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1894 THOMAS HENRY JONES, a native of Canada; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1887); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 15th May 1891; assistant at St George's, Edinburgh; ord.
8th Nov. 1894; res. 15th June 1898; min. at Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 1898, at
Beaconsfield, Cape Colony, 1914.
1898 WILLIAM LOW JAMIE, born Edinburgh, 22nd
Feb. 1860, son of David J.; educated at Canongate Burgh School and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1887); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 14th
May 1890; assistant at Northesk; ord. 27th Sept.
1898.
Marr. 28th Aug. 1909, Elizabeth Forster, daugh. of W. K. Scott, Addiewell.
COLINTON, originally HAILES.
[St
Cuthbert's Church and parish of Halis or Hailes,
now Colinton, was founded about 1095 a.d. by Ethelred, Earl of Fife, son of
Malcolm III. and Queen Margaret. A church dedicated by David de Bernham, 27th Nov. 1248, was probably destroyed during the English
invasion, 1544-5. A church built on
the present site in 1636 was rebuilt in 1771, and again in 1907. Before the
Reformation the church belonged to the Preceptory of St Anthony, Leith.]
1567 ALEXANDER FORRESTER,
probably of the Corstorphine family, reader in 1567-[Reg. Min.]
1569 JOHN DURIE, mentioned as
min. in 1569; trans. to Leith, May 1570. — [Spottiswood's Hist.,
iii., 83; Reg.
Min.; Wodrow's MS. Biog.,
i.; Edin. Chr. Inst., v.; Relig. Mon., v.; New Stat. Acc., ix]
1574 ADAM LETHAM [LICHTON, LEIGHTON], had charge of Currie, Hailes, and St
Catherine’s of the Hopes in 1574. There were readers at Currie and Hailes, and
the office of reader at St Catherine's was vacant. The reader at Hailes was
Andrew Robeson. — [Reg. Min.]
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1579 JOHN HALL, min. in 1579; trans.
to Leith 24th Oct. 1596. - {Reg. Assig., Book of the Kirk, Wodrow Miscell.; Calderwood's Hist., iv.]
1596 PETER HEWAT, trans. from the
High Kirk, Edinburgh, 26th Oct., and adm. 5th Nov. 1596; trans. to Greyfriars Jan. 1597.—[Edin. Counc. Reg., x.; Reg. Assig.]
1598 JAMES THOMSON, M.A.
(Edinburgh, 12th Aug. 1592); called 23rd Jan. 1597; elected 23rd May, and adm. 14th July 1598. He refused to conform to the Bishop's instructions
regarding the method of celebrating Communion, 5th
March 1634; died before 2nd April 1635, aged about 63. He marr.
Helen, daugh. of John Leyis
[Lees], merchant, Edinburgh, and through her was entered burgess and
guild-brother of that city, 18th May 1608. His widow was admitted
"as ane ordinar pensioner by the Session of
Edinburgh, to receive quarterly the sume of 20 merkis,"
11th Oct. 164:4:.—[Test., Edin. Gen. Sess., Guild, and Reg. (Bapt.); Reg.
Assig; Sec. Sigill., cvi.; Old Dec.,
i.; Sed. Book of Teinds;
Row's and Stevenson's Hists., i.; Inq. Ret. Edin.,
220.]
1635 WILLIAM OGSTON, M.A.; regent in Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1619; on the commendation
of Bishop Forbes, he was pres. by Charles I. 1635. Previous to the
celebration of Communion, he caused his parishioners to undergo his
examinations kneeling. Refusing to take the Covenant, he was abused
in Edinburgh by a mob of women, 9th May 1637, who waited on him after sermon, "and did showre him with strokes." Deposed 4th Jan. 1639, for deserting his flock "twenty weeks to gidder," etc.; coll. at Corstorphine in 1664.—[Wodrow's
MSS.; Baillie's Lett.,
i.; Peterkin's Rec.;
New Stat. Acc., i.; Stevenson's Hist.]
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