1839 ALEXANDER DAVIDSON, M.A.; ord. 24th

Jan. 1839; trans. to North Leith 22nd June 1843.

1844 ROBERT FORRESTER PROUDFOOT, B.A.; ord. 5th Jan. 1844; trans. to Fogo 4th July 1845.

1845 JOHN ROBIN, ord. 26th Dec. 1845; trans. to Burntisland 29th June 1849.

1850 WILLIAM LAMBIE NELSON, LL.D.; ord. 24th Jan. 1850; res. 19th April 1853; became min. of the Presbyterian Church at Ipswich, Queensland. He was the father of Sir Hugh Muir Nelson, Privy Councillor, K.C.M.G., D.C.L. (Oxon.), Premier of Queensland, born Kilmarnock, 31st Dec. 1835, died 1st Jan. 1906.

1853 WILLIAM DOBIE, ord. 15th Dec. 1853; trans. to Ladykirk 17th March 1859.

1859 JOHN FALCONER., ord. 24th Nov. 1859; trans. to Ettrick 16th June 1864.

1865 HENRY MONCRIEFF MACGILL, born Glasgow, 22nd Dec. 1835, son of Francis M. and Anne White; educated at High School and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1860; ord. 6th July 1865; died 7th April 1906. Marr. 5th Sept. 1866, Jane Sced, daugh. of Thomas Whyte, Glasgow, and Catherine Barclay, and had issue - John Whyte, M.A., min. of All Saints, British Guiana, born 21st Aug. 1867; Henry Moncrieff, M.D., and Wakefield, M.D. (twins), born 4th Oct. 1868; Thomas Whyte, born 10th Jan. 1871, died 24th Sept. 1873; Catherine Barclay, missionary at Ichang, China, born 25th Oct. 1872; Anne Frances, born 14th Feb. 1875 (marr. James Bryce Jamieson, min. of Greyfriars, Dumfries); Stevenson, min. of St Clement's, British Guiana, born 27th May 1876; Jane Whyte, born 19th June 1880; Jamesina Hope Stewart, born 26th Aug. 1883.

1906 GEORGE GORDON STOTT, B.D., min. of St James's, East Dulwich, London; adm. 24th Sept. 1906; trans. to Cramond 7th June 1910.

1910 JOHN ASHPLANT NICHOLLS, born Hennock, Devonshire, 17th July 1871, son of John Ashplant N. and Sarah Cole; educated at Kilmeny, Islay, Glasgow High School and Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Islay and Jura May 1895; assistant at St Columba's, Glasgow; ord. Kilninver and Kilmelford 12th March 1896; trans. and adm. 28th Sept. 1910. Marr. 17th Oct. 1906, Margaret May, daugh. of Charles MacEchern, min. of St Mary's (Gaelic), Inverness, and has issue-John Noel Mason Ashplant, born 26th Dec. 1907; William Charles Eric, born 25th May 1912.

ORMISTON.

[The church was dedicated to St Giles, and previons to the Reformation belonged to the Trinity College Hospital at Edinburgh.]

1568 ANDREW BLACKHALL, formerly one of the canons of the Abbey of Holyroodhouse, and min. of Liberton; adm. after 5th June 1567; having also charge of Cranstoun and Pencaitland; removed to Cranstoun 1570, and to Inveresk 1574. -[Reg. Min., Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood's Hist]

1572 ANDREW SIMSON, vicar and exhorter at Bolton in Nov. 1567. He signed the Articles penned by the Synod, and presented by the Superintendent of Lothian to the Assembly, March 1572, and in 1574 had also in charge, Saltoun, Pencaitland, Keith-Marischal, and Keith-Humbie. He was pres. to the prebend of Trinity College, " founded upon the fourth part of the kirk of Ormiston, by James VI. 7th April 1574, and 25th Jan. following to the two prebends of the Trinity College, founded upon two-fourths or four parts of the fruits of the kirk of Ormiston"; trans. to Saltoun before 1576.-[Reg. Min. et Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Wodrow Miscell.]

1576 JOHN HERRIES appears as min. in 1576; trans. to Newbattle, March 1584. -[Reg. Assig., Wodrow Biog.]