 4th December 1943 at Melbourne. Married 8th July 1915, Florence Louise Howell.
JOHN ALEXANDER LAMB, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 10th April 1920; translated to Lamlash, Arran, 26th October 1922.
THOMAS SHANKS, M.A., B.D.
Inducted 3rd July 1923; translated to Gamrie 8th December 1926.
KENNETH MACLENNAN
Born 21st June 1867 at Tarbert, Harris, son of Kenneth and Christina Maclennan; educated at Public School in Scotland, High Schools in Canada, McGill University, Montreal, B.A. (1892), B.D. (1893), M.A., Ph.D. (1902); mission work in summers of 1889-92; licensed by Presbytery of Maitland, Ontario, 24th May 1893; ordained Kincardine, Ontario, 25th July 1893; missionary to China, 1893-7; inducted Tiverton, Ontario, 1898; translated to Roxboro, Ontario, 1914; translated to Gould, Quebec, 1920; admitted by General Assembly May 1928; inducted 9th July 1928.
BALLACHULISH NORTH
Church and manse with outhouses. Kinlochleven was united to this congregation on 6th May 1914. The congregation was reduced in status in 1925, but was restored to full status in 1927.
JOHN ALEXANDER STEWART MCCASKILL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.214
Born 18th November 1857 at Isle of Soay, Skye, son of Peter McCaskill and Anne Macmillan; educated at Broadford, Skye, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow April 1884; ordained and inducted 9th October 1884; war service as chaplain to R.N.R. at Chatham and Portsmouth 1916, and to German prisoners at Kinlochleven; died 6th November 1924. Married (1) 26th August 1897, Marion Hannah Waller; (2) 9th September 1920, Ina R. Wyllie. Officiating chaplain to Presbyterians of H.M. Fleet at Ballachulish.
DONALD MACLEOD
Ordained preacher, introduced 15th April 1926; inducted on the charge being restored to full status 14th September 1927; translated to Lochs, Crossbost, Lewis, 24th October 1928.
BALLACHULISH SOUTH
This congregation was transferred from the Presbytery of Abertarff to the Presbytery of Lorn (q.v.) by the General Assembly in 1909.
FORT AUGUSTUS
The church and manse were allocated to the Free Church. A composite wood and iron church was erected and opened on 21st December 1906. A new manse was erected in 1909. Glenmoriston united with this congregation in 1907.
JOHN STUART MACKAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.235
Translated from Altnaharra and inducted 1889; retired 29th January 1907; died 21st May 1908.
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DONALD JOHN MACINNES
Translated from Kilchoman and inducted 15th June 1909; translated to Knockbain 18th July 1913.
THOMAS WILLIAM ARMOUR
Admitted from the Baptist Church; inducted 3rd November 1913; translated to Inverness Ness Bank 5th December 1917. Clerk to the Presbytery 30th March 1915 to 25th October 1917.
WILLIAM DOIG DUNBAR, M.A.
Translated from Cleland and inducted 28th March 1918; translated to Dunnet, 1st September 1922. Clerk to the Presbytery 1921-2.
FREDERICK SMITH, B.D.
Inducted 26th December 1922; translated to Glencraig and Lochore 6th June 1925. Clerk to the Presbytery 1924-5.
ANGUS MACINTYRE
Born 29th August 1863 at Blackmount, Glencoe, son of Donald MacIntyre and Sarah Campbell; educated at Ardgour Old Parochial School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute; lay missionary, Island of Coll, Lochmaddy, Kilchrenan, Pirnmill; licensed and ordained as missionary at Assynt and Stoer by the Presbytery of Dornoch 12th July 1912; appointed to Strathglass 11th July 1917; inducted to Strathglass 17th May 1923; translated and inducted 17th February 1926. Married (1) 8th December 1893, Jane Linton Stoddart; (2) 5th June 1935, Alexandrina Macdonald.
FORT WILLIAM
Church, hall and vestry; manse. Pipe organ installed 1926. The congregation was evicted for six months in 1904 by the Free Church, and worshipped in the town hall.
JOHN MACINTOSH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.232
Born 6th June 1852 at Killin, son of John MacIntosh and Margaret MacLellan; educated at Killin Public School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Campbeltown; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 27th April 1881; died 31st October 1910. Married 21st April 1898, Annie Macrae, daughter of Rev. Ronald Dingwall, Aultbea.
ARCHIBALD SHAW, B.D.
Translated from Petty and inducted 4th August 1911; translated to Leven Forman 29th April 1915.
ARCHIBALD DAWSON
Translated to Kildalton, Islay, and inducted 15th September 1915; translated to Partick Newton Place 6th April 1921. Clerk to the Presbytery 1918-21.
WILLIAM MACLEOD, B.D., Ph.D.
Translated from Lochgelly Macainsh and inducted 22nd February 1922; translated to Glasgow Cowcaddens 22nd July 1924. Clerk to the Presbytery 1922-24.
DONALD CHARLES CAMPBELL GOLLAN
Born 25th January 1874 at Glenfintaig, Spean Bridge, son of Donald Gollan and Elizabeth Macdonald; educated at Kilmonivaig and Kilmuir Easter Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College, University of London, B.D. (1926); licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 15th April 1901; in charge of mission station, Kyle of Lochalsh 1901; ordained and inducted Nigg (Tain) 28th January 1902; translated to Fairlie 29th April 1911; war service with Churches Huts at Cromarty 1915, in H.M. Forces in Palestine 1917-19; translated to Glasgow Dalmarnock 27th November 1921; translated and inducted 3rd December 1924. Married August 1928, Pearl, daughter of Dr Brander, Fort William. F.S.A. (Scot.) 1926.
GLENMORISTON
Church and manse. This congregation ceased to be a regular charge and was united with Fort Augustus in 1907.
DONALD MACINNES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.231
Born 4th January 1862 at Portree, son of Angus MacInnes and Catherine MacKinnon; educated at Portree, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1887), B.D. (1895), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Inverness 4th December 1894; ordained and inducted 10th December 1895; retired 1907; inducted to Kinlochspelvie, Mull (Church of Scotland), 16th November 1910; died 8th December 1916. Married 10th December 1908, Annie Clow Nicol.
GLENURQUHART
Church and manse. This congregation was disjoined from this Presbytery and added to the Presbytery of Inverness 18th March 1913.
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ALEXANDER MACKAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.233
Translated from Dores and inducted 1892; died 7th August 1908.
ANGUS MACIVER
Ordained and inducted Applecross 1900; translated and inducted 8th April 1909. (See Presbytery of Inverness.)
KILMALLIE
Church and manse, with stable and byre, were allocated to the Free Church. A bungalow was purchased at a cost of £500, but later was sold and a new manse was bought for £500. A meeting house in Kinlocheil was used jointly by the United Free Church and the Free Church from 1904. Gaelic services were abandoned about 1925. Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig were united in 1912, with a minister at the former and a missionary at the latter.
ALEXANDER MACCOLL
Ordained and inducted 29th January 1895; translated to Strathfillan 9th February 1912.
KILMALLIE AND KILMONIVAIG
WILLIAM MACMILLAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.251
Born 12th March 1851 at Corrie, Arran, son of John and Lillias Macmillan; educated at Corrie, and Congregational College; settled at Congregational Church, Appin, 1877; admitted to Free Church 1879; assistant Fort William, Oban, Nairn; inducted Iona and Ross of Mull April 1883; translated to Kildonan, Arran, October 1889; resigned to do evangelistic work in the Highlands 1902; inducted 20th February 1913; retired 11th January 1921; died 9th April 1926. Married 21st March 1894, Anna I[sabella N.] Dudgeon.
ALEXANDER MACDIARMID
Translated from Applecross and inducted 30th January 1924; translated to Dunnet 19th July 1929.
KILMONIVAIG
Church and manse. Ceased to be a regular charge in 1909. In 1911 the west portion of Kilmonivaig Mission Station was added to the charge of Kilmallie, the mission to have a Gaelic-speaking missionary or catechist. A church with manse annexed for the missionary was opened at Spean Bridge 14th July 1911. The station was united to Kilmallie in 1912.
DONALD SUTHERLAND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.335
Ordained and inducted 1867; granted a colleague and successor on 22nd June 1903; died January 1913.
KINLOCHLEVEN
HUGH MACKINTOSH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.232
Born 27th November 1840 at Balloch, Culloden, son of Hugh Mackintosh and Anne Macgregor; educated at Inverurie Public School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1869), Aberdeen Free Church College (Lumsden Scholarship 1872); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Strathbogie 1872; ordained and inducted Gartly 1872; translated to Glasgow London Road 1877; translated to London Brockley Presbyterian Church 1881; translated and inducted 1911; retired September 1913; died 9th May 1921. Married (1) 2nd October 1872, Jeanie Watt; (2) 15th June 1881, Mary Mackinnon Fraser. While in Brockley, was Examiner for the Higher Instruction Examinations of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of England. President of Deptford and Greenwich Free Church Council. Publications – The Two Banners, Edinburgh, 1876; The Philosophy of the Gospel, London, 1887; Is Christ Infallible and the Bible True?, Edinburgh, 1901.
SMALL ISLES
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PRESBYTERY OF MULL
ACHARACLE
Church and manse at Acharacle, and small hall at Salen. Church and manse were allocated to the Free Church together with an endowment. A new stone church and manse were erected at Acharacle. Ardnamurchan and Strontian united with this congregation in 1907, under the minister of Ardnamurchan.
ARCHIBALD MACLEOD
Ordained and inducted 16th May 1899; translated to Laggan 13th November 1903.
ARDNAMURCHAN
Church and manse. United with Acharacle in 1907.
JAMES MACNIVEN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 8th July 1891; became minister of the united congregation in 1907; translated to Uig 1st October 1912.
ACHARACLE, ARDNAMURCHAN AND STRONTIAN
PETER MACLACHLAN
[Born in Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyll, in 1856, the son of John MacLachlan, merchant and Ann Mclean]; ordained as missionary, Glenelg, 1910; translated and inducted 1913; died 1921; [buried Acharacle churchyard. Married 14th June, 1899, Alice Neill Scroggie.]
PETER LIVINGSTONE
Ordained missionary from Tiree, appointed 1923; inducted 27th August 1925, when charge was restored to full status; translated to Ballachulish South 1929.
COLL
Church and manse. United with Tiree in 1907.
RODERICK ROSS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.306
Ordained and inducted 1882; retired 1907; died 1913.
IONA
Church and manse. Ross and Brolas united with Iona in 1907, under the name Iona and Ross of Mull.
ARCHIBALD DEWAR
Ordained and inducted 1891; became minister of the united congregation 1907.
IONA AND ROSS OF MULL
ARCHIBALD DEWAR
Minister at Iona; became minister of the united congregation 1907; translated to Torosay and Salen 1918.
KILNINIAN AND KILMORE
Church and manse.
ALEXANDER PATERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.287
Ordained and inducted 1873; died 1913.
JOHN NEIL MACLEOD PATERSON
Born 29th November 1881 at Kilmore, Mull, son of Rev. Alexander Paterson, minister at Kilninian and Kilmore, and Mary Macleod; educated at Dervaig Public School, Mounish Public School, Dunoon Grammar School, Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1904), Aberdeen College (Hons. Diploma in Theology, and Lumsden and Sachs Fellow 1908); student assistant Inveravon 1904, 1905, Inverness East 1906, 1907, Aberdeen High 1907-8; licensed by Presbytery of Mull 1908; loc. ten. Brechin Bank Street 1908-9; ordained and inducted Elgin Moss Street 3rd March 1909; translated and inducted 1913; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1914-18; resigned 1920; inducted St Andrew’s, King William’s Town, South Africa, 27th July 1920; translated to Newcastle, Natal, 31st December 1941; retired 30th June 1944. Married 13th October 1914, Annie Anderson Taylor. Clerk to the Presbytery of Mull 1913-20; Clerk to the Presbytery of King William’s Town 1921-40. Founded
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EWEN GILLIES
Translated from Kiltarlity and inducted 1920; translated to Halkirk in 1924.
MORVEN
Church with vestry and offices, manse. Improvements to church in the period. The property though claimed by the Free Church, was allocated to United Free Church.
ALEXANDER MCDIARMID
Ordained and inducted 28th September 1882; retired 1925; introduced Creich 1926.
DUNCAN MACLEAN MACINTYRE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.232
Born 1st October 1869 at Corrintee, Kilmun, son of Duncan MacIntyre and Elizabeth Maclean; educated at Ormsary, by Ardrishaig, Rashfield by Kilmun, Strone, Greenock Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dunoon May 1895; assistant Stornoway Free Gaelic 1896; ordained and inducted Eddrachillis 11th August 1897; translated to Carinish, North Uist, 17th June 1914; translated and inducted 18th March 1925. Married 15th August 1899, Catherine Finlayson.
ROSS AND BROLAS
Church and manse. United with Iona in 1907.
JOHN STEWART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.330
Ordained and inducted 1891; died 1906.
STRONTIAN
Church and manse. United with Acharacle and Ardnamurchan in 1907.
ALEXANDER MCLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.247
Ordained and inducted 1866; died 11th April 1903.
TIREE
Church and manse. Coll united with Tiree in 1907.
DONALD TULLOCH MACKAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.234
Born June 1850 at Sallachy, son of Christopher Mackay and Bella Tulloch; educated at Plockton Higher Grade School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assisted in missions at Glasgow Broomhill, Benbecula, Helmsdale, Nairn; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Mull July 1882; ordained and inducted November 1882; retired 1911. Married 6th July 1892, Jessie Davidson. Publications – Soldiers’ Help (in Gaelic), Dundee, 1916; Gaelic Bible Promises, Oban, 1927.
DONALD MACLEOD
Ordained missionary 1913-18; appointed to Ballachulish South 1918.
PETER LIVINGSTONE
Ordained missionary, from Kilmartin, appointed 26th February 1919; appointed to Acharacle 1923.
MALCOLM MACDONALD
Born 23rd March 1862 at Tiree, son of John MacDonald and Margaret MacKinnon; educated at Hylipol Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; assistant Tiree 1889, Kilmarnock Gaelic Mission 1890-6, Renton 1896-7, Greenock 1898-9, Arran, Craignish and Dalwhinnie 1899-1901; licensed by Presbytery of Irvine July 1900; ordained and inducted Kinlochewe 6th February 1901; translated to Duirinish 13th November 1908; translated to Shieldaig and Torridon 18th September 1912; translated to Benbecula 22nd October 1915; translated and inducted April 1929. Married 30th December 1902, Margaret Fraser Macdonald.
TOBERMORY
Church and manse; mission-hall with dwellinghouse for missionary. All were allocated to the Free Church. A new church was built and a manse purchased.
JOHN ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.115
Ordained and inducted 1893; died 25th June 1915.
JOHN MACBEAN, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.215
Ordained and inducted Killin 1888; translated to Rosehall 22nd February 1912; translated and inducted 28th February 1917; died 1928.
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KENNETH SMITH MACLEAN
Born 9th February 1861 at Leurbost, Lochs, Lewis, son of Alexander Maclean and Margaret Smith; educated at Free Church School, Crossbost, Leurbost Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen May 1896; assistant Aberdeen St Columba’s 1896, Avoch Free Church 1897, Stornoway High 1897 and 1904, Grantown on Spey 1901, Rosskeen 1901-2, Nairn High 1902-3, Dingwall 1906; ordained and inducted Chapelhill, Nigg, 24th March 1908; officiating chaplain at intervals at Nigg Camp 1914-19; translated to Carloway, Lewis, 14th May 1925; translated and inducted 14th November 1928. Married (1) 6th January 1909, Isabel Ross; (2) 10th March 1917, Margaret Jane Matheson.
TOROSAY AND SALEN
Church and manse.
GEORGE SUTHERLAND
Ordained and inducted 22nd April 1890; translated to Bruan 26th July 1912.
JOHN MACDONALD
Ordained and inducted 1913; translated to Tongue 1916.
ARCHIBALD DEWAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.136
Ordained and inducted Iona 1891; became minister of Iona and Ross of Mull 1907; translated and inducted 1918; died 1921.
DUNCAN MACPHERSON
Translated from Kilbrandon and inducted 18th September 1924; translated to North Uist 8th September 1927.
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SYNOD OF PERTH AND STIRLING
PRESBYTERY OF STIRLING AND DUNBLANE
ALLOA CHALMERS
Formerly West Free Church. Church with hall and rooms attached; manse. Pipe organ installed in 1925 and considerable alterations to property. Melville congregation united with this congregation in 1909.
JAMES WILSON HARPER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.181
Born 3rd March 1850 at Campsie, son of William Harper and Mary Kierie; educated at local school and by private tuition, University of Glasgow, D.D. (1900), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow April 1879; assistant Huntly, Tighnabruaich, Paisley St George’s; ordained and inducted 21st May 1878; retired May 1918; died 11th November 1925. Married 29th April 1879, Henrietta Fullerton Richmond. Member of Alloa School Board 1898-1918; Chairman 1908-18. Publications – Lecture on Currency, Alloa, 1890; Money and Social Problems, Edinburgh and London, 1896; The Foundations of Society, London, 1899; Social Life, Glasgow, 1900; The Christian View of Human Life, London, 1901; Occasional Studies, Edinburgh, 1901; Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Temple Bible), London, 1902; The Post-Exilic Prophets (Temple Bible), London, N.D.; Education and Social Life, London, 1907; Education and Citizenship, Dunfermline, 1909; The Social Ideal (Chalmers Lectures), Edinburgh, 1910; The Problem of Life, Alloa, N.D.; Christian Ethics and Social Progress, London, 1912; The Essentials of Religion, London, 1922; articles in Hibbert Journal: Industrial unrest a Plea for National Guilds, October 1909; A True Universalism, January 1923.
GEORGE GORDON CAMPBELL
Born 26th April 1880 at Petty Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Adam G. Campbell and Isabella Fraser; educated at Inverness Royal Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. in Philosophy 1903), New College, Edinburgh, University of Marburg 1905; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 4th June 1907; assistant Edinburgh New North 1907-9, Palmerston Place 1909-10, Brechin West 1910; ordained and inducted Macduff 30th December 1910; translated and inducted December 1918. Married 8th April 1913, Janetta Martine Ronaldson Macaulay.
ALLOA GREENSIDE
ALEXANDER AITKEN
Ordained probationer 29th September 1919; inducted to full charge 21st July 1921; translated to Lybster 7th February 1929.
FREDERICK SMITH
Born 24th November 1888 at Bangor, Co. Down, son of John Smith and Jane Bell; educated at Bangor First National School and Grammar School, Queen’s University, Belfast, Assembly’s College, Belfast, Princeton Theological Seminary, B.D. (1914); student assistant Mourne, Kilkeel, Co. Down, 1911-12; licensed by Presbytery of Toronto 6th June 1914; ordained in Canada 6th June 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916-17, and as Chaplain to the Forces in Macedonia and Corfu 1917-19; inducted Hull Springbank Presbyterian Church 6th November 1919; appointed Principal of Training College, Abelifi, Gold Coast, January 1921; inducted Fort Augustus 26th December 1921; translated to Glencraig 6th June 1925; translated to Canonbie 21st February 1927; translated and inducted 23rd July 1929. Married 6th December 1921, Matilda Moody Shearer.
ALLOA MELVILLE
United with Chalmers congregation in 1909.
JOHN MCALPINE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.213
Born 5th December 1854 at Glasgow; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church
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ALLOA MONCRIEFF
Church and Hall. Manse bought within the period. Mission buildings at the Christian Institute. The buildings went with the minority who adhered to United Free Church at the Union of 1929.
DANIEL MCLEAN, B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.682
Ordained and inducted 29th October 1874; died September 1903.
CHARLES ROBSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, pp.95 and 196; Vol.1, p.644
Born 9th September 1861 at Hawick, son of James Robson and Jessie Inglis; educated at Hawick Public School, Teviot Grove Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), United Presbyterian College; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton June 1888; assistant Edinburgh Palmerston Place, 1888; ordained and inducted Port Glasgow Clune Park 22nd January 1889; translated to Glasgow Pollok Street 8th June 1893; translated to Inverness Ness Bank 21st December 1899; translated and inducted 18th January 1904; adhered to the United Free Church at the Union of 1929. Married 18th July 1899, Mary Jane Brownlie. Publications – Letters of the Risen Lord, London, 1908; The Lord is in His Holy Temple, Glasgow, 1925; articles in the Christian Endeavour Times.
ALLOA WEST
Church and manse. An old manse was let. In 1902 the church was enlarged, pipe organ installed, electric light introduced, and stained glass windows put in. Mission hall.
ROBERT MACKENZIE, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.684
Ordained and inducted Blantyre Livingstone 12th February 1880; translated and inducted 28th June 1888; died 16th November 1919.
WILLIAM WATSON, M.A.
Translated from Aberdeen Gallowgate and inducted 14th April 1920; appointed to Madeira 1st November 1924.
ALEXANDER CHISHOLM
Born 2nd March 1884 at Edinburgh, son of Peter Chisholm and Margaret Ramsay; educated at Edinburgh Bristo School, George Heriot’s School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1910), New College, Edinburgh; missionary, Kilberry 1911; student assistant Edinburgh Dalry 1912-13, Nicolson Street 1913-14; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 12th May 1914; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road 1914-15; ordained and inducted Stewarton John Knox 17th May 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915, and with Scottish Churches Huts in Germany in 1919; translated to Kirkcaldy Abbotshall 23rd June 1920; translated and inducted 24th March 1925. Married 10th September 1915, Mary Elizabeth Douglas Ritchie, Edinburgh. Associate of Trinity College, London, 1905; organist, Kirkurd, 1902-3, Edinburgh Moray 1904-6, St Paul’s 1906-10. Member of Church Hymnary Revision Committee 1925-7, and of Metrical Psalter Revision Committee 1927-9. Publication – In Dark Calabar (music), Edinburgh, 1909.
ALVA EADIE
Church and hall, manse. Electric light installed in church and hall.
JOHN KING, M.A.
Translated from Seaham Harbour and inducted 16th April 1891; translated to Glasgow Copland Road 23rd December 1902.
JAMES WILLIAM PATRICK, M.A.
[Born Straiton parish, Ayrshire, 6th August 1876, son of James Patrick, minister, and Catherine McSkimming;] ordained and inducted 10th June 1903; resigned 1907. [Died 4th June, 1944; buried Alva Cemetery, Clackmannanshire. Married 1904, Agnes Clark Gray.]
