adm. 20th June 1882; died 18th Sept. 1897. He marr. 24th Sept. 1884, Jessie Brownlie, daugh. of Dr John Craig, Strathaven, and had issue-Janet King, born 18th July 1885; Mary Hamilton, born 5th Jan. 1887; Annie Margaret, born 24th Sept. 1889; William, M.A., probationer, born 26th April 1891; John, born 23rd Nov. 1892; Gavin, born 20th Nov. 1896.

1898 THOMAS WATT M’ANDREW, born Glasgow, 29th Sept. 1864, son of Peter M 'A. and Annie Picken; educated at Glasgow schools and Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow June 1893; assistant in Renfrew Parish 1893-8; ord. 15th March 1898. Marr. 27th April 1898, Christina Mackie, daugh. of Lyon Wilson, Glasgow, and has issue Margaret Craig Wilson, born 6th Feb. 1899; Peter Douglas, born 15th Jan. 1901.

GRAHAMSTON (Q.S).

[Disjoined from Falkirk and erected into a parish quoad sacra by Court of Teinds, 6th Dec. 1875.]

1876 DUNCAN CAMPBELL, M.A., B.D.; trans. from Keig, and adm. 3rd Feb. 1876; res. 29th Nov. 1880, on app. as chaplain of the Scots Church, Paris.

1881 ANDREW ROSS TAYLOR, born Aberdeen, 9th July 1852, son of James Stirling T., schoolmaster, Watten, Caithness; educated at Watten, and Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1874); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 7th May 1878; ord. 13th April 1881. Marr. 28th Sept. 1881, Margaret, daugh. of Alexander Walker, Aberdeen.

GRANGEMOUTH (Q.S.).

[Declared a parish quoad sacra by the General Assembly, 29th May 1837. Disjoined from Falkirk and erected a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court of Teinds, 7th June 1880. Church built in 1866.]

1839 JAMES WILLIAM TAYLOR, ord. 7th May 1839; trans. to Flisk 14th April 1843.

1846 WILLIAM PURDIE DICKSON served as probationer from 1846 till his admission to Cameron 9th Sept. 1851; [afterwards Professor of Divinity, Univ. of Glasgow.]

1880 WILLIAM HOLDOM, born Athelstaneford ford, 9th July 1816, son of Richard H. and Janet Reid; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 14th Feb. 1848; ord. to the Mission Station, Grangemouth, 7th Oct. 1856; first min. of the parish 1880; died 8th June 1884. Marr. 5th July 1859, Martha (died 24th May 1908), daugh. of James Marshall.

1884 GEORGE MILES THOMSON, born Glasgow, 18th June 1854, son of William T.; educated at Glasgow, and Kingston Univ., Canada; B.A. (1878); licen. 1882; ord. 7th April 1884; adm. to this charge 8th Dec. following; died 5th Dec. 1908. Marr. 3rd April 1889, Catherine Mathie, daugh. of Alexander Macnie, writer, Glasgow, and had issue-William Alexander Miles, born 27th July 1890; George Miles, born 9th July 1891; Camilla Macnie, born 12th Sept. 1892; Mary Miles, born 16th Nov. 1893; Catherine Mathie, born 4th Jan. 1895; John Somerville Miles, born 2nd Feb. 1896, died 18th Dec. 1896; Daniel Macnie, born 2nd May 1897; Robert Macnie, born 18th Jan. 1899; Oswy Miles, born 29th April 1900; Jean Marjorie, born 13th Sept. 1901; Jemima Anne Harrison, born 11th Feb. 1904.

1909 WILLIAM REID WISEMAN, M.A., B.D.; ord. 26th April 1909; trans. to Gladsmuir 5th Feb. 1914.

1914 ALEXANDER MACPHERSON, born Aberdeen, 7th Feb. 1873; educated at Gordon's College and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1895), B.D. (1903); licen. By Presb. of Aberdeen 1903; assistant at Irvine, and Abbey Parish, Edinburgh; ord. 8th May 1914.

KERSE (Q.S.).

[Disjoined from Falkirk and erected into a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court of Teinds, 13th July 1906. Church and halls built in 1899.]