Ruth, born 13th July 1854; Anna, born 18th April 1857, died 15th April 1859. Publications - Mr Owen's Objections to Christianity, and New Pieta of Society and Education Refitted (Edinburgh, 1824); Life and Times of Alexander Henderson (Edinburgh, 1836); Clerical Economics (Edinburgh, 1842, 2nd ed., 1856); Eight Weeks in Germany (Edinburgh, 1842); Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Palmerston, on the Political Imprisonments and Condition of Naples (Edinburgh, 1851); The Lands of the Messiah, Mahomet, and the Pope (Edinburgh, 1852); The Drying Up of the Euphrates, or the Downfall of Turkey Prophetically Considered (London, 1853); Appeal to Presbyterians of all Denominations in Behalf of the Jews in Jerusalem and the Holy Land (Edinburgh, 1854); The Cat o' Nine Tails applied to the Jewish Committee of the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1856); St Paul and his Localities, in their Past and Present Condition (1856); Manual of Domestic Economy (1857); The Tomahawk and Scalping Knife applied with more Pith than Pity to the Financial and other Abuses of the Church of Scotland (1860). Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc. vi.)-[Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1863  ROBERT JAMES STEVENSON, born Poona, India, 5th Oct. 1835, son of John S., D.D., of Bombay (afterwards min. of Ladykirk); educated at High School and Univ., Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1861; assistant at Lesmahagow; ord. 28th Aug. 1863; died 30th May f899. He marr. 27th Sept. 1865, Mary Jane Maxwell (died 19th June 1906), daugh. of Allan MacNaughton, D.D., min. of Lesmahagow, and had issue - John Gordon, min. of Dunnet, born 18th June 1866.

1899 JAMES RUTH GILRUTH, born Dundee, 15th Jan. 1868, son of George G.  and Ann Grant; educated at High School, Dundee, and St Andrews Univ.; M.A. (1890); licen. by Presb. of Dundee 1894; assistant at Markinch; ord. 8th Nov. 1899.

DUNSYRE.

[The church was dedicated to St Bride, and belonged to the Abbey of Kelso; disjoined from the Presbytery of Lanark and annexed to that of Biggar, by the Commission of Assembly, 4th June 1765.]

1567 JAMES KADYE, reader. - [Reg.  Min.]

1601 ROBERT SOMERVILLE, M.A.; pres.  to the vicarage by James VI. 13th Nov. 1601; dip. before 16th Jan. 1607; min. of Coulter in 1607. - [Reg. Assig.]

1607 JAMES LINDSAY, pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 16th Jan. 1607; trans. to Carstairs in 1616.

1616 WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, brother of Alex. S. of Plaine (G. R. Sas., xlv., 505); M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th July 1605); pres. by James VI. 15th June 1615, and 31st Dec. 1616; and by Charles I. to the parsonage and vicarage, 14th Dec. 1635; died 15th April 1646. He marr. Lilias Johnston (Reg. of Deeds, cccxlviii., 166), and had issue-Robert, apprenticed to William Caldwell, merchant, Edinburgh.[Test. Reg. (Lan.), Reg. Sec. Sig., Tombst.]

1647 ROBERT LOCKHART, M.A. (Glasgow 1641); pres. by Charles I. 30th Oct. 1646; adm. 25th Feb. 1647; confined to the parish on the establishment of Episcopacy, and app. by the Diocesan Synod, 28th April 1664, to appear before a committee of their number to answer for not conforming. Decreet passed against him with others, 16th July 1671. Indulged at Coulter 3rd Sept. 1672, but not obeying, he was charged before the Privy Council, 12th March 1673, and denounced 6th Nov. 1674; having gone to England, he was included in the letters of intercommuning, 3rd Aug. 1676, and farther cited 11th Aug. 1677. He died before 10th Jan. 1694. He marr. (1) Helen Cowper, and had issue -Margaret, bapt. 1st April 1652; Helen