f^.oct. {(^'5

FASTI ECCLESIiE SCOTICAN^

SYNODS OF ROSS, SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS

GLENELG, ORKNEY AND OF SHETLAND

THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND

IRELAND AND OVERSEAS

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

The Rev. W. S. Ceockett. D.D., Minister of Tweedsmuir, Convener and General Editor.

Francis James Grant, W.S., Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, Vice-Convener (ind Joint-Editor.

The Rev. Professor James Mackinxon, D,D., Ph.D. Sir James Balfour Paul, K.C.V.O., LL.D. The Rev. Arthur Pollok Sym, D.D.

GENERAL COMMITTEE

The Very Rev. David Paul, D.D., LL.D.,

Edinburgh The Rev. Professor Baxter, B.D., St

Andrews The Rev. Professor Mackinnon, D D.,

Ph.D., Edinburgh The Rev. Thomas Burns, D.D., Edinburgh The Rev. W. W. Coats, D.D., Brechin The Rev. J. T. Cox, D.D., Dyce The Rev. J. King Hewison, D.D., Rothesay The Rev. A. M'Neill Houston, D.D.,

Auchterderran The Rev. Joseph Mitchell, D.D., Mauchline The Rev. Harry Smith, D.D., Heriot The Rev. Arthur P. Sym, D.D., Lilliesleaf The Rev. J. R. Aitken, M.A., Edinburgh The Rev. James W. Blake, M.A., Temple The Rev. John Burleigh, Ednam The Rev. Andrew Burns, Fenwick The Rev. J. A. Cameron, B.D., Legerwood

The Rev. A. J. Campbell, B.A., Glasgow

The Rev. Alexander A. Duncan, B.D.,

Auchterless

The Rev. Richard Henderson, B.D., Longside

The Rev. James F. Leishman, M.A.,

Linton The Rev. Angus J. Macdonald, Killearnan The Rev. Alex. M. MacGregoe, Lochryan The Rev. John Muirhead, B.D., Avendale The Rev. John W. Murray, B.A. (Oxon.),

Manor The Rev. W. H. Porter, Cults, Pitlessie The Rev. William Stephen, B.D., Inver-

keithing C. E. W. Macpherson, C.A., Edinburgh Sir James Balfour Paul, K.C.V.O., LL.D.,

Edinburgh Thomas Reid, M.A., Lanark J. H, Stevenson, M.B.E., K.C., Edinburgh

FASTI ECCLESIiE SCOTICANiE

THE SUCCESSION OF MINISTERS IN

THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FROM

THE REFORMATION

BY

HEW SCOTT, D.D.

NEW EDITION

Revised and contimied to the Present Time tmder the Superintendetice of a Committee appointed by the General Assembly

VOLUME VII

SYNODS OF ROSS, SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS

GLENELG, ORKNEY AND OF SHETLAND

THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND

IRELAND AND OVERSEAS

OLIVER AND BOYD

EDINBURGH: TWEEDDALE COURT 1928

I'RINTKI) IN GUKAT BnlTAIN BY OLIVKK AND BOYD. KDINBUROH

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PREFATORY NOTE

With the present Volume the work of preparing a new edition of Fasti Ecclesice Scoticanoe comes to a completion. The genesis of the undertaking may be recalled. An Overture was presented to the General Assembly in the following terms : —

" Whereas the publication known as Dr Hew Scott's Fasti Ecclesice ScoticanoB contains valuable information relative to the ministers of the Church from an early period ; whereas it is desirable to continue a record of the succession of ministers in the various parishes since the date of that publication ; and whereas this can be most conveniently carried out by a Committee representing the Church : It is humbly Overtured by the undersigned Members of the House to the Venerable the General Assembly to appoint a Committee to collect material for the continuance of the record up to the present date ; or to do otherwise as the Assembly may see fit."

Of eight signatories it may be stated that three only survive, while of ten members who constituted the Editorial Committee of 1914, four only remain.

During the earlier stages of conference as to the precise arrangement of the work, a decision was arrived at which entirely altered its original design of merely continuing Dr Hew Scott's Fasti from 1839 to the present time. That decision involved a complete revision of all Dr Scott's Volumes, and to this extended scheme the General Assembly gave cordial approval. The seven Volumes now issued, therefore, have been compiled and re-written following a careful perusal, not only of the documents (chiefly Presbytery Registers) available to Dr Scott, but also of numerous others to which he had no access, and which, indeed, were unknown to him, many of them having been discovered within recent years. In addition, the Editors have had the advantage of reading a very large number of Local, Family and General Histories published since Dr Scott's day. Full use has been made of the important Separate Registers belonging to the different Presbyteries : thus most of what is purely domestic information — in the

vi PREFATORY NOTE

shape of family details, etc. — has been derived from official sources. Further, much genealogical data has come from the parochial and other documents preserved in H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, to which the officials thereof gave courteous and ready access. An extensive corresjjondence with surviving relatives and friends of ministers has also ensured completeness and correctness as far as possible, for the records here brought together.

These Volumes, possible only through much arduous research, have been undertaken by the Editors as a labour of love, and the work has been published without expense to the Church. The Editors think it right to say that the publishers, Messrs Oliver & Boyd, have borne the brunt of the printing costs which have been considerable, aided by small bonuses provided by friends of the Church.

Having now reached the end of their long and difficult task, the Editors rejoice to be able to place before the Church and the public a compilation of much more than ecclesiastical importance, and of which critics have declared that it is a work necessary for a true elucidation of the national spirit and of the national history.

The present Volume (in which Dr Scott's original work ends at page 820) contains material assembled from many quarters and from many lands. Never before has the story of the Church of Scotland in England, Ireland, on the Continent of Europe, in the British Colonies, and in America, been told in biographical detail, and the notices of Indian Chaplains, Foreign and Jewish Missionaries are here given for the first time. The biographies of the Episcopal period, as also those pertaining to the Scottish Universities, and the carefully-collated list of Moderators, have been added in order to make this Fasti of the Church a full record of all who have served her in the ministry from the Reformation to the present year. The Volume now issued has been brought up to date.

Many helpers have assisted in tlie prejDaration of this Volume. Of these the Committee record their thanks to the following : —

The various Clerks of Presbyteries; Rev. Angus Macdonald, minister of Killearnan ; Rev. Donald Beaton, minister of Free Presbyterian Church, Wick ; Rev. Donald Mackiunon, minister of Free Church, Portree; Rev. Professor J. H. Baxter and the late James Maitland Anderson, LL.D., St Andrews; The late Very Rev. James Nicoll Ogilvie, D.D. ; Rev. John M. Russell, D.D., Cape Town; Rev. John Burgess, DD., Clerk of New South Wales General

PREFATORY NOTE vii

Assembly; Rev. W. Floyd Shannon, Clerk of Presbyterian Church in South Australia ; Rev. James H. Mackenzie, Clerk of Assembly of Presbyterian Church of New Zealand ; Rev. Professor John T. M'Neill, D.D., Toronto, Canada; Rev. Ewen M'Dougall, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Rev. J. M. Hunt, Kingston, Jamaica; Rev. Duncan Macfarlane, Grenada , Rev. J. W. MacGill, Colvend (formerly of British Guiana) ; Kenneth Macleod Black, London ; R. S. Robson, Newcastle- upon - Tyne ; John Mark, Newcastle - upon - Tyne ; Robert Hyslop, Sunderland; William R. Shaw, Manchester; W. M. M'Lachlan, M.A., W.S., Secretary of Foreign Mission Committee; Thomas Henderson, Secretary of Church Overseas Committee ; Rev. William Deans, Secretary of Jewish Mission Committee, and the Superintendent of Records, India Office, Whitehall, London.

W. S. Crockett.

Francis J. Grant.

April 1928.

CONTENTS

Abeeviations ....

Synod of Koss—

I. Presbytery of Chanonry

II. Presbytery of Dingwall III. Presbytery of Tain .

Synod of Sutherland and Caithness- I. Presbytery of Dornoch II. Presbytery of Tongue III. Presbytery of Caithness

Synod of Glenelg —

I. Presbytery of Lochcarron .

II. Presbytery of Skye .

III. Presbytery of Uist .

IV. Presbytery of Lewis

Synod of Oekney —

I. Presbytery of Kirkwall II. Presbytery of Cairston

III. Presbytery of The North Isles

Synod of Shetland—

I. Presbytery of Lerwick

II. Presbytery of Burravoe

III. Presbytery of Olnafirtli

Abchbishops .... Bishops ....

The Univeesities of Scotland .

MODEEATOES OF THE GeNEEAL ASSEMBLY

AiiMY AND Navy Chaplains Chaplains to Infiemaeies and Othees Chaplains to Peisons

Synod of the Scottish Chuech in England- I. Presbytery of North of England

II. Presbytery of West of England

III. Presbytery of London Chaeges in England, now Extinct oe Meeged with othee Congeegations Ieeland ....

PAGK

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1

25 52

77 101 112

144 166

185 199

210 234

279 295 306

321 329 357

436 448 454 455

457 464 466 471

X	CONTENTS
	PAGE
The CmnjCH of Scotland	Overseas—
Continent of Europe —	•
Belgium	534
France	535
Germany	536
HoUand	537
Italy .	555
S\\dtzerli.vnd .	55G
The Mediterranean	556
Continent of Africa-
Egypt	557
East Africa (Kenya	'olony) ...... 558
Madeira	558
Mauritius	558
South Africa .	560
Continent of Asia —
Burma	566
Ceylon	566
India (Indian Chap]	ains) ....... 568
Simla .	582
China	582
Palestine	582
Commonwealth of Austea	LIA —
Australia .	583
Tasmania .	600
Fiji	602
New Zealand	602

Continent of America—

Dominion of Canada (IMaritime Provinces) — Cape Breton ..... New Brunswick .... Nova Scotia ..... Prince Edward Island

Dominion of Canada (Western Provinces) — Ontario and Quel)cc ....

Dominion of Canada (North-Western Provinces)- Manitoba, etc. British Columbia

Newfoundland

Bermuda ....

United States of America

612 619

623

655 657

659 660

CONTENTS

British West Indies—
Antigua .			666
The Baliama Islands			666
Grenada .			667
Jamaica .			668
St Vincent	.	.	671
Tobago .	.		671
Central America—
British Honduras .	.	.	672:
South America—
British Guiana	.	.	672
Argentina .			680
Chile			683.
Patagonia .		.	684
Peru			684
Foreign Missionaries	.	.	685^
Jewish Missionaries			7ia
Bibliography of Church and	Parish Histories, etc.	71&
Index of Parishes and	Chapels (Scotland and England) .	762
Index of Ministers .			767

ABBREVIATIONS

adm.	. admitted	marr. .	married
app.	appointed	min. .	. minister
bapt.	, baptized	ord. .	. ordained
coll.	. collated	pres. .	. presented
cont.	. contract	presb.	. presbytery
	(marriage)	pro, .	proclaimed
dem.	demitted	res. .	. resigned
dep.	. deposed	s.-p. .	. without issue
ind.	. inducted	trans.	. translated
inst.	instituted	univ.	. university
licen.	. licensed	unmarr.	unmari'ied

SYNOD OF ROSS

The Eegister of the Synod of Eoss begins at 18th March 1707. As the Presbytery of Eoss there is a volume commencing 25th July 1693, and ending 12th December 1701.

PEESBYTERY OF CHANONRY, of old ARDMANNACH

[This Court was already at work in 1592. Its Eegister begins at 14th January 1707, with a blank from 6th February 1753 to 14th September 1762.]

AVOCH.

[The church of Avoch belonged to the Abbey of Kinloss. Its prebend was held by the chantor of the Cathedral of Fortrose. At Ormond Castle, in this parish, there was a chapel of St Mary, and near it was Our Lady's Well. At Killeain there was a chapel of St John.]

ALEXANDER PEDDER, vicar at the 1560 Reformation ; died in 1569.

ANDREW MYLNE, exhorter; pres. to 1569 *^^ vicarage by James VI. in 1569, to which Kilmuir- Wester and Ardersier were attached after Nov. 1574 ; app. one of the Visitors of Ross by the Assembly in 1586, and still min. in 1601.— [^oo^-e of the Kirk ; Orig. Par. Scot., ii., 541 ; Reg. Mag. Sig., v., 738.]

ALEXANDER HOME, chantor of Ross, jj. gave a tack of the chanter's teinds to Andrew Munro of Davochcartie in 1586.— [Original at Killearnan.]

JAMES LAUDER^ educated at Univ.

jQQ^ of Edinburgh; M.A. (12th Aug.

1592) ; adm. to Kilmuir- Wester in

VOL. vn.

1596; trans, to Ardersier 1597; trans, and adm. before 13th July 1607; dem. in favour of his son in 1642, but still mentioned 4th Dec. 1655. He marr. and had issue- William, min. of this parish ; James.— [Original Charter hy Bishoj) of Ross at Killearnan ; Reg. Mag. Sig., viii. 189, ix. 1293.]

WILLIAM LAUDER, born about 1614, 1642 ^^^^s* son of preceding ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1632) ; pres. by Charles I. 11th July 1642 ; was a member of the Commission of Assembly in 1645. He was suspended by the Commission of Assembly for subscrib- ing Seaforth's Remonstrance, 22nd May 1647, and was one of the signatories to the Letter of the Presb. of Chanonry to the Commission approving of their proceedings, 8th May 1651 ; still min. 4th April 1665 and died before 1672. He marr. Katherine, eldest daugh. of Murdoch Mackenzie, chamberlain of Lewis, of the family of Davochmaluag, and had issue — William, commissary clerk of Ross. Publication —Elogia XXXVIL, XXXVIII. (Forbes's Funeral Sermons). — [Geneal. of the Mac- kenzies.]

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AVOCH

[PKESB. OF

RODERICK MACKENZIE, educated jQQg at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (8th July 1649) ; passed trials before Presb. of Glasgow and had a testimonial for licence 1st Feb. 1655 ; pres. by Charles II. 15th May 1668; still min. 25th Feb. 1669.

RODERICK MACKENZIE of Avoch, son of John M., archdeacon of Ross and min. of Fodderty ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1681); adm. as deacon ; recommended for ordina- tion 7th March 1683 ; was a protester in 1694 against the Commission for the North ; died 7th March 1710. A strong Episcopalian, he defied the Presb. and held the benefice till his death. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of the Hon. Simon Mackenzie of Lochslin, son of Kenneth, Lord_ Mackenzie of Kintail, and had issue— Johirof Avoch ; Christina (marr. 1707, Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Scatwell) ; Isobel (marr. 1705, Alexander Mathesonof Bennetsfield) ; Margaret (marr. John MacRae of Drynie) ; Anna (marr. Lewis Grant, min.). — [Beg. of Deeds, Mack., 15th July 1712.]

ALEXANDER M'BEAN, M.A. ; as a probationer within the bounds he was called by the Vresh. jure devoluto 28th Aug. 1711, but owing to the opposi- tion of the parishioners, who were largely Episcopalians, access could not be got to the church and he was ord. at Rosemarkie 4th June 1712. He was obliged to raise an action in the Court of Session to obtain access to the church. In Aug. 1713 he complained he had been unable to carry on his ministry, the church being still barred against him and the people antagonistic. After much wrangling between heritors, Presb. and Synod, he was given liberty to seek another charge, and was settled at Douglas, Lanarkshire, 28th May 1714.

ALEXANDER RAE, chaplain to Mrs Ross of Balnagowan ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 13th Jan. 1714 ; called by the

Presb. jure devoluto 22nd Sept., and pres.

by Alexander Brodio of Lethcn 30th Dec.

1715; ord. 28th March 171G ; died 15th

Aug. 1735. It was greatly owing to his exertions that a process was raised for recovery of an endowment by Thomas Forbes, bailie of Fortrose, in the hands of Elizabeth, Countess of Seaforth,for support of a minister in that burgh. He marr. Jean Stewart, who survived him. — [Re- ligious Lije in Rnss, 247, 253.]

ALEXANDER ERASER, M.A.; pres. by Alexander Brodie of Lethen 15th Dec. 1735; ord. 24th Aug. 1736;

trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, 13th

Nov. 1754.

THOMAS SIMPSON, born 1718 ; licen. 1756 ^y ^"^^^^^ of Elgin 1st Nov. 1748; resided in Banff in 1752 ; pres. to Cromarty by William Urquhart of Meldrum, but call was rejected by the Assembly 29th May 1755; ord. here 14th April 1756 ; died 22nd Sept. 1786. He marr. (1) 6th Dec. 1756, Isobel, daugh. of George Mackenzie of Pitlundie and Culbo, and had issue- William, min. of Strathconan, born 6th Sept. 1757, died 10th May 1799 : (2) 4th Jan. 1759, Isobel, daugh. of George Mac- kenzie of Gruinard and Elizabeth, natural daugh. of Lord President Duncan Forbes of Culloden, and had issue— George, born 9th Oct. 1759 ; John, born 14th April 1761 ; Alexander, born 3rd April 1763; Jean, born 23rd Dec. 1764, died at Dingwall 31st Oct. 1835; Thomas, born 30th Dec. 1766; Margaret, born 6th Sept. 1768 ; Roderick, born 16th May 1770 ; Duncan, merchant, London, born 12th Aug. 1771, died at Bellevue 15th June 1854 ; Geddes, of Tower Street, London, born 4th Feb. 1775. —[Tomhst.']

JAMES SMITH, born Aberdeenshire, 1758; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1782) ; pres. by Miss Brodie of Lethen in July, and ord. 24th Sept. 1787 ; died 9th Dec. 1830. There was strong opposition to his settlement, the majority of the congrega- tion seceding from the church and joining the Independent (now Congregational) Church to which a large proportion of the parishioners still adhere. S. was much

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CHA.NONRT]

AVOCH— CROMARTY

respected as a consistent and faithful pastor. He left £30 to the poor of the parish. He marr. 3rd Oct. 1789, Alexandrina (died 22nd July 1846, aged 86), daugh. of Alex- ander Houston, provost of Fortrose, and had issue — James Brodie, M.A., apprenticed to a W.S., born 1st March 1793, died 27th Oct. 1813 ; Janet Isabel, born 9th Nov. 1794 (marr. Thomas Munro, min. of Kiltearn) ; Mary Ann Grace, born 8th July 1796 (marr. Peter Ferries, min. of Edinkillie) ; Lieut. Edgar, died 27th Oct. 1813 ; Alexander, died 31st Jan. 1798 ; Penuel Margaret, died May 1801. Publication- Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xiv.).— [Tomhst.']

JAMES GIBSON, born 1800, second son of John G., farmer, Doune, Perth- shire ; educated at Univ. of Edin- burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 1st Oct. 1821 ; pres. by Sir James Wemyss Mackenzie of Scatwell, in whose family he had been tutor, in Jan., and ord. 15th Sept. 1831; D.D. (Glasgow, 28th April 1852), died 16th April 1866. He marr. 4th Nov. 1834, Ann Isabella (died 15th May 1866), daugh. of Thomas Mackenzie of Strath- garve, and had issue— John, min. of this parish ; Thomas, born 26th Nov. and died 5th Dec. 1836; Isabella, born 26th Sept. 1837 (marr. Arthur Harvey Alexander, Grenada) ; Margaret Henrietta Wharton, born 3rd and died 23rd May 1839; Ann Mackenzie, born 31st March 1841 (marr. Roderick Hay Nicolson, min. of Apple- cross) ; Jemima Margaret, born 7th May 1845 (marr. Donald Mackenzie, Hong- Kong). Publication — Account of the Parish {New Stat. Ace, xiv.).

JOHN MACKENZIE GIBSON, born 4th Aug. 1835, son of preceding; educated at King's College, Aber- deen ; M.A. (March 1854) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 4th May 1858 ; pres. by James Fletcher of Rosehaugh ; ord. 11th July 1866; dem. 1st Dec. 1891; died at 22 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, 22nd Sept. 1916. He marr. 9th Oct. 1889, Elizabeth (died s.p. 28th Aug. 1920), daugh. of John Watson Wemyss, M.D.

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ALFRED MORRISON PHILIP, born Inverkeithny, 27th March 1860, son of George Forbes Innes P., min. of New Deer ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1880), B.D. (1883); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in 1883 ; ord. to Crown Court Church, London, 1885; trans, and adm. nth May 1892; died 14th June 1914. He marr. (1) 16th Aug. 1889, Florence Margaret (died 7th Aug. 1894), daugh. of John Philip, Cape Town, and had issue- Colin Cameron, M.B., CM., captain Low- land Field Ambulance in European War, born 21st July 1890 ; George Morrison, B.Sc, D.S.O., M.C., mentioned three times in despatches, lieut. 12th Northumberland Fusiliers in European War, born 29th March 1892 ; Florence Margaret, born 13th Aug. and died 18th Nov. 1894: (2) 19th Dec. 1900, Isabella Midler, second daugh. of Gavin Catto, Mains of Gight, and had issue — Florence Barbara, born 16th Oct. 1901, died 21st Jan. 1902 ; Barbara Violet, born 11th March 1893, died 12th Feb. 1904. Publication — The Cathedral Kirk of Ross {Trans. Scot. Eccl. Soc, 1904.)

1914

EDWIN JAMES BRECHIN, born Dundee, 10th Feb. 1874, son of James B. and Mary Nicoll ; edu- cated at Dundee High School and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1897), B.D. (1900); student missionary at Muthil and Unst ; licen. by Presb. of Perth 15th May 1899 ; assistant at Monifieth, St Andrews, Paisley and West Parish, Aberdeen ; ord. to Scots Kirk, Paris, 18th May 1902 ; trans, to St James's, Dulwich, London, 7th Feb. 1907 ; trans, and adm. 4th Dec. 1914 ; general superintendent for France of Scottish Churches' Huts during European War ; O.B.E. (1st Jan. 1919). Marr. 19th May 1902, Theodora Mary, daugh. of William Smith, min. of Unst.

CROMARTY.

[Tlie old church of Cromarty was dedi- cated to St Benet. Its site has been overflowed, and is now covered by the sea. A convent of the Red Friars was founded at Cromarty by Sir Patrick

CROMARTY

[PRESB. OF

Murray in 1271. There were in this parish chapels of St Duthac, St Rule, and St Michael. Cromarty had also Wells of Our Lady, St Benet, and St Duthac. The Gaelic chapel in the town was built by George Ross of Cromarty in 1783.]

JOHN ANDERSON, chamberlain of

1560 ^^oray ; vicar at the Reformation ;

refusing to conform was allowed by

the Privy Council, Feb. 1562, to retain

two-thirds of the emoluments ; died 1582.

JAMES BURNET, reader 1569 to 1669 1574.

JOHN ROBERTSON, removed from --,_. Chanonry, holding also the Treasury of Ross ; returned to Chanonry about 1578.

ROBERT WILLIAMSON, educated at 1582 Univ. of St Andrews in 1577 ; reader at Monykeback in 1578 ; adm. to Nigg (Aberdeen) in 1580 ; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. on death of John Anderson, 29th Jan. 1582. In 1583 the heritors were ordered by the Privy Council to pay him the teinds of the vicarage of Cromarty "under pain of warding in the Castle of Blackness." He was named by the Privy Council one of those for the maintenance of true religion in the Sheriflf- doms of Inverness and Cromarty 6th March 1589. On a flat triangular stone in the eastern part of the town his initials with those of his wife are inscribed with date 1593.— [JJooke of the Kirk.]

WILLIAM LUNAN, M.A. ; adm. before jQgg 2nd Nov. 1638. The Presb. of Turriff was ordered by the General Assembly, 13th Feb. 1645, to proceed to his excommuni- cation. He was afterwards min..of Daviot.

GILBERT ANDERSON of Udol in this 1642 P^"^^' ^°^^ 1^^'^ ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1626); adm. to Cawdor before 30th Oct. 1627 ; trans, and adm. between 5th Oct. 1641 and 11th Jan. 1642 ; died Nov. 1655. He railed against his patron and family several times from the pulpit, according to Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, " with such opprob-

rious tonnes, more like a scolding tripe- seller's wife than good minister, squirting the poyson of detraction and abominable falshood (unfit for the chaire of verity) in the eares of his tenandry, who were the onely auditors." He marr. Elizabeth Bruce (who marr. (2) Andrew Ross, min. of Tarbat) and had issue — Hugh, min. of this parish. — [Urquhart's Jeivel (1652) ; Kirkton's Hist., 96 ; Brodie's Diary ; Family of Dallas, 286.]

HUGH ANDERSON of Udol, born 1658 ^b°^t 1633, son of preceding, edu- cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1651) ; was regent there in 1652 ; adm. 1656 ; deprived by Act of Parliament and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662, but was allowed to remain unmolested'until after assisting at the Communion at Obs- dale House (now Dalmore) in Sept. 1675, when he retired to Udol ; restored in 1690 ; died 3rd June 1704. Hugh Miller says he lived a part of the time in Moray. He marr. Grizel, daugh. of John Row, Principal of King's College, Aberdeen, and had issue — Barbara, born Jan. 1661, died March 1663 ; Hugh, min. of Drainie, born 1666 ; Alex- ander, min. of Duffus, born 28th Aug. 1672 ; Grizel (marr. Mr Crombie, merchant in Elgin). — [Wodrow's Hist, ii., 333; Bass Rock, 239, 241 ; Covenanters in Moray and Ross, 60, 189, 192; Orem's Old Aberdeen; Tombst.]

1673

THOMAS URQUHART, son of Alex- ander U., bailie ; was min. in 1673 ; deprived in 1678; was alive in 1684 according to a Summons of Adjudication against him, Sir John Urquhart, and others, by John Macleod of Milton. — [Cromartie Writs; Inverness Sas., iv., 243-4, 21st Nov. 1673.]

