FASTI ECCLESI^E SCOTICAN^E SYNODS OF ROSS, SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS GLENELG, ORKNEY AND OF SHETLAND THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND IRELAND AND OVERSEAS EDITORIAL COMMITTEE The Rev. W. S. CROCKETT. D.D., Minister of Tweedsmuir, Convener and General Editor. FRANCIS JAMES GRANT, W.S., Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, Vice-Convener and Joint-Editor. The Rev. Professor JAMES MACKINNON, D.D., Ph.D. Sir JAMES BALFOUR PAUL, K.C.V.O., LL.D. The Rev. ARTHUR POLLOK SYM, D.D. GENERAL COMMITTEE The Very Rev. DAVID PAUL, D.D., LL.D., Edinburgh The Rev. Professor BAXTER, B.D., St Andrews The Rev. Professor MACKINNON, D D., Ph.D., Edinburgh The Rev. THOMAS BURNS, D.D., Edinburgh The Rev. W. W. COATS, D.D., Brechin The Rev. J. T. Cox, D.D., Dyce The Rev. J. KING HEWISON, D.D., Rothesay The Rev. A. M'NEILL HOUSTON, D.D., Auchterderran The Rev. JOSEPH MITCHELL, D.D.. Mauchline The Rev. HARRY SMITH, D.D., Heriot The Rev. ARTHUR P. SYM, D.D., Lilliesleaf The Rev. J. R. AITKEN, M.A., Edinburgh The Rev. JAMES W. BLAKE, M.A., Temple The Rev. JOHN BURLEIGH, Ednam The Rev. ANDREW BURNS, Fenwick The Rev. J. A. CAMERON, B.D., Legerwood The Rev. A. J. CAMPBELL, B.A., Glasgow The Rev. ALEXANDER A. DUNCAN, B.D., Auchterless The Rev. RICHARD HENDERSON, B.D., Longside The Rev. JAMES F. LEISHMAN, M.A., Lin ton The Rev. ANGUS J. MACDONALD, Killearnan The Rev. ALEX. M. MACGREGOR, Lochryan The Rev. JOHN MUIRHEAD, B.D., Avendale The Rev. JOHN W. MURRAY, B.A. (Oxon.), Manor The Rev. W. H. PORTER, Cults, Pitlessie The Rev. WILLIAM STEPHEN, B.D., Inver- keithing C. E. W. MACPHERSON, C.A., Edinburgh Sir JAMES BALFOUR PAUL, K.C.V.O., LL.D., Edinburgh THOMAS REID, M.A., Lanark J. H. STEVENSON, M.B.E., K.C., Edinburgh FASTI SCOTICAN.E THE SUCCESSION OF MINISTERS IN THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FROM THE REFORMATION BY HEW SCOTT, D.D, NEW EDITION Revised and continued to the Present Time under the Superintendence of a Committee appointed by the General Assembly VOLUME VII SYNODS OF ROSS, SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS GLENELG, ORKNEY AND OF SHETLAND THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND IRELAND AND OVERSEAS 532183 OLIVER AND BOYD EDINBURGH: TWEEDDALE COURT 1928 6X 1 3 V.7 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY OLIVER AND BOYD . BDINBUROl PREFATORY NOTE WITH the present Volume the work of preparing a new edition of Fasti Ecdesice Scoticance comes to a completion. The genesis of the undertaking may be recalled. An Overture was presented to the General Assembly in the following terms:— " Whereas the publication known as Dr Hew Scott's Fasti Ecdesice CORRIGENDA Page vii., 9th line — For WILLIAM K. SHAW read WILLIAM B. SHAW Page 35, 5th line from foot — For D.D., read B.D., Page 447.— For last entry read— 1928, 22nd May. JAMES MONTGOMERY CAMPBELL, D.D. (Glasgow 1924), min. of Dumfries and Convener of Home Mission Committee (cf. Vol. II., 268). Publication— The Christian Good of Scotland [Assembly Address] (Edin burgh 1928). [Portrait in Life and Work, July 1928.] only of the documents (chiefly Presbytery Registers) available to Dr Scott, but also of numerous others to which he had no access, and which, indeed, were unknown to him, many of them having been discovered within recent years. In addition, the Editors have had the advantage of reading a very large number of Local, Family and General Histories published since Dr Scott's day. Full use has been made of the important Separate Registers belonging to the different Presbyteries : thus most of what is purely domestic information— in the PREFATORY NOTE WITH the present Volume the work of preparing a new edition of Fasti Ecdesice Scoticance comes to a completion. The genesis of the undertaking may be recalled. An Overture was presented to the General Assembly in the following terms: — " Whereas the publication known as Dr Hew Scott's Fasti Ecdesice Scoticance contains valuable information relative to the ministers of the Church from an early period ; whereas it is desirable to continue a record of the succession of ministers in the various parishes since the date of that publication; and whereas this can be most conveniently carried out by a Committee representing the Church: It is humbly Overtured by the undersigned Members of the House to the Venerable the General Assembly to appoint a Committee to collect material for the continuance of the record up to the present date ; or to do otherwise as the Assembly may see fit." Of eight signatories it may be stated that three only survive, while of ten members who constituted the Editorial Committee of 1914, four only remain. During the earlier stages of conference as to the precise arrangement of the work, a decision was arrived at which entirely altered its original design of merely continuing Dr Hew Scott's Fasti from 1839 to the present time. That decision involved a complete revision of all Dr Scott's Volumes, and to this extended scheme the General Assembly gave cordial approval. The seven Volumes now issued, therefore, have been compiled and re-written following a careful perusal, not only of the documents (chiefly Presbytery Registers) available to Dr Scott, but also of numerous others to which he had no access, and which, indeed, were unknown to him, many of them having been discovered within recent years. In addition, the Editors have had the advantage of reading a very large number of Local, Family and General Histories published since Dr Scott's day. Full use has been made of the important Separate Registers belonging to the different Presbyteries : thus most of what is purely domestic information— in the vi PREFATORY NOTE shape of family details, etc. — has been derived from official sources. Further, much genealogical data has come from the parochial and other documents preserved in H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, to which the officials thereof gave courteous and ready access. An extensive correspondence with surviving relatives and friends of ministers has also ensured completeness and correctness -as far as possible, for the records here brought together. These Volumes, possible only through much arduous research, have been undertaken by the Editors as a labour of love, and the work has been published without expense to the Church. The Editors think it right to say that the publishers, Messrs Oliver & Boyd, have borne the brunt of the printing costs which have been considerable, aided by small bonuses provided by friends of the Church. Having now reached the end of their long and difficult task, the Editors rejoice to be able to place before the Church and the public a compilation of much more than ecclesiastical importance, and of which critics have declared that it is a work necessary for a true elucidation of the national spirit and of the national history. The present Volume (in which Dr Scott's original work ends at page 320) contains material assembled from many quarters and from many lands. Never before has the story of the Church of Scotland in England, Ireland, on the Continent of Europe, in the British Colonies, and in America, been told in biographical detail, and the notices of Indian Chaplains, Foreign and Jewish Missionaries are here given for the first time. The biographies of the Episcopal period, as also those pertaining to the Scottish Universities, and the carefully-collated list of Moderators, have been added in order to make this Fasti of the Church a full record of all who have served her in the ministry from the Reformation to the present year. The Volume now issued has been brought up to date. Many helpers have assisted in the preparation of this Volume. Of these the Committee record their thanks to the following : — The various Clerks of Presbyteries; Rev. Angus Macdonald, minister of Killearnan; Rev. Donald Beaton, minister of Free Presbyterian Church, Wick ; Rev. Donald Mackinnon, minister of Free Church, Portree; Rev. Professor J. H. Baxter and the late James Maitland Anderson, LL.D., St Andrews; The late Very Rev. James Nicoll Ogilvie, D.D.; Rev. John M. Russell, D.D., Cape Town; Rev. John Burgess, D,D., Clerk of New South Wales General PREFATORY NOTE vii Assembly; Rev. W. Floyd Shannon, Clerk of Presbyterian Church in South Australia ; Rev. James H. Mackenzie, Clerk of Assembly of Presbyterian Church of New Zealand ; Rev. Professor John T. M'Neill, D.D., Toronto, Canada; Rev. Ewen M'Dougall, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Rev. J. M. Hunt, Kingston, Jamaica; Rev. Duncan Macfarlane, Grenada , Rev. J. W. MacGill, Colvend (formerly of British Guiana) ; Kenneth Macleod Black, London ; R. S. Robson, Newcastle- upon-Tyne; John Mark, Newcastle - upon - Tyne ; Robert Hyslop, Sunderland; William R. Shaw, Manchester; W. M. M'Lachlan, M.A., W.S., Secretary of Foreign Mission Committee; Thomas Henderson, Secretary of Church Overseas Committee ; Rev. William Deans, Secretary of Jewish Mission Committee, and the Superintendent of Records, India Office, Whitehall, London. W. S. CROCKETT. FRANCIS J. GRANT. April 1928. CONTENTS ABREVIATIONS ... .... . xii SYNOD OF Ross— I. Presbytery of Chanonry II. Presbytery of Dingwall III. Presbytery of Tain . .52 SYNOD OF SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS — I. Presbytery of Dornoch . 77 II. Presbytery of Tongue • 101 III. Presbytery of Caithness SYNOD OF GLENELG — I. Presbytery of Lochcarron . II. Presbytery of Skye . III. Presbytery of Uist . IV. Presbytery of Lewis SYNOD OF ORKNEY — I. Presbytery of Kirkwall . . 210 II. Presbytery of Cairston ... .234 III. Presbytery of The North Isles . . 258 SYNOD OF SHETLAND — I. Presbytery of Lerwick ... • 279 II. Presbytery of Burravoe . . 295 III. Presbytery of Olnafirth . . 306 ARCHBISHOPS . . . . 321 BISHOPS .329 THE UNIVERSITIES OF SCOTLAND . . .357 MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY .... . 436 ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAINS ..... .448 CHAPLAINS TO INFIRMARIES AND OTHERS .... .454 CHAPLAINS TO PRISONS ........ 455 SYNOD OF THE SCOTTISH CHURCH IN ENGLAND — I. Presbytery of North of England ... . . 457 II. Presbytery of West of England . . . . 464 III. Presbytery of London .... . 466 CHARGES IN ENGLAND, NOW EXTINCT OR MERGED WITH OTHER CONGREGATIONS 471 IRELAND ........•• 526 x CONTENTS PAGE THE CHTJKCH OP SCOTLAND OVEESEAS — Continent of Europe — Belgium France .... .535 Germany ..... ... 536 Holland . , .537 Italy ...... .555 Switzerland ..... .556 The Mediterranean .... • 556 Continent of Africa — Egypt . 557 East Africa (Kenya Colony) .... .558 Madeira . .558 Mauritius ......... 558 South Africa 560 Continent of Asia — Burma ......... 566 Ceylon ......... 566 India (Indian Chaplains) ....... 568 Simla - . .582 China . . . . . . . . .582 Palestine ... ..... 582 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA— Australia .......... 583 Tasmania .......... 600 Fiji ... . ... 602 New Zealand ......... 602 CONTINENT OF AMERICA— Dominion of Canada (Maritime Provinces) — Cape Breton ......... 606 New Brunswick . . . • . . . . . 608 Nova Scotia . . . . . . . .612 Prince Edward Island . . . . . . .619 Dominion of Canada (Western Provinces) — Ontario and Quebec . . . . . . .623 Dominion of Canada (North-Western Provinces) — Manitoba, etc. ........ 655 British Columbia . 657 Newfoundland ......... 659 Bermuda .......... 660 United States of America 661 CONTENTS xi PAGE BRITISH WEST INDIES — Antigua .......... 666 The Bahama Isbm.ls 666 Grenada 667 Jamaica .......... 668 St Vincent 671 Tobago 671 CENTRAL AMERICA — British Honduras . . . . . . . . 672 SOUTH AMERICA — British Guiana ......... 672 Argentina . . . . . .... . . . 680 Chile 683 Patagonia .......... 684 Peru . . . 684 FOREIGN MISSIONARIES . . . . . . . . 685 JEWISH MISSIONARIES . . . . . . . . 713 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES, ETC. . . . 719 INDEX OP PARISHES AND CHAPELS (SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND) . . . 762 INDEX OP MINISTERS . . 767 ABBREVIATIONS adm. . admitted marr. . . • . married app. . appointed min. . . . minister bapt. . baptized ord. . . ordained coll. . collated pres. . . presented <;ont. . contract presb. • . . presbytery (marriage) pro. . . proclaimed dem. . demitted res. . resigned dep. . deposed s.p. . . without issue ind. . inducted trans. . translated inst. instituted univ. . . university licen. licensed unmarr. . unmarried SYNOD OF ROSS THE Register of the Synod of Ross begins at 18th March 1707. As the Presbytery of Ross there is a volume commencing 25th July 1693, and ending 12th December 1701. PRESBYTERY OF CHANONRY, OF OLD ARDMANNACH [This Court was already at work in 1592. Its Register begins at 14th January 1707 with a blank from 6th February 1753 to 14th September 1762.] AVOCH. [The church of Avoch belonged to the Abbey of Kinloss. Its prebend was held by the chantor of the Cathedral of Fortrose. At Onnond Castle, in this parish, there was a chapel of St Mary, and near it was Our Lady's Well. At Killeain there was a chapel of St John.] ALEXANDER PEDDER, vicar at the 1560 Reformation ; died in 1569. ANDREW MYLNE, exhorter; pres. to 166g the vicarage by James VI. in 1569, to which Kilmuir- Wester and Ardersier were attached after Nov. 1574 ; app. one of the Visitors of Ross by the Assembly in 1586, and still min. in 1601.— [Booke of the Kirk ; Orig. Par. Scot., ii., 541 ; Reg. Mag. Sig., v., 738.] ALEXANDER HOME, chantor of Ross, 158Q gave a tack of the chanter's teinds to Andrew Munro of Davochcartie in 1586.— [Original at Killearnan.} JAMES LAUDER, educated at Univ. 1Q07 of Edinburgh; MA. (12th Aug. 1592); adm. to Kilmuir- Wester in VOL. VII. 1596; trans, to Ardersier 1597; trans- and adm. before 13th July 1607; dem. in favour of his son in 1642, but still mentioned 4th Dec. 1655. He marr. and had issue- William, min. of this parish; James.— [Original Charter by Bishop of Ross at Killearnan; Reg. Mag. Sig., viii. 189 ix. 1293.] WILLIAM LAUDER, born about 1614, 1642 eldest son of preceding; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; MA. (1632) ; pres. by Charles I. llth July 1642 ; was a member of the Commission of Assembly in 1645. He was suspended by the Commission of Assembly for subscrib ing Seaforth's Remonstrance, 22nd May 1647, and was one of the signatories to the Letter of the Presb. of Chanonry to the Commission approving of their proceedings, 8th May 1651 ; still min. 4th April 1665 and died before 1672. He marr. Katherine, eldest daugh. of Murdoch Mackenzie, chamberlain of Lewis, of the family of Davochmaluag, and had issue— William, commissary clerk of Ross. Publication —Elogia XXXVII., XXXVIII. (Forbes's Funeral Sermons).— [Geneal. of the Mac- kenzies.] 2 AVOCH [PKESB. OF RODERICK MACKENZIE, educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (8th July 1649) ; passed trials before Presb. of Glasgow and had a testimonial for licence 1st Feb. 1655 ; pres. by Charles II. 15th May 1668; still rain. 25th Feb. 1669. RODERICK MACKENZIE of Avoch, son of John M., archdeacon of Ross and min. of Fodderty; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1681); adm. as deacon ; recommended for ordina tion 7th March 1683 ; was a protester in 1694 against the Commission for the North ; died 7th March 1710. A strong Episcopalian, he defied the Presb. and held the benefice till his death. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of the Hon. Simon Mackenzie of Lochslin, son of Kenneth, Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, and had issue— John of Avoch ; Christina (marr. 1707, Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Scatwell); Isobel (marr. 1705, Alexander Matheson of Bennetsfield) ; Margaret (marr. John MacRae of Drynie) ; Anna (marr. Lewis Grant, min.). — [Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 15th July 1712.] ALEXANDER M'BEAN, M.A. ; as a probationer within the bounds he ' was called by the Presb. jure devoluto 28th Aug. 1711, but owing to the opposi tion of the parishioners, who were largely Episcopalians, access could not be got to the church and he was ord. at Rosemarkie 4th June 1712. He was obliged to raise an action in the Court of Session to obtain access to the church. In Aug. 1713 he complained he had been unable to carry on his ministry, the church being still barred against him and the people antagonistic. After much wrangling between heritors, Presb. and Synod, he was given liberty to seek another charge, and was settled at Douglas, Lanarkshire, 28th May 1714. ALEXANDER RAE, chaplain to Mrs Ross of Balnagowan ; licen. by Presb of Tain 13th Jan. 1714 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 22nd Sept., and pres by Alexander Brodie of Lethen 30th Dec 1715; ord. 28th March 1716; died 15th Aug. 1735. It was greatly owing to his exertions that a process was raised for 'ecovery of an endowment by Thomas Forbes, bailie of Fortrose, in the hands of Slizabeth, Countess of Seaforth.for support of a minister in that burgh. He marr. Jean Stewart, who survived him.— [Re ligious Lije in Ross, 247, 253.] ALEXANDER FRASER, M.A.; pres. by Alexander Brodie of Lethen 15th Dec. 1735; ord. 24th Aug. 1736; trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, 13th Nov. 1754. THOMAS SIMPSON, born 1718 ; licen. by Presb. of Elgin 1st Nov. 1748; resided in Banff in 1752 ; pres. to Cromarty by William Urquhart of Meldrum, but call was rejected by the Assembly 29th May 1755 ; ord. here 14th April 1756; died 22nd Sept. 1786. He marr. (1) 6th Dec. 1756, Isobel, daugh. of George Mackenzie of Pitlundie and Culbo, and had issue- William, min. of Strathconan, born 6th Sept. 1757, died 10th May 1799 : (2) 4th Jan. 1759, Isobel, daugh. of George Mac kenzie of Gruinard and Elizabeth, natural daugh. of Lord President Duncan Forbes of Culloden, and had issue— George, born 9th Oct. 1759 ; John, born 14th April 1761 ; Alexander, born 3rd April 1763 ; Jean, born 23rd Dec. 1764, died at Dingwall 31st Oct. 1835; Thomas, born 30th Dec. 1766; Margaret, born 6th Sept. 1768 ; Roderick, born 16th May 1770 ; Duncan, merchant, London, born 12th Aug. 1771, died at Bellevue 15th June 1854; Geddes, of Tower Street, London, born 4th Feb. 1775. — [Tombst.] JAMES SMITH, born Aberdeenshire, 1758 ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1782) ; pres. by Miss Brodie of Lethen in July, and ord. 24th Sept. 1787 ; died 9th Dec. 1830. There was strong opposition to his settlement, the majority of the congrega tion seceding from the church and joining the Independent (now Congregational) Church to which a large proportion of the parishioners still adhere. S. was much CHANONRT] AVOCH— CROMARTY 8 respected as a consistent and faithful pastor. He left £30 to the poor of the parish. He marr. 3rd Oct. 1789, Alexandrina (died 22nd July 1846, aged 86), daugh. of Alex ander Houston, provost of Fortrose, and had issue— James Brodie, M.A., apprenticed to a W.S., born 1st March 1793, died 27th Oct. 1813 ; Janet Isabel, born 9th Nov. 1794 (marr. Thomas Munro, min. of Kiltearn) ; Mary Ann Grace, born 8th July 1796 (marr. Peter Ferries, min. of Edinkillie); Lieut. Edgar, died 27th Oct. 1813; Alexander^ died 31st Jan. 1798; Penuel Margaret, died May 1801. Publication-Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xiv ) — [Tombst.] JAMES GIBSON, born 1800, second son 1831 of Jolln G-> farnier, Doune, Perth shire ; educated at Univ. of Edin burgh ; Keen, by Presb. of Linlithgow 1st Oct. 1821; pres. by Sir James Wemyss Mackenzie of Scatwell, in whose family he had been tutor, in Jan., and ord. 15th Sept. 1831; D.D. (Glasgow, 28th April 1852), died 16th April 1866. He marr. 4th Nov. 1834, Ann Isabella (died 15th May 1865), daugh. of Thomas Mackenzie of Strath- garve, and had issue — John, min. of this parish ; Thomas, born 26th Nov. and died 5th Dec. 1836; Isabella, born 26th Sept. 1837 (marr. Arthur Harvey Alexander, Grenada); Margaret Henrietta Wharton' born 3rd and died 23rd May 1839; Ann Mackenzie, born 31st March 1841 (marr. Roderick Hay Nicolson, min. of Apple- cross); Jemima Margaret, born 7th May 1845 (marr. Donald Mackenzie, Hong- Kong). Publication — Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.). JOHN MACKENZIE GIBSON, born 1866 4th Au&- 1835> son of preceding; educated at King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (March 1854) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 4th May 1858 ; pres. by James Fletcher of Rosehaugh ; ord. llth July 1866 ; dem. 1st Dec. 1891 ; died at 22 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, 22nd Sept. 1916. He marr. 9th Oct. 1889, Elizabeth (died s.p. 28th Aug. 1920), daugh. of John Watson Wemyss, M.D. ALFRED MORRISON PHILIP, born 1892 Inverkeithny, 27th March 1860, son of George Forbes Innes P., min. of New Deer ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1880), B.D. (1883); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in 1883 ; ord. to Crown Court Church, London, 1885; trans, and adm. llth May 1892; died 14th June 1914. He marr. (1) 16th Aug. 1889, Florence Margaret (died 7th Aug. 1894), daugh. of John Philip, Cape Town, and had issue- Colin Cameron, M.B., C.M., captain Low land Field Ambulance in European War, born 21st July 1890; George Morrison, B.Sc., D.S.O., M.C., mentioned three times in despatches, lieut. 