JOHN KEDDIE GRAHAM, M.A.
Translated from Alyth South and inducted 24th September 1907; translated to Edinburgh John Ker Memorial 6th June 1912.
JAMES BRAND SCOTT, B.D.
Formerly at Hawick East Bank; inducted 29th October 1912; retired 1921; introduced Crailing 1922.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND HUNTER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 31st March 1922; translated to Perth Middle 12th May 1926.
HARRY JOHN MARR
Born 17th November 1888 at West Calder, son of Archibald Marr and Elspet Coutts Hutcheon; educated at Renton Public School, Vale of
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ALVA WEST
Church, hall, manse. During the period the hall was enlarged, vestry added, roof re-slated, electric light installed, church interior renovated.
ROBERT MCINTOSH, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.232
Ordained and inducted 1872; retired 1914; died 21st May 1927.
HENRY ARNOTT
Translated from Saline and inducted 25th September 1914; translated to Newbattle January 1922.
JOHN WOOD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 22nd April 1922; appointed chaplain to Tea Planters, Assam, 14th January 1926; resigned 17th July 1927; inducted Renton Millburn 1928.
JOHN SOUTER
Born 14th September 1868 at Greenwich, son of John Souter and Jane Lennie; educated at Perth Southern District School and Academy, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Perth 25th September 1894; assistant Dumfries Martyrs’ 1894-6, Markinch 1896-7, Edinburgh Pilrig 1897-8, Portobello 1898-9; ordained probationer Abernethy 23rd November 1899; inducted Falkirk Trinity 5th June 1906; translated to Ardeonaig 18th December 1912; translated to Livingston 19th September 1918; translated and inducted 12th May 1926. Married 1st November 1916, Janette Reddie Nicoll.
BALQUHIDDER
Church and manse.
DUNCAN MACKENZIE MACRAE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.257
Born 27th September 1847 at Auchnault, Dingwall, son of Angus MacRae and Isabella Mackenzie; educated at Resolis Parish and Free Church Schools, Maryburgh Free Church School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1872), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1876; assistant Edinburgh St Columba Free Church and Secretary to the Highlands Committee 1877; ordained and inducted Helmsdale 1878; translated and inducted 1886; retired 1912; died August 1935. Married 27th August 1890, Jeanie Cooper Waters.
WALTER TAYLOR WISHART, M.A.
Ordained and inducted Abercorn 1901; resigned 1911; inducted 22nd November 1912; resigned to do clerical war work 1917; inducted Echt 1918.
JOHN BRUCE WILSON, M.A.
[Born Dunblane, Perthshire, 1871, the son of Alexander Wilson and Isabella Bruce]; ordained Kinnettles 1900 and inducted 1901; resigned 1907; inducted Strathdon and Glenbuchat 20th September 1910; translated to Dundee Baxter Park 10th December 1914; translated and inducted 7th June 1917; resigned owing to disapproval of union negotiations 30th June 1927. [Died 1943. Married 1903, Jane Margaret Rainnie, daughter of John Rainnie, minister.]
CHARLES CHALMERS COWIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.127
Born 14th June 1863 at Stationmaster’s House, Fyvie, son of James Cowie and Annie Milne; educated at Aberdeen Bon-Accord and Charlotte Street Schools, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1895; assistant North Leith Ferry Road 1895-6; ordained and inducted Rothes 2nd April 1896; translated to St Ninian’s North March 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; translated and inducted 26th October 1927. Married 5th April 1905, Elizabeth Hamilton.
BANNOCKBURN LADYWELL
Church and manse. Halls erected in the period.
WILLIAM TROTTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.346
Ordained and inducted 1897; resigned 6th November 1906, and went to New Zealand.
JAMES MCGREGOR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.230
Born July 1863 at Crieff, son of Alexander McGregor and Ann Craig; educated at Crieff Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Auchterarder 1893; assistant Roberton 1893-4, Stirling North 1894-5; ordained and inducted St Monance July 1895; translated and inducted March 1907; died 5th December 1922. Married 11th November 1897, Marion McCulloch.
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ROBERT TAYLOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 16th January 1924; translated to Hamilton Saffronhall 6th April 1927.
WILLIAM ROBERT CLARKE
Born 28th December 1898 at Greencastle, Belfast, son of William Robert and Elizabeth Clarke; educated at Belfast Royal Academical Institution, Queen’s University B.A. (1919), Assembly’s College; student assistant Belfast Macrory Memorial 1921-3; licensed by Presbytery of Belfast June 1922; assistant Belfast Great Victoria Street 1923-4; ordained and inducted Hartlepool Presbyterian Church 1st October 1924; translated and inducted 7th September 1927; [died 19th September 1971; buried Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky.] Married 8th April 1925, Mary Ann McWilliams.
BANNOCKBURN MURRAYFIELD
Church with small hall; manse.
ANDREW MORRISON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.708
Born 19th October 1848 at Glasgow, son of William Morrison and Jean Callan; educated at Blantyre Public School, Drymen Public School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow January 1876; ordained and inducted 31st October 1876; retired June 1924; died 1930. Married 3rd May 1884, Christina Stirling.
JOHN CRAWFORD COLLINGWOOD
Born 18th April 1878 at Bridgeton, Glasgow, son of John Collingwood and Margaret MacMillan; educated Glasgow John Street Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1908), Glasgow College; student assistant Paisley Martyrs’ 1908-12; licensed by Presbytery of Paisley 1912; assistant New Luce 1912-13, Campbeltown Longrow 1913-15; war service at munitions in Alexandria; ordained and inducted Blackridge 17th May 1917; translated and inducted 11th June 1924. Married 20th June 1918, Jeanie Kirkwood Millar.
BLAIRLOGIE AND MENSTRIE
Church and manse.
ROBERT FERRIE ANDERSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.697
Born 21st November 1859 at Ceres, Fife, son of David Anderson and Margaret Lawson; educated at Ceres Parish School, University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1881), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Cupar July 1884; ordained and inducted 16th March 1886; retired July 1921; died 1930 [7th July 1931.] Married 29th April 1898, Mary Elder Peat. Member of School Board and Parish Council of Logie.
JOHN MACDONALD
Born 15th July 1880 at Machair, Dunganichy, Benbecula, son of Donald and Ann MacDonald; educated Baleranich Public School, Benbecula, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1913), New College, Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces in Mesopotamia 1915-18; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1920; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 29th November 1921.
BRIDGE OF ALLAN CHALMERS
Church, hall, church officer’s house; manse.
JAMES MILLER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.268
Born 17th March 1852 at Edinburgh, son of James Miller and Catherine Cameron; educated at Edinburgh Mr Henderson’s School, Academy, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Edinburgh St Mary’s Free Church 1874-5; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1877; assistant Newhaven 1877; ordained and inducted Eyemouth 20th September 1877; translated and inducted 4th March 1887; retired June 1918; died 24th February 1922. Married (1) 4th December 1877 Elizabeth Ann Neilson; (2) 21st September 1886, Margaret Cunningham Wilson.
GEORGE HOGARTH CARNABY MACGREGOR, B.A., M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 16th October 1918; translated to Glasgow St John’s and Renfield 25th January 1924.
WALTER MCCALLUM CLOW, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Stepps and inducted 1st October 1924; translated to Kilmarnock High 1928.
HAMISH [JAMES] CURRIE MACKENZIE
Born 7th May 1903, son of James Currie Mackenzie and Elizabeth Gilchrist; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A. (1925), Glasgow College; student assistant to Glasgow North Woodside 1924-5; Youth Evangelist 1926; assistant Paisley St James’ 1927-8; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1928; ordained and inducted 20th March 1929.
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BRIDGE OF ALLAN TRINITY
Church, large and small halls, manse. Manse was sold at Whitsunday 1928, the interest on the capital sum realized to be paid to the minister in lieu of manse.
ROBERT LAW, B.D.
Translated from Kilmarnock Princes Street and inducted 8th July 1897; translated to Edinburgh Lauriston 5th December 1901.
JOHN CAMPBELL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.354 and 674
Ordained and inducted Cumbernauld 5th January 1888; translated to Dunfermline St Margaret’s 17th December 1891; translated and inducted 1902; resigned 1918.
DAVID JAMES ALLISON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.317
[Born 1867, the son of James Allison, minister, and Catherine Anderson McIntosh;] ordained and inducted Galston Erskine, 18th December 1894; translated to Paisley Abbey Close 7th April 1904; translated and inducted 11th September 1918; died 16th October 1918; [buried Craigton Cemetery, Glasgow. Married 1895, Margaret Eadie Henderson.]
IAN MCDONALD
Born 9th May 1886 at Perth, son of Donald McDonald and Elizabeth Duff; educated Methven Public School, Perth Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1908), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Perth May 1912; assistant Kirkcaldy St Brycedale 1912-13; ordained and inducted Hawick West Port 16th May 1913; war service in H.M. Forces in France; translated and inducted 12th March 1919; resigned 31st October 1927; inducted St John’s Pietermaritzburg, Natal, 7th December 1927. Married 20th August 1913, Mabel Colville, daughter of Rev. A.M. Christie, M.A., Methven.
JAMES MILLING WITHEROW
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.111
Born 21st August 1867 at Londonderry, son of Thomas Witherow, D.D., LL.D., and Catherine Milling; educated at Model School, Academical Institution, Londonderry, Royal University of Ireland, B.A. (1st Class Hons. 1889), M.A. (1st Class Hons. 1891), D.D. (1920), Magee College, Londonderry, Assembly’s College, Belfast, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Professor of Church History, Magee College 1889-90; licensed by Presbytery of Downpatrick 1892; ordained and inducted Berwick Wallace Green 3rd November 1892; translated to Glasgow Belhaven 26th May 1898; translated to London Norwood St Andrew’s 3rd March 1906; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1914, 1917-18, and in Ministry of Munitions 1917; introduced 22nd February 1928; inducted 25th September 1929. Married 3rd November 1896, Nine Robertson. Publications – Grapes of God, Keighley, 1914; Church Rebels and Pioneers, London, 1927.
BRIDGE OF TEITH
Church and vestry; manse. Status reduced in 1926.
WILLIAM HUIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.679
[Born about 1839 in Campbeltown, Argyll;] ordained and inducted 25th July 1867; retired 1912; died 22nd September 1919; [buried Kilmadock Cemetery, Perthshire. Married 1869, Margaret Wallace.]
JAMES MENZIES
Ordained and inducted 17th July 1912; translated to Shettleston Eastbank 18th July 1925.
JOHN LINDSAY ROBERTSON, B.D.
Translated from Glasgow Barrowfield and introduced 21st April 1926; inducted Stoneykirk 16th May 1929.
THOMAS FRANCIS BEST
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.344
[His birth was recorded in Houston and Killellan in 1866, the son of Thomas Best and Margaret Love;] ordained and inducted Broughty Ferry Union 27th December 1893; retired 1924; inducted Grange 1924; translated to Aberlour 1926; translated and introduced October 1929; [Married (1) 1894, Isabella White; (2) 1923, Hannah Waddell Fleming or Jack].
BUCHLYVIE
Church with vestry and small hall; manse. Heating system altered in the period.
GEORGE WILLIAM STEVENSON COWIE
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.127
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.690]
Born 14th September 1869 at Airdrie, son of George Cowie and Jessie Gray; educated at Airdrie West Free Church Academy, Airdrie Academy, Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; agent of Glasgow City Mission 1890-4; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1898; assistant Glasgow Greenhead 1898-1900; ordained and inducted 8th March 1900; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917. Married (1) 30th July 1895, Jessie Bryden Murdoch; (2) 22nd January 1907, Mary Stevenson Fleming. Clerk to the Presbytery from 7th September 1920. Publication – Ter-jubilee Record of Buchlyvie United Free Church, Glasgow 1902.
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CALLANDER
Church, hall and manse. Within the period, the interior of the church was renovated, chancel added, oak pulpit provided, War Memorial stained glass windows and lectern. A wing was added to the hall. Callander West united with this congregation in 1903.
HARRY ANGUS ALEXANDER KENNEDY, M.A., D.Sc., D.D.
Ordained and inducted 11th May 1893; appointed to Chair of New Testament Exegesis, Knox College, Toronto, 1905.
JOHN MARTIN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.362
Born 24th January 1860 at Muthill, son of John Martin and Janet Macdougall; educated at Muthill Public School, Crieff Public School, Monzievaird Public School, Moray House Normal School, Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; teacher in Doune Public School and Glasgow Kelvinside Academy; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Auchterarder 1891; ordained and inducted Glasgow St Paul’s October 1891; translated to Nairn April 1895; translated to Dundee St Paul’s September 1900; translated and inducted 26th October 1905; retired September 1910; died 20th January 1927. Married (1) 1894, Margaret Gray; (2) 1900, Edith Godwin Miller. F.S.A. (Scot.); F.R.S.G.S.
WILLIAM WALLACE GAULD, M.A.
Translated from Fairlie and inducted 5th January 1911; translated to Glasgow Langside Hill 15th April 1920.
ROBERT EDMOND MCINTYRE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 13th October 1920; translated to Giffnock 15th April 1925.
ALISTER JOHN STEWART
Born 15th October 1884 at Inverness, son of John Stewart and Mary Jane Fraser; educated at Inverness High School, Royal Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1907, 1st Class Hons. in English 1908), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Inverness 4th July 1911; assistant Edinburgh North Morningside 1911-12; ordained and inducted Waterbeck 21st January 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915, and as Chaplain to the Forces in Egypt and Sinai 1916, mentioned in Despatches, awarded M.C.; translated to Paisley St James’ 17th September 1919; translated and inducted 29th July 1925.
CALLANDER WEST
Church. This congregation united with Callander in 1903.
ARCHIBALD MILLER MARSHALL
Translated from Ellison Street Jarrow-on-Tyne and inducted February 1894; translated to Cowie June 1903.
CAMBUSBARRON BRUCE MEMORIAL
This was a mission station in 1900, but was raised to full status in 1906. A new church was built and was opened on 11th January 1910.
JAMES ALLAN ADAM
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.31
Born 6th September 1855 at Pollokshaws, son of Allan Adam and Agnes Murdoch; educated at private school, Glasgow Crossmyloof, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1881), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1884; ordained and inducted Ellon 25th August 1886; resigned to facilitate local union 3rd October 1905; in charge, Cambusbarron 26th November 1905; inducted 21st December 1906. Married 3rd June 1891, Mary Borland Ewing.
CLACKMANNAN ERSKINE
Church and manse.
HUGH CARMICHAEL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.704
Born 27th March 1870 at Bearsden, son of Hugh Carmichael and Jeanie Aitken Thomson; educated at Bearsden Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1890), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1893; assistant Glasgow Camphill United Presbyterian 1897-9; ordained and inducted 25th October 1900; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917. Married 4th July 1912, Ann Margaret Wallace.
CLACKMANNAN MAYFIELD
Church and manse.
WALTER MCLEAN URE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.348
Born 12th November 1859 at Garelochhead, son of Archibald Ure
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DAVID GUTHRIE
Born 10th December 1858 at Forfar, son of James Guthrie and Barbara Peacock; educated at Forfar West Public School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1891; assistant Rothesay Free Parish, Edinburgh Stockbridge; loc. ten. Banff Free Church; ordained and inducted Harrismith, Orange Free State, December 1896; translated to Bloemfontein June 1897; inducted 16th July 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917. Publication – Short Sketches in Religious Character, London, 1928.
COALSNAUGHTON
Church and manse. The station at Fishcross united with this congregation in 1904, and the congregation was then known as Coalsnaughton and Fishcross. In 1917 Fishcross was attached to Sauchie.
JAMES SMITH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.712
Ordained and inducted 17th October 1893; resigned 4th April 1911 to go to the Presbyterian Church of Australia in Victoria.
WILLIAM POTTINGER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 24th November 1911; translated to Carnoustie St Stephen’s 21st August 1917.
JOHN MILLER OLIPHANT
Formerly in the Presbyterian Church of Canada; inducted February 1918; translated to Strachur 3rd May 1923.
DONALD MACLACHLAN MACKENZIE
Translated from Reay and inducted 1923; translated to Lochgilphead 1925.
LACHLAN MCFADYEN
Born 15th April 1860 at Shandon, Row, son of Alexander McFadyen and Elizabeth Mitchell; educated at Garelochead Public School, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh, Glasgow Free Church College; ordained by the Congregational Union at Tillicoultry Congregational Church 27th November 1894; resigned 1910; admitted to United Free Church 1910; inducted North Yell 9th September 1910; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1918; translated and inducted 24th July 1925. Married 22nd December 1889, Jeanie Rae Faichney. Justice of the Peace for Orkney and Shetland 1919.
COWIE
ARCHIBALD MILLER MARSHALL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.714
Born 9th December 1856 at Tillicoultry, son of John Marshall and Jean Miller; educated at Tillicoultry Parish School and Academy, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Stirling April 1883; assistant North Berwick 1883; ordained and inducted Newarthill July 1884; translated to Ellison Street, Jarrow-on-Tyne, February 1891; translated to Callander United Presbyterian February 1894; translated and inducted June 1903; retired 24th June 1925; died 1928. Married 13th September 1892, Christina Forsyth.
JOSEPH BUCHANAN
Born 12th June 1894 at Newton, Cambuslang, son of William Buchanan and Agnes Smith; educated at Stirling Territorial School and High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1924), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Union (College Street) 1923-5; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh March 1925; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 24th June 1925. Married 13th September 1923, Jessie Stewart Cameron Maclellan Macmillan. F.S.A. (Scot.).
DOLLAR EAST
Church. United with the West congregation in 1910.
WILLIAM BRUCE ROBERTSON WILSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.712
Born 4th December 1843 at Irvine, son of George Wilson and Mary Conn; educated at Irvine Academy, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Ayr and Kilmarnock 1871; ordained and inducted 23rd January 1872; retired 1910; died 1929. Married (1) 16th August 1873, Catherine Flint; (2) 20th September 1917, Cecilia Cunningham. Fellow of the Society of
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DOLLAR WEST
Church and manse. United with the East congregation in 1910.
ROBERT PAUL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.290
Translated from Coldstream and inducted 1879; died 1910.
DOLLAR
ALEXANDER EASTON SPENCE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.324
Born 1st August 1860 at Aberdeen, son of Alexander Spence and Janet Auchie; educated at Aberdeen West End Academy, Old Aberdeen Gymnasium, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 6th May 1884; assistant Broughty Ferry East Free Church 1884, Aberdeen Causewayend Free Church 1885-6; ordained and inducted Insch 4th February 1886; translated to Larbert East 23rd September 1903; translated and inducted 6th April 1911; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1918, and Germany 1919; died in Cologne 8th April 1919. Married 21st May 1890, Barbara Milne, daughter of Rev. R. Cowan, Elgin.
PETER DRUMMOND GRAY
Born 15th October 1878 at Stirling, son of James Gray and Jessie Ross; educated at Stirling High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1900), B.D. (1904), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane May 1904; assistant Dundee McCheyne 1904-5, Edinburgh Palmerston Place 1905-6, St Bernard’s 1906-8; ordained and inducted Musselburgh Bridge Street 21st July 1908; translated and inducted December 1919. Married 12th September 1906, Jeanie Scott Melville.
DOUNE
Formerly Kilmadock Free Church. Church, halls and manse.
GEORGE SUTHERLAND MACKAY, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.234
Ordained and inducted 1883; died 13th September 1912.
JAMES SCOTT
Translated from Temple and inducted 15th May 1913; translated to Kilmalcolm St Columba’s 17th January 1923.
JOHN ALEXANDER FLEMING
Born 16th June 1881 at Newtyle, son of John Fleming and Jessie Watson; educated at Newtyle Public School, Dundee High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1903), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Arbroath and Forfar 10th June 1907; assistant Elgin High 1907; ordained and inducted Monikie 26th December 1907; translated to Stepps 28th May 1912; war service was Scottish Churches Huts 1915, assistant to Chaplain Tay Defences 1916, Chaplain on H.M.S. Britannic 1916, in Belgium and France 1916-17, Egypt and Palestine 1918-19; translated to Dundee Ogilvie 27th January 1921; translated and inducted 27th June 1923. Married 9th April 1920, Alice Dorothy Ballantyne.
DUNBLANE EAST
Church with vestry and church officer’s house; manse. The church officer’s house was closed and used for storage. Pipe organ installed and suite of halls built about 1908.
HUGH STEVENSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.327
Born 16th February 1864 at Beith, son of Andrew Stevenson and Ann Wilson; educated at Glasgow St John’s and Tollcross Schools, Glasgow College, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1892), Glasgow Free Church College (Clark Fellowship 1892); missionary assistant Glasgow Dowanvale 1888-92, Springburn North 1892-3; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow May 1892; ordained and inducted 3rd April 1893. Married 10th April 1893, Eleanor Kennedy. Chaplain to War Hospital; organised the raising of war loans, etc. Awarded M.B.E.
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DUNBLANE LEIGHTON
Church, hall, and manse. A new vestry was built, and kitchen and lavatories added. Electric light introduced into church and hall.
WILLIAM BLAIR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.692
Born 13th January 1830 at Cluny, Fife, son of George Blair and Elspet West; educated at Auchterderran School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1850), D.D. (1879), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kirkcaldy 13th December 1854; assistant Arbroath Erskine; ordained and inducted 16th April 1856; retired 1900; died 11th August 1916. Married 1st December 1858, Elizabeth Allan Corsar. Chairman, Dunblane School Board 1885-1909; Parish Councillor from 1896; Clerk to United Presbyterian Synod 1884; Moderator of United Presbyterian Synod 1898-9; Joint Principal Clerk to General Assembly 1900-7; member of University Court, St Andrews 1903-11; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; chaplain to 6th Perthshire Rifle Volunteer Corps 1864; acting chaplain, 4th Perthshire Volunteer Battalion 1892; Hon. Chaplain, Territorial Force 1911; awarded V.D. Publications – Chronicles of Aberbrothock, Arbroath, 1853; Rambling Recollections of Scenes Worth Seeing, Edinburgh, 1857; History and Principles of the United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh, 1889; Life of Archbishop Leighton, Edinburgh, 1883; Log of Hersilia, Edinburgh, 1896; edited McKelvie’s Annals of the United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh, 1873; Robert Leighton, London and Edinburgh, 1907; Kildermock, Stirling, 1910.
GEORGE BLAIR, B.D.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 19th December 1900; inducted London East, South Africa, May 1907; inducted Uddingston Park 1916.