BERNARD MACKENZIE, born 1657 ; 1678 ^^^^ ^^" °^ Captain Daniel M. and Nance Dunbar of Avoch, and grand- son of Major Bernard M., who fell at Auld- earn 9th May 1645 ; had a bursary from Presb. of Dingwall 25th Nov. 1673; was sent to King's College, Aberdeen, by Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth, who app. him schoolmaster of Fortrose; ord. by Bishop

chanonry]

CROMARTY

of Boss ; pres. to this charge 2nd July and adm. Aug. 1678 ; deprived by the Act restoring Presbyterian ministers 25th April 1690. In the year 1689 with other Episco- pal ministers he petitioned King William, complaining that although they had taken the oath of allegiance, they were deprived of their benefices and denied admission to parishes to which they had been elected. He intruded at Tranent in 1691 but was ordered by Parliament, 9th July 1695, to remove by August. Dr George Mackenzie states that he received from King William a yearly pension of £50 as collector of the rents of the bishopric of Ross. He appears as chamberlain of the bishopric before 1700 and held that post for several years. Hugh Miller observes that he " was a quiet, timid sort of man with little force of character, but what served his lurn equally well, a good deal of cunning,'^ character not borne out by established facts. He purchased the estate of Sandilands ; died there 30th July 1713 and was buried at Fortrose. He marr. Jean, daugh. of Alexander Clunes of Dunskeath, and had issue — Alexander of Sandilands and Kinnock, M.D., born 1678, died 26th Sept. 1722; George in Cromarty; John, shipmaster, Cromarty ; Lilias (marr. Andrew Bayne in Cromarty) ; Anna, bapt. 23rd Nov. 1683. — [Acts of Pari., ix., 423, App., 119 ; Services of Heirs ; Dr George Mackenzie's MS. History of the Mackenzie s ; Allangrange Writs ; Inver- ness Sas., vi., 345 ; Covenanters in Moray and Boss, 190.]

HUGH ANDERSON, M.A., above 1690 mentioned ; restored by Act of Parliament reinstating Presbyterian ministers in 1690.

GEORGE GORDON, adm. to Rose- ,,_^ markie 25th April 1700 ; trans, and adm. 1st April 1707 ; died 28th Dec. 1749. He was reputed an excellent man and faithful preacher. He marr. (1) Mary Forrester, and had issue — Ann, born 13th Feb. 1708; Janet, born 11th Feb. 1709; Mary, born 23rd April 1711; Ann, born 10th Dec. 1712 : (2) Jean Mofi"at, widow of John Eraser, min. of Alness.— [Religious Life in Ross, 257.]

[JAMES ROBERTSON, a native of the parish, called in 1750, the Presb. being instructed by the General Assembly to proceed with his settlement, 17th May

1751, but he withdrew his acceptance on appointment as Professor of Hebrew in Univ. of Edinburgh (g.v.)]-

PATRICK HENDERSON, born Clatt „ educated at King's College, Aber- deen; M.A. (2nd April 1747) licen. by Presb. of Ellon 4th Oct. 1748 ord. by Presb. of Deer as assistant at Pitsligo; adm. Sept. 1751; but the settle- ment was reversed by a majority of one vote in the Commission of Assembly, June

1752, on appeal by William Urquhart of Meldrum, who had presented Thomas Simpson. He was again called 9th Oct. and re-adm. 28th Nov. 1753; dep. for immorality.— [il/ore«'s Annals, 292, 366 ; Scots Mag., xiv.]

JAMES MUNRO, born Ross-shire, 1716, j,__g son of James M. and Elspet Mackay ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1730-4 ; became schoolmaster at Golspie and Auldearn, and master of Grammar School, Elgin ; licen. by Presb. of Elgin 20th Nov. 1750 ; ord. 27th Aug. 1755 ; died 6th Sept. 1789. He marr. (1) 28th Dec. 1738, Elspeth Murray, who died 29th May 1762, and had issue — James, born 25th Sept. 1739, died 1771 ; Jean, died in infancy ; Margaret, born 6th July 1749, died 1768 ; William, born 20th Nov. 1751 ; Anne, born 10th May 1754 (marr. Thomas Fraser), died 1814; Jean, born 9th May 1756, died 8th March 1839; Elizabeth, born 1st Aug. 1758, died in infancy : (2) 25th Jan. 1763, Mary Stark, who died 6th April 1822, aged 80, and had issue— Mary, born 12th Oct. 1764, died young; Jean, born 17th Jan. 1767 (marr. Robert Hall); Mary, born 8th March 1768, died young; Alexander, born 26th March 1769 ; George Ross, min. of Huntly, born 10th Nov. 1770 ; James, cabinet-maker, went to Pictou, Nova Scotia, born 1st July 1772 ; Isobel, born 26th Aug. 1773 (marr. 16th July 1803, James Cromar, rector of Aberdeen Grammar School); Arthur, born 4th Sept. 1774, died young; Charles, writer, Stonehaven, born

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PRESB. OF

9th April 1777 ; Mary, born 1st Dec. 1780, died 19th Feb. 1863 ; Hugh, born 4th Oct. ] 782 ; John Spans, merchant, London ; Catherine, died in infancy.— [:7o?h6s/.]

ROBERT SMITH, born Inverness, 1764, 1789 ^°° ^^ Robert S. ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1784) ; tutor in family of Donald Macleod of Geanies ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 12th Dec. 1787 ; pres. by George III. 9th June 1788; ord. (assistant and successor) 21st May 1789; died 20th March 1824. He marr. 5th Oct. 1791, Isobel (died 16th Jan. 1844), daugh. of Hugh Rose of Aitnoch, factor on the Sutherland Estate, and had issue— Catherine, born 25th March 1794 ; Hugh, born 3rd Nov. 1795 ; Robert, born 30th July 1797; Barbara, born 14th May 1799; John, born 19th Jan. 1801, adm. min. of Beckwith, Canada, 3rd Nov. 1833, died there 18th April 1851 ; Margaret Crawford, born 29th Nov. 1802 (marr. 28th April 1821, Dr George Macdonald); Helen, born 14th Dec. 1804 (marr. 28th Oct. 1852, John James Aitchison, M.D., Elmsley, Canada) ; Robert, born 15th Aug. 1807 ; Isabella Gair, born 30th Jan. 1811 (marr. 12th Sept. 1835, George Romanes, LL.D., Professor of Greek, Queen's College, Kings- ton, Canada, and was mother of George John R., LL.D., biologist). Publication- Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, v.). — [Croil's Church in Canada, 90; Tomhst.}

ALEXANDER STEWART, born Moulin, Perthshire, 25th Sept. 1794, son of Alexander S., min. of Canon- gate, Edinburgh ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Lorn in 1822 ; ord. to Chapel-of-Ease, Rothesay, 10th Feb. 1824 ; pres. by George IV. in June, trans, and adm. 23rd Sept. 1824. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; rain, of Free Church, Cromarty, 1843-7 ; elected to Free St George's, Edinburgh (as successor to Dr Candlish), but died before induction, 5th Nov. 1847, of a fever brought on by the excitement of his impending removal. He was reckoned one of the most eminent preachers in the Cliurch, Hugh Miller

wrote warmly of his extraordinary gifts in that capacity. Publications— TAe Tree of Promise (Edinburgh, 1864) ; Man's Redemption, the Joy of Ani/els, a sermon on 1 Peter i. 12 (Precious Seed Discourses) (Edinburgh, 1877); The Mosaic Sacrifices (Edinburgh, 1883).— [J/ewioiV by Alexander Beith, D.D.]

ADAM HALL, licen. by Presb. of Edin- burgh ; ord. to Fisherton 7th March ^^*^ 1842 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th Aug., trans, and adm. 26th Sept. 1843; died 14th April 1846.

GEORGE RUSSELL, seventh son of Allan R., Lanarkshire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to Leadhills in 1843 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th May, trans, and adm. 27th Aug. 1846 ; died 8th April 1876. He marr. 12th Nov. 1846, Pringle (died s.p. 8th Oct. 1873), youngest daugh. of John Gray of Harrietsfield, Roxburghshire.

WALTER SCOTT, born 1st June 1846, son of James S., min. of Dirleton ; ^ educated at Parish School, Royal

High School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (April 1868); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ; assistant at Greenock ; ord. army chaplain at Colchester and Warley by Presb. of London 3rd May 1876; adm. here 14th Sept. that year ; died 3rd Feb. 1925. He marr. (1) 22nd Dec. 1876, Ann (died 24th Sept. 1880), second daugh. of Alexander Allan, Edinburgh, and had issue — Mina Alexandra Allan, born 13th Oct.

1877 (marr. George Ernest Romanes of Pitcalzean) ; James Walter Montague, Vancouver, served in 42nd Batt. Canadian Army in European War, born 28th Dec.

1878 : (2) 12th Nov. 1885, Mary Ann, third daugh. of Dr William Brydon, C.B., surgeon in the army, "the last man '' of the Cabul retreat, 1842, and had issue — Walter Francis Brydon, farmer, Navity, Cromarty, born 15th Aug. 1886.

GORDON MOORE, born Lauder, 5th June 1885, son of William M., school- master and provost of Lauder, and Elsie Swinton ; educated at Lauder School and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A. (1908) and

1917

CHANONRYl

CROMARTY— GAELIC CHAPEL

St Andrews, B.D. (1915) ; licen. by Presb. of Earlston 27th April 1915; locum tenens at St Stephen's Parish Church, Inverness ; ord. there (as such) 21st Dec. 1915 ; adm. here (assistant and successor) 25th April 1917. Marr. 25th April 1918, Isabella Simpson, daugh. of James Fraser, min. of Greenbank, and has issue— William, born 8th March 1919 ; James Fraser, born 13th Nov. 1923 ; Gordon Mackenzie, born 12th June 1925.

GAELIC CHAPEL.

[Built in 1783 by George Ross of Cromarty, known as "the Scotch Agent," for the use of the Gaelic speaking people employed in his factory at Cromarty.]

ALEXANDER MACADAM, pres. by George III. in March, and ord. 25th ^'^^ Sept. 1782 ; trans, to Nigg 23rd Oct. 1788.

WILLIAM ROSS, born Tain, 1739;

educated at King's College, Aber-

deen ; ord. to Rothiemurchus 25th

March 1783; pres. by George III. 18th

March, trans, and adm. 18th Aug. 1788 ;

died 12th Nov. \im.—{Tomhst.'\

HUGH ROSS, M.A. ; pres. by George III. Dec. 1799; adm. 25th March 1800 jgooj trans, to Fearn 13th April 1809.

ALEXANDER MACLEOD, born Sutherland, 1777 ; educated at ^^°^ King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1798) ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 3rd, and ord. missionary at Kincardine and Creich 4th April 1804 ; pres. by George III. 10th May, and adm. in 1809 ; died 20th June 1821.

ALEXANDER MACLEOD, pres. by George IV. 18th Sept. 1821 ; trans, from Gaelic Chapel, Dundee, and

adm. that year ; trans, to Uig 21st April

1824.

JOHN FINLAYSON, born Ross-shire,

1787 ; educated at King's College,

^^^^ Aberdeen ; M.A. (25th March 1814) ;

licen. by Presb. of Selkirk 2nd April 1822 ;

pres. by George IV. 10th Aug. 1824 ; ord. (at Chanonry) 29th March 1825 ; died 18th Jan. 1833. He marr. Christina, daugh. of John Hoyes, min. of Kinloss, and had issue — John Hoyes, went to Kingston, Jamaica ; Jessie Reid (marr. 1853, John Sinclair Mac- phail, min. of Free Church, Benbecula). — [Tomhst.'l

JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; pres. by William IV. 8th March, and ord. ^^^^ 25th Dec. 1833 ; trans, to Rosskeen I9th Sept. 1843.

HUGH ROSS MACKENZIE, trans. 1847 ^^°™ Tongue; pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto on a petition from the con- gregation ; adm. 21st Oct. 1847 ; trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, 8th June 1848.

JOHN MACLENNAN, born Ross-shire, 1799 ; educated at King's College Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1808) ; ord. (by Presb. of Abernethy) as min. of Bel- fast, Prince Edward Island, 1823 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 6th Dec. 1848 ; adm. 22nd Feb. 1849 ; adm. to Kilchrenan, 28th Aug. 1851 (f/. Vol. IV., 93). His daugh. Eliza marr. Daniel Miner Gordon, C.M.G., D.D., LL.D., Principal of Queen's Univ., Kingston, Canada, died 1910. — [Gregg's Hist, of Canadian Church, 274 ; Macleod's Hist, of Presbyterianism in Prince Edivard Island, 99.]

WALTER ROSS MUNRO, born 1820 jggg son of John M., min. of U.P. Church Nigg ; educated at Marischal Col- lege, Aberdeen, and United Secession Hall in 1840 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 2nd Dec. 1851 ; adm. 15th April 1852 ; dep. by the General Assembly 1st June 1874.

DAVID MACKENZIE, trans, from Govan Chapel ; elected 8th March and adm. 12th May 1875 ; trans, to Lairg 23rd Jan. 1884.

DONALD MACLEOD, ord. 30th April

1885 ; trans, to Tarbat 19th May 1885

1885.

WILLIAM CAMERON, M.A. ; ord. 10th Dec. 1885 ; trans, to Poolewe

1885

Sept. 1888.

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GAELIC CHURCH— FORTROSE

[PRESB. OF

ANDREW MACPHERSON,born Inver- 1893 ^^^^^ 1832, son of John M., estate steward, and Ann Fraser ; became teacher of English in Royal Academy, Inverness ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1857) ; assistant at Tighnabruaich, missionary at Guisachan, 1864-9; ord. to Tobermory 19th March 1872 ; dem. 18th ;May 1882 ; assistant at Killearnan in 1889 ; adm. here 1st March 1893 ; died 2Gth Jan. 1918.

[The congregation was dissolved in 1918.]

FORTROSE, OF old CHANONRY

iQ.S.).

[The parish church of Fortrose was dedicated to St Curadan, who ministered on this side of the Black Isle. He died in 716. The See of Ross was founded by King David I. in 1128. In or about 1309 the Cathedral of St Peter was built at Fortrose. By order of King James VI. the lead was stripped off the roofs of its choir and aisles in 1572. The stately fabric was in use as the parish church of Fortrose until near the middle of the seventeenth century. Oliver Cromwell razed the most part of the building, and took its stones to Inverness, where he was erecting a fort. What remained was burned by accident in 1662. On 2nd Feb. 1670, this parish was united to Rosemarkie. A church was opened 11th April 1841. The parish was disjoined again quoad sacra 17th March 1873. There were of old, in the Cathedral, chapels of St Nicholas and St Katherine. Near it was a Well of St Curadan. Fortrose held a Whitsunday fair, and also fairs of St Peter and St Curadan.]

WILLIAM HAY, reader in 1569 and 1669 in 1580.

JOHN ROBERTSON, min. of Urquhart 15*74 (Ferintosh) in 1565; was charged by the Assembly, 28th June 1565, with leaving his vocation and was required to enter again thereto under pain of dis- obedience to the Kirk ; was app. by the

Assembly, 5th June 1570, to assist the Commissioner of Ross who was not con- versant with the Gaelic tongue and was again commissioned to visit Caithness and Sutherland ; trans, and adm. about 1574, with Rosemarkie and Cromarty in the charge ; removed to Cromarty about 1576, but returned before 1578, holding also the Treasury of Ross. In June of that year he was app. Commissioner for Ross but was delated in Oct. following for remaining half a year in Edinburgh and failing to discharge his duty as visitor and min. His commission for Ross was renewed by the Assembly Oct. 1580 and Oct. 1581. In the latter year he was one of those nominated for the erection of Presbyteries in Caithness, Sutherland, and Ross. He was app. by the Assembly, Oct. 1583, one of the Visitors for the bounds north of the Dee, and commissioner for visiting the bounds of Ross by the Assembly in 1586 and again in 1588. In 1589 he was app. by the Privy Council on a committee for the maintenance of true religion and royal authority in the sheriffdoms of Inverness and Cromarty. In 1593 he was selected by the Assembly for visiting and trying the ministers of Moray. He died before 26th May \b^l—[Booke of the Kirk.]

1595

ANDREW CROMBIE, trans, from Kilmuir-Wester, and adm. in 1595. The Assembly of that year, because of " the weakness " of the Presb. of Inver- ness, ordered them to proceed to discipline against papists, with the advice of C. and other brethren. He was also app. to warn incumbents throughout Ross against the delapidation of their benefices ; trans, to Rosemarkie in 1599.

GEORGE MUNRO of Pitlundie, third son of George M. of ISIilntown ; pres. to the Chancellorship of Ross 5th July 1570 and 23rd Jan. 1571, besides being commissioner with a general superintend- ence ; pres. as a student to chaplaincy of Newmore by James VI. 21st Dec. 1570; adm. to Suddie in 1571. In 1575 he was accused before the Assembly of non- residence, when he excused himself "by

chanonky]

FORTROSE

reason of deadly feud," which was accepted. In 1581-2 he was employed to organise the erection of Presbyteries in the Northern Counties ; adm. min. of Fearn and Tarbat in 1590 ; trans, to Suddie about 1594 ; commissioner of the Kirks in Eoss ; trans, to Rosemarkie in 1597 ; trans, and adm. in 1599, with Suddie and Kinettas also in the charge ; was a member of Assembly in 1601, 1602, and 1610; was app. by the Assembly of 1606 as constant Moderator of the Presb. in the absence of the bishop, the members being ordered by the Privy Council, 17th Jan. 1607, to receive him within twenty-four hours after notice, under pain of rebellion ; still in the charge 8th Feb. 1630. He marr. Mary Livingstone, and had issue— George of Bearcrofts and Pitlundie, min. of Suddie. — [Hist, of the Munros, 305 ; Booke of the Kirk ; Calder- wood's Hist., iii. 350, 587, iv. 569, v. 684, vii. 105; Melvill's Autob., 302, 549; Original Charter Antiq. Museum.]

FRANCIS HERVIE, adm. before 17th 1630 '^^'^* 1^"^^' '^^^^ Rosemarkie also in the charge ; trans, to Yetholm in 1634.

[The parish was vacant in 1650 and was united to Rosemarkie in 1670 by the Commissioners of Teinds.]

SIMON FRASER, born Boleskine, 1806. son of Simon F., shepherd, and Bessie Eraser ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (April 1830); librarian there 1830-4 ; sent by the Glasgow Colonial Society as missionary to Scottish settlers in New Brunswick and ord. by Presb. there, 16th Jan. 1835, to Alnwick and Glenelg, where he was a most zealous and successful pastor, his knowledge of Gaelic proving of the greatest advantage, many of the settlers having come from the Highlands. He returned to Scotland in 1840; called in Dec. 1841 ; adm. here 10th Feb. 1842. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Fortrose, 1843-67 ; died 6th Sept. 1887. He marr. 1846, Eliza Ross, and had issue,— [Gregg's Hist, of Canadian Church, 296, 307 ; Anderson's King's College, 89.]

ROBERT OGSTON YOUNG, born j^g^g Strichen, 10th Aug. 1804, son of Matthew Y. and Margaret Ogston ; educated at Strichen School and King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1824) ; licen. by Presb. of Turriff; ord. 27th Nov. 1845 ; died 3rd Dec. 1886. He marr. 28th Jan. 1841, Jane (died 17th Aug. 1910), daugh. of Alexander Milne, farmer. West Crichie, Old Deer, and Anne Jamieson, and had issue — Catherine, born 27th Feb. 1842; Matthew, captain mercantile marine, born 16th Aug. 1843, died 1886 ; Alexander, naval architect, born 4th Aug. 1847 ; William Ogston Milne, captain mercantile marine, born 30th July 1849, died 9th May 1906 ; Margaret Anne, born 8th Feb. 1851, died 20th Oct. 1905; Henry, born 23rd March 1853.

WILLIAM WILLIAMSON LOWE, jgg,^ licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord. 10th March 1887; dem. 15th May 1890 ; dep. 1904.

WILLIAM GREEN, born 1861, son of 1890 •P®*^'^ ^-J farmer, and Margaret Thom ; educated at Univ. of Aber- deen ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord. 11th Dec. 1890; died at Forres 15th Feb. 1909. He marr. (1) 7th Nov. 1884, Agnes (died 13th Sept. 1897), daugh. of Alexander Grant, draper, and Elizabeth Macfarlane, and had issue — Blanche, born 9th May 1886; Alexander Grant, born 9th Aug. 1889 ; William, born 5th March 1891 : (2) 12th July 1899, Alice Frances, second daugh. of James Low Butchart, Gillingham, Kent, and had issue — Mary Frances Alice, born 10th Jan. 1901 ; Edward Nicholas, born 16th March 1902.

1909

WILLIAM SIMPSON, born South Burreldales, Alvah, Banff, 4th June 1857, son of George S. and Ann Geddes ; educated at Linhead, Alvah, and Milne's Institution, Fochabers, and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1880) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen May 1886; assistant at Rapness, Westray, Bower, Sandhaven, Dreghorn, and Govan ; ord. to St Modan's, Falkirk, 11th April 1905; trans, and adm. 20th Aug. 1909; died at Strathpeffer 11th

10

KILLEARNAN

[PRESn. OF

July 1926. He marr. 1st June 1910, Eliza- beth Macqueen, daugh. of William Smith, min. of Blackbraes, and had issue — Helen Ann, born 17th Jan. 1912 ; William George, born 5th Oct. 1913 ; Elizabeth Mary, born 14th Jan. 1915; Jeanie Leslie, born 31st Mav 1919.

KILLEARNAN.

[The church of this parish was dedicated to St lurnan. Killearnan was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose, held by the Archdeacon of Ross. There was a chapel dedicated to St Andrew within a mile of the parish church, at a place now known as Chapeltown, commonly called St Palmer's Chapel. Here was held yearly on 7th July St Andrew's Fair. Close by was St Andrew's Well, famous for its curative properties.

DONALD FRASER, son of John F., of 1560 *'^® family of Fruid, Tweedsmuir, and nephew of John F., Bishop of Ross, was Archdeacon of the diocese before the Reformation, when he conformed to Protestantism. Famous for his courage and valour, he held the Bishop's Castle of Chanonry for some time against the lairds of Kintail, Balnagowan, Fowlis and Cromarty, and was slain in an engagement between the Gordons and the Forbeses at Tulliangus in 1572. He marr. Elizabeth, daugb. of John Rose of Belivat, son of Hugh Rose of Kilravock, and had issue — James of Tomich, ancestor of the family of Dunballoch ; John of Inchrory ; Alexander, in Culniill, Kiltarlity ; Andrew of Bannans; Katherine ; Mary. — [Chiefs of Grant, iii., 381 ; Mackenzie's Hist, of the Frasers, 717 ; BeUadrum Writs.']

WILLIAM HAY, as vicar of Killearnan -gQ,- in 1559, granted a charter of the vicar's croft to Alexander Mackenzie. He conformed at the Reformation and was still in the parish in 15G9, and in 1580 reader at the cathedral church of Ross. — [Calendar of Deeds, Gen. Reg. Iloxise ; Cromartie Writs.]

ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, reader 1569 in 1569 ; still in office in 1576.

ROBERT GRAHAM, youngest son of ^^rjQ Patrick G. of Inchbraco, and grand- son of William, Earl of Montrose ; pres. to the Archdeaconry 2nd Aug. 1573, in which year he was appointed conjunct commissioner for visiting Caithness and Sutherland. A complaint was made against him in the Assembly in Aug. 1575 that he was not diligent in visitation, and that he had more offices than he could discharge. He was app. commissioner for Caithness and adm. by the Assembly in 1586. At the Assembly of 1587 complaint of his non- residence in the parish was made, but he answered that he had no knowledge of the Gaelic language and had neither manse nor glebe. The kirk, he said, was served at his expense. He afterwards resided, and died in 1602. He was proprietor of the estate of Drynie in Kilmuir-Wester and was the founder of the family of Graham of Drynie, who held that estate till 1874. He marr. Marjorie Dunbar of Albrack, and had issue — George ; Thomas. — [Inq. Ret. Ross, 188 ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 525.]

JOHN MACKENZIE of Inverlaul, Lochbroom (which he acquired from Lovat in 1610), son of Alexander M. of Kilchrist and Agnes, daugh. of Rorie Mackenzie of Hilton ; pres. to the Arch- deaconry of Ross 26th Nov. 1602. In Sept. 1603, during the Raid of Kilchrist, his house was i)lundered by a band of Glengarry men led by Allan Macdonald of Lundie, who was charged at M.'s instance with destroy- ing 27 dwelling houses, barns, byres, the minister's library, 400 bolls of oats, 160 bolls of here, 9 horses, and 70 head of cattle stolen. There is a constant tradition that the church was set on fire and the congrega- tion burned alive, but there is no reference to this in the complaint made by the minister in his action against Allan of Lundie. He died 1635. He marr. 31st May 1606, Margaret, daugh. of William Innes of Calrossie, and had issue— Kenneth of Inverlaul ; Thomas of Inverlaul, min. of this parish; Alexander, died unmarr.

CHANONRY

KILLEARNAN

11

in 1647 ; James, min. of Nigg ; a daugh. (marr. Hugh Koss of Tollie) ; a daugh. (marr. Koderick Mackenzie of Towie) ; a daugh. (marr. Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Coul).— [Douglas's Baronage, 401 ; Hist, of the Mackenzies, 523 ; Bannatyne MiscelL, iii.]

WILLIAM MACKENZIE, M.A. ; prob- ablytrans. from Kilmorack in 1633 ; trans, to Tarbat before 21st Nov.

DAVID MUNRO, mentioned as rector of Killearnan in a charter by John, Bishop of Ross, 29th May 1634, and

in another 6th Feb. 1Q35.— [Charters at

Killearnan.^

THOMAS MACKENZIE of Inverlaul, son of John M. of Inverlaul, min. of this parish ; was a member of the Court of High Commission 21st Oct. 1634 ; adm. to Tarbat in 1633, deserted his charge and went to Ireland in 1635, but returned and adm. here in 1638 ; elected a member of the Glasgow Assembly that year, but charges were brought against him and his commission was rejected. He protested in behalf of the Presb. against the Assembly as constituted and adhered to the declinature by the bishops ; dep. 13th Dec. 1638 and ordered to be excommunicated, "unless he satisfied by repentance." He retired to Inverlaul ; died at CadboU 7th April 1665, and was buried at Fearn. He marr. Agnes, daugh. of Hector Douglas of Mulderg, and had issue — John of Inverlaul ; Thomas, writer, Edinburgh ; a daugh. (marr. Hector Douglas, fifth of Mulderg). — [Baillie's Letters ; Peterkin's Records ; Hist, of the Mackenzies, 523 ; Seaforth Writs ; Allan- grange Writs; Meg. of Deeds, 31st Aug. 1652.]

WILLIAM ERASER of Phopachyj trans.

from Kilmorack and adm. in 1640.

He made a pretence of favouring Presbyterianism but subscribed Seaforth's Remonstrance in 1647, for which he had to undergo discipline in several congregations within the Synod ; trans, (by Commission of Assembly) on account of his knowledge of Gaelic to Second Charge, Inverness, 3rd April 1648.

1651

1662

COLIN MACKENZIE, son of John M., fourth of Hilton, and Margaret Dunbar of Inchbreck ; was min. of Abernethy in 1633, and of Contin in 1641 ; trans, and adm. 1651, and was still in the

charge 20th Oct. 1657. He marr.