12th Northumberland Fusiliers in European War, born 29th March 1892 ; Florence Margaret, born 13th Aug. and died 18th Nov. 1894: (2) 19th Dec. 1900, Isabella Midler, second daugh. of Gavin Catto, Mains of Gight, and had issue— Florence Barbara, born 16th Oct. 1901, died 21st Jan. 1902 ; Barbara Violet, born llth March 1893, died 12th Feb. 1904. Publication— The Cathedral Kirk of Ross (Trans. Scot. Eccl. Soc.t 1904.) EDWIN JAMES BRECHIN, 1914 born Dundee, 10th Feb. 1874, son of James B. and MaryNicoll; edu cated at Dundee High School and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1897), B.D. (1900); student missionary at Muthil and Unst ; licen. by Presb. of Perth 15th May 1899; assistant at Monifieth, St Andrews, Paisley and West Parish, Aberdeen ; ord. to Scots Kirk, Paris, 18th May 1902 ; trans, to St James's, Dulwich, London, 7th Feb. 1907 ; trans, and adm. 4th Dec. 1914; general superintendent for France of Scottish Churches' Huts during European War; O.B.E. (1st Jan. 1919). Marr. 19th May 1902, Theodora Mary, daugh. of William Smith, min. of Unst. CROMARTY. [.The old church of Cromarty was dedi cated to St Benet. Its site has been overflowed, and is now covered by the sea. A convent of the Red Friars was Founded at Cromarty by Sir Patrick CROMARTY [PRKSB. OF Murray in 1271. There were in this parish chapels of St Duthac, St Kule, and St Michael. Cromarty had also Wells of Our Lady, St Benet, and St Duthac. The Gaelic chapel in the town was built by George Ross of Cromarty in 1783.] JOHN ANDERSON, chamberlain of 1680 Morav; vicar at tlie Reformation > refusing to conform was allowed by the Privy Council, Feb. 1562, to retain two-thirds of the emoluments ; died 1582. JAMES BURNET, reader 1569 to 1669 1574. JOHN ROBERTSON, removed from Chanonry, holding also the Treasury of Ross; returned to Chanonry about 1578. ROBERT WILLIAMSON, educated at Univ. of St Andrews in 1577; " reader at Monykeback in 1578; adm. to Nigg (Aberdeen) in 1580 ; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. on death of John Anderson, 29th Jan. 1582. In 1583 the heritors were ordered by the Privy Council to pay him the teinds of the vicarage of Cromarty "under pain of warding in the Castle of Blackness." He was named by the Privy Council one of those for the maintenance of true religion in the Sheriff- doms of Inverness and Cromarty 6th March 1589. On a flat triangular stone in the eastern part of the town his initials with those of his wife are inscribed with date 1593.— [Booke of the Kirk.] WILLIAM LUNAN, MA. ; adm. before 1688 2nd Nov. 1638. The Presb. of Turriff was ordered by the General Assembly, 13th Feb. 1645, to proceed to his excommuni cation. He was afterwards min..of Daviot. GILBERT ANDERSON of Udol in this 1642 Pa"s^' born 1597 ; educated at King's ' College, Aberdeen; MA. (1626); adm. to Cawdor before 30th Oct. 1627; trans, and adm. between 5th Oct. 1641 and llth Jan. 1642 ; died Nov. 1655. He railed against his patron and family several times from the pulpit, according to Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, " with such opprob rious tonnes, more like a scolding tripe- seller's wife than good minister, squirting the poyson of detraction and abominable falshood (unfit for the chaire of verity) in the eares of his tenandry, who were the onely auditors." He marr. Elizabeth Bruce (who marr. (2) Andrew Ross, min. of Tarbat) and had issue — Hugh, min. of this parish. — [Urquhart's Jewel (1652) ; Kirkton's Hist., 96 ; Brodie's Diary ; Family of Dallas, 286.] HUGH ANDERSON of Udol, born about 1633, son of preceding, edu cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; MA. (1651) ; was regent there in 1652 ; adm. 1656 ; deprived by Act of Parliament and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662, but was allowed to remain unmolested'until after assisting at the Communion at Obs- dale House (now Dalmore) in Sept. 1675, when he retired to Udol ; restored in 1690 ; died 3rd June 1704. Hugh Miller says he lived a part of the time in Moray. He marr. Grizel, daugh. of John Row, Principal of King's College, Aberdeen, and had issue- Barbara, born Jan. 1661, died March 1663 ; Hugh, min. of Drainie, born 1666 ; Alex ander, min. of Duffus, born 28th Aug. 1672 ; Grizel (marr. Mr Crombie, merchant in Elgin). — [Wodrow's Hist., ii., 333; Bass Rock, 239, 241 ; Covenanters in Moray and Ross, 60, 189, 192 ; Orem's Old Aberdeen ; Tombst.] THOMAS URQUHART, son of Alex ander U., bailie ; was min. in 1673 ; 5 deprived in 1678; was alive in 1684 according to a Summons of Adjudication against him, Sir John Urquhart, and others, by John Macleod of Milton.— [Cromartie Writs; Inverness Sas., iv., 243-4, 21st Nov. 1673.] BERNARD MACKENZIE, born 1657 ; fifth son of Captain Daniel M. and Nance Dunbar of Avoch, and grand son of Major Bernard M., who fell at Auld- earn 9th May 1645 ; had a bursary from Presb. of Dingwall 25th Nov. 1673; was sent to King's College, Aberdeen, by Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth, who app. him schoolmaster of Fortrose ; ord. by Bishop CHANONRY] CROMARTY of Ross ; pres. to this charge 2nd July and adm. Aug. 1678; deprived by the Act restoring Presbyterian ministers 25th April 1690. In the year 1G89 with other Episco pal ministers he petitioned King William, complaining that although they had taken the oath of allegiance, they were deprived of their benefices and denied admission to parishes to which they had been elected. He intruded at Tranent in 1691 but was ordered by Parliament, 9th July 1695, to remove by August. Dr George Mackenzie states that he received from King William a yearly pension of £50 as collector of the rents of the bishopric of Ross. He appears as chamberlain of the bishopric before 1700 and held that post for several years. Hugh Miller observes that he " was a quiet, timid sort of man with little force of character, but what served his turn equally well, a good deal of cunning," a character not borne out by established facts. He purchased the estate of Sandilands ; died there 30th July 1713 and was buried at Fortrose. He marr. Jean, daugh. of Alexander Clunes of Dunskeath, and had issue — Alexander of Sandilands and Kinnock, M.D., born 1678, died 26th Sept. 1722; George in Cromarty; John, shipmaster, Cromarty ; Lilias (marr. Andrew Bayne in Cromarty) ; Anna, bapt. 23rd Nov. 1683. — [Acts of Parl., ix., 423, App., 119; Services of Heirs; Dr George Mackenzie's MS. History of the Mackenzies ; Allangrange Writs ; Inver ness Sas., vi., 345 ; Covenanters in Moray and Ross, 190.] HUGH ANDERSON, M.A., above 169O mentioned ; restored by Act of Parliament reinstating Presbyterian ministers in 1690. GEORGE GORDON, adm. to Rose- 117 7 markie 25th April 1700 ; trans, and adm. 1st April 1707 ; died 28th Dec. 1749. He was reputed an excellent man and faithful preacher. He rnarr. (1) Mary Forrester, and had issue — Ann, born 13th Feb. 1708; Janet, born llth Feb. 1709; Mary, born 23rd April 1711; Ann, born 10th Dec. 1712 : (2) Jean Moffat, widow of John Fraser, min. of Alness.— [Religious Life in Ross, 257.] [JAMES ROBERTSON, a native of the parish, called in 1750, the Presb. being instructed by the General Assembly to proceed with his settlement, 17th May 1751, but he withdrew his acceptance on appointment as Professor of Hebrew in Univ. of Edinburgh (q-v.)]. PATRICK HENDERSON, born Clatt ; educated at King's College, Aber deen; M.A. (2nd April 1747); Keen, by Presb. of Ellon 4th Oct. 1748 ; ord. by Presb. of Deer as assistant at Pitsligo; adm. Sept. 1751; but the settle ment was reversed by a majority of one vote in the Commission of Assembly, June 1752, on appeal by William Urquhart of Meldrum, who had presented Thomas Simpson. He was again called 9th Oct. and re-adm. 28th Nov. 1753; dep. for immorality. — [Moren's Annals, 292, 366 ; Scots Mag., xiv.] JAMES MUNRO, born Ross-shire, 1716, 1? 5 son of James M. and Elspet Mackay ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1730-4 ; became schoolmaster at Golspie and Auldearn, and master of Grammar School, Elgin ; licen. by Presb. of Elgin 20th Nov. 1750; ord. 27th Aug. 1755; died 6th Sept. 1789. He marr. (1) 28th Dec. 1738, Elspeth Murray, who died 29th May 1762, and had issue — James, born 25th Sept. 1739, died 1771 ; Jean, died in infancy; Margaret, born 6th July 1749, died 1768 ; William, born 20th Nov. 1751 ; Anne, born 10th May 1754 (marr. Thomas Fraser), died 1814; Jean, born 9th May 1756, died 8th March 1839; Elizabeth, born 1st Aug. 1758, died in infancy : (2) 25th Jan. 1763, Mary Stark, who died 6th April 1822, aged 80, and had issue — Mary, born 12th Oct. 1764, died young; Jean, born 17th Jan. 1767 (marr. Robert Hall) ; Mary, born 8th March 1768, died young; Alexander, born 26th March 1769 ; George Ross, min. of Huntly, born 10th Nov. 1770 ; James, cabinet-maker, went to Pictou, Nova Scotia, born 1st July 1772 ; Isobel, born 26th Aug. 1773 (marr. 16th July 1803, James Cromar, rector of Aberdeen Grammar School); Arthur, born 4th Sept. 1774, died young; Charles, writer, Stonehaven, born 6 CROMARTY [PRESB. OF 9th April 1777 ; Mary, born 1st Dec. 1780, died 19th Feb. 1863 ; Hugh, born 4th Oct. 1782; John Spens, merchant, London; Catherine, died in infancy.— [Tombst.] ROBERT SMITH, born Inverness, 1764, 1?8g son of Robert S. ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March 1784) ; tutor in family of Donald Macleod of Geanies ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 12th Dec. 1787 ; pres. by George III. 9th June 1788; ord. (assistant and successor) 21st May 1789; died 20th March 1824. He marr. 5th Oct. 1791, Isobel (died 16th Jan. 1844), daugh. of Hugh Rose of Aitnoch, factor on the Sutherland Estate, and had issue— Catherine, born 25th March 1794 ; Hugh, born 3rd Nov. 1795 ; Robert, born 30th July 1797 ; Barbara, born 14th May 1799; John, born 19th Jan. 1801, adm. min. of Beckwith, Canada, 3rd Nov. 1833, died there 18th April 1851 ; Margaret Crawford, born 29th Nov. 1802 (marr. 28th April 1821, Dr George Macdonald); Helen, born 14th Dec. 1804 (marr. 28th Oct. 1852, John James Aitchison, M.D., Elmsley, Canada); Robert, born 15th Aug. 1807; Isabella Gair, born 30th Jan. 1811 (marr. 12th Sept. 1835, George Romanes, LL.D., Professor of Greek, Queen's College, Kings ton, Canada, and was mother of George John R., LL.D., biologist). Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., v.). — [Croil's Church in Canada, 90; Tombst.} ALEXANDER STEWART, born Moulin, Perthshire, 25th Sept. 1794, son of Alexander S., min. of Canon- gate, Edinburgh ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Lorn in 1822; ord. to Chapel-of-Ease, Rothesay, 10th Feb. 1824 ; pres. by George IV. in June, trans, and adm. 23rd Sept. 1824. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Cromarty, 1843-7 ; elected to Free St George's, Edinburgh (as successor to Dr Candlish), but died before induction, 5th Nov. 1847, of a fever brought on by the excitement of his impending removal. He was reckoned one of the most eminent preachers in the Church. Hugh Miller wrote warmly of his extraordinary gifts in that capacity. Publications — The Tree of Promise (Edinburgh, 1864) ; Man's Redemption, the Joy of Angels, a sermon on 1 Peter i. 12 (Precious Seed Discourses) (Edinburgh, 1877); The Mosaic Sacrifices (Edinburgh, 1883).— [Memoir by Alexander Beith, D.D.] ADAM HALL, licen. by Presb. of Edin burgh ; ord. to Fisherton 7th March ' 1842 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th Aug., trans, and adm. 26th Sept. 1843; died 14th April 1846. GEORGE RUSSELL, seventh son of Allan R., Lanarkshire ; educated at 1 Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to Leadhills in 1843 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th May, trans, and adm. 27th Aug. 1846 ; died 8th April 1876. He marr. 12th Nov. 1846, Pringle (died s.p. 8th Oct. 1873), youngest daugh. of John Gray of Harrietsfield, Roxburghshire. WALTER SCOTT, born 1st June 1846, son of James S., min. of Dirleton ; 1876 educated at Parish School, Royal High School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (April 1868); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ; assistant at Greenock ; ord. army chaplain at Colchester and Warley by Presb. of London 3rd May 1876; adm. here 14th Sept. that year ; died 3rd Feb. 1925. He marr. (1) 22nd Dec. 1876, Ann (died 24th Sept. 1880), second daugh. of Alexander Allan, Edinburgh, and had issue — Mina Alexandra Allan, born 13th Oct. 1877 (marr. George Ernest Romanes of Pitcalzean) ; James Walter Montague, Vancouver, served in 42nd Batt. Canadian Army in European War, born 28th Dec. 1878 : (2) 12th Nov. 1885, Mary Ann, third daugh. of Dr William Brydon, C.B., surgeon in the army, "the last man "of the Cabul retreat, 1842, and had issue — Walter Francis Brydon, farmer, Navity, Cromarty, born 15th Aug. 1886. GORDON MOORE, born Lauder, 5th June 1885, son of William M., school - 191 master and provost of Lauder, and Elsie Swinton ; educated at Lauder School and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A. (1908) and CHANONRY] CROMARTY— GAELIC CHAPEL St Andrews, B.D. (1915) ; licen. by Presb. of Earlston 27th April 1915 ; locum tenens at St Stephen's Parish Church, Inverness ; ord. there (as such) 21st Dec. 1915 ; adm. here (assistant and successor) 25th April 1917. Marr. 25th April 1918, Isabella Simpson, daugh. of James Fraser, min. of Greenbank, and has issue— William, born 8th March 1919 ; James Fraser, born 13th Nov. 1923; Gordon Mackenzie, born 12th June 1925. GAELIC CHAPEL. [Built in 1783 by George Eoss of Cromarty, known as "the Scotch Agent," for the use of the Gaelic speaking people employed in his factory at Cromarty.] ALEXANDER MACADAM, pres. by George III. in March, and ord. 25th J Sept. 1782 ; trans, to Nigg 23rd Oct. 1788. WILLIAM ROSS, born Tain, 1739; educated at King's College, Aber deen ; ord. to Rothiemurchus 25th March 1783; pres. by George III. 18th March, trans, and adm. 18th Aug. 1788 ; died 12th Nov. 1799.— [Tombst.] HUGH ROSS, M.A. ; pres. by George III. Dec. 1799; adm. 25th March 1800 1809. 1800; trans, to Fearn 13th April 1809 ALEXANDER MACLEOD, bom Sutherland, 1777 ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (29th March 1798); licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 3rd, and ord. missionary at Kincardine and Creich 4th April 1804 ; pres. by George III. 10th May, and adm. in 1809 ; died 20th June 1821. ALEXANDER MACLEOD, pres. by George 'IV. 18th Sept. 1821 ; trans. 1821 from Gaelic Chapel, Dundee, and adm. that year; trans, to Uig 21st April 1824. JOHN FINLAYSON, born Ross-shire, 1787 ; educated at King's College, ' Aberdeen ; M.A. (25th March 1814) ; licen. by Presb. of Selkirk 2nd April 1822 • pres. by George IV. 10th Aug. 1824 ; ord. (at Chanonry) 29th March 1825 ; died 18th Jan. 1833. He marr. Christina, daugh. of John Hoyes, min. of Kinloss, and had issue — John Hoyes, went to Kingston, Jamaica ; Jessie Reid (marr. 1853, John Sinclair Mac- phail, min. of Free Church, Benbecula). — [Tombst.] JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; pres. by William IV. 8th March, and ord. J 25th Dec. 1833 ; trans, to Rosskeen 19th Sept. 1843. HUGH ROSS MACKENZIE, trans. 1847 from Tongue; pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto on a petition from the con gregation ; adm. 21st Oct. 1847 ; trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, 8th June 1848. JOHN MACLENNAN, born Ross-shire, 1849 1>799 ' educated at King's College Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1808) ; ord. (by Presb. of Abernethy) as min. of Bel fast, Prince Edward Island, 1823; pres. by Queen Victoria 6th Dec. 1848; adm. 22nd Feb. 1849 ; adm. to Kilchrenan, 28th Aug. 1851 (cf. Vol. IV., 93). His daugh. Eliza marr. Daniel Miner Gordon, C.M.G., D.D., LL.D., Principal of Queen's Univ., Kingston, Canada, died 1910. — [Gregg's Hist, of Canadian Church, 274 ; Macleod's Hist, of Presbyterianism in Prince Edward Island, 99.] WALTER ROSS MUNRO, born 1820 1852 son of John M., min. of U.P. Church Nigg ; educated at Marischal Col lege, Aberdeen, and United Secession Hall in 1840 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 2nd Dec. 1851 ; adm. 15th April 1852 ; dep. by the General Assembly 1st June 1874. DAVID MACKENZIE, trans, from 1875 Govan Chapel ; elected 8th March and adm. 12th May 1875 ; trans, to Lairg 23rd Jan. 1884. DONALD MACLEOD, ord. 30th April . 1885 ; trans, to Tarbat 19th May 1885 1885. WILLIAM CAMERON, M.A. ; ord. 10th Dec. 1885; trans, to Poolewe ' Sept. 1888. 8 GAELIC CHURCH— FORTROSE [PRESB. OF ANDREW MACPHERSON,born Inver- 1893 ness, 1832, son of John M., estate steward, and Ann Fraser ; became teacher of English in Royal Academy, Inverness; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1857) ; assistant at Tighnabruaich, missionary at Guisachan, 1864-9; ord. to Tobermory 19th March 1872; dem. 18th May 1882; assistant at Killearnan in 1889 ; adm. here 1st March 1893 ; died 26th Jan. 1918. [The congregation was dissolved in 1918.] FORTROSE, OF OLD CHANONRY (Q.S.). [The parish church of Fortrose was dedicated to St Curadan, who ministered on this side of the Black Isle. He died in 716. The See of Ross was founded by King David I. in 1128. In or about 1309 the Cathedral of St Peter was built at Fortrose. By order of King James VI. the lead was stripped off the roofs of its choir and aisles in 1572. The stately fabric was in use as the parish church of Fortrose until near the middle of the seventeenth century. Oliver Cromwell razed the most part of the building, and took its stones to Inverness, where he was erecting a fort. What remained was burned by accident in 1662. On 2nd Feb. 1670, this parish was united to Rosemarkie. A church was opened llth April 1841. The parish was disjoined again quoad sacra 17th March 1873. There were of old, in the Cathedral, chapels of St Nicholas and St Katherine. Near it was a Well of St Curadan. Fortrose held a Whitsunday fair, and also fairs of St Peter and St Curadan.] WILLIAM HAY, reader in 1569 and 1569 in 1580. JOHN ROBERTSON, min. of Urquhart 1674 (Ferintosh) in 1565; was charged by the Assembly, 28th June 1565, with leaving his vocation and was required to enter again thereto under pain of dis obedience to the Kirk ; was app. by the Assembly, 5th June 1570, to assist the Commissioner of Ross who was not con versant with the Gaelic tongue and was again commissioned to visit Caithness and Sutherland ; trans, and adm. about 1574, with Rosemarkie and Cromarty in the charge ; removed to Cromarty about 1576, but returned before 1578, holding also the Treasury of Ross. In June of that year he was app. Commissioner for Ross but was delated in Oct. following for remaining half, a year in Edinburgh and failing to discharge his duty as visitor and min. His commission for Ross was renewed by the Assembly Oct. 1580 and Oct. 1581. In the latter year he was one of those nominated for the erection of Presbyteries in Caithness, Sutherland, and Ross. He was app. by the Assembly, Oct. 1583, one of the Visitors for the bounds north of the Dee, and commissioner for visiting the bounds of Ross by the Assembly in 1586 and again in 1588. In 1589 he was app. by the Privy Council on a committee for the maintenance of true religion and royal authority in the sheriffdoms of Inverness and Cromarty. In 1593 he was selected by the Assembly for visiting and trying the ministers of Moray. He died before 26th May 1597.— [Booke of the Kirk.] ANDREW CROMBIE, trans, from 1595 Kilmuir- Wester, and adm. in 1595. The Assembly of that year, because of " the weakness " of the Presb. of Inver ness, ordered them to proceed to discipline against papists, with the advice of C. and other brethren. He was also app. to warn incumbents throughout Ross against the delapidation of their benefices ; trans. to Rosemarkie in 1599. GEORGE MUNRO of Pitlundie, third son of George M. of Milntown ; pres. to the Chancellorship of Ross 5th July 1570 and 23rd Jan. 1571, besides being commissioner with a general superintend ence ; pres. as a student to chaplaincy of Newmore by James VI. 21st Dec. 1570; adm. to Suddie in 1571. In 1575 he was accused before the Assembly of non- residence, when he excused himself "by CHANONKY] FORTROSE reason of deadly feud," which was accepted. In 1581-2 he was employed to organise the erection of Presbyteries in the Northern Counties ; adm. min. of Fearn and Tarbat in 1590 ; trans, to Suddie about 1594 ; commissioner of the Kirks in Eoss ; trans, to Rosemarkie in 1597 ; trans, and adm. in 1599, with Suddie and Kinettas also in the charge ; was a member of Assembly in 1601, 1602, and 1610; was app. by the Assembly of 1606 as constant Moderator of the Presb. in the absence of the bishop, the members being ordered by the Privy Council, 17th Jan. 1607, to receive him within twenty-four hours after notice, under pain of rebellion ; still in the charge 8th Feb. 1630. He marr. Mary Livingstone, and had issue— George of Bearcrofts and Pitlundie, min. of Suddie. — [Hist, of the Munros, 305 ; BooTce of the Kirk ; Calder- wood's Hist., \\i. 350, 587, iv. 569, v. 684, vii. 105; Melvill's Autob., 302, 549; Original Charter Antiq. Museum.} FRANCIS HERVIE, adm. before 17th Jan. 1630, with Rosemarkie also in the charge ; trans, to Yetholm in 1634. [The parish was vacant in 1650 and was united to Rosemarkie in 1670 by the Commissioners of Teinds.] 1842 SIMON FRASER, born Boleskine, 1806. son of Simon F., shepherd, and Bessie Fraser; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (April 1830); librarian there 1830-4 ; sent by the Glasgow Colonial Society as missionary to Scottish settlers in New Brunswick and ord. by Presb. there, 16th Jan. 1835, to Alnwick and Glenelg, where he was a most zealous and successful pastor, his knowledge of Gaelic proving of the greatest advantage, many of the settlers having come from the Highlands. He returned to Scotland in 1840 ; called in Dec. 1841 ; adm. here 10th Feb. 1842. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Fortrose, 1843-67 ; died 6th Sept. 1887. He marr. 1846, Eliza Ross, and had issue. — [Gregg's Hist, of Canadian Church, 296, 307 ; Anderson's King's College, 89.] ROBERT OGSTON YOUNG, born 1845 Strichen' 10th Au&' 1804' S0n °f Matthew Y. and Margaret Ogston ; educated at Strichen School and King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1824); licen. by Presb. of Turriff; ord. 27th Nov. 1845 ; died 3rd Dec. 1886. He marr. 28th Jan. 1841, Jane (died 17th Aug. 1910), daugh. of Alexander Milne, farmer, West Crichie, Old Deer, and Anne Jamieson, and had issue— Catherine, born 27th Feb. 1842; Matthew, captain mercantile marine, born 16th Aug. 1843, died 1886 ; Alexander, naval architect, born 4th Aug. 1847 ; William Ogston Milne, captain mercantile marine, born 30th July 1849, died 9th May 1906 ; Margaret Anne, born 8th Feb. 1851, died 20th Oct. 1905; Henry, born 23rd March 1853. WILLIAM WILLIAMSON LOWE, 188,_ licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord. 10th March 1887; dem. 15th May 1890 ; dep. 1904. WILLIAM GREEN, born 1861, son of 1890 Peter (-*•> farmer> and Margaret Thorn ; educated at Univ. of Aber deen ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord. llth Dec. 1890; died at Forres 15th Feb. 1909. He marr. (1) 7th Nov. 1884, Agnes (died 13th Sept. 1897), daugh. of Alexander Grant, draper, and Elizabeth Macfarlane, and had issue — Blanche, born 9th May 1886; Alexander Grant, born 9th Aug. 1889 ; William, born 5th March 1891 : (2) 12th July 1899, Alice Frances, second daugh. of James Low Butchart, Gillingham, Kent, and had issue — Mary Frances Alice, born 10th Jan. 1901 ; Edward Nicholas, born 16th March 1902. WILLIAM SIMPSON, born South Burreldales, Alvah, Banff, 4th June 1857, son of George S. and Ann Geddes ; educated at Linhead, Alvah, and Milne's Institution, Fochabers, and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1880) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen May 1886 ; assistant at Rapness, Westray, Bower, Sandhaven, Dreghorn, and Govan ; ord. to St Modan's, Falkirk, llth April 1905; trans, and adm. 20th Aug. 1909 ; died at Strathpeffer 1 1th 10 KILLEARNAN [PRESB. OF July 1926. He marr. 1st June 1910, Eliza beth Macqueen, daugh. of William Smith, min. of Blackbraes, and had issue— Helen Ann, born 17th Jan. 1912 ; William George, born 5th Oct. 1913 ; Elizabeth Mary, born 14th Jan. 1915; Jeanie Leslie, born 31st May 1919. KILLEARNAN. [The church of this parish was dedicated to St lurnan. Killearnan was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose, held by the Archdeacon of Ross. There was a chapel dedicated to St Andrew within a mile of the parish church, at a place now known as Chapeltown, commonly called St Palmer's Chapel. Here was held yearly on 7th July St Andrew's Fair. Close by was St Andrew's Well, famous for its curative properties. DONALD ERASER, son of John F., of 1660 ^e fam^v °f Fruid, Tweedsmuir, and nephew of John F., Bishop of Ross, was Archdeacon of the diocese before the Reformation, when he conformed to Protestantism. Famous for his courage and valour, he held the Bishop's Castle of Chanonry for some time against the lairds of Kintail, Balnagowan, Fowlis and Cromarty, and was slain in an engagement between the Gordons and the Forbeses at Tulliangus in 1572. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of John Rose of Belivat, son of Hugh Rose of Kilravock, and had issue — James of Tomich, ancestor of the family of Dunballoch ; John of Inchrory ; Alexander, in Culmill, Kiltarlity ; Andrew of Bannans ; Katherine ; Mary. — {Chiefs of Grant, iii., 381 ; Mackenzie's Hist, of the Frasers, 717 ; Belladrum Writs.] WILLIAM HAY, as vicar of Killearnan 1567 in 1559, granted a charter of the vicar's croft to Alexander Mackenzie. He conformed at the Reformation and was still in the parish in 1569, and in 1580 reader at the cathedral church of Ross. — [Calendar of Deeds, Gen. Reg. House Cromartie Writs.] ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, reader 1569 in 1569 ; still in office in 1576. ROBERT GRAHAM, youngest son of 157s Patrick G. of Inchbraco, and grand son of William, Earl of Montrose ; pres. to the Archdeaconry 2nd Aug. 1573, in which year he was appointed conjunct commissioner for visiting Caithness and Sutherland. A complaint was made against him in the Assembly in Aug. 1575 that he was not diligent in visitation, and that he had more offices than he could discharge. He was app. commissioner for Caithness and adm. by the Assembly in 1586. At the Assembly of 1587 complaint of his non- residence in the parish was made, but he answered that he had no knowledge of the Gaelic language and had neither manse nor glebe. The kirk, he said, was served at his expense. He afterwards resided, and died in 1602. He was proprietor of the estate of Drynie in Kilmuir- Wester and was the founder of the family of Graham of Drynie, who held that estate till 1874. He marr. Marjorie Dunbar of Albrack, and had issue —George ; Thomas.— [Ing. Ret. Ross, 188 ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 525.] JOHN MACKENZIE of Inverlaul, Lochbroom (which he acquired from ' Lovat in 1610), son of Alexander M. of Kilchrist and Agnes, daugh. of Rorie Mackenzie of Hilton ; pres. to the Arch deaconry of Ross 26th Nov. 1602. In Sept. 1603, during the Raid of Kilchrist, his house was plundered by a band of Glengarry men led by Allan Macdonald of Lundie, who was charged at M.'s instance with destroy ing 27 dwelling houses, barns, byres, the minister's library, 400 bolls of oats, 160 bolls of bere, 9 horses, and 70 head of cattle stolen. There is a constant tradition that the church was set on fire and the congrega tion burned alive, but there is no reference to this in the complaint made by the minister in his action against Allan of Lundie. He died 1635. He marr. 31st May 1606, Margaret, daugh. of William Innes of Calrossie, and had issue— Kenneth of Inverlaul; Thomas of Inverlaul, min. of this parish; Alexander, died unmarr. CHANONHY] KILLEARNAN 11 in 1647 ; James, min. of Nigg ; a daugh. (marr. Hugh Boss of Tollie) ; a daugh. (marr. Roderick Mackenzie of Towie) ; a daugh. (marr. Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Coul).— [Douglas's Baronage, 401 ; Hist, of the Mackenzies, 523; Bannatyne Miscell., iii.] WILLIAM MACKENZIE, M.A. ; prob- 1633 ably trans, from Kilmorack in 1633 ; trans, to Tarbat before 21st Nov. 1638. DAVID MUNRO, mentioned as rector 16g4 of Killearnan in a charter by John, Bishop of Ross, 29th May 1634, and in another 6th Feb. 1635.— [Charters at Killearnan.} THOMAS MACKENZIE of Inverlaul, 1688 son of John M. of Inverlaul, min. of this parish; was a member of the Court of High Commission 21st Oct. 1634 ; adm. to Tarbat in 1633, deserted his charge and went to Ireland in 1635, but returned and adm. here in 1638 ; elected a member of the Glasgow Assembly that year, but charges were brought against him and his commission was rejected. He protested in behalf of the Presb. against the Assembly as constituted and adhered to the declinature by the bishops; dep. 13th Dec. 1638 and ordered to be excommunicated, " unless he satisfied by repentance." He retired to Inverlaul ; died at Cadboll 7th April 1665, and was buried at Fearn. He marr. Agnes, daugh. of Hector Douglas of Mulderg, and had issue— John of Inverlaul ; Thomas, writer, Edinburgh ; a daugh. (marr. Hector Douglas, fifth of Mulderg). — [Baillie's Letters; Peterkin's Records; Hist, of the Mackenzies, 523; Seaforth Writs; Allan- grange Writs; Reg. of Deeds, 31st Aug. 1652.] WILLIAM FRASER of Phopachy; trans. 1640 *rom Kilmorack and adm. in 1640. He made a pretence of favouring Presbyterianism but subscribed Seaforth's Remonstrance in 1647, for which he had to undergo discipline in several congregations within the Synod ; trans, (by Commission of Assembly) on account of his knowledge of Gaelic to Second Charge, Inverness, 3rd April 1648. COLIN MACKENZIE, son of John M., fourth of Hilton, and Margaret Dunbar of Inchbreck ; was min. of Abernethy in 1633, and of Contin in 1641 ; trans, and adm. 1651, and was still in the charge 20th Oct. 1657. He marr. — Dundas, and had issue — Kenneth, deacon of the Goldsmiths in Edinburgh.— [Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 293; Hist, of the Mackenzies, 368.] JOHN MACKENZIE, natural son of 1662 Sir Roderick M. of Coigach, tutor of Kintail ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1631); pres. by John, Bishop of Ross, to the Archdeaconry in 1662 as compensation for his having suffered deprivation and banishment for his loyalty ; died at Tarrell in 1666 and was buried at Tarbat. He marr. Christian, daugh. of Sir John Wemyss of Lathokar, and had issue- Roderick, min. of Avoch ; Colin ; Kenneth, surgeon, Elgin ; George; Alexander; John; James in Meikle Tarrell; a daugh. (marr. Kenneth, third son of Kenneth Mackenzie of Davochmaluag).— [Law's Mem. ; MS. Hist, of the Mackenzies ; Seaforth Writs.] [WILLIAM DAVIDSON, educated at King's College; M.A. (12th July 1660); as min. here was a consenting party and a witness to an Agreement between the Bishop and Chapter of Ross and Colin Mackenzie of Kilcoy, on 28th Feb. 1669, for the valuation of the lands of Kilcoy, but his signature is not adhibited. He cannot have been Capellanus curatus or Vicarius pensionarius of the Archdeacon, for Robert Williamson was then and had been for some years minister.] ROBERT WILLIAMSON, min. in 1664, 1664 witnessed a charter by the Bishop of Ross, 6th Jan. 1665, mentioned as min. in 1669, 1678, and 1680, but was dead in 1686. His tombstone is now buried under the floor of the church. He marr. Margaret Burnet, and had issue — Alexander, died Jan. 1678. — [Original Charter at Killearnan ; Allangrange Writs.} JOHN MACKENZIE, son of Roderick 1686 ^' *n Ardlair > adm. about 1686 ; did not conform to Presbyterianism at the Revolution but remained in the charge, 12 KILLEARNAN [PRESB. OF 1700 1719 stipend being paid to him by the heritors ; died it is said " through witchcraft " in 1700. He marr. Annabel Mackenzie (who marr. (2) Thomas Fraser, brother to Belladrum), and had issue— Annabel (marr. Alexander Mackenzie, notary, Dingwall) ; Margaret ; Florence. — [Allangrange Writs ; Belladrum Writs.] JOHN MACKENZIE, son of Donald M., known as Donald Carranach, in Ferintosh, intruded in 1700. In Dec. 1708 when Hugh Campbell, min. of Kiltearn, came to preach by order of the Presb. he was assaulted in the pulpit by several persons to the danger of his life, among his assailants being servants of the intruder. M. occupied the manse, was paid his regular stipend and was still officiating in the parish in 1716. In 1721 he was reported as preaching, praying, baptising, and marrying in the parish of Gairloch. — [A llangrange Writs.] JOHN M'ARTHUR, called by the Presb. jure devoluto 13th Jan., and adm. 26th March 1719, his settle ment being opposed by the heritors and the great body of the parishioners instigated by the preceding min. The heritors refused to pay him his stipend and an action being raised against them, they retaliated by pulling down his manse. He was reduced to such straits that appeals for his mainten ance were instructed to be made to the General Assembly by the commissioners from the Presbs. within the Synod. He was trans, to Logie-Easter 25th March 1730. JOHN ROBERTSON, born about 1706, son of William R. of Teachnock, factor for Lovat ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th Nov. 1728 ; ord. to Contin 24th March 1730; pres. that year by George, Earl of Cromarty, but presentation set aside by the Presb.; called by the heritors and communicants, Dec. 1730, the Presb. of Dingwall opposed but the General As sembly sustained call; adm. 1st July 1731; died 25th Feb. 1743. He marr. Katherine (marr. again, and died 30th April 1788), daugh. of Thomas Chisholm, min. of Kilmorack. DONALD FRASER, pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, July 1743 ; ord. 1744 27th March 1744; was obliged to leave the parish during the six weeks the rebels were in the country in 1746 ; trans, to Urquhart (Ferintosh) 2nd June 1757. DAVID DENOON, born Inverness, 1723, grandson of David D., chamber- 1758 lain to the Earl of Moray ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March 1748) ; ord. 3rd May 1758. Dissent was still strong in the parish, there being two Episcopal chapels. In 1776 he petitioned the Royal Bounty Committee for a catechist, stating that the parish contained 1300 individuals, that until the Battle of Culloden, the parish min. would not have more than twenty -four hearers on a Sunday ; that " the prejudices against the Church had been deeply rivetted, and like the king's evil continued to be transmitted to the rising generation." He died 2nd Jan. 1792, bequeathing £100 for a bursary at Inverness Academy. He marr. (1) 3rd Nov. 1761, Mary (died 30th April 1767), daugh. of Inglis of Kingsmills, and had issue— Hugh, born 18th Sept. 1762; Catherine, born 24th Jan. 1764; David, min. of this parish ; Jean, born 15th June 1766 : (2) 31st May 1779, Janet (died 14th Feb. 1802), daugh. of Daniel Beton, min. of Rosskeen, and widow of John Bethune, also min. of Rosskeen.— [Scots Mag., liv. ; Tombst] DAVID DENOON, born 24th April 1765, son of preceding; educated 1790 at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March 1784); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 6th Oct. 1789 ; pres. by Kenneth Mackenzie of Cromartie Nov. 1789, and by George III. Feb. 1790 ; ord. (assistant and successor) 3rd March that year ; died 31st Dec. 1806. He was long remembered as a man of culture, gentleness, and piety. He marr. 22nd Aug. 1793, Janet Grant, who died 15th Feb.1 1842, and had issue- Isabella, born 7th Aug. 1796 ; Mary, born 22nd Nov. 1797 (marr. 26th Nov. 1818, John Jamieson, banker, Inverness); David, solicitor, born 16th April 1801 ; Alexander, CHANONRY] KILLEARNAN LJ London, born 25th Nov. 1802 ; Anne, born 26th May 1804; Hugh Grant, born 5th April 1806 ; Charles, born 10th Aug. 1807, died Nov. 1826. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xvii.). — [Tombst.] [The parish was vacant for seven years (1807-14) during a tedious law-suit between Mackenzie of Cromartie and the Crown, regarding the patronage, which was ulti mately decided in favour of the former in 1814. In the interval, presentations were made by the contending patrons in favour of William Macrae, min. of Barvas, and Thomas Eoss, LL.D., min. of Lochbroom.] JOHN KENNEDY, born 1772, son of Donald K., farmer, Kissel, Kishorn, 1 Lochcarron, and Mary Matheson ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1791); licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 24th Nov. 1795; app. school master of Lochcarron that year ; ord. assistant at Lochbroom 5th Dec. 1798 (the min. of that parish being under suspension) ; app. missionary at Eriboll in 1802 and at Melness ; assistant at Assynt in 1806; app. in 1812, by the Barons of Exchequer in Scotland, interim min. here until appeal before the House of Lords should be decided. Pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Oct., and adm. 8th Dec. 1814; died 10th Jan. 1841. He was one of the most popular mins. in the North Highlands for his saintly character, his acknowledged abilities and preaching powers. He marr. 1808, Jessie (died 2nd Feb. 1869), daugh. of Kenneth Mackenzie of Ledbeg, of the Earl of Cromartie's family, and had issue — Anne, born 15th May 1809; Mary, born 7th May 1810 (marr. James Macdonald, min. of Urray) ; Margaret Jess, born 1st Jan. 1812; Donald, min. of this parish ; Kenneth Mackenzie, M.A. (King's College), medical officer for Killearnan and Knockbain, born 26th May 1815, died 1861; Alexander Mackenzie, born 5th Aug. 1817 ; John, D.D., min. of Free Church, Dingwall, born 15th Aug. 1819, died at Bridge of Allan, 28th April 1884, author of The Apostle of the North, and the foremost Highland Free Church man of his generation ; Jess, born 13th Jan. 1823 ; Neil, medical practitioner, Tain, born 12th April 1828. Publications — Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.).—[The Minister of Killearnan in The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire, 157-260, by his son John (Inverness, 1861) ; Memorabilia Domestica, 264 ; Religious Life in Ross, 261-7 : Gaelic Elegy, by John Macdonald, D.D.] DONALD KENNEDY, born 3rd March 1841 -"-813, son of preceding ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (April 1830) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 16th March 1836; ord. to Newark, Port - Glasgow, 8th Feb. 1838; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie and John Hay Mackenzie, her son; trans, and adm. 9th Sept. 1841. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Killearnan, 1843-71; died 23rd May 1871. He marr. 16th June 1852, Caroline Isabella (died 22nd Nov. 1893), daugh. of Dr Macdonald, Cromarty, and had issue — Margaret, born 22nd April 1853 ; Jessie, born 1st July 1854 ; Caroline Isabella, born 3rd June 1856 ; John, in Australia, born 10th Sept. 1858 ; Georgina, born 5th Oct. 1860 ; Margaret Anne, born 2nd Feb. 1863.— [Religious Life in Ross, 267.] [ALEXANDEK M'INTOSH, pres. by 1843 J°kn Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie Nov. 1843, but objections having been lodged by several parishioners, the Assembly ordered the Presb. to begin de novo from the sustaining of the presenta tion. M. resigned the presentation 9th July 1844, and was afterwards min. at Craignish.] JOHN MACRAE, pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie 25th Dec. 1844 ; adm. 5th Feb. 1845 ; trans, to Stornoway 30th Sept. 1847. PATRICK CAMPBELL, born 27th July 1848 I8!4' son °f Alexander C., min. of Croy ; educated at King's College, 14 KILLEARNAN— KNOCKBAIN [PEESB. OF Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1832); min. of St Clement's, British Guiana, Jan. 1845-8 ; pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie 2nd March, and adm. 27th July 1848 ; died unmarr. 5th Jan. 1860. WILLIAM MACKAY, born 1836, son of John M., tailor, and Mary Macgregor ; 1860 educated at King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (March 1845) ; ord. missionary in Strathglass 1849-56; pres. by the Marchioness of Stafford in March, trans, and adm. 9th May 1860; died unmarr. 23rd April 1890. ANGUS MACDONALD, born at Griminish, Benbecula, 29th Sept. 1860, son of James M. and Mary Macrury ; educated at Academy and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Uist 24th July 1883; missionary at Carinish and Benbecula, 1883-4; ord. to Ullapool 18th June 1884; trans, and adm. 27th Nov. 1890 ; app. clerk of Presb. in 1892. Marr. (1) 5th June 1890, Marion (died llth Jan. 1893), daugh. of Charles Macleod, tacksman of Scottas, Knoydart, and has issue- James William, served in France with 15th Koyal Highlanders of Canada, born 29th March 1891 ; Charles Somerled, served with 15th Royal Highlanders of Canada, born 3rd Jan. 1893, twice wounded, killed in action near Loos 15th Aug. 1917 : (2) 17th July 1902, Elizabeth, daugh. of Alexander Hector of Burnside, St Cyrus, and widow of John Munro of Lemlair, and has issue — Ranald ^Eneas Hector, born 22nd Sept. 1903; Marion Morrison, born 24th July 1906 ; Flora Alice Eleanor, born 18th Feb. 1912 ; Mary Diana Anita, born 6th Jan. 1915. Publications — The Clan Donald, 3 vols. (Inverness, 1896, 1900, and 1904) [with Archibald Macdonald, D.D., min. of Kiltarlity]; Collections of Ancient and Modern Gaelic Poetry (Inver ness, 1911) [ibid.] ; The Poems of Alexander Macdonald, the Jacobite Sard, ivith a Biography of the Bard and an English Metrical ' Translation (Inverness, 1924) [ibid.]. Contributions to Scots Peerage, v., 559-65 (Edinburgh, 1904-14) and to periodical literature. KNOCKBAIN, OF OLD KILMU1R- WESTER, AND SUDDIE. [These two parishes were united by the Lords Commissioners of Teinds on 14th July 1756. Kilmuir- Wester.— The parish church was dedicated to St Mary. It was removed from Kilmuir to Knockbain in 1762. At Munlochy, within the bounds, there was a chapel of St John. Another chapel, on the seashore, was dedicated to St Kessog, and gave its name to Kessock Ferry. Suddie. — The parish church was dedi cated to St Duthac. Suddie was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. A small part of the parish of Killearnan was annexed to Suddie by the Lords Commissioners of Teinds, 14th July 1756, when the parish was united with Kilmuir-Wester.] GEORGE DUNBAR, rector of Kilmuir in 1557 ; conformed at the Reforma tion and is called " parson " in 1566. In 1563 he had a charter from Henry, Bishop of Ross, of the town and lands of Avoch. He marr. Janet Thomson, and had issue— Sir John of Avoch; James, afterwards of Avoch.— [Familie of Jnnes, 121 ; Allangrange Writs] JOHN REID, reader in 1568 ; pres. by James VI. in 1569; was commissary of Ross in 1596.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 532 ; Allangrange Writs] JOHN ROSS, pres. by James VI. to the 1573 vicarage in 1573 [afterwards at Tain]. ANDREW MYLNE [or MILL], min. in 1574 1574. [See Avoch.] 1574 JOHN ROSS, reader in 1574. ALEXANDER URQUHART, formerly of Tarbat; adm. in 1576 with Ardersier also in his charge; sus pended before 1580.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii, 532.] ALEXANDER REID, min. in 1579; trans, to Kirkmichael in Ross before 1579 1585. CIIANONRY] KNOCKBAIN L5 ANDKEW CROMBIE, min. in 1586; 1686 Pres< to 'ke vlC8iTaSe by James VI. in 1592 ; trans, to Chanonry about 1594, but returned here before 1597. JAMES LAUDER, M.A. ; adm. in 1595 ; 1595 trans, to Ardersier after 1596. ANDREW CROMBIE, abovementioned; 15g7 trans, from Rosemarkie in 1597, which he held in conjunction ; was Dean of Ross in 1608 ; still min. in 1630.— [Allangrange Writs ; Belladrum Writs.] JAMES TROUP, MA. (King's College, - Aberdeen, 1611) : adm. before 2nd Nov. 1638. JAMES SMITH, educated at King's 1681 Colle§e' Aberdeen ; M.A. (27th April 1659); ord. to Dores before 3rd April 1666 ; deprived for not taking the Test in 1681; adm. after 10th Oct. that year ; dep. by the Commission of Assembly in 1694 for drunkenness; died in Edin burgh, 23rd Nov. 1718, aged about 80. JOHN GRANT, called by the Presb. 