Dalkeith p. 316

 

1869 WILLIAM CALDERWOOD, bapt. 22nd Jan. 1636, son of Bailie Thomas C., bookseller and Dean of Guild, Edinburgh, and Elizabeth Mortimer; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (May 1653); ord. 22nd Sept. 1659; died 4th March 1680. He marr. 23rd Nov. 1660, Margaret (died 3rd Sept. 1682), daugh. of Thomas Craig of Riccarton, and had issue—Thomas, burgess and guild-brother of Edinburgh; Lewis, died 1680; Archibald; Helen.— [Test. and Edin. Reg. (Bapt.), Tombst., Calderwood's Hist., New Stat. Acc., Monteith's Theater of Mortality.]

 

1680 JAMES LUNDIE, M.A.; trans. from  First Charge, Tron, Edinburgh, and adm. 24th Nov. 1680; pres. by James, Duke, and Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch, 24th Nov. 1680. Refusing to take the Test, he was deprived in 1681. [Afterwards min. of North Leith.]— [Wodrow's Hist., Fountainhall's Diary, New Stat. Acc.]

 

1683 ALEXANDER HERIOT, M.A. (Edin burgh 1666); licen. by Bishop of Edinburgh 22nd July 1669; adm. to Second Charge, Kirkcaldy, 1676; pres. by James, Duke of Buccleuch and Monmouth, Dec. 1682; adm. 11th Jan. 1683; deprived 3rd Dec. 1690, for " contumacy." He marr. Nov. 1675, Helen Balfour, in the parish of Liff, and had a daugh., Helen. Publication—A Pamphlet in exculpation of himself.—[Kirkcaldy Sess. Reg.; Hist. Gen. Ass., 1690; MS. Acc. of Min., 1689; S. Presb. Eloq., New Stat. Acc.}

 

1687 PATRICK ANDERSON. M.A.; trans. from Walston about 1687; but returned soon after to his former parish, according to the Act of Parliament 1690.

 

1691 WILLIAM MEIN, M.A. (Edinburgh 1655); ord. to Tweedmouth 28th Feb. 1659; trans. to Lochrutton 1661; deprived 1662; indulged at Dunlop 1672, but declined; denounced by the Privy Council 1673; called 12th June, and adm. 7th July 1691; a member of Assembly

1692; died 11th Jan. 1699, in 65th year. He marr. Eliza Buckholm, and had issue— Agnes (marr. 21st April 1712, John MacLaren, min. of Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh); Elizabeth. — [Test. Reg. (Peebles), Reg. Gen. Ass., New Stat. acc.]

 

1700 JAMES ELPHINSTON, educated at Glasgow Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Dumbarton 27th Aug. 1689; ord. to Strathblane 29th April 1691; called 19th March, trans. and adm. 19th Nov. 1700; died 1st Feb. 1709. He marr. 4th March 1700, Catherine, daugh. of Alexander Moncrieff of Murrayfield, Lasswade, and had issue—John, born 1701; James, born 1702; Catherine, born 1708; Giles (marr. John Love, rector of the Grammar School, Dalkeith).—[Lasswade Sess. Reg., Chalmers's Ruddiman.

 

1710 DAVID HUTCHESON, called 10th Jan.  and ord. 7th April 1710; died 3rd Feb. 1746.  He marr. 25th June 1719, Christian, daugh. of William Cleghorn, portioner and merchant in Dalkeith, and had issue—Jean, born 16th Feb. 1730; Christian, born 5th June 1731; William, student at Edinburgh Univ.

 

1746b DAVID PLENDERLEATH, trans. from Ormiston; pres. by Francis, Duke of Buccleuch, 23rd May, and adm. 7th Oct. 1746; trans. to Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, 30th Jan. 1765. — [Carlyle's Autob.]

 

1765 HENRY GRIEVE, trans. from Eaglesham; pres. by Commissioners for Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, 18th Feb. and 2nd March, and adm. 7th June 1765; trans. to New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 22nd July 1789.

 

1790 WILLIAM SCOTT, licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 25th April 1787; ord. to Gretna 25th Sept. 1788; pres. by Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, Oct. 1789; trans. and adm. 17th Feb. 1790; died 10th July 1831, in his 77th year. He marr. 19th Nov. 1795, Jane (died 29th Jan. 1840), daugh. of John Robertson, min. of Kilmar-

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