Dundas, and had issue — Kenneth, deacon of the Goldsmiths in Edinburgh.— [Mackay's Presb. of Dingivall, 293; Hist, of the Afackenzies, 368.]

JOHN MACKENZIE, natural son of ^ Sir Roderick M. of Coigach, tutor of Kintail ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1631) ;^pres. by John, Bishop of Ross, to the Archdeaconry in 1662 as compensation for his having suffered deprivation and banishment for his loyalty ; died at Tarrell in 1666 and was buried at Tarbat. He marr. Christian, daugh. of Sir John Wemyss of Lathokar, and had issue- Roderick, min. of Avoch ; Colin ; Kenneth, surgeon, Elgin ; George ; Alexander ; John ; James in Meikle Tarrell ;j^ daugh^ (marr. r, lt9o Kenneth, third son of Kenneth Mackenzie of Davochmaluag).— [Law's Mem. ; MS. Hist, of the Mackenzies ; Seaforth Writs.l [WILLIAM DAVIDSON, educated at King's College ; M.A. (12th July 1660) ; as min. here was a consenting party and a witness to an Agreement between the Bishop and Chapter of Ross and Colin Mackenzie of Kilcoy, on 28th Feb. 1669, for the valuation of the lands of Kilcoy, but his signature is not adhibited. He cannot have been Capellanus curatus or Vicai^ius pensionar-ius of the Archdeacon, for Robert Williamson was then and had been for some years minister.]

ROBERT WILLIAMSON, min. in 1664,

witnessed a charter by the Bishop of

Ross, 6th Jan. 1665, mentioned as

min. in 1669, 1678, and 1680, but was dead

in 1686. His tombstone is now buried under

the floor of the church. He marr. Margaret

Burnet, and had issue— Alexander, died Jan.

IQldi.— [Original Charter at Killearnan ;

Allangrange Writs.']

JOHN MACKENZIE, son of Roderick

M. in Ardlair ; adm. about 1686 ; did

not conform to Presbyterianism at

the Revolution but remained in the charge,

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[PRESB. OF

1719

Stipend being paid to him by the heritors ; died it is said " through witchcraft " in 1700. He marr. Annabel Mackenzie (who marr. (2) Thomas Fraser, brother to Belladrum), and had issue— Annabel (marr. Alexander Mackenzie, notary, Dingwall) ; Margaret ; Florence. — \^Allanfjrange Writs ; Belladrum Writs.']

JOHN MACKENZIE, son of Donald 1700 ^^•' known as Donald Carranach, in Ferintosh, intruded in 1700. In Dec. 1708 when Hugh Campbell, min. of Kiltearn, came to preach by order of the Presb. he was assaulted in the pulpit by several persons to the danger of his life, among his assailants being servants of the intruder. M. occupied the manse, was paid his regular stipend and was still officiating in the parish in 1716. In 1721 he was reported as preaching, praying, baptising, and marrying in the parish of Gairloch.— [.(4 llangrange Writs.]

JOHN M'AETHUR, called by the Presb. jure devoluto 13th Jan., and adm. 26th March 1719, his settle- ment being opposed by the heritors and the great body of the parishioners instigated by the preceding min. The heritors refused to pay him his stipend and an action being raised against them, they retaliated by pulling down his manse. He was reduced to such straits that appeals for his mainten- ance were instructed to be made to the General Assembly by the commissioners from the Presbs. within the Synod. He was trans, to Logie-Easter 25th March 1730.

JOHN ROBEPtTSON, born about 1706, son of William R. of Teachnock, factor for Lovat ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th Nov. 1728 ; ord. to Contin 24th March 1730 ; pres. that year by George, Earl of Cromarty, but presentation set aside by the Presb. ; called by the heritors and communicants, Dec. 1730, the Presb. of Dingwall opposed but the General As- sembly sustained call; adm. 1st July 1731; died 25th Feb. 1743. He marr. Katherine (marr. again, and died 30th April 1788), daugh. of Thomas Chisholm, min. of Kilmorack.

DONALD FRASER, pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, July 1743 ; ord. ^'^ 27th March 1744; was obliged to leave the parish during the six weeks the rebels were in the country in 1746 ; trans, to Urquhart (Ferintosh) 2nd June 1757.

DAVID DENOON, born Inverness, 1723, grandson of David D., chamber- ^ ^^ lain to the Earl of Moray ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March 1748); ord. 3rd May 1758. Dissent was still strong in the parish, there being two Episcopal chapels. In 1776 he petitioned the Royal Bounty Committee for a catechist, stating that the parish contained 1300 individuals, that until the Battle of Culloden, the parish min. would not have more than twenty-four hearers on a Sunday ; that " the prejudices against the Church had been deeply rivetted, and like the king's evil continued to be transmitted to the rising generation." He died 2nd Jan. 1792, bequeathing £100 for a bursary at Inverness Academy. He marr. (1) 3rd Nov. 1761, Mary (died 30th April 1767),

daugh. of Inglis of Kingsmills, and

had issue — HughV born 18th Sept. 1762 ; Catherine, born 24th Jan. 1764; David, min. of this parish ; Jean, born 15th June 1766 : (2) 31st May 1779, Janet (died 14th Feb. 1802), daugh. of Daniel Beton, min. of Rosskeen, and widow of John Bethune, also min. of Rosskeen.— [.Sco^s Mag., liv. ; l^omhst.]

DAVID DENOON, born 24th April 1765, son of preceding; educated ^■^^^ at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1784); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 6th Oct. 1789 ; pres. by Kenneth Mackenzie of Cromartie Nov. 1789, and by George III. Feb. 1790 ; ord. (assistant and successor) 3rd March that year ; died 31st Dec. 1806. He was long remembered as a man of culture, gentleness, and piety. He marr. 22nd Aug. 1793, Janet Grant, who died 15th Feb.' 1842, and had issue- Isabella, born 7th Aug. 1796 ; Mary, born 22nd Nov. 1797 (marr. 26th Nov. 1818, John Jamieson, banker, Inverness); David, solicitor, born 16th April 1801 ; Alexander,

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London, born 25tli Nov. 1802 ; Anne, born 26th May 1804; Hugh Grant, born 5th April 1806 ; Charles, born 10th Aug. 1807, died Nov. 1826. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xvii.). — [Tomhst.'\

[The parish was vacant for seven years (1807-14) during a tedious law-suit between Mackenzie of Cromartie and the Crown, regarding the patronage, which was ulti- mately decided in favour of the former in 1814. In the interval, presentations were made by the contending patrons in favour of William Macrae, min. of Barvas, and Thomas Ross, LL.D., min. of Lochbroom.]

JOHN KENNEDY, born 1772, son of Donald K., farmer, Rissel, Kishorn, Lochcarron, and Mary Matheson ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1791); licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 24th Nov. 1795; app. school- master of Lochcarron that year ; ord. assistant at Lochbroom 5th Dec. 1798 (the min. of that parish being under suspension) ; app. missionary at Eriboll in 1802 and at Melness ; assistant at Assynt in 1806; app. in 1812, by the Barons of Exchequer in Scotland, interim min. here until appeal before the House of Lords should be decided. Pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Oct., and adm. 8th Dec. 1814; died 10th Jan. 1841. He was one of the most popular mins. in the North Highlands for his saintly character, his acknowledged abilities and preaching powers. He marr. 1808, Jessie (died 2nd Feb. 1869), daugh. of Kenneth Mackenzie of Ledbeg, of the Earl of Cromartie's family, and had issue — Anne, born 15th May 1809 ; Mary, born 7th May 1810 (marr. James Macdonald, min. of Urray) ; Margaret Jess, born 1st Jan. 1812; Donald, min. of this parish ; Kenneth Mackenzie, M.A. (King's College), medical officer for Killearnan and Knockbain, born 26th May 1815, died 1861 ; Alexander Mackenzie, born 5th Aug. 1817 ; John, D.D., min. of Free Church, Dingwall, born 15th Aug. 1819, died at Bridge of Allan, 28th April

1884, author of The Apostle of the North, and the foremost Highland Free Church- man of his generation ; Jess, born 13th Jan. 1823 ; Neil, medical practitioner. Tain, born 12th April 1828. Publications — Account of the Parish {Neio Stat. Ace, xiv.). — [The Minister of Killearnan in The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire, 157-260, by his son John (Inverness, 1861) ; Memorabilia Domestica, 264 ; Religiotts Life in Boss, 261-7 ; Gaelic Elegy, by John Macdonald, D.D.]

DONALD KENNEDY, born 3rd March 1841 1^1^' ^^^ °^ preceding ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (April 1830) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 16th March 1836; ord. to Newark, Port - Glasgow, 8th Feb. 1838; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie and John Hay Mackenzie, her son ; trans, and . adm. 9th Sept. 1841. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Killearnan, 1843-71 ; died 23rd May 1871. He marr. 16th June 1852, Caroline Isabella (died 22nd Nov. 1893), daugh. of Dr Macdonald, Cromarty, and had issue — Margaret, born 22nd April 1853 ; Jessie, born 1st July 1854 ; Caroline Lsabella, born 3rd June 1856 ; John, in Australia, born 10th Sept. 1858 ; Georgina, born 5th Oct. 1860 ; Margaret Anne, born 2nd Feh.l863.—[Beligious Life in Hoss, 267.]

[ALEXANDER M'INTOSH, pres. by 1848 J*^^'^ -R^y Mackenzie of Cromartie Nov. 1843, but objections having been lodged by several parishioners, the Assembly ordered the Presb. to begin de novo from the sustaining of the presenta- tion. M. resigned the presentation 9th July 1844, and was afterwards min. at Craignish.]

JOHN MACRAE, pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie 25th Dec. 1844; adm. 5th Feb. 1845; trans, to Stornoway 30th Sept. 1847.

1845

PATRICK CAMPBELL, born 27th July 1814, son of Alexander C, min. of Croy ; educated at King's College,

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[PRESB. OF

Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1832) ; niin. of St Clement's, British Guiana, Jan. 1845-8 ; pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie 2nd March, and adm. 27th July 1848 ; died unmarr. 5th Jan. 1860.

WILLIAM MACK AY, born 1836, son of John M., tailor, and Mary INIacgregor ; educated at King's College, Aber- deen; M.A. (March 1845); ord. missionary in Strathglass 1849-56; pres. by the Marchioness of Staiford in March, trans, and adm. 9th May 1860 ; died unmarr. 23rd April 1890.

ANGUS MACDONALD, born at 1890 Griminish, Benbecula, 29th Sept. 1860, son of James M. and Mary Macrury ; educated at Academy and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Uist 24th July 1883 ; missionary at Carinish and Benbecula, 1883-4; ord. to Ullapool 18th June 1884 ; trans, and adm. 27th Nov. 1890 ; app. clerk of Presb. in 1892. Marr.

(1) 5th June 1890, Marion (died 11th Jan. 1893), daugh. of Charles Macleod, tacksman of Scottas, Knoydart, and has issue — James William, served in France with 15th Royal Highlanders of Canada, born 29th March 1891 ; Charles Somerled, served with 15th Royal Highlanders of Canada, born 3rd Jan. 1893, twice wounded, killed in action near Loos 15th Aug. 1917 :

(2) 17th July 1902, Elizabeth, daugh. of Alexander Hector of Burnside, St Cyrus, and widow of John Munro of Lemlair, and has issue — Ranald vEneas Hector, born 22nd Sept. 1903 ; Marion Morrison, born 24th July 1906; Flora Alice Eleanor, born 18th Feb. 1912 ; Mary Diana Anita, born 6th Jan. 1915. Publications— 7%e Clan Donald, 3 vols. (Inverness, 1896, 1900, and 1904) [with Archibald Macdonald, D.D., min. of Kiltarlity]; Collections of Ancient and Modern Gaelic Poetry (Inver- ness, \%\\)\ihid.'\; The Poems of Alexander Macdonald, the Jacohite Bard, tvith a Jiiograj)hy of the Bard and an English Metrical Translation (Inverness, 1924) \ibid.\ Contributions to Scots Peerage, v., 559-65 (Edinburgh, 1904-14) and to periodical literature.

KNOCKBAIN, of old KILMUIR- WESTER, AND SUDUIE.

[These two parishes were united by the Lords Commissioners of Teinds on 14th July 1756.

Kilmuir- Wester. — The parish church was dedicated to St Mary. It was removed from Kilmuir to Knockbain in 1762. At Munlochy, within the bounds, there was a chapel of St John. Another chapel, on the seashore, was dedicated to St Kessog, and gave its name to Kessock Ferry.

Suddie. — The parish church was dedi- cated to St Duthac. Suddie was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. A small part of the parish of Killearnan was annexed to Suddie by the Lords Commissioners of Teinds, 14th July 1756, when the parish was united with Kilmuir-Wester.]

GEORGE DUNBAR, rector of Kilmuir ,P_„ in 1557 ; conformed at the Reforma- tion and is called parson m 1566. In 1563 he had a charter from Henry, Bishop of Ross, of the town and lands of Avoch. He marr. Janet Thomson, and had issue— Sir John of Avoch ; James, afterwards of Avoch.— [7'aw«7{e of Innes, 121 ; AUangrange Writs. '\

JOHN REID, reader in 1568 ; pres. by jggg James VI. in 1569 ; was commissary of Ross in \b2Q.—[Prig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 532 ; AUangrange ]Vrits.'\

JOHN ROSS, pres. by James VI. to the

1573 vicarage in 1573 [afterwards at Tain].

ANDREW MYLNE [or MILL], min. in

1574 1574. [See Avoch.]

1574 JOHN ROSS, reader in 1574.

ALEXANDER URQUHART, formerly

isve °^ Tarbat ; adm. in 1576 with

Ardersier also in his charge ; sus-

))i'nded before \bQ0.—[Orig. Paroch. Scot.,

ii., 532.]

ALEXANDER REID, min. in 1579; j-„ trans, to Kirkmichael in Ross before 1585.

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ANDREW CROMBIE, min. in 1586; 1586 P^®^' ^^ ^^® vicarage by James VI. in 1592 ; trans, to Chanonry about 1594, but returned here before 1597. K JAMES LAUDER, M.A. ; adm. in 1595 ; 1595 trans, to Ardersier after 1596.

ANDREW CROMBIE, abovementioned;

jg ,^ trans, from Rosemarkie in 1597,

which he held in conjunction ; was

Dean of Ross in 1608 ; still min. in 1630.—

[Allangrange Writs ; Belladrum Writs.']

JAMES TROUP, M.A. (King's College, 1638 Aberdeen, 1611); adm. before 2nd Nov. 1638.

JAMES SMITH, educated at King's 1681 College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (27th April 1659); ord. to Dores before 3rd April 1666 ; deprived for not taking the Test in 1681 ; adm. after 10th Oct. that year ; dep. by the Commission of Assembly in 1694 for drunkenness; died in Edin- burgh, 23rd Nov. 1718, aged about 80.

JOHN GRANT, called by the Presb. 1711 ■^"'^^ devoluto 28th Aug., and ord. (at Rosemarkie) 27th Sept. 1711. At a meeting of Presb. on 25th Oct. that year, he reported that, " on the Sunday after his settlement, accompanied by Muirtown, one of his heritors, he went by boat to the church, and when at a small distance from the boat they were surrounded by a great many men and women (about two hundred) who lay in ambush. Some of them had their faces blackened and a few were in women's clothes, some armed with swords (dirks) and heavy batons ; all the women had batons. G. had his hat knocked off and torn in pieces, his head badly cut, and was dragged by his cravat till almost choked . . . the mob still pursuing . . . carried him to the top of a hill, and resolved to have killed him, had not some more tender-hearted opposed this and rescued him. John Mackenzie, who preached in the Episcopal-m.eeting house for that and neighbouring parishes, stood on a rising ground, feeding his eyes with their barbarous usage, and thereafter preached

to the mob, most of them having pieces of G.'s clothes tied or pinned to the most open parts of their bodies, as trophies of victory." Complaint was made to the Lord Advocate, but nothing apparently was done. The General Assembly, 13th May 1712, declared G. transportable to any parish in Scotland and he was admitted to Auchinleck {q.v.) 9th July 1712.

HUGH CAMPBELL, educated at 1721 M^-rischal College, Aberdeen ; be- came chaplain to the Laird of Grange; licen. by Presb. of Forres 16th May 1705 ; ord. to Ardersier 7th Aug. 1707 ; trans, to Kiltearn 7th May 1708 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 26th Oct. 1720; trans, and adm. 4th April 1721; died 18th July 1746. He marr. 16th Feb. 1710, Henrietta (died 24th Dec. 1752), daugh. of Colin Campbell of Delnies and Mary Duff, and had issue — Mary ; William ; Colin ; Catherine ; Archibald ; John ; Hugh, born 28th Dec. 1730; Anne, born 5th Aug. 1733.

ROBERT MUNRO, born 1720, son of jiy .^ John M., min. of Suddie ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue 13th April 1743; called 1st June, and ord. 23rd Sept. 1747; died 27th Sept. 1790. He was noted for his loquacity and sarcasm. He marr. (1) 3rd Dec. 1747, Isabel, daugh. of Colin Graham of Drynie, and had issue — Burnet, born 16th Aug. 1751 : (2) 20th July 1754, Isabel Mackenzie : (3) 6th June 1763, Seymour Munro, who died 8th March \?>\Q.—\Memorahilia Domestica, 284 ; Hist, of the Munros^ 493 ; Tombst,]

RODERICK MACKENZIE, born ._Q^ Cromarty, 1751; educated at Crom- arty School and King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (25th March 1771); licen, by Presb. of Chanonry 29th Aug. 1 775 ; ord. to Contin 18th Sept. 1776; pres. by Kenneth Mackenzie of Cromartie Oct. 1790 ; trans, and adm. (amidst violent opposition) 11th May 1791 ; died 4th July 1835. Known as " Parson Rory," he was a man of unbounded charity, very benevolent and particularly attentive to the poor and

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[PRESB. OF

destitute. He was upwards of six feet in height, with broad shoulders and massive, well-proportioned limbs, and universally allowed to be one of the finest looking Highlanders of his day. He marr. 4th Dec. 1783, Mary, daugh. of Alexander Grant of the family of Sheuglie and sister of Charles G. of Waternish, M.P. (father of Lord Glenelg), and had issue — Catherine, born 26th Sept. 1784 j Alexander, born 13th Nov. 1785, died abroad ; Charles Grant, born 23rd Nov. 1786, died abroad ; Margaret, born 21st May 1789 ; Jean, born 25th Sept. 1790; Mary, born 26th March 1792 (marr. 12th Aug. 1813, John Edwards, sheritf-substitute, Inverness). Publications — Accounts of Contin and of Kilmuir- Wester (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, vii., xii., and New Stat. Ace, xiv.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 284 ; Religious Life in Ross, 275.] Sto^^^^^l j^j^^^ MACKENZIE, born iCTTw-l

5«M *f W.i»,*i^l836 ^^°^^^ 1''^^' educated at King's

W Via**** c*-*- College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March

''^^^ «.%,«4. 1817); app. schoolmaster of Stornoway in

; ** ,' ^ 1819; licen. by Presb. of Uist 2nd Dec.

» 5AU(lt« »**'^824 ; pres. by William IV. 3rd Dec. 1835 ; ord. 31st March 1836 ; died at Inverness

^ytUfU^f^'^^f 11th Dec. 1838, deeply lamented by his II* *^,Jh'»»f*^<'*'^f attached flock./ His wife died before his d #♦ )Jp«*«-«'i*lk admission here. — {Religious Life in Ross,

ffA.lv**- C«M*»*»<275. Gaelic elegy on him by William

<,f*C.*rt*^»,-t«~'*Alison, local bard]. fSc^«vt:*» ge^«^»0

JOHN MACRAE, born May 1794, son of Donald M., farmer, Ardelve, Lochalsh, was a shepherd in early life (his father having suffered serious financial losses thiough the perfidy of a friend) ; educated at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh ; schoolmaster at Arnisdale, Glenelg, and at Uig ; licen. by Presb. of Lewis 7th Sept. 1830; assistant at Gair- loch ; ord. to Cross, Lewis, in 1833 ; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie 4th June, and trans, and adm. 26th Sept. 1839. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Knockbain, 1843-9, Gaelic Free Church, Greenock, 1849-57, Free Church, Lochs, 1857-64, Free Church, Carloway, 1864-71 ; died at Greenock 9th Oct. 1876. After 1843 he was app. to organise and consolidate the

work of the Free Church throughout the Northern and Western Highlands. He was a preacher of great power and origin- ality and enjoyed much popularity, his name of Macrath Mur, being a household word. Hugh Miller called him the last of the Ross-shire ministers. He marr. 26th Dec. 1833, PeneloD6<Cdied 9t]i De(^ 1859,

jed 54), daugh. of Capmin

i^of

1843

Payble, and had issue — John, born 27th '^3/ Oct. 1834, went to Australia ; Donald, born / 28th March 1837 ; Jane, born 20th Aug. 1839 (marr. Donald Macmaster, Free Church min., Kildalton) ; Ebenezer, born 18th April 1841 ; Anne, born 4th Oct. 1844 (marr. Alexander Macrae, Free Church min., Clachan), died 14th Feb. 1919.— [Disrti2)tion Worthies of the Highlands (portrait), 115; Religious Life in Ross, 275 ; Annals of the Disru2Uion, 663 ; Nicolson's ^I'he Rev. John Macrae (Inver- ness, 1895.] •

ROBERT WILLIAMSON, born Ross- shire 1798, son of John W., farmer, and Catherine Ross ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1818); licen. by Presb. of Abertarff 30th March 1825 ; ord, to Croick 25th Sept. 1828 ; trans, and adm. to St Andrew's Church, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 24th Sept. 1840 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th Sept., and adm. 14th Dec. 1843 ; died 25th June 1870. He marr. 26th May 1834, Charlotte Priscilla Lacon, who died s.p, 21st Nov. 1876.

JOHN MACGREGOR, born 1832, son 1868 ^^ Robert M., farmer, Cromdale, and Elizabeth Stuart; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1854); became missionary in Strathglass in 1859 ; ord. to Kinlochluichart, 13th May 1861; pres. by the Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Cromartie; adm. (assistant and successor) 24th Dec. 1868; died 4th May 1892. He marr. 29th July 1862, Isabella Kennedy (died 26th April 1914), daugh. of John Noble, min. of Fodderty, and had issue — John Bingham Baring, born 8th Aug. 1863, died abroad ; Elizabeth Adeline, born 28th April 1866; Annie Mary, born 4th July 1868, died 16th Dec. 1883.

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JOHN DOW, born Caputh, 22n(i April 1863, son of Alexander D. and Janet Robertson ; educated at Madras College and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1886) ; licen, by Presb. of Mull 2nd May 1888 ; ord. to Strathfillan 30th Sept. 1888 ; trans, and adm. 7tli Dec. 1892. Marr. 12th June 1889, Jessie Simpson, daugh. of David Harvey, merchant, St Andrews, and has issue — Daisy Henderson, born 12th Jan. 1891 (marr. 6th Aug. 1919, J. J. Mullins, Sydney, Australia) ; Alastair, tea planter, born 21st June 1892, died 23rd Feb. 1917; Davinia Harvey, born 8th Nov. 1895 ; Ian, born 11th April 1897, died 21st Sept. 1906; Jessie Simpson, born 24th Nov, 1899 ; Leila Annie, born 15th April 1901 ; Catherine Marjory Isabel, born 7th March 1903 ; Beatrice Anna Mackenzie, born 23rd May 1909.

SUDDIE.

ANDREW LESLIE, parson in 1566.— 1566 [Familie of Innes, 121.]

DAVID THOMSON, pres. by James VI. jggg ixi 1569; died IblQ.—iOrig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 538.]

JAMES BUSCHERTT [BUCHART], jg,_- pres. by James VI. in I5l0.—[0rig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 538.]

GEORGE MUNRO of Pitlundie, adm. ,g,y, in 1571 ; Kinettas was also in the charge with the whole chancellary of Ross in 1574. He was selected in 1588 to visit the bounds of Orkney, " where the Jesuits and papists chiefly resort " ; trans, to Tarbat, but returned in 1594 ; trans, to Rosemarkie in 1597. / JAMES LAUDER, M.A. ; min. in 1597 ; -g-,^ trans, to Ardersier that year; pre- centor of Ross in 1607.

GEORGE MUNRO of Bearcrofts, son

of George M., min. of this parish ;

was granted by James VI. in 1586

for seven years the chaplaincy of Clyne,

VOL. VII.

now Mountgerald, " for his support in sus- tanying at the sculis " ; adm. before 1614 ; was a member of the Court of High Com- mission 21st Oct. 1634 and of Assembly in 1639 ; was the only min. in the Presb. who signed the National Covenant in 1638; died after 6th April 1642. He marr. Mary Primrose (died at Edinburgh March 1670), niece of James Primrose, W.S., and had issue — George of Pitlundie, min. of Rose- markie ; Sir Alexander of Bearcrofts, major in an infantry regiment in Ireland, knighted for his services and app. commissioner for Stirling, adm. advocate 26th Feb. 1662, M.P. for Stirling, 1690-1702, died 4th Jan. 1704; Lieut.-Colonel David, killed at the Battle of Worcester, 3rd Sept. 1651.— [Peterkin's Eet. Boss, 98; Baillie's Letters ; Inq. Becords ; Hist, of the Munros, 309.]

JOHN MACKENZIE, formerly of

1644 Urray ; adm. in 1644 ; trans, to Tarbat in 1645.

MURDOCH MACKENZIE, educated

1645 ^^ Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1622); became chaplain to

Lord Reay's Regiment in Germany under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden ; adm. about 1645; dep. 22nd May 1647 by the Commission of Assembly for "preaching and praying before the Earl of Seaforth, and eating and drinking with him and saying grace after his excommunication." He had also signed Seaforth's Remonstrance. On 2nd Sept. 1656 he petitioned the Presb. of Dingwall for reponement, but was refused chiefly on the ground that he had failed to defend himself against the miscarriage that was alleged of him in Tain by " demneing and drinking." He marr. Isobel M'CuUoch, and had issue. — [Mackay's ZTowse of Mackay; Acts of Assembly, 1647, 1648; Mackay's Presb. of Dingivall, 286.]