DAVID RITCHIE ALEXANDER, B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.252
[Born 1866 at Partick, Glasgow, son of William Alexander and Bethia Steel Clark]; ordained and inducted Urr 22nd September 1896; translated and inducted 15th October 1907; died 11th July 1922. [Married 1902, Mina Janet Thomson.]
JAMES KENNEDY GRANT, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 21st February 1923; resigned 1927; inducted Kimberley, South Africa, 1927. [By 1963 he was minister in the Presbyterian Church in Salisbury, Rhodesia, when he was awarded the O.B.E.]
JOHN RIDDELL HUTTON
Born 7th August 1878 at Well Road Manse, Moffat, son of William Hutton and Mary Thomas; educated at Birkenhead Ashford House School, Liverpool Institute High School, University College, Liverpool, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1900), B.D. (1903), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd June 1903; assistant Edinburgh Palmerston Place 1903-4; ordained and inducted Lockerbie St Cuthbert’s 5th July 1904; translated to Helensburgh St Columba’s 19th February 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated to Stow 20th June 1918; translated and inducted 19th October 1927.
GARTMORE
Church and manse.
MALCOLM MCLEAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.245
Ordained and inducted 1864; retired 1910; died 1920.
OLIVER DRYER, M.A.
[His birth was recorded in Sanquhar, Dumfries-shire, in 1881, the son of Oliver Dryer and Jane Poole;] ordained and inducted 1910; resigned on appointment as General Secretary, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1918; [settled in Cockpen 1929.]
JOHN BEVERIDGE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.432
Born 29th June 1857 at Cumnock, son of Robert Morris Beveridge and Elizabeth Lorimer; educated at Ayr Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1879), B.D. (1882), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student assistant Dundee Tay Square United Presbyterian 1881; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock June 1882; ordained and inducted Stow United Presbyterian 26th December 1882; translated to Wolverhampton 1893; translated to Dundee Bell Street 1900; translated to Fossoway 1913; translated and inducted 1919; retired 12th September 1926. Married 16th December 1884, Alice Alexandra Henderson. Rendered national service during Great War on Scottish War Savings Committee, awarded M.B.E. When in England, was a member of the Council of the Evangelical Church. For forty years a student of the religious and church life of Norway. Awarded Centenary Medal, Christiania University, Norway, 1911. Fellow of the British Esperanto Society. One of the translators of the New Testament into Esperanto. Publications – Stow United Presbyterian Church: a Historical Sketch, 1889; Life after Death, translated from the Norse of Bishop L.N. Dahle, Edinburgh, 1896; Sma’ folk and Bairn Days, translated from the Norse of J.L. Konow, Paisley, 1897; The Passing of Gladstone (sermon),
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KIPPEN
Church and manse. Manse repaired and enlarged; church spire taken down and rebuilt.
HENRY WATERSTON HUNTER, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.188
Ordained and inducted 1888.
NORRIESTON
Church and manse. From 18th November 1927, the congregation worshipped in the Parish Church.
GEORGE WILLIAMS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.356
Born 11th February 1845 at Miltown of Cushnie, Alford, son of George Williams and Helen Tough; educated at Cushnie Primary School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Alford 1870; assistant Evie and South Ronaldshay, Orkney, Maryculter, Forfar, Glasgow Bridgeton; ordained and inducted 18th February 1879; retired April 1927; died 25th August 1929. Married 1900, Isabella Anderson.
SAUCHIE AND FISHCROSS
JOHN DUNN
Born 22nd November 1872 at Alloa, son of John Dunn and Janet Carmichael; educated at Alloa Academy, Dollar Academy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, B.A. (1912), University of London, B.D., Glasgow College; assistant Alloa Greenside 1908; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane September 1913; ordained and inducted January 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Egypt 1917; adhered to the United Free Church (Continuing). Married July 1901, Margaret Melrose Davidson.
STIRLING ALLAN PARK
Church and hall. Manse was bought within the period. Mission Hall in Castlehill.
JOHN T[AIT] GOWANLOCK
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.674
[His birth or baptism was recorded in Edinburgh on 12th July, 1834, the son of Walter Gowanlock and Mary Tait;] ordained and inducted 24th September 1861; retired 1902; died 27th January 1922. [Married 1861, Mary G. Henderson.]
WILLIAM EWING, D.D.
Translated from Glasgow Rose Street and inducted as colleague and successor 12th June 1902; translated to Edinburgh Grange 14th December 1905.
JAMES WATT PURVES, M.A.
Translated from Saltcoats Erskine and inducted 20th March 1906; translated to Bearsden South 1st September 1911.
ALEXANDER MCPHERSON JOHNSTON
Born 11th June 1876 at Aberdeen, son of Joseph Johnston and Jane Jack; educated at Aberdeen private schools and Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1897), B.D. (1904), United Presbyterian College and New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen May 1902; assistant Edinburgh Fountainhall Road 1902-3; Lothian Road 1903-4; ordained and inducted Dalbeattie Burnside 11th June 1904; translated to Ayr Cathcart Street 8th February 1908; translated and inducted 22nd January 1912. Married 4th February 1914, Eleanora Guthrie Wyllie.
STIRLING CRAIG
Church. United with the North congregation in 1909.
DAVID DUNCAN ORMOND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.286
Ordained and inducted 1876; retired 1909; died in 1920.
STIRLING ERSKINE
Church and hall. Pipe organ installed about 1910. When this congregation with its minister united with Viewfield in 1908, a
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THOMAS WRIGHT
Ordained and inducted 24th October 1893; became minister of the united charge, Viewfield May 1909.
ROBERT PRIMROSE, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Burnbank and inducted 1909; resigned 1915; inducted Bishopbriggs Springfield 1921.
JAMES POLLOCK, B.D.
Ordained and inducted Glasgow West Scotland Street 1900; translated to St Andrew’s, King William’s Town, South Africa, 17th March 1904; inducted 1915; resigned 21st December 1917, and inducted St John’s, Bloemfontein, South Africa. [See Rev. James Pollock for possible biographical details.]
ALFRED PATMAN MUIRHEAD, M.A.
Translated from Biggar Gillespie and inducted September 1918; translated to Moffat Well Road April 1923.
ROBERT JAMES WRIGHT
Born 16th May 1873 at 21 Straight Street, Damascus, son of Rev. William Wright, D.D., [who was sent by the Presbyterian Church of Ireland to Damascus as a missionary to the Jews] and Annie McKee; educated at Dulwich College, University of Oxford, Brasenose College (Senior Scholar), B.A. (1896), Presbyterian Church College, New Zealand, Glasgow College; student assistant Irvine Fullerton 1900-1; licensed by Presbytery of Ayr 1903; assistant Aberdeen Bon-Accord 1903-5, Edinburgh Broughton Place 1905-7; ordained and inducted Hawick East Bank 15th October 1907; translated to Bowdon Presbyterian Church Cheshire, 1913; translated to Bolton 1918; translated to Birmingham Camphill 1920; resigned 1922; inducted 1924. Married 12th August 1908, Effie Reid McCombie.
STIRLING NORTH
STIRLING NORTH AND CRAIGS
JOHN CHALMERS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.118
Born 27th December 1843 at Blairgowrie, son of George Chalmers and Catherine Aitken; educated at Blairgowrie Free Church School, Perth Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1864), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellowship 1869); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Meigle March 1870; assistant Edinburgh St Cuthbert’s Free Church 1870; ordained and inducted Arbroath Ladyloan Free Church October 1870; translated and inducted April 1877; retired September 1911. Married 1891, Agnes Thomson Drummond.
ALEXANDER BEITH MACAULAY, M.A., D.D.
Translated from Dundee St John’s and inducted September 1911; inducted to Chair of Apologetics, Glasgow College June 1919.
JOHN MACLEOD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 20th January 1920; translated to Kilcreggan and Cove 23rd February 1928.
ROBERT MACKINTOSH
Born 28th November 1887 at the Post Office, Tomatin, son of William Mackintosh and Jessie McLennan; educated at Tomatin Public School, Nairn Public School, Aberfeldy Public School, Aberlour-on-Spey, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1910), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Banff and Strathbogie May 1914; assistant New Deer and Maud 1914; ordained and inducted Pluscarden 2nd September 1914; translated to Brechin East 1st June 1925; translated and inducted 19th September 1928; [died 1st January 1962; buried Pluscarden Churchyard, Elgin.] Married 18th November 1914, Kate Marion Macintyre, M.A.
STIRLING ST NINIAN’S NORTH
Church and manse. This congregation united with St Ninian’s South in 1928.
COLIN MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.237
Born 16th June 1852 at Dingwall, son of Alexander Mackenzie and Flora Macrae; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow St Mark’s Free Church 1882; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 9th May 1883; ordained and inducted 1st November 1883; died 29th June 1913. Married 11th September 1889, Georgina Simpson. Chairman of Stirling School Board 1900-13; Chairman of Marshall Trust 1900-13; vice chairman of
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CHARLES CHALMERS COWIE
Translated from Rothes and inducted March 1914; translated to Balquhidder 26th October 1927.
STIRLING ST NINIAN’S SOUTH
Church, halls, manse. Church was renovated and restored after fire in 1923; mission hall in the village.
DAVID SMITH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.701
Born 9th September 1853 at Edinburgh, son of William Smith and Margaret Rankine; educated at schools in Leith and Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow; assistant Edinburgh Broughton Place; in charge, Slateford; ordained and inducted 3rd December 1885; war service as officiating chaplain to R.A.M.C. stationed in St Ninian’s; retired May 1921; died 27th August 1928. Married 28th December 1885, Margaret Fraser.
JAMES NAIRN
Translated from Kilchattan Bay and inducted 1921; retired to facilitate local union 1928; introduced Swinton 1928.
STIRLING ST NINIAN’S
GEORGE CHARLES MCKENZIE GRIEVE
Born 26th December 1880 at Sandhaven, Fraserburgh, son of George Charles Grieve and Ann Mckenzie; educated at Fraserburgh Public School; Secretary, Albatross Mission 1903-10; children’s evangelist, United Free Church 1910-19; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Invergordon and with Y.M.C.A. at Nigg; University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; student assistant Dumbarton 1919-23; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton 3rd April 1923; ordained and inducted Kilwinning Erskine 18th June 1924; translated and inducted 1928. Married 3rd April 1913, Helen Denny McFarlane.
STIRLING SOUTH
Church and manse.
WILLIAM FULLARTON GOLDIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.170
Translated from Tullibody and inducted 1868; retired 1897; died 1907.
JOHN ARNOTT, M.A.
Translated from Dailly and inducted 1898; appointed to Mentone 1920.
ROBERT THEODORE CAMERON, M.A.
Translated from Galston Erskine and inducted 7th June 1921; translated to Ayr West 1928.
DANIEL BLADES
Born 22nd February 1892 at Alexandria, son of John Blades and Jeanie Flemington; educated at Renton Public School, Vale of Leven Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Classics, 1915), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton April 1921; loc. ten. Hamilton St John’s 1920-1, Greenock St George’s 1921; ordained and inducted Almondbank St Serf’s 10th January 1922; translated and inducted 6th February 1929. Married 21st December 1921, Elizabeth Cameron McKinlay.
STIRLING VIEWFIELD
Church and hall. Part of the Erskine congregation and its minister united with this congregation in 1908.
WALTER SCOTT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.673
Born 18th January 1847 at Meggat, Selkirkshire, son of George Scott and Helen Oliver; educated at Teviothead Public School, Traquair Public School, Yarrow Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1867), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed in 1872; ordained and inducted 25th May 1875; retired May 1909. Publications – Bibliography of J.A. Harvie Brown, Stirling, N.D.; articles in Notes and Queries, Scottish Notes and Queries, and other periodicals.
THOMAS WRIGHT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.670
Born 29th November 1868 at Johnstone Renfrewshire, son of Thomas Wright and Jeanie Mitchell; educated at Johnstone Public School; Paisley Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1888), United Presbyterian College,
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DONALD JAMES ROSS
Born 11th October 1879 at Inverness, son of Donald Ross and Elizabeth Sarah Black; educated at Inverness Royal Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1899), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 4th December 1904; assistant Aberdeen Carden Place 1905-6, Dumfries St George’s 1906-7, Rutherglen West 1907-8; ordained and inducted Thurso West 13th August 1908; translated to Eccles, Lancashire, September 1913; appointed to Penang, Straits Settlements, January 1916; chaplain, Straits Settlements’ Local Forces 1916-20; inducted as colleague and successor in 1921. Married 20th June 1909, Jeanie Johnston Gill.
STIRLING WEST
Church, hall and manse. Electric light introduced in 1912.
JAMES ANGUS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.85
Born 15th August 1849 at Inverurie, son of James Angus and Elspeth Keith; educated at Kinellar Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1874; assistant Cullen 1874, Peterhead 1875, Glasgow Kelvinside 1877; ordained and inducted Skirling 1877; translated and inducted 1883; retired June 1908; died 19th February 1912. Married 13th July 1880, Jemima Jessie Harper Carr. Publication – A Brief Broken Ministry (Memoir of Rev. W.G. Still of Barry), 1884.
THOMAS ALEXANDER TEMPLE
Born 7th December 1875 at Edinburgh, son of Andrew Temple and Jessie Dallas; educated at Edinburgh Newington School, Warrender Park Public School, George Heriot’s School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1900), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1904; assistant Edinburgh Nicolson Street 1904-8, Chalmers Territorial 1908-9; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 16th December 1909. Married 21st July 1911, Jeanne Allan Brown.
TILLICOULTRY NORTH
Church and manse. United with the South congregation on 1st January 1912.
ALFRED WATT CALDER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.111
Born 30th March 1860 at Leith, son of William Calder and Elizabeth Rose; educated at Edinburgh Institution, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1883), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1887; assistant Hillhousefield Mission, North Leith, Roberton; ordained and inducted 15th April 1890; became minister of the united congregation 1912; retired May 1922; died 10th March 1923. Married 15th June 1897, Annie Scott.
TILLICOULTRY SOUTH
Church and manse. United with the North congregation on 1st January 1912.
WILLIAM GALLETLY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.141; Vol.2, p.706
Born 16th October 1834 at Perth, son of James Galletly and Isabella Miller; educated at Perth Grammar School, University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; teacher at Lasswade 1850-51; Dr Bruce’s Academy, Newcastle 1855-6, Edinburgh Bristo Church School 1860; licensed October 1861; ordained and inducted Peterhead United Presbyterian 1st January 1862; Superintendent, Edinburgh City Mission 1870-2; inducted 9th July 1872; retired 30th June 1908; died 29th May 1919. Married 22nd April 1862, Jane Reekie Storrar.
MATTHEW MURE DICKIE, B.D.
Ordained as preacher 1876; introduced 7th November 1908; introduced Dunscore Renwick 14th October 1914.
TILLICOULTRY
ALFRED WATT CALDER
Minister of Tillicoultry North remained as minister of the united congregation from 1912 to 1922.
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CHARLES ADAMSON SMITH
Born 26th October 1895 at Glasgow, son of William White Smith and Margaret Jane Knox; educated at Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1920), Glasgow College; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1915-17, and in H.M. Forces in France 1917-19; student assistant Glasgow St Mark’s 1920-2; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1922; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 19th September 1922. Married 10th April 1924, Jessie Jackson Campbell.
TULLIBODY
Church and manse.
ANDREW THOM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.339
Born in 1848 at Old Deer, educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; assistant Budapest Jewish mission; ordained and inducted 1875; died 11th February 1928. Married (1) 1875, Jane M[urray] Richardson; (2) 1880, Eleanor Wemyss.
WILLIAM DUNCAN OGILVIE ROSE
Born 11th December 1889 at Dundee, son of Rev. William Rose, minister of Victoria Street Free Church, and Margaret Allan Ogilvie, daughter of Rev. Duncan Ogilvie, D.D.; educated at Dundee Morgan Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1912), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee, 2nd May 1916; assistant Glasgow Kelvinside 1916-18; ordained and inducted Ayton 23rd October 1919; translated and inducted 4th July 1929. Married 15th June 1927, Henrietta Wilson.
GARGUNNOCK
This was a preaching station throughout the period, attached to Kippen.
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PRESBYTERY OF BREADALBANE
ABERFELDY
Church and manse. The congregation was evicted, but all the property was restored by the Royal Commission.
JOHN MACRAE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.258
Born 25th June 1856 at Achintee, Strathcarron, son of Donald Macrae and Marjory Macdonald; educated at Lochcarron Ladies’ School and Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1880), Aberdeen Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lochcarron June 1884; assistant Ardersier 1884; ordained and inducted 10th December 1884; retired 5th October 1927; died 14th July 1936. Married 21st April 1887, Catherine Campbell MacKerchar.
DAVID INGLIS COWAN, M.A .
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 5th October 1927.
ARDEONAIG
Church and manse.
JOHN MACCALLUM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.216
Ordained and inducted 23rd October 1874; retired 31st May 1907; died 21st November 1909.
DONALD CAMPBELL MACKINTOSH
Translated from Rogart and inducted 13th March 1907; translated to Glasgow St Luke’s 1912.
JOHN SOUTER
Translated from Falkirk Trinity and inducted 18th December 1912; translated to Livingston 19th September 1918.
ARCHIBALD MCCALL
Formerly at Kirkbean and Southwick; inducted 1st March 1919; translated to Portpatrick March 1926.
ROBERT MILLER
Ordained missionary; translated from Kennethmont and introduced 15th October 1926; introduced Keiss 17th July 1929.
BLAIR ATHOLL AND STRUAN
Church with large vestry and manse at Blair Atholl; church with small vestry at Struan. Services in Struan on alternate Sundays.
JOHN SIMPSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 23rd March 1899; translated to Woodstock, South Africa, 21st August 1902; inducted Glasgow Scotstoun 28th November 1916.
HUGH MACCALLUM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.216
Translated from Tummel Bridge and inducted 8th October 1903; died 19th April 1920.
ALEXANDER ANDERSON STRATHEARN
Born 12th July 1879 at Kirriemuir, son of Alexander Strathearn and Mary Rodger; educated at Kirriemuir Webster’s Seminary, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1903), New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1907); licensed by Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer 10th September 1907; assistant Stranraer St Ninian’s 1907, Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1907-8; ordained and inducted Cargill 6th January 1909; translated to Liff 29th April 1915; translated and inducted 20th February 1920.
FORTINGALL
Church and manse.
WILLIAM HUGH TULLOCH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.347
Born 13th January 1860 at Beauly, son of John Tulloch and Isabella Tulloch; educated at Beauly Public School, Inverness Academy, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Perth 1888; assistant Amulree; ordained and inducted May 1889; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1918; retired 22nd September 1922; died 13th May 1928. Married 8th September 1893, Eleanor A. Campbell Rose.
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FREDERICK HUGH GEORGESON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.167
Born 13th July 1856 at Lybster, Caithness, son of James Georgeson and Jessie Mackay; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Caithness 1884; ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Caithness ad ministerium vagum 17th September 1885; in charge, Scotch Church, Rotterdam, June 1885-March 1886; inducted Cluny, Aberdeenshire, 1886; translated to Glasgow St James’ 20th July 1888; became senior minister of Glasgow Central at local union 19th July 1919; became senior minister of St James’ at dissolution of union; inducted 9th May 1923. Married 18th November 1885, Elizabeth Sarah Mackenzie.
GLENLYON
Church and manse. Reduced to a preaching station in 1908.
JOHN MCCOLL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.217
Born 26th June 1849 at Ballichrich, near Tobermory, son of Archibald McColl and Margaret Stewart; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 1876; retired 31st December 1907; died 14th January 1921. Married 8th September 1884, Jane Mary Baillie.
JAMES ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, M.A.
Ordained and introduced 19th November 1908; translated to Forfar West 22nd March 1911.
JAMES HALLIDAY
Ordained preacher, appointed 1911; inducted Crathie 17th December 1914.
GILBERT GEORGE MCARTHUR
Ordained preacher, appointed 27th July 1915; inducted Kildalton and Oa 24th December 1916.
WILLIAM EWAN, M.A.
[Born Carnoustie (Barry) 1857]; ordained preacher at Addiewell 19th July 1910; resigned December 1919; appointed 29th January 1920; resigned 15th March 1927 on the grounds of old age and infirmity. [Married 1880, Jane Murray Farmer.]
KENMORE
Church and manse. Many repairs to manse in 1906, costing £1200.
JAMES MACMILLAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 24th October 1888; resigned 1906; inducted Aberuthven 25th December 1910.
JOHN BONAR ATHOL GORDON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.172
Born 10th July 1868 at Juniper Green, son of Peter Gordon and Margaret Jessie Bonar; educated at Edinburgh Oliphant School, Collegiate School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1890), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1896; assistant Largs Free Church 1896-7, Edinburgh St James’ 1897-8, St Bernard’s 1898-9, St Andrew’s 1899; ordained and inducted Borgue 14th December 1899; translated and inducted 13th July 1906; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Rouen 1918.
KILLIN
Church and hall; manse. Chapel at Morenish.
JOHN MACBEAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1888; translated to Rosehall 22nd February 1912.
DUNCAN MCGREGOR
Translated from Kiltarlity and inducted 3rd July 1912; translated to Tighnabruaich 24th January 1928.
GRAHAM FORRESTER ADAMSON
Born 2nd July 1903 at Ardrossan, son of Rev. Robert Morgan Adamson and Robina Scott Thorburn Addis [daughter of Thomas Addis, Free Church minister]; educated at Ardrossan Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1924), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Ardrossan May 1927; assistant Glasgow Kelvinside 1927-8; ordained and inducted 15th August 1928.
LAWERS
Church and manse.
ALLAN MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.237
Born 1855 at Marvaig, Lochs, Lewis, son of John Mackenzie and Christina Macfarlane; educated at Ladies’ Association School, schools at Stornoway and Aberdeen, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; missionary to Highland congregations in Glasgow and at Paisley; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Paisley 29th January 1889; ordained and inducted 12th November 1889; died 4th May 1910. Married 25th March 1890, Isabella Mackechnie MacLardy. Member of Kenmore Parish Council from 1895.