1711 Jure devoluto 28th Aug., and ord. (at Rosemarkie) 27th Sept. 1711. At a meeting of Presb. on 25th Oct. that year, he reported that, " on the Sunday after his settlement, accompanied by Muirtown, one of his heritors, he went by boat to the church, and when at a small distance from the boat they were surrounded by a great many men and women (about two hundred) who lay in ambush. Some of them had their faces blackened and a few were in women's clothes, some armed with swords (dirks) and heavy batons ; all the women had batons. G. had his hat knocked off and torn in pieces, his head badly cut, and was dragged by his cravat till almost choked . . . the mob still pursuing . . . carried him to the top of a hill, and resolved to have killed him, had not some more tender-hearted opposed this and rescued him. John Mackenzie, who preached in the Episcopal- meeting house for that and neighbouring parishes, stood on a rising ground, feeding his eyes with their barbarous usage, and thereafter preached to the mob, most of them having pieces of G.'s clothes tied or pinned to the most open parts of their bodies, as trophies of victory." Complaint was made to the Lord Advocate, but nothing apparently was done. The General Assembly, 13th May 1712, declared G. transportable to any parish in Scotland and he was admitted to Auchinleck (q.v.) 9th July 1712. HUGH CAMPBELL, educated at 1721 Marischal College, Aberdeen ; be came chaplain to the Laird of Grange ; licen. by Presb. of Forres 16th May 1705 ; ord. to Ardersier 7th Aug. 1707 ; trans, to Kiltearn 7th May 1708; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 26th Oct. 1720; trans, and adm. 4th April 1721; died 18th July 1746. He marr. 16th Feb. 1710, Henrietta (died 24th Dec. 1752), daugh. of Colin Campbell of Delnies and Mary Duff, and had issue — Mary ; William ; Colin ; Catherine ; Archibald ; John ; Hugh, born 28th Dec. 1730; Anne, born 5th Aug. 1733. ROBERT MUNRO, born 1720, son of 1747 J°hn M., min. of Suddie ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue 13th April 1743; called 1st June, and ord. 23rd Sept. 1747; died 27th Sept. 1790. He was noted for his loquacity and sarcasm. He marr. (1) 3rd Dec. 1747, Isabel, daugh. of Colin Graham of Drynie, and had issue — Burnet, born 16th Aug. 1751 : (2) 20th July 1754, Isabel Mackenzie : (3) 6th June 1763, Seymour Munro, who died 8th March 1810.— [Memorabilia Domestica, 284 ; Hist, of the Munros, 493 ; Tombst.} RODERICK MACKENZIE, born 1I791 Cromarty, 1751 ; educated at Crom- arty School and King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (25th March 1771); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 29th Aug. 1 775 ; ord. to Contin 18th Sept. 1776; pres. by Kenneth Mackenzie of Cromartie Oct. 1790 ; trans, and adm. (amidst violent opposition) llth May 1791 ; died 4th July 1835. Known as " Parson Rory," he was a man of unbounded charity, very benevolent and particularly attentive to the poor and 16 KNOCKBAIN [PRESB. OF destitute. He was upwards of six feet in height, with broad shoulders and massive, well-proportioned limbs, and universally allowed to be one of the finest looking Highlanders of his day. He marr. 4th Dec. 1783, Mary, daugh. of Alexander Grant of the family of Sheuglie and sister of Charles G. of Waternish, M.P. (father of Lord Glenelg), and had issue— Catherine, born 26th Sept. 1784 ; Alexander, born 13th Nov. 1785, died abroad; Charles Grant, born 23rd Nov. 1786, died abroad ; Margaret, born 21st May 1789 ; Jean, born 25th Sept. 1790; Mary, born 26th March 1792 (marr. 12th Aug. 1813, John Edwards, sheriff-substitute, Inverness). Publications — Accounts of Contin and of Kilmuir- Wester (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vii., xii., and New Stat. Ace., xiv.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 284 ; Religious Life in Ross, 275.] ALLAN MACKENZIE, born Lewis 1836 ak°ut 1798; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1817) ; app. schoolmaster of Stornoway in 1819; licen. by Presb. of Uist 2nd Dec. 1824 ; pres. by William IV. 3rd Dec. 1835 ; ord. 31st March 1836; died at Inverness llth Dec. 1838, deeply lamented by his attached flock. His wife died before his admission here.— [Religious Life in Ross, 275. Gaelic elegy on him by William Alison, local bard]. JOHN MACRAE, born May 1794, son of Donald M., farmer, Ardelve, Lochalsh, was a shepherd in early life (his father having suffered serious financial losses through the perfidy of a friend) ; educated at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh ; schoolmaster at Arnisdale, Glenelg, and at Uig ; licen. by Presb. of Lewis 7th Sept. 1830; assistant at Gair- loch ; ord. to Cross, Lewis, in 1833 ; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie 4th June, and trans, and adm. 26th Sept. 1839. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Knockbain, 1843 - 9, Gaelic Free Church, Greenock, 1849-57, Free Church, Lochs, 1857-64, Free Church, Carloway, 1864-71 ; died at Greenock 9th Oct. 1876. After 1843 he was app. to organise and consolidate the work of the Free Church throughout the Northern and Western Highlands. He was a preacher of great power and origin ality and enjoyed much popularity, his name of Macrath Mbr, being a household word. Hugh Miller called him the last of the Ross-shire ministers. He marr. 26th Dec. 1833, Penelope (died 9th Dec. 1859, aged 54), daugh. of Captain Mackenzie of Payble, and had issue — John, born 27th Oct. 1834, went to Australia ; Donald, born 28th March 1837 ; Jane, born 20th Aug. 1839 (marr. Donald Macmaster, Free Church min., Kildalton) ; Ebenezer, born 18th April 1841; Anne, born 4th Oct. 1844 (marr. Alexander Macrae, Free Church min., Clachan), died 14th Feb. 1919.— [Disruption Worthies of the Highlands (portrait), 115 ; Religious Life in Ross, 275 ; Annals of the Disruption, 663 ; Nicolson's The Rev. John Macrae (Inver ness, 1895.] ROBERT WILLIAMSON, born Ross- 1843 S^re 1>798' son °^ J°^D W., farmer, and Catherine Ross; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1818); licen. by Presb. of Abertarff 30th March 1825; ord. to Croick 25th Sept. 1828; trans, and adm. to St Andrew's Church, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 24th Sept. 1840 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th Sept., and adm. 14th Dec. 1843 ; died 25th June 1870. He marr. 26th May 1834, Charlotte Priscilla Lacon, who died s.p. 21st Nov. 1876. JOHN MACGREGOR, born 1832, son 1868 °^ Robert M., farmer, Cromdale, and Elizabeth Stuart; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1854); became missionary in Strathglass in 1859 ; ord. to Kinlochluichart, 13th May 1861; pres. by the Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Cromartie ; adm. (assistant and successor) 24th Dec. 1868; died 4th May 1892. He marr. 29th July 1862, Isabella Kennedy (died 26th April 1914), daugh. of John Noble, min. of Fodderty, and had issue — John Bingham Baring, born 8th Aug. 1863, died abroad ; Elizabeth Adeline, born 28th April 1866 ; Annie Mary, born 4th July 1868, died 16th Dec. 1883. CHANONRY] KNOCKBAIN— SUDDIE 17 JOHN DOW, born Caputh, 22nd April 1892 1863> son °f Alexander D. and Janet Robertson ; educated at Madras College and Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1886) ; licen. by Presb. of Mull 2nd May 1888 ; ord. to Strathfillan 30th Sept. 1888 ; trans, and adm. 7th Dec. 1892. Marr. 12th June 1889, Jessie Simpson, daugh. of David Harvey, merchant, St Andrews, and has issue — Daisy Henderson, born 12th Jan. 1891 (marr. 6th Aug. 1919, J. J. Mullins, Sydney, Australia) ; Alastair, tea planter, born 21st June 1892, died 23rd Feb. 1917; Davinia Harvey, born 8th Nov. 1895 ; Ian, born llth April 1897, died 21st Sept. 1906; Jessie Simpson, born 24th Nov. 1899 ; Leila Annie, born 15th April 1901 : Catherine Marjory Isabel, born 7th March 1903 ; Beatrice Anna Mackenzie, born 23rd May 1909. SUDDIE. ANDREW LESLIE, parson in 1566.— 1566 [Familie of Innes, 121.] DAVID THOMSON, pres. by James VL 15Q9 in 1569 ; died 1570.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 538.] JAMES BUSCHERTT [BUCHART], 1570 pres. by James VI. in 1570.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 538.] GEORGE MUNRO of Pitlundie, adm. 1571 in 1571 ; Kinettas was also in the charge with the whole chancellary of Ross in 1574. He was selected in 1588 to visit the bounds of Orkney, " where the Jesuits and papists chiefly resort"; trans, to Tarbat, but returned in 1594 ; trans, to Rosemarkie in 1597. JAMES LAUDER, M.A. ; min. in 1597 ; 1597 trans, to Ardersier that year; pre centor of Ross in 1607. GEORGE MUNRO of Bearcrofts, son 1614 °^ ^eorSe M., min. of this parish ; was granted by James VI. in 1586 for seven years the chaplaincy of Clyne, VOL. VII. now Mountgerald, " for his support in sus- tanying at the sculis"; adm. before 1614; was a member of the Court of High Com mission 21st Oct. 1634 and of Assembly in 1639 ; was the only min. in the Presb. who signed the National Covenant in 1638; died after 6th April 1642. He marr. Mary Primrose (died at Edinburgh March 1670), niece of James Primrose, W.S., and had issue— George of Pitlundie, min. of Rose markie ; Sir Alexander of Bearcrofts, major in an infantry regiment in Ireland, knighted for his services and app. commissioner for Stirling, adm. advocate 26th Feb. 1662, M.P. for Stirling, 1690-1702, died 4th Jan. 1704; Lieut.-Colonel David, killed at the Battle of Worcester, 3rd Sept. 1651.— [Peterkin's Ret. Ross, 98; Baillie's Letters ; Inq. Records ; Hist, of the Munros, 309.] JOHN MACKENZIE, formerly of 1644 Urray; adm. in 1644; trans, to Tarbat in 1645. MURDOCH MACKENZIE, educated 1645 at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1622) ; became chaplain to Lord Reay's Regiment in Germany under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden ; adm. about 1645; dep. 22nd May 1647 by the Commission of Assembly for "preaching and praying before the Earl of Seaforth, and eating and drinking with him and saying grace after his excommunication." He had also signed Seaforth's Remonstrance. On 2nd Sept. 1656 he petitioned the Presb. of Dingwall for reponement, but was refused chiefly on the ground that he had failed to defend himself against the miscarriage that was alleged of him in Tain by " demneing and drinking." He marr. Isobel M'Culloch, and had issue. — [Mackay's#cwse of Mackay; Acts of Assembly, 1647, 1648; Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 286.] GEORGE DUNBAR, educated at King's 1661 College, Aberdeen ; adm. before 8th May 1651 ; was one of the signatories to the letter of the Presb. of Chanonry to the Commission of Assembly, 8th May 1651. Still min. 12th April 1661. 18 SUDDIE— RESOLIS [PKESB. OF THOMAS FRASER, born Moray, about 1669 1640, nephew of William F. of Phopachy; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (9th July 1664); adm. about 1669 ; was Chancellor of Ross in 1685 ; protested against the Commission of Assembly for the North in 1694; died in April or May 1714. He marr. and had issue— Hugh, on whom he settled the lands of Cruives and Knockbuy; Isabel (marr. Alexander, son of Hugh Fraser of Eska- dale) ; Katherine (marr. William Fraser in Kilochy).— [Allangrange Writs; Inverness Sas., ix., 284, 288.] JOHN MUNRO, born about 1690, son 1?16 of John M., and grandson of Colonel John M. of Lemlair ; licen. by Presb. of Tain llth May 1714 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 6th March, and ord. 25th April 1716. In May 1719, the Presb. instructed their Assembly commissioners to apply for a part of the public money to defray his expenses in a process for maintenance in his parish. He died last min. of Suddie 13th May 1762. He marr. 18th Jan. 1718, Isabel, daugh. of John Dallas of Bannans, and had issue— Andrew ; John ; Isabel ; Mary ; Hugh— all above 16 years of age in 1744; David, born 2nd Feb. 1733; James, born 12th April 1734; Robert, min. of Kilmuir- Wester. — [Hist, of the Munros, 493; Tombst.] RESOLIS, OF OLD CILL MHICHEIL, on KIRKMICHAEL IN ROSS, AND CULLICUDDEN. [These two parishes were united by the Commissioners of Teinds on 22nd Jan. 1662. Gill Mhicheil. — Gill Mhicheil was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. Its church was dedicated to St Michael. In 1767 the parish church was removed from Cill Mhicheil to Resolis. At Drum- dyre, within the bounds, there was a chapel of St Margaret, with a Well bearing her name. Cullicudden. — Cullicudden was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. Its church was dedicated to St Martin.] JAMES GRAY, vicar of Kirkmichael and 1667 Cullicudden in 1567. — [Cromartie Writs.] ALEXANDER CLUNES, reader Nov. 1670 1570. 1574 WALTER ROSS, reader in 1574. THOMAS MARJORIBANKS, son of 1576 Thomas M., burgess of Edinburgh ; was parson of Kirkmichael in 1575 ; still min. in 1586, probably the same T. M. pres. by Queen Mary in 1549 ; witnessed a charter by the Chantor of Ross in 1586.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 556; Munro of Allan Writs ; Allangrange Writs ; ATGill't Old Ross-shire, 24.] ALEXANDER REID, reader at Suddie 1586 1574 to 1578^ adm- to Kilmuir- Wester in 1579; trans, and adm. before 1585 ; pres. by James VI. to vicarage 14th March 1586, still in the charge in 1601.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 559.] THOMAS YOUNG, educated at Univ. of 1Q14 St Andrews ; M.A. (1606) ; witnessed a charter by the Bishop of Ross in 1618, and another in 1635.— [Charters at Killearnan; Orig. Charter Antiquarian Museum.] ROBERT WILLIAMSON, educated at 164g King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1626); was referred in 1649 to the next visitation by the General Assembly, and was one of the signatories to the letter by the Presb. to the Commission of Assembly 8th May 1651; still min. on 28th Aug. 1655.—[Dinywall Presb. Reg.; Acts of Assembly, 1649; Urquhart's Jewel.] JAMES HOUSTON, educated at 1662 Marischal College, Aberdeen; adm. before 22nd Jan. 1662; died probably in 1714 without conforming to Presby- terianism. He marr. Jane Fouler, and had issue — George, merchant, Fortrose ; David.— [Services of Heirs ; Inverness Sas.., v., 730 ; Laing Charters, 2927.] THOMAS INGLIS, born 1684; licen. 1715 by Presb. of Inverness 30th Sept. 1713; pres. by Sir William Gordon of Dalfollie, and by Sir Kenneth Mackenzie CHANONRY] RESOLIS of Cromartie in Feb., and ord. 26th May 1715 ; died 27th July 1747. He was, for his meekness and gentleness, known as "The Lamb of Cullicudden." He marr. 28th Oct. 1725, Anne (died 7th July 1742), daugh. of — Urquhart of Braelangwell, and had issue— Anne (marr. James Calder, min. of Croy) ; Thomas William, went to Jamaica —all above 16 years of age in 1744 ; Jean, born 31st Aug. 1731 ; John, born 12th July 1734.-[?'om&s<.] HECTOR MACPHAIL, born Inverness, 1748 1716 ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1st April 1737); licen. by Presb. of Inverness 20th Dec. 1746; called unanimously 18th July, and ord. 27th Sept. 1748; died 23rd Jan. 1784. He has been described as " one of the most deeply exercised Christians of his time." He marr. (1) 28th Oct. 1755, Elizabeth (died 5th Dec. 1758), daugh. of John Balfour, min. of Nigg, and had issue— Isobel, born 7th Aug. 1757 : (2) 13th Nov. 1759, Anne Cuthbert of the Castlehill family, who died 9th March 1795, and had issue — Jean, born 27th Aug. 1760 ; Paul, born 23rd Oct. 1761 ; Magdalene, born 18th July 1763 ; George, born 16th Nov. 1764; James, min. of Daviot, born 27th Feb. 1766 ; Elizabeth, born 14th Sept. 1768; William, min. of Scottish Church, Rotterdam, born 1771. — [Steven's Scot. Church, Rotterdam, 243 ; Memorabilia Domestica, 265; Tombst.] ROBERT ARTHUR, born Buchan, 1774 1744; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1767) ; pres. by William Gordon of Newhall in June, and ord. 21st Sept. 1774; died llth May 1821. He marr. (1) 17th June 1777, Anne, daugh. of Captain John Munro of Braemore, and sister of Colonel Munro of Pointzfield, and had issue— George Munro, born 14th March 1778 ; Thomas, captain, Engineer Corps, Madras, present at storm ing of Seringapatam in 1799; died at Travancore, India, 1st May 1817; Elizabeth, born 27th March 1781 (marr. Alexander Gunn, min. of Watten) ; May, born 1782 (marr. 23rd Sept. 1802, Charles Munro of Berryhill); James Innes, Demerara, born 22nd July 1785, died at sea 20th Aug. 1816 : (2) 19th Feb. 1793, Janet Maclennan : (3) 14th March 1797, Margaret Gunn, and had issue— John, born 21st March 1798; Robert, born 15th Oct. 1799; George, born 30th March 1802; Anne Munro, born 5th April 1804 (marr. (1) 14th July 1820, Captain William Gallic, 78th Highlanders, (2) Captain John Mathe- son of Bennetsfield), died 13th Feb. 1849 : (4) 30th May 1805, Mary (died 21st May 1826), daugh. of John Turner of Turnerhall and widow of James Rainy, min. of Old Meldrum. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xiv.). — [Ross Tests. ; Memorabilia Domestica, 266 ; Hist, of the Munros, 550.] DONALD SAGE, born 20th Oct. 1789, 1822 son °^ Alexander S., min. of Kildonan, Sutherland ; educated at Dornoch School, Marischal College, Aberdeen, M.A. (1808), and Univ. of Edinburgh ; became tutor in the families of Sheriff Mackid, Kirktown, Golspie, and Matheson of Atta- dale, Lochcarron ; licen. by Presb. of Loch- carron in 1815 ; ord. by Presb. of Dornoch missionary at Achness 8th Nov. 1816 ; adm. to Gaelic Chapel, Aberdeen, 1st Feb. 1821 ; pres. by Donald Mackenzie of New- hall Sept. that year; trans, and adm. 2nd May 1822. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Resolis Free Church, 1843-69; died 31st March 1869. The Sutherland Clearances of 1819 occurred during his ministry at Achness, where he and his entire congregation were driven from their homes. Summonses of ejection were issued and dispatched all over the district to a population of 1600. His farewell services at Achness and Achna-h'uiaghe " were felt," he wrote in his Memorabilia, "by myself and by the people from the oldest to the youngest, to be among the bitterest and most overwhelming experiences of our lives. . . . I selected a text which had a pointed reference to the peculiarity of our circum stances, but my difficulty was how to restrain my feelings till I should illustrate and enforce the great truths which it involved with reference to eternity. The service began, the very aspect of the congregation was of itself a sermon, and RESOLIS [PJRESB. OF a most impressive one. I preached and the people listened, but every sentence uttered and heard was in opposition to the tide of our natural feelings, which, setting in against us, mounted at every step of our progress higher and higher. At last all restraints were compelled to give way. The preacher ceased to speak, the people to listen. All lifted up their voices and wept, mingling their tears together. It was indeed the place of parting, and the hour. The greater number parted never again to behold each other in the land of the living." He marr. (1) 21st July 1821, Harriet Gordon (died 7th May 1822), daugh. of James Robertson of Naval Hospital, Barbados, and Pitstrunie, Aberdeenshire : (2) 20th June 1826, Elizabeth (died 25th Jan. 1889), daugh. of William Mackintosh, min. of Thurso, and had isue— Christina Sutherland, born 1st Aug. 1827 ; Alexander, born 14th Nov. 1828 ; Isabella Fraser, born 24th May 1830; William M'Intosh, born 22nd May 1832 ; ^neas John, born 21st Nov. 1833 ; James Macintosh, born 12th Sept. 1835 ; Elizabeth Catherine, born 24th June 1838, died at Inverness 26th Feb. 1923 ; Donald Fraser, ord. min. at Parkhill, Ontario, 1874, adm. min. of Free Church, Keiss, 1880, died 1890; Richard Ramsay, born 31st Aug. 1843; Christina Camilla Jane, born 26th Sept. 1846 (marr. 1872, Donald Sutherland, min. of Free Church, Kilmonivaig), died Dec. 1923. Publications — Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.). He left in MS. a mass of inter esting genealogical and ecclesiastical re miniscences, part of which was edited by his son Donald, under the title Memorabilia Domestica, or Parish Life in the North of Scotland (Wick, 1889, 2nd ed., 1899). JOHN MACKENZIE, born 1792, 1848 son °^ Donald M. of Taagan, Gair- loch, and Isabella, daugh. of Simon Mackenzie of Oldney ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (28th March 1812) ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 1st April 1817; ord. missionary at Glen- moriston 13th May 1818 ; trans, to Rogart 17th Sept. 1823; pres. by Mackenzie of Newhall ; trans, and adm. 28th Sept. 1843 ; died 19th Sept. 1870. He marr. 6th June 1826, Mary (died 20th May 1855), , daugh. of Colin Mackenzie, min. of Stornoway, and had issue— Duncan Simon, min. of Gairloch, born 19th Sept. 1827; Colin, min. of Ardclach, born 2nd Aug. 1828 ; Simon, born 26th March 1830 ; Alexander Roderick, student of divinity, born 13th Nov. 1831, died 16th Aug. 1853 ; Roderick, surgeon, H.E.I.C.S., born llth Dec. 1833, died at Bombay 25th May 1857; Jane, born 27th Nov. 1835, died 2nd Jan. 1853; Ninian Francis, born 2nd May 1839, died 1st April 1856. Publications— Speaking the Truth in Love, a sermon (Edin., 1847) ; Account of Rogart (New Stat. Ace., xv.). ROBERT GUMMING MAC- 1871 DOUGALL, born 13th April 1839, son of James M., schoolmaster, Moy, and Mary Gumming ; educated at Raigbeg and Grantown Schools, King's College, Aberdeen, and Univs. of Aberdeen and Glasgow, 1860-4; became missionary at Campbeltown, Oct. 1865, at North Knap- dale, March 1866; ord. Royal Bounty missionary at Tayvallich (Inveraray), 18th Dec. that year ; adm. to Fort Augustus in 1867 ; assistant at Kilmonivaig, 1868-70 ; pres. by J. A. Shaw Mackenzie of Newhall 6th Jan., and adm. 30th March 1871 ; died 1st Aug. 1911. He was immersed in the lore of the Puritans and filled with the spirit of the Covenanters, a strong opponent of all innovations in Church worship and an earnest upholder of the Protestant faith, a good classical scholar and an eloquent speaker and preacher. He marr. 26th April 1876, Jean Maclean (died 27th June 1882), daugh. of James Paterson, farmer, Thurso, and Betsy Mackay, and had issue — James, engineer, Hudson Bay Company, born 4th Feb. 1877 ; Donald Joseph, born 29th Oct., and died 18th Nov. 1878; Bessie Paterson (twin), born 29th Oct. 1878 ; Mary Gumming, born 17th, and died 28th Oct. 1879. Publica tions — Memoir of the Rev. Hector Mac- phail, minister of Resolis. Contributions to periodical literature chiefly on local and Church history. CHANONRY] RESOLIS— CULLICUDDEN— ROSEMARKIE 21 ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, M.A. ; 1912 trans- and a,dm. from Lairg 18th Jan. 1912; trans, to Kiltearn 14th Oct. 1920. RODERICK MACKENZIE, born Kishorn, 16th Dec. 1864, son of L Donald M. and Isabella Mackenzie ; educated at Old Aberdeen Grammar School, Univ. of Glasgow, and Assembly's College, Belfast ; licen. by Northern Presb. of the Free Presbyterian Church Jan. 1895 ; ord. to Free Presbyterian Church, Portree, 25th Jan. 1895 ; adm. to Kintail 16th March 1898 ; trans, to Urquhart (Inverness) 26th Nov. 1908 ; trans, and adm. 8th March 1921. Marr. (1) 20th Feb. 1896, Annie (died 15th Feb. 1911), daugh. of Samuel Campbell and Marion Maclean, and has issue— Morag Campbell, born 8th March 1897; Isabella Flora, M.B., Ch.B., born 16th Sept. 1898 (marr. llth June 1924, Victor Edmond Milne, M.B., Ch.B., D.Ph., Birmingham); Duncan Archibald, marine engineer, born 19th Sept. 1901 : (2) 30th April 1913, Annie Jane, daugh. of John Macdonald and Marjorie Douglas. CULLICUDDEN. DAVID DUNBAR, held this charge 1560 Before ^e Deformation, when he conformed to Protestantism. In 1557 he witnessed a charter by David, Bishop of Ross ; in 1571 as parson he granted a discharge to William Ross of Priesthill, and in 1580 gave a tack of the teind sheaves to Robert Graham; died in 1580. — [Charter of 1557 at Killearnan ; Munro of Allan Writs; Cromartie Writs.] 