GEORGE DUNBAR, educated at King's

College, Aberdeen ; adm. before 8th

May 1651 ; was one of the signatories

to the letter of the Presb. of Chanonry

to the Commission of Assembly, 8th May

1651. Still min, 12th April 1661.

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SUDDIE— RESOLIS

[}']{ESB. OF

THOMAS FRASER, born Moray, about 1669 ^^"^^' "^P^^^^' of "William F. of Phopacby; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (9tb July 1664); adm. about 1669 ; was Chancellor of Ross in 1685 ; protested against the Commission of Assembly for the North in 1694; died in April or May 1714. He marr. and had issue— Hugh, on whom he settled the lands of Cruives and Knockbuy ; Isabel (marr. Alexander, son of Hugh Fraser of Eska- dale) ; Katherine (marr. William Fraser in Kilochy). — {AUangrange Writs; Inverness Sas., ix., 284, 288.]

JOHN MUNRO, born about 1690, son of John M., and grandson of Colonel John M. of Lemlair ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 11th May 1714 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 6th March, and ord. 25th April 1716. In May 1719, the Presb. instructed their Assembly commissioners to apply for a part of the public money to defray his expenses in a process for maintenance in his parish. He died last min. of Suddie 13th May 1762. He marr. 18th Jan. 1718, Isabel, daugh. of John Dallas of Bannans, and had issue— Andrew ; John ; Isabel ; Mary ; Hugh— all above 16 years of age in 1744; David, born 2nd Feb. 1733; James, born 12th April 1734; Robert, min. of Kilmuir-Wester. — \_Hist. of the Munros, 493; Tombst.]

RESOLIS, OF OLD CILL MHICHEIL, OH KIRKMICHAEL IN ROSS, AND CULLICUDDEN.

[These two parishes were united by the Commissioners of Teinds on 22nd Jan. 1662.

cm jllhicheil. — Cill Mhicheil was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. Its church was dedicated to St Michael. In 1767 the parish church was removed from Cill Mhicheil to Resolis. At Drum- dyre, within the bounds, there was a chapel of St Margaret, with a Well bearing her name.

Cullicudden. — Cullicudden was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. Its church I was dedicated to St Martin.]

JAMES GRAY, vicar of Kirkmichael and jgQ,^ Cullicudden in \bQl. —{Cromartie Writs.]

ALEXANDER CLUNES, reader Nov. 1570 1570.

1574 WALTER ROSS, reader in 1574.

THOMAS MARJORIBANKS, son of „ Thomas M., burgess of Edinburgh ; was parson of Kirkmichael in 1575 ; still min. in 1586, probably the same T. M. pres. by Queen Mary in 1549 ; witnessed a charter by the Chantor of Ross in 1586. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 556; Munro of Allan Writs; Allangrange Writs ; M' Gill's Old Ross-shire, 24.]

ALEXANDER REID, reader at Suddie jggg 1574 to 1578; adm. to Kilmuir- Wester in 1579 ; trans, and adm. before 1585 ; pros, by James VI. to vicarage 14th March 1586, still in the charge in IQOl.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 559.]

THOMAS YOUNG, educated at Univ. of

St Andrews ; M.A. (1606) ; witnessed

a charter by the Bishop of Ross in

1618, and another in 1635. — [Charters at

Killearnan ; Orig. Charter Antiquarian

Afuseiim.]

ROBERT WILLIAMSON, educated at 1649 I^^'^s''^ College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1626); was referred in 1649 to the next visitation by the General Assembly, and was one of the signatories to the letter by the Presb. to the Commission of Assembly 8th May 1651 ; still min. on 28th Aug. 1655.— [Di7igwall P^-esb. Peg.; Acts of Assembly, 1649; Urquhart's Jetvel.]

JAMES HOUSTON, educated at 1662 Marischal College, Aberdeen ; adm. before 22nd Jan. 1662; died probably in 1714 without conforming to Presby- terianism. He marr. Jane Fouler, and had issue — George, merchant, Fortrose ; David. — [Services of Heirs ; Inverness Sas., v., 730 ; Laing Charters, 2927.]

THOMAS INGLIS, born 1684 ; licen.

1715 ^y Presb. of Inverness 30th Sept.

1713; pres. by Sir William Gordon

of DalfoUie, and by Sir Kenneth Mackenzie

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of Cromartie in Feb., and ord. 26th May 1715 ; died 27th July 1747. He was, for his meekness and gentleness, known as "The Lamb of Cullicudden." He marr. 28th Oct. 1725, Anne (died 7th July 1742), daugh. of

Urquhart of Braelangweli, and had

issue — Anne (marr. James Calder, min. of Croy) ; Thomas William, went to Jamaica — all above 16 years of age in 1744 , Jean, born 31st Aug. 1731 ; John, born 12th July nM.—[Tombst.]

HECTOR MACPHAIL, born Inverness, w. 1716; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1st April 1737); licen. by Presb. of Inverness 20th Dec. 1746; called unanimously 18th July, and ord. 27th Sept. 1748; died 23rd Jan. 1784. He has been described as " one of the most deeply exercised Christians of his time." He marr. (1) 28th Oct. 1755, Elizabeth (died 5th Dec. 1758), daugh. of John Balfour, min. of Nigg, and had issue — Isobel, born 7th Aug. 1757 : (2) 13th Nov. 1759, Anne Cuthbert of the Castlebill family, who died 9th March 1795, and had issue— Jean, born 27th Aug. 1760 ; Paul, born 23rd Oct. 1761 ; Magdalene, born 18th July 1763 ; George, born 16th Nov. 1764 ; James, min. of Daviot, born 27th Feb. 1766; Elizabeth, born 14th Sept. 1768; William, min. of Scottish Church, Piotterdam, born 1771. — [Steven's Scot. Church, Jiotterdam, 243; Memorahilia Domestica, 265; TombsL]

ROBERT A R T H U R, born Buchan, j„^. 1744 ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1767) ; pres. by William Gordon of Newhall in June, and ord. 21st Sept. 1774; died 11th May 1821. He marr. (1) 17th June 1777, Anne, daugh. of Captain John Munro of Braemore, and sister of Colonel jNIunro of Pointzfield, and had issue — George Munro, born 14th March 1778 ; Thomas, captain, Engineer Corps, Madras, present at storm- ing of Seringapatam in 1799; died at Travancore, India, 1st May 1817; Elizabeth, born 27th March 1781 (marr. Alexander Gunn, min. of Watten) ; May, born 1782 (marr. 23rd Sept. 1802, Charles Munro of Berryhill) ; James Innes, Demerara, born 22nd July 1785, died at sea 20th Aug.

1816 : (2) 19th Feb. 1793, Janet Maclennan :

(3) 14th March 1797, Margaret Gunu, and had issue — John, born 21st March 1798; Robert, born 15th Oct. 1799; George, born 30th March 1802; Anne Munro, born 5th April 1804 (marr. (1) 14th July 1820, Captain William Gallic, 78th Highlanders, (2) Captain John Mathe- ^ son of Bennetsfield), died 13th Feb. 1849 : '^

(4) 30th May 1805, Mary (died 21st May 1826), daugh. of John Turner of Turnerhall and widow of James Rainy, min. of Old Meldrum. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xiv.). — [Eoss Tests. ; Memorabilia Domestica, 266 ; Hist, of the Munros, 550.]

DONALD SAGE, born 20th Oct. 1789, 1822 ^°^ °^ Alexander S., min. of Kildonan, Sutherland ; educated at Dornoch School, Marischal College, Aberdeen, M.A. (1808), and Univ. of Edinburgh ; became tutor in the families of Sheriff Mackid, Kirktown, Golspie, and Matheson of Atta- >/ dale, Lochcarron ; licen. by Presb. of Loch- carron in 1815 ; ord. by Presb. of Dornoch missionary at Achness 8th Nov. 1816 ; adm. to Gaelic Chapel, Aberdeen, 1st Feb. 1821 ; pres. by Donald Mackenzie of New- hall Sept. that year ; trans, and adm. 2nd May 1822. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Resolis Free Church, 1843-69; died 31st March 1869. The Sutherland Clearances of 1819 occurred during his ministry at Achness, where he and his entire congregation were driven from their homes. Summonses of ejection were issued and dispatched all over the district to a population of 1600. His farewell services at Achness and Achna-h'uiaghe " were felt," he wrote in his Memorabilia, "by myself and by the people from the oldest to the youngest, to be among the bitterest and most overwhelming experiences of our lives. ... I selected a text which had a pointed reference to the peculiarity of our circum- stances, but my diflSculty was how to restrain my feelings till I should illustrate and enforce the great truths which it involved with reference to eternity. The service began, the very aspect of the congregation was of itself a sermon, and

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a most impressive one. I preached and

the people listened, but every sentence uttered and heard was in opposition to the tide of our natural feelings, which, setting in against us, mounted at every step of our progress higher and higher. At last all restraints were compelled to give way. The preacher ceased to speak, the people to listen. All lifted up their voices and wept, mingling their tears together. It was indeed the place of parting, and the hour. The greater number parted never again to behold each other in the land of the living." He marr. (1) 21st July 1821, Harriet Gordon (died 7th May 1822), daugh. of James Robertson of Naval Hospital, Barbados, and Pitstrunie, Aberdeenshire : (2) 20th June 1826, Elizabeth (died 25th Jan. 1889), daugh. of William Mackintosh, min. of Thurso, and had isue— Christina Sutherland, born 1st Aug. 1827 ; Alexander, born 14th Nov. 1828 ; Isabella Fraser, born 24th May 1830; William M'Intosh, born 22nd May 1832 ; ^neas John, born 21st Nov. 1833 ; James Macintosh, born 12th Sept. 1835 ; Elizabeth Catherine, born 24th June 1838, died at Inverness 26th Feb. 1923 ; Donald Fraser, ord. min. at Parkhill, Ontario, 1874, adm. min. of Free Church, Keiss, 1880, died 1890; Richard Ramsay, born 31st Aug. 1843 ; Christina Camilla Jane, born 26th Sept. 1846 (marr. 1872, Donald Sutherland, min. of Free Church, Kilmonivaig), died Dec. 1923. Publications — Account of the Parish {New Stat. Ace, xiv.). He left in MS. a mass of inter- esting genealogical and ecclesiastical re- miniscences, part of which was edited by his son Donald, under the title Memorabilia Domestica, or Parish Life in the North of Scotland (Wick, 1889, 2nd ed., 1899).

JOHN MACKENZIE, born 1792, 1843 ^"^^ ^^ Donald M. of Taagan, Gair- loch, and Isabella, daugh. of Simon Mackenzie of Oldney ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (28th March 1812) ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 1st April 1817 ; ord. missionary at Glen- moriston 13th May 1818 ; trans, to Rogart 17th Sept. 1823; pres. by Mackenzie of

Newhall ; trans, and adm. 28th Sept. 1843 ; died 19th Sept. 1870. He marr. 6th June 1826, Mary (died 20th May 1855), daugh. of Colin Mackenzie, min. of Stornoway, and had issue— Duncan Simon, min. of Gairloch, born 19th Sept. 1827; Colin, min. of Ardclach, born 2nd Aug. 1828 ; Simon, born 26th March 1830 ; Alexander Roderick, student of divinity, born 13th Nov. 1831, died 16th Aug. 1853 ; Roderick, surgeon, H.E.I.C.S., born 11th Dec. 1833, died at Bombay 25th May 1857 ; Jane, born 27th Nov. 1835, died 2nd Jan. 1853; Ninian Francis, born 2nd May 1839, died 1st April 1856. Publications — Speaking the Truth in Love, a sermon (Edin., 1847) ; Account of Rogart {New Stat. Ace, xv.). ^ ^^-^wvj,

ROBERT GUMMING MAC- 1871 DOUGALL, born 13th April 1839, son of James M., schoolmaster, Moy, and Mary Gumming ; educated at Raigbeg and Grantown Schools, King's College, Aberdeen, and Univs. of Aberdeen and Glasgow, 1860-4 ; became missionary at Campbeltown, Oct. 1865, at North Knap- dale, March 1866 ; ord. Royal Bounty missionary at Tayvallich (Inveraray), 18th Dec. that year ; adm. to Fort Augustus in 1867 ; assistant at Kilmonivaig, 1868-70 ; pres. by J. A. Shaw Mackenzie of Newhall 6th Jan., and adm. 30th March 1871 ; died 1st Aug. 1911. He was immersed in the lore of the Puritans and filled with the spirit of the Covenanters, a strong opponent of all innovations in Church worship and an earnest upholder of the Protestant faith, a good classical scholar and an eloquent speaker and preacher. He marr. 26th April 1876, Jean Maclean (died 27th June 1882), daugh. of James Paterson, farmer, Thurso, and Betsy Mackay, and had issue— James, engineer, Hudson Bay Company, born 4th Feb. 1877 ; Donald Joseph, born 29th Oct., and died 18th Nov. 1878; Bessie Paterson (twin), born 29th Oct. 1878 ; Mary Gumming, born 17th, and died 28th Oct. 1879. Publica- tions— Memoir of the Rev. Hector Mac- phail, minister of Resolis. Contributions to periodical literature chiefly on local and Church history.

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ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, M.A. ; 1912 ^^^^^- ^^^ adm. from Lairg 18th Jan. 1912 ; trans, to Kiltearn 14th Oct. 1920.

RODERICK MACKENZIE, born Kishorn, 16th Dec. 1864, son of Donald M, and Isabella Mackenzie ; educated at Old Aberdeen Grammar School, Univ. of Glasgow, and Assembly's College, Belfast ; Keen, by Northern Presb. of the Free Presbyterian Church Jan. 1895; ord. to Free Presbyterian Church, Portree, 25th Jan. 1895 ; adm. to Kintail 16th March 1898 ; trans, to Urquhart (Inverness) 26th Nov. 1908 ; trans, and adm. 8th March 1921. Marr. (1) 20th Feb. 1896, Annie (died 15th Feb. 1911), daugh. of Samuel Campbell and Marion Maclean, and has issue — Morag Campbell, born 8th March 1897; Isabella Flora, M.B., Ch.B., born 16th Sept. 1898 (marr. 11th June 1924, Victor Edmond Milne, M.B., Ch.B., D.Ph., Birmingham) ; Duncan Archibald, marine engineer, born 19th Sept. 1901 : (2) 30th April 1913, Annie Jane, daugh. of John Macdonald and Marjorie Douglas.

CULLICUDDEN.

DAVID DUNBAR, held this charge before the Reformation, when he conformed to Protestantism. In 1557 he witnessed a charter by David, Bishop of Ross ; in 1571 as parson he granted a discharge to William Ross of Priesthill, and in 1580 gave a tack of the teind sheaves to Robert Graham ; died in 1580. — [Charter of 1557 at Killearvan ; Munro of Allan Writs ; Cromartie Writs.]

WILLIAM MUNRO of Coul, son of Hugh M. of Ferrytown of Obsdale, ^^^° latterly of Coul; was reader, 1574-8; pres. to the parsonage by James VI. in 1580 ; still min. in 1608. He marr. Isobel, daugh. of Donald Thornton of Balgary, and had issue — Robert of Coul, min. of Farr ; Hector, min. of Edderton ;

Alexander ; Hugh of Ardullie ; Christian (marr. Andrew Munro of Lemlair). — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 553 ; Hist, of the Munros, 383.]

THOMAS RAPE, born Ross-shire, younger brother of William P., min. of Dornoch ; adm. to Rogart in 1590 ; was a member of Assembly in 1610 ; trans, and adm. in 1614 ; still min. 29th May 1634. — [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum; Orig. Charter at Killearnan; Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 249 ; Reg. Mag. Sig., vi., 799.]

CHARLES PARE, probably son of preceding ; adm. before 2nd Nov. ^^^^ 1638 ; was clerk of Presb. ; still in the charge 28th Aug. 1655. The parish was vacant in 1662. — [Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 270.]

ROSEMARKIE.

[The chancellor of the diocese of Ross held the prebend of Rosemarkie in the Cathedral of Fortrose. Its parish church was dedicated to St Peter. At Rosemarkie St CuradaiXvas buried, and there his relics were shown to pilgrims, as were also those of St Moluoc. Rosemarkie had a Well of St Peter, and kept a fair in his honour.]

GEORGE DUNBAR, probably brother of David D., min. of Cullicudden ; ^^^° vicar from 1560 to 1566, having been pres. by Queen Mary in 1549, and had evidently conformed at Reformation. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 567.]

JOHN ROBERTSON, min. in 1574, 1574 having Chanonry in conjunction.

ALEXANDER HEPBURN, Bishop of 1576 Ross, min. in 1576.

1576 WILLIAM HAY, reader in 1576.

GEORGE MUNRO, chancellor in 1586 1586.

^<».lcoc$ S't • n<a<*^t^<s»>^c4'

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ANDREW CROMBIE, trans, to Kilmuir - Wester in 1596 or 1597; ^^^ returned in 1599.

GEORGE MUNRO, trans, from Suddie 1597 in 1597 ; trans, to Chanonry in 1599.

ANDREW CROMBIE, above men- tioned ; min. in 1599, with Kilmuir- Wester also in his charge. He was app. by the Assembly in 1600 to visit the bounds of Moray, and had the appoint- ment renewed the next year. He was Dean of Ross in 1607, and still min. 8th Feb. 1630. — [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum ; Orig. Charter Bishop of Hoss at Kil- learnan."]

PATRICK DURHAM, min. in 1633 and dean of Ross in 1636.— [Or?V/. Charter Bishop of Hoss at Kil- learnan.]

JAMES AINSLIE, educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (25th July ^^^^ 1624); adm. before 11th Feb. 1635; was one of the few who read Archbishop Laud's Service-Book as appointed by the bishop in 1637 ; was still min. 2nd Nov. 1638.— [Berj. Mag. Sig., ix., 355.]

GEORGE MUNRO of Pitlundie, son 1642 °^ George M., min. of Suddie ; had a gift of the chaplaincy of St Laurence, called the chaplaincy of Elgin, in the Cathedral of Moray, from James VI. in 1616, for his support and maintenance at the schools ; adm. before 4th Oct. 1642. On 22nd Dec. 1646 he renounced his adher- ence to Seaforth's Remonstrance against the National Covenant and acknowledged his " frailty " in putting his hand to that "perfidious Bond." In the "references" of the Commission of the Assembly appointed in 1649 for visiting the Kirk of Ross, " the furder tryall of G. M., minister at Rose- markie, is referred to a commission to sit at Aldearne ad hunc actum only, the first tuesday of November next till appoynt, witnesses thereanent to be cited be the

presbrie of Chanonrie, and that the said presbrie have a care of the said Mr George his chairge." He was one of the signatories to a letter of the Presb. to the Commission of Assembly, 8th May 1651, approving of their proceedings ; died before 21st Sept. 1686. He marr. Barbara, daugh. of James Forbes of Tolmads, and Agnes, daugh. of John Forbes of Campbell, and had issue —John, writer, Edinburgh ; Agnes (marr. 1643, Captain James, son of Duncan Forbes of Culloden) ; Janet (marr. (1) Alexander Ross of Nether Pitkerrie, min. of Fearn: (2) Duncan Davidson); Margaret (marr. John, son of Colonel John Munro of Lemlair). — \^Inq. Req. Ross, 98, 145; Lumsden's House of Forbes, 25 ; Hist, of the Munros, 309.]

DAVID ANGUS, schoolmaster of Nairn ; passed trials before the Presb. of Forres and was recom- mended for licence 2nd Nov. 1675 ; adm. before 1689 ; deprived for not praying for King William and Queen Mary ; removed to Fortrose and was charged before the Privy Council, 22nd May 1693, with having publicly preached and exercised the minis- terial function within his own house and parish and elsewhere without qualifying himself by signing the Oath of Allegiance, and his deprivation was confirmed and he was further prohibited from preaching or exercising any ministerial function. He went to Edinburgh, and died in the Canon- gate in 1717. — [Chambers's Dom. Ann. ; Services of Heirs.]

HUGH ANDERSON, ord. before 29th ,„„. March 1694; trans, to Drainie 17th '''* Aug. 1698.

GEORGE GORDON, adm. 25th April ,„-- 1700; trans, to Cromarty 1st April ^'°° 1707.

1708

ROBERT FINLAY, son of William F. in Tarvcs ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (8th March 1699) ;

served heir to his father 20th Dec. 1700;

licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 25th Dec. 1704;

called by the Presb. juj-e devoluto 27th

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July, and ord. 23rd Sept. 1708 ; died 4tli Dec. 1733. He has been described as "a pious and sincere pastor, assiduous and faithful in his sacred office." He marr. (pro. 30th July 1709) Katherine, daugh. of David Denoon, bailie of the Canon- gate ; she was recommended by the Assembly, 21st May 1736, to the Synods of Ross, Sutherland, Caithness and Moray for chaTity.— [Services of Heirs ; Tombst.]

JOHN WOOD, born 1701 ; chaplain to i'734 ^^'^ William Gordon of Invergordon ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 22nd March 1732 ; called 4th July, and ord. 11th Aug. 1734; died 10th Nov. 1775. Under his ministrations a revival of religion took place in 1744 and he was then " waiting in the expectation of still greater things." He gives an account of this awakening in a letter recorded in Gillies's Historical Collections, 455. He marr. (1) 5th April 1739, Anne (died 27th April 1745), daugh. of Collector Ogilvie, BanfiF, and had issue — a child who died young : (2) 17th June 1747, Sophia (died 28th May 1803), daugh. of Alexander Irvine, min. of Elgin, and had issue — Alexander, min. of this parish ; Anne, born 4th Oct. 1749 ; John, born 25th July, and died Oct. 1752 ; John, born 24th Nov. 1753; Mary, born 24th Feb. 1755 ; Sophia, born 8th Jan. 1758 ; Charles, min. of Wiston, born 27th Dec. 1759 ; William, born 15th Dec. 1761 ; James, commander Racer, cutter, Bristol Channel, born 12th March 1764, died 16th Nov. 1817; George, born 12th March 1766; David, born 25th June 1767 ; Joseph, went to Jamaica, born 29th July 1770, died 21st Feb. 1811 ; Andrew, major in army, born 26th June 1772, died 20th July 1834. Publication — Letter on the Revival in Parish of Rosemarhie (Robe's Monthly History, 1744). — [Religious Life in Ross, 252.]

ALEXANDER WOOD (primits), born j^„_ 9th Oct. 1748, son of preceding ; educated at King's College, Aber- deen ; M.A. (2nd April 1765) ; licen. by

Presb. of Chanonry 12th Dec. 1769 ; pres. by George III. 27th Feb., and ord. (assistant and successor) 19th Sept. 1770; died 22nd Aug. 1808. He marr. 4th Dec. 1773, Janet (died 6th Dec. 1829), daugh. of Alexander Houston, provost of Fortrose, and grandson of James Houston, min. of Kirkmichael (Ross), and had issue — Sophia, born 4th Oct. 1775 (marr. 29th Dec. 1792, James Fowler of Grange, Jamaica) ; John, born 25th Aug. 1776; Janet, born 28th Aug. 1779 (marr. 2nd March 1805, James Dallas, min. of Contin) ; Anne Baillie, born 19th June 1782 (marr. 6th Nov. 1805, John Watson, Jamaica); Charlotte, born 29th June 1783 ; Alexander, min. of this parish ; William Abraham, born 16th May 1786; Henrietta Georgina Jacobina, born 23rd Oct. 1787 ; George Urquhart, born 28th April 1789 ; Jemima, born 7th April 1792. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xi.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 281 ; Tombst.l

ALEXANDER WOOD (secundus), born 10th April 1785, son of preceding; educated at King's College, Aber- deen ; M.A. (28th March 1803) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 14th July 1807 ; pres. by George III. Oct. 1809. A tedious law suit regarding the patronage was instituted by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie, who presented William Ander- son, licentiate. The case was decided in her favour by the Court of Session and affirmed by the House of Lords July 1814. Anderson withdrew acceptance having been settled at Kippen, whereupon Mrs Mackenzie pres. A. W. Jan. 1815, and he was ord. 16th Feb. 1816 ; died 8th Jan. 1874. The Woods were mins. of this parish for 140 years, one of the longest family successions in the history of the Church. He marr. 18th Dec. 1821, Agnes (died 27th March 1861), daugh. of Adam Walker of Muirhouselaw, Roxburghshire, and had issue — Alexander, born 5th Dec. 1822, died at Lancefield near Melbourne, Australia, 3rd March 1858 ; Katherine Gairdner, born 24th Sept. 1824 (marr. 23rd April 1845,

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Donald M. Rose) ; died 1st Aug. 1851 ; Janetta Fowler, born 20tli May 1826, died July 1831. Publication — Account of the Parish {]Veiv Stat. Ace, x\i.).— [Religious Life in Boss, 253.]

JAMES M'DOWALL, born Glenluce, „g- Wigtownshire, 1833, eldest son of j

James M., fisher ; educated at Glen- luce, Campbeltown Grammar School, and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glas- gow; assistant in Low Church, Kilmarnock, Kinross, and in this parish ; pres. by Queen Victoria 18th Feb., and ord. (assistant and

successor) 9th May 1861 ; died unmarr. 2nd Aug. 1910.

ROBERT SHAW MASTERTON, 1908 ^°™ Tillietudleni, Lesmahagow, 6th March 1877, son of James Boe M. and Agnes Shaw ; educated at Hamilton Academy and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1899) ; licen. by Presb. of Kintyre in 1902 ; assistant at Buenos Aires, Dumfries, Shettleston, and in this parish ; ord. (assistant and successor) 20th Aug. 1908, Marr. 30th Sept. 1913, Helen M'Kean, daugh. of Peter Craig, Glasgow, and Helen M'Kean.

PKESBYTERY OF DINGWALL

[We have no evidence of the existence of this Court before 21st November 1638. The Kegister of the Presbytery begins at 19th June 1649. There are gaps in its record from 30th March to 19th May 1663, from 12th April 1688 to 13th September 1716, and from 7th April 1762 to 13th July 1774.]

ALNESS.

[Alness was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. There were chapels in this parish at Fyrish and Culcraigie. Another stood at Kildermorie {Celtaii- M huiri = the Shrine of Mary). There were also Wells of St Mary and St Columba.] THOMAS BOSS, son of Nicolas R., provost of the Collegiate Church of Tain (who was present in Parliament in 1560 and voted for the suppression of Popery) ; parson of Alness in 1560 ; suc- ceeded his father as Abbot (titular) of Fearn in 1566; died 4th Feb. 1595. He marr. Isobel (died 1603), daugh. of Alex- ander Kinnaird of Culbin, and had issue — Walter of Morangie ; William ; Andrew, burgesses of Tain ; Barbara (marr. Andrew Mornson). ~[Balnagowa7i Writs ; Reid's Geneal. of Bosses, 55 ; Tai7i Sheriff-Court Writs; Taylor's Hist, of Tain, 51, 59; Bain's Hist, of Ross, 126 ; Religious Life in Ross, 113.]