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WALTER CALDER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.111
Born 15th December 1851 at Bonar Bridge, son of Robert Calder and Helen Ross; educated at Creich Parish School, Elgin Academy, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; student assistant Skene 1878-9, Enzie 1879, 1880, 1881, Aberdeen Commerce Street 1879-80, Bourtreebush 1881-2; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 6th June 1882; ordained and inducted Bourtreebush 12th October 1882; translated to Strathy 12th May 1886; translated to Stornoway 4th February 1903; translated and inducted 7th March 1911. Married 17th October 1882, Annie Lawrence Black. Publications – Strathy, Wick, 1897; After Seventy Years, Stornoway, 1909; The Communion Table, Dingwall, 1899; articles in The Northern Evangelist, Inverness, 1896-1902.
PITLOCHRY
Known as Moulin till 1902. Church, session room, vestry, and manse. Hall was built in 1912.
CHARLES GORDON MACKAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.233
Born at Melvich, Sutherlandshire, 1842, [son of Charles Mackay and Williamina Stewart]; educated at University of Edinburgh, Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted Maryburgh 1874; translated and inducted 1884; retired 1st November 1906; died 16th April 1907. Married 1876, Helen Mary Ross.
ARCHIBALD JOHN MACNICOL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.254
Born 29th October 1863 at Lochranza, Arran, son of Duncan MacNicol and Margaret Clark; educated at Dunoon, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. 1880), B.D., Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dunoon June 1889; assistant Campbeltown 1889-90; ordained and inducted Dundonald 19th February 1891; translated to Cromarty, July 1896; translated and inducted 25th April 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916, 1917, and with Scottish Churches Huts at Cromarty 1918-19; retired 18th October 1925; died 20th February 1937. Married June 1912, Davina Maria Allen.
THOMAS CROUTHER GORDON, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 19th March 1926; translated to Clydebank Union 29th May 1929.
STRATHTAY
Church and manse.
DONALD ROBERT CLARKE MACLAGAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.243
Born 2nd April 1845 at Aberfeldy; educated at Perth Academy, Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted March 1875; died 7th August 1910. Married 1881, Catherine Alberta Mackenzie. For some time prior to ordination was chaplain in Calton Prison, Edinburgh. Clerk to the Presbytery for nearly 25 years (1885-1910).
JAMES COCHRANE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 5th June 1911; translated to Grantown-on-Spey 14th May 1924.
BENJAMIN JONES
Ordained and inducted September 1924; translated to Glasgow Tollcross Park 5th January 1927.
WILLIAM MACKENZIE WHYTE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.356
Born 9th June 1865 at Oban, son of Robert Whyte and Ann Mackenzie; educated at Fort William Public School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Abertarff 1891; assistant Nairn 1891-2, and Cromdale 1892-3; ordained and inducted Echt 14th February 1894; translated to Savoch 9th June 1918; translated to Slamannan 11th April 1925; translated and inducted 1928. Married 4th November 1908, Margaret Sangster.
TUMMEL BRIDGE AND KINLOCH RANNOCH
Two churches, one at Tummel Bridge and the other at Kinloch Rannoch. Manse at Tummel Bridge in 1900, but this was disposed of and another erected in Kinloch Rannoch in 1913.
HUGH MACCALLUM
Ordained and inducted 1895; translated to Blair Athol 1903.
DONALD GRANT
Ordained and inducted 1904; translated to Durham St Peter’s 1910; translated to Kilchoman, Islay (Church of Scotland), 1915.
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WILLIAM JAMES NICOLL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 2nd May 1911; translated to Dairsie and Guardbridge 26th November 1924.
CHARLES RODGER WALKER
Born 1st August 1898 at Montrose, son of Alexander Walker and Eliza Rodger; educated at Montrose North Links Public School, and Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in English 1921), New College, Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces in Palestine 1917-19; licensed by Presbytery of Brechin and Fordoun 8th May 1924; assistant Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1924-25; ordained and inducted 15th April 1925.
AMULREE
This was a station in 1900 and was transferred to the Presbytery of Perth in 1908.
CRIANLARICH
A station was established here in 1902, but was transferred to the Presbytery of Lorn 12th September 1911, and united with Strathfillan.
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PRESBYTERY OF BLAIRGOWRIE
AIRLIE
Church, manse and stable.
JOHN FLEMING LINN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.208
Born 22nd May 1844 at Glasgow, son of Walter Linn and Margaret Banks Fleming; educated at Glasgow George Square Academy and Garnetbank Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1865), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1st July 1868; assistant Paisley St George’s Free Church 1868-70, Glasgow Calton Mission 1872; ordained and inducted 17th October 1872. Justice of the Peace for Angus in 1926; Chairman of Airlie School Board; member of Education Authority; chairman of Parish Council; Clerk to the Free Church, United Free Church Presbytery 1884 to 1929.
ALYTH NORTH
Church and manse; old school and schoolhouse. United with the South congregation in 1927.
JAMES WEBSTER, M.A., B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.353
Ordained and inducted 1894; resigned 31st July 1907.
JOHN HAGGART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.179
Born 13th April 1859 at Callander, son of James Haggart and Ann Robertson; educated at Callander Free Church School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Broxburn Free Church, Edinburgh New North; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1894; assistant Arbroath Ladyloan Free Church; ordained and inducted Methlick 9th January 1896; translated and inducted 15th April 1908; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; retired 9th February 1927. Married 18th February 1896, Catherine Grainger.
ALYTH SOUTH
Church with hall, manse. United with the North congregation in 1927.
JOHN KEDDIE GRAHAM, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 8th January 1899; translated to Alva Eadie 24th September 1907.
JAMES HOLBURN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.187
Born 30th July 1864 at Free Church Schoolhouse, Stewarton, son of James Holburn and Isabella Brown; educated at Stewarton, Dr Graham Guiness’s College, London, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary, Glasgow Bridgegate Free Church, Lyon Street Free Church, Broomielaw Students’ Mission; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1898; ordained and inducted Glasgow Bridgegate Free Church May 1899; translated and inducted 5th February 1908; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, 1918, severely wounded in bombing attack; died 25th July 1926. Married 26th December 1899, Agnes Ada Dunlop.
ALYTH
DONALD ROSS
Born 8th November 1889 at Inverness, son of James Ross and Margaret Forbes; educated at Inverness High School, Merkinch School and Royal Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1910, Hons. in Mental Philosophy 1911), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Inverness April 1915; ordained and inducted Shiskine, Arran, 12th March 1918; translated to Glasgow Ruchill 12th March 1925; translated and inducted 8th June 1927. Married 12th June 1918, Beatrice M. Watt.
BLAIRGOWRIE MOUNT ERICHT
Church and manse. United with the South congregation on 16th August 1906.
DAVID ARNOT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 2nd May 1895; became minister of the united congregation in 1906.
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BLAIRGOWRIE ST ANDREW’S
Church and manse.
WILLIAM MUIR, B.D., B.L.
Translated from Glasgow St Enoch’s and inducted 1894; translated to Rothesay West 1907.
DAVID SMITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.319
Born 21st May 1866 at Carluke, son of George Smith and Jane Maria Macnaughton; educated at Rothesay Academy, University of Glasgow M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics 1887), D.D. (1908), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dunoon April 1892; assistant Glasgow College Free Church 1892, Westbourne 1892-3, Egremont Presbyterian Church, Cheshire, 1893; ordained and inducted Tulliallan Free Church 4th January 1894; translated and inducted 5th December 1907; appointed to Chair of Theology, Magee College, Londonderry, November 1909; appointed to Chair of New Testament Exegesis, Presbyterian College, Belfast, August 1922; loc. ten. Glasgow Paisley Road 1923. Publications – The Days of His Flesh, London, 1905 (also translated into Japanese and modern Greek); The Pilgrim’s Hospice, London, 1906; St Matthew (Westminster Commentary), London, 1908; The Face of Jesus, Edinburgh, 1908; A Legend of Bethlehem (illustrated), London, 1909; A Legend of Jerusalem (illustrated), London, 1910; Man’s Need of God, London, 1910; Epistles of St John (Expositor’s Greek Testament) London, 1910; Christian Counsel, London, 1911; The Feast of the Covenant, London, 1911; The Historic Jesus (Elliot Lectures, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also translated into Japanese), London, 1912; Unwritten Sayings of Our Lord, London, 1913; To the Uttermost, London, 1915; The Atonement, London, 1918; Life and Letters of St Paul, London, 1919 (also translated into Japanese); The Heavenly Visitant: Verses and Prayers, London, 1921; The Art of Preaching, London, 1924; The Earthly Life of Our Lord, London, 1925; The Disciples’ Commentary on the Four Gospels, 3 volumes, London, 1928. Correspondence column in British Weekly from 5th July 1906.
WILLIAM DICKIE NIVEN, M.A.
Translated from Macduff and inducted 16th June 1910; translated to Aberdeen Causewayend March 1919.
WALTER WILLIAM AITKEN BELL
Born 26th April 1879 at Balgrayhill, Glasgow, son of Peter Bell and Margaret Hamilton; educated at Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1902), B.D. (1907), Glasgow College; assistant Glasgow Tron 1906-8; ordained and inducted Monifieth Panmure May 1908; translated to Glasgow Kinning Park October 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated and inducted 14th August 1919; died 16th December 1922. Married 4th June 1913, Agnes M. Strachan.
ROBERT BONNINGTON HASTIE
Born 19th May 1878 at Edinburgh, son of James Hastie and Mary [Brock;] educated at Edinburgh Young Street and James Gillespie’s Schools, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1911), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1908; loc. ten. Edinburgh Bonnington 1908-10; assistant Edinburgh St James’ Place 1910-11; ordained and inducted Cockenzie 27th April 1911; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated to Renfrew Trinity April 1919; translated and inducted 5th July 1923. Married 22nd August 1911, Mrs Johanna Harper Steven.
BLAIRGOWRIE SOUTH
Church, halls, lodge, 2 cottages and manse. United with Mount Ericht congregation in 1906.
MALCOLM WHITE, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.355
Translated from Innellan and inducted 1873; died 13th May 1906.
BLAIRGOWRIE SOUTH
DAVID ARNOT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.319
Born about 1870; educated at Kinross Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1892), Winnipeg Presbyterian College, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student missionary and assistant Dunfermline Queen Anne Street in 1894-5; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross 1895; ordained and inducted Blairgowrie Mount Ericht 2nd May 1895; became minister
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JOHN GUTHRIE, B.D.
Translated from Kinloss and inducted 11th February 1915; translated to Aberdeen Torry 19th February 1920.
JAMES WILLIAM MORE
Born 16th February 1882 at Dunoon, son of George More and Elizabeth Fowler; educated at Kirn Public School, Dunoon Grammar School, Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1903), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1908), Kerr Travelling Scholar at Montauban 1908-9; licensed by Presbytery of Dunoon 1908; assistant Glasgow Tron 1909-10, Kirkcaldy St Brycedale 1910-11, Hamilton West 1911-13; ordained and inducted Urr 21st February 1913; war service in H.M. Forces in Mesopotamia 1916-17 and as Chaplain to the Forces 1917-18; translated and inducted 12th August 1920. Married 4th September 1913, Agnes Mowbray Hamilton Gardiner.
BURRELTON
Church, manse, school, schoolhouse, library converted into dwelling house. Session room built. In 1923-4 church was re-seated, and hot water heating installation introduced, oak communion table and session platform, and two stained glass windows presented.
DAVID WALLACE MACKAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.234
Born 13th January 1861 at Tain, son of Murdo Mackay and Ellen Wallace; educated at Tain Academy, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 1887; retired 1923. Married 21st October 1896, Anna Pitcairn.
JOHN LEWARS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, pp.362 and 428
Born 3rd June 1869 at Bent Farm, Hamilton, son of John Lewars and Grace Cadzow; educated at Hamilton St John’s Grammar School, Lanark Grammar School (pupil teacher 1882-6), University of Glasgow, M.A. (1890), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, University of Marburg 1892; licensed June 1893; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road 1893-5; ordained and inducted Lesmahagow 20th March 1895; translated to Kirkcaldy Victoria Road 12th September 1900; translated to Glasgow Regent Place 11th December 1905; translated to Edinburgh Hope Park 3rd June 1914; war service with Huts in France 1917 and as Chaplain to the Forces 1918-19; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 22nd November 1923. Married 4th September 1895, Annie Harvey, Cove. Publications – various articles and sermons in periodicals.
CLUNIE
Church, manse, hall, caretaker’s house.
CHARLES KEITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.197
Ordained and inducted 1880; died 29th January 1915.
GEORGE DOUGLAS REITH, B.D.
Formerly Professor of English, Hislop College, Nagpur; inducted 12th August 8th 1915; translated to Dumfries Buccleuch Street 18th January 1923.
JOHN POLSON
Born 27th November 1894 at Hamilton, son of John Polson and Margaret Rankin; educated at Hamilton Beckford Street School and Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1916), B.D. (1921), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 6th April 1921; ordained and inducted 17th May 1923.
COUPAR ANGUS NORTH
Church with hall attached, manse. United with the South congregation on 14th December 1927.
JAMES MASSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.263
Translated from Aberdeen Melville and inducted 1884; retired 1898; died 1904.
JOHN LINTON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 9th November 1898; translated to Dundee Baxter Park 1st October 1917.
JOHN WALKER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th April 1918; translated to Lesmahagow Abbey Green 1927.
COUPAR ANGUS SOUTH
Church with small hall attached, manse. United with the North congregation on 14th December 1927.
THOMAS GRANGER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.569
[His birth or baptism was recorded at Hamilton, Lanarkshire, 1st December, 1844, son of James Granger and Janet Hedman;] ordained and inducted 28th October 1873; retired 1910; died [19th January] 1919; [buried Logie Cemetery, Stirlingshire. Married 1875, Jane Kirkland.]
THOMAS GOLDIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.589
Born 27th June 1863 at Kilwinning, son of Robert Goldie and Mary Brodie; educated at Kilwinning Academy, University of Glasgow M.A. (1886), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock 1889; missionary assistant, Greenock Union Street, 1889-90; assistant Langholm North 1890-1; ordained and inducted Newlands 19th November 1891; translated and inducted 21st September 1910; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; retired 14th December 1927; died November 1928. Married 27th July 1897, Lizzie Russell.
COUPAR ANGUS
JOHN EWING ADAM
Born 14th November 1892 at United Presbyterian Manse, Ellon, son of Rev. James Allan Adam and Mary Borland Ewing; educated at Ellon Public School, Stirling High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1913), Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces in France in 1915-19; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 4th May 1920; ordained and inducted Dunning 4th August 1921; translated and inducted 18th April 1928. Married 27th September 1921, Annie Wilson Stevenson [daughter of Hugh Stevenson, Free Church minister].
CRAY
Church and vestry, manse. Manse was burned down on 19th December 1925, but was rebuilt on same site. Linked with Glenisla in 1927.
CHARLES SWANSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.336
Born 25th December 1859 at Cusiter, Firth, Orkney, son of Charles Swanson and Barbara Irvine; educated at Stenness Public School, Sandwick Public School, Kirkwall High School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Edinburgh Cowgate Free Church 1892; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 19th July 1892; assistant Arbroath Ladyloan 1892-4; ordained and inducted 26th July 1894; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Cromarty, 1918-19; died 27th January 1924. Married 5th February 1895, Agnes Robertson Jamieson.
JAMES FLEMING ROSS
Born 11th July 1865 at St Martin’s, Perthshire, son of David Ross and Helen Fleming; educated at Balbeggie Public School, Montrose Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; headmaster of Alyth Public School 1892-6; student assistant Edinburgh Dean 1897, Portobello 1898, Corstorphine 1899; licensed by Presbytery of Brechin and Fordoun 1900; assistant Greenock Trinity 1901-2; ordained and inducted Rochdale Trinity Presbyterian Church 1902; translated to Dalmuir 14th December 1906; retired 1922; appointed to short term ministry 31st October 1924; died 14th January 1926. Married 14th May 1902 Marjory Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Ross, of Balloch, Alyth.
GLENISLA
Church, hall and manse. Linked with Cray in 1927.
ANDREW GOLDIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.170
Born 24th June 1854 at Bishopbriggs, son of Archibald Hayman Goldie and Janet Beveridge; educated at Armadale Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1882), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow 1886; assistant Glasgow Carmunnock mission charge; ordained and inducted 18th November 1886; retired 1924. Married 8th December 1886, Isabella Robertson.
GILBERT P. KECHNIE
[His surname is Kechie in his birth record and early censuses. Born Earlston 1860, the son of John Kechie and Marion Paton]; ordained probationer, appointed to short term ministry 6th March 1924. [Died 1932].
CRAY AND GLENISLA
JOHN MAIR RICHMOND
Born 6th January 1873 at Newmilns, son of James Richmond and Margaret Gordon Mair; educated at Newmilns, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1894), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock 1897; assistant Glasgow Plantation United Presbyterian 1897; loc. ten. Newport Trinity 1898-9; ordained and inducted New Pitsligo July 1906; translated to Wormit, March 1909; war
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KIRKMICHAEL
Church with vestry; manse and offices. Status reduced in 1922.
JOHN HUNTER MORRISON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.276
Born 19th May 1857 at Newtown, Renfrew, son of Thomas Morrison and Euphemia McCoig; educated at Renfrew Burgh School, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Paisley 7th May 1884; assistant Kirkmichael Free Church; ordained and inducted 18th October 1886; retired 1918; died 27th September 1920. Married 27th September 1894, Margaret Wilkie Hazeel.
ALEXANDER LESLIE SKENE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted Bower 1892; translated and inducted 5th December 1918; translated to Stronsay 15th March 1922.
WILLIAM RENNIE CUNNINGHAM
Born 28th February 1883 at Leith, son of Walter Cunningham and Mary Gordon Rennie; educated at Leith Academy, Lorne Street School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1903); Schoolmaster’s Diploma April 1904; teacher, Greenock Collegiate 1904-5, Kelso High School 1905, Edinburgh Davie Street 1905-7; New College, Edinburgh; missionary assistant Alloa West 1911-12; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th June 1912; ordained by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane for foreign mission service 25th September 1912; appointed to Wardha Mission, Presbytery of Nagpur; appointed to mission station of Nagpur C.P., India, September 1917; resigned February 1919; introduced 23rd February 1923; resigned 31st October 1925; died 22nd November 1942. Married 8th November 1913, Mary Gracie Rennie. Was latterly organizing secretary for Scotland and Ireland of Christian Literature Society for India and Africa.
JOHN HAY
Missionary, in charge, 1927-July 1928; ordained by Presbytery of Sutherland and Caithness at Westerdale 13th December 1928.
LETHENDY
Church and manse. Status reduced in 1909.
ALEXANDER GORDON, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.171
Ordained and inducted 1866; retired 1902; died 1904.
ROBERT FERGUSSON
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 19th June 1902; translated to Ratho and Kirknewton 10th August 1909.
DAVID BRUNTON
Formerly at Hurlford Mauchline Road; introduced 20th February 1910; introduced Roberton 26th June 1912.
THOMAS HAVRE
Formerly at Maryculter; introduced 1911; introduced Glencaple 1914.
GEORGE WILLIAM EVERETT WALKER
Ordained missionary 1916-18; introduced Westray 1918.
JAMES MILROY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.464
Born 24th August 1851 at Glasgow, son of John Milroy and Mary Ann Pickin; educated at Kirkcudbright Johnstone’s Free Church School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 17th June 1881; ordained and inducted Freuchie United Presbyterian 6th January 1886; translated to Edinburgh Arthur Street 22nd May 1894; resigned April 1918; introduced August 1919; resigned May 1925; adhered to United Free Church (Continuing).
MEIGLE
Church and manse. Status reduced in 1927.
1892 Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.261
Born 11th May 1860 at Auchterarder, son of John and Elizabeth Maltman; educated at Auchterarder, University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Auchterarder 1890; assistant Glasgow White Memorial; ordained and inducted 1892; died in 1921. Married 1894, Annie Elizabeth Campbell.
HARRY JOHN MARR
Ordained and inducted 11th November 1921; translated to Alva Eadie 13th October 1926.
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JAMES MUIR
Ordained missionary, born 25th June 1892 at Edinburgh, son of William and Mary Muir; educated at public schools; war service in R.A.F.; City Missionary in Edinburgh; missionary at Newtonmore, at Holm, Orkney; ordained by Presbytery of Orkney 4th August 1924; appointed to Gartly 7th November 1924; appointed 17th March 1927.
NEWTYLE
Church and manse.
JOHN FLEMING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.155
Ordained and inducted 1863; retired 1896; died 1904.
EDWARD MILLER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 1896; resigned 15th December 1902 on appointment to Cleveland, Transvaal Presbytery; inducted Erskine 1904.
WILLIAM MAXWELL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 1st May 1903; translated to Dundee Chalmers 1919.
FREDERIC SYDNEY MESS WALKER
Ordained and inducted 2nd April 1920; translated to Dennyloanhead 29th November 1922.
JOHN MECHIE, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.265
Ordained and inducted New Cumnock Bank 4th September 1896; translated and inducted 12th July 1923.
RATTRAY
Church and manse in 1900. New church opened in 1912 in Balmoral Road, New Rattray.
THOMAS TULLY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 3rd August 1894; translated to Glasgow Whiteinch 21st October 1909.
ARCHIBALD WILLIAM MACKIE, M.A.
Translated from Tow Law and inducted 24th February 1910; translated to Shotts 20th May 1918.
ALEXANDER MACRAE
Translated from Tarbert and inducted 19th September 1918; translated to Tongue 10th June 1926.
JOHN URQUHART OGILVY
Born 24th May 1875 at Eyemouth, son of Alexander Ogilvy and Mary Ann Urquhart; educated at Coatbridge Academy, Glasgow Garnethill, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1897), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Whiteinch 1899-1901; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 1901; assistant Dundee McCheyne Memorial 1902-4, Millport East 1904-6; ordained and inducted Newbigging, Dundee, 3rd October 1906; translated to Hamilton Saffronhall 13th February 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917; translated and inducted 21st October 1926. Married 23rd September 1919, Mary Sinclair.
NETHERTON, BRIDGE OF CALLY
DAVID DONALDSON
Licentiate missionary, appointed 1872; died 1915.
WILLIAM HENRY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.185
Ordained and inducted Strathkinness 1898; resigned 1907; appointed 1919; died 1st August 1920.
DAVID CONOCHIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.152
Born 1st September 1862 at Airth, son of James Conochie and Ann Murray Meikle; educated at Larbert Parish, Carronshore, Glasgow St Matthew’s Free Church Schools, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 8th December 1891; assistant Fetterangus 1891-3; ordained and inducted Fetterangus 24th August 1893; retired to facilitate local union 13th October 1915; minister without charge, Newbigging, Dundee, 1915-20; minister without charge, from 16th December 1920.
