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April 1675; Jean, bapt. 25th
June 1676;
John, bapt. 22nd Dec. 1677; Andrew; Janet, bapt.
8th March 1679: (2) Agnes, daugh. of James
Wilkie of Cammo, and widow of Henry Morison,
W.S. (G. R. Hornings, 28th July 1685; Reg. of Deeds, Mack.,
24th Oct. 1673), and had issue James, bapt. 7th May 1686.-[Monteith's Mort.. Edin. Reg. (Bapt.);
Inq. Ret. Gen., 8199; Tombst. Family Papers.]
1687 JOHN KNOX, M.A., above noticed; indulged at
West Calder; returned (after toleration had been granted) July 1687; died
March 1688. He marr.23rd June 1659, Jean Dalgleish, Cramond, who died 26th Oct. 1673, aged 32, and
had issue-Jean (marr. John Tullidelph, min. of Dunbarney), a daugh. (marr. -- Charteris); Elizabeth,
buried in Greyfriars, 1st April 1691; Margaret (Privy Seal
Eng. Reg., vi, 256).-[Edin. Rey. (Bapt. and Bur.),
Wood's Hist. of Cramond.]
1697 ANDREW BOWIE, M.A. (Glasgow 1664); adm. to Balmerino 24th Sept.
1690; trans. to Ceres 7th July 1692; trans. and adm. 31st
March 1697;
died 25th Aug. 1707. He marr. Jan. 1692,
Agnes, daugh. of William Row, min. of Ceres,
and had issue-Catherine (marr., pro. 29th March 1724, Charles Fall, merchant,
Dunbar). - [Balmerino Sess. and Test. Reg.,
Campbell's Balmerino
and its Abbey.]
1708 JOHN WILSON, M.A. (St Andrews, 17th
July 1688);
chaplain to David, Earl of Leven; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 25th
Aug. 1698; ord. to Portmoak 24th Nov. 1698
; trans. to Kirkcaldy 22nd Oct. 1702; called 13th July, trans. and
adm. 9th Sept. 1708; died 31st Aug. 1724. He marr. 12th Nov. 1699,
Isabel, daugh. of Andrew Nisbet, a min. in Ireland. - [Kirkcaldy Sess.,
Test., and Edin. Reg. (Marr.).]
1725 GEORGE LINDSAY, chaplain to Lord Charles Ker;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 3rd June 1724;
called 19th Jan
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and ord. 22nd April 1725; died 24th Sept. 1764.
Marr. 9th
June 1726,
Elizabeth Gray, and had issue-Janet; Grizell ; George.
1765 [PHILIP MORISON, pres. by George III. 4th March
1765 (Privy Seal Eng. Reg., ix., 406) ; but
not settled ; became min. of Dunscore, same year.]
1765 DAVID JOHNSTON, born 26th April 1734, second
son of John J., min. of Arngask; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of
Selkirk 12th July 1757; ord. to Langton
11th May 1758; pres. by the Kirk-session and inhabitants in 1764;
trans. and adm. 11th July 1765; D.D. (Edinburgh, 6th March 1781);
one of His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary Oct. 1793. He founded the
Asylum for the Industrious Blind at Edinburgh in 1793; declined the
honour of knighthood 1812; died 5th July 1824. He marr. 5th
July 1759,
Elizabeth (died 8th
Aug. 1796,
aged 61), daugh. of John Todd, shipbuilder, Leith, and had issue John,
lieut. H.E.I.C.S., born 7th March 1761, died at Bombay, 23rd Dec.
1786; Gavin, born 26th Aug. 1762, died 30th March 1773; Robert, born
6th Jan. 1767, died 13th Jan. 1768; Margaret, born 30th Jan. 1769,
died 19th Jan. 1770; David, born 29th Dec. 1770, died 30th Jan. 1771;
Henrietta, born 7th March 1772, died 5th July 1785; David, born 20th
Nov. 1773, died 20th Jan. 1775; Elizabeth, born 8th July 1775 (marr.
15th Sept. 1800, William Penney, merchant, Glasgow), died 1869; Jane,
born 13th Dec. 1777 (marr. 6th Aug. 1798, Robert MacBrair, merchant,
Glasgow), died 4th April 1818. Publications-Five single Sermons (Edinburgh,
1778-96) ; Dissertation on the Encouragement which our Blessed Lord
gave to Little Children (Edinburgh, 1799); Sermons, 2 vols. (Edinburgh,
1805-8).-[Scots flag., xciv., Kay's Portr., Morison's
Dec.; A Model Pastor of the Old School, by his granddaughter, A. F.
Foster (Edinburgh, 1878); Dict. Nat. Biog.]
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