JOHN DAVIDSON, called vicar in 1560 1560.

JOHN WATSON, was charged in the Assembly, 28th June 1565, with "leav- ing his vocation," and was ordered to return "under pain of disobedience to the kirk."— [Booke of the Kirk.]

ALEXANDER MORISON, exhorter in 1571 1571 ; reader in 1574.

ROBERT ROSS of Kinloch, second son

jgg of Donald Ross of Shandwick ; min.

in 1588 ; was a member of Assembly

in 1610. He built the manse, west end of church and bell-house in 1625. In 1630 he dem. in favour of Thomas Ross, min. of Fearn, whose translation does not seem to have taken place, R. R. being still min. in 1636 ; died in 1648, He marr., and had issue — William of Shandwick, min. of Fearn ; John ; Thomas, min. of this parish ; Andrew, min. of Corton ; David, min. of Logie-Easter ; Esther (marr. Hugh, son of Hector Munro of Fyrish) ; Catherine (marr. Farquhar Munro of Teanoird).— [Calder- wood's Hist, vii., 105 ; M'Crie's Sketches, i., 149 ; Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum ; Balna- goivan Writs ; Charter by Bishop of Ross at Killearnan ; Reg. Mag. Sig., ix., 380.]

THOMAS ROSS, born about 1613, son of preceding ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1634); min. in 1635 ; dep. in 1648, which sentence was approved by the Assembly on 24th July 1649. The Assembly recommended his reponement, which was given effect to by the Presb. 9th Oct. that year.— [Mackay's Records of Dingwall Presb., 153 ; Charter by Bishop of Ross at Killearnan.']

JOHN MUNRO, of Culcraigie, son of Alexander M., min. of Durness ; adm. 7th July 1649. On 20th Aug. 1650 he informed the Presb. that he was denied admission to his manse, Thomas Ross, the preceding min., being still in possession, and R. was ordered to remove ; app. chaplain to the Laird of Thornton's regiment ; died in 1662. "He was a man of great readiness and considerable learning." He marr.

1649

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Catherine Abernethy, and had issue- William ; John ; George ; Andrew ; Isa- bella (marr. Robert Munro of Findon family) ; Christian (marr. Andrew Munro, min. of Thurso). — [Mackay's Presh. of Dingwall, 192.]

WALTER ROSS, son of David R. of 1664 Balnagowan ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (27th April 1659); adm. in 1664; was clerk to Synod in 1671; died after 1690. He marr., and had issue — Hugh. — \^Scot. Antic/., v., 158 ; Mackay's Presh. of Dingivall, 371.]

JOHN M'KILLICAN of Alness ; licen. 188*7 ^^ ^^® Presb. of Aberdeen and received by that of Forres 28th March 1655; adm. to Fodderty 26th Feb. 1656; deprived by Act of Parliament 11th June and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662 ; dep. May 1663. Complaints were lodged against him in 1667 for holding conventicles with Thomas Hog of Kiltearn. In 1668 complaints were lodged against him by the bishop, in consequence of which he was imprisoned in the Tolbooth of Forres. After his release he returned to Alness, and another prosecution followed in 1674, when he was obliged to go into concealment, but in Sept. 1675 he dispensed the Lord's Supper in the house of the Dowager Lady Munro of Fowlis at Obsdale. For this he was carried prisoner to Fortrose, Nairn, and Edinburgh, sent to the Bass in the end of 1677 till the indemnity granted 11th July 1679, when he was liberated. He was again summoned before the Privy Council 18th Jan. 1683, and fined £277, to remain in prison till paid. After six months' imprisonment at Edinburgh he was sent to the Bass, but released on account of his health, and under bond 27th July 1686, and went to Alness. After Toleration had been given to the Presby- terians, 5th July 1687, he built a meeting- house on his own property with the money he received for the dama.ge done to his property by the party of soldiers sent by Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Findon in 1675 to prevent the celebration of the communion at Obsdale. He received a call from Elgin

which he declined, and accepted a call to Inverness, but he was not settled there ; died 8th June 1689. He marr. (1) Catherine, daugh. of John Munro of Balchraggan, and had issue — John, min. of Lochalsh ; Daniel, min. of this parish ; Janet (marr. Alexander Munro of Kilchoan), and four others : (2) Margaret, third daugh. of Donald Mackenzie of Meddat, who survived him. — [Wodrow's Hist., iii., 435; The Bass Rock, 235-59; Inq. Ret. Ross, 151.]

JOHN ERASER of Pitcalzean ; during jggg the reign of Charles II. suffered great hardships on account of the stand he took against the Episcopal govern- ment of the Church. He was imprisoned at Newgate and was afterwards sent to Dunnottar Castle. In Sept. 1685 he was banished by the Scottish Privy Council to the American Plantations, where after a voyage of seventeen weeks he landed at New Jersey ; licen. to preach in New England, and took charge of a congregation at Woodbury, Conn. ; he returned to Scot- land at the Revolution and was ord. to Glencorse 23rd Dec. 1691. As a Gaelic speaker he was app. by the General Assembly to supply in Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness, and trans, and adm. here 6th Nov. 1695; died 7th Nov. 1711, aged about 53. He marr. in America, Jean, daugh. of James Moffat, farmer, Nether- barngs (on the Selkirkshire side of the Tweed, opposite Abbotsford). She had suffered persecution like himself, survived him and marr. (2) George Gordon, min. of Cromarty), and had issue — John, a youth of high promise, died 9th June 1712; James, min. of this parish ; Catherine (marr. John MArthur, min. of Logie-Easter); Isobel. Publication— Xe^^er to Hugh Rose of Kil- ravock regarding Sabbath Profanation (Family of Kilravock).— [7/e?-io< Sess. Reg. ; Eraser on Sanctification (Life) ; Family of Kilravock ; Bass Rock, 168 ; Wodrow's Hist., iv., 332 ; Services of Heirs ; Inverness Sas., viii., 419 ; Cloud of Witnesses, 531 ; Toru'oodlee MSS. ; Stewart's Covenanters of Teviotdale, 198-211 (gives a full account of Jean Moffat's sufferings) ; Briggs' American Presbyterianism, 122 ; I'ombst.'\

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DANIEL M'KILLICAN, son of John 1714 ^^'' ^^^' °^ *^^^ parish ; licen. by Presb. of Dunfermline 30th April 1701; ord. to Kilmuir-Easter 25th Sept. 1701 ; called by the Presb. jure devohito 27th Jan. and 22nd July 1713 ; trans, and adm. 24th Sept. 1714. During the Kising of 1715 he encouraged his parishioners to support the Government, and accompanied as chaplain Sir Robert Munro's (Fowlis) detachment on their way to join the army under the Duke of Argyll. In resentment, the rebels under Seaforth took possession of the village of Alness, "spulzied and carried off the Presbyterial library of Dingwall with two parochial libraries which were lodged in the manse, with all M.'s own manuscripts, books, moveables, household plenishing, and body clothes to the value of 4000 merks." The manse itself was so dilapidated that his family were obliged to reside elsewhere from the beginning of Sept. 1715 to March 1716. His case was recommended to the Lord High Commissioner (Earl of Rothes) by the Assembly, 27th May 1718, when the Procurator and Agent were appointed, 16th May 1720, to concur in a " process of spulzie " at the public expense. He died in June or July 1723. He marr. (pro. 25th June 1715) Christian, daugh. of William Stuart, min. of Kiltearn, and had issue.— [^c^s of Assembly, 1718, 1720; Bain's Hist, of Ross, 267, 270; Religious Life in Ross, 44.]

JAMES ERASER of Pitcalzean, Nigg, j^26 b*3™ 1Q95, youngest son of John F., min. of this parish; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (11th April 1715); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 6th Nov. 1723 ; called, 11th June, by the Presb. jure devoluto, and ord. 17th Feb. 1726 ; died 5th Oct, 1769. A certain section of the congregation (Episcopalian) opposed his settlement. On the day of his ordination, the Presb. found the doors of the church barred, and the service was held in the churchyard, where F. was obliged to preach for several Sundays. In a short time the opposition ceased, and he became one of the

most popular ministers in the North. He was a correspondent of Robert Wodrow, to whom he suggested the writing of a treatise on witchcraft. He marr. 24th April 1735, Jean (died 13th March 1778), daugh. of Captain Donald Macleod of Geanies. Publications— TAe Scripture Doctrine of Sanctification (an exposition from the Calvinistic standpoint, which had an immense circulation all over Europe and America) (Edinburgh 1774) ;Ze<<er<o^o6er< Wodrow, min. of Eastwood (Law's Mem., Pref,).— [.4c^s of Assembly, 1719; Religious Life in Ross, 45 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Memorabilia Domestica, 317.]

ANGUS BETHUNE, born 27th June j^^^j 1742, son of John B., min. of Glen- shiel ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1764) and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Gairloch 8th Oct. 1766 ; ord. 23rd Aug. and adm. to Harris 28th Sept. 1768 ; pres. by George III. in 1770; trans, and adm. 25th Sept. 1771; died 19th Oct. 1801. He was chaplain of the 71st Foot. He marr. (1) 25th July 1772, Catherine, daugh. of Colonel Andrew Munro of Lemlair, and had issue — Janet, born 10th Jan. 1773 ; John in Berbice, born 2nd Oct. 1774, died 18th April 1819 ; Christian, born 12th Sept. 1778, died 1869 ; Rose, born 12th March 1780 (marr. Donald Ross, min. of Loth); Harry Munro, born 12th July 1781, died 12th March 1784 ; Hector, min. of Dingwall, born 12th Aug. 1782 ; Duncan, born 3rd May 1785, died 1790 ; Anne, born 16th Dec. 1786 (marr, 4th April 1820, Roderick Reach, solicitor, Inverness, some- time proprietor of the Inverness Courier, and was mother of Angus Bethune R. (1821-56), author of Clement Lorimer, The Natural History of Bores, and other works); Hugh Munro, born 22nd Nov, 1789 ; Catherine, born 10th Aug. 1792 (marr. 8th Feb. 1820, John Maclennan of Lynedale in Skye) : (2) 21st Sept. 1796, Janet Mary (died 7th March 1846), daugh. of Joseph Munro, min. of Edderton. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, x\.^.).—\_Dict. Nat. Biog. for Angus B. Reach.}

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ALNESS— CARNOCH

[PRKSB. OF

HECTOR BETHUNE, born 12th Aug.

1802 1"^2, son of preceding; pres. by the

Hon. Mrs Maria Hay ilackenzie of

Cromartie in April, and ord. 28th Sept. 1802 ;

trans, to Ding\vall 31st July 1820.

ALEXANDER FLYTER, born Elgin, 1820 ^^^^' ^°" °^ James F., builder, and Elizabeth Robertson ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (29th March 1805) ; became schoolmaster of Fearn ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th March 1810; ord. to Chapel - of - Ease, Rothesay, 23rd March 1811 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Aug., trans, and adm. 12th Oct. 1820. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Alness, 1843-66 ; died 6th Jan. 1866. Tall and erect, with a snow-white head, a thoughtful brow, and an expression of finely blended firmness and gentleness, he was a conspicuous figure wherever he went— a man greatly beloved. He marr. 6th July 1814, Elizabeth (died 1863), daugh. of Ronald Bayne, D.D., min. of Kiltarlity, and had issue — Eliza, born 11th Sept. 1817 (marr. Andrew David- son Mackenzie, min. of Free Church, Beauly) ; James, born 8th Oct. 1819, died in early manhood ; Maria Hay Mackenzie, born 5th Dec. 1820 (marr. 22nd Dec. 1842, John Murray Mitchell, LL.D., Indian missionary) ; Isabella Bently, born 10th July 1822 (marr. Charles Ross, min. of Free Church, Tobermory) ; Ronalda Catherine, born 1st May 1825 ; Margaret Bayne, born 11th May 1828.— [Disruption Worthies of the Highlatids (portrait), 37-44 ; Annals of the Disrujytion, 93.]

JAMES MORRISON, born Croy about 184S ^^^'^ ' educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1836) ; be- came schoolmaster of Dores ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall in 1841 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie, and ord. 6th Dec. 1843; died 30th Oct. 1881. He marr. 30th May 1844, Margaret (died 3rd July 1885), eldest daugh. of Alexander Cormick, Collector of Excise, Inverness, and had issue — James, born 3rd April 1845 ; Jane Isabella, born 9th Dec.

1846 ; Mary Margaret, born 1st May 1851 ; Alexander Cormick, born 27th Nov. 1853 ; Julia Corbet, born 22nd Nov, 1856.

JAMES MACHARDY, adm. (assistant and successor) 20th March 1872 ; trans, to Latheron 5th July 1880.

1881

WILLIAM LESLIE WALLACE BROWN, born Starr, Kennoway, Fife, 2nd June 1848, son of Robert B., feuar, and Agnes Scott ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1874); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 16th May 1877 ; assistant at St John's, Dundee, 1880-1 ; ord. (assistant and successor) 6th Jan. 1881 ; died 17th March 1918. He marr. 26th Nov. 1889, Glorianna (born 1837), daugh. of William Colville Livingston Learmonth of Craigend and Glorianna Mackenzie, and widow of Maxwell Gordon, Kenmure Cottage, Portobello. Publications — Letters from Sunny Shores (Inverness, 1896) ; Sundays in the Highlands (Inverness, 1896). '

JOHN MARTIN, born Glasgow, 18th

1918 ^^^- ^^^■^' ^°^ °^ ^^^^ ^" ^^*^ Catherine Maclnnes ; educated at

High School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.

(1903) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in 1906;

assistant at Kelvinside ; ord. to Calderbank

28th Sept. 1910; trans, and adm. 19th

Sept. 1918,

CARNOCH {Q.S.).

[A parliamentary church was built in Strathconan in 1830. The parish of Car- noch was disjoined from Contin on 16th March 1864.]

JOHN MACKENZIE, born Gairloch, 1799 ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; became schoolmaster of Kiltearn ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th March 1828 ; ord. missionary at Strath- conan 25th Nov. 1829 ; pres. by William IV. 23rd July, and adm. 28th Sept. 1830. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of

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Free Church, Lochgilphead 1843-64; died at Edinburgh 8th Nov. 1864. He marr. 27th April 1835, Georgiana Robertson (died 30th Nov. 1874) daugh. of Angus Kennedy, rain, of Dornoch, and had issue —Donald, born 13th Aug. 1836, went to Canada ; Ann, born 27th July 1838 (marr. 19th Nov. 1866, Murdoch Macdonald, D.D., rain, of Free Church, Nairn, and Melbourne, author of The Covenanters in Boss and Moray) ; Murdoch, died in infancy ; Anne, born 9th Feb. 1842 • Margaret Parker, died young ; Isabella, born 20th July 1846 (marr. 2nd Nov. 1869, William Mackenzie of Bov?enfels, New South Wales).

PETER MACINTYRE, born 1816, son 1844 ^^ Donald M., farmer, Kilchrenan, Argyll ; educated at Univ. of Glas- gow; M. A. (1827); pres. by Queen Victoria; Old. 1st May 1844 ; died 7th May 1847.

ALEXANDER MACNAUGHTON, 1848 1^^^"* ^y Presb. of Selkirk ; mission- ary at Killin, Perthshire ; pres. by Queen Victoria ; ord. 8th March 1848 ; died 1st June 1852.

WILLIAM CHARLES MIDDLETON GRANT, pres. by Queen Victoria 18th Oct. 1852; ord. 3rd March 1853 ; trans, to Durness 6th Aug. 1856.

JAMES CAMERON LEES, pres. by 1856 Q^^^'^ Victoria 17th Sept., and ord. 27th Nov. 1856; trans, to Second Charge, Paisley Abbey 1st Sept. 1859, He preached at Carnoch on the occasion of his jubilee as an ordained minister (cf. Vol. I., 62). Additional Publications— An Election Sermon, from the Liberal Point of Vieiv (Paisley, 1868) (replied to by James Dodds with an Election Sermon from, the Conservative Point of View) ; Biographical Sermon on John Keble (Paisley, 1870); Leaves from My Log, or a Sail to Scandinavia (Paisley, 1874) ; Rollicking Toxir in Ireland (Paisley, 1877) ; Tour in the Land of the Gael (Paisley, 1878); M'Stottie's Tour [Rev. Rory M'Rory] (Edin- burgh, 1880); Heathen Scotland to the Introduction of Christianity (St Giles Lectures, 1st ser.) (Edinburgh, 1881);

Mohammedanism (ibid., 2nd ser.) (Edin- burgh, 1882); Bishop Ewing (ibid., 3rd ser.) (Edinburgh, 1883) ; The Greek Church (ibid., 4th ser.) (Edinburgh,' 1884) ; St Giles' Prayer Book (Edinburgh, n.d.) ; joint editor of Guild Text Books ; many sermons and addresses on various occasions.— [Maclean's Life of James Cameron Lees, 72-96.]

JAMES SKINNER MACKENZIE, j^ggQ M.A. ; pres. by Queen Victoria 15th Nov. 1859; adm. Slst Jan. 1860; trans, to Little Dunkeld 5th July 1866.

JOHN MACDOUGALL, born Argyll- j _ shire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. missionary at Fort Augustus in 1864; pres. by Queen Victoria 21st July, and adm. 26th Sept. 1866; suspended for inefficiency 27th May 1897 ; died 21st Jan. 1910. — [Life of James Cameron Lees, 92.]

JOHN MACLEAN, ord. 28th Sept. 1897; 1897 trans, to Lochalsh 19th April 1910.

CHARLES HEUGHAN, M.A., ord. 4th 1910 ^^P*- 1910; trans, to Newcraighall 8th Nov. 1912 ; trans, to Hutchesontown, Glasgow, 29th March 1917 ; trans, to Con- dorrat 7th Dec. 1921; trans, to Carntyne 16th Sept. 1926 ; trans, to Forth 3rd June 1927.

JOHN SELLAR, M.A. ; ord. 1st May jgj^g 1913 ; trans, to Urquhart and Logie- Wester 4th Oct. 1918.

ROBERT BARR MTICAR, born 1919 Coupar-Angus 16th May 1874, son of Peter M., min. of Original Seces- sion Church, Dundee, and Charlotte Barr ; educated at Harris Academy, Dundee, and Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Original Secession Presb. of Perth and Aberdeen 30th July 1902 ; ord. to Original Secession Church, Aberdeen, 6th May 1903 ; trans, to Free Church, Glenlyon, 27th Feb. 1908; trans, to Free Church, Dumfries, 19th Aug. 1916 ; trans, and adm. 14th March 1919 ; trans, to Carmylie 22nd Sept. 1926. Marr. 14th Feb. 1908, Ina, daugh. of Allan Boath and MaryLawson, and has issue — Charlotte, born 8th Dec. 1909; Margaret, born 5th March 1911; Peter, born 8th Feb. 1913; Robert Barr, born 26th June 1914.

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CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE

[PRESB. OF

CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE.

[These parishes were united in the sixteenth centurj'.

Contin. — The church of Contin was founded by St Malrubh. Contin was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. Contin church stands, with its manse and glebe, on an island in the river Abhuinn Dubh (" Black Water "'), called of old the Rasa. The site is very ancient, and was probably chosen for a burial place secure from wild beasts. The access cannot have been easy in early times. From the Strath Conan side it must always have been very difficult. St Malrubh's Well was beside the church. A famous tryst, called Feill Mhalrnibh (St Malrubh's Fair), was long held at Contin. Near Coul, within sight of the church, is the ancient graveyard of Preas Maree (St Malrubh's Grove), now the burial ground of the Mac- kenzies of Coul.

Strathgarve. — The church of Strathgarve was dedicated to St Finn.]

ADAMSON, min.

in

DONALD 1574 1574.

1576 JOHN GLAS, reader, 1576 to 1591.

ROBERT BURNETT, vicar at the jggiy Reformation, appears on record as vicar of Contin and canon of Ross in 1581.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 505.]

ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, son of

1614 I^oderick, son of Rory Mor M. of

Achilty, was min. in 1614, still min.

8th Feb. 1630. He marr. Margaret Aber-

nethy.— [0?-tj7. Charter Antiq. Museum.}

MURDOCH MACKENZIE, adm. in jggg 1636 j tratts. to First Charge, Inver- ness, 3rd Sept. 1640.

COLIN MACKENZIE, trans, from 1641 ^bernethy and adm. 12th May 1641 ; dep. by Commission of Assembly 22nd May 1647 for preaching and praying before the excommunicated Earl of Seaforth and eating and drinking with him. He had also subscribed the Remonstrance. He was required by the Presb. to make his

repentance in the churches of Dingwall and Contin ; reponed shortly thereafter and adm. to Killearnan in 1651.

DONALD ROSS, educated at King's jggj College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1619); adm. to Lochbroom before 2nd Feb. 1636 ; suspended for malignancy and immorality, the sentence being approved by the Assembly in July 1649 ; reponed by the Presb. 3rd Dec. 1650 ; trans, and adm. 22nd July 1651 ; still min. 16th June 1674. —[P. C. Reg., 2nd ser., vi., 182.]

JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; adm. in jg_. 1674 ; trans, to Lochbroom before 4th Sept. 1683.

ANDREW ROSS, adm. in 1684; trans. 1684 *° Urquhart and Logie- Wester 24th Sept. 1685.

^NEAS MORRISON, son of John M. 1689 ^^ Bragar, judge of the Lewis; edu- cated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1679, and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (28th March 1683) ; adm. before 1689. He refused to conform to Presbyterianism and gave much trouble to the Presb. by his irreverent conduct and defiance of that authority ; dep. 12th June 1716, "for sundry atrocious practices, and for joining in a wicked and ungodly rebellion for the subversion of the Protestant religion and introducing Popery by endeavouring to set a popish pretender on the throne." Notwithstanding his de- position he continued to discharge his duties in the parish and is last mentioned 22nd Aug. 1739, as officiating within a mile of his former charge ; died at Castle Leod, in Strathpeffer, shortly thereafter. Known as " Black Angus," he was noted for his generosity and good fellowship. Many stories are told of his sayings and doings. He was also a composer of Gaelic verse in a light vein, some of which scarcely befit his character as a clergyman. He marr. Anne, daugh. of Donald Mackenzie of Logie, in Lochbroom, through whom the small property of Doirenamuc in that parish jjcame to him, and had issue — Donaldl; a daugh. (Mrs St Clair), who left £80 to the poor of the parish. — [Pitteiitveem Counc. Beg.] »VC»»^. f-v-^--'"'"— ■^'■■^■^,n> ff.

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DONALD MACLEOD, MA. ; called by ,^ the Presb. jure devoluto 12tli April, and ord. ISth May 1720; trans, to Lochalsh 3rd July 1727.

JOHN ROBERTSON, called by the j^gQ Presb. jure devoluto 14th Oct. 1729 ; ord. 24th March 1730; trans, to Killearnan 1st July 1731.

MURDOCH MACKENZIE, M.A. ; 1732 ^^^^^^ March, and ord. 20th Sept. 1732; trans, to Dingwall 30th July 1741.

JOHN MACLENNAN, educated at the Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (6th May 1725) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 22nd April 1735; became missionary at Strathglass ; called 22nd July and ord. 27th Sept. 1742 ; died 28th April 1775, aged about 70. He marr. 7th Feb. 1752, Helen Grant, who died 3rd March 1804, and had issue— John, born 4th April 1753, died 11th Nov. 1764; Alexander, M.D., born 7th May 1754 ; Janet, born 8th Dec. 1756; Margaret, born 17th Jan. 1758; Louis, born 27th Jan. 1760; George, born 28th June 1761 ; Isabel, born 17th Oct. 1762, died 22nd Dec. 1763 ; Elizabeth, born 11th Oct. 1764 (marr. 23rd Feb. 1804, William Tulloch, Calcutta), died 25th Nov. 1815 ; John, born 5th Jan. 1766 ; James, born 11th Aug. 1769. — [Macaulay's St Kilda; Tombst.]

RODERICK MACKENZIE, M.A. ; -,_„ called 12th June, and ord. 18th Sept. 1776 ; trans, to Kilmuir-Wester and Suddie 11th May 1791.

JAMES DALLAS, born 1753; licen. j^gg by Presb. of Nairn 1st Aug. 1786; was schoolmaster and missionary at Stornoway Feb. 1787 ; afterwards school- master at Kincardine ; pres. by George III. 9th March and 8th June 1791 ; but not ord. till 13th Aug. 1793, owing to a charge of simony for which the Assembly, 24th May 1793, believed there was no foundation ; died 18th Sept. 1825, and was described as "a straightforward, honest man." He marr, (1) Margaret, sister of James Clark,

bailie of Inverness : (2) 2nd March 1805, Janet, second daugh. of Alexander Wood, min. of Rosemarkie, and had issue— Alex- ander, born 23rd Jan. 1806; Margaret Forbes, born 13th Dec. 1813.— [Family of Dallas, 474 ; Religious Life in Boss, 56.]

CHARLES DOWNIE, born 1804, son of jggg Alexander D., D.D., min. of Lochalsh ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1818-22; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 29th Nov. 1825; pres. by George IV. 12th Dec. that year; ord. 26th Aug. 1826; died 11th Jan. 1852. He marr. 16th Nov. 1831, Flora (died 19th March 1846), daugh. of Kenneth Mackenzie of Inverinate, W.S., and sister of Thomas M. of Applecross, and had issue — Jane Catherine Mackenzie, born 15th Dec. 1832, died 10th April 1849; Janet, born 18th May 1834 ; Alexander, born 4th May 1836, died 5th March 1846 ; Charlotte (marr. Alexander Mackenzie) ; Kenneth Mackenzie, surgeon in Australia. Publica- tion— Account of the Parish {j!^ew Stat. Ace, xiv.).

COLIN MACKENZIE, born 13th Sept. jgg- 1814, son of John M., min. of Loch- carron ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (April 1830) ; became schoolmaster of Knockbain ; adm. to Petty 26th Oct. 1843; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th April, trans, and adm. 12th Aug. 1852 ; died 12th Nov. 1862. He marr. 11th Dec. 1850, Eliza Sophia (died 13th July 1893), daugh. of Captain Henry Walker of Castle Stuart, Inverness, and Wilhelmina, daugh. of William Chalmers, M.D., Professor of Medicine, King's College, Aberdeen, and had issue— Elizabeth Fairburn, born 6th Oct. 1853, died 16th Sept. 1872 ; Wilhelmina Chalmers, born I7tla April 1855, died 23rd March 1927 ; Henrietta Walker, born 4th March 1858, died 25th June 1876.— [Abe)-deen Geneal., 8.]

