born 16th Aug. 1832; William Griersor. born 29th April 1835. Publication-Ac count of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., ii.).[Steven's Mem. of Heriot.]

1855 WILLIAM LOCKHART, M.A.; pres by the Town Council 31st Oct. 1854 ord. 11th Feb. 1855; trans. to Colin ton 11th Jan. 1861.

1861 THOMAS ANDREWS, born 4th May 1831, son of Robert A., Glasgow educated at Glasgow Univ.; assistant at St Matthew's, Glasgow; ord. to St Luke's, Edinburgh, 19th May 1858; pres by the Town Council 9th Feb., adm. 9th May 1861; died 25th May 1870.

1872 JOHN WHYTE, born Girvan 1821, son of David W.; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Ayr 7th Nov. 1849; ord. by Presb. of Bathurst to Brockville, Canada, 6th Aug. 1851; min. of Arthur, Canada, 1856-68; pres. by the Town Council 6th June 1872; adm. 8th Aug. 1872; dep. 26th May 1884; died at Glasgow, 9th Dec. 1893. Marr. (1) 25th Jan. 1845, Joanna Finlay, who died 20th Dec. 1866, and had issue-Mary Ruth; John M'Clymont: (2) 30th April 1878, Robina, daugh. of John Cameron, farmer, Ardchapple, widow of Captain Harkness, Greenock.

1844 DAVID MILLER, born Edinburgh, 28th Nov. 1841, son of James M. and Elizabeth M'Dowell; educated privately, and at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1864), LL.B. (London 1866), B.D. (Edinburgh 1867); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1864; ord. to Mossgreen 14th May 1868; trans. to Invertiel 19th Nov. 1869; trans. to Mordington 22nd June 1871; trans. and adm. 3rd Dec. 1884; died 11th April 1897. He marr. 24th Aug. 1880, Margaret Fender, daugh. of John Hay, Manderston Mill, Berwickshire, and had issue -Elizabeth Constance Winifred, born 12th May 1882.

1897 DAVID MELVILLE STEWART; ord.  28th Sept. 1897; trans. to Inverbrothock, 20th Feb. 1900.

1900 WILLIAM BOWER WILSON, born Perth, 26th Sept. 1870, son of James W., min. of St Leonard's, Perth; educated at Perth Academy and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1892); licen. 15th May 1896, by Presb. of Perth; assistant at Arbroath, and St Enoch's, Dundee; ord. 19th July 1900. Marr. 5th May 1908, Mary, daugh. of Robert Stewart, Tullycoll, Cookstown, Ireland, and has issue-Molly Bower, born 20th Feb. 1910; Marion Annie Marshall, born 26th Feb. 1913.

SLAMANNAN or ST LAURENCE.

[Originally part of Falkirk; disjoined from the Presb. of Stirling, and annexed to Linlithgow Presb., 8th July 1589.]

1565 RICHARD FLEMING, styled min. 9th Nov. 1565-6; exhorter 1566; signed the articles drawn up by the Synod 6th Oct. 1571. - [Reg. Min. and Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Stirling Presb. and Test. Reg., Wodrow's Miscell.]

1602 JOHN GIBSON, M.A.; adm. 2nd Aug. 1602; trans. to Dalmeny after 10th March 1605; demitted the parsonage and vicarage in 1616.-[Edin. Test. Reg-]

1607  THOMAS AMBROSE, min. of Alva 1598-1601, of Larbert 1601-1603; adm. to Denny 30th May 1603; trans. and adm. 1st April 1607; dep. by Bishop Gledstanes, the Presb. of Edinburgh, and Commissioners of the General Assembly, 6th Dec. 1613, for having "married the Lord Livingston with the Marquess of Huntly's dochter," and for baptizing a child irregularly in the parish of Torphichen; reponed by the General Assembly 1614; pres. by Alex., Earl of Linlithgow, in 1616; accused of "setting his teinds " 4th June 1617; suspended 13th Feb. 1628, dem. 26th March following. He marr. Janet Yule, and had issue-Jean.-[Falkirk Sess. Reg., Reg. Assig.]

1628  JOHN DRYSDALE, M.A. (St Andrews 1617; adm. to Balquhidder 24th May 1626; trans. and adm. after 9th April 1628; suspended 1642, for drunkenness;