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PRESBYTERY Of PERTH
ABERNETHY NORTH
Church and manse in 1900. United with South congregation in 1905.
ROBERT STEVENSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.327
Ordained and inducted 1856; retired 1899; died 18th February 1909.
JOHN SOUTER
Ordained as preacher, 23rd November 1899; inducted Falkirk Trinity 5th June 1906.
ABERNETHY SOUTH
Church and manse. United with the North congregation in 1905.
WILLIAM THOMAS CAIRNS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 11th June 1896; became junior minister of the united congregation in 1905; translated to Edinburgh Eyre Place 22nd December 1908.
ABERNETHY
JOHN THOMSON, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.305
Ordained and inducted Dalry, Ayr, 28th November 1899; translated to Glasgow Whitevale 17th April 1905; translated and inducted 12th May 1909; resigned 1st April 1919.
ARCHIBALD HUGH TAYLOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 24th September 1919; translated to Rutherglen East 24th March 1925.
JOHN HAGGART CLARK
[Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.419: for “John” read “James”.] Born 24th October 1874 at Free Church Manse, Kingswells, Aberdeen, son of Rev. Alexander Clark and Margaret Bernard Haggart; educated at Kingswells Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1897), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen May 1900; missionary at Longmorn, Elgin, 1900-01; ordained and inducted Aberlemno 16th December 1901; translated to St Cyrus 9th February 1916; translated and inducted 16th September 1925. Married (1) 1st March 1904, Agnes Henderson Fisher; (2) 11th July 1917, Marjorie Mary Fisher.
ALMONDBANK
Formerly Pitcairn United Presbyterian Church. Church and manse. United with Pitcairngreen in 1906 to form St Serf’s.
ROBERT NELSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.633
[Born at Perth about 1818]; ordained and inducted 24th June 1851; retired 1891; died [30th April] 1905; [buried Wellshill Cemetery, Perth. Married 1855, Christian Sidey, sister of David Sidey, Presbyterian minister in New Zealand.]
JOHN ALEXANDER, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.633
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 8th January 1891; retired to facilitate local union 1906; inducted Dundee Dudhope Road 9th April 1907.
ALMONDBANK ST SERF’S
ROBERT [RODERICK] GRAY MACDONALD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th April 1905; translated to Glasgow Partick East 14th September 1921.
DANIEL BLADES, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th January 1922; translated to Stirling South 6th February 1929.
ARCHIBALD WATT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 16th May 1929.
ARNGASK
Church and manse. Church demolished in 1906 and a new one erected on the same site at a cost of £2500; opened in June 1907. This had a small hall and vestry.
JAMES WILLIAM JACK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.192
Born 17th October 1866 at Carlisle, son of Rev. James Crichton Jack and Isabella Butter; educated at Duns
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AUCHTERGAVEN NORTH
Church and manse. United with South congregation in December 1908.
GEORGE PEAT MCDOUGALL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.225
Born 13th May 1852 at Duns, son of George McDougall and Wilhelmina Purves; educated at Duns Free Church School, University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; Glasgow City Missionary 1876-8; missionary, Glasgow St Paul’s Free Church 1878-9, Edinburgh St Bernard’s Free Church 1880-2, Pleasance Students’ Mission 1882-3; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Duns 1883; ordained and inducted November 1884; retired December 1908; died 18th May 1916. Married July 1884, Bessie Millar.
AUCHTERGAVEN SOUTH
Church and manse. United with the North congregation in 1908.
ROBERT BROWN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.647
Born 25th October 1858 at United Presbyterian Manse, Markinch, son of Rev. Robert Brown and Mary Stark; educated at Markinch Free Church School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1882), B.D. (1885); licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kirkcaldy 1885; ordained and inducted 11th January 1887; retired 13th December 1908; [died 1931].
AUCHTERGAVEN
JOHN GRASSICK
Translated from Glasgow Oatlands and inducted 1st July 1909; translated to Blantyre East 1923.
WILLIAM MORTON GRANT, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 28th November 1923; translated to Falkirk West 14th April 1927.
JOHN MCNICOLL SIBBALD
Born 6th July 1884 at Dundee, son of James Sibbald and Marjory McNicoll; educated at Dundee Miss Lawson’s Private School, Harris Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (Hons. in Classics 1906), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee 12th July 1911; assistant New Deer and Maud 1911, Leith Junction Road 1911-12; ordained and inducted Carsphairn 31st October 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, 1918, 1919; translated to Balgedie and Portmoak 12th August 1920; translated to Buckhaven St Andrew’s 19th April 1923; translated and inducted 24th August 1927. Married 28th July 1920, Harriet Redpath Topping.
BALBEGGIE
Church and manse. United with Collace in 1906.
ROBERT MCMASTER, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.652
[Born about 1850 at Girvan, Ayrshire, son of Matthew McMaster and Mary Tait;] ordained and inducted 15th October 1878; resigned 25th June 1906; died [3rd] July 1915.
BALBEGGIE AND COLLACE
JOHN MACPHERSON
Born 20th January 1869 at Aberfeldy, son of Angus MacPherson and Margaret Macgregor; educated at Aberfeldy, Ardchyle, Newport, private tuition, University of Edinburgh, New College,
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CARGILL
Church and manse.
GEORGE CHALMERS BAXTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.92
Born 16th July 1843 at Dundee, son of Rev. John Baxter, Hilltown Free Church, and Janet Soutar; educated at Blairgowrie Free Church School, Dundee High School, University of St Andrews, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Meigle 1868; ordained and inducted 20th January 1869; died 7th April 1908. Married 24th April 1895, Catherine Helen, daughter of Rev. William Mather, Stanley. F.S.A. (Scot.).
ALEXANDER ANDERSON STRATHEARN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 6th January 1909; translated to Liff 29th April 1915.
ANGUS PETER FLETCHER, B.D.
Formerly at Cromar; inducted 15th July 1915; translated to Bothwell Wooddean 2nd June 1926.
WILLIAM THOMAS WEIR
Born 26th September 1870 at Clachnaharry, Inverness, son of John Bishop Girland Weir and Jessie Mackintosh; educated at Inverness Clachnaharry Infant School, Markinch Public School, Raining’s School, Edinburgh Heriot Watt College; missionary teacher at Calabar 1893; when on furlough attended United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, and Glasgow College; ordained as missionary by Presbytery of Inverness 8th January 1902; resigned 25th February 1913; ordination made valid for home charge by General Assembly of 1913; assistant Dundee St Andrew’s 1913-14; inducted Rothiemay 17th September 1914; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Belgium and France 1917 -18; translated to Cowdenbeath Guthrie 31st July 1918; translated and inducted 27th October 1926. Married 8th September 1898, Jemima Hamilton Thomson.
COLLACE
Church and manse and Free Church School. United with Balbeggie in 1906.
JAMES REID
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.296
Born 1923 at Glasgow; educated at University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 10th July 1857; became senior minister of the united charge 1906; died 26th December 1908.
CRAIGEND
Church, session house, manse, old school and schoolhouse. In 1912 church renovated, platform and pulpit being reconstructed and seating altered, etc., at a cost of £150.
THOMAS SCOTT NEWLANDS, B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.565
[Born in 1857 at Glasgow, son of William Newlands and Ann Findlay;] ordained and inducted 2nd December 1884; retired 1919; died 1st January 1944. [Married 1898, Ellen Gertrude Lewis.]
JAMES STOCKDALE
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.332]
[Born in 1847 at Bramham, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England, son of John Stockdale and Martha Wharton;] senior minister at Grange West; introduced 1920; resigned 1925.[Married Jane Tod Watson.]
GEORGE RAMSAY
Ordained missionary, born 1868 at Dufftown, son of John Ramsay and Ann Dow; educated at Dufftown Public School, private tuition, Glasgow Bible Training Institute 1904-6; missionary at Acharacle 1907-12, at Scalloway, Shetland, 1913-16; ordained as missionary, Scalloway, 14th September 1916; appointed to Eskdalemuir 18th December 1919; appointed to Rigg of Gretna 1st March 1923; appointed to Craigend 30th December 1925; retired 19th November 1928. Married 1913, Charlotte Macdonald.
DALGUISE AND STRATHBRAAN
Church and manse, church at Strathbraan, church at Dalguise.
JOHN MCAINSH, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.212
Ordained and inducted 11th June 1885; died 9th September 1925.
JOHN DOUGLAS PATERSON
Born 11th October 1868 at Buckrigg, Beattock, Dumfrieshire, son of James Paterson and Mary Anne Rogerson; educated at Kirkpatrick-Juxta Public School, University of
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DUNBARNEY
Church with hall and session house, manse.
JOHN HUME WELLS
Ewing FC Annals, Vol.1, p.354
Ordained and inducted 1858; retired 1905; died 1911.
HUGH LOVE RICHMOND
[Born in 1866 at Glasgow, son of George Richmond and Mary Love;] ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 24th October 1905; died 1925. [Married 1908, Maggie Halley.]
JOHN ALEXANDER
Born 20th April 1900 at Free Church Manse, Kirkmaiden, son of Walter Alexander and Marion Dunlop Cunningham; educated at Kirkmaiden Central, Scotstoun Victoria Drive, Dennistoun Whitehill Schools, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1921), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Greenock April 1924; assistant Dundee St Paul’s 1924-5; ordained and inducted 29th July 1925.
DUNKELD
Church, manse, and house in Brae Street. This congregation subscribed £642 to the Emergency Fund.
JOHN WHYTE HAMILTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.180
Born 4th May 1861 at the Cockpen Free Church Manse, son of Rev. James Hamilton and Agnes Frazer; educated at Cockpen Free Church School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1882), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 5th December 1886; assistant Edinburgh St Mary’s Free Church 1887-8; ordained and inducted 26th December 1888; war service as officiating minister to troops camped in and near Dunkeld. Publications – The Joyous Activity of the Heavenly Rest, Blairgowrie, 1915; The Church’s Heritage an Incentive to Foreign Missions, Dunkeld, 1910; Sermon on the Second Anniversary of the War, Perth, 1916.
ERROL GRIERSON MEMORIAL
Church and manse. United with Errol West in 1912.
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.113
Born 7th February 1840 at Rosneath, son of James and Mary Campbell; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A. (1861), Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted 1871; retired December 1912; died 4th October 1924. Married 1876, Helen Langlands Kerr.
ERROL WEST
Church and manse. United with Grierson Memorial in 1912.
ADAM BAILLIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.576
Born 20th February 1843 at Westfield, Nigg, Ross-shire, son of Hugh Baillie and Christina Duff; educated at Fearn, Chapelhill and Nigg Schools, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Inverness; ordained and inducted 12th April 1880; retired December 1912; died 21st March 1929. Married 8th October 1884, Isabella Keay.
ERROL
ARTHUR SCOTT HUTCHISON, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Tarland and inducted 1913; translated to Bradford 1920; translated to Paisley George Street 1926.
EDWARD HASTINGS
Born 21st March 1890 at Kinneff, son of Rev. James Hastings, D.D., and Anne Wilson Forsyth; educated at Dundee High School, Montrose Academy, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1913), New College, Edinburgh; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Egypt and the Balkans 1915-19; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 1920; ordained and inducted 1921; resigned 1923. Publications – The Local Colour of the Bible (with Rev. Dr C.W. Budden),
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ALEXANDER CHEYNE, M.A.
Translated from Maryculter and inducted February 1924; translated to Kirkcaldy Dunnikier 20th June 1928.
WILLIAM STEWART LAING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.203
Born 23rd June 1868 at Bass Basset Wood, North Stoneham, Southampton, son of James Laing and Isabella McConnachie; educated at Keith Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1891), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Strathbogie, May 1895; assistant Edinburgh Pilrig 1895-6; missionary assistant Drumblade 1896-8, Grantown-on-Spey, with charge of mission at Dulnain Bridge 1898; ordained and inducted Rhynie 2nd December 1898; translated to Boyndie 12th March 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917; translated and inducted 1928. Married 14th November 1914, Isabella Smart Coutts.
FORGANDENNY
Church and manse. American organ introduced 1916. The superiority of the property was purchased from the Freeland Trustees in 1926.
JOHN CREIGHTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.129
Ordained and inducted 1882; died 18th October 1912.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.95
Born 3rd March 1863 at Edinburgh, son of William Hamilton Bell and Barbara McLaurin Monteath; educated at Mr James Baillie’s School, Edinburgh Collegiate School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1884), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 27th June 1889; assistant in Inveravon 1891-2, Rothesay West 1892-3, Edinburgh Martyrs’ 1893-5, Wick 1895-6, Aberdeen St Columba’s 1896-7; ordained preacher at Ashkirk 14th October 1897; inducted Ashkirk July 1899; introduced Tulliallan 17th June 1909; translated and inducted 12th February 1914; war service in H.M. Forces 1916-18; retired 1929 to facilitate local union; died 10th December 1929. Married 25th June 1900, Valerie Morant. Publications – South Perthshire and the Covenanting Struggle, in the records of the Scottish Church History Society 1923; sermons in Christian World Pulpit and Perthshire Constitutional.
GLENDOICK AND PITRODDIE
JOSEPH WEIR BUCHANAN
Born 29th October 1878 at Glasgow, son of Walter Buchanan and Jessie Weir; educated at Glasgow Whitehill School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1905), B.D. (1909), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1909; assistant Edinburgh Morningside 1909; loc. ten. Perth St Stephen’s 1910, Kilmarnock King Street 1910; ordained and inducted 15th May 1912; war service in H.M. Forces 1916-19; died 28th April 1921. Married 4th September 1913, Mary Dreghorn McCaw, Kilmarnock.
HARRY G. BROWN, M.A.
[Born in 1888 at Edinburgh, son of David Douglas Brown and Elsie Duguid;] ordained and inducted 1922; resigned on appointment as minister to Tea Planters, Assam, 1928; [returned from Assam; died at Forgandenny, Perthshire, on 7th May, 1935; buried Forgandenny Churchyard. Married 1928, Flora McMillan, Primary School Teacher.]
ADAM STEWART MARSHALL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.261
Born 22nd November 1868 at Motherwell, son of Robert Marshall and Ann Stewart; educated at Public School in Dundee, Morgan Academy, University of St Andrews, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dundee 11th May 1898; ordained and inducted Drumblade 8th July 1898; translated to Dundee Bonnethill 6th September 1911; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917; translated and inducted 31st January 1929. Married 9th October 1903, Margaret Beattie Clark.
KINCLAVEN
Church and manse with outhouses.
JOHN BROWN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.639
Ordained and inducted 3rd October 1865; retired 1910; died 26th February 1913.
WILLIAM SCOTT, M.A.
Ordained and introduced 17th August 1910; translated to Dundonald 15th May 1912.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER INGLIS
Born 13th March 1872 at Heriot, son of James Inglis and Janet Ritchie; educated at Stow Public School, Galashiels Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1908), United Presbyterian College and New College, Edinburgh;
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KINFAUNS
Church and manse. United with Pitrodie in 1912 to form Glendoick and Pitroddie.
ALEXANDER GIBSON, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 1896; translated to Prestwick South 1912.
LOGIEALMOND NORTH
Church and manse. United with Logiealmond South in 1907.
DAVID MCRAE TOD, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.344
Ordained and inducted 1885; translated to Huddersfield October 1907.
LOGIEALMOND SOUTH
Church and manse. United with the North congregation in 1907.
JAMES EDMOND MCOUAT, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 8th April 1897; became minister of the united congregation in 1907.
LOGIEALMOND
JAMES EDMOND MCOUAT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.620
Born 17th October 1864 at Glasgow, son of James McOuat and Margaret Edmond; educated at Balfron Parish School, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1886), B.D. (1889), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dumbarton April 1890; assistant Campbeltown Longrow 1892-5, Edinburgh Bristo 1895-7; ordained and inducted Logiealmond South 8th April 1897; became minister of the united congregation 27th October 1907; during Great War taught mathematics in Trinity College, Glenalmond, and served in local volunteer force. Married 14th September 1897, Agnes Crum, daughter of Rev. John Thomson, Campbeltown. Publications – contributed articles to Hastings, Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, and to periodicals.
LUNCARTY
JOHN DICKSON SINCLAIR, B.D.
Ordained and inducted Midmar United Presbyterian 19th May 1896; appointed to be in charge April 1910; inducted 9th June 1910; appointed to Calcutta 1914.
JOHN ROBERTSON, M.A.
Translated from Fraserburgh Saltoun Place and inducted 7th May 1914; translated to Lauder 2nd May 1918.
THOMAS THOMSON ALEXANDER, M.A.
Translated from Holm and inducted 25th September 1918; resigned 1920; missionary in Southern Rhodesia 1921-3.
DUNCAN CAMERON
Ordained and inducted November 1920; translated to Firth, Orkney, May 1924.
WILLIAM WHITELAW PEDEN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 23rd July 1924; translated to Greenock Mount Pleasant 25th July 1929.
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METHVEN CULDEES
Church and manse. United with North congregation in 1907.
GEORGE MUIR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.277
[Born about 1856 in Ireland;] ordained and inducted 10th January 1895; resigned in interests of local union 1907; went to Presbyterian Church of Canada; [died 1st February 1936; buried Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Married 1886, Maggie Love Ronald.]
METHVEN NORTH
Church and manse. United with Culdees congregation in 1907.
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE CHRISTIE, M.A.
Inducted 1st September 1892; became minister of the united congregation in 1907.
METHVEN
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE CHRISTIE, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.623
Licensed September 1885; ordained and inducted Jackson Street Church, Mobile, U.S.A., 6th June 1887; inducted Methven North 1st September 1892; became minister of the united congregation 1907; died 15th May 1910.
ANDREW GLENDINNING, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1910; translated to Leeds 1920; [translated to Barrhead Westbourne 1923; see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.71.]
GEORGE WILLIAMS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.356
Ordained and inducted Craig 1893; translated Glasgow Candlish Memorial October 1900; translated to Wick April 1912; translated and inducted 1920; retired 21st November 1928. Married 1894, Marion W. Barbour.
HUGH WATSON
Born in Co. Down; educated in Council School in Ireland and College in Dublin, Lebanon University, U.S.A., B.A., Princeton Theological Seminary, B.D.; ordained in Canada 1906; served in two charges in Canada and two in U.S.A.; war service with Y.M.C.A.; inducted Jarrow St Kilda’s 1923; inducted Glasgow Henry Drummond Memorial 1926; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 11th September 1929.
PERTH BRIDGEND
Church only.
GEORGE ROBSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.644; Vol.2, p.562
Born 8th May 1842 at Garnethill, Glasgow, son of Rev. John Robson, D.D., minister of Wellington Street United Presbyterian, and Agnes Renton; educated at Glasgow Mr Gordon’s Private School and High School (Gold Medallist), University of Glasgow M.A., D.D. (1890), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, Universities of Erlangen, Tübingen, and Geneva; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow; ordained and inducted Inverness Union Street United Presbyterian 14th November 1866; translated and inducted February 1895; retired 1902; died 2nd August 1911. Married (1) 28th August 1867, Marrianna Boyd; (2) 15th April 1895, Catherine Frew Young. Moderator of General Assembly 1903; Editor of Missionary Record from 1891; Joint Convener of Committee on Union with the Church of Scotland; Convener of Business Committee, and Editor of Reports of World Missionary Conference 1910. Publications – translation of Dorner, History of Protestant Theology, Edinburgh; translation of Warneck, History of Protestant Missions, Edinburgh.
PERCY HEPBURN, B.D.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 18th February 1902; translated to Edinburgh Argyle Place 13th May 1914.
ALEXANDER BUCHANAN MACDONALD, B.D., Ph.D.
Translated from Stonehouse Paterson and inducted 26th August 1914; translated to Lesmahagow Cordiner, 17th May 1923.
JAMES ELPHINSTONE PIRIE
Born 20th January 1899 at Keith, son of James Pirie and Margaret Helen Simpson; educated at Keith Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1921), B.D. (1923), Aberdeen College; war service in H.M. Forces in France and Germany 1917-19; licensed by Presbytery of Banff and Strathbogie April 1923; ordained and inducted 5th September 1923. Married 8th August 1923, Ethel Mackenzie Stewart.
PERTH EAST
Church and hall. The majority of the Knox’s congregation joined this congregation in January 1908.
THOMAS CRAWFORD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.558
Born 1st May 1860 at Tarbolton, son of John Crawford and Agnes Dunlop; educated at Tarbolton Public School, Glasgow Dundas Vale Training College, University of Glasgow,
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JOHN MAXWELL BLAIR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 12th May 1908; translated to Leith St Andrew’s Place 30th September 1914.
JAMES DICKSON LINDSAY
Born 12th October 1877 at Edinburgh, son of James Adam Lindsay and Jane McLaren; educated at Anstruther Waid Academy, St Monance Public School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1899), New College, Edinburgh; teacher’s training in Moray House, Edinburgh, gained Teacher’s Certificate in July 1900; taught in St Andrews Burgh School 1900-2; licensed by Presbytery of St Andrews April 1906; assistant Alloa Moncrieff 1906-7, Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1907-8; ordained and inducted Morebattle 12th March 1908; translated and inducted 25th February 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917. Married 2nd June 1908, Mary Kerr.
PERTH KNOX’S
Church. The property was allocated to the Free Church by the Royal Commission in 1907, but the majority of the congregation entered the Union, and joined with the East congregation in January 1908.
JOHN RAINNIE, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.295
Translated from Strathdon and inducted 1876; retired 1908; died 1911. Clerk to the Free Church Presbytery from 1879, and to United Free Church Presbytery to 6th December 1910.
PERTH MIDDLE
Church, halls and manse. The old manse being let on a 10 years’ lease, a new manse was bought in 1926 at a cost of £1425. War Memorial dedicated 26th September 1926.
DAVID WAITS KENNEDY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.198
Ordained at Cardiff 1876; translated and inducted 1881; retired 9th April 1915; died 1st September 1924.
ROBERT WEIR FORBES
Translated from Forfar East and inducted 21st April 1915; translated to Glasgow Paisley Road 19th June 1919.
