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tary of the Colonial Committee, born 22nd July 1801, died 20th Dec. 1863; Ann, born 17th June 1804 (marr. John Morrison, min. of Free Church, Port-Glasgow), died 21st Feb. 1875; Bridget Black, born 8th July 1807, died 8th June 1838; Sarah, born 1st June 1809, died 28th Feb. 1895. Publications- Genuine Religion the Best Friend of the People (Edinburgh, 1796); A Sermon preached before the Society for the Benefit of the Sons of the Clergy (Edinburgh, 1800); Sermons, with Memoir by his brother James (Edinburgh,  1815-17, 2 vols.).-[Sermons, ii.; Wood's Cramond, Family Papers.]

 

1816 GEORGE MUIRHEAD, born 11th Feb. 1764, son of Patrick M., D.D., min. of Dysart; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 25th Sept. 1787; ord. to Dysart, Second Charge, 4th Sept. 1788; trans. to First Charge 10th June 1807; pres. by William Ramsay of Barnton, trans. and adm. 24th Oct. 1816; D.D. (Glasgow, 8th Nov. 1816). He was the oldest ordained min. who joined the Free Church; min. of Cramond Free Church 1843; died 5th April 1847. He marr. 27th Aug. 1807, Maxwell (died 18th Aug. 1854), daugh. of Thomas Fleming, D.D., min. of Lady Yester's, and had issue -Anne, born 12th Sept. 1808; Elizabeth, born 1st June 1815; Patrick Thomas, min. of the Free Church, Kippen, born 9th Nov. 1819, died 1888; Isabella Maxwell, born 2nd Nov. 1822. Publications-Sermon on the Death of Thomas Davidson, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1827); Sermon on the Death of George Wright, D.D. (Stirling, 1827); Pastoral Address to the Inhabitants of Cramond Parish (Edinburgh, 1837); Hints respecting the Low State of Vital Godliness among Professing Christians; Conversion of the Jews (Edinburgh, 1842); Account of Dysart (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xii.).

 

1843 WALTER LAIDLAW COLVIN, born 4th June 1812, son of Robert C., D.D., min. of Johnstone, Dumfriesshire; educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh Univs.; M.A. (Glasgow 1830); licen. by Presb. of Lochmaben 5th An,-,. 1834 ; assistant at East Kilbride; ord. to Shotts 11th Aug.

1836; trans. and adm. 2nd Nov. 1843; D.D. (Glasgow, 26th April 1859); died 19th Nov. 1877. He marr. 22nd Oct. 1844, Anne Grace (died 9th March 1896), daugh. of William Hine, Falmouth, Jamaica, and had issue-Mary Ramsay, born 23rd Jan. 1846 (marr. William Macfie of Clermiston), died 11th Aug. 1895; Eliza, born 5th March 1847 ; Annie Marion, born 26th March 1849, died 21st July 1895; Walter Robert, born 6th July 1850, died at San Francisco 1872; Alice Jane, born 18th Oct. 1851; Jessie Louisa, born 1853; William, stockbroker, Glasgow, born 17th Dec. 1854; Francis Henry, M.B., C.M., born 1856, died 17th June 1895; Victor Albert, min. at Connel Ferry; Charles Edward, died young. Publications -Two Sermons on Election and the Extent of the Atonement (Edinburgh, 1843); Sermon preached before the Society for the Sons of the Clergy (Glasgow, 1868); "Accounts of Cramond and of Shotts " (New Stat. Acc., vols. i., vi.).

 

1878  GEORGE WILSON, trans. from Tolbooth, Edinburgh, and adm. 11th July 1878; res. 4th May 1887 to become min. of St Michael's Mission Church, and first min. of St Michael's Parish.

 

1884 JOHN WEBSTER, born Forglen, 1827, son of Robert W.; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1843); schoolmaster of Banchory-Devenick 1844-52; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen; Murray Lecturer at King's College, 185052; ord. to Strichen 2nd Sept. 1852; trans. to East Anstruther 29th Oct. 1857; trans. to Cameron 10th March 1864; trans. to St John's, Edinburgh, 28th Dec. 1876; trans. and adm. 11th March 1884; D.D. (Aberdeen 1885); res. 16th Oct. 1889 ; died 23rd Jan. 1903. He marr. 10th Feb. 7 857, Anna Milne, who died 30th May 1913, and had issue-James Melville, died 11th June 1913; Edward, solicitor, Edinburgh; and others. Publication-Two Lectures from a series of discourses on the Epistle to the Hebrews and on the Parables, 2 vols. (Aberdeen, 1852).

 

1890 THOMAS MARTIN, M.A.; trans. from Forgan 17th May 1890; trans. to St Mary's, Edinburgh, 15th May 1896.

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