1580 WILLIAM MUNRO of Coul, son of Hugh M. of Ferrytown of Obsdale, latterly of Coul; was reader, 1574-8; pres. to the parsonage by James VI. in 1580 ; still min. in 1608. He marr. Isobel, daugh. of Donald Thornton of Balgary, and had issue — Robert of Coul, min. of Farr ; Hector, min. of Edderton ; Alexander ; Hugh of Ardullie ; Christian (marr. Andrew Munro of Lemlair). — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 553; Hist, of the Munros, 383.] THOMAS PAPE, born Ross-shire, younger brother of William P., min. of Dornoch ; adm. to Rogart in 1590 ; was a member of Assembly in 1610 ; trans, and adm. in 1614 ; still min. 29th May 1634.— [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum; Orig. Charter at Killearnan; Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 249 ; Reg. Mag. Sig.t vi., 799.] CHARLES PAPE, probably son of preceding ; adrn. before 2nd Nov. 1 1638 ; was clerk of Presb. ; still in the charge 28th Aug. 1655. The parish was vacant in 1662. — [Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 270.] ROSEMARKIE. [The chancellor of the diocese of Ross held the prebend of Rosemarkie in the Cathedral of Fortrose. Its parish church was dedicated to St Peter. At Rosemarkie St Curadan was buried, and there his relics were shown to pilgrims, as were also those of St Moluoc. Rosemarkie had a Well of St Peter, and kept a fair in his honour.] GEORGE DUNBAR, probably brother of David D., min. of Cullicudden ; 1 vicar from 1560 to 1566, having been pres. by Queen Mary in 1549, and had evidently conformed at Reformation. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 567.] JOHN ROBERTSON, min. in 1574, 1574 having Chanonry in conjunction. ALEXANDER HEPBURN, Bishop of 1576 Ross, min. in 1576. 1576 WILLIAM HAY, reader in 1576. GEORGE MUNRO, chancellor in 1586 1586. 22 ROSEMARKIE [PRESB. OF ANDREW CROMBIE, trans, to Kilmuir - Wester in 1596 or 1597; 1596 returned in 1599. GEORGE MUNRO, trans, from Suddie 1697 in 1597 ; trans, to Chanonry in 1599. ANDREW CROMBIE, above men tioned ; min. in 1599, with Kilmuir- Wester also in his charge. He was app. by the Assembly in 1600 to visit the bounds of Moray, and had the appoint ment renewed the next year. He was Dean of Ross in 1607, and still min. 8th Feb. 1630.— [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum; Orig. Charter Bishop of Ross at Kil- learnan.'] PATRICK DURHAM, min. in 1633 1Q88 and dean of Ross in 1636.— [Orig. Charter Bishop of Ross at Kil- learnan.] 1635 JAMES AINSLIE, educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (25th July 1624) ; adm. before llth Feb. 1635 ; was one of the few who read Archbishop Laud's Service-Book as appointed by the bishop in 1637 ; was still min. 2nd Nov. 1638.— [Reg. Mag. Sig., ix., 355.] GEORGE MUNRO of Pitlundie, son 1642 °^ ^eor£e ^-> m^n- °f Suddie ; had a gift of the chaplaincy of St Laurence, called the chaplaincy of Elgin, in the Cathedral of Moray, from James VI. in 1616, for his support and maintenance at the schools ; adm. before 4th Oct. 1642. On 22nd Dec. 1646 he renounced his adher ence to Seaforth's Remonstrance against the National Covenant and acknowledged his " frailty " in putting his hand to that " perfidious Bond." In the " references " of the Commission of the Assembly appointed in 1649 for visiting the Kirk of Ross, " the furder tryall of G. M., minister at Rose- markie, is referred to a commission to sit at Aldearne ad hunc actum only, the firsl tuesday of November next till appoynt witnesses thereanent to be cited be the >resbrie of Chanonrie, and that the said resbrie have a care of the said Mr George lis chairge." He was one of the signatories ;o a letter of the Presb. to the Commission f Assembly, 8th May 1651, approving of their proceedings ; died before 21st Sept. 1686. He marr. Barbara, daugh. of James Forbes of Tolmads, and Agnes, daugh. of John Forbes of Campbell, and had issue — John, writer, Edinburgh ; Agnes (marr. 1643, Captain James, son of Duncan Forbes of Culloden) ; Janet (marr. (1) Alexander Ross of Nether Pitkerrie, min. of Fearn : (2) Duncan Davidson); Margaret (marr. John, son of Colonel John Munro of Lemlair). — [Ing. Req. Ross, 98, 145; Lumsden's House of Forbes, 25 ; Hist, of the Munros, 309.] DAVID ANGUS, schoolmaster of Nairn ; passed trials before the Presb. of Forres and was recom mended for licence 2nd Nov. 1675 ; adm. before 1689 ; deprived for not praying for King William and Queen Mary ; removed to Fortrose and was charged before the Privy Council, 22nd May 1693, with having publicly preached and exercised the minis terial function within his own house and parish and elsewhere without qualifying himself by signing the Oath of Allegiance, and his deprivation was confirmed and he was further prohibited from preaching or exercising any ministerial function. He went to Edinburgh, and died in the Canon- gate in 1717. — [Chambers's Dom. Ann. ; Services of Heirs.} HUGH ANDERSON, ord. before 29th March 1694 ; trans, to Drainie 17th Aug. 1698. GEORGE GORDON, adm. 25th April 1700; trans, to Cromarty 1st April 1707. ROBERT FINLAY, son of William F. in Tarves; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (8th March 1699) ; served heir to his father 20th Dec. 1700; licen.by Presb. of Dalkeith 25th Dec. 1704; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 27th CIIANONRY] ROSEMARKIE 23 July, and ord. 23rd Sept. 1708; died 4th Dec. 1733. He has been described as "a pious and sincere pastor, assiduous and faithful in his sacred office." He marr. (pro. 30th July 1709) Katherine, daugh. of David Denoon, bailie of the Canon- gate ; she was recommended by the Assembly, 21st May 1736, to the Synods of Ross, Sutherland, Caithness and Moray for charity.— [Services of Heirs ; Tombst.} JOHN WOOD, born 1701 ; chaplain to 1?S4 Sir William Gordon of Invergordon ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 22nd March 1732; called 4th July, and ord. llth Aug. 1734; died 10th Nov. 1775. Under his ministrations a revival of religion took place in 1744 and he was then "waiting in the expectation of still greater things." He gives an account of this awakening in a letter recorded in Gillies's Historical Collections, 455. He marr. (1) 5th April 1739, Anne (died 27th April 1745), daugh. of Collector Ogilvie, Banff, and had issue — a child who died young : (2) 17th June 1747, Sophia (died 28th May 1803), daugh. of Alexander Irvine, min. of Elgin, and had issue — Alexander, min. of this parish ; Anne, born 4th Oct. 1749 ; John, born 25th July, and died Oct. 1752 ; John, born 24th Nov. 1753; Mary, born 24th Feb. 1755 ; Sophia, born 8th Jan. 1758 ; Charles, min. of Wiston, born 27th Dec. 1759 ; William, born 15th Dec. 1761 ; James, commander Racer, cutter, Bristol Channel, born 12th March 1764, died 16th Nov. 1817; George, born 12th March 1766; David, born 25th June 1767 ; Joseph, went to Jamaica, born 29th July 1770, died 21st Feb. 1811 ; Andrew, major in army, born 26th June 1772, died 20th July 1834. Publication — Letter on the Revival in Parish of Rosemarkie (Robe's Monthly History, 1744). — [Religious Life in Ross, 252.] ALEXANDER WOOD (primus), born -,_,__ 9th Oct. 1748, son of preceding ; educated at King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (2nd April 1765); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 12th Dec. 1769 ; pres. by George III. 27th Feb., and ord. (assistant and successor) 19th Sept. 1770 ; died 22nd Aug. 1808. He marr. 4th Dec. 1773, Janet (died 6th Dec. 1829), daugh. of Alexander Houston, provost of Fortrose, and grandson of James Houston, min. of Kirkmichael (Ross), and had issue — Sophia, born 4th Oct. 1775 (marr. 29th Dec. 1792, James Fowler of Grange, Jamaica) ; John, born 25th Aug. 1776; Janet, born 28th Aug. 1779 (marr. 2nd March 1805, James Dallas, min. of Contin) ; Anne Baillie, born 19th June 1782 (marr. 6th Nov. 1805, John Watson, Jamaica); Charlotte, born 29th June 1783 ; Alexander, min. of this parish ; William Abraham, born 16th May 1786; Henrietta Georgina Jacobina, born 23rd Oct. 1787 ; George Urquhart, born 28th April 1789 ; Jemima, born 7th April 1792. Publication— Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xi.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 281 ; Tombst.] ALEXANDER WOOD (secundus\ born 1816 10tk April 1785, son of preceding; educated at King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (28th March 1803) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 14th July 1807 ; pres. by George III. Oct. 1809. A tedious law suit regarding the patronage was instituted by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie, who presented William Ander son, licentiate. The case was decided in her favour by the Court of Session and affirmed by the House of Lords July 1814. Anderson withdrew acceptance having been settled at Kippen, whereupon Mrs Mackenzie pres. A. W. Jan. 1815, and he was ord. 16th Feb. 1816 ; died 8th Jan. 1874. The Woods were mins. of this parish for 140 years, one of the longest family successions in the history of the Church. He marr. 18th Dec. 1821, Agnes (died 27th March 1861), daugh. of Adam Walker of Muirhouselaw, Roxburghshire, and had issue— Alexander, born 5th Dec. 1822, died at Lancefield near Melbourne, Australia, 3rd March 1858 ; Katherine Gairdner, born 24th Sept. 1824 (marr. 23rd April 1845, 24 ROSEMARKIE [PRESB. OF CHANONKY Donald M. Kose) ; died 1st Aug. 1851 ; Janetta Fowler, born 20th May 1826, died July 1831. Publication— Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., x\\.).— [Religious Life in Boss, 253.] JAMES M'DOWALL, born Glenluce, 1861 Wigtownshire, 1833, eldest son of James M., fisher ; educated at Glen- luce, Campbeltown Grammar School, and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glas gow; assistant in Low Church, Kilmarnock, Kinross, and in this parish ; pres. by Queen Victoria 18th Feb., and ord. (assistant and successor) 9th May 1861 ; died unmarr. 2nd Aug. 1910. ROBERT SHAW MASTERTON, 1908 k°rn Tillietudlem, Lesmahagow, 6ih March 1877, son of James Boe M. and Agnes Shaw ; educated at Hamilton Academy and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1899); licen. by Presb. of Kintyre in 1902 ; assistant at Buenos Aires, Dumfries, Shettleston, and in this parish ; ord. (assistant and successor) 20th Aug. 1908. Marr. 30th Sept. 1913, Helen M'Kean, daugh. of Peter Craig, Glasgow, and Helen M'Kean. PEESBYTERY OF DINGWALL [We have no evidence of the existence of this Court before 21st November 1638. The Register of the Presbytery begins at 19th June 1649. There are gaps in its record from 30th March to 19th May 1663, from 12th April 1688 to 13th September 1716, and from 7th April 1762 to 13th July 1774.] 1560 ALNESS. [Alness was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. There were chapels in this parish at Fyrish and Culcraigie. Another stood at Kildermorie (Celtair Mhuiri = the Shrine of Mary). There were also Wells of St Mary and St Columba.] THOMAS ROSS, son of Nicolas R., provost of the Collegiate Church of Tain (who was present in Parliament in 1560 and voted for the suppression of Popery); parson of Alness in 1560; suc ceeded his father as Abbot (titular) of Fearn in 1566; died 4th Feb. 1595. He marr. Isobel (died 1603), daugh. of Alex ander Kinnaird of Culbin, and had issue — Walter of Morangie ; William ; Andrew, burgesses of Tain ; Barbara (marr. Andrew Morrison). — [JJalnayowan Writs ; Reid's Geneal. of Rosses, 55 ; Tain Sheriff-Court Writs; Taylor's Hist, of Tain, 51, 59; Bain's Hist, of Ross, 126 ; Religious Life in Ross, 113.] JOHN DAVIDSON, called vicar in 1560 1560. JOHN WATSON, was charged in the 1565 Assembly, 28th June 1565, with "leav ing his vocation," and was ordered to return "under pain of disobedience to the kirk."— [Booke of the Kirk.} ALEXANDER MORISON, exhorter in 1571 1571 ; reader in 1574. ROBERT ROSS of Kinloch, second son 1588 of Donald Ross of Shandwick ; min. in 1588 ; was a member of Assembly in 1610. He built the manse, west end of church and bell-house in 1625. In 1630 he dem. in favour of Thomas Ross, min. of Fearn, whose translation does not seem to have taken place, R. R. being still min. in 1636 ; died in 1648. He marr., and had issue — William of Shandwick, min. of Fearn ; John ; Thomas, min. of this parish ; Andrew, min. of Gorton; David, min. of Logie-Easter ; Esther (marr. Hugh, son of Hector Munro of Fyrish) ; Catherine (marr. Farquhar Munro of Teanoird).— [Calder- wood's Hist, vii., 105 ; M'Crie's Sketches, i., 149 ; Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum ; Balna- gowan Writs ; Charter by Hishop of Ross at Killearnan ; Reg. Mag. Sig., ix., 380.] THOMAS ROSS, born about 1613, son of preceding; educated at King's ' College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1634); min. in 1635 ; dep. in 1648, which sentence was approved by the Assembly on 24th July 1649. The Assembly recommended his reponement, which was given effect to by the Presb. 9th Oct. that year.— [Mackay's Records of Dingwall Presb., 153 ; Charter by Bishop of Ross at Killearnan.} JOHN MUNRO, of Culcraigie, son of Alexander M., min. of Durness ; adm. 7th July 1649. On 20th Aug. 1650 he informed the Presb. that he was denied admission to his manse, Thomas Ross, the preceding min., being still in possession, and R. was ordered to remove ; app. chaplain to the Laird of Thornton's regiment ; died in 1662. "He was a man of great readiness and considerable learning." He marr. 26 ALNESS [PRESB. OF Catherine Abernethy, and had issue — William ; John ; George ; Andrew ; Isa bella (marr. Robert Munro of Findon family) ; Christian (marr. Andrew Munro, min. of Thurso). — [Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 192.] WALTER ROSS, son of David R. of Balnagowan ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (27th April 1659); adm. in 1664; was clerk to Synod in 1671 ; died after 1690. He marr., and had issue— Hugh. — [Scot. Antiq., v., 158 ; Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 371.] 1687 JOHN M'KILLICAN of Alness ; licen. ky tne Presb. of Aberdeen and received by that of Forres 28th March 1655 ; adm. to Fodderty 26th Feb. 1656; deprived by Act of Parliament llth June and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662 ; dep. May 1663. Complaints were lodged against him in 1667 for holding conventicles with Thomas Hog of Kiltearn. In 1668 complaints were lodged against him by the bishop, in consequence of which he was imprisoned in the Tolbooth of Forres. After his release he returned to Alness, and another prosecution followed in 1674, when he was obliged to go into concealment, but in Sept. 1675 he dispensed the Lord's Supper in the house of the Dowager Lady Munro of Fowlis at Obsdale. For this he was carried prisoner to Fortrose, Nairn, and Edinburgh, sent to the Bass in the end of 1677 till the indemnity granted llth July 1679, when he was liberated. He was again summoned before the Privy Council 18th Jan. 1683, and fined £277, to remain in prison till paid. After six months' imprisonment at Edinburgh he was sent to the Bass, but released on account of his health, and under bond 27th July 1686, and went to Alness. After Toleration had been given to the Presby terians, 5th July 1687, he built a meeting house on his own property with the money he received for the damage done to his property by the party of soldiers sent by Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Findon in 1675 to prevent the celebration of the communion at Obsdale. He received a call from Elgin which he declined, and accepted a call to Inverness, but he was not settled there ; died 8th June 1689. He marr. (1) Catherine, daugh. of John Munro of Balchraggan, and had issue— John, min. of Lochalsh ; Daniel, min. of this parish ; Janet (marr. Alexander Munro of Kilchoan), and four others : (2) Margaret, third daugh. of Donald Mackenzie of Meddat, who survived him.— [Wodrow's Hist., iii., 435; The Bass Rock, 235-59; Inq. Ret. Ross, 151.] JOHN FRASER of Pitcalzean; during 1695 the reign of Charles II. suffered great hardships on account of the stand he took against the Episcopal govern ment of the Church. He was imprisoned at Newgate and was afterwards sent to Dunnottar Castle. In Sept. 1685 he was banished by the Scottish Privy Council to the American Plantations, where after a voyage of seventeen weeks he landed at New Jersey ; licen. to preach in New England, and took charge of a congregation at Woodbury, Conn. ; he returned to Scot land at the Revolution and was ord. to Glencorse 23rd Dec. 1691. As a Gaelic speaker he was app. by the General Assembly to supply in Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness, and trans, and adm. here 6th Nov. 1695 ; died 7th Nov. 1711, aged about 53. He marr. in America, Jean, daugh. of James Moffat, farmer, Nether- barngs (on the Selkirkshire side of the Tweed, opposite Abbotsford). She had suffered persecution like himself, survived him and marr. (2) George Gordon, min. of Cromarty), and had issue— John, a youth of high promise, died 9th June 1712 ; James, min. of this parish ; Catherine (marr. John M'Arthur, min. of Logie-Easter); Isobel. Publication— Letter to Hugh Rose of Kil- ravock regarding Sabbath Profanation (Family of Kilravock).— [Heriot Sess. Reg. ; Fraser on Sanctification (Life) ; Family of Kilravock ; Bass Rock, 168 ; Wodrow's Hist., iv., 332 ; Services of Heirs ; Inverness Sas., viii., 419 ; Cloud of Witnesses, 531 ; Torwoodlee MSS.; Stewart's Covenanters of Teviotdale, 198-211 (gives a full account of Jean Moffat's sufferings) ; Briggs' American Presbyterianism, 122 ; Tombst.~\ DINGWALL] ALNESS 27 DANIEL M'KILLICAN, son of John M., min. of this parish; licen. by : Presb. of Dunfermline 30th April 1701; ord. to Kilmuir-Easter 25th Sept. 1701 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 27th Jan. and 22nd July 1713 ; trans, and adm. 24th Sept. 1714. During the Kising of 1715 he encouraged his parishioners to support the Government, and accompanied as chaplain Sir Robert Munro's (Fowlis) detachment on their way to join the army under the Duke of Argyll. In resentment, the rebels under Seaforth took possession of the village of Alness, "spulzied and carried off the Presbyterial library of Dingwall with two parochial libraries which were lodged in the manse, with all M.'s own manuscripts, books, moveables, household plenishing, and body clothes to the value of 4000 merks." The manse itself was so dilapidated that his family were obliged to reside elsewhere from the beginning of Sept. 1715 to March 1716. His case was recommended to the Lord High Commissioner (Earl of Rothes) by the Assembly, 27th May 1718, when the Procurator and Agent were appointed, 16th May 1720, to concur in a "process of spulzie" at the public expense. He died in June or July 1723. He marr. (pro. 25th June 1715) Christian, daugh. of William Stuart, min. of Kiltearn, and had issue.— [Acts of Assembly, 1718, 1720 ; Bain's Hist, of Ross, 267, 270; Religious Life in Ross, 44.] JAMES FRASER of Pitcalzean, Nigg, 1726 k°rn 1695> youngest son of John F., min. of this parish; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (llth April 1715); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 6th Nov. 1723 ; called, llth June, by the Presb. jure devoluto, and ord. 17th Feb. 1726 ; died 5th Oct. 1769. A certain section of the congregation (Episcopalian) opposed his settlement. On the day of his ordination, the Presb. found the doors of the church barred, and the service was held in the churchyard, where F. was obliged to preach for several Sundays. In a short time the opposition ceased, and he became one of the most popular ministers in the North. He was a correspondent of Robert Wodrow, to whom he suggested the writing of a treatise on witchcraft. He marr. 24th April 1735, Jean (died 13th March 1778), daugh. of Captain Donald Macleod of Geanies. Publications — The Scripture Doctrine of Sanctification (an exposition from the Calvinistic standpoint, which had an immense circulation all over Europe and America) (Edinburgh 1774) ; Letter to Robert Wodrow, min. of Eastwood (Law's Mem., Pref.).