JOHN WILLIAM TOLMIE, born

Uiginish 22nd May 1831, second son

of John T., tacksman, of Uiginish,

Skye, and factor for Macleod of Macleod,

and Margaret Hope, daugh. of Dr Donald

Maccaskill, Eigg ; educated privately and at

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Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1850) ; became missionary atFort Augustus in 1853 ; ord. to Strontian 12th Sept. 1854 ; trans, to Bracadale 28th Feb. 1856 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 16th March, trans, and adm. 1st July 1863; died in Edinburgh 25th July 1886. He marr. 16th Dec. 1858, Christina Mary (died 6th July 1917), daugh. of Alexander Macdonald of Vallay, and Flora, daugh. of Captain Duncan Macrae of Inverinate, and had issue — John in H.M. llegister House, Edinburgh, born 14th Oct. 1859, died 15th June 1923; Alexander Macdonald Cornfute, min. of Southend, born 7th April 1861 ; Margaret Hope, born 10th Jan. 1863 (marr. Archibald Macdonald, D.D., min. of Kiltarlity) ; Mary Macrae, born 17th Sept. 1864 (marr. 12th June 1901, Robert Macgregor Smith, Insurance official, Edinburgh) ; Flora Macdonald, born 4th July 1866 (marr. 1888, Charles HoflFmann Gore Weatherall, M.R.C.V.S., Allahabad), died in Bombay March 1914 ; Hugh Maccaskill, born 20th June 1868, died 13th Nov. 1908; Gregory, born 23rd Jan. 1871, went to New Zealand ; Catherine Mac- donald, born 15th, died 29th May 1873 ; Anne Milne, born 6th June 1874, died 16th March 1875 ; Alexandrina Williamina, born 10th May 1876.

JAMES DUNCAN MACRAE, son of 1884 Alexander M., schoolmaster of Loch- carron, and Catherine Macpherson ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; became schoolmaster of Knoydart ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 27th July 1876 ; ord. to Burghead 2nd May 1877 ; trans, to Clyne 12th Sept. 1878 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 24th Dec. 1884; died 7th Sept. 1905. He marr. 29th March 1883, Christina, daugh. of Peter Robertson, Abernethy, and had issue — Catherine Mac- pherson, born 15th Jan. 1884 ; James Peter Robertson, born 26th Aug. 1887, died in Buenos Aires, 3rd Aug. 1918.

ANDREW COLQUHOUN MACLEAN,

born Bally groggan, Campbeltown,

26th Dec. 1873, son of Neil M., and

Margaret Colville ; educated at Glcnbarr

and Killean Schools and Univ. of Glasgow ;

licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 27th April 1898 ;

ord. to Lochranza 30th June that year ; trans, and adm. 24th Jan. 1906. Marr. 25th March 1913, Catherine Ada i\Iary, younger daugh. of Henry Ross, Brisbane, Queensland, and Georgina Fanny Alicia Hillcoat, and has issue— Nigel Ross, born 11th Aug. 1914; Cairina Ross, born 26th June 1916 ; Sheila Ross, born 26th March 1918 ; Henry Ross Colquhoun, born 28th Nov. 1922. Publica- tions— Notes on Contin Church (1914); Until the Daxj Break (A Book of Prayer) (Dingwall, 1916).

DINGWALL.

[The church of Dingwall was dedicated to St Colin. It belonged to the Priory of Pluscarden. There were within the bounds chapels of St Laurence and St Clement. A fair of St Malrubh was transferred from Contin to Dingwall.]

WILLIAM MUNRO, son of Sir William 1561 ^^' °^ Fowlis, and Ann, daugh. of Lachlan Og Maclean of Duart ; was pres. by Queen Mary in 1551 to the chaplainry of St Monan, Balconie ; min. 1561 to 1566; died before \bm.—[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 484 ; Hist, of the Munros, 33.]

ROBERT MUNRO of Creichmor, min.

, ^^. of Urquhart and Logie-Wester ; had 1574 , ^, . ,^^ ° '

charge here in 1574.

1574 WALTER ROSS, reader in 1574.

DONALD ADAMSON, trans, from 1576 Urray. In 1569 James VI. pres. Donald Adamson, an instructor and teacher of the youth within the church of Dingwall, to the chaplainries of St Laurence in Dingwall, and Artafallie in Killearnan. In that year he was exhorter at Dingwall. He returned to Urray in 1585.

ROBERT PHILIP, pres. to the vicarage 1579 in 1519.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 484.]

WILLIAM MACQUEEN, pres. by James VI. to the parsonage and vicarage in 1585. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 484.]

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JOHN MACKENZIE of Tollie, son of jggj^ Murdoch M. of Fairburn ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1582) ; adm. about 1591 ; pres. by James VI. in 1594; was one of the four nominated by the General Assembly, 25th June 1595, to act with the Presb. of Inverness, " because of their weakness"; pres. by James VI. to Glenelg, Snizort, Kilmuir, Kilmartin, Kilmore iu Sleat, Kilchrist, Kilmaluag in Trotternish, and to the parsonage and vicarage of Lemlair; died at Dingwall, 22nd April 1620, aged about 58. He acquired the lands of Tollie. He marr. (1) Margaret (died 27th Oct. 1601), daugh. of Patrick Grant of Ballindalloch, and had issue— Murdoch of Tollie, died 8th Sept. 1626 : (2) a daugh. of Thomas Eraser of Struy, and had issue— Pioderick of Tollie ; Kenneth, killed at Battle of Worcester, 3rd Sept. 1651 ; Alexander, a min. ; Catherine (marr. Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig) ; a daugb. (marr. Murdoch Mackenzie of Pit- glassie) ; a daugh. (marr. Thomas Dingwall of Knockshirlie) ; a daugh. (marr. Alexander Grant, min. of Urquhart) ; Annabella (marr. Duncan Mackenzie in Tarbat. — [Edin.Tests.; Booke of the Kirk ; Hist, of the Mackenzies, 513 ; Inq. Ret. Ross, 139 ; Gener., 6290.]

1620

MURDOCH MACKENZIE, educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (25th July 1612); nominated one of a Com- mission for the Maintenance of Church Discipline 21st Oct. 1634, and in 1637 he was one of the few who introduced Laud's Service-book to their parishioners. Not submitting to the authority of the Glasgow Assembly of 1638 he was dep. in 1639. An Act was passed by the Assembly, 11th Aug. 1648, "declaring him incapable for ever of the ministry." The Commission of Assembly in 1649 ordered that before he be absolved he must acknowledge not only in word but also in writing his "manifold prevarications," and particularly the equity of the sentence of the Assembly and their Commission at Auldearn. He refused to subscribe a declaration in these terms drawn up by the Presb., whereupon they resolved to excommunicate him. After prolonged negotiations he submitted,

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made public acknowledgment of his guilt and repentance in the churches of Ptose- markie, Killearnan, and Alness, and was absolved in the church of Dingwall June 1650. He was alive in 1657, but does not appear to have occupied a charge. He marr. Annabel Mackenzie, and had issue — Alexander, joined Montrose's campaign : William, 2nd Jan. 1655, craved supply from the stipend of Fodderty, but the Presb. refused as his father was able to maintain him at college ; Elizabeth. — [iMaitland MiscelL, ii. ; Acts of Assembly, 1648; Baillie's Letters ; Ardintoul MS. ; Hist, of the Mackenzies.]

JOHN MACRAE, born 13th March 1614, son of Farquhar M., min. of Kintail ; educated at Grammar School, Fortrose, and Univ. of St Andrews, M.A. (where his rival for honours was the Earl, afterwards Duke of Lauderdale), and Aberdeen ; pres. by George, Earl of Sea- forth, and adm. in 1640. He became a bitter opponent of Presbyterianism, and in 1658 was rebuked for his " litigiousness, needless contention and untractableness, his stubbornness, selfishness, his tediousness, misapplication of scripture, seeking pas- sages savouring of much bitterness and disaffection, and his pertinacity and loquaciousness." After 1660 the minute of censure was deleted and characterised on the margin "as shameless lying and the spirit of lying and malice." He died Aug. 1673. He marr. (1) Agnes, daugh. of Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig, and had issue — Alexander of Conchra; Duncan, bailie of Dingwall ; Catherine (marr. Donald Ross of Knoekcartie) ; Isabel (marr. Lauchlan Mackinnon of Corry, Skye) : (2) Florence Innes, heiress of Balnain in Urray, and had issue — John ; James, who succeeded in right of his mother to Balnain. — [Ardin- toul MS. ; Hist, of Macraes, 142 ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 6315 ; Macrae's Dingivall, 299.]

JOHN MACRAE, son of Alexander M. of Inverinate ; educated at ^^''^ Aberdeen; M.A. (12th July 1660); became schoolmaster of Dingwall ; recom- mended for licence by Presb. of Dingwall 4th March 1665 ; ord. to Kilmorack in 1667 ;

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PRESB. OF

pres. by Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth, and inst. 1st Feb. 1674. Under the Episcopal government of the Church he was Treasurer of Ross ; continued without conforming to Presbyterianism ; died Jan. 1704, and was buried in Dingwall. He left a MS. History of the Mackenzies, known as the Ardintoul MS., and a ]\IS. History and Genealogy of the Macraes. He marr. before 21st July 1673, Janet Bayne of Knockbain, and had issue — Alexander, became a Roman Catholic priest in Strathglass, and founder of the mission still carried on at Dornie in Kintail, died at Scots College, Douai ; John ; Christopher, born 1682 ; Roderick, born 1692; Mary (marr. Roderick Dingwall of Ussie) ; Janet (marr. John Tuach of Logic) ; Agnes (marr., cont. 9th Dec. 1687, John Mackenzie, brother of Alexander M. of Applecross), — {Services of Heirs ; Hist, of the Macraes, 70 ; Ardintoul MS. ; Tombst.']

[DONALD BAYNE, son of Sir Donald B., fifth of Tulloch, and a daugh. of Mackenzie of Applecross ; became chaplain in Lieut. - General Murray's regiment in Flanders; called 14th July 1708, but not settled. Such was the opposition on the part of the Episcopalians that no Presby- terian min. could be settled in the parish for twelve years after the death of last incumbent. When the min. of Kiltearn went there early in 1704 to declare the church vacant, the service was interrupted by a company of armed men, one of whom presented a pistol at the min. in the pulpit and commanded him to be gone. B. con- tinued in the army and was chaplain to Colonel John Lamy's regiment at the Bosch Nov. 1736. —[Macrae's Dingwall, 112.]]

JOHN BAYNE, born about 1690, son ^ of John B., Dingwall, descended from the Tulloch family; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Earlston 31st May 1715; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 28th Aug., and ord. 20th Sept. 1716; died 3rd Feb. 1737. On 24th June 1733 the church was totally destroyed by an accidental fire raised by

Kenneth Bayne, writer, Dingwall, shooting at a pigeon. He marr. Ann (who survived him and marr. (2) Robert Munro of Miltown of Katewell), daugh. of Peter Bethune of Culnaskiach and Jane, daugh. of Sir Robert] Munro of Fowlis, and had issue — John, born 2nd March 1720; Ann, born 22nd March 1721 ; Christian (marr. Gilbert Robertson, min. of Kincardine) ; Jean (marr. 14th Oct. 1766, Captain William Douglas of the Marines). — {Kiltearn Sess. Rec. ; MS. Account of the Baynes of t Tidloch ; Allangrange Writs ; Macrae's Dingwall, 112, 302, 334.]

MURDOCH MACKENZIE, trans, from 1741 ^ontin ; called 23rd July 1740 ; adm. 30tli July 1741, his settlement being so strongly opposed by his co-presby- ters that it was proposed in the Commission of Assembly to have them rebuked at the bar at their next meeting ; trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, 13th July 1742.

ADAM ROSE, born 1713; educated at j,^^g King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1733) ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 3rd Dec. 1741 ; called 8th Feb., and ord. 27th April 1743 ; died 21st March 1780. He marr. 4th Oct. 1744, Isobel (died 11th Sept. 1781), daugh. of Daniel Beton, min. of Rosskeen, and had issue — Grissel, born 13th July 1745; Janet, born 16th Aug. 1753, died 16th June 1767; Daniel, min. of this parish ; Adam, born 20th Oct. 1757 ; Isabel, born 20th Nov. 1760; Margaret, born 8th May 1762, died 30th June 1767.— {Geneal. of the Bethunes.]

DANIEL ROSE, born 6th Jan. 1755, -wgo eldest son of preceding ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1771); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 16th Oct. 1776 ; pres. by George III. 8th July, and ord. 21st Sept. 1780. He was an eloquent preacher. He visited France and was present when the Bastile was invested and taken by a revolutionary mob on 1 4th July 1789; died 7th Jan. 1805. Publica- tion — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, iii.).— [Macrae's Dingwall, 334 ; 7^ombst.]

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ALEXANDER STEWART, trans, from Moulin ; pres. by George III. 8tli June, and adm. 26th Sept. 1805; trans. to Canongate, Edinburgh, 13th July 1820.

HECTOR BETHUNE, born 12th Aug.

1782, son of Angus B., min. of Alness ;

educated at King's College, Aber- deen ; M.A. (27th March 1800) ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 31st March 1802 ; ord. to Alness 28th Sept. that year; pres. by George IV. 24th Aug., trans, and adm. 31st July 1820; died 31st Dec. 1849. He marr. 26th May 1807, Jane (died 5th July 1878, aged 90), daugh. of Kenneth Mac- kenzie of Millbank, third son of Sir Alex- ander M., Bart., of Gairloch, and had issue —Anne, born 26th March 1808 (marr. George Cranston Mackidd, M.A., Dingwall); Catherine Munro, born 2nd Feb. 1810, (marr. Captain Thomas Powrie Ellis, H.E.I. C.S) ; Angus, rector of Seaham, born 8th March 1811 ; Kenneth, born 4th Sept. 1812, died at Wellington, New Zealand ; Duncan Munro, lieut. - colonel 9th Foot, Order of Medjedieh, born 29th Jan. 1815; Jane, born 26th Jan. 1817 (marr. Frank Harper, farmer, Torgorm) ; Alexander Mackenzie, born 2nd Nov. 1821, died 1st Nov. 1823 ; Janet Munro, born 24th May 1824; Alexander Mackenzie (twin), secretary P. & O. Company, born 24th May 1824; John Hugh, born 19th March 1827, went to New Zealand ; Hector Roderick, born 6th Feb. 1831, died at Aber- deen 16th Oct. 1853.

WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, born Dor- 1850 ^°^^' 1822, son of John S., merchant, and Christina Mackay ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1840) ; missionary at Fort Augustus in 1843; ord. to Harris 20th Sept. 1844; trans, to Laggan 24th Sept. 1846; pres. by Queen Victoria 23rd March, trans, and adm. 17th Oct. 1850; died 9th Jan. 1867. He marr. 26th Dec. 1844, Isabella Clark, who died 12th Nov. 1896.

JAMES ERASER, pres. by Queen Vic-

ise? *°"^ '^*'^ March 1867; trans, from

Tarbert and adm. 25th Oct. that

year; trans, to Logierait 12th Sept. 1872.

RONALD MACALISTER, eldest son of jow„ Ronald M., farmer, Kilchrenan ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to Gaelic Church, Paisley, 4th Aug. 1864 ; trans, to Cromdale 1st May 1869 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th Feb., trans, and adm. 1st May 1873 ; died at Manse of Advie 1st July 1901. He marr. at Rosneath, 2nd Nov. 1869, Euphemia (died 10th Jan. 1911), daugh. of Thomas Edleston, merchant, Liverpool, and had issue— Euphemia Eliza Norah, born 3rd Dec. 1870 (marr. John Liddell, min. of Advie).

JAMES ROSE MACPHERSON, born Old Aberdeen, 7th Jan. 1853, youngest son of Robert M., D.D., Professor of Divinity, Aberdeen ; educated at Gymnasium, Old Aberdeen, and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1872), B.D. (1875); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 6th Jan. 1875; assistant at High Church, Inverness, and Sandyford, Glasgow ; ord. to Kinnaird 1st July 1879 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 5th Jan. 1899 ; died 29th June 1921. He was well known for his wide sympathy with all Evangelical movements, was a regular speaker at the Keswick Convention and a missioner of the Church of Scotland, carrying on this work chiefly in rural parishes. He was also Lecturer to the Palestine Exploration Fund. He marr. 16th March 1880, Marjorie Louise, eldest daugh. of John Carmichael, Glasgow, and Jane Ann Brown, and had issue — Jane Ann, born 9th Feb. 1881 (marr. 16th July 1921, John Marshall, Belfast and Egypt) ; Anne Mearns, born 25th April 1882, died 8th Feb. 1883; Marjory Louisa, born 1st Feb. 1884, died 13th Dec. 1893 ; Robert Duncan Mearns, M.B., 2nd lieut. 7th Seaforths, born 19th Nov. 1885, killed at Loos 25th Sept. 1915; John Carmichael, banker, Richard, Sask., served in Canadian Expeditionary Force, wounded at St Eloi, March 1916, born 24th Dec. 1886; Audrey Primrose, born 27th March 1889; George William Kinnaird, M.A., D.D., born 13th April 1891, ord. to Carstairs 23rd Nov. 1923, served as captain 4th Seaforth Highlanders in Euro- pean War, trans, to Jedburgh 22ndSept. 1927, marr. 5th Feb. 1924, Irene, fifth daugh. of

FODDERTY, KINETTAS, AND GLEN USSIE [phesb. of

Robert C. Buchanan, bailie, Edinburgh. Publications — '^ Airulfus'' and "Fetellus," translated and annotated for the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (1889); The Church of the Resurrection {Eng. Ilist.Revieiv) (1892).

DAVID YOUNG ROBERTSON, born 1921 ^^'^S' Berwickshire, 9th March 1884, son of Adam R. and Magdalen Young ; educated at Morrison's Academy, Crieff, and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1907) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 28th May 1910 ; assistant at Alexandria (Dunbarton) and Maxwell, Glasgow ; ord. to Bargeddie 23rd Jan. 1913 ; app. chaplain to 63rd Royal Naval Division in European War in 1917 ; trans, to Inverallan 1 5th May that year; trans, and adm. 15th Dec. 1921. Marr. 20th Aug. 1914, Janet, daugh. of James Veitch and Jane Emma Kidd.

FODDERTY, KINETTAS, AND GLEN USSIE.

[These three parishes were united about 1600.

Fodderty. — In the parish of Fodderty there was a chapel of St Mary at Innis Ruaraidh.

Kinettas.—The, prebend of Kinettas in the Cathedral of Fortrose was held by the Chancellor of the diocese of Ross.

Glen Ussic—The, ancient church of Glen Ussie stood at the village of Tollie. Its site is now under water. Loch Ussie having been much enlarged to supply water to Dingwall.]

WILLIAM HAY, pres. by James VI.

^g^2 to the vicarage in 1572, then vacant

by simoniacal paction between John

Smyth, last vicar, and William Chalmer.—

{Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 498.]

ALEXANDER ANTON, pres. by James J574 VI. in 1574; still in charge in 1580. —[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 498.] ROBERT GRAHAM, archdeacon of the jggg diocese ; had charge here in con- junction with Killearnan. IVER M'lVER, pres. to the vicarage by 1586 J^"^^s V^- 24th Jan. 1582; adm. about 1586 f still in charge in IQOl. -[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 498.]

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WILLIAM M'CULLOCH, son

g, of Duncan M. of Park ; adm. before 12th March 1619, still min. in 1628. He marr. Marjory, daugh. of Alexander Mackenzie of Coul. — {Reg. Mag. Sig., 12th Feb. 1624, viii., 575 ; Inverness Sas., 15th Nov. 1630; Cold Writs; Ord Writs; Orig. Charter Bishop of Ross at Killearnan.'\

FARQUHAR MACLENNAN, was a .. _._ member of Commission of Assembly in 1645 ; dep. for malignancy in 1650. He declared, 13th July 1652, the lawfulness of the Assembly in 1651, and ; was restored to the ministry, 28th Aug. 1655, having shown sincere remorse and humility in reference to the particular cause of his deposition. Afterwards adm. to Lochbroom 6th April 1656.— [P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., i., 184.]

JOHN M'KILLICAN, adm. 26th

jggg Feb. 1656; deprived by the Privy

Council 1st Oct. 1662 ; dep. May 1663

for Presbyterianism [afterwards min. of

Alness].

JOHN MACKENZIE, born about 1613, 1662 ^°" ^^ William M. of Tarrel, min. of Tarbar; educated at Marischal and King's Colleges, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1631)^ adm. to Urray in 1636 ; dep. in 1639 for opposing the Covenant and obliged to flee to England and afterwards to Ireland ; re- poned and settled in Suddie in 1644 ; trans, to Tarbat in 1645 ; deprived between 1st Dec. 1649 and 19th Feb. 1650; reponed in 1660 and adm. here in 1662 by John, Bishop of Ross, "inasmuch as he has suffered deprivation and banishment for his loyalty." He was archdeacon of Ross. At a visitation by the Bishop on 9th Aug. 1665, it was stated that the communion had not been observed " these twelve years bygone," that the people were not wholly examined, but that Roderick (son of min.) did sometimes preach and catechise. M. was probably in ill-health as he died at Tarrel in 1666 and was buried at Tarbat. He man-. Christian, daugh. of Baillie of Dunain^and had issue— Roderick, min. of Avoch ; a daugh.r(marr. Roderick Mac- kenzie of Park).— [Mackay's Presh. of Ding- wall, ^W.]

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1727

JOHN MACKENZIE, Archdeacon of jggg Ross ; adm. to Kilmorack Sept. 1665 ; trans, and adm. soon after 28th Aug. 1666j died July 1721. He marr. and had issue>— [Mackay's Presb. of Dinfjivall, 345.]

HECTOR MACKENZIE, born 1700, son of Charles M. of Letterewe and Anne, daugh. of John Mackenzie of Applecross ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1720); librarian to King's College in 1721, and assistant in Grammar School ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 1st Dec. 1725 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 2nd May and 12th Oct. 1726; ord. 10th Jan. 1727; died 27th Feb. 1734. He marr. Jean Baillie, who died 27th June 1796, and had issue — a daugh. (marr. Rorie Mackenzie of Park). — [Mackenzie's Hist, of the Mackenzies, 454.]

COLIN MACKENZIE of Glack, born j^gg 1707, son of Roderick M. of Brae and Longcroft, chamberlain of the Lewis, and a daugh. of William Munro of Ardullie ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1728) ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 7th Nov. 1733 ; pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, 31st July 1734; ord. (after a reference to the Assembly) 28th Aug. 1735 ; app. chaplain to 73rd Regiment, or Macleod's Highlanders, 13th June 1778 ; died 8th March 1801. He inherited the Castle of Dingwall, the seat of the Earls of Ross, and the lands attached thereto, through his mother, which, with Longcroft, he sold, and purchased the estate of Glack in Aberdeenshire in 1765. He was mstru- mental in keeping his chief. Lord Fortrose, from going out in 1745. He was the first to recognise the medicinal properties of the Strathpeflfer mineral springs. He marr. (1) Margaret (died 22nd Sept. 1746), daugh. of Hugh Rose of Clava, and had issue — Margaret, died 22nd Sept. 1748 : (2) 23rd Feb. 1754, Mary (died 9th Feb. 1828, aged 91), daugh. of Donald Mackenzie, Balna- been, and had issue — Anne, born 19th May 1756 (marr. Hector Mackenzie, bailie, Dingwall); Una, born 26th June 1758; Isobel, born 24th Sept. 1759 (marr. (1) her father's coachman, (2) John Gray of Drum-

allan) ; Roderick of Glack, born 9th Feb. 1761, died 1842 ; Johanna, born 15th June 1762 (marr. Dr Miller, Stornoway) ; Mary, born 19th March 1764 (marr. Captain John Mackenzie of Kincraig); John, born 4th Nov, 1765, died 8th Oct. 1787; Beatrice, born 13th May 1767 (marr. Peter Hay, bailie, Ding- wall) ; Donald, min. of this parish ; Forbes, major Ross-shire Militia, and a noted agricul- turist (whose daugh. marr. John Kennedy, D.D., Dingwall), born 29th Dec. 1769 ; Jean, born 28th Nov. 1771 (marr. Colin Mac- kenzie, min. of Stornoway). — [Macrae's Dincjivall, 59 ; Mackenzie's Survey of Ross and Cromarty ; Scots Afag., xl. ; Tomhst.']

DONALD MACKENZIE, born 20th jiygg Oct. 1768, son of preceding; edu- cated at Marischal College, Aber- deen, 1781-5; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th Dec. 1787 ; pres. by John, Lord Macleod, Sept. 1788; ord. (assistant and successor) 27th May 1789. He accidentally fell while reaching a book from steps in his library, and died in a few days, 25th Feb. 1826. He was for some time chaplain to the 71st Foot, and took a considerable share in the business of the Church. He marr. (1) 12th June 1790, Mary (died 16th Sept. 1796), daugh. of John Mackenzie of Brae, and had issue— Beatrix, born 16th May 1791 (marr. 1812, Thomas Stewart, Lieut., R.N.) ; Mary, born 19th Aug. 1792, died 11th Nov. 1812; Colin, Colonel R.E., born 19th March 1794 ; died 1869 ; John of Glack, born 17th March 1796, died 3rd Nov. 1882; Elizabeth (marr. Lieut. Stewart) : (2) 28th Dec. 1798, Mary (died 26th March 1828), daugh. of Thomas Fyers, overseer of the King's Works. Publica- tion— Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, vii.). — [^Hist. of the Mackenzies, 378.]

CHARLES JOHN BAYNE of Ard- 1826 Dieanach in the Black Isle, born 3rd Nov. 1797, son of Ronald B., D.D., min. of Kiltarlity ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1817); licen. by Presb. of Inverness 5th Dec. 1820 ; app. missionary at Berriedale, July 1821 ; assistant at Croy, March 1822 ; ord. mis- sionary at Fort William 26th Nov. 1823 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mac- kenzie of Cromartie in April, trans, and

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FODDERTV— KINETTAS— KILMORACK

[PRESB. OF

adm. 13th Sept. 1826; died 11th Oct. 1832. He marr. 17th July 1828 Isabella Jane Duguid, who died 16th Feb. 1850, and had issue— Ronald of Ardmeanach, born 29th April 1829; Peter, M.A., LL.D., journalist, author of Life and Letters of Hugh Miller and other works, born 19th Oct. 1830, died at Norwood, London, 10th Feb. 1896; Charles John, born 9th Oct. 1832.— [Z>ic<. Nat. Biog. for Peter B.]

