1726 WILLIAM ORR, M.A. (Glasgow, 3rd May 1714); chaplain to Sir William Baillie of Lamington; licen. by Presb. of Biggar 24th Oct. 1723; pres. by Lord Alexander Hay of Lawfield, and ord. 23rd Nov. 1726; died 5th May 1769, in his 75th year. He marr. 29th Jan. 1731, Jean (died 30th Oct. 1772, in her 72nd year), youngest daugh. of his predecessor, and had issue-Andrew, born 31st May 1742; Katherine, born 20th Nov. 1731 (marr. James Maxwell of Brediland); Isabel, born 21st Nov. 1738 (marr. George Goldie, min. of Athelstaneford); Mary, born 28th Sept. 1743 (marr. her father's successor); John; Margaret.-[Tombst.]

1769 WILLIAM      CROMBIE, M.A. (St Andrews, 1753); licen. by Presb. of Cupar 16th Oct. 1759; ord. min. of the Presbyterian congregation at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, 5th Aug. 1761; trans, to Kirkcudbright 6th March 1765; pres. by William Hay of Lawfield, trans. and adm. 6th Dec. 1769; died 6th Jan. 1789. He marr. (1) 7th June 1765, Mary (died 1773), daugh. of his predecessor, and had issue-William, born 10th March 1766; Francis, born 21st Feb. 1768; Elizabeth, born 12th July 1770; Jean, born 9th Jan. 1773; Mary (a twin), born 9th Jan. 1773 (marr. Andrew Johnston, min. of Saltoun) (2) 25th April 1776, Christina Wilson, who died 7th July 1783. Publication - The Soul's Perpetual Progress towards Perfection (Edinburgh, 1768).

1790 JOHN MARTIN, licen. by Presb. of Caithness 5th April 1763; ord. to Mertoun 28th Sept. 1768; pres. by Robert Hay of Lawfield and his curators, trans. and adm. 4th March 1790; died 29th Sept. 1798. He marr. 20th June 1775, Elizabeth Scott, who died 28th April 1787, and had issue-Alexander, born 30th Aug. 1776; Grisell, born 21st Dec. 1777; William, born 28th Aug. 1779; George, born 11th April 1781, died l0th May 1796. Publication - Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., v.).- [Somerville's Life.]

1799 ALEXANDER GRAHAM, born 1772, son of Alexander G., Anston, Dunsyre; tutor in the family of Captain Francis Walker, Tanderlane; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 5th Jan. 1796; pres. by Robert Hay of Lawfield, and ord. 22nd Aug. 1799; died 5th June 1836. He marr. 1st March 1802, Janet Edington, who died at Edinburgh 26th Oct. 1843, and had issue Alexander, born 5th Dec. 1802, lost at sea in H.M.S. Ariel, Nov. 1828; Margaret Aitken, born 9th Feb. 1804, died 29th Jan. 1815; James, born 5th May 1805; John, born 11th Nov. 1806, died 24th Feb. 1835; George, born 21st July 1808; Agnes, born 5th Nov. 1809; William Hay, born 4th July 1811, died 30th May 1813; Catherine Hay, born 9th Nov. 1813; William Hay and Margaret Aitken (twins), born 19th Sept. 1815; Robert Hay, born 30th July 1817, died 7th Sept. 1832; Jean, born 5th May 1819, died 17th Aug. 1832; Elizabeth Hay, born 9th July 1820; Janet Thomson, born 23rd May 1822.-[Dunsyre Sess. Reg., Tombst]

1836 ROBERT BURNS THOMSON, born 1804, son of Capt. Andrew T. R.N., who had served under Nelson, and Barbara Hamilton of Kinnegar, Lanarkshire; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh; assistant at Inveresk; pres. by James Sprot of Spott, and ord. 29th Dec. 1836; died 31st Jan. 1880. He marr. (1) 1835, Catherine Campbell, Lochhead, Argyllshire (died 1836), and had issue-Catherine Dalrymple, died 5th Oct. 1854: (2) 11th Nov. 1840, Williamina Gillon, Liverpool, who died 16th Sept. 1875, and had issue-Charlotte, born 16th Sept. 1841 (marr. John Gray, surgeon R.N.); Barbara Jane Hamilton, born 23rd May 1846 (marr. 14th April 1868, David Strong, D.D., min. of Hillhead, Glasgow); Eliza Scott, born 7th Feb. 1849 (marr. 24th June 1868, John Walker Macintyre, min. of Kilmonivaig); Robert, born 4th Aug. 1851, died 26th Feb. 1861; Williamina Catherine Clerk, born 25th Oct. 1853. Publication- The Established Church of Scotland the Truly Free Church (Edin