Symington p. 261

 

1713 JOHN THOMSON, M.A.; called 25th June, and ord. 11th Sept. 1713; trans. to Libberton and Quothquan 14th May 1717.

 

1718 JAMES WILSON, licen. by Presb. of  Lanark 6th Sept. 1704; pres. by Lockhart of Carnwath in 1717; ord. 2nd May 1718. He preached at the ordination of George Sinclair, min. of Balfron (a settlement effected by a committee of Assembly, under protection of the military) in 1729; made himself obnoxious to his parishioners by reading the Porteous paper in 1737, and died at Spitalhaugh, on his return from the General Assembly, 3rd June 1743. He was buried at West Linton. He marr. 30th Nov. 1735, Catherine, daugh. of Thomas Linning, min. of Walston:[Test. Reg. (Lan.), Wodrow's Anal.]

 

1744 JOHN BROWN, pres. by Alex. Lockhart, advocate, with consent of Geo. Lockhart of Carnwath; ord. 17th Sept. 1744; trans. to Coulter 23rd Oct. 1750.

 

1751 JOHN M'CAUL, M.A.; pres. by Alex. Lockhart of Craighouse, advocate; ord. 15th Aug. 1751; trans. to Tron Parish, Glasgow, 14th Nov. 1782.

 

1783 JAMES FINLAYSON, trans. from Sand sting; pres. by Gen. James Lockhart of Carnwath, and adm. 8th May 1783; trans. to Carstairs 14th Aug. 1794.

 

1795 ROBERT ANDERSON, pres. by Charles Lockhart-Wishart, with consent of his curators, 28th Nov. 1794; ord. 23rd April 1795; trans. to Eastwood 5th July 1798.

 

1799 JAMES SOMERVILLE, pres. by the Commissioners for Chas. Lockhart Wishart of Lee and Carnwath 6th Dec. 1798; ord. 13th March 1799; trans. to Drumelzier 1st Feb. 1810.

 

1810 JOHN EDGAR, pres. by Sir Alex.  Macdonald Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath, Bart., 8th Feb., and ord. 26th April 1810; trans. to Foulden 24th June 1813.

1813 JOHN SMITH, born Douglas, son of William S.; app. schoolmaster of Libberton; licen. by the Presb. 5th Dec. 1797; app. schoolmaster of Carnwath in 1808; pres. by Sir Alex. Macdonald Lockhart of Lee and Carnwarth, Bart., 27th Sept., and ord. 5th Nov. 1813; died 21st Feb. 1834. He marr. Jean (died 9th May 1840), daugh. of John Stodart, Bankhead, and had issue-Mary, born 13th April 1801(marr. John Kay, schoolmaster, Leith), died 1870; Janet, born 27th Dec. 1803, died 28th Feb. 1823; Catherine, born 3rd June 1805 (marr. Thomas Smith, farmer), died 1892; William, farmer, born 13th July 1807, died 5th Oct. 1878; John, farmer, born 1st Aug. 1809, died 22nd March 1880; Alison, born 18th Sept. 1811, died 25th July 1820; Jean Bertram, born 29th Aug. 1814, died 22nd Sept. 1879; Thomas, D.D., LL.D., missionary of the Church of Scotland at Calcutta, afterwards Professor in the Free Church College, Edinburgh, and Moderator of the Free Church Assembly 1891, born 8th July 1817, died 26th May 1906; Grace, born 14th Nov. 1819, died 1868; Hugh Stodart, born 4th Aug. 1822, died 17th April 1823.

 

1834 ALEXANDER HUGH M'LEAN, pres.  by his brother-in-law, Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath, Bart., 17th May 1834, and ord. 26th Sept. same year; trans. to Carnwath 5th Dec. 1839.

 

1840 JOHN FORBES, born Aberfeldy, 1804, son of Daniel F.; educated at Perth Grammar School, St Andrews and Edinburgh Univs.; licen. by Presb. of Weem; ord. 3rd April 1840; died as he was preparing to go to church on Sunday morning, 4th July 1880. He marr. 1st Feb. 1846, Elizabeth (died 30th Jan. 1890), daugh. of Robert Thomson, Covington, and had issue-Daniel Walker, born 5th March 1847, died 1st April 1911; Robert Thomson, M.B., C.M., born 24tb March 1849, died 31st Jan. 1907; Elizabeth Isabella, born 2nd April 1852 (marr. J. Murray Bell, architect, Edinburgh); Margaret Matilda, born 23rd Nov. 1856.

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