JOHN NOBLE, born Inverness 1806; educated at King's College, Aber- deen ; M.A. (March 1826) ; became rector of Royal Academy, Tain, in 1830 ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 24th Nov. that year ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Jan., and ord. 25th Sept. 1833. Joined Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Contin and Fodderty 1843-6, of Free Gaelic Chapel, Duke Street, Glasgow, 30th April 1846; died 19th April 1849. He marr. 14th Feb. 1835, Elizabeth Forbes, daugh. of Neil Kennedy, min. of Logie - Easter, and had issue— Anne Downie, born 7th Nov. 1836 ; William, born 15th June 1837 ; Isabella Kennedy, born 20th Jan. 1840 (marr. 29th July 1862, John Macgregor, min. of Kinlochluichart).— [6'mi</t's Scottish Clergy, ii., 314.]

JOHN MENZIES, born 1804, son of 1843 J°^" •^^•' farmer, and Ann Cameron ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; ord. 16th Nov. 1843 ; died at Cause wayhead, Stirling, 9th March 1890. He marr. 17th Feb. 1857, Jane Russell, who died 24th Sept. 1919, and had issue — Ann Cameron, born 26th Nov. 1857 ; John, born 14th March 1859 ; Isabella Russell, born 19th Nov. 1861 ; Margaret Eraily, born 7th Feb. 1864, died 28th Jan. 1865 ; Alex- ander Russell, born 24th July 1871, died at Cause wayhead 15th March 1920.

WILLIAM THOMPSON, born Fort

1885 William about 1859 ; educated at

Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1879),

B.D. (1882); ord. to Gaelic Church,

Greenock, 2nd Nov. 1882 ; trans, and adm.

(assistant and successor) 15th July 1885 ; dera. 18th May 1896 ; died 19th March 1912. He marr. 2nd June 1898, Anne C. Kempt.

JOHN M'GILCHRIST, BA., B.D. ; ._g^ trans, from Glengarry and adm. 28th Oct. 1896 ; trans, to Skelmorlie 14th Nov. 1899.

JOHN GUNN NICOLSON, born 1900 Durness 25th March 1873, son of Torquil N., schoolmaster, and Margaret Gunn ; educated at Durness School and Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1895), B.D. (1899); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall in 1900; ord. 14th March 1900. Marr. 23rd Dec. 1902, Catherine May, daugh. of David Brown, St Andrews, and Christina Carstairs, and has issue— Chris- tine Gunn, born 29th June 1904 ; Margaret Gunn, born 14th Aug. 1905 ; Iain Torcul, born 16th May 1912, died 3rd March 1916; Alastair David, born 13th March 1913.

KINETTAS.

[It has long been suppressed and annexed to Fodderty.]

ALEXANDER BAYNE, younger, min. 1574 1574 to 1578.

JOHN MUNRO [WILLIAMSON], 1579 reader, 1579-80.

JOHN MUNRO, min. in 1586 ; probably 1586 same as preceding.

KIEMORACK.

[The church of this parish was dedicated to St Moroc. The Priory of St John the Baptist at Beauly, within the bounds, be- longed to the Order of the Val de Choux. It was founded by John Bisset of Lovat in 1230. Its ruins include a fine church with a large aisle of St Katherine. A side chapel recently re-roofed is the burying- place of the Mackenzies of Gairloch. A fair of St Muireach was held at Kilmorack, and at Beauly there were four yearly trysts held at Roodmas, Lammas, Michaelmas, and Hallowmas. There is now a mission church of St Columba at Beauly.]

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Sir JOHN NICOLSON, vicar in 1560 1560.

DONALD FRASER, called "Donald ^ Dubh " or Black Donald ; pres. by James VI. to the vicarage in 1573 ; still min. in 1590, having Wardlaw (Kirk- hill) also in his charge. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 508 ; Belladriim Writs.']

JOHN MALCOLMSON, min. in 1618. 1618 —[Belladrum Writs.]

WILLIAM MACKENZIi; min. in 1624 1624 and 1631 [afterwards of Killearnan].

WILLIAM FRASER of Phopachy, adm. ,_„„ in 1633: trans, to Killearnan in ^^^ 1640.

DONALD FRASER, adm. in 1641 ; trans, to Urquhart and Logie-Wester, Jan 1665.

JOHN MACKENZIE, adm. Sept. 1665 ; 1665 trans, to Fodder ty in 1666.

JOHN MACRAE, pres. by John, Bishop jgg^ of Ross, 20th Sept. 1666; ord. in 1667 ; trans, to Dingwall 1st Feb.

1674.

WILLIAM FRASER of Fanellan, born .pfjA about 1634, son of Donald F., min. of Urquhart and Logie - Wester ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (19th July 1666); became school- master at Boyndie ; passed trials before Presb. of Fordyce and had a testimonial for licen. 30th July 1673; adm. 12th April 1674; died May 1710. He marr. Jean Baillie, and had issue — William, M.D., served heir to his father in Fanellan in 1735 ; Donald.— [iwg. Ret. Gen., 6658.]

THOMAS CHISHOLM, born 14th Dec. 1711 l^^O' son of Alexander C. of Teawig ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness 7th July 1709 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 26th Sept. 1710. When the Presb. met for his ordination, 22nd March 1711, entrance to the church was prevented by a rabble of men and women who surrounded every part of the building. The Court having adjourned to the manse, stones were cast through the windows and the proceedings were so interrupted that it was impossible

^ WA C^^-^^ ^^^-^ ^^'c/. '^'^"^

to continue. Clods and other missiles were thrown at the ministers as they left. The ordination took place at Kiltearn the following day. For two years afterwards. Eraser's widow refused to give up the manse, and C. was continually obstructed in his work, two-thirds of the parishioners being Roman Catholics under the charge of a resident priest (Peter Macdonald), while many were Episcopalians. In the course of time the animosity died down and C. remained min. of the parish for fifty-seven years. He died 6th Jan. 1768. He marr. a lady who predeceased him, and had issue— Robert, died abroad Aug. 1745 ; James, tacksman of Platchaick ; David, min. of this parish ; John ; Thomas ; Primrose ; Katherine (marr. John Robert- son, min. of Killearnan).

DAVID CHISHOLM, born 1723, son 1754 ^^ preceding ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1st April 1741); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 19th June 1750 ; called July 1753 ; ord. (assist- ant and successor) 27th Feb. 1754; died 13th April 1768. He marr. 28th May 1753, Jean Inglis, who died 1st Nov. 1799, and had issue— Robert, born 26th Aug. 1756 ; John, born 18th Dec. 1761 ; Alexander, born 9th June 1764 ; Jean Wardlaw (twin), born 9th June 1764; Christian, born 7th Dec. 1766.

JOHN FRASER, born Inverness, 1746, 1769 ^"^^ ^^ Simon F. ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1764) ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness 6th March 1767; ord. 3rd March 1769; died 4th April 1804. He marr. 26th Aug. 1775, Margaret Nicolson, who died 1st Feb. 1828, and had issue— Catherine Bristow, born 8th June 1776 ; Mary Honyman, born 28th Aug. 1777; Simon, born 29th May 1780; Alexander, lieut. 37th Regi- ment, born 29th July 1781 ; Malcolm, born 17th July 179L Publication— Account of the parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xx.).

SIMON FRASER, born 1765, school- master of Avoch ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1793); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 23rd July 1799; pres. by the

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Hon. Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat Aug. 1804 : ord. (after appeal to the Assembly) 9th July 1806 ; died 26th Sept. 1845. He marr. (1) 6th Jan. 1800, Margaret Aird, who died 22nd Sept. 1806, and had issue— Anne, born 26th May 1805 (marr. Hugh Mackenzie, niin, of Gaelic Chapel, Aberdeen) : (2) 4th Feb. 1807, Mary Fraser, who died 20th July 1854, and had issue- Simon, min. of this parish ; Catherine, born 1st Sept. 1810; William, born 11th March 1812; Mary, born 2nd July 1814; Alex- ander James, born 1 3th Feb. 1820; Roderick, min. of Uig, born 7th March 1824.

SIMON FRASER, born 25th Feb. 1808, son of preceding ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1826-30; adm. to Ardersier 4th Jan. 1844; trans, and adm. 14th May 1846; died 17th Feb. 1862. He marr. 22nd June 1841, Catherine (died 5th March 1900), daugh. of Roderick Noble and Ann Robertson, and had issue- Mary Ann Robertson, born 2nd April 1842 ; Catherine, born 4th Oct. 1844 ; Margaret Hannah, born 23rd March 1850 ; Simon Peter, born 28th May 1852 ; William John, born 14th Feb. 1854.

DONALD CAMERON, born Kilmalie, 1819; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1843) ; ord. to Free Churcli, Ardersier, 1849 ; trans, to Free Church, Kirkmichael, 1853 ; adm. as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland by the General Assembly 25th May 1861 ; pres. by Mrs Webster of Flemington, and adm. 11th Sept. 1862; died 16th Dec. 1873. He marr. (l)12th Feb. 1856, Cassilis Jane Shaw, who died 17th June 1863 : (2) 15th Oct. 1873, Jemima Smith Japp ; she survived him and marr. (2) 7th Dec. 1876.

PETER ROBERTSON, trans, from Gaelic Church, Inverness, and adm. 19th May 1874; trans, to Kilbride, Arran, 21st March 1883.

1874

ALEXANDER JOSEPH MAC- QUARRIE, trans, from Duncans- burgh and adm. 21st Sept. 1883;

trans, to Urquhart and Logie-Wester 19th

May 1891.

EWEN ARCHIBALD RANKIN, born 1891 Kilcalmonell, Kintyre, 27th July 1864, son of William R. and Margaret Sillars ; educated at Kilcalmonell School, High School, and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1886), B.D. (1888); licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 16th May 1888 ; assistant at Ardgour and St Columba's, Glasgow ; ord. 24th Sept. 1891 ; D.D. (Glasgow, 25th June 1919). Marr. 12th Sept. 1898, Elizabeth, daugh. of Walter George Jackson, Bendigo, Australia, and Mary Rankin, and has issue— William Eric, M.A., B.D., born 17th Aug. 1899, served as 2nd lieut. 13th Black Watch during European War, ord. to Cock- burnspath, 2Sth Sept. 1926 ; Archibald Kil- morack, M.B., Ch.B. (1924), born 8th Feb. 1901 ; Mary Elizabeth, born 19th Aug. 1902. Publications — " Survival of Judaism " {Theological Monthly, 1890); The Pro- gressiveness of our Knowledge of Christian Truths (1904) ; God's Hierarchy (1916) ; " The Star in the East " in The Interpreter (1918). — [Maclean's Typographia Scoto- Gadelica, 91 ; Parochial and Preshyterial Libraries in Ross-shire in 1707.]

KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR.

[These parishes were united about 1618.

Kiltearn. — The church was dedicated to Our Lord, whence comes its name, Gill Thighearn, or the Lord's Church. There were within the bounds four chapels. Two of these were at Balconie, St Monans, and St Ninians. One stood at Culnasgiach, and the other at Wester-Fowlis. There was also in this parish a Well of St Colmog.

Lemlair. — Lemlair was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. Its church was dedicated to St Mary, but there had been | an older dedication to St Bride. At I Kilchoan, in this parish, there was a chapel of St Coan.]

DONALD MUNRO, son of Alexander M. of Kiltearn, first appears as vicar of Snizort and Raasay in 1526 ; was Archdeacon of the Isles in 1549, when he made a systematic tour through the western islands, of which he left an

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interesting account along with a compila- tion on the " Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles." George Buchanan, who made use of the first of these manuscripts for the geographical part of his History of Scotland, acknowledges indebtedness to its author as "a pious, diligent, and learned man, who travelled over all these islands and viewed them correctly." Conforming to Protestantism at the Reformation he was adm. to this charge soon after 1560. On 26th June 1563, he was app. by the General Assembly a commissioner to plant kirks within the bounds of Ross, and to assist Robert, Bishop of Caithness. On 27th Dec. following, complaint was made in the As.sembly that he "was not so apt to teach as his charge required." A committee of Assembly was app. to "try his gifts" and to report. On 5th July 1570, it was again objected that he was "not prompt in the Scottish (Gaelic) tongue." Notwithstanding this, his appoint- ment was renewed in Aug. 1573. About 1574 Lemlair was added to his charge. Tradition says that having his residence at Castle Craig on the opposite side of the Firth, he crossed by boat for his duties at both churches. He died unmarr. in or about 1589, and was buried at Kiltearn. VMh\icd,tions— Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hyhrides, with Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles : noiv first published from the Mamiscrij^t (Edin., 1773-4 ; another edition, 1805 ; reprinted 1818 in vol. ii. of Miscellanea Scotica (Glasgow 1884). Two MS. copies are in the National Library of Scot- land.—[Calderwood's Hist., ii. 224, 245, iii. 275 ; Miscell. Wodroiv Soc, i., 335 ; Buchanan's Hist, of Scotland {Vl\b), 13, 18 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]

ROBERT MUNRO, adm. in 1589; jggg trans, to Farr before 9th Oct. 1619. — [Hist, of the Munros, 344 ; Reg. Mag. Sig., viii., 245.]

DAVID MUNRO of Kilchoan, son of

1627 Donald M. of Tarlogie, of the family

of Milntown, and Christian Ross ;

educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.

(21st July 1621) ; adm. to Tarbat in 162— ;

trans, and adm. before 1st May 1627 ; was a member of the Glasgow Assembly in 1638 and that of 1639; dep. in 1648 " for malignancy and joining in the Engage- ment/' which sentence was approved by the Assembly in 1649 ; died before 7th July 1653. He marr. Florence, daugh. of Andrew Munro of Lemlair, and had issue — Donald; Robert; John; Hugh, W.S., buried 13th Feb. 1672 ; and several daughs. — [Reg. Mag. Sig., ix., 2028; Inverness Sas., v., 240 ; Original Charter Antiq. Museum ; Peterkin's Records ; Hist, of the Munros, 302.]

ROBERT MUNRO, adm. before 19th j^g^g June 1649; dem. 15th June 1652; died 1663.

THOMAS HOG, born Tain, 1628, "of jgg^ honest parents, native highlanders somewhat above the vulgar rank " ; educated at Grammar School, Tain, and Marischal College, Aberdeen ; MA. (1650) ; became chaplain at Dunrobin to John, Earl of Sutherland; licen. in 1654; had calls from Golspie and other parishes ; ord. 24th Oct. that year. He joined the Protesters ; dep. by the Synod July 1661 ; deprived by Act of Parliament and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. He retired to the farmhouse of Knockoudie in Auldearn, where he continued to preach and dispense the sacraments, and memorable communions were observed in a sheltered hollow of the Hills of the Arstill, known as " Hog's Strype." In 1668 a complaint Avas made to the Privy Council by Murdoch, Bishop of Moray, whereupon H. was imprisoned in Forres, but after some months was liberated unconditionally through the intervention of the Earl of Tweeddale. Orders were again given for his imprison- ment in June 1674, and Letters of Inter- communing were issued against him on 6th Aug. 1675, forbidding all persons to harbour or assist him in any way. In Jan. 1677 he voluntarily surrendered to the Earl of Moray, was removed to Edin- burgh Tolbooth and sent to the Bass Rock, where he became seriously ill. An Edinburgh physician who was called to see him, petitioned the Council for his

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release, to which some of the members

were disposed, but Archbishop Sharp stated " the prisoner did and was in a capacity to do more hurt to their interests sitting in his elbow chair than twenty others could, and if the justice of God was pursuing him to take him off the stage, the clemency of the Government should not interpose to hinder it." He was accordingly confined more closely than before. On hearing his sentence he exclaimed in bed, "It was as severe as if Satan himself had penned it." On 9th Oct. that year he was brought back to the Tolbooth, but was again returned to the Bass until set at liberty with others in July 1679, giving bond for 10,000 merks to appear before the Council when called. He remained unmolested till 8th Nov. 1683 when he was fined £277 and committed prisoner at Edinburgh till the fine was paid. Having decided to quit the country he petitioned to that effect and was enjoined to depart within forty-eight hours. He lived for a year in Berwick-upon-Tweed and in 1685 found his way to London, intending to sail to Carolina, but he was apprehended on suspicion of beiiigcoucerned in the Rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth. On being freed he fled to Holland, where he became chaplain to William, Prince of Orange. He returned to Scotland early in 1688, and being restored by Act of Parliament, 25th April 1690, was a member of Assembly that year. He was appointed one of the King's chaplains and was preparing to remove to London, but died after a long and painful sickness, 4th Jan. 1692. He was buried by his own request in the doorway of the pariah church, where may be seen the following inscription on his tomb— "This stone shall bear witness against the parishioners of Kiltearn if they bring ane ungodly minister in here." A commemorative slab was placed in the parish church and the Hog Memorial Church was erected in the village of Evanton. He marr. after 12th A\m\ 105G, the sister of John Hay of Inshock and Park, cadet of Errol (she died «.;>.). Publication — Memoirs of His Life (Andrew Stevenson, Edinburgh, \lbQ).—\_Edin. Chr. Inst., XXV. ; Brodie's Diary ; Wodrow's

Corres., i., 166; The Bass Back, 174-98; Kirkton's Hist, 330 ; Wodrow's Hist., ii. 112 et seq. ; iv. 511-13, and AimL, ii., 162 ; Reg. Clen. Assembly, 1690; Memoirs of Catherine Collace ; Scenes in the Life of James Hog ; Crich ton's Memoir of Black- ader ; King's Covenanters in the North, 365 ; Covenanters in Moray and Jioss, 79 et seq. ; Hugh Miller's Scenes and Legends, 112; Diet. Nat. Biog.; Tombst.]

JOHN GORDON, educated at King's ('oUege, Aberdeen ; M.A. (13th July 1658); adm. before 15th Nov. 1664; deprived by Act of Parliament, 25th April 1690, restoring Presbyterianism. After his settlement he had to contend with great opposition, even Sir John Munro of Fowlis, a principal heritor, refusing to pay him stipend till compelled by law.

1690 THOMAS HOG, above mentioned.

WILLIAM STUART, assistant at Inverness ; was recommended by Hog as his successor and was adm. in 1693. When sent by the Presb. to preach at Dingwall in Jan. 1704 he was threatened in the pulpit there by followers of the Earl of Seaforth from Kintail, with loaded pistols ; trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, after 9th April 1705 ; trans, to First Charge, Inverness, 26th Jan. 1720 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 9th Oct. 1722 and again 9th Nov. 1725 ; re-trans, and adm. 8th Nov. 1726 ; died 10th Oct. 1729. He marr. and had issue— Christian (marr. Daniel M'Killican, rain, of Alness). Publications— Account of Mr Macbean of Inverness (Wodrow's Hist., iv., 524); A Letter from a Jurant to a Non- Jurant in 1712 in MS. — [Eeligious Life in Ross, 79.]

HUGH CAMPBELL, trans, from Ardersier ; called 29th April and adm. 7th May 1708 ; trans, to Kilmuir- Wester 4th April 1721.

WILLIAM STUART, 1726 mentioned.

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ANDREW EOBERTSON, son of Hugh j«„, R., Balconie, in the parish, of the family of Kindeace ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue 19th May 1725 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 9th Jan., and ord. to Farr 21st March 1727 ; trans, and adm. 27th July 1731 ; died 6th July 1769. In 1742-3 a revival of religion grew to such an extent in the parish that Kiltearn was called "The Holy Land." He marr. 15th Nov. 1730, Mary (died 29th Jan, 1787), daugh. of George Oswald, min. of Dunnet, and had issue — Mary Barbara ; Harry, merchant, Glasgow ; Margaret, born 20th Nov. 1740 (marr. Bailie Miller, Tain).— {^Religious Life in Hoss, 81.]

GEORGE WATSON, trans, from Fort -,_^- Augustus ; pres. by George III. and adm. 20th Sept. 1770 ; trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, 20th Dec. 1775. He was one of the first mins. in the Presb. to wear a pulpit gown ; the parishioners objected to the garb, and a coolness spring- ing up between them is said to have been the cause of his removal.

HARRY ROBERTSON, born 2nd Nov. ilTe 1'^'^^' ^^^ ^^ Gilbert R., min. of Kincardine ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th June 1770; ord. to Clyne 8th May 1771; pres. by George III. in Feb., trans, and adm. 9th May 1776; D.D. (Marischal College, Aberdeen, Nov. 1802); died 12th July 1815. He marr. 23rd April 1772, Anne Forbes (died 13th July 1826), daugh. of William Forbes, tacksman of Coulmaillie, Golspie, and had issue — William, born 1st Feb. 1773, died in London 1837; Gilbert, born 28th Aug. 1774, died unmarr. in Edinburgh on his return from Demerara 10th Sept. 1839; Harry, born 19th July 1776, drowned off Demerara in 1795; Anne, born 17th March 1778, died at Woodlands, Liverpool, 9th Nov. 1854 ; Hector, born 19th April, died 15th Oct. 1779 ; Elizabeth, born 14th Dec. 1782 (marr. 15th Dec. 1802, Samuel Sandbach of Wood- lands, Liverpool), died 26th Sept. 1859 ; Rose, born 6th Jan. 1785, died 6th Aug. 1795; Hugh Munro, born 24th April 1787,

wrecked off the coast of Ireland 16th Dec. 1819 ; George Duncan (twin), born 24th April 1787, died 2nd March 1788; Christian, born 30th Dec, 1788 (marr. (1) 6th June 1800, James Watson of Crantit, Orkney, factor for Lord Dundas : (2) 26th July 1811, Thomas Stewart Traill of Tirlot, M.D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Univ. of Edinburgh), died 7th May 1842. Publications — Evangelical Discourses (London, 1779); The Scottish Minister's Assistant (Inverness, 1802) ; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, i.).

THOMAS MUNRO, born Sutherland, 1816 ^^"^ ' educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1798) ; became schoolmaster of Alness ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th May 1802 ; ord. missionary at Rosehall 27th Nov. 1810; pres. by George, Prince Regent, Nov. 1815 ; adm. (after an appeal to the Assembly) 27th June 1816, which led to the erection by the opposition of a United Secession Church ; died 16th May 1841, He marr. 6th July 1827, Janet Isobel (died 29th Sept. 1858), daugh. of James Smith, min. of Avoch, and had issue — Alexandrina, born 8th March 1829 ; James Smith Brodie, born 20th July 1830 ; Anne, born 7th Dec. 1832 ; Thomas Robert, superintendent of jetties, Calcutta, born 20th Aug. 1835 ; Catherine Janet Isabel, born 15th Dec. 1838. Publication — Account of the Parish (JVe^v Stat. Ace, xiv.).— [Scots Mag., Ixxviii.]

DUNCAN CAMPBELL, born Glenlyon, 1842 l^'^^, son of Duncan C, farmer, and Ellen Campbell, and brother of David C, min. of Gaelic Church, Inverness ; licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld 1st March 1832 ; ord. to Lawers Mission 23rd Jan. 1834 ; adm. to Innerwick in Glenlyon 25th April 1837; trans, and adm. 17th March 1842. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Kiltearn, 1843-73 ; died 21st Oct. 1873. He marr. 21st May 1835, Margaret Henderson (died 22nd Jan. 1874), daugh. of John Macdonald, D.D., min. of Urquhart and Logie-Wester, and had issue — Georgina, born 26th June 1836 ; Duncan, born 2nd June 1839,

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JAMES MUNN, licen. by Presb. of 1848 Edinburgh ; pres. by Queen Victoria 15th Aug. 1843 ; ord. 27th Sept. that year ; died 2nd Sept. 1845.

ALEXANDER MACLEAN, born 1846 I^o^^lies^y' 31st Aug. 1793, son of Alexander M. and brother of Duncan M.,* min. of Kilniodan ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. by Presb. of Glasgow to Greenock Church, St Andrews, New Bruns- wick, 1st May 1824 ; returned home and was chaplain to Morningside Asylum, Edin- burgh ; D.D. (Glasgow 1842); pres. by Queen Victoria 12th Dec. 1845; adm. 26th Feb. 1846; died 16th Sept. 1874. He raarr. 19th July 1827, Margaret Janet Davidson (died 5th Aug. 1889), daugh. of John Cassilis, U.P. min.. New Brunswick, and Mary Macpherson, and had issue — Catherine, born 16th March 1828 (marr. Alexander MacCalman, Kil- berry), died 23rd March 1919 ; Mary, born 2nd July 1829, died 27th Aug. 1831 ; Mary Janet, born 7th March 1831 (marr. John Rose, min. of Rosskeen) ; John, born 23rd Feb. 1833, died 8th Feb. 1848 ; Alexander, min. of Halkirk, born 24th Jan. 1835 ; Duncan, born 5th Dec. 1836, died 28th Aug. 1851 ; Archibald, born 1st Jan. 1839, died 12th March 1871; George, M.B., CM., Inspector-General Royal Navy, born 18th June 1841; Henry, born 24th Feb. 1844, died 2nd Feb. 1849 ; Charles, M.B., CM., British Columbia, born 29th Jan. 1846 ; Mary, born 20th Feb. 1848, died unmarr. ; Surgeon Rear- Admiral John Cassilis Birk- myre, CB. (1917), Inspector-General of Fleets and Hospitals, present at bombard- ment of Alexandria and in Egyptian campaign, born 28th Aug. 1849, died at Devonport Dec. 1925 ; Susan Isabella, born

* Duncan Maclean, min. of Kilmodan (c/. Vol. IV., 32), had issue— Grace Campbell, born 1835 (marr. 1857, James M'Gregor, D.D., I'rofessor of Systematic Theology, New College, Edinburgh, afterwards min. of Oamaru, New Zealand), died Ui09 ; Catlicrine; Eliza, died 1901 ; George Campbell, insurance secretary, Edinburgh, born 2nd Feb. 1840; Alexander, born 80th May 1841, died 7th Feb. 1876; Charlotte Brodie, born 1842 (marr. Cliarles M'Combie), died 1921; Susan, born 1844, died 1800; Duncan; Mary, born 1848, died 1892 ; Georgina Campbell, born 1850, died 1922.

19th Oct. 1853 (marr. Galbraith) ;

Duncan Henry, born 13th July 1856, died 9th Feb. 1874; James Dymock, born 15th Aug. 1858, deceased. Publication— Editor of Missionary Record of the Church of Scotland, 1844-6. — [Gregg's Hist, of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 267-303.]

