and Coatbridge), died 12th June 1904; William Scott, merchant, Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, born 4th July 1828, died 22nd May 1904. Publications - A Letter- to John Brown, min. of the Assoc. Congreg., Biggar (Edinburgh, 1820), which called forth A Letter of Congratulation, by Robert Johnstone, elder, Biggar; Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., vi.); Sermon XV. (Ch. of Scotland Pulpit, i.).-[Vide Edinburgh Christian Instructor, xix., 1820.]

1857 JOHN LAWRIE, born Annan, son of Thomas L. and Mary Allan; educated at Dalkeith and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow; assistant at Barony, Glasgow; ord. 3rd July 1857; res. 16th May 1882; died 20th An,. 1908. He marr. 25th Feb. 1862, Isabella, daugh. of James Stark, M.D., of Huntfield, Lanarkshire, and Isabel, daugh. of Adam Black, M.P., and had issue-Isabella, born 18^th Feb. 1863 (marr. Robert John Harvey- Gibson, M.A., F.L.S., Professor of Botany, Univ. of Liverpool); Thomas Henry, accountant, California, born 21st June 1864; James Stark, rancher, U.S.A., born 12th Aug. 1865; Mary Allan, born 1st Oct. 1866 (marr. Thomas Parker); Emma Lyon, born 21st Oct. 1867 (deceased); John Howard, farmer, born 11th Dec. 1868; Francis Allan, Royal Insurance Co., Calcutta, born 18th Aug. 1877.

1883 JAMES ROBERTSON SABISTON, B.D.; ord. 12th Jan. 1883; trans. to Abbey Parish, Edinburgh, 16th Oct. 1889.

l890 JOHN PICKEN, born Stewarton, Ayrshire, 20th Nov. 1860, son of James P. and Janet Latta; educated at Ayr and Kilmarnock Academies, St Andrews and Glasgow Univs.; M.A. (Glasgow 1883); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 1885; assistant at Galston and Campsie; ord. 27th March 1890. Marr. 26th June 1894, Catherine Campbell, laugh. of Andrew Morrison Brown, B.D., St Andrew's U.F. Church, Kirkintilloch, and has issue - James Craigie, born 13th April 1895; Andrew Maurice, born 13th May 1899; Mary Binnie Robertson, born 7th July 1904.

QUOTHQUAN.

[United to Libberton in 1648, and disjoined 3rd Feb. 1649. The disjunction was recalled, 27th Jan. 1669.]

1567 GEORGE ALEXANDER, exhorter (Acts and Decreets, xli., 4).

1569 JAMES HAMILTON, adm. May 1569; removed to Libberton 1574. Quothquan again in his charge in 1585.

1588 THOMAS KING, exhorter in Carnwath in 1567; trans. and adm. 1588; continued in 1593.-[Reg. Assig.]

1594 THOMAS SOMERVELL, mentioned as min. in 1594 (Reg. of Deeds, xlviii., 244).

1597 THOMAS MAXWELL, son of John M, of Pottarhill, descended from the Maxwells of Braidiland; MA. (Glasgow 1583); min. of Carnwath 1588; trans. and adm. 1597; died before 13th March 1605. He marr. Margaret Livingston, who survived him, and had issue-Alexander, M.A.-[Reg. Assig., Test. Reg. (Lan. and Glasg.).]

1617 JOHN CHIESLIE [CHIESLEY] of  Kersewell, son of John C., farmer in the parish; M.A. (Edinburgh, 22nd Feb. 1602); adm. 1617; died 6th April 1635, aged about 53. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Walter Carmichael of Park (marr. (2), cont. 21st to 23rd Jan. 1636, John Muir of Anniston: Reg. of Deeds, dliv., 343). She had sasine of the lands of Anniston, etc., 11th Feb. 1636, and had issue-Sir John, served heir to his father, and knighted by Charles I.; William of Cockburn, W.S.; Walter, apprenticed 2nd May 1638 to. James Nasmith, Edinburgh, a merchant and brewer, marr. a laugh. of Lord Provost Archibald Tod of Edinburgh, purchased the lands of Dalry, near Edinburgh, and had a son, John C., notorious as the assassin of Lord President Lockhart, 31st March 1689; Samuel, apprenticed to Andrew Brown, surgeon, 28th Dec. 1653; Janet, who marr. John Muir, younger, of