JAMES WESTLAND ROSE
Born 29th March 1870 at Aberdeen, son of James Rose and Agnes Westland; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, London Regent’s Park College; ordained to ministry of Baptist Church 1900; admitted to English Presbyterian Church 1913; inducted Lewes 1915; resigned 1917; assistant Aberdeen Queen’s Cross; sub-warden, New College Settlement; inducted 20th November 1919; translated to London Brockley 22nd December 1925; resigned owing to ill-health 1927; died in Guernsey 1940. Married 1899, Winifred Croxford.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND HUNTER
Born 20th January 1892 at Aberfeldy, son of John Hunter and Margaret Drummond; educated at Elgin Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1912), Aberdeen College; war service in H.M. Forces 1915-19, mentioned in Despatches; student assistant Aberdeen South 1920; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen April 1920; assistant St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Waterloo, Liverpool, 1921-2; loc. ten. Aberdeen East and Belmont Street; ordained and inducted Alva Eadie 31st March 1922; translated and inducted 12th May 1926. Married 15th March 1922, Winifred Mary Coutts, Litherland, Liverpool.
PERTH NORTH
Church. Manse acquired in the period.
JAMES W[ILLIAM] D[ALZIEL] CARRUTHERS, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, pp.312 and 551
[Born at Tundergarth, Dumfries-shire about 1865, son of James Carruthers and Mary Dalziel;] ordained and inducted Stewarton 7th April 1891; translated and inducted 31st March 1897; died 1906. [Married 1897, Eliza Jane Skeoch.]
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MILLAR PATRICK, M.A.
Translated from Ayr Trinity and inducted 29th January 1907; translated to Aberdeen Ferryhill 26th February 1914.
FERGUS FERGUSON, O.B.E., B.D.
Translated from Coatbridge Middle and inducted 9th September 1914; translated to Edinburgh Lauriston 20th December 1923.
DAVID FORFAR
Born 17th April 1873 at Bannockburn, son of John Forfar and Jean Meldrum; educated at Bannockburn Public School, Stirling High School, University of Glasgow, M.A., Glasgow College; assistant Aberdeen South; ordained and inducted Hamilton Saffronhall 24th October 1907; translated to Glasgow Sydney Place 16th September 1913; war service in France, Iraq and Turkey 1916-19; translated and inducted 17th September 1924. Married 26th June 1912, Elizabeth Edith Campbell.
PERTH ST LEONARD’S
Church, hall, session house, etc. Manse acquired in April 1927. Small hall in Pomarium Street rented for mission purposes.
DAVID DOUGLAS BANNERMAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.91
Born 29th January 1841 at Ormiston Manse, Midlothian, son of Rev. James Bannerman and David Ann Douglas; educated at Edinburgh Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. 1862), D.D. (1890), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow, 1866); assistant Edinburgh Pilrig, Dundee St Paul’s; ordained and inducted Dalkeith 1869; translated and inducted 1879; died 5th April 1903. Married 3rd June 1869, Margaret Helen Omond. Cunningham Lecturer, 1886. Convener of Temperance Committee, of College Committee, and of Jewish Committee, of General Assembly; a leader in the formation of the Public Worship Association of the Free Church. Publications – edited James Bannerman, The Church of Christ, Edinburgh, 1868; The Scripture Doctrine of the Church (Cunningham Lectures), Edinburgh, 1887; The Worship of the Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh, 1884; Fast Days and Christian Festivals, Edinburgh, 1889.
GEORGE ALEXANDER FRANK KNIGHT, M.A.
Translated from Auchterarder St Andrew’s and inducted 26th November 1903; translated to Glasgow College and Kelvingrove May 1914.
JOHN URQUHART MACGREGOR, M.A.
Translated from Bathgate St David’s and inducted 28th October 1914; resigned 1st June 1926 on appointment as assistant Honorary Secretary of the Foreign Mission Committee.
ANDREW CUMMING
Born 7th January 1888 at Leven, Fife, son of Alexander Cumming and Margaret Patrick; educated at Leven Public School, Kirkcaldy High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1911), B.D. (1930), Glasgow College; student assistant Perceton and Dreghorn 1914-15; licensed by Presbytery of Kirkcaldy 1915; assistant Inverness East 1915-16; ordained and inducted Dundee Mains and Strathmartine 29th March 1916; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916-17, and as Y.M.C.A. Secretary in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine 1918-19; translated to Paisley Lylesland 21st February 1921; translated and inducted 6th April 1927. Married 20th July 1922, Bessie Carmichael Butter.
PERTH ST PAUL’S
Church in 1900. New church opened 21st May 1901, built at a cost of £4000. The old Free Church School was used as a hall. Manse acquired in the period. Hall refloored and cloakroom, etc. added; heating arrangements improved in 1925. Organ introduced 1st March 1910. The buildings were claimed by the Free Church, but the congregation being unanimously in favour of the Union, they were retained by the congregation.
DONALD ELDER OMAND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.285
Son of Rev. William Omand, Orphir, Orkney; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted 26th January 1897; translated to Darlington February 1909; resigned 1924; died 13th August 1926. Married 1897, Margaret R. Dunlop.
JAMES NAIRN
Translated from Smallwell, Newcastle, and inducted March 1909; translated to Kilchattan Bay 4th December 1919.
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CHARLES WALLS
Born 26th April 1883 at Kirkcaldy, son of John Milne Walls and Jeanie Horne Rolland; educated at Kirkcaldy Burgh and Dunnikier and High Schools, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1916), New College, Edinburgh; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1916-18, and in H.M. Forces 1918; engaged in mission and congregational work in Edinburgh Broughton Place; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 3rd February 1920; ordained and inducted 21st April 1920. Married 29th July 1920, Adelaide Anderson Inglis, Rosedale, Airdrie.
PERTH ST STEPHEN’S
Church, hall, vestry, manse in 1900. Large hall and rooms added in 1901; new organ installed 24th December 1902.
ALEXANDER ISDALE, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.191
Translated from Kirkwall and inducted 1899; retired 1915; died February 1919.
JOSEPH SHILLINGLAW
Born 20th September 1873 at Glasgow, son of James Rae Shillinglaw and Christina Stuart Macgregor; educated at Glasgow Lambhill Street School, Shields Road School, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1895), B.D. (1899), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow April 1899; assistant Glasgow St Paul’s 1899-1900; ordained and inducted Aberdeen Old Machar 16th October 1900; translated and inducted 14th April 1915. Married 26th June 1901, Flora Mackay Reid.
PERTH WEST
Church, suite of three halls, manse. Electric light introduced to church and halls in 1923. The Free Church claimed the property, but it was allocated to the United Free Church.
JAMES GIBSON, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.167
Born 1835 in Co. Monaghan, son of Professor Gibson, Belfast; educated at Queen’s University, General Assembly’s College, Belfast, Princeton Theological Seminary; ordained Strabane, Co. Tyrone, 1859; translated and inducted 1873; retired 1893; died 1912. Married 1863, Hannah Mclean.
PETER ALEXANDER GORDON CLARK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.120
Born 26th May 1852 at Port William, son of Peter Gordon Clark and Margaret Stewart; educated at Port William Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow St Enoch’s Free Church 1874-8, Glasgow Renwick Free Church 1878-80; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 9th May 1882; assistant Glenboig 1882; ordained and inducted Coatbridge East Free Church 29th August 1882; translated to Glasgow Paisley Road 9th June 1887; translated and inducted 31st January 1893; officiating minister to Black Watch in Perth 1912-21; retired 9th November 1921. Married 14th November 1892 [1882], Margaret Baird Thomson. Publications – articles in Hastings, Dictionary of the Apostolic Church on Divination, Exorcism, Lots, Name, Possession, Python, Soothsaying, Sorcery, Surname; articles in Guide; essay in Religion and the Modern Mind, on Preparation for the Coming of Christ.
ALEXANDER FERGUSON, B.D.
Translated from Barrhead Westbourne, and inducted as colleague and successor 9th November 1921; translated to Falkirk St Andrew’s 12th December 1928.
ALEXANDER WHITE
Born 25th March 1895 at Arbroath, son of Andrew White and Margaret Ann MacGillivray; educated at Arbroath High School, Edinburgh and George Watson’s College, Whalsay (Shetland) Brough School, Lerwick Anderson Institute, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1917), B.D. (1921), Ph.D. (1927), New College, Edinburgh (Hamilton Scholar, Cunningham Fellow 1921); licensed by Presbytery of Lewis December 1920; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road 1919-21; ordained and inducted Stornoway English 14th June 1921; translated to Panbride 18th March 1924; translated and inducted 11th June 1929. Married (1) 26th July 1921, Helen Marshall Chalmers.
PERTH WILSON
Church and hall. Mission hall in High Street.
JOHN ADDIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.556
Born 29th July 1862 at Glasgow, son of James Addie and Janet Erskine; educated at Glasgow David Street School, Oswald Street School, Gorbals Youth School,
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DAVID ROBERT MACKENZIE KEIR
Born 20th July 1880 at Dennyloanhead, son of Rev. David Keir and Maybell Mackenzie; educated at Longcroft Public School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1901), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Falkirk May 1904; ordained and inducted Duns East 27th September 1905; translated to Greenock North 11th January 1912; war service in H.M. Forces 1915-17, and as Chaplain to the Forces from 1917; resigned 1918; inducted 23rd September 1920. Married 15th June 1912, Margaret Aikman.
PERTH YORK PLACE
Church, hall and manse. Electric light introduced in 1919, and pipe organ in January 1914.
ARCHIBALD SUTHERLAND, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.561
Ordained and inducted 9th July 1867; retired 1909; died 19th June 1917.
WILLIAM PATERSON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 15th February 1910; translated to Johnstone Trinity 5th May 1925.
JAMES NICOL
Born 17th February 1894 at Dundee, son of James Nicol and Matilda Parker Farmer; educated at Dundee Dudhope Public School, Blackness Public School, Harris Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1915), Dundee Training College, New College, Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces in England and France 1915-17; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee 14th April 1920; ordained and inducted Tealing 22nd September 1920; translated and inducted 21st October 1925. Married 10th November 1920, Agnes Ferguson Auld.
PITCAIRNGREEN
Church and manse. United with Almondbank in 1905 to form Almondbank St Serf’s.
JAMES JOHN GLEN KIPPEN, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.201
Ordained and inducted 1876; died 1904.
PITRODIE
Church and manse. Vacant from 1900 to 1912, when united with Kinfauns to form Glendoick and Pitroddie.
SCONE ABBEY
Church and hall, manse. Vestry added in 1928, the gift of Mrs Boyd in memory of the Rev. J.C. Boyd. The Free Church claimed the property and the church and hall were allocated to them, but the church was restored later.
ARCHIBALD KELLY MCMURCHY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.252
Ordained and inducted 1873; died April 1912.
WILLIAM MILLER MATHIESON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 5th December 1913; translated to Broughty Ferry St Luke’s 8th April 1921.
JAMES CAMPBELL BOYD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.376
Born 19th February 1864 at Back Creek, Amherst, Victoria, Australia, son of James Boyd and Margaret Campbell; educated at Herbertshire Castle, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Kennoway 12th March 1889; retired October 1916; acted as loc. ten. and supplied pulpits till 1921; inducted 14th December 1921; died 21st November 1926. Married 4th August 1903, Elizabeth Thomson.
WILLIAM JAMES NICOLL
Born 2nd May 1885 at Dundee, son of William Taylor Nicoll and Jessie Steele; educated at Dundee Blackness Public School and High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1906), Aberdeen College; licensed by
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SCONE WEST
Church, session house, manse. Hall and vestry built in 1914.
JOHN WHITE SLATER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.642
Born 9th May 1858 at Kirkwall, son of Charles Slater and Mary White; educated at Kirkwall Subscription School and Burgh School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1879), B.D. (1882), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh August 1882; ordained and inducted 14th August 1883; retired 1934; died 20th January 1944. Married 19th April 1892, Jeannie Hope Garvie. Clerk to the Presbytery from January 1911. Publications – article on “Wealth” in Hastings, Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, 1908; article on “Prize” in Hastings, Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, 1918.
STANLEY
Church and manse.
JAMES FLEMING THOMSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.341
Ordained and inducted October 1870; retired 1909; died 13th November 1924.
LEWIS MACPHERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.257
Translated from Fearn and inducted 6th October 1909; died 29th March 1923.
DANIEL MCKENZIE BUCHANAN
Born 11th May 1894 at Glasgow, son of William Buchanan and Margaret McKenzie; educated at Glasgow Garnetbank, Woodside and High Schools, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1919), Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces in France and Belgium 1915-18; student assistant Glasgow Shamrock Street 1921-2, Cunningham 1922; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 19th April 1922; assistant Glasgow Woodlands Road 1923; ordained and inducted 7th September 1923; translated to London Golder’s Green 23rd July 1929. Married 21st April 1924, Winifred Eleanor Davis.
AMULREE
This station was transferred from the Presbytery of Breadalbane to the Presbytery of Perth in 1908.
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PRESBYTERY OF AUCHTERARDER
ABERUTHVEN
Church and manse.
ROBERT ALEXANDER REID, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 22nd October 1891; translated to Leith Kirkgate 24th September 1903.
JOHN WALLACE WHYTE, M.A.
Ordained as preacher, 15th February 1904; resigned 15th September 1909; appointed Greenock Martyrs’ July 1910.
JAMES HENDERSON MECHIE, M.A.
Appointed as ordained preacher 9th August 1910; translated and inducted Fauldhouse 22nd September 1910.
JAMES MACMILLAN, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.252
Ordained and inducted Kenmore 1888; appointed 25th December 1910; inducted 8th July 1912; translated to North Knapdale 30th April 1924.
DONALD MARTIN, M.A.
Translated from Walney, Liverpool, and inducted 7th October 1924; translated to Glasgow Bishopbriggs Springfield 23rd February 1927.
WILLIAM KEIR
Born 6th June 1860 at Scone, son of David Keir and Ann Gardiner; educated at Scone Parish, Free Church and Board Schools, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student assistant Craigmore, Co. Antrim, 1887; student missionary, Straiton, Midlothian 1888-9; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Belfast 19th July 1889; assistant Edinburgh St James’ Place 1890; ordained and inducted Spennymoor, Co. Durham, 21st January 1891; translated to Bellingham, Northumberland 6th July 1898; translated to Gateshead Brighton Avenue 6th July 1903; translated to Birkenhead Hamilton Memorial 12th September 1907; translated to Glasgow Sighthill 11th September 1912; translated and inducted 8th June 1927; died 6th October 1931. Married 26th July 1894, Lizzie Craig Reed.
AUCHTERARDER ST ANDREW’S
Church, hall, and manse in 1900. Pipe organ installed 29th February 1920, gifted by Mr and Mrs Robert Dougall, Auchterarder. Communion Table gifted in 1920 by Mrs J.C. Dougall, Auchterarder. Individual Communion Cups gifted by Mr Robert Dougall in 1921. In 1927 new hall erected and named the Finlayson Hall, in memory of the donor. Baptismal font of Italian marble, gifted by Miss Cunningham, Crieff, in 1929. Electric light introduced in February 1929.
GEORGE ALEXANDER FRANK KNIGHT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 21st December 1899; translated to Perth St Leonard’s 26th November 1903.
JAMES RAE FORGAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 19th May 1904; translated to Uddingston Chalmers 10th March 1912.
NORMAN MACKENZIE, M.A.
Translated from Whiting Bay and inducted 27th June 1912; translated to Helmsdale 12th September 1923.
JAMES STUART STEWART, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 28th January 1924; translated to Aberdeen Beechgrove 16th November 1928.
ROLAND MILLER BOYD SCOTT
Born at 23rd April 1903 at United Free Manse, Newton Mearns, son of Rev. Andrew Boyd Scott and Agnes Somerville Miller; educated at Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Mental Philosophy 1920), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 26th March 1928; assistant Dundee St Paul’s 1928-9; ordained and inducted 12th April 1929. Married 11th September 1929, Marguerite Andrée Germond.
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AUCHTERARDER SOUTH
Church and manse. Communion Table and Chairs gifted by Mr and Mrs Peter Anderson, Westerlea. United with Trinity to form West congregation on 7th October 1913.
HENRY HAMILTON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.598
Ordained and inducted 9th August 1892; resigned 30th August 1904.
JAMES ALEXANDER AITCHISON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 9th March 1905; translated to Glasgow Erskine 15th May 1913.
AUCHTERARDER TRINITY
Church and manse. United with South to form West congregation on 7th October 1913.
WILLIAM SHEARER MUIL
Ordained and inducted 25th May 1881; became minister of the united congregation 7th October 1913.
AUCHTERARDER WEST
WILLIAM SHEARER MUIL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.601
Ordained and inducted Auchterarder Trinity 25th May 1881; inducted as minister of the united congregation 7th October 1913; resigned 1st July 1917; died 15th May 1924.
JOHN LINDSAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 27th February 1918; translated to Springburn Wellfield 4th October 1921.
THOMAS BREMNER ROBERTSON
Born 20th October 1882 at Calcutta, son of Rev. Prof. James Robertson, D.D., and Mary Robb; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1906), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 27th April 1908; assistant Edinburgh Newhaven 1908; ordained and inducted Aberdeen Kingswells 4th November 1908; translated to Aberdeen Newhills 14th September 1911; translated to Falkirk Bainsford 6th March 1917; translated and inducted 29th March 1922. Married 19th June 1909, Grace Simpson. Publication – Historical Survey of West United Free Church, Auchterarder, Stirling, 1927.
BLACKFORD
Church with session house, manse, Free Church School and Schoolhouse. Church and manse improved in 1906 at a cost of about £400. Church spire struck by lightning and church partially destroyed by fire April 1914. Church restored, spire rebuilt and vestry added, and reopened November 1914.
DAVID STEVENSON MACLACHLAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.242
Born 9th May 1861 at Glasgow, son of Lewis MacLachlan and Jane Cumming; educated at Glasgow Primary School, private tuition, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1883), Evangelical Union Theological Hall; ordained to ministry of Evangelical Union Congregational Church at Coupar Angus 25th October 1883; admitted by Free Church General Assembly 1890, after one year at New College, Edinburgh; inducted 1st October 1891; retired July 1928; died 19th July 1952. Married 21st July 1886, Margaret Scrimgeour.
JOHN HALL BATEY
Born 23rd August 1878 at Walker-on-Tyne, son of George Batey and Isabella Hall; educated at Walker East Board School, Newcastle Rutherford College and Bath Lane School (pupil teacher 1895-9), University of Durham Armstrong College, B. Litt. (1902), Yorkshire United Independent College, Bradford; ordained to ministry of Congregational Church at Westgate, Clackheaton, Yorkshire, 30th September 1908; admitted by General Assembly 1916; inducted Moyness, Auldearn, 7th September 1917; translated and inducted 14th November 1928. Married 3rd September 1908, Helen Ogston Milne.
BRACO
Church and manse. United with Greenloaning on 3rd April 1904.
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JOHN MACDONALD ROSE
Ordained and inducted 12th January 1893; resigned in 1904; inducted Maryculter 28th December 1905.
BRACO AND GREEN LOANING
THOMAS BLACKWOOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.97
Born 12th September 1860 at Dunside, Lesmahagow, son of Thomas Blackwood and Margaret Symington; educated at Waterside School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1884), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lanark June 1888; assistant Barrhead Free Church 1889-90; ordained and inducted Stow Free Church 21st October 1890; resigned to facilitate local union 12th July 1901; inducted 11th May 1904. Married 2nd June 1892, Jeanie McKersie Lambie.
COMRIE EAST
Church and manse. United with the West congregation 2nd November 1924.
WILLIAM HALL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.616
Born 8th November 1853 at Selkirk, son of James Hall and Isabella Riddell; educated at Innerleithen Parish School, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh October 1881; ordained and inducted 11th January 1882; retired to facilitate local union, 1st November 1924; died 12th January 1942. Married (1) March 1882, Agnes Harper; (2) April 1888, Margaret P[roudfoot] Temple.
COMRIE WEST
Church and manse. United with the East congregation on 2nd November 1924.
ARTHUR CRAWFORD WATT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 8th June 1888; introduced Crailing 1925.
COMRIE
ALLAN MACDONALD CRAIG
Born 14th February 1892 at Motherwell, son of Daniel Craig and Margaret Macdonald; educated at Carluke Public School, Dalziel High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1913), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1919); war service in H.M. Forces; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 1919; assistant Stirling North 1919; ordained and inducted Waterbeck 7th January 1920; translated and inducted 1st April 1925. Married 30th March 1920, Janie Tweedie Forsyth.
CRIEFF NORTH
Church, hall and other rooms, church officer’s house, manse. Pipe organ installed 1905; communion cups, gifted by Dr T.H. and Mrs Meikle, dedicated 24th March 1912; church redecorated and reopened on 10th January 1914; War Memorial Brass Tablet dedicated 5th June 1921; steeple repaired in 1928 at a cost of £158; carved oak lectern, gifted by Rev. Thomas Crawford, B.D., of Orchill 1929.
JOHN CAITHNESS INGLES
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.627
Ordained and inducted 9th February 1870; retired 15th December 1909; died 20th April 1917.
JAMES FERGUSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.221
Born 3rd June 1873 at East United Presbyterian Manse, Dalkeith, son of Rev. Fergus Ferguson, D.D., and Jane Naismith; educated at Glasgow Queen’s Park Academy and High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1894), B.D. (1897), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 14th September 1897; assistant Edinburgh Palmerston Place 1897-8, Fountainhall Road 1898-9; ordained and inducted Hamilton Brandon 11th April 1899; translated and inducted 15th December 1909; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Ireland, France and England 1917-19. Married 15th April 1913, Lois Hastings. Publications – How Hamilton May Help Its Poor (P.P.), Hamilton, 1908; A Border Battalion, History of the 7/8 (Service) Battalion The King’s Own Scottish Borderers (edited), Edinburgh, 1920; Prayers for Common Worship, London, 1936.
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CRIEFF SOUTH
Church, hall, manse. Another hall was added in 1911; electric light introduced 1923; new heating installation in 1926; electric light introduced to manse and improvements there in 1924. Mission Hall in Ramsay Street, rebuilt in 1929 at a cost of £600. Mission Hall in Gallowhill. Stained glass window in memory of Elizabeth Smith Candlish, wife of the Very Rev. Archibald Henderson, D.D., dedicated 17th November 1929.