WILLIAM WATSON, born 8th March 1875 ^^'^"^' ^^'^ °^ David W., min. of Uig ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh, where he was assistant to Professor of Mathematics ; licen. by Presb. of Edin- burgh ; assistant at Mayfield, Edinburgh ; ord. 23rd Sept. 1875 ; died 13th July 1914. He marr. 22nd April 1886, Isabella, daugh. of Alexander Allan, tacksman of Drum- mond, and had issue — Allan, captain R.A.M.C, D.S.O., M.D., born 27th March 1887, died at Tembura, Northern Sudan, 18th Jan. 1920 ; Margaret Janet, born 9th June 1888; William Norman, M.B., CM., M.C, captain R.A.M.C, 6th K.O.S.B., killed in France 29th May 1916 ; Stanley, D.S.O., B.Sc, M.C, acting lieut. -colonel 12th Cheshire Regiment, manufacturing chemist, Manchester, born 25th Feb. 1891.

ALEXANDER FORBES BLACK, M.A., -,_ B.D. ; ord. 7th Jan. 1915; trans.

to Rosebank, Dundee, 17th May

1920.

ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, born Kil- donan, Eigg, 15th Jan. 1883, son of James C and Jessie Campbell ; educated at Eigg and Kingussie Schools and Inverness Royal Academy and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1904) ; licen. by Presb. of Skye April 1907 ; assistant at Beauly ; ord. to Lairg 1st Sept. 1908 ; trans, to Resolis 18th Jan. 1912; trans, and adm. 14th Oct. 1920. Marr. 17th Nov. 1908, Isabel, daugh. of Hugh Macdonald, Sea- view, Uig, and Helen Mackay, and has issue — James Archibald Uisdean, born 28th Aug. 1910 ; Helen Mairi Iseabel, born 2nd Oct. 1913.

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LEMLAIR.

[The church was dedicated to St Mary. The parish was united to Kiltearn in the first half of the seventeenth century.]

1560

HENRY KINCAID, was parson of Lemlair at the Reformation, and retained the temporalities ; was still parson in 1584, and disposed of certain teinds to Munro of Fowlis in 1607. There is no evidence that he conformed to Pro- testantism.

DONALD MUNRO, min. of Kiltearn ; 1574 held this charge in conjunction.

JOHN MACKENZIE, min. of Dingwall ;

1609 P""^^' *'° *^® parsonage and vicarage

by James VI. 1st July 1609. In 1614

Dingwall was also in his charge ; still min.

in 1618.

KINLOCHLUICHART (Q.S.).

[In 1825 a parliamentary chapel was built at the upper end of Loch Luichart. On 16th March 1864 the parish of Kinloch- luichart was disjoined from Contin, Fod- derty, and Urray.]

DAVID TULLOCH, born Thurso, 1827 t)rother of John TuUoch, LL.D., Professor of Mathematics, King's College, Aberdeen ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. schoolmaster of Kil- learnan in 1816 ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 30tb Sept. 1823 ; pres. by George IV. 15th June, and ord. 27th Sept. 1827 ; died 20th April 1841. He marr. and left a ■widow.— [Tombst.]

ALEXANDER ANDERSON, born Elgin, 1802, son of Alexander A., baker, and Ann Falconer ; educated

at Univ. of Edinburgh ; pres. by Queen

Victoria 9th Oct. 1841; adm. 16th Feb.

1842. Joined the Free Church m 1843;

min. of Gaelic Free Church, Rothesay,

1844-66; died 1st Dec. 1866. He marr.

1845, Margaret Maclean, who died 18th

Oct. 1889, aged 62.

DAVID WILLIAMSON, pres. by Queen 1844 Victoria 25th Nov. 1843; ord. 21st March 1844 ; trans, to Assynt 12th Dec. 1848.

DUNCAN SIMON MACKENZIE, pres. 1849 ^^ Queen Victoria, and ord. 30th Aug. 1849 ; trans, to Gairloch 26th Sept. 1850.

GREGOR STUART, pres. by Queen Victoria 3rd March, and ord. 13th May 1851 ; trans, to Rogart 3rd May

1851

1854.

CHARLES MACLEAN, pres. by Queen Victoria 28th June, and ord. 27th Sept. 1854 ; trans, to Ullapool 24th June 1856.

EVAN MACKENZIE MASSON, pres. by Queen Victoria 17th Sept. 1856; ord. 8th Jan. 1857; trans, to Dull 28th Feb. 1861.

JOHN MACGREGOR, missionary at 1861 Strathglass ; pres. by Queen Victoria 9th April, and ord. 13th May 1861 ; trans, to Knockbain 24th Dec. 1868.

ALEXANDER JOHN MACKICHAN,

1869 ^^^'^ ^^^*' ■^^^" ^^"^^' ^°" °^ Dugald M., min. of Daviot ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness ; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th Jan., and adm. 6th May 1869; dem. 18th June 1874 ; adm. to Barney's River, Nova Scotia, 22nd Sept. 1874. He marr. 25th Aug. 1869, Christina Munro, daugh. of James Reid, min. of Auldearn, and had issue— James Archibald, born 13th Sept. 1870 ; Isabella Christina, born 9th Jan. 1872; Mary Skene, born 31st Jan, 1873; Amelia Stirling, born 21st April 1874.

KENNETH MACKENZIE, trans, from Kinlochbervie and adm. 6th Jan. 1876; trans, to Eddrachillis 5th March 1879.

1876

SIMON HALLY, born 1837, son of 1879 Greorge H., writer, and Rebecca Murray ; educated at Univ. of Glas- gow; M.A. (1871); ord. a min. in Presb.

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of St John, New Brunswick, 1873 ; missionary at Carnwath in 1875 ; adm. to Kinlochbervie 18th April 1877 ; trans, and adm. 18th July 1879 ; died 30th Oct. 1880. He marr. 4th June 1877, Mary Anne Taylor (died 12th April 1878), daugh. of James Steele, rope maker, and Janet Neill, and had issue — Mary Catherine Margaret, born 12th April 1878.

DAVID FERGUSON, born 4th Feb. 1881 1^35, eldest son of Thomas F., farmer, Barr, Ayrshire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr 3rd Oct. 1860 ; assistant at Bunkle ; adm. 29th March 1881 ; dem. 5th Oct. 1904 ; died unmarr. at Alness Manse, 25th Jan. 1912.

JOHN CAMPBELL McNAUGHT, jQQg M.A.,B.D.; ord. 19th Jan. 1905; trans, to Kilmuir-Easter 21st July 1914.

GEORGE BRUCE, born Errol, Perth- 1914 ^^^'"^' ^^^^ March 1863, son of George B. and Eliza Rollo ; educated at Errol and Dundee High Schools and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1887); licen. by Presb. of Perth 15th May 1890; assistant at Fauldhouse ; ord. as missionary professor in the Scottish Churches' College at Calcutta 24th May 1891 ; adm. here 27th Oct. 1914. Marr. 6th Oct. 1893, Margaret Christina, daugh. of Thomas Learmonth and Janet Middlemas, and has issue — Theodora Janet Middlemas, nurse, born 23rd Aug. 1894 ; George Macdonald, lieut. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, born 18th Nov. 1897, died in Belgium 17th Feb. 1919; Marion Eliza Rollo, born 10th Sept. 1899, died in India 30th April 1903 ; James Douglas Ferrier, cadet, Henderson Line S.S., born 1st Oct. 1905.

URQUHART, or LOGAIDH FRAOICH, OR LOGIE-WESTER.

[These two parishes were united in the latter half of the fifteenth century.

Urquhart. — The prebend of Urquhart was held by the Treasurer of the Cathedral of Fortrose. The church was dedicated to St Malrubh, who was murdered by pirates at Ferintosh in 722. At Bridge of Conan, in this parish, there is a mission church.]

1574

JOHN ROBERTSON, was charged in the Assembly, 28th June 1565, with leaving his vocation and required to return thereto under pain of disobedience to the Kirk ; was app. by the Assembly, 5th June 1570, to assist the commissioner of Ross, who was not conversant with Gaelic ; was again commissioned to visit Caithness and Sutherland; died \b21.—{Booke of the Kirk ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 551.]

ROBERT MUNRO of Creichmor, third son of John M. of Coul and Katherine, daugh. of John Vass of Lochslinn ; pres. by James VI. to the vicarage in 1560; conformed to Protestantism before 1569, and was app. reader and ex- horter; was min. in 1574 when Dingwall was added to the charge. He was pres. to the Treasury of Ross by James VI., 16th June 1597, and after being omitted in the assignations from 1588, he was restored in 1599. He granted a lease as vicar of Urquhart of the chantor's manse in the Chanonry of Ross in favour of Andrew Munro of Novar in 1604; was still min. 24th Feb. 1638. He marr. Christian Munro, and had issue— Margaret (marr. John, son of John Munro of Fyrish). — {Hist, of the Munros, 344 ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 551 ; Inverness Sas., i. 54, vi. 109.]

GEORGE MUNRO, adm. before 4th Oct. 1642 ; trans, to Snizort before 15th April 1656.

ROBERT ROSS of Logie-Easter, M.A. ; adm. Nov. 1657 ; trans, to Tain ^^^"^ before 18th April 1665.

DONALD ERASER, born about 1620, son of William F., min. of Kiltarlity ; educated at King's College, Aber- deen ; M.A. (1637) ; adm. to Kilmorack in 1641 ; pres. by John, Bishop of Ross, Dec. 1664 ; coll. 15th, and inst. Jan. 1665 ; died 8th Oct. 1684. He marr. (cont. 20th Nov. 1646), Katherine (died 17th Oct. 1672), daugh. of Hugh Eraser of Belladrum, and widow of Hector M'Alister vie Eachan of Buntait, and had issue — William, min. of Kilmorack ; a daugh. (marr. Hugh Eraser of Aigas).— [/ny. Jiet. Gen., 6658; £ella- drum Writs.]

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ANDREW ROSS, educated at King's and Marischal Colleges, Aberdeen ; ^^^^ adm. to Contin in 1684; pres. by James, Bishop of Ross, 2nd, and inst. 24th Sept. 1685; died Nov. 1712. He marr. Anna Gumming, and had issue — Andrew, served heir, 19th Aug. 1718. — [Deed of Inst, by Bishop of Hoss at Kil- learnan ; Scot. Antiquary, v., 156 ; Services of Heirs.]

ALEXANDER ERASER, trans, from

Croy and pres. by John, Earl of

^'^^ Cromartie, 1714 ; adm. 21st April

1715 ; trans, to Second Charge, Inverness,

4th April 1727.

ALEXANDER FALCONER, born about 1686 ; educated at King's College, ^'^^^ Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd May 1706); became schoolmaster of Cromarty ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry ; ord. to Ardersier 10th June 1718; called 30th Sept. 1728; trans, and adm. 21st Jan. 1729; died 8th April 1756. He marr. (1) and had issue —William ; Elizabeth : (2) 6th July 1742, Jean Houston, who died 5th Jan. 1778, and had issue — Henrietta, born 11th April 1743; Alexander, born 6th April 1745; Duncan, born 1746.

1757

DONALD ERASER, born 1706, son of William F., tacksman in Petty ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; became teacher in Grammar School of Inverness; app. schoolmaster of Killearnan, 10th Nov. 1728, and of Alness; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 15th Oct. 1734 ; app. missionary in Strathglass ; tutor to Master of Lovat in 1739 ; ord. to Killearnan 27th March 1744: summoned to London, Feb. 1747, to attend the trial of Simon, Lord Lovat, but not called to give evidence ; pres. by John Forbes of Culloden 31st July 1756 ; trans, and adm. 2nd June 1757 ; died 7th April 1773. He was a noted expositor of the Scriptures. There is a tradition which has been handed down that he left the parish of Killearnan through witchcraft. He marr. 8th June 1747, Jean (died 19th March 1791), daugh. of Alexander Eraser, min. of Inverness, and had issue — Simon, born 4th April 1748,

went to India, and died in Calcutta in 1770; Alexander, min. of Kirkhill, born 14th July 1749 ; Isabella, bom 14th Jan. 1751 (marr. 15th March 1784, Alexander Sage, min. of Kildonan) ; Marjory, born 2nd April 1752 (marr. John Eraser, rain, of Kiltarlity) ; Donald, born 10th Oct. 1756 ; Jane Forbes (Mrs Eraser), born June 1757— [Tombst.]

CHARLES CALDER, born 1st Dec. 1748, son of James C., min. of Croy ; ^"^^ educated at King's College, Aber- deen ; M.A. (30th March 1767) ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness 28th Sept. 1773; ord. 12th May 1774; died 1st Oct. 1812. He marr. 8th July 1779, ^Margaret (died at Tain, 3rd March 1820, aged 77), daugh. of James Brodie of Spynie, advocate, and had issue— Emilia, born 19th May 1780 (marr. Alexander Stewart, D.D., min. of the Canongate, Edinburgh) ; Anne, born 11th March 1781 (marr. Angus Mackintosh, D.D., min. of Tain) ; James, born 23rd Aug. 1784, went to India, died at sea in 1833. Publication— Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, v.).— [Ross Tests.; Findlater's Memoir of Findlater ; Stewart's Sermons ; Religions Life in Ross, 90-2.]

JOHN MACDONALD, born Balnabein, Reay, 12th Nov. 1779, son of James ^^^^ M., or MacAdie, catechist, originally a weaver ; educated at Reay School and King's College, Aberdeen, where he was the most distinguished mathematical scholar of his time; M.A. (30th March 1801); licen. by Presb. of Caithness 2nd July 1805; assistant at Kingussie ; ord. missionary at Berriedale 16th Sept. 1806 ; adm. to Gaelic Chapel, Edinburgh, 29th Jan. 1807 ; pres. by Duncan Forbes' of Culloden in 1812 ; trans, and adm. 1st Sept. 1813 ; D.D. (Univ. of New York, U.S.A., 1842). Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Ferintosh, 1843-9 ; Joint (Gaelic) Moderator of the Free Church Assembly in 1845; died 16th April 1849. He was known all over the Church as " The Apostle of the North," and was the most popular Gaelic preacher in the Highlands. He was so fond of itinerating that his conduct was at length brought before the General Assembly,

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which, 30th May 1818, issued a declara- tion " that the conduct of any minister of the Church who exercises his pastoral functions in a vagrant manner, preaching during his journeys from ])lace to place in the open air in other parishes than his own, or officiating in any meeting for religious exercises without the special invitation of the minister within whose parish it shall be held, is disorderly and unbecoming the character of a minister of this Church." He marr. (1) 6th Jan. 1806, Georgina (died 18th Aug. 1814), daugh. of Simon Ross of Gledfield, and had issue — John, missionary of the Church of Scot- land in India, born 16th Feb. 1807, died ^ I 18j^7 ; Simon, born 23rd Sept. 1808, died abroad; Margaret Henderson, born 12th Aug. 1810 (marr. Duncan Campbell, min. of Kiltearn) : (2) 11th May 1818, Jessiff(died 22nd June 1868), daugh. of Kenneth Mac- kenzie of Millbank, and had issue — Anne, born 28th Aug. 1820; Agnes, born 11th Aug. 1821 (marr. Alexander Falconer, Sheriff -substitute of Nairn), died 19th Jan. 1914 : James, born 25th Aug. 1822 ; Kenneth, born 25th Sept. 1823; Divie Bethune, born 20th Oct. 1824 ; Duncan G. Forbes, born 9th Sept. 1825 ; Alexander, born 1st Nov. 1826, died 14th March 1827. Publications — The Righteousness of God manifested for the Justification of Sinners, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1825) ; Journal of his Visits to St Kilda in 1822, 1825, 1827, and 1830 ; Marhhrann air Maighster Eoin Robeson (Inverness, 1829); Daoine air an Comhairleachadh an Aghaidh bhi deanadh cron orra fein (the cholera sermon) (Inver- ness, 1832); Da7i Spioradail a rinneadh air Criosdaidh Araidh (Edinburgh, 1838); Marbhrann a rinneadh air Diadhairibh urramach nach mairionn (Edinhnrgh, 1848, 1858, 1868, 1890); Elegies on Eminent Ministers of the Church in Gaelic (Edin- burgh, 1848) ; Sj^eech in the General Assembly in the Case of Rev. Roderick Macleod (Edin- burgh, 1869).— [Kay's Portraits, ii., 331 ; Edin. Christ. Inst.; Scot. Mag., Ixxi.; The Apostle of the North, by John Kennedy, D.D. (Edin., 1886); Elegy on Dr Mac- donald (Glasgow, 1862) ; Typographic Scoto- Gadelica, 196-9 ; Diet. Nat. JJiog.]

PETER MACKENZIE, born 30th Nov. 1844 1S1S> ^0° 0^ John M., min. of Loch- carron, and brother of Kenneth M., LL.D., min. of Kingussie ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1828) ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron ; ord. to Tongue 26th Sept. 1843; pres. by Arthur Forbes of CuUoden ; trans, and adm. 29th March 1844 ; D.D. (Aberdeen, March 1875); elected Moderator of the General Assembly 22nd May 1884; died 12th Oct. 1913, ''a cultured, shrewd, gentle- manly man." He marr. 9th Jan. 1845, Margaret Mackintosh (died 13th Oct. 1913), daugh. of James Grant, min. of Nairn. — \_Life of Dr Cameron Lees, 76.]

ALEXANDER JOSEPH MAC- 1891 QUARRIE, born 1843, son of John M., Stornoway ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh, M.A. (1871); ord. to Dun- cansburgh 14th Nov. 1879 ; trans, to Kil- morack 21st Sept. 1883; trans, and adm. 19th May 1891 ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 1916) ; died at Aspatria, Cumberland, 4th May 1923. He marr. 1st Aug. 1871, Elizabeth Addison, who died 1st June 1922, and had issue— John, M.B., CM., Carlisle, captain Royal Army Medical Corps ; Donald, died abroad.

JOHN SELLAR,born Newtonmore 31st July 1884, son of Robert S. and Barbara Riach ; educated at Kin- gussie School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1908) ; licen. by Presb. of Abernethy in 1910 ; assistant at Riccarton, Kilmar- nock; ord. to Carnoch 1st May 1913; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 1st Oct. 1918. Marr. 29th July 1913, Isabelle Fisher, daugh. of George Mac- donald, Glasgow, and Charlotte Hamilton, and has issue — Isabel Mary, born 28th Aug. 1915 ; Andrew Gray, born 4th Jan. 1919.

URRAY AND TARRADALE.

[These parishes were united about 1600.

Urray. — The church of Urray was dedi- cated to St Constantine. The prebend of Urray was held by the subchantor of the Cathedral of Fortrose.

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Tarradale. — The old church of Tarradale, long a ruin, was re-roofed about fifty years ago- Like that of Kiltearn, it was dedicated to Our Lord. Therefore it is always called cm Chriosd (the Church of Christ).]

ALEXANDER PEDDER, vicar at the Reformation, but probably did not conform ; died 1569.

ALEXANDER GRIERSON, pres. by James VI. in 1569 ; died that year. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 518.]

DAVID ADAMSON, exhorter in 1567; 1569 V^^^- to tts vicarage by James VI. in 1569 ; in that year the king pres. him, then an " instructer and teichar of the youth within the burgh of Dingwall," to the chaplainries of St Lawrence in Dingwall and Artafallie in Killearnan ; pres. to the parsonage in 1573 ; Contin, Kilchrist and Fodderty were in the charge in 1574; dem. in 1579; died \bQ\.—[Orig. Paroch. Scot, ii., 518.]

WILLIAM RITCHIE, pres. to the jg„ vicarage by James VI. in 1579, — [Orifj. Paroch. Scot., ii., 518.]

JOHN MACKENZIE, min. in 1593; was denounced rebel 25th Dec. 1595 for not appearing to answer a charge at the instance of Alexander Bayne of Tulloch and Alexander Bayne of Logie "for his insolencies, oppin and manifest oppressions committed upon thame. as namelie by resett and huirding within his house of Johnne M'Gillichallum Rasa, ane commoun and notorious theiff and lymmair ... in the month of May last," John Macleod of Raasay had, it is alleged, come on set purpose to murder Hugh and Duncan, sons of the above-mentioned persons, aided and abetted by the minister, who after- wards laid waste the complainer's lands of Urray. He was still min. in 1601. — [Pit- cairn's Grim. Trials, i.]

JOHN MALCOLM [MACGILLIE- ,gQg CAELUM], min. in 1605, was sub- chantor of Ross in 1608, and was a burgess of Dingwall ; was still min. 6th Feb. 1635. He marr., and had issue — Isa- bel (marr. Alexander, natural son to

VOL. VII.

Kenneth Mackenzie of Kilchrist).— [OKgr. Charter in Antiq. Museum, ; Orig. Charters by Bishops of Ross at Killearnan, 1605, 1608, 1635.]

JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; adm. in

1636 ^^^^ '' ^^P" ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ malignancy (opposition to the Covenant) and obliged to flee to England and latterly to Ireland, which he was compelled to leave on account of the rebellion. He was re- poned by the Synod in April 1643 and was adm. to Suddie in 1644.

DONALD MACRAE, adm. before 21st

1645 '^^^" ^^^^ ' *PP' ^^^P^^^'^ *° t^^

regiment raised by the Earl of Seaforth for King Charles I. ; was a member of Assembly in 1651 ; trans, to Kintail 20th July 1656.

GEORGE GUMMING, born about 1627,

son of Alexander C. of Tomnamoon,

and brother of Michael C, min. of Drainie ; educated at King's College, Aber- deen ; M.A. (1647); became schoolmaster of Elgin, where he was obtruded on the Grammar School without consulting the Presb. 19th July 1649; licen. by Presb. of Elgin 9th Oct. 1655; adm. 13th April 1658; died in 1705. In 1703 there is a sasine to him and Janet Dunbar his wife of the lands of Culbo and Badgrenan.— [J//a»[/rrt7i.r/e Writs; Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 22nd Sept. 1710.]

JOHN MORISON, son of John M. of ^^^ Bragar, judge of the Lewis ; \licen. M/A .(^v-tv-n') J4.H^;

by Presb. of Argyll (Inveraray) 30th ^i^^v, ftf<«-0 June 1698;Xord. to Glenelg, Sept. 1699; ^^ f^ i/^,ir ll*A trans, to Boleskine 3rd Dec. 1706; trans. ^ '{C^^^s.**

to Gairloch in 1711; called by the Presb. .***** i'*!*'***' jure devoluto 29th Sept. 1716; trans, and ^^jlt'' - '-111*/ adm. 16th Jan. 1717; died 1st July 1747. '»*«•-) , L, Being opposed by the heritors and the great majority of the parishioners, many of whom were Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, ho had "no peace or satisfaction" during the whole of his incumbency. He marr. (1) Mary^ daugh. of John Mackenzie of Gruinard and Christian Mackenzie, and had issue — Norman, min. of Uig ; John,! min. of Petty : (2) Christian (died 18th March 1770), daugh. of Alexander Munro

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of Kilchoan,' and had issue— Alexander ; Christina. Publication— A Description of C the Lewis {Spottistcoode Miscellany^ IL). — [Belir/ions Life in Hoss, 98 ; I'ombst.]

PATRICK GRANT, born 1706; licen. 1*749 ^y Presb. of Haddington 5th ^larch 1734 ; ord. to Cawdor 7tb July 1735 ; called 14th March 1748 ; trans, and adm. 27th May 1749 ; D.D. (King's College, Aber- deen, 27th Sept. 1774) ; elected Moderator of the General Assembly 21st May 1778 ; died 14th April 1787. He marr. 10th March 1738, Anne Spence, who died at Forres 9th Sept. 1793. Publication— TAe Sjnrit of Moderation in Religion recommended, a sermon (Edinburgh, Vl'lQ).—{Tomhst.'\

JOHN DOWNIE, born Aberdeen 1727 ; ^ educated at King's College, Aber- deen; M.A. (2nd April 1752); ord. to Gairloch 27th Sept. 1758; trans, to Stornoway 22nd July 1773; chaplain to 78th Highlanders 6th June 1778 ; pres. by John, Lord Macleod, in Sept. 1787 ; trans, and adm. 25th Sept. 1788 ; died 3rd Oct. 1811. He marr. 1st Jan. 1762, Charlotte (died 14th Sept. 1815), daugh. of Alexander Mackenzie of Tollie, provost of Dingwall, and Annabella, eldest daugh. of Sir Donald Bayne of Tulloch, and had issue — Margaret, born 26th Sept. 1762; Annabel, born 16th Feb. 1764; Alexander, min. of Lochalsh, born 6th July 1765 ; Donald, born 4th, and died 9th Oct. 1766; Catherine, born 29th Aug. 1767; Murdoch, born 7th Nov. 1768; Donald, born 25th Dec. 1769, died 4th March 1770; Charles, born 22nd Nov. 1770 ; Jeani*born 8th Aug. 1772 ; Ann, born 15th Sept. 1774, died 12th Feb. 1775; John, born 22nd Sept. 1775; Anne, born 27th Nov. 1776 (marr. Neil Kennedy, min. of Logie-Easter) ; Hector, born 19th Jan. 1778; George (twin), born 19th Jan. 1778; Charlotte, born 30th July 1779; Mary, born 7th May 1781; Hector, born 4th April 1783. Publications — The Substance of a Speech addressed to the Very Rev. tlce Synod of Ross (Inverness, 1810) ; Lash to the Old Seceder, merited by his 7?e7?iar/<:s (Inverness, 1812); Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, viii.).— [Macrae's Dingwall, 110; Tombst.]

DONALD MACDONALD, born 1756; 1812 ^^^^^- ^y Presb. of Lochcarron 10th July 1784 ; ord. missionary at Torridon, and Kishorn, Applecross, April 1785; adm. to Barvas 6th May 1790; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Jan., trans, and adm. 16th April 1812; died 17th Dec. 1835. He marr. 23rd Aug. 1794, Anne Macdonald, who died 27th Oct. 1838, and had issue- Margaret, born 5th Oct. 1795 (marr. 8th Oct. 1821, Alexander Mackenzie of Kinna- haird) ; Donald, born 5th March 1798; Mary, born 15th Nov. 1799 ; Anne, born 5th April 1802 ; Johanna Simpson, born 14th Sept. 1803 ; James, min. of this parish ; Janet, born 20th May 1806 ; Francis Proby, born 20th Oct. 1807; Williamina, born Aug. 1814. Publication — Account of Barvas (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xix.).

JAMES MACDONALD, born 1st Oct. 1804, son of preceding ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1821-5 ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 15th Dec. 1829 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Sept., and ord. (assistant and successor) 18th Nov. 1830. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Urray, 1843-82; died 14th Feb. 1882. He took a leading part in the Skye revival, 1841-2. He marr. 23rd April 1840, Mary (died 1st Sept. 1885), daugh. of John Kennedy, min. of Killearnan, and