1845 ANDREW REDMAN BONAR, trans.  from Fogo 13th March 1845; trans. to First Charge 28th Nov. 1849.

1850 DANIEL M'FEE [MACFIE], Trans. from St Andrew's, Kilmarnock, and adm. 15th Aug. 1850; became sole min. on death of preceding in 1867. (See First Charge.)

DEAN (q.s.)

[First church opened by Dr Chalmers, 15th May 1836; disjoined from St Cuthbert's and declared a parish quoad sacra by the General Assembly, 30th May 1836. Erected into a parish quoad sacra by the Court of Teinds in 1870. A new church was opened, 30th May 1903.]

1836 JAMES KEITH HAY, born (1) Avon bridge; studied at the United Secession Hall; joined the Church of Scotland about 1824; licen. by Presb. of Dunblane 18th Sept. 1832; ord. 18th Aug. 1836; dep. 30th March 1842.

1842 JAMES MANSON, ord. 10th Nov. 1842. Joined the Free Church; min. of the Free Church, Duns, 1843; died 21st Feb. 1890.

1844 JOHN BIRKMYRE, born Kilbarchan,  14th Dec. 1796, son of William B. and Elizabeth Stevenson; educated at Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1816); ord. to St Paul's, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1832; D.D. (Glasgow 1840) 1840); returned to Scotland 1841; adm. 2nd May 1844; died 6th June 1864. He marr., and had issue- William Frederick, actuary, Glasgow.

1865 ROBERT WILLIAM WALKER, born Musselburgh, 6th Dec. 1840, son of Andrew W., schoolmaster at Whitekirk, and Jean Telfer; educated at High School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1859), B.D. (1861); licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 3rd July 1863; ord. 11th May 1865; res. 9th Jan. 1879; died 26th April 1882. He marr. 14th June 1870, Jessie, daugh. of James Ogilvie, and had issue Helen Ogilvie, born 24th Aug. 1876.

1879 JAMES WILLIAMSON, born Kirkcudbright, 26th June 1833, son of James W. and Janet Gordon; educated at Kirkcudbright Academy and Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (25th April 1854); licen. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 9th June 1858; assistant at Kirkmabreck and St Michael's, Dumfries; ord. 22nd June 1859, as chaplain on the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment; ind. 26th June 1879; convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Indian Churches from 1881; D.D. (Glasgow 1905). Marr. (1) 4th Nov. 1861, Agnes (died 24th March 1870), daugh. of Robert Wallace, D.D., min. of St Michael's, Dumfries, and had issue-James Gordon, M.B., Gateshead, born 28th Oct. 1862; Elizabeth Wallace, born 31st Jan. 1864, died 22nd Nov. 1884: (2) 1st Nov. 1875, Isabella Agnes Jane, daugh. of John Donaldson, min. of Kirkconnel, and has issue-Mary Gordon, M.A., born 14th June 1877, authoress of Edinburgh (Series of "Ancient Cities ").

GAELIC CHAPEL-OF-EASE.

[Proposed July 1766, built 1768, opened June 1769; united to the Gaelic and English Chapel, and closed 22nd Oct. 1815.]

1775 JOSEPH ROBERTSON [MAC GREGOR], a native of Perthshire, for sometime clerk in an upholstery warehouse in the city; licen. by the Newcastle Classis [Presbytery] of Dissenting Ministers, 13th April 1773, and ordained by them next day. Officiated among this people, and was received into communion and authorised by the Presb. 26th July 1775. Assumed the name of MacGregor in 1784 (which had long been proscribed), and died 12th Jan. 1801. He marr. Janet Brown, who died 5th April 1789, and had issue-Robert Brown, Colonel of the 88th Foot; Margaret (marr. Joseph Maclaren, surgeon, Royal Scots).-[Kay's Portr., i.; Duncan's Elog. Sepulch., Epitaphs.]

1799  JAMES M'LAUCHL AN, formerly chaplain to Fraser's Regt. of Scots Fencibles, and Missionary at Strathglass; nominated by the Society for Propa