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trans. to Fyvie 7th Nov. 1906 ; trans. to Second Charge of this parish 14th Nov. 1912; trans. and adm. 11th Feb. 1913. Marr. 1st June 1893, Rachel Watson, daugh. of Robert Marshall and Catherine Wylie Osborne, and has issue-Catherine Charlotte, born 13th June 1894; Dorothy Wauchope, born 24th May 1896; George Osborne Wauchope, born 18th Dec. 1909. Publications-11lusic in the Church (Guild Library, 1914); Contributor to Hastings' Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels.

 

SECOND CHARGE.

[Proposed 2nd July 1595, found necessary by the Presb. 12th July 1598, but not fully established till 16th Sept. 1635.]

 

1636 WILLIAM TRENT, M.A. (Edinburgh, 29th July 1626); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith. 15th April 1630; ord. 6th July 1636; died Feb. 1675, aged about 69. He marr. Christina, daugh. of Patrick Smith in Drem (Had. Inhib., 15th June 1641), who survived him, and had issue- Agnes (marr. her father's successor); Patrick, min. of Coulter; Marion; Christian; Elizabeth; Archibald; Helen; William; Mary.- Old Dec., i.; Archaeol. Scot., i.; Chalmers's Caled., ii.]

 

1676 JAMES FORMAN, M.A.; trans. from Middlebie; adm. 20th April 1676 ;trans. to First Charge after 4th April 1678.-[Archaeol. Scot., i.; Monteith's Theater of Mort.]

 

1681 JAMES GRAY, M.A. (Edinburgh, 20th March 16 71); licen. by Presb. of Haddington 1679; adm. 20th Jan. 1681; deprived on refusing the Test 1681. [Fountainhall's Dec., i.; Connell on Par. Law.]

 

1683 WILLIAM DENUNE, M.A.; ord. between 26th April and 31st May 1683; trans. to Pencaitland 9th,

March 1685.

 

1685 GEORGE DUNBAR, born Dallas, 1650; educated at,

King's College Aberdeen, 1666-70; ord. to Kilmaurs 1685; trans. and adm. before 12th Nov. 1685; though adhering to Episcopacy, he Haddington (Edin. Sas., lxii., 398), and had issue -Margaret- [MS.. Acc of Min., 1689; Archaeol. Scot., i.; Rule's Sec. Vindicat., Tombst]

 

1714 PATRICK WILKIE, M.A.; ord. 5th May 1714; trans. to First Charge 4th April 1721. - [MS. Geneal of Liston, Archaeol. Scot.,]

 

1722 ROBERT PATON, M.A.; pres. by Charles, Earl of Hopetoun, and ord. 18th Jan. 1722; trans. to Renfrew 21st Jan. 1731. -[Wodrow's Anal.]

 

1731 EDWARD STEEDMAN [STEDMAN], chaplain to Charles, Earl of Hopetoun; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 25th Sept. 1728; ord. 16th Sept. 1731; died 9th June 1756. Dr Carlyle calls him “a man of first-rate ability, and leader of the Presbytery." He marr. 29th Jan. 1746, Janet (died 4th April 1766), daugh. of the above Patrick Wilkie, who marr. again in 1763, James Newbigging, and had issue - Martha (marr. Robert Steedman, merchant, Edinburgh); Patience (marr. George Huntly Gordon, capt. 63rd Foot).-[Carlyle's Autob]

 

1757 DAVID WARK, licen. by Presb. of Haddington 4th Sept. 1750; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, 30th Nov. 1756; ord. 9th June 1757; D.D. (Edinburgh, 15th March 1763); died at Toulouse, 14th Jan. 1766. He was so attached to the study of Natural Philosophy that on one occasion there was no sermon, as he had gone to the Skid-hill to see an eclipse. Publications-" On the Use of Furze in Fencing the Banks of Rivers " (Phil. Trans., xi.); "Method of Determining the Strength and Duration of Earthquakes" (Essays Physical and Literary, iii.).

 

1766 GEORGE BARCLAY, trans. from Hutton and Corrie; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, and adm. 17th July 1766; trans. to First Charge 17th March 1772.

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