1867 JOSEPH MILNE, born Stonehaven, 10th Nov. 1841, son of James M. and Ann Wylie; educated at Fetteresso School and Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A (1858); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 12tt May 1863; assistant at Linlithgow, and St Mungo's, Glasgow; pres. by John Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun, 10th June 1867; ord. 24th Sept. 1867; died 10th Dec. 1871. Marr. 26th April 1870, Mary Lushington, daugh. of John Burns, and had issue-Elizabeth Shirley Burns, born 22nd March 1871 (marr. (1) Lieut.-Colonel Hoile, M.D., 17th Lancers; (2) Frank Ford; M.B., Wimbledon).

1872 WILLIAM BENNIE, born Glasgow, 13th April 1835, son of John B. and Janet Finlay; educated at Glasgow Univ.; sometime headmaster of St Enoch's Parish School, Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow; ord. to Kelvinhaugh Chapel 11th May 1865; pres. by John Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun; trans. and adm. 5th July 1872; died 31st Dec. 1894. Marr. 28th June 1870, Catherine Craig, and had issue-John; James Craig, died 1874; Jessie Smith; William, died 1878; Catherine; David Finlay; Isabella; Octavia; Elizabeth.

1895 DAVID GRAHAM, ord. 11th July 1895; trans. to Inverbrothock 9th Feb. 1898.

1898 WILLIAM LAURIE WEBSTER, born Edinburgh, 9th April 1873, son of William Heron W.; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1895); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 11th May 1898; ord. 30th Aug. 1898. Marr. 29th March 1899, Elizabeth Carr, daugh, of Joseph Wood, and has issue-Janetta Eleanor; Laura Wilhelmina; William Heron, died in infancy. Publications-The Greatest Question of Evolution (Bathgate, 1903).

BLACKBRAES (Q.S;).

[Disjoined from Muiravonside, and erected into a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court of Teinds, 14th July 1890. Church built in 1866.]

1890 WILLIAM SMITH, born Glasgow, 22nd July 1850, son of Andrew S. and Anne Calderwood; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1883; ord. to Blackbraes Chapel-of-Ease 1884. Marr. 11th April 1876, Helen Anderson, daugh. of George Hume, Glasgow, and has issue-Elizabeth M'Queen (marr. William Simpson, M.A., min. of Fortrose); Andrew, ALA., born 1879; William, born 1885.

BORROWSTOUNNESS,

or

BO'NESS.

[The parish was erected by Parliament, 9th March 1619, and was formerly called Kinneil.]

1648 JOHN WAUGH, a native of Lanark; M.A. (Edinburgh, 17th April 1639); ord. 27th Nov. 1648. He opposed the Protesting brethren, and at their Presb., in name of his own (20th Oct. 1652), protested against the ordination of John Primrose, at Queensferry, summoning them to compear before the Synod in Nov.; imprisoned in 1654 for naming King Charles II. "in his prayers" dem. his charge 19th Sept. 1670, and went to Ireland with his family; died in Edinburgh, March 1674, aged about 55. He marr. 1652, Christian, fourth daugh. of George, first Lord Forrester of Corstorphine, widow of James Hamilton of Grange.-[Edin. Reg. (Bur.); Baillie's Lett. iii.; Wodrow's Hist., Linlithgow Burgh Rec.]

1672  ROBERT HUNTER, M.A. (Edinburgh, July 1643; ord. to Corstorphine 11th April 1655; deprived 1662; ind. at Dunning 1669; ind. in this charge 3rd Sept. 1672. Having petitioned the Council for the stipend of Dunning, 1671 and 1672, the Lords ordered the same to be paid; died April 16 7 6. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of William Hunter of Braidwoodshiel, Lauderdale (G. R. Inhib., 29th Sept. 1674), and had issue-James, who died April 1672. - [Brown's Mist. of Indulg., Tombst., Wodrow's Hist.]