ARCHIBALD HENDERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.184
Born 1837 at Glasgow, son of Dr James Henderson; educated at University of Glasgow, D.D. (1890), Glasgow Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 31st March 1862; became senior minister 5th June 1907; died 11th April 1927. Married 1863, Elizabeth Smith Candlish [daughter of Robert Smith Candlish, minister.] Appointed Junior Principal Clerk of General Assembly 1888; Principal Clerk 1900-16; Clerk Emeritus from 1916; Principal of Glasgow College 1918-21; Moderator of General Assembly 1909.
SIMON GEORGE MCLENNAN, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Sherbrooke and inducted 5th June 1907; translated to Edinburgh Roseburn 7th January 1909.
HUNTER SMITH, M.A.
Translated from Edinburgh St Stephen’s and inducted 12th May 1909; translated to Scots Church, Florence, 30th September 1923.
DAVIDSON MURRAY
Born 10th August 1886 at North Berwick, son of John Murray and Isabella Sutherland; educated at North Berwick Public School and High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1908), New College, Edinburgh; in charge, Scots Church and mission to Seamen at Leghorn, Italy, 1912-13; licensed by Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar 7th April 1914; ordained and inducted Lesmahagow Cordiner 8th October 1914; translated to Rutherglen West 1st May 1918; translated and inducted 27th February 1924. Married 15th December 1920, Catherine Macallum Tindal.
DUNNING SOUTH
Church and manse. Instrumental music introduced in 1902. United with Townhead congregation on 5th June 1908.
ROBERT SMITH CLAZY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.121
Born 17th August 1870 at Paisley, son of Rev. George Clazy and Jessie Smith; educated at Paisley Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1890), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Paisley 1896; in charge, Longniddry; assistant Dundee St Paul’s 1896; ordained and inducted 10th December 1896; died 21st September 1907. Married 20th October 1905, Sara Rowat.
DUNNING TOWNHEAD
Church and manse. Instrumental music introduced in July 1903. United with the South congregation on 5th January 1908.
THOMAS WATTS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.592
Ordained and inducted 7th February 1882; resigned to facilitate local union and became minister emeritus 1907; short term appointment at Kinkell 1913-15; died 6th March 1934.
DUNNING
JOHN MCLEAN JEFFREY
Ordained and inducted 8th July 1908; translated to Glasgow St Paul’s 7th April 1921.
JOHN EWING ADAM
Ordained and inducted 4th August 1921; translated to Coupar Angus 18th April 1928.
PETER YOUNG
Born 14th February 1886, son of John Eadie Young and Christina Nicol Campbell; educated at Vale of Leven Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; served apprenticeship at law in Dumbarton; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton June 1915; missionary assistant Glasgow Woodlands 1915-17; ordained and inducted Letham 12th April 1917; translated to Old Kilpatrick Barclay 5th September 1923; translated and inducted 30th August 1928. Married (1) 26th June 1917, Jenny Philips Montgomery.
GREENLOANING
Church and manse. United with Braco on 3rd April 1904 to form Braco and Greenloaning.
JOHN SCOTT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.687
Ordained and inducted 26th October 1886; resigned 1902; went to Tasmania; died 1927.
KINKELL
Church. House rented for minister. Hymns introduced in 1913 and instrumental music in 1916. United with Madderty on 30th May 1915.
GEORGE DUTHIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.610
Ordained and inducted 19th January 1869; retired 5th October 1908; died 20th June 1917.
JAMES WALKER, M.A.
Ordained as preacher 4th March 1909; translated to Westerdale, Caithness, 4th September 1912.
THOMAS WATT
Senior minister at Dunning, appointed to short-term ministry 1913-15.
MADDERTY
Church and manse. United with Kinkell on 30th May 1915.
LAWRENCE CRAIGIE MCLAGAN-WEDDERBURN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.353
Born 6th September 1846 at Aberdeen, son of James Mclagan and Katherine Stormonth; educated at Aberdeen West End Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1865), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1870; assistant Cullen 1871, Glasgow Renfield, 1872, Dairsie 1873-4; ordained and inducted 15th October 1874; retired May 1915; died 19th March 1925. Married 29th April 1880, Gertrude Elizabeth Maxwell. Assumed the name Wedderburn on his mother’s accession to property.
KINKELL AND MADDERTY
JAMES BURNET
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.108
Born 26th November 1857 at Edinburgh, son of James Burnet and Helen Elizabeth Davidson; educated at Edinburgh Newington Academy and Free Church School; in business 1871-6; University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Edinburgh John Knox’s and St Andrew’s 1881-5; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 24th June 1885; assistant Dundee St Peter’s 1885-6; ordained and inducted Chapel of Garioch, Pitcaple, 4th March 1886; translated to Dundee Lochee Road 3rd June 1903; introduced Garvald 31st March 1913; translated and inducted 28th October 1915; retired 31st August 1922; died 13th January 1934. Married 6th June 1888, Margaret Beverley Thompson. Publications – sermons and lectures in periodicals, and contributions to works of reminiscences.
ALEXANDER FLEMING KERR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.199
Born 7th August 1861 at Woodhall, Bothwell, son of David Kerr and Elizabeth Fleming; educated at Campbeltown, Woodend, Torphichen, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow 10th June 1890; missionary at Shieldhill 1890; ordained and inducted Shieldhill 14th August 1890; translated to Falkirk St James’ 12th September 1907; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Invergordon 1918; translated and inducted 26th January 1923. Married 1st June 1893, Elizabeth MacKnight. F.S.A. (Scot.).
MONZIE
Church and manse. Pipe organ installed March 1904; War Memorial Brass Tablet erected in 1919.
GEORGE HENDERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.184
Born 29th December 1854 at Aberdeen, son of James Henderson and Mary Elmslie; educated at Aberdeen Town’s School, Old Aberdeen Gymnasium, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1876), B.D. (1887),
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MUTHILL
Church and manse. Communion Table and Individual Communion Cups gifted by Rev. Thomas Crawford, B.D., of Orchill.
JOHN LAIDLAW, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 2nd July 1890; translated to Kelso St John’s 17th October 1906.
ROBERT PROUDFOOT ROY ANDERSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 7th February 1907; appointed to Seamen’s Mission, Genoa, 14th October 1924, and inducted 15th April 1925.
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 14th January 1925; translated to Wormit 16th November 1927.
NEIL CONLEY
Born 16th May 1883 at Dalintober, Campbeltown, son of Neil Conley and Jane Wallace; educated at Campbeltown Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Classics 1907), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Kintyre 1911; assistant Glasgow Woodlands 1911-14; ordained and inducted Mortlach 20th October 1914; translated and inducted 7th February 1928; died 3rd May 1930. Married 6th June 1922, Jean Simpson Baird, M.A., Helensburgh.
PRESBYTERY OF DUNFERMLINE AND KINROSS
ABERDOUR
Church and manse in 1900. In 1928 an addition was made, comprising session room, vestry, kitchen and cloakroom. American organ introduced in December 1901.
JOHN BROWN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.104
Born 25th May 1851 at Methilhill, Fife, son of Peter Brown and Elisabeth Cormie; educated at village school, private tuition, University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 10th May 1877; ordained and inducted 10th January 1878; war service as chaplain to Petty Officers at Hawkcraig, Aberdour; retired 18th November 1925. Married 15th June 1881, Helen Stiell.
JAMES RENNIE
Born 8th May 1899 at Motherwell, son of James Rennie and Elizabeth Baird Clark; educated at Hamilton Street School, Dalziel High School, Glasgow Skerry’s College, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1922), Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces 1917-19; assistant Maud 1924, Glasgow Springburn North 1924-5; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 18th November 1925. Married 19th June 1928, Martha Sharpe Diamond.
BALGEDIE
Church and manse. United with Portmoak and Flockhouse 1908.
ALEXANDER DUNCAN, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.395
Ordained and inducted 7th May 1863; retired 1908; died 28th June 1916.
BALGEDIE AND PORTMOAK
W[ILLIAM] GREIG ALEXANDER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1909; resigned 1917; inducted Muirkirk 25th September 1929.
JAMES ANDERSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted July 1917; translated to Kilbirnie West April 1920.
JOHN MCNICOLL SIBBALD, M.A.
Translated from Carsphairn and inducted 12th August 1920; translated to Buckhaven St Andrew’s 19th April 1923.
JAMES GALBRAITH SMITH
Born 30th December 1873 at Dundee, son of Mitchell Smith and Barbara Walker; educated at Dundee Institution and Collegiate School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1895), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dundee 9th May 1900; assistant Ardrishaig 1900, Struan 1901-2, Dundee Bell Street 1903, Newburgh 1904, Kilmarnock King Street 1904-5; ordained and inducted Cromdale and Advie 21st February 1905; translated to Lumphanan February 1911; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1915-17, and as chaplain in Switzerland and at Aldershot 1917-20; resigned 31st January 1919; translated and inducted 2nd August 1923.
CAIRNEYHI LL
Church with session house detached; manse. Mission work undertaken at Crombie in conjunction with Torryburn Parish for Ordnance Depot workers, and wooden Church opened 14th September 1921.
WILLIAM FORBES
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.362
Born 22nd April 1864 at Aberdeen, son of William Forbes and Christina Milne; educated at Aberdeen West Parish School, Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen 12th August 1890; assistant Broxburn United Presbyterian 1890-4; home mission work in Methil 1894-5; assistant Cairneyhill United Presbyterian 1895; ordained and inducted 16th
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CARNOCK
Church, opened on 7th June 1899, and manse. Manse improved in 1910.
ADAM MCALPINE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.213
Born 2nd July 1860 at Linlithgow, son of James McAlpine and Janet Stanners; educated at Linlithgow Free Church School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 18th May 1886; missionary assistant North Leith Free Church; ordained and inducted 31st March 1887. Married (1) 12th July 1887, Jane Stuart Grant; (2) 21st June 1893, Maud Godden.
COWDENBEATH CAIRNS
Church and manse.
JAMES GILMOUR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.373
Born 11th November 1857 at Cairneyhill, son of John Gilmour and Christian Blair; educated at village school, Dunfermline Commercial Academy, University of Edinburgh M.A. (1880), B.D. (1884), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kirkcaldy summer 1883; assistant Helensburgh United Presbyterian 1884-5; in charge, Cowdenbeath United Presbyterian 1885-6; ordained and inducted 7th December 1886; translated to Gateshead Brighton Avenue Presbyterian Church 25th March 1908. Married 3rd February 1891, Annie Campbell Brown.
JOHN J[AMES] MUNRO
[Formerly] teacher in Deerness; Glasgow Free Church College 1898-1902; ordained as probationer 1906; inducted 1908; translated to Newcastle Wingrove Road 1923.
ALEXANDER STEWART, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 4th September 1923; translated to Glasgow Crosshill 1925.
JAMES SALMOND
Born 10th April 1875 at Glasgow, son of James Salmond and Elizabeth Dunbar [Elizabeth Hamilton]; educated at Mount Vernon, Wishaw, Glasgow Athenaeum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 1903; assistant Glasgow Renwick, Kilmarnock King Street; ordained and inducted Cullybackey, Ireland, 19th April 1907; translated to Stranraer Ivy Place 30th September 1908; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917-19; translated and inducted 7th April 1926. Married 20th August 1907, Margaret Ann Andrews McFadyen.
COWDENBEATH GUTHRIE
Church and hall, manse.
THOMAS MITCHELL
Ordained and inducted 3rd December 1896; translated to Glasgow Martyrs’ November 1902.
JAMES GEORGE DAWSON SCOTT, M.A.
Translated from Foveran and inducted 22nd April 1903; translated to Glasgow Cowcaddens 19th September 1907.
JOHN WOOD
Ordained Salford 1906; inducted 1907; resigned 1917; inducted Whalsay (Church of Scotland) 1921.
WILLIAM THOMAS WEIR
Translated from Rothiemay and inducted 31st July 1918; translated to Cargill 27th October 1926.
ANDREW DRUMMOND BAIRD
Born 7th January 1896 at Paisley, son of Andrew Drummond Baird and Jane Allan; educated at Paisley East Public School and Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1920), Glasgow College; student assistant Paisley Martyrs’ 1920-2; licensed by Presbytery of Paisley 3rd April 1923; ordained and inducted Ochiltree 14th November 1923; translated and inducted 23rd February 1927.
CROSSGATES
Church and hall, manse; mission hall at Hill of Beath.
ROBERT BEGG, B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.373
Ordained and inducted 14th November 1887; died April 1910.
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GEORGE LUKE, B.D.
Ordained and inducted Sanday East 26th August 1896; translated and inducted 21st September 1910; translated to Sanday East 1919.
WILLIAM JOHN MARTIN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 24th October 1919; translated to Glasgow Kent Road 13th September 1923.
JOHN SMITH LAWRIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 23rd November 1923; translated to Hamilton West 3rd April 1929.
NORMAN WALKER PORTEOUS
Born 9th September 1898 at Haddington, son of John Dow Porteous and Agnes Paton Walker; educated at Haddington Knox Memorial Institute, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics, 1922), B.D. (distinction in Old Testament 1928); war service with H.M. Forces in France 1917-19; University of Oxford, Trinity College, B.A. (1st Class Lit. Hum. 1924), M.A. (1928), New College, Edinburgh (Senior Cunningham Fellow 1927), Universities of Berlin, Tübingen and Münster 1927-9; student assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road 1926-7; licensed by Presbytery of Haddington and Dunbar 3rd May 1927; ordained and inducted 26th June 1929. Married 2nd September 1929, May Hadwen Robertson.
CULROSS
Church and hall; manse with outbuildings. Mission hall in High Valleyfield.
DAVID WHITE BUIST FLEMING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.155
Born 18th November 1847 at Perth, son of Alexander Fleming and Isabella Buist; educated at Perth Academy, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Perth June 1876; Assistant Crieff South 1876; ordained and inducted 17th May 1877; retired 1916. Married 2nd November 1910, Jane Davidson. In charge at Cannes, winter 1882; at Aix-les-Bains, spring 1884; deputy from the Church to the Centenary of Protestant Church of Utrecht 1907; F.S.A. (Scot.) 1909; Clerk to Free Church Presbytery of Dunfermline from 1893.
JAMES ROBERTSON BUCHANAN, B.D., Ph.D.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 14th December 1916; translated to Hamilton Brandon 29th June 1927.
JAMES YATES STEWART
Born 3rd July 1884 at Cambuslang, son of James Stewart and Janet Yates; educated at Cambuslang Public School, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Diploma 1919), Manitoba Theological College, Glasgow Free Church College, Auburn University, New York (B.D. 1926); student missionary, Presbyterian Church of Canada 1910-16; war service in Canadian Army Medical Corps 1916-19; licensed by Presbytery of Winnipeg 6th April 1919; admitted to United Free Church May 1920; ordained and inducted Bethel Church, Arthur Township, Mount Forest, Ontario, 20th September 1921; inducted 26th October 1927. Married 14th November 1921, Mary Gray McQueen.
DUNFERMLINE ABBEY
Church and hall; manse. Hall extended in 1912. Mission hall. The Free Church claimed the buildings, but the dissentients being so few, the claim was not upheld.
ALEXANDER BADENOCH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.87
Born 11th June 1862 at North Bradford, Aberdeen, son of Alexander Badenoch and Mary Smith; educated at Aberdeen Charlotte Street Public School, Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1883), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1887; ordained and inducted Torphins 19th October 1887; translated and inducted 21st May 1890; war service with Y.M.C.A. at Cannes 1917; retired 8th November 1927. Married (1) 28th August 1888, Margaret Morgan; (2) 7th September 1892, Emma Walker.
GEORGE MATHEWSON DRYBURGH
Born 26th April 1892 at Kilmacolm, son of David and Margaret Dryburgh [née Sneddon]; educated at Port Glasgow Clune Park, Greenock Helmscroft Higher Grade, Port Glasgow Jean Street Higher Grade, Greenock Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Mental Philosophy 1914), Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces 1915-19; licensed by Presbytery of Greenock June 1921; assistant Invergowrie 1921, Dreghorn and Perceton 1920-1; Theological Travelling Secretary, Student Christian Movement 1921-2; ordained and inducted Alford 21st June 1922; translated and inducted 9th November 1927. Married 10th June 1922, Elsie Maude Woolley.
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DUNFERMLINE CHALMERS STREET
Church with hall, vestry and church officer’s house; manse. Stained glass windows in memory of Alexander Russell of St Louis; pipe organ and new table; electric lighting introduced to church and halls, the gift of Mrs William George.
WILLIAM GEORGE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.356
Born 1850 near Dollar, son of James George and Janet Clark; educated at Dollar Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1871), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, Germany; ordained and inducted 28th March 1877; resigned 1904 on appointment as Secretary of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust; died 24th April 1919. Married (1) 1878, Jeanie Cleland; (2) 1908, Eliza Lauder.
THOMAS BROWN NICHOLSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.221
Born 11th October 1868 at Leven Mills, Leven, son of John Nicholson and Ann Brown; educated at Leven Public School (Dux 1883), Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1899), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kirkcaldy, June 1892; assistant Brechin City Road 1892-3; ordained and inducted Hamilton Brandon Street United Presbyterian 28th March 1893; translated to London Cricklewood November 1898; translated and inducted August 1905. Married 14th June 1893, Barbara Stevenson Beveridge. Convener of General Assembly’s Committee on Temperance and Assembly’s Special Mission 1920-4; member of the Executive of British Temperance Alliance 1924-8; Convener of Presbytery and Synod Committees on Temperance and Social Questions.
DUNFERMLINE GILLESPIE
Church with halls, vestry, managers’ room, etc., manse.
THOMAS E[ASSON] MILLER, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.360
[Born at Dundee in 1857, the son of George Miller and Catherine Easson]; ordained and inducted 9th December 1885; died 1924. [Married (1) 1886, Margaret Cavins Lavrock; (2) 1916, Jeanie Whitelaw Inglis.]
ERNEST FREDERICK JAMES ELLIOTT
Ordained as Chaplain to the Forces 1916; inducted 1925; translated to Inverness High 1927.
DAVID PATRICK THOMSON
Born 17th May 1896 at Dundee, son of James Thomson and Helena Christina Pringle; educated at Dundee High School, St Andrews Madras College; war service in H.M. Forces 1914-17; University of Glasgow M.A. (1922), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 24th November 1927; organizing secretary for Scotland for the Heart of Africa Missions World Evangelization Crusade 1917-18; loc. ten. Paisley Wallneuk June-September 1918; assistant Glasgow Renwick February-September 1919, Glasgow Central October 1919-February 1921; loc. ten. Kilmacolm St James’ 1921; assistant Kilmacolm St Columba’s June 1921-March 1922; organizing secretary for the Glasgow Students’ Evangelistic Union 1922-5; assistant Glasgow North Woodside 1923-4, Dumbarton High 1925-6 and 1927-8; loc. ten. Kilbirnie East 1926; ordained and inducted 1st February 1928. [Married 28th September 1938, Mary Calander Rothnie, daughter of Rev. Douglas A. Rothnie.] Publications – edited Evangelism in the Modern World, Modern Evangelistic Movements, Winning the Children for Christ, The Modern Evangelistic Address, all published in Glasgow, London and New York; United Free Church Sermons, Glasgow and London; The Scottish Pulpit, London and New York; The Sunday School in the Modern World, London.
DUNFERMLINE NORTH
Church, hall and manse. Alteration and part renovation of interior of church and hall, new pulpit and pipe organ installed 1910. Property claimed by the Free Church but allocated to the United Free Church.
JAMES BEITH BROWN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.104
Ordained and inducted 1866; retired 1904; died October 1905.
ROBERT WILLIAM REID
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.297
Born 18th August 1868 at Airdrie, son of Rev. William Reid and Agnes Allan; educated at Airdrie West Free Church School and Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow Candlish Memorial 1894-5; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Hamilton June 1895; assistant Paisley Oakshaw Free Church 1895-6; ordained and inducted Bishopbriggs Springfield 24th March 1896; translated and inducted 22nd September 1904; war service with Huts in France 1916, 1918. Married 5th August 1897, Catherine Lang Blair. Publications –
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DUNFERMLINE QUEEN ANNE STREET
Church and manse.
ROBERT ALEXANDER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.353
Ordained and inducted Buckhaven 1862; translated and inducted 1st October 1873; retired 1912; died 1914.
JOHN M[CDONALD] RICHARDSON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted Freuchie 1906; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 2nd August 1912; translated to Waterloo Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, 1921.
DUNCAN WILLIAM PARK STRANG, M.C., M.A.
Translated from Inverness Crown and inducted 11th January 1922; translated to Paisley Sherwood 28th October 1924.
JAMES CALDERWOOD BRACKENRIDGE
Born 22nd May 1894 at Bonerbo, Carnbee, Fife, son of James Brackenridge and Margaret Cullen; educated at Girvan High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1915); war service in H.M. Forces in France 1915-17; New College, Edinburgh, Glasgow College; student assistant Bellshill 1920-1; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton June 1921; loc. ten. Aberdeen East 1921; ordained and inducted Slamannan 9th November 1921; translated and inducted 24th June 1925. Married 4th May 1926, Alison Gray.
DUNFERMLINE ST ANDREW’S
Church and manse.
DAVID IMRIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.189
Translated from Ceres and inducted 1876; retired 1912; died 1913.
KENNETH MOULTRIE MACLEOD, B.A.
Translated from Fossoway and inducted 1912; translated to Glasgow White Memorial 27th April 1922.
WILLIAM DOWNIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 28th September 1922; translated to Edinburgh Stenhouse 21st June 1928.
ALEXANDER PATERSON
Born 15th October 1889 at Stenhousemuir, son of Alexander Paterson and Christina Donaldson; educated at Carron Public School, Montreal, Canada, New College, Edinburgh; missionary, Newfoundland, Millertown 1911-12, and Farmers Arm 1912-14; licensed by Presbytery of Winnipeg 1917; ordained by Presbytery of Winnipeg 10th June 1917; appointed to Indian School, Brandon, Manitoba, 1917; appointed to Kinglassie (mission station) 1919; inducted Longridge 24th October 1923; translated and inducted 6th February 1929. Married 1st August 1924, Georgina Tait Barlow.
DUNFERMLINE ST MARGARET’S
Church and manse.
JOHN CAMPBELL
Translated from Cumbernauld and inducted 17th December 1891; translated to Bridge of Allan Trinity 1902.
JOHN SANDERSON, B.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.700
Ordained and inducted Grangemouth Dundas 25th May 1893; translated and inducted 1902; retired 1928; died 16th September 1929.
