Dirleton – Garvald and Bara p. 362

 

1864 WILLIAM LOGIE, born 19th March  1824, son of William L., D.D., min. of Lady, Isle of Sanday, afterwards of Kirkwall; educated at the Grammar School, Kirkwall, and Edinburgh Univ.; B.A. (1843); licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall 6th Aug. 1845; ord. (assistant and successor) to Buchanan 27th March 1846; trans. to Firth and Stenness 13th May 1847; trans. to Fintry 12th Sept. 1861; D.D. (Glasgow) 1863; trans. and adm. 5th July 1864; died 5th Jan. 1878. He marr. 3rd Aug. 1847, Helen Scott (died 26th Sept. 1890), daugh. of Andrew Brown, Bervie, Kincardineshire, and had issue-William, M.A., M.B., C.M., born 22nd May 1848, died 1890; David Brown, M.B., C.M., born 24th March 1850; James Charles, M.D., born 30th March 1852, died 1883; Emily Jean, born 17th Jan. 1858; Elizabeth Scarth, born 2nd Dec. 1859; Alexander Graton, M.B., C.M., born 12th March 1865; Robert Scarth Valentine, M.A., min. of Rickarton, Fordoun, born 15th April 1868; Helen Euphemia (a twin), born 15th April 1868 (marr. 1.901, R. V. Bell). Publication-Memoir of Rev, William Logie, D.D.

 

1878 JOHN KERR, born Trohoughton, Dumfries, 29th May 1852, son of David K. and Mary Bell; educated at Glencairn School and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (April 1871); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18th June 1875; assistant at Newbattle; ord. to Skelmorlie 20th April 1876; trans. and adm. 11th July 1878; treasurer of Church Service Society 1882; clerk of Synod from 1907, F.R.S.E., F.S.A.Scot. Marr. 17th July 1883, Maria, daugh. of John Groves, London, and .lartha Mary Baxter; and has issue-Marie, born 17th April 1884; Constance, born 1st Feb. 1888; Winifred Violet, born 14th June 1889; Edith Kathleen, born 26th July 1891; John Randolph, born 26th Sept. 1896; Alec Seton, born 4th March 1898. Publications-Fellowship with the Father, a sermon (1878); The History of Curling (Edinburgh, 1890); Parish Councils in Country Parishes (Edinburgh. 1895); The Golf-Book of East Lothian (Edinburgh, 1896); Curling in Canada anti the United States (Edinburgh, 1904); The Renascence of Worship (Lee Lecture)

 (Edinburgh, 1909); Rich and Poor (a sermon); Scotland's Ain Game in Song and Story (Edinburgh, 1914).

 

GARVALD and BARA.

[Previous to the Reformation the church belonged to the Cistercian nunnery at Haddington. It was united to Bara in 1702.]

 

1571-6 PATRICK GALBRAITH, exhorter.

 

1576 JOHN MORISON, min. of Yester in 1575; adm. 1576. Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, granted license to M. to celebrate the divine office, because he had been "ordained to the holy ministry by the imposition of bands, according to the laudable form and right of the Reformed Church of Scotland." - [Reg. Assig., Neal's History of the Puritans.]

 

1578 JAMES REID, son and heir of James R., notary, Edinburgh; (Com. Deeds, 26th March 1585); mentioned as min. in 1578; trans. to Bara, but returned before 1588; dep. by the Commission of Assembly 30th July 1589; reponed by the Presb., and readm. 14th June 1590; died before 16th Sept. 1623. He marr. 1585, Elspeth Sanderson, who survived him.[Reg. Assig., Wodrow Miscell., Calderwood's Hist]

 

1624  THOMAS MAITLAND, a cadet of the Lauderdale family; educated at Kings College, Aberdeen (M.A. 1614) and St Andrews; pres. by John, Viscount Lauderdale; ord. between 2nd and 21st, and adm. and inst. 29th Jan. 1624; died Oct. 1637, aged about 44. He marr. (1) 7th Feb. 1626, Margaret Durie, Haddington, who died 3rd April 1633, and had issue-Isobel (marr. William Johnston of Laveroeklaw: Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 8th Feb. 1666, where she is styled heir); Anna (2) (cont. 25th March 1634) Margaret Melvill, Prestonpans, daugh. of Sir Andrew M. of Garvock, Master of the Household to James VI. (Reg. of Deeds, dvii., 127), who survived him, and marr. John Dalzell, min. of Prestonkirk (ibid. dvii., 127). Publication-A Funerall Sermon preached at the

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