— [Acts of Assembly, 1719; Religious Life in Ross, 45; Diet. Nat. Biog.; Memorabilia Domestica, 317.] ANGUS BETHUNE, born 27th June 1742, son of John B., min. of Glen- L shiel; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1764) and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Gairloch 8th Oct. 1766 ; ord. 23rd Aug. and adm. to Harris 28th Sept. 1768 ; pres. by George III. in 1770 ; trans, and adm. 25th Sept. 1771 ; died 19th Oct. 1801. He was chaplain of the 71st Foot. He marr. (1) 25th July 1772, Catherine, daugh. of Colonel Andrew Munro of Lemlair, and had issue— Janet, born 10th Jan. 1773 ; John in Berbice, born 2nd Oct. 1774, died 18th April 1819 ; Christian, born 12th Sept. 1778, died 1869 ; Rose, born 12th March 1780 (marr. Donald Ross, min. of Loth); Harry Munro, born 12th July 1781, died 12th March 1784 ; Hector, min. of Dingwall, born 12th Aug. 1782 ; Duncan, born 3rd May 1785, died 1790 ; Anne, born 16th Dec. 1786 (marr. 4th April 1820, Roderick Reach, solicitor, Inverness, some time proprietor of the Inverness Courier, and was mother of Angus Bethune R. (1821-56), author of Clement Lorimer, The Natural History of Bores, and other works); Hugh Munro, born 22nd Nov. 1789; Catherine, born 10th Aug. 1792 (marr. 8th Feb. 1820, John Maclennan of Lynedale in Skye) : (2) 21st Sept. 1796,. Janet Mary (died 7th March 1846), daugh. of Joseph Munro, min. of Edderton. Publication- Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xix.).— [Diet. Nat. Biog. for Angus B. Reach.} 28 ALNESS— CARNOCH [PRESB. OF HECTOR BETHUNE, born 12th Aug. 1802 1^82' son °^ Preceding; Pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in April, and ord. 28th Sept. 1802 ; trans, to Dingwall 31st July 1820. ALEXANDER FLYTER, bom Elgin, 1820 1>782' son °^ James F-, builder, and Elizabeth Robertson ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1805) ; became schoolmaster of Fearn ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th March 1810 ; ord. to Chapel - of - Ease, Rothesay, 23rd March 1811 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Aug., trans, and adm. 12th Oct. 1820. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Alness, 1843-66 ; died 6th Jan. 1866. Tall and erect, with a snow-white head, a thoughtful brow, and an expression of finely blended firmness and gentleness, he was a conspicuous figure wherever he went— a man greatly beloved. He marr. 6th July 1814, Elizabeth (died 1863), daugh. of Ronald Bayne, D.D., min. of Kiltarlity, and had issue — Eliza, born llth Sept. 1817 (marr. Andrew David son Mackenzie, min. of Free Church, Beauly) ; James, born 8th Oct. 1819, died in early manhood ; Maria Hay Mackenzie, born 5th Dec. 1820 (marr. 22nd Dec. 1842, John Murray Mitchell, LL.D., Indian missionary) ; Isabella Bently, born 10th July 1822 (marr. Charles Ross, min. of Free Church, Tobermory); Ronalda Catherine, born 1st May 1825 ; Margaret Bayne, born llth May 1828.— [Disruption Worthies of the Highlands (portrait), 37-44 ; Annals of the Disruption, 93.] JAMES MORRISON, born Croy about 1848 181I? ' educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1836); be came schoolmaster of Dores ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall in 1841 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie, and ord. 6th Dec. 1843; died 30th Oct. 1881. He marr. 30th May 1844, Margaret (died 3rd July 1885), eldest daugh. of Alexander Cormick, Collector of Excise, Inverness, and had issue — James, born 3rd April 1845; Jane Isabella, born 9th Dec. 1846 ; Mary Margaret, born 1st May 1851 ; Alexander Cormick, born 27th Nov. 1853 ; Julia Corbet, born 22nd Nov. 1856. JAMES MACHARDY, adm. (assistant 1872 an<^ successor) 20th March 1872 ; trans, to Latheron 5th July 1880. WILLIAM LESLIE WALLACE 1881 BROWN, born Starr, Kennoway, Fife, 2nd June 1848, son of Robert B., feuar, and Agnes Scott; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1874) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 16th May 1877 ; assistant at St John's, Dundee, 1880-1 ; ord. (assistant and successor) 6th Jan. 1881 ; died 17th March 1918. He marr. 26th Nov. 1889, Glorianna (born 1837), daugh. of William Colville Livingston Learmonth of Craigend and Glorianna Mackenzie, and widow of Maxwell Gordon, Kenmure Cottage, Portobello. Publications — Letters from Sunny Shores (Inverness, 1896); Sundays in the Highlands (Inverness, 1896). ' JOHN MARTIN, born Glasgow, 18th 1918 Feb. 1881, son of Hugh M. and Catherine Maclnnes ; educated at High School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1903) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in 1906; assistant at Kelvinside ; ord. to Calderbank 28th Sept. 1910; trans, and adm. 19th Sept. 1918. CARNOCH (Q.S.). [A parliamentary church was built in Strathconan in 1830. The parish of Car- noch was disjoined from Contin on 16th March 1864.] JOHN MACKENZIE, born Gairloch, 183Q 1799; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; became schoolmaster of Kiltearn ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th March 1828; ord. missionary at Strath conan 25th Nov. 1829; pres. by William IV. 23rd July, and adm. 28th Sept. 1830. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of DINGWALL] CARNOCH 29 Free Church, Lochgilphead 1843-64; died at Edinburgh 8th Nov. 1864. He marr. 27th April 1835, Georgiana Robertson (died 30th Nov. 1874) daugh. of Angus Kennedy, min. of Dornoch, and had issue —Donald, born 13th Aug. 1836, went to Canada ; Ann, born 27th July 1838 (marr. 19th Nov. 1866, Murdoch Macdonald, D.D., min. of Free Church, Nairn, and Melbourne, author of The Covenanters in Ross and Moray) ; Murdoch, died in infancy ; Anne, born 9th Feb. 1842 ; Margaret Parker, died young ; Isabella, born 20th July 1846 (marr. 2nd Nov. 1869, William Mackenzie of Bowenfels, New South Wales). PETER MACINTYRE, born 1816, son 1844 of Donald M-i farmer, Kilchrenan, Argyll; educated at Univ. of Glas gow; M. A. (1827); pres. by Queen Victoria; ord. 1st May 1844 ; died 7th May 1847. ALEXANDER MACNAUGHTON, licen. by Presb. of Selkirk ; mission ary at Killin, Perthshire; pres. by Queen Victoria; ord. 8th March 1848; died 1st June 1852. WILLIAM CHARLES MIDDLETON GRANT, pres. by Queen Victoria 18th Oct. 1852; ord. 3rd March 1853 ; trans, to Durness 6th Aug. 1856. JAMES CAMERON LEES, pres. by Queen Victoria 17th Sept., and ord. 27th Nov. 1856; trans, to Second Charge, Paisley Abbey 1st Sept. 1859. He preached at Carnoch on the occasion of his jubilee as an ordained minister (cf. Vol. I., 62). Additional Publications— An Election Sermon, from the Liberal Point of View (Paisley, 1868) (replied to by James Dodds with an Election Sermon from the Conservative Point of View) ; Biographical Sermon on John Keble (Paisley, 1870); Leaves from My Log or a Sail to Scandinavia (Paisley, 1874) Rollicking Tour in Ireland (Paisley, 1877) Tour in the Land of the Gael (Paisley, 1878) M'Stottie's Tour [Rev. Rory M'Rory] (Edin burgh, 1880); Heathen Scotland to the Introduction of Christianity (St Gile Lectures, 1st ser.) (Edinburgh, 1881) VIohammedanism (ibid., 2nd ser.) (Edin- mrgh, 1882); Bishop Ewing (ibid., 3rd er.) (Edinburgh, 1883) ; The Greek Church ibid., 4th ser.) (Edinburgh,' 1884) ; St Giles' Prayer Book (Edinburgh, n.d.) ; joint editor )f Guild Text Books ; many sermons and addresses on various occasions.— [Maclean's Life of James Cameron Lees, 72-96.] JAMES SKINNER MACKENZIE, M.A. ; pres. by Queen Victoria 15th Nov. 1859; adm. 31st Jan. 1860; ,rans. to Little Dunkeld 5th July 1866. JOHN MACDOUGALL, born Argyll- 18QQ shire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. missionary at Fort Augustus in 1864; pres. by Queen Victoria 21st July, and adm. 26th Sept. 1866; suspended for nefficiency 27th May 1897 ; died 21st Jan. 1910. — [Life of James Cameron Lees, 92.] JOHN MACLEAN, ord. 28th Sept. 1897; 1897 trans, to Lochalsh 19th April 1910. CHARLES HEUGHAN, M.A., ord. 4th Sept. 1910 ; trans, to Newcraighall 8th Nov. 1912 ; trans, to Hutchesontown, Glasgow, 29th March 1917 ; trans, to Con- dorrat 7th Dec. 1921; trans, to Carntyne 16th Sept. 1926 ; trans, to Forth 3rd June 1927. JOHN SELLAR, M.A. ; ord. 1st May 1913 ; trans, to Urquhart and Logie- ' Wester 4th Oct. 1918. ROBERT BARR M'VICAR, born Coupar-Angus 16th May 1874, son of Peter M., min. of Original Seces sion Church, Dundee, and Charlotte Barr ; educated at Harris Academy, Dundee, and Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Original Secession Presb. of Perth and Aberdeen 30th July 1902 ; ord. to Original Secession Church, Aberdeen, 6th May 1903 ; trans, to Free Church, Glenlyon, 27th Feb. 1908; trans, to Free Church, Dumfries, 19th Aug. 1916; trans, and adm. 14th March 1919; trans, to Carmylie 22nd Sept. 1926. Marr. 14th Feb. 1908, Ina, daugh. of Allan Boath and MaryLawson, and has issue — Charlotte, born 8th Dec. 1909; Margaret, born 5th March 1911; Peter, born 8th Feb. 1913; Robert Barr, born 26th June 1914. 30 CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE [PRESB. OF CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE. [These parishes were united in the sixteenth century. Contin. — The church of Contin was founded by St Malrubh. Contin was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. Contin church stands, with its manse and glebe, on an island in the river Abhuinn Dubh (" Black Water "), called of old the Rasa. The site is very ancient, and was probably chosen for a burial place secure from wild beasts. The access cannot have been easy in early times. From the Strath Conan side it must always have been very difficult. St Malrubh's Well was beside the church. A famous tryst, called Feill Mhalruibh (St Malrubh's Fair), was long held at Contin. Near Coul, within sight of the church, is the ancient graveyard of Precis Maree (St Malrubh's Grove), now the burial ground of the Mac- kenzies of Coul. Strathgarve.—The church of Strathgarve was dedicated to St Finn.] DONALD ADAMSON, min. in 1574 1574. 1576 JOHN GLAS, reader, 1576 to 1591. EGBERT BURNETT, vicar at the Reformation, appears on record as vicar of Contin and canon of Ross in 1587.— [Orig. Paroch, Scot., ii., 505.] ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, son of Roderick, son of Rory Mor M. of Achilty, was min. in 1614, still min. 8th Feb. 1630. He marr. Margaret Aber- nethy.— [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum.'} MURDOCH MACKENZIE, adm. in 1636 ; trans, to First Charge, Inver ness, 3rd Sept. 1640. COLIN MACKENZIE, trans, from Abernethy and adm. 12th May 1641 ; 1641 dep. by Commission of Assembly 22nd May 1647 for preaching and praying before the excommunicated Earl of Seaf orth and eating and drinkiiig with him. He had also subscribed the Remonstrance. He was required by the Presb. to make his repentance in the churches of Dingwall and Contin; reponed shortly thereafter and adm. to Killearnan in 1651. DONALD ROSS, educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1619); adm. to Lochbroom before 2nd Feb. 1636; suspended for malignancy and immorality, the sentence being approved by the Assembly in July 1649 ; reponed by the Presb. 3rd Dec. 1650 ; trans, and adm. 22nd July 1651 ; still min. 16th June 1674. —[P. C. Reg., 2nd ser., vi., 182.] JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; adm. in 1674 ; trans, to Lochbroom before 4th Sept. 1683. ANDREW ROSS, adm. in 1684 ; trans, to Urquhart and Logie-Wester 24th Sept. 1685. AENEAS MORRISON, son of John M. of Bragar, judge of the Lewis ; edu cated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1679, and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (28th March 1683) ; adm. before 1689. He refused to conform to Presbyterianism and gave much trouble to the Presb. by his irreverent conduct and defiance of that authority; dep. 12th June 1716, "for sundry atrocious practices, and for joining in a wicked and ungodly rebellion for the subversion of the Protestant religion and introducing Popery by endeavouring to set a popish pretender on the throne." Notwithstanding his de position he continued to discharge his duties in the parish and is last mentioned 22nd Aug. 1739, as officiating within a mile of his former charge; died at Castle Leod, in Strathpeffer, shortly thereafter. Known as " Black Angus," he was noted for his generosity and good fellowship. Many stories are told of his sayings and doings. He was also a composer of Gaelic verse in a, light vein, some of which scarcely befit his character as a clergyman. He marr. Anne, daugh. of Donald Mackenzie of Logie, in Lochbroom, through whom the small property of Doirenamuc in that parish came to him, and had issue- Donald ; a daugh. (Mrs St Glair), who left £80 to the poor of the parish.— [Pittenweem Gounc. Reg.] DINGWALL] CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE 31 DONALD MACLEOD, M.A. ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 12th April, and ord. 13th May 1720; trans, to Lochalsh 3rd July 1727. 1780 JOHN KOBERTSON, called by the Presb> Jure aevoiuto 14tl1 Oct' 1>729 > ord. 24th March 1730; trans, to Killearnan 1st July 1731. MURDOCH MACKENZIE, M.A. ; called March, and ord. 20th Sept. ' 1732; trans, to Dingwall 30th July 1741. 1742 JOHN MACLENNAN, educated at the Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (6th May 1725) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 22nd April 1735; became missionary at Strathglass; called 22nd July and ord. 27th Sept. 1742; died 28th April 1775, aged about 70. He marr. 7th Feb. 1752, Helen Grant, who died 3rd March 1804, and had issue— John, born 4th April 1753, died llth Nov. 1764; Alexander, M.D., born 7th May 1754 ; Janet, born 8th Dec. 1756 ; Margaret, born 17th Jan. 1758 ; Louis, born 27th Jan. 1760; George, born 28th June 1761 ; Isabel, born 17th Oct. 1762, died 22nd Dec. 1763 ; Elizabeth, born llth Oct. 1764 (marr. 23rd Feb. 1804, William Tulloch, Calcutta), died 25th Nov. 1815; John, born 5th Jan. 1766; James, born llth Aug. 1769. — [Macaulay's St Kilda; Tombst.] RODERICK MACKENZIE, M.A. ; called 12th June, and ord. 18th Sept. 1776 ; trans, to Kilmuir- Wester and Suddie llth May 1791. JAMES DALLAS, born 1753; licen. 1793 by Presb< of Nairn lst Aug< 1786; was schoolmaster and missionary at Stornoway Feb. 1787 ; afterwards school master at Kincardine ; pres. by George III 9th March and 8th June 1791; but not ord. till 13th Aug. 1793, owing to a charge of simony for which the Assembly, 24th May 1793, believed there was no foundation died 18th Sept. 1825, and was described as "a straightforward, honest man." Ht marr. (1) Margaret, sister of James Clark 1776 bailie of Inverness : (2) 2nd March 1805, Fanet, second daugh. of Alexander Wood, min. of Rosemarkie, and had issue— Alex- nder, born 23rd Jan. 1806; Margaret Forbes, born 13th Dec. 1813.— [Family of Dallas, 474 ; Religious Life in Ross, 56.] CHARLES DOWNIE, born 1804, son of 1826 Alexander D..D.D., min. of Lochalsh; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1818-22; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 29th Nov. 1825; pres. by George IV. 12th Dec. that year; ord. 26th Aug. 1826; died llth Jan. 1852. He marr. 16th Nov. 1831, Flora ;died 19th March 1846), daugh. of Kenneth Mackenzie of Inverinate, W.S., and sister of Thomas M. of Applecross, and had issue — Jane Catherine Mackenzie, born 15th Dec. 1832, died 10th April 1849; Janet, born 18th May 1834 ; Alexander, born 4th May 1836, died 5th March 1846 ; Charlotte (marr. Alexander Mackenzie) ; Kenneth Mackenzie, surgeon in Australia. Publica tion — Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.). COLIN MACKENZIE, born 13th Sept. carron ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (April 1830); became schoolmaster of Knockbain ; adm. to Petty 26th Oct. 1843 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th April, trans, and adm. 12th Aug. 1852 ; died 12th Nov. 1862. He marr. llth Dec. 1850, Eliza Sophia (died 13th July 1893), daugh. of Captain Henry Walker of Castle Stuart, Inverness, and Wilhelmina, daugh. of William Chalmers, M.D., Professor of Medicine, King's College, Aberdeen, and had issue— Elizabeth Fairburn, born 6th Oct. 1853, died 16th Sept. 1872 ; Wilhelmina Chalmers, born 17th April 1855, died 23rd March 1927 ; Henrietta Walker, born 4th March 1858, died 25th June 1876.— [Aberdeen Geneal., 8.] JOHN WILLIAM TOLMIE, born Uiginish 22nd May 1831, second son of John T., tacksman, of Uiginish, Skye, and factor for Macleod of Macleod, and Margaret Hope, daugh. of Dr Donald Maccaskill, Eigg ; educated privately and at 32 CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE— DINGWALL [PRESB. OF Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1850) ; became missionary at Fort Augustus in 1853 ; ord. to Strontian 12th Sept. 1854 ; trans, to Bracadale 28th Feb. 1856 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 16th March, trans, and adm. 1st July 1863; died in Edinburgh 25th July 1886. He marr. 16th Dec. 1858, Christina Mary (died 6th July 1917), daugh. of Alexander Macdonald of Vallay, and Flora, daugh. of Captain Duncan Macrae of Inverinate, and had issue — John in H.M. Register House, Edinburgh, born 14th Oct. 1859, died 15th June 1923; Alexander Macdonald Cornfute, min. of Southend, born 7th April 1861 ; Margaret Hope, born 10th Jan. 1863 (marr. Archibald Macdonald, D.D., min. of Kiltarlity); Mary Macrae, born 17th Sept. 1864 (marr. 12th June 1901, Robert Macgregor Smith, Insurance official, Edinburgh) ; Flora Macdonald, born 4th July 1866 (marr. 1888, Charles Hoffmann Gore Weatherall, M.R.C.V.S., Allahabad), died in Bombay March 1914; Hugh Maccaskill, born 20th June 1868, died 13th Nov. 1908; Gregory, born 23rd Jan. 1871, went to New Zealand ; Catherine Mac donald, born 15th, died 29th May 1873; Anne Milne, born 6th June 1874, died 16th March 1875 ; Alexandrina Williamina, born 10th May 1876. JAMES DUNCAN MACRAE, son of Alexander M., schoolmaster of Loch- carron, and Catherine Macpherson ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen; became schoolmaster of Knoydart ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 27th July 1876; ord. to Burghead 2nd May 1877 ; trans, to Clyne 12th Sept. 1878 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 24th Dec. 1884; died 7th Sept. 1905. He marr. 29th March 1883, Christina, daugh. of Peter Robertson, Abernethy, and had issue — Catherine Mac pherson, born 15th Jan. 1884 ; James Peter Robertson, born 26th Aug. 1887, died in Buenos Aires, 3rd Aug. 1918. ANDREW COLQUHOUN MACLEAN, born Ballygroggan, Campbeltown, 26th Dec. 1873, son of Neil M., and Margaret Colville; educated at Glenbarr and Killean Schools and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 27th April 1898 ; ord. to Lochranza 30th June that year ; trans. and adm. 24th Jan. 1906. Marr. 25th March 1913, Catherine Ada Mary, younger daugh. of Henry Ross, Brisbane, Queensland, and Georgina Fanny Alicia Hillcoat, and has issue— Nigel Ross, born llth Aug. 1914; Cairina Ross, born 26th June 1916 ; Sheila Ross, born 26th March 1918 ; Henry Ross Colquhoun, born 28th Nov. 1922. Publica tions — Notes on Contin Church (1914); Until the Day Break (A Book of Prayer) (Dingwall, 1916). DINGWALL. [The church of Dingwall was dedicated to St Colin. It belonged to the Priory of Pluscarden. There were within the bounds chapels of St Laurence and St Clement. A fair of St Malrubh was transferred from Contin to Dingwall.] WILLIAM MUNRO, son of Sir William 1561 M. of Fowlis, and Ann, daugh. of Lachlan Og Maclean of Duart ; was pres. by Queen Mary in 1551 to the chaplainry of St Monan, Balconie ; min. 1561 to 1566 : died before 1569.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 484; Hist, of the Munros, 33.] ROBERT MUNRO of Creichmor, min. of Urquhart and Logie- Wester ; had charge here in 1574. 1574 WALTER ROSS, reader in 1574. DONALD ADAMSON, trans, from Urray. In 1569 James VI. pres. Donald Adamson, an instructor and teacher of the youth within the church of Dingwall, to the chaplainries of St Laurence in Dingwall, and Artafallie in Killearnan. In that year he was exhorter at Dingwall. He returned to Urray in 1585. ROBERT PHILIP, pres. to the vicarage 1579 in 1579.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 484.] WILLIAM MACQUEEN, pres. by James VI. to the parsonage and 1585 vicarage in 1585. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 484.] DINGWALL] DINGWALL 33 JOHN MACKENZIE of Tollie, son of Murdoch M. of Fairburn ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M. A. (1582); adm. about 1591 ; pres. by James VI. in 1594; was one of the four nominated by the General Assembly, 25th June 1595, to act with the Presb. of Inverness, "because of their weakness"; pres. by James VI. to Glenelg, Snizort, Kilmuir, Kihnartin, Kilmore in Sleat, Kilchrist, Kilmaluag in Trotternish, and to the parsonage and vicarage of Lemlair ; died at Dingwall, 22nd April 1620, aged about 58. He acquired the lands of Tollie. He marr. (1) Margaret (died 27th Oct. 1601), daugh. of Patrick Grant of Ballindalloch, and had issue— Murdoch of Tollie, died 8th Sept. 1626 : (2) a daugh. of Thomas Fraser of Struy, and had issue— Koderick of Tollie ; Kenneth, killed at Battle of Worcester, 3rd Sept. 1651 ; Alexander, a min. ; Catherine (marr. Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig); a daugh. (marr. Murdoch Mackenzie of Pit- glassie) ; a daugh. (marr. Thomas Dingwall of Knockshirlie) ; a daugh. (marr. Alexander Grant, min. of Urquhart) ; Annabella (marr. Duncan Mackenziein Tarbat. — [Edin.Tests.; Booke of the Kirk ; Hist, of the Mackenzies, 513 ; Ing. Ret. Ross, 139 ; Gener., 6290.] MUEDOCH MACKENZIE, educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (25th 1620 July 1612) ; nominated .one of a Com mission for the Maintenance of Church Discipline 21st Oct. 1634, and in 1637 he was one of the few who introduced Laud's Service-book to their parishioners. Not submitting to the authority of the Glasgow Assembly of 1638 he was dep. in 1639. An Act was passed by the Assembly, llth Aug. 1648, "declaring him incapable for ever of the ministry." The Commission of Assembly in 1649 ordered that before he be absolved he must acknowledge not only in word but also in writing his "manifold prevarications," and particularly the equity of the sentence of the Assembly and their Commission at Auldearn. He refused to subscribe a declaration in these terms drawn up by the Presb., whereupon they resolved to excommunicate him. After prolonged negotiations he submitted, VOL. VII. made public acknowledgment of his guilt and repentance in the churches of Rose- markie, Killearnan, and Alness, and was absolved in the church of Dingwall June 1650. He was alive in 1657, but does not appear to have occupied a charge. He marr. Annabel Mackenzie, and had issue — Alexander, joined Montrose's campaign : William, 2nd Jan. 1655, craved supply from the stipend of Fodderty, but the Presb. refused as his father was able to maintain him at college ; Elizabeth. — [ Maitland Miscell, ii. ; Acts of Assembly, 1648; Baillie's Letters ; Ardintoul MS. ; Hist, of the Mackenzies.] JOHN MACRAE, born 13th March 1614, son of Farquhar M.. min. } of Kintail; educated at Grammar School, Fortrose, and Univ. of St Andrews, M.A. (where his rival for honours was the Earl, afterwards Duke of Lauderdale), and Aberdeen ; pres. by George, Earl of Sea- forth, and adm. in 1640. He became a bitter opponent of Presbyterianism, and in 1658 was rebuked for his " litigiousness, needless contention and untractableness, his stubbornness, selfishness, his tediousness, misapplication of scripture, seeking pas sages savouring of much bitterness and disaffection, and his pertinacity and loquaciousness." After 1660 the minute of censure was deleted and characterised on the margin "as shameless lying and the spirit of lying and malice." He died Aug. 1673. He marr. (1) Agnes, daugh. of Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig, and had issue — Alexander of Conchra; Duncan, bailie of Dingwall; Catherine (marr. Donald Ross of Knoekcartie) ; Isabel (marr. Lauchlan Mackinnon of Corry, Skye) : (2) Florence Innes, heiress of Balnain in Urray, and had issue— John ; James, who succeeded in right of his mother to Balnain.— [Ardin toul MS. ; Hist, of Macraes, 142 ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 6315 ; Macrae's Dingwall, 299.] JOHN MACRAE, son of Alexander M. of Inverinate ; educated at 1674 Aberdeen; M.A. (12th July 1660); became schoolmaster of Dingwall; recom mended for licence by Presb. of Dingwall 4th March 1665 ; ord. to Kilmorack in 1667 ; 34 DING WALL [PRESS. OF pres. by Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth, and inst. 1st Feb. 1674. Under the Episcopal government of the Church he was Treasurer of Ross ; continued without conforming to Presbyterianism ; died Jan. 1704, and was buried in Dingwall. He left a MS. History of the Mackenzies, known as the Ardintoul MS., and a MS. History and Genealogy of the Macraes. He marr. before 21st July 1673, Janet Bayne of Knockbain, and had issue— Alexander, became a Roman Catholic priest in Strathglass, and founder of the mission still carried on at Dornie in Kintail, died at Scots College, Douai ; John ; Christopher, born 1682 ; Roderick, born 1692 ; Mary (marr. Roderick Dingwall of Ussie); Janet (marr. John Tuach of Logie) ; Agnes (marr., cont. 9th Dec. 1687, John Mackenzie, brother of Alexander M. of Applecross). — [Services of Heirs ; Hist, of the Macraes, 70 ; Ardintoul MS. ; Tombst.] [DONALD BAYNE, son of Sir Donald B., fifth of Tulloch, and a daugh. of Mackenzie of Applecross ; became chaplain in Lieut. - General Murray's regiment in Flanders ; called 14th July 1708, but not settled. Such was the opposition on the part of the Episcopalians that no Presby terian min. could be settled in the parish for twelve years after the death of last incumbent. When the min. of Kiltearn went there early in 1704 to declare the church vacant, the service was interrupted by a company of armed men, one of whom presented a pistol at the min. in the pulpit and commanded him to be gone. B. con tinued in the army and was chaplain to Colonel John Lamy's regiment at the Bosch Nov. 1736. — [Macrae's Dingwall, 112.]] JOHN BAYNE, born about 1690, son of John B., Dingwall, descended 1716 from the Tulloch family; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb of Earlston 31st May 1715 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 28th Aug., and ord 20th Sept. 1716; died 3rd Feb. 1737. On 24th June 1733 the church was totally destroyed by an accidental fire raised by Kenneth Bayne, writer, Dingwall, shooting at a pigeon. He marr. Ann (who survived lira and marr. (2) Robert Munro of Miltown of Katewell), daugh. of Peter Bethune of Culnaskiach and Jane, daugh. of Sir Robert Munro of Fowlis, and had issue— John, born 2nd March 1720; Ann, born 22nd March 1721; Christian (marr. Gilbert Robertson, min. of Kincardine) ; Jean (marr. 14th Oct. 1766, Captain William Douglas of the Marines).— [Kiltearn Sess. Rec.; MS. Account of the Baynes of Tulloch; Allangrange Writs; Macrae's Dingwall, 112, 302, 334.] MURDOCH MACKENZIE, trans, from Contin; called 23rd July 1740; adm. 30th July 1741, his settlement being so strongly opposed by his co-presby ters that it was proposed in the Commission of Assembly to have them rebuked at the bar at their next meeting ; trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, 13th July 1742. ADAM ROSE, born 1713 ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. 1 (30th March 1733) ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 3rd Dec. 1741 ; called 8th Feb., and ord. 27th April 1743 ; died 21st March 1780. He marr. 4th Oct. 1744, Isobel (died llth Sept. 1781), daugh. of Daniel Beton, min. of Rosskeen, and had issue— Grissel, born 13th July 1745 ; Janet, born 16th Aug. 1753, died 16th June 1767; Daniel, min. of this parish ; Adam, born 20th Oct. 1757 ; Isabel, born 20th Nov. 1760; Margaret, born 8th May 1762, died 30th June 1767.— [Geneal. of the Bethunes.] DANIEL ROSE, born 6th Jan. 1755, eldest son of preceding ; educated at 17 Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1771); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 16th Oct. 1776 ; pres. by George III. 8th July, and ord. 21st Sept. 1780. He was an eloquent preacher. He visited France and was present when the Bastile was invested and taken by a revolutionary mob on 14th July 1789; died 7th Jan. 1805. Publica tion _ Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii.).— [Macrae's Dingwall, 334 ; Tombst.] DINGWALL] DlNGWALL 35 ALEXANDER STEWART, trans, from Moulin ; pres. by George III. 8th June, and adm. 26th Sept. 1805; trans, to Canongate, Edinburgh, 13th July 1820. HECTOR BETHUNE, born 12th Aug. 182O 1782, son of Angus B., min. of Alness ; educated at King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (27th March 1800); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 31st March 1802 ; ord. to Alness 28th Sept. that year; pres. by George IV. 24th Aug., trans, and adm. 31st July 1820 ; died 31st Dec. 1849. He marr. 26th May 1807, Jane (died 5th July 1878, aged 90), daugh. of Kenneth Mac kenzie of Millbank, third son of Sir Alex ander M., Bart., of Gairloch, and had issue —Anne, born 26th March 1808 (marr. George Cranston Mackidd, M.A., Dingwall); Catherine Munro, born 2nd Feb. 1810, (marr. Captain Thomas Powrie Ellis, H.E.I.C.S) ; Angus, rector of Seaham, born 8th March 1811 ; Kenneth, born 4th Sept. 1812, died at Wellington, New Zealand ; Duncan Munro, lieut. - colonel 9th Foot, Order of Medjedieh, born 29th Jan. 1815 ; Jane, born 26th Jan. 1817 (marr. Frank Harper, farmer, Torgorm) ; Alexander Mackenzie, born 2nd Nov. 1821, died 1st Nov. 1823 ; Janet Munro, born 24th May 1824; Alexander Mackenzie (twin), secretary P. & O. Company, born 24th May 1824; John Hugh, born 19th March 1827, went to New Zealand ; Hector Roderick, born 6th Feb. 1831, died at Aber deen 16th Oct. 1853. WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, born Dor- 18go noch, 1822, son of John S., merchant, and Christina Mackay ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1840); missionary at Fort Augustus in 1843; ord. to Harris 20th Sept. 1844; trans, to Laggan 24th Sept. 1846; pres. by Queen Victoria 23rd March, trans, and adm. 17th Oct. 1850; died 9th Jan. 1867. He marr. 26th Dec. 1844, Isabella Clark, who died 12th Nov. 1896. JAMES ERASER, pres. by Queen Vic- 1867 tor*a ^tn March 1867; trans, from Tarbert and adm. 25th Oct. that year; trans, to Logierait 12th Sept. 1872. RONALD MACALISTER, eldest son of j 78 Ronald M., farmer, Kilchrenan ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to Gaelic Church, Paisley, 4th Aug. 1864 ; trans, to Cromdale 1st May 1869 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th Feb., trans, and adm. 1st May 1873 ; died at Manse of Advie 1st July 1901. He marr. at Rosneath, 2nd Nov. 1869, Euphemia (died 10th Jan. 1911), daugh. of Thomas Edleston, merchant, Liverpool, and had issue— Euphemia Eliza Norah, born 3rd Dec. 1870 (marr. John Liddell, min. of Advie). JAMES ROSE MACPHERSON, born Old Aberdeen, 7th Jan. 1853, youngest son of Robert M., D.D., Professor of Divinity, Aberdeen ; educated at Gymnasium, Old Aberdeen, and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1872), B.D. (1875); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 6th Jan. 1875 ; assistant at High Church, Inverness, and Sandyford, Glasgow ; ord. to Kinnaird 1st July 1879; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 5th Jan. 1899; died 29th June 1921. He was well known for his wide sympathy with all Evangelical movements, was a regular speaker at the Keswick Convention and a missioner of the Church of Scotland, carrying on this work chiefly in rural parishes. He was also Lecturer to the Palestine Exploration Fund. He marr. 16th March 1880, Marjorie Louise, eldest daugh. of John Carmichael, Glasgow, and Jane Ann Brown, and had issue — Jane Ann, born 9th Feb. 1881 (marr. 16th July 1921, John Marshall, Belfast and Egypt) ; Anne Mearns, born 25th April 1882, died 8th Feb. 1883; Marjory Louisa, born 1st Feb. 1884, died 13th Dec. 1893 ; Robert Duncan Mearns, M.B., 2nd lieut. 7th Seaforths, born 19th Nov. 1885, killed at Loos 25th Sept. 1915 ; John Carmichael, banker, Richard, Sask., served in Canadian Expeditionary Force, wounded at St Eloi, March 1916, born 24th Dec. 1886; Audrey Primrose, born 27th March 1889; George William Kinnaird, M.A., D.D., born 13th April 1891, ord. to Carstairs 23rd Nov. 1923, served as captain 4th Seaforth Highlanders in Euro pean War, trans, to Jedburgh 22nd Sept. 1927, marr. 5th Feb. 1924, Irene, fifth daugh. of FODDERTY, KINETTAS, AND GLEN USSIE [PRKSB. OF 1921 Kobert C. Buchanan, bailie, Edinburgh. Publications—" Arculfus >; and " Fetellvs" translated and annotated for the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (1889); The Church of the Resurrection (Eng. Hist.Review) (1892). DAVID YOUNG ROBERTSON, born Duns, Berwickshire, 9th March 1884, son of Adam R. and Magdalen Young ; educated at Morrison's Academy, Crieff, and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1907) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 28th May 1910 ; assistant at Alexandria (Dunbarton) and Maxwell, Glasgow ; ord. to Bargeddie 23rd Jan. 1913; app. chaplain to 63rd Royal Naval Division in European War in 1917 ; trans, to Inverallan 15th May that year; trans, and adm. 15th Dec. 1921. Marr. 20th Aug. 1914, Janet, daugh. of James Veitch and Jane Emma Kidd. FODDERTY, KINETTAS, AND GLEN USSIE. [These three parishes were united about 1600. Fodderty.— In the parish of Fodderty there was a chapel of St Mary at Innis Ruaraidh Kinettas.— The prebend of Kinettas in the Cathedral of Fortrose was held by the Chancellor of the diocese of Ross. Glen Ussie — The ancient church of Glen Ussie stood at the village of Tollie. It site is now under water, Loch Ussie havin been much enlarged to supply water t Dingwall.] WILLIAM HAY, pres. by James VI to the vicarage in 1572, then vacan by simoniacal paction between Joh Smyth, last vicar, and William Chalmer.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 498.] ALEXANDER ANTON, pres. by Jame VI. in 1574 ; still in charge in 158 —[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 498.] ROBERT GRAHAM, archdeacon of th diocese ; had charge here in con junction with Killearnan. IVER M'lVER, pres. to the vicarage b James VI. 24th Jan. 1582; adm. abo 1 1586 ; still in charge in 1601. - Paroch. Scot., ii., 498.] 1574 1585 WILLIAM M'CULLOCH, son of Duncan M. of Park ; adm. before 619 12th March 1619 , still min. in 1628. He marr. Marjory, daugh. of Alexander Mackenzie of Coul.— [Reg. Mag. Sig., 12th ?eb. 1624, viii., 575 ; Inverness Sas., 15th <Tov. 1630; Coul Writs; Ord Writs; Orig. Charter Bishop of Ross at Killearnan.] FARQUHAR MACLENNAN, was a member of Commission of Assembly ' in 1645; dep. for malignancy in 650. He declared, 13th July 1652, the awfulness of the Assembly in 1651, and vas restored to the ministry, 28th Aug. 655, having shown sincere remorse and humility in reference to the particular cause of his deposition. Afterwards adm. o Lochbroom 6th April 1656.— [P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., i., 184.] JOHN M'KILLICAN, adm. 26th Feb. 1656 ; deprived by the Privy $ Council 1st Oct. 1662 ; dep. May 1663 ror Presbyterianism [afterwards min. of Alness]. JOHN MACKENZIE, born about 1613, son of William M. of Tarrel, min. of 1662 Tarbat ; educated at Marischal and King's Colleges, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1631); adm. to Urray in 1636 ; dep. in 1639 for opposing the Covenant and obliged to flee to England and afterwards to Ireland ; re- poned and settled in Suddie in 1644 ; trans, to Tarbat in 1645 ; deprived between 1st Dec. 1649 and 19th Feb. 1650 ; reponed in 1660 and adm. here in 1662 by John, Bishop of Ross, "inasmuch as he has suffered deprivation and banishment for his loyalty." He was archdeacon of Ross. At a visitation by the Bishop on 9th Aug. 1665, it was stated that the communion had not been observed " these twelve years bygone," that the people were not wholly examined, but that Roderick (son of min.) did sometimes preach and catechise. M. was probably in ill-health as he died at Tarrel in 1666 and was buried at Tarbat. He marr. Christian, daugh. of Baillie of Dunain, and had issue— Roderick, min. of Avoch; a daugh. (marr. Roderick Mac kenzie of Park).— [Mackay's Presb. of Ding- iHN<avAU,] FODDERTY, KINETTAS, AND GLEN USSIE 37 1727 JOHN MACKENZIE, Archdeacon of Ross ; adm. to Kilmorack Sept. 1665 ; trans, and adm. soon after 28th Aug. 1666 ; died July 1721. He marr. and had issue. — [Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 345.] HECTOR MACKENZIE, born 1700, son of Charles M. of Letterewe and Anne, daugh. of John Mackenzie of Applecross ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1720); librarian to King's College in 1721, and assistant in Grammar School ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 1st Dec. 1725 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 2nd May and 12th Oct. 1726 ; ord. 10th Jan. 1727 ; died 27th Feb. 1734. He marr. Jean Baillie, who died 27th June 1796, and had issue— a daugh. (marr. Rorie Mackenzie of Park). — [Mackenzie's Hist, of the Mackenzies, 454.] COLIN MACKENZIE of Glack, born 1707, son of Roderick M. of Brae and Longcroft, chamberlain of the Lewis, and a daugh. of William Munro of Ardullie ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1728) ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 7th Nov. 1733 ; pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, 31st July 1734 ; ord. (after a reference to the Assembly) 28th Aug. 1735 ; app. chaplain to 73rd Regiment, or Macleod's Highlanders, 13th June 1778 ; died 8th March 1801. He inherited the Castle of Dingwall, the seat of the Earls of Ross, and the lands attached thereto, through his mother, which, with Longcroft, he sold, and purchased the estate of Glack in Aberdeenshire in 1765. He was instru mental in keeping his chief, Lord Fortrose, from going out in 1745. He was the first to recognise the medicinal properties of the Strathpeffer mineral springs. He marr. (1) Margaret (died 22nd Sept. 1746), daugh. of Hugh Rose of Clava, and had issue — Margaret, died 22nd Sept. 1748 : (2) 23rd Feb. 1754, Mary (died 9th Feb. 1828, aged 91), daugh. of Donald Mackenzie, Balna- been, and had issue— Anne, born 19th May 1756 (marr. Hector Mackenzie, bailie, Dingwall) ; Una, born 26th June 1758 ; Isobel, born 24th Sept. 1759 (marr. (1) her father's coachman, (2) John Gray of Drum- allan) ; Roderick of Glack, born 9th Feb. 1761, died 1842 ; Johanna, born 15th June 1762 (marr. Dr Miller, Stornoway) ; Mary, born 19th March 1764 (marr. Captain John Mackenzie of Kincraig); John, born 4th Nov. 1765, died 8th Oct. 1787 ; Beatrice, born 13th May 1767 (marr. Peter Hay, bailie, Ding- wall) ; Donald, min. of this parish ; Forbes, major Ross-shire Militia, and a noted agricul turist (whose daugh. marr. John Kennedy, D.D., Dingwall), born 29th Dec. 1769 ; Jean, born 28th Nov. 1771 (marr. Colin Mac kenzie, min. of Stornoway). — [Macrae's Dingwall, 59; Mackenzie's Survey of Ross and Cromarty ; Scots Mag., xl. ; Tombst.'] DONALD MACKENZIE, born 20th I78g Oct. 1768, son of preceding; edu cated at Marischal College, Aber deen, 1781-5 ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th Dec. 1787 ; pres. by John, Lord Macleod, Sept. 1788; ord. (assistant and successor) 27th May 1789. He accidentally fell while reaching a book from steps in his library, and died in a few days, 25th Feb. 1826. He was for some time chaplain to the 71st Foot, and took a considerable share in the business of the Church. He marr. (1) 12th June 1790, Mary (died 16th Sept. 1796), daugh. of John Mackenzie of Brae, and had issue— Beatrix, born 16th May 1791 (marr. 1812, Thomas Stewart, Lieut., R.N.); Mary, born 19th Aug. 1792, died llth Nov. 1812; Colin, Colonel R.E., born 19th March 1794 ; died 1869 ; John of Glack, born 17th March 1796, died 3rd Nov. 1882; Elizabeth (marr. Lieut. Stewart) : (2) 28th Dec. 1798, Mary (died 26th March 1828), daugh. of Thomas Fyers, overseer of the King's Works. Publica tion—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vu.).—[Hist. of the Mackenzies, 378.] CHARLES JOHN BAYNE of Ard- meanach in the Black Isle, born 3rd ' Nov. 1797, son of Ronald B., D.D., min. of Kiltarlity; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1817); licen. by Presb. of Inverness 5th Dec. 1820 ; app. missionary at Berriedale, July 1821 ; assistant at Croy, March 1822; ord. mis sionary at Fort William 26th Nov. 1823; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mac kenzie of Cromartie in April, trans, and 38 FODDERTY— KINETTAS— KILMORACK [PRESS. OF adm. 13th Sept. 1826; died llth Oct. 1832. He marr. 17th July 1828 Isabella Jane Duguid, who died 16th Feb. 1850, and had issue— Ronald of Ardmeanach, born 29th April 1829 ; Peter, M.A., LL.D., journalist, author of Life and Letters of Hugh Miller and other works, born 19th Oct. 1830, died at Norwood, London, 10th Feb. 1896; Charles John, born 9th Oct. 1832.— [Diet. Nat. Biog. for Peter B.] JOHN NOBLE, born Inverness 1806; educated at King's College, Aber- deen; MA. (March 1826); became rector of Koyal Academy, Tain, in 1830; licen. by Presb. of Tain 24th Nov. that year ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Jan., and ord. 25th Sept. 1833. Joined Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Contin and Fodderty 1843-6, of Free Gaelic Chapel, Duke Street, Glasgow, 30th April 1846; died 19th April 1849. He marr. 14th Feb. 1835, Elizabeth Forbes, daugh. of Neil Kennedy, min. of Logie - Easter, and had issue— Anne Downie, born 7th Nov. 1836 ; William, born 15th June 1837; Isabella Kennedy, born 20th Jan. 1840 (marr. 29th July 1862, John Macgregor, min. of Kinlochluichart).— [Smith's Scottish Clergy, ii., 314.] JOHN MENZIES, born 1804, son of John M., farmer, and Ann Cameron ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie; ord. 16th Nov. 1843; died at Cause wayhead, Stirling, 9th March 1890. He marr. 17th Feb. 1857, Jane Russell, who died 24th Sept. 1919, and had issue- Ann Cameron, born 26th Nov. 1857 ; John, born 14th March 1859; Isabella Russell, born 19th Nov. 1861 ; Margaret Emily, born 7th Feb. 1864, died 28th Jan. 1865 ; Alex ander Russell, born 24th July 1871, died at Causewayhead 15th March 1920. WILLIAM THOMPSON, born Fort William about 1859; educated at ' Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1879), B.D. (1882); ord. to Gaelic Church, Greenock, 2nd Nov. 1882 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 15th July 1885 ; dem. 18th May 1896 ; died 19th March 1912. He marr. 2nd June 1898, Anne C. Kempt. JOHN M'GILCHRIST, B.A., B.D. ; trans, from Glengarry and adm. 28th Oct. 1896 ; trans, to Skelmorlie 14th Nov. 1899. JOHN GUNN NICOLSON, born Durness 25th March 1873, son of Torquil N., schoolmaster, and Margaret Gunn ; educated at Durness School and Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1895), B.D. (1899); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall in 1900 ; ord. 14th March 1900. Marr. 23rd Dec. 1902, Catherine May, daugh. of David Brown, St Andrews, and Christina Carstairs, and has issue— Chris tine Gunn, born 29th June 1904 ; Margaret Gunn, born 14th Aug. 1905 ; Iain Torcul, born 16th May 1912, died 3rd March 1916 ; Alastair David, born 13th March 1913. KINETTAS. [It has long been suppressed and annexed to Fodderty.] ALEXANDER BAYNE, younger, min. 1674 1574 to 1578. JOHN MUNRO [WILLIAMSON], 1579 reader, 1579-80. JOHN MUNRO, min. in 1586 ; probably 1586 same as preceding. KILMORACK. [The church of this parish was dedicated to St Moroc. The Priory of St John the Baptist at Beauly, within the bounds, be longed to the Order of the Val de Choux. It was founded by John Bisset of Lovat in 1230. Its ruins include a fine church with a large aisle of St Katherine. A side chapel recently re-roofed is the burying- place of the Mackenzies of Gairloch. A fair of St Muireach was held at.Kilmorack, and at Beauly there were four yearly trysts held at Roodmas, Lammas, Michaelmas, and Hallowmas. There is now a mission church of St Columba at Beauly.] DINGWALL] KILMORACK 39 SIR JOHN NICOLSON, vicar in 1560 1560. DONALD FRASER, called "Donald Dubh " or Black Donald ; pres. by James VI. to the vicarage in 1573 ; still min. in 1590, having Wardlaw (Kirk- hill) also in his charge. