Paton, overseer at Clackmannan coalworks; Christian (marr. Alex. Hamilton, min. of Stirling).-[Test. Reg., Tombst., S. P. Eloq]

1704 JOHN TODD, studied at the Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 15th May 1700; called 2nd Sept. 1703; ord. 19th Jan. 1704; died Jan. 1720. He marr. 11th April 1704, Agnes (died Jan. 1'733), widow of George Dundas of Garvock, and had issue-John, min. in Edinburgh. - [Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii.; Test. and Edin. Reg. (Marr.), Tombst]

1725 ALEXANDER PYOTT, ord. 29th Oct.  1725; trans. to Dunbar 24th Oct. 1733.-[Fordoun Presb. Reg.]

1735 JAMES YAIR, pres. by James, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, and ord. 18th Sept. 1735; trans. to Campvere 18th April 1739.

1740 GEORGE ELLIS, licen. by Scots Presb. in London, and received by that of Hamilton 25th July 1738; called 23rd Oct. 1739; ord. 9th April 1740; died 5th March 1795, in his 83rd year. He marr. 27th July 1750, Alice (died 21st April 1790), daugh. of Captain Drummond, Midhope, a son of Pitkellony, and had issue-Katherine, born 12th June 1751, died 9th Dec. 1809; Mary, born 18th July 1752; Alice, born 12th June 1754, died 9th June 1765; Helen, born 15th Nov. 1757 (marr. 23rd Sept. 1776, James Thomson, shipmaster in Leith), died 26th April 1784; George, born 20th Feb. 1763; Anne, born 7th Feb. 1765; Joanna, born 12th July 1769, died 12th Jan. 1775; James, died in infancy. Publication-Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., i.).

1796 JOHN BELL, born 1745, son of James B., Cambusnethan; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Lanark 10th May 1786; pres. by Douglas, Duke of Hamilton, in 1795; ord. 21st Jan. 1796; died unmarried 14th Dec. 1815.-[Scots Mag., lxxviii.]

1816 DAVID FLEMING, born 1790, son of John F., merchant, Paisley; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1808); licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 9th June 1813; pres. by Alexander, Marquess of Douglas, and ord. 22nd Aug. 1816; died 19th Jan. 1860. He marr. (1) 3rd June 1818, Grace (died 2nd July 1827), only daugh. of John Ross, Borrowston Mains, and had issue-Grace Matilda, born 4th June 1819 (marr. 1840, James Edgar of Keithock, Sherbrooke, Canada); John, born 29th March 1821; David Carrick Buchanan, born 24th July 1822; Elizabeth Smith, born 10th April 1824, died 5th May 1842; Martha Duncanson, born 13th July 1825 (marr. George Cadell of Cowdenhill) (2) 15th March 1830, Janet (died 25th April 1884), only daugh. of William Carlile, Provost of Paisley, and had issue-Janet Carlile, born 14th Dec. 1831 (marr. 1857, Andrew Vannan, Bo'ness), died 1859. Publications - A Voice from Calvary (London, 1830); Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., ii.).

1861 EDWARD SMITH, born Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire, 18th May 1828, son of John S. and Catherine Dobie; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Lochmaben 7th Aug. 1858; assistant at Cranstoun; pres. by William, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, 31st Dec. 1860; ord. 4th April 1861; died unmarr. 30th March 1887.

1887  WILLIAM DUNDAS, born Stroma, Caithness, 31st July 1855, son of William D. and Elizabeth Kennedy Sinclair; educated at Stroma School, Church of Scotland Training College, and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1881), B.D. (1886); schoolmaster of Stroma 1881-3; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1886; assistant at Holywood; ord. 27th Sept. 1887. Marr. 7th Feb. 1895, Harriet Mary Croxall (died 22nd Feb. 1914), eldest daugh. of James Skipper, Manor House, Coltishall, and has issue-Mary Sinclair, born 2nd May 1896, died 10th Nov. 1900; William Fawdington, born 15th May 1898; Harriet Elspeth Kennedy, born 17th July 1900.