PHILIP DOUGLAS LAWRENCE
Born 16th October 1898 at Aberdeen, son of Calder Macphail Lawrence and Mary Leask; educated at Aberdeen Ashley Road Public School, Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1919), Aberdeen College; student assistant Aberdeen Ferryhill 1921; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen April 1922; ordained and inducted New Deer 13th July 1922; translated and inducted 31st October 1928. Married (1) 5th September 1922, Elizabeth Paton Gloag Guthrie, [daughter of William G. Guthrie, minister of Glass; (2) 4th September 1953, Charlotte Mary Skene or Gerrie (she married John Gerrie in 1932).]
EDENSHEAD
FOSSOWAY
Church and manse. United with Muckhart in 1921.
ALEXANDER MURRAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 14th November 1895; translated to Stornoway English 1902.
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JOHN MUNN
Ordained and inducted 16th December 1902; translated to Kilmarnock Martyrs’ 1st December 1908.
KENNETH MOULTRIE MACLEOD, B.A.
Ordained and inducted 23rd April 1909; translated to Dunfermline St Andrew’s 1912.
JOHN BEVERIDGE, B.D.
Translated from Dundee Bell Street and inducted 1913; translated to Gartmore 1919.
A[NDREW] D[EAN] MORRISON, M.C., M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1919; became minister of the united congregation in 1921.
FOSSOWAY AND MUCKHART
A[NDREW] D[EAN] MORRISON, M.C., M.A.
Minister at Fossoway; became minister of the united congregation 1921; translated to Kirkintilloch St David’s 1923.
FOSSOWAY
DAVID KINNEAR BOGIE, M.A.
Translated from Polmont and inducted 1923; translated to Kelty (Church of Scotland) 1928. (See Fasti, 8, 406).
ALEXANDER MACINNES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.231
Born in Renfrewshire; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted Markinch Brunton 1897; translated to Glasgow Rose Street September 1902; translated to Glasgow Cardonald December 1908; war services as Chaplain to the Forces; resigned while Chaplain to the Forces June 1919; inducted Glasgow St David’s September 1922; translated and inducted December 1928; died 1st February 1929. Married 1897, Sarah Hamilton.
JAMES CHRISTIAN BROWN
Born 26th February 1888 at Bargeddie, son of James Brown and Mary Elizabeth Christian; educated at Coatbridge Gartsherrie Academy, pupil teacher, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1909), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 1913; assistant Kirkcaldy St Brycedale 1913-15; ordained and inducted Stonehouse Paterson 13th January 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France and as Chaplain to the Forces in France and with the Army of the Black Sea 1916-19; translated to Glasgow North Kelvinside 8th February 1921; translated and inducted 20th May 1929. Married 26th April 1923, Margaret Webster Aitken Rennie.
GLENCRAIG AND LOCHORE
CHARLES MASON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.262
Ordained and inducted Portmoak Free Church 1893; inducted 1908; died 1925.
FREDERICK SMITH, B.D.
Translated from Fort Augustus and inducted 6th June 1925; translated to Canonbie 21st February 1927.
JOHN MACRAE
Born 21st April 1878 at Clachan, Kintyre, son of Alexander [minister] and Annie Macrae; educated at Clachan Public School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. in English, 1900), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Kintyre April 1904; loc. ten. Calcutta Wellesley Square 1904; ordained and inducted Calcutta Wellesley Square November 1904; retired owing to ill-health March 1913; loc. ten. Glasgow Trinity 1913-14; senior assistant Edinburgh St George’s 1914-21; inducted Southend, Kintyre 9th October 1921; translated and inducted 8th June 1927. Married 30th August 1920, Olive Moir Hately.
INVERKEITHING
Church and manse.
PETER C[OWIE] BRYCE, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.366
[Born 1st February 1864 at Dumbarton, son of Alexander Bryce and Elizabeth Cowie;] ordained and inducted 6th June 1893; [died 7th February 1933; buried Douglas Bank Cemetery, Dunfermline. Married 1895, Euphemia McDonald Malcolm.]
KELTY MORAY
Church and manse.
WILLIAM STEPHEN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.326
Born 1840 at Tullynessle, son of William and Dorothy Stephen [née Young]; educated at University of Aberdeen, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh; ordained as missionary to Bombay 1869; retired 1873; inducted 1876; retired 1910; died 14th April 1912. Married 1870, Agnes Laing.
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ALEXANDER SHAW ADAMSON BISHOP
Translated from Lumphanan and inducted as colleague and successor 19th October 1910; translated to Aberdeen St Paul’s 23rd June 1915.
WILLIAM CRAIG, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 20th October 1915; translated to Fortrose 15th July 1924.
ROBERT ADAM SMITH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 6th December 1924; translated to Glasgow Barrowfield 14th September 1927.
CHARLES M. CLARK, M.A., B.Sc.
Ordained and inducted 1928; resigned 7th May 1929.
KELTY TRINITY
Large hall built in form of church with vestry attached.
HENRY ANDERSON NEVILLE
Ordained and inducted 6th April 1898; resigned 1901; inducted Westray 1912.
JAMES DINWOODIE
Born 13th September 1873 at Lockerbie, son of Matthew Dinwoodie and Margaret Black; educated at Moffat Academy, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College and New College, Edinburgh; missionary assistant Edinburgh Dean Street 1899-1901; licensed by Presbytery of Annandale May 1901; missionary at Addiewell 1901; ordained and inducted October 1901; resigned May 1918 on appointment as Secretary, Scottish Tract and Colportage Society, Edinburgh; inducted Haverton Hill, Co. Durham, 1922; translated to Bedlington 1924; died 17th March 1927. Married 29th April 1902, Annie Kay Sharp. Publications – Illustrated Sermon Outlines, London, 1908; Outline Studies for Sermons and Addresses, London, 1910; editor of Robert Leighton, Rules for the Devotional Life, London, 1910; The Starting Place of Bible Study, Edinburgh, 1918; The Children’s Hymn, Edinburgh, 1919; General Gordon, London, 1921; MacKay of Uganda, London, 1921.
MATTHEW LEISHMAN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.652
Born 6th June 1860 at Butlerfield, Cockpen, son of Richard Leishman and Agnes Fleming; educated at Heriot Public School, Edinburgh Rose Street, Brown Square and Riego Street Schools, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1887; assistant Lossiemouth United Presbyterian 1888-90; ordained and inducted Lossiemouth United Presbyterian 11th February 1890; translated and inducted 6th November 1918. Married 18th June 1890, Helen Lothian, of Edinburgh.
KINCARDINE
Church and manse. United with Tulliallan 1914.
ROBERT MUNRO, B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.370
[Born 20th January 1846 at Larbert, son of John Munro and Helen Smith;] ordained and inducted 13th January 1875; retired 1914; died 1923. [Married 1878, Mary Mckay.]
KINCARDINE AND TULLIALLAN
JOHN SMITH
Born 23rd October 1883 at Bressay, Shetland, son of William Smith and Charlotte Martin; educated at Geanies Public School, Portmahomack Public School, Hilton Public School, Tain Royal Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1907), Aberdeen College; student assistant Shuttlelane Students’ Mission 1909-11; licensed by Presbytery of Tain 1911; assistant Dundee St Paul’s 1911-13, Alloa Chalmers 1913-14; ordained and inducted 15th December 1914.
KINROSS CHALMERS
Church and manse. United with Erskine to form the West congregation.
JOHN WRIGHT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.361
Born 1819 at Dollar; educated at University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Divinity Hall; ordained and inducted 1844; retired 1902; died 1909. Married 1852, Margaret Leishman.
PETER MCGREGOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 1902; translated to Newport St Fillan’s 1905.
KINROSS EAST
Church and manse. United with the West congregation in 1925.
ROBERT SMITH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.391
Ordained and inducted 14th October 1874; retired 1917; died 1919.
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W[ILLIAM] SAMSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 1917; left 1921.
WILLIAM GRACIE CROZIER
Formerly at Leghorn; inducted October 1921; translated to Musselburgh Bridge Street 1925.
KINROSS ERSKINE
Church and manse. United with Chalmers in 1906 to form the West congregation.
JOHN RUTHVEN, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.389
Ordained and inducted 17th July 1866; retired 1906; died 1918.
KINROSS WEST
ARNOLD BOYD, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.100
Ordained and inducted Dalry St Andrew’s 1897; translated 1902; inducted 1908; resigned 18th December 1913. Married 1899, Mary Lucas Braid.
ALEXANDER REID TAYLOR, M.A.
Translated from Mauchline Abbey and inducted 1st September 1914; translated to Aberdeen Ruthrieston 1918.
EDWARD THOMSON VERNON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 24th April 1919; translated to London Willesden 1923; translated to Glasgow Queen’s Park 1929.
ANDREW M[CCLANACHAN] KELLY, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Govan Fairfield and inducted 4th September 1924; became minister of the united congregation in 1925.
KINROSS
ANDREW M[CCLANACHAN] KELLY, M.A.
[Born 1876 at Glasgow, son of James Kelly and Janet McClanachan;] ordained and inducted Stockton-on-Tees 1903; translated to Glasgow Govan Fairfield 5th May 1910; translated to Kinross East 4th September 1924; became minister of the united congregation in 1925. [Married 1910, Kathleen Turner Sanderson.]
LASSODIE
Church and manse.
JAMES CLARK, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.120
Ordained and inducted 1874; retired 1900; died 1913.
JAMES W[ALKER] DUNCAN, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.143
Ordained and inducted 25th October 1900.
LIMEKILNS
Church with vestry, manse. The vestry was taken down, and a hall built in its place. Pattiesmuir Hall was rented for mission work.
JAMES GRAHAM CRAWFORD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.371
[Born at Kinnoull, Perthshire in 1848, son of James Crawford and Catherine Graham;] ordained and inducted 17th March 1875; died 5th August 1906.
JAMES EWART HENDERSON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 14th March 1907; translated to Beith 5th May 1918.
JOHN MACBRIDE BROWN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 16th October 1918; translated to Kirkintilloch South 6th April 1927.
JOHN FERGUSON
[Ministers of the UOS Church]
Born 13th May 1885 at Glasgow, son of Hugh Ferguson and Mary Henderson; educated at Glasgow Westmuir Street and Parkhead Schools, Skerry’s College, University of Glasgow, United Original Secession Church Theological Hall, University of London, B.A. (1926); licensed by United Original Secession Presbytery of Glasgow 1911; admitted to United Free Church 1919; inducted Keith South 25th February 1920; translated to Harray, Orkney, 23rd October 1922; translated and inducted 28th July 1927. Married 6th April 1920.
LOCHGELLY CHURCHMOUNT
Church, manse and two halls. Shared with the Macainsh congregation in the mission work in the James Brown Memorial Hall.
JAMES BROWN, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.368
Ordained and inducted Creetown 1859; translated to Edinburgh Morningside 23rd November 1864; resigned 3rd March 1868; inducted 28th July 1869; died 1908.
THOMAS BROWN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 5th May 1909; translated to Hamilton Auchingramont 18th January 1916.
DAVID MACRAE AITKEN
Born 22nd December 1871 at St Andrews, son of James Aitken and Margaret Russell; educated at St Andrews Infant School, Madras College, Dalkeith Bank Street
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LOCHGELLY MACAINSH
Church, two halls, manse. Shared with the Churchmount congregation in the work at James Brown Memorial Hall.
PETER MACAINSH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.212
Ordained and inducted 1856; retired 1892; died 1913.
DUNCAN BROWN, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.103
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 1892; died 4th May 1916.
WILLIAM MACLEOD, B.D., Ph.D.
Translated from Whiting Bay and inducted 22nd November 1916; translated to Fort William 1922.
HARRY LAW, M.A.
Translated from Monifieth Panmure and inducted 17th May 1922; translated to Glasgow Ruchill 1927.
JONATHAN DARBY BROWN
Born 4th November 1898 at Dalrymple, son of James Brown and Martha Johnston; educated at Anstruther Public School, Glasgow Victoria Public School, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1920); war service in H.M. Forces in France 1918-19; Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Lyon Street 1922-3; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow June 1923; ordained and inducted St Abbs 18th July 1923; translated and inducted 25th April 1928. Married 18th April 1928, Kathleen Caddger.
LUMPHINNANS
In 1900 this was a station with an old iron church, but it was raised to full status in 1902. During the period a manse was brought, and a new church with small hall and vestry was erected.
ANGUS MACDONALD
Born 12th March 1858 at New Keig, Whitehouse, Aberdeenshire, son of Angus Macdonald and Agnes Scott; educated at Keig Public School, Keig and Tough Free Church Manse, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen M.A. (1882), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Alford 1887; assistant Sandhaven Free Church Mission 1886-9, New Byth Mission Church 1889-92, Durrisdeer Mission 1893, Glasgow Tron Free Church 1894-6, Thornton 1896-9, Lumphinnans 1899-1902; ordained and inducted 4th September 1902. Married 30th December 1896, Isabella Wylie.
MILNATHORT
Church and manse. Orwell united with this congregation on 21st August 1927.
ADAM JOHNSTON MILLAR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.380
Born 8th May 1856 at Kelso, son of George Miller and Agnes Johnston; educated at Kelso Grammar School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1884; assistant Leven United Presbyterian 1884-5; ordained and inducted 19th March 1885; retired 23rd August 1927; died 1929. Married 2nd June 1885, Margaret Johnston.
SAMUEL KNOX
Born 5th June 1874 at Partick, Glasgow, son of William Knox and Hellen Campbell; educated at Partick Rosevale Street School, University in Glasgow, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1st May 1900; assistant Glasgow Wellpark 1901-2; ordained and inducted Stow 4th April 1902; translated to Glasgow Govan Linthouse 27th August 1909; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917, and Scottish Churches Huts 1918; translated and inducted 3rd November 1927. Married 23rd September 1914, Jane Lamont.
MUCKHART
Church and manse. United with Fossoway in 1921, but the union was dissolved in 1923. The congregation was dissolved in 1925.
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ALEXANDER AIKMAN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.383
[Born at Lanark about 1832]; ordained and inducted 5th August 1858; retired 1886; died 1918. [Married 1865, Eleonora Frances Walker or Gordon.]
WILLIAM COOPER DICKSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.384
Born 2nd September 1863 at Kildrummy, son of William Dickson and Christina Cooper; educated in schools in Aberdeen and Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen 1885; missionary in Newcastle; ordained and inducted 15th April 1886; war service with Huts in Invergordon 1918; retired 1919; returned to a short term appointment 1923-5; died 17th October 1928. Married 1887, Ada Ewing.
NORTH QUEENSFERRY
Church and manse in 1900. Tower with clock and vestry erected in 1913 at the cost of £139. The clock was in the Tower-house at the Ferry Pier and was gifted by the North British Railway Company. A hall, costing £1038, was opened in December 1926. The Ypres Memorial Bell was gifted by Peter Anderson, Session Clerk, in May 1927.
ALEXANDER STODDART WILSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.357
Born 16th November 1853 at Glasgow, son of Daniel Wilson and Mary Miller; educated at Glasgow Normal School and High School, University of Glasgow, B.Sc. (1874), M.A. (Hons. in Natural Science 1876), Glasgow Free Church College; temporary examiner and professor of Botany, University of Glasgow 1879; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1880; ordained and inducted 3rd March 1881; died 8th February 1909. Married 9th February 1882, Elizabeth Blackadder Somerville. While a student, was assistant to Glasgow City Analyst for 5 years; lecturer in Botany in Anderson’s College and West of Scotland Technical College for several years; lecturer in Botany, Queen Margaret’s College 1892-4; examiner in Natural Science and Mathematics in Free Church Colleges; examiner in Scripture, Free Church Training College 1898-9; read papers on Botany to British Association 1881, 1883; member of Natural History Societies of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Stirling, Dunfermline, etc.; contributed numerous scientific articles to Nature, Knowledge, Good Words, Youth, Chemical News, etc., and many lectures were printed in Transactions of various Naturalist Societies.
EWEN HUGH FRASER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted June 1909; translated to Holywell 1926.
ALEXANDER WRIGHT BAIN
Born 25th February 1876 at Musselburgh, son of William Bain and Mary Gardner; educated at Musselburgh Newbigging School, Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Dalkeith 7th May 1903; assistant Edinburgh Nicolson Street; ordained and inducted Dunbar Erskine 18th August 1904; translated to Broxburn East 1st September 1916; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; translated and inducted 28th April 1926; died 19th May 1929. Married 28th September 1904, Grace Martin Brough.
JAMES MILLER GRAHAM
Born 26th May 1867 at Blantyre, son of Mitchell Graham and Ann Miller; educated at Dunbar Burgh School; in business 1883-7; University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1894; assistant Greenock Union Street 1894-5; ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh as missionary to Manchuria, North China, 19th January 1896; inducted Tientsin Union Church 30th April 1904; inducted Dundee Park 28th November 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Cromarty 1916, and in France as interpreter with Chinese Labour Battalion 1918; translated to Tealing 18th February 1926; translated and inducted 18th September 1929. Married (1) 6th February 1896, Jeanie Nicol; (2) 15th April 1908, Mary Lee Elliott. Publication – East of the Barrier, Edinburgh, 1902.
ORWELL
Church and manse. United with Milnathort 21st August 1927.
ROBERT WILSON MCNAUGHTON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 10th April 1898; resigned to facilitate local union 20th August 1927; introduced Symington, Ayrshire, 12th October 1927.
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PATHSTRUIE
Church, cottage and manse. The interior of church was altered in 1905.
WALTER MUIR
Formerly of Presbyterian Church of Canada; inducted 3rd June 1900; translated to Edinburgh North Richmond Street 1902.
JAMES CRICHTON COULTER
Ordained and inducted 10th February 1903; resigned 1913; went to Australia.
JAMES MAIN, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.260
Ordained as missionary to China by English Presbyterian Church 1882; inducted Closeburn 1895; retired April 1905; inducted 18th December 1913; retired 1928.
PETER MCQUAT
Born 15th July 1872 at Straiton, Maybole, son of Edward McQuat and Jane McWhirter; educated at Straiton Public School, Dalmellington Public School; home missionary and lay evangelist (Church of Scotland) at Steelend, Fife, Kinlochleven, and Glasgow Milton 1900-20; war service with Church of Scotland Guild Huts in England; University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; student missionary, Glasgow Broomielaw 1920-2; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 19th April 1922; ordained and inducted Latheron, Caithness, 23rd June 1922; translated and inducted 5th January 1928. Married 5th June 1896, Agnes Fenwick.
PORTMOAK AND FLOCKHOUSE
Church and manse. Portmoak united with Balgedie in 1908. Flockhouse became part of Glencraig and Lochore.
CHARLES MASON
Ordained and inducted 1893; became minister of Glencraig and Lochore in 1908.
SALINE
Church and manse. Mission hall at Lower Steelend opened in 1913. The mission congregation was incorporated in the congregation on 6th November 1917.
JAMES CALDER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.111
Born 10th December 1845 at Edinburgh, son of Peter and Isabella Calder; educated at University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Stirling North Free Church; ordained and inducted 1876; retired 1903; died 17th September 1922. Married 5th January 1886, Robina Mundell.
ALEXANDER CRIGHTON ALEXANDER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.422
[Born about 1846 at Carnoustie, Angus;] ordained and inducted Douglas 19th December 1872; translated to Stoke Newington 14th August 1883; translated and inducted 20th July 1904; resigned 30th September 1907. [His death was registered in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, in 1915 aged 69, when his middle name was “Crichton”, though his mother’s maiden name is given as Crighton]
HENRY ARNOTT
Ordained Newcastle, New Brunswick, 1903; inducted 2nd March 1908; translated to Alva West 25th September 1914.
DAVID MCCULLOCH BROWN, M.D., C.M.
Ordained and inducted 14th December 1914; resigned 14th October 1917; introduced Walls, Orkney, August 1919.
WILLIAM LEWYS DAVIES
Ordained and inducted Prestatyn 1900; admitted by General Assembly 1914; inducted 26th December 1917; resigned to become Church of Scotland chaplain at Cawnpore 6th January 1920. (See Fasti, 8, 556 [and Vol.9, p.591).]
ADAM FOX
Born 6th November 1869 at Drymen, son of Robert Fox and Christina Glendenning; educated at Public School in Glasgow, private tuition; missionary, Portobello St Philip’s 1901-4, Edinburgh St Andrew’s 1904-11; University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh St Columba’s 1915-18; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 5th November 1918; ordained and inducted 31st March 1920. Married 18th August 1920, Sarah Campbell Cowan.
TORRYBURN
Church and manse.
ALEXANDER LUNDIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.212
Ordained and inducted 1867; died 23rd April 1906.
GEORGE SIMPSON
Ordained and inducted 1906; left in 1925.
KENNETH A[NGUS] MACRITCHIE, B.D.
Ordained 1923; inducted 1925.
TOWNHILL
Church and manse.
ANDREW THOMSON MILLER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.267
Ordained and inducted 1887; died 4th February 1926.
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JOHN CAMPBELL
Formerly in Australia; inducted 4th May 1926; translated to Carmyle 11th October 1928.
ALFRED PATMAN MUIRHEAD
Born 10th July 1874 at Glasgow, son of Thomas Muirhead and Mary Forrester Adair; educated at Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, Crown Street School (pupil teacher), University of Glasgow, M.A. (1903), Glasgow College; certificated teacher (first class) in United Free Church Normal School, Cowcaddens, Glasgow; lecturer on Religious Knowledge there; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow May 1906; assistant Glasgow Kinning Park and Hutchesontown; ordained and inducted Biggar Gillespie 29th November 1906; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; translated to Stirling Erskine September 1918; translated to Moffat Well Road 18th April 1923; translated and inducted 20th March 1929.
TULLIALLAN
Church and manse. United with Kincardine in 1914.
DAVID SMITH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 4th January 1894; translated to Blairgowrie St Andrew’s 5th December 1907.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BELL, M.A.
Translated from Ashkirk and introduced 17th June 1909; appointed to Forgandenny 12th February 1914.
HILL OF BEATH
GEORGE MERSAR CHRISTIE
Ordained as missionary July 1924; appointed to Rhynie 1928.
KINGSEAT AND HALBEATH
CHARLES ALLEN HARVEY
Ordained missionary; born 14th April 1881 at Minnigaff, Kirkcudbright, son of William Harvey and Anne Mcfarlane; educated at Kirkmabreck Public School; war service with Y.M.C.A. in home camps 1917-19; ordained as missionary 8th October 1925; [died 1958.] Married 5th June 1908, Barbara Campbell Ross.