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 508 ; Belladrum Writs.] JOHN MALCOLMSON, min. in 1618. 1618 —[Belladrum Writs.} WILLIAM MACKENZIE, min. in 1624 1624 and 1631 [afterwards of Killearnan]. WILLIAM FRASER of Phopachy, adm. in 1633; trans, to Killearnan in 1640. DONALD FRASER, adm. in 1641; trans, to Urquhart and Logie-Wester, 1641 Jan 1665. JOHN MACKENZIE, adm. Sept. 1665 ; 1666 trans, to Fodderty in 1666. JOHN MACRAE, pres. by John, Bishop of Ross, 20th Sept. 1666; ord. in 1667 1674. 1667; trans, to Dingwall 1st Feb. 1674 WILLIAM FRASER of Fanellan, born about 1634, son of Donald F., min. of Urquhart and Logie - Wester ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (19th July 1666); became school master at Boyndie ; passed trials before Presb. of Fordyce and had a testimonial for licen. 30th July 1673; adm. 12th April 1674 ; died May 1710. He marr. Jean Baillie, and had issue — William, M.D., served heir to his father in Fanellan in 1735 ; Donald.— [Inq. Ret. Gen., 6658.] THOMAS CHISHOLM, born 14th Dec. 1680, son of Alexander C. of Teawig ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness 7th July 1709 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 26th Sept. 1710. When the Presb. met for his ordination, 22nd March 1711, entrance to the church was prevented by a rabble of men and women who surrounded every part of the building. The Court having adjourned to the manse, stones were cast through the windows and the proceedings were so interrupted that it was impossible to continue. Clods and other missiles were thrown at the ministers as they left. The ordination took place at Kiltearn the following day. For two years afterwards, Fraser's widow refused to give up the manse, and C. was continually obstructed in his work, two-thirds of the parishioners being Roman Catholics under the charge of a resident priest (Peter Macdonald), while many were Episcopalians. In the course of time the animosity died down and C. remained min. of the parish for fifty-seven years. He died 6th Jan. 1768. He marr. a lady who predeceased him, and had issue— Robert, died abroad Aug. 1745 ; James, tacksman of Platchaick ; David, min. of this parish ; John ; Thomas ; Primrose; Katherine (marr. John Robert son, min. of Killearnan). DAVID CHISHOLM, born 1723, son of preceding; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1st April 1741); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 19th June 1750 ; called July 1753 ; ord. (assist ant and successor) 27th Feb. 1754; died 13th April 1768. He marr. 28th May 1753, Jean Inglis, who died 1st Nov. 1799, and had issue— Robert, born 26th Aug. 1756; John, born 18th Dec. 1761 ; Alexander, born 9th June 1764 ; Jean Wardlaw (twin), born 9th June 1764 ; Christian, born 7th Dec. 1766. JOHN FRASER, born Inverness, 1746, son of Simon F. ; educated at King's * College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1764) ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness 6th March 1767; ord. 3rd March 1769; died 4th April 1804. He marr. 26th Aug. 1775, Margaret Nicolson, who died 1st Feb. 1828, and had issue— Catherine Bristow, born 8th June 1776; Mary Honyman, born 28th Aug. 1777; Simon, born 29th May 1780; Alexander, lieut. 37th Regi ment, born 29th July 1781 ; Malcolm, born 17th July 1791. Publication— Account of the parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xx.). SIMON FRASER, bom 1765, school master of Avoch; educated at ' King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1793); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 23rd July 1799; pres. by the 40 KILMORACK— KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR [PRESB. OF Hon. Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat Aug. 1804 ; ord. (after appeal to the Assembly) 9th July 1806 ; died 26th Sept. 1845. He marr. (l>6th Jan. 1800, Margaret Aird, who died 22nd Sept. 1806, and had issue— Anne, born 26th May 1805 (marr. Hugh Mackenzie, min. of Gaelic Chapel, Aberdeen) : (2) 4th Feb. 1807, Mary Fraser, who died 20th July 1854, and had issue- Simon, min. of this parish ; Catherine, born 1st Sept. 1810; William, born llth March 1812; Mary, born 2nd July 1814; Alex ander James, born 13th Feb. 1820; Roderick, min. of Uig, born 7th March 1824. SIMON FRASER, born 25th Feb. 1808, son of preceding ; educated at King's College. Aberdeen, 1826-30; adm. to Ardersier 4th Jan. 1844; trans, and adm. 14th May 1846; died 17th Feb. 1862. He marr. 22nd June 1841, Catherine (died 5th March 1900), daugh. of Roderick Noble and Ann Robertson, and had issue — Mary Ann Robertson, born 2nd April 1842 ; Catherine, born 4th Oct. 1844 ; Margaret Hannah, born 23rd March 1850; Simon Peter, born 28th May 1852 ; William John, born 14th Feb. 1854. DONALD CAMERON, born Kilmalie, 1819; educated at King's College, " Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1843) ; ord. to Free Church, Ardersier, 1849 ; trans, to Free Church, Kirkrnichael, 1853; adm. as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland by the General Assembly 25th May 1861; pres. by Mrs Webster of Flemington, and adm. llth Sept. 1862; died 16th Dec. 1873. He marr. (1) 12th Feb. 1856, Cassilis Jane Shaw, who died 17th June 1863 : (2) 15th Oct. 1873, Jemima Smith Japp ; she survived him and marr. (2) 7th Dec. 1876. PETER ROBERTSON, trans, from Gaelic Church, Inverness, and adm. 19th May 1874; trans, to Kilbride, Arran, 21st March 1883. ALEXANDER JOSEPH MAC- QUARRIE, trans, from Duncans- burgh and adm. 21st Sept. 1883; trans, to Urquhart and Logie-Wester 19th May 1891. EWEN ARCHIBALD RANKIN, born Kilcalmonell, Kintyre, 27th July 1864, son of William R. and Margaret Sillars ; educated at Kilcalmonell School, High School, and Univ. of Glasgow ; MA. 1886), B.D. (1888); licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 16th May 1888 ; assistant at Ardgour and St Columba's, Glasgow ; ord. 24th Sept. 1891 ; D.D. (Glasgow, 25th June 1919). Marr. 12th Sept. 1898, Elizabeth, daugh. of Walter George Jackson, Bendigo, Australia, and Mary Rankin, and has issue_William Eric, M.A., B.D., born 17th Aug. 1899, served as 2nd lieut. 13th Black Watch during European War, ord. to Cock- burnspath, 28th Sept. 1926 ; Archibald Kil- morack, M.B., Ch.B. (1924), born 8th Feb. 1901 ; Mary Elizabeth, born 19th Aug. 1902. Publications — " Survival of Judaism " (Theological Monthly, 1890); The Pro- gressiveness of our Knowledge of Christian Truths (1904); God's Hierarchy (1916); " The Star in the East !; in The Interpreter (1918). — [Maclean's Typographia Scoto- Gadelica, 91 ; Parochial and Presbyterial Libraries in Ross-shire in 1707.] KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR. [These parishes were united about 1618. Kiltearn. — The church was dedicated to Our Lord, whence comes its name, Gill Thighearn, or the Lord's Church. There were within the bounds four chapels. Two of these were at Balconie, St Monans, and St Ninians. One stood at Culnasgiach, and the other at Wester-Fowlis. There was also in this parish a Well of St Colmog. Lemlair.— Lemlair was a prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose. Its church was dedicated to St Mary, but there had been an older dedication to St Bride. At Kilchoan, in this parish, there was a chapel of St Coan.] DONALD MUNRO, son of Alexander M. of Kiltearn, first appears as vicar of Snizort and Raasay in 1526 ; was Archdeacon of the Isles in 1549, when he made a systematic tour through the western islands, of which he left an DINGWALL] KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR 41 interesting account along with a compila tion on the " Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles." George Buchanan, who made use of the first of these manuscripts for the geographical part of his History of Scotland, acknowledges indebtedness to its author as "a pious, diligent, and learned man, who travelled over all these islands and viewed them correctly." Conforming to Protestantism at the Reformation he was adm. to this charge soon after 1560. On 26th June 1563, he was app. by the General Assembly a commissioner to plant kirks within the bounds of Ross, and to assist Robert, Bishop of Caithness. On 27th Dec. following, complaint was made in the Assembly that he "was not so apt to teach as his charge required/' A committee of Assembly was app. to "try his gifts" and to report. On 5th July 1570, it was again objected that he was " not prompt in the Scottish (Gaelic) tongue." Notwithstanding this, his appoint ment was renewed in Aug. 1573. About 1574 Lemlair was added to his charge. Tradition says that having his residence at Castle Craig on the opposite side of the Firth, he crossed by boat for his duties at both churches. He died unmarr. in or about 1589, and was buried at Kiltearn. Publications— D escription of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hebrides, with Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles : now first published from the Manuscript (Edin., 1773-4; another edition, 1805; reprinted 1818 in vol. ii. of Miscellanea Scotica (Glasgow 1884). Two MS. copies are in the National Library of Scot land.— [Calderwood's Hist., ii. 224, 245, iii. 275 ; Miscell. Wodrow Soc., i., 335 ; Buchanan's Hist, of Scotland (1715), 13, 18 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.] ROBERT MUNRO, adm. in 1589; trans, to Farr before 9th Oct. 1619. —[Hist, of the Munros, 344; Reg. Mag. Sig., viii., 245.] DAVID MUNRO of Kilchoan, son of Donald M. of Tarlogie, of the family of Milntown, and Christian Ross ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (21st July 1621) ; adm. to Tarbat in 162— ; trans, and adm. before 1st May 1627 ; was a member of the Glasgow Assembly in 1638 and that of 1639; dep. in 1648 " for malignancy and joining in the Engage ment," which sentence was approved by the Assembly in 1649; died before 7th July 1653. He marr. Florence, daugh. of Andrew Munro of Lemlair, and had issue- Donald ; Robert; John; Hugh, W.S., buried 13th Feb. 1672 ; and several daughs. — [Reg. Mag. Sig., ix., 2028; Inverness Sas., v., 240 ; Original Charter Antiq. Museum ; Peterkin's Records ; Hist, of the Munros, 302.] ROBERT MUNRO, adm. before 19th June 1649; dem. 15th June 1652; died 1663. THOMAS HOG, born Tain, 1628, "of honest parents, native highlanders somewhat above the vulgar rank " ; educated at Grammar School, Tain, and Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1650) ; became chaplain at Dunrobin to John, Earl of Sutherland; licen. in 1654; had calls from Golspie and other parishes ; ord. 24th Oct. that year. He joined the Protesters ; dep. by the Synod July 1661 ; deprived by Act of Parliament and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. He retired to the farmhouse of Knockoudie in Auldearn, where he continued to preach and dispense the sacraments, and memorable communions were observed in a sheltered hollow of the Hills of the Arstill, known as " Hog's Strype." In 1668 a complaint was made to the Privy Council by Murdoch, Bishop of Moray, whereupon H. was imprisoned in Forres, but after some months was liberated unconditionally through the intervention of the Earl of Tweeddale. Orders were again given for his imprison ment in June 1674, and Letters of Inter- communing were issued against him on 6th Aug. 1675, forbidding all persons to harbour or assist him in any way. In Jan. 1677 he voluntarily surrendered to the Earl of Moray, was removed to Edin burgh Tolbooth and sent to the Bass Rock, where he became seriously ill. An Edinburgh physician who was called to see him, petitioned the Council for his 42 KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR [PRESB. OF release, to which some of the members were disposed, but Archbishop Sharp stated " the prisoner did and was in a capacity to do more hurt to their interests sitting in his elbow chair than twenty others could, and if the justice of God was pursuing him to take him off the stage, the clemency of the Government should not interpose to hinder it." He was accordingly confined more closely than before. On hearing his sentence he exclaimed in bed, "It was as severe as if Satan himself had penned it." On 9th Oct. that year he was brought back to the Tolbooth, but was again returned to the Bass until set at liberty with others in July 1679, giving bond for 10,000 merks to appear before the Council when called. He remained unmolested till 8th Nov. 1683 when he was fined £277 and committed prisoner at Edinburgh till the fine was paid. Having decided to quit the country he petitioned to that effect and was enjoined to depart within forty-eight hours. He lived for a year in Berwick-upon-Tweed and in 1685 found his way to London, intending to sail to Carolina, but he was apprehended on suspicion of beingconcerned in the Rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth. On being freed he fled to Holland, where he became chaplain to William, Prince of Orange. He returned to Scotland early in 1688, and being restored by Act of Parliament, 25th April 1690, was a member of Assembly that year. He was appointed one of the King's chaplains and was preparing to remove to London, but died after a long and painful sickness, 4th Jan. 1692. He was buried by his own request in the doorway of the parish church, where may be seen the following inscription on his tomb — "This stone shall bear witness against the parishioners of Kiltearn if they bring ane ungodly minister in here." A commemorative slab was placed in the parish church and the Hog Memorial Church was erected in the village of Evanton. He marr. after 12th April 1656, the sister of John Hay of Inshock and Park, cadet of Errol (she died s.p.). Publication — Memoirs of His Life (Andrew Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1756).— [Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv.; Brodie's Diary; Wodrow's Corres., L, 166; The Bass Rock, 174-98; Kirkton's Hist,, 330 ; Wodrow's Hist., ii. 112 et seq. ; iv. 511-13, and Anal., ii., 162 ; Reg. Gen. Assembly, 1690; Memoirs of Catherine Collace ; Scenes in the Life of James Hog ; Crichton's Memoir of Black- ader ; King's Covenanters in the North, 365 ; Covenanters in Moray and Ross, 79 et seq. ; Hugh Miller's Scenes and Legends, 112 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Tombst.] JOHN GORDON, educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (13th July ! 1658); adm. before 15th Nov. 1664; deprived by Act of Parliament, 25th April 1690, restoring Presbyterianism. After his settlement he had to contend with great opposition, even Sir John Munro of Fowlis, a principal heritor, refusing to pay him stipend till compelled by law. 1690 THOMAS HOG, above mentioned. WILLIAM STUART, assistant at Inverness ; was recommended by Hog as his successor and was adm. in 1693. When sent by the Presb. to preach at Dingwall in Jan. 1704 he was threatened in the pulpit there by followers of the Earl of Seaforth from Kintail, with loaded pistols ; trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, after 9th April 1705 ; trans, to First Charge, Inverness, 26th Jan. 1720 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 9th Oct. 1722 and again 9th Nov. 1725; re-trans, and adm. 8th Nov. 1726; died 10th Oct. 1729. He marr. and had issue— Christian (marr. Daniel M'Killican, min. of Alness). Publications — Account of Mr Macbean of Inverness (Wodrow's Hist., iv., 524); A Letter from a Jurant to a Non- Jurant in 1712 in MS '.— {Religious Life in Ross, 79.] HUGH CAMPBELL, trans, from Ardersier ; called 29th April and adm. 7th May 1708; trans, to Kilmuir-Wester 4th April 1721. WILLIAM STUART, before 1726 mentioned. DINGWALL] KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR 43 ANDREW ROBERTSON, son of Hugh R., Balconie, in the parish, of the family of Kindeace ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue 19th May 1725 j called by the Presb. jure devoluto 9th Jan., and ord. to Farr 21st March 1727; trans, and adm. 27th July 1731 ; died 6th July 1769. In 1742-3 a revival of religion grew to such an extent in the parish that Kiltearn was called "The Holy Land." He marr. 15th Nov. 1730, Mary (died 29th Jan. 1787), daugh. of George Oswald, min. of Dunnet, and had issue — Mary Barbara; Harry, merchant, Glasgow ; Margaret, born 20th Nov. 1740 (marr. Bailie Miller, Tain).— {Religious Life in Ross, 81.] GEORGE WATSON, trans, from Fort w Augustus; pres. by George III. and adm. 20th Sept. 1770; trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, 20th Dec. 1775. He was one of the first mins. in the Presb. to wear a pulpit gown ; the parishioners objected to the garb, and a coolness spring ing up between them is said to have been the cause of his removal. HARRY ROBERTSON, born 2nd Nov. 1748, son of Gilbert R., min. of 1 Kincardine; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th June 1770 ; ord. to Clyne 8th May 1771 ; pres. by George III. in Feb., trans, and adm. 9th May 1776; D.D. (Marischal College, Aberdeen, Nov. 1802) ; died 12th July 1815. He marr. 23rd April 1772, Anne Forbes (died 13th July 1826), daugh. of William Forbes, tacksman of Coulmaillie, Golspie, and had issue — William, born 1st Feb. 1773, died in London 1837; Gilbert, born 28th Aug. 1774, died unmarr. in Edinburgh on his return from Demerara 10th Sept. 1839; Harry, born 19th July 1776, drowned off Demerara in 1795 ; Anne, born 17th March 1778, died at Woodlands, Liverpool, 9th Nov. 1854; Hector, born 19th April, died 15th Oct. 1779 ; Elizabeth, born 14th Dec. 1782 (marr. 15th Dec. 1802, Samuel Sandbach of Wood lands, Liverpool), died 26th Sept. 1859; Rose, born 6th Jan. 1785, died 6th Aug. 1795 ; Hugh Munro, born 24th April 1787, wrecked off the coast of Ireland 16th Dec. 1819 ; George Duncan (twin), born 24th April 1787, died 2nd March 1788; Christian, born 30th Dec. 1788 (marr. (1) 6th June 1800, James Watson of Crantit, Orkney, factor for Lord Dundas : (2) 26th July 1811, Thomas Stewart Traill of Tirlot, M.D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Univ. of Edinburgh), died 7th May 1842. Publications — Evangelical Discourses (London, 1779); The Scottish Minister's Assistant (Inverness, 1802) ; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., L). THOMAS MUNRO, born Sutherland, 1773; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1798); became schoolmaster of Alness ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th May 1802 ; ord. missionary at Rosehall 27th Nov. 1810 ; pres. by George, Prince Regent, Nov. 1815 ; adm. (after an appeal to the Assembly) 27th June 1816, which led to the erection by the opposition of a United Secession Church ; died 16th May 1841. He marr. 6th July 1827, Janet Isobel (died 29th Sept. 1858), daugh. of James Smith, min. of Avoch, and had issue — Alexandrina, born 8th March 1829 ; James Smith Brodie, born 20th July 1830 ; Anne, born 7th Dec. 1832 ; Thomas Robert, superintendent of jetties, Calcutta, born 20th Aug. 1835 ; Catherine Janet Isabel, born 15th Dec. 1838. Publication— Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.).— [Scots Mag., Ixxviii.] DUNCAN CAMPBELL, born Glenlyon, 1842 1796, son of Duncan C., farmer, and Ellen Campbell, and brother of David C., min. of Gaelic Church, Inverness ; licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld 1st March 1832 ; ord. to Lawers Mission 23rd Jan. 1834 ; adm. to Innerwick in Glenlyon 25th April 1837; trans, and adm. 17th March 1842. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Kiltearn, 1843-73 ; died 21st Oct. 1873. He marr. 21st May 1835, Margaret Henderson (died 22nd Jan. 1874), daugh. of John Macdonald, D.D., min. of Urquhart and Logie-Wester, and had issue — Georgina, born 26th June 1836 ; Duncan, born 2nd June 1839. 44 KILTEARN AND LEMLA1R [PRESB. OF JAMES MUNN, licen. by Presb. of Ig43 Edinburgh ; pres. by Queen Victoria 15th Aug. 1843; ord. 27th Sept. that year ; died 2nd Sept. 1845. ALEXANDER MACLEAN, born Rothesay, 31st Aug. 1793, son of Alexander M. and brother of Duncan M.,* min. of Kilmodan ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. by Presb. of Glasgow to Greenock Church, St Andrews, New Bruns wick, 1st May 1824 ; returned home and was chaplain to Morningside Asylum, Edin burgh ; D.D. (Glasgow 1842); pres. by Queen Victoria 12th Dec. 1845; adm. 26th Feb. 1846; died 16th Sept. 1874. He marr. 19th July 1827, Margaret Janet Davidson (died 5th Aug. 1889), daugh. of John Cassilis, U.P. min., New Brunswick, and Mary Macpherson, and had issue — Catherine, born 16th March 1828 (marr. Alexander MacCalman, Kil- berry), died 23rd March 1919 ; Mary, born 2nd July 1829, died 27th Aug. 1831 ; Mary Janet, born 7th March 1831 (marr. John Rose, min. of Rosskeen) ; John, born 23rd Feb. 1833, died 8th Feb. 1848 ; Alexander, min. of Halkirk, born 24th Jan. 1835 ; Duncan, born 5th Dec. 1836, died 28th Aug. 1851 ; Archibald, born 1st Jan. 1839, died 12th March 1871; George, M.B., C.M., Inspector-General Royal Navy, born 18th June 1841 ; Henry, born 24th Feb. 1844, died 2nd Feb. 1849 ; Charles, M.B., C.M., British Columbia, born 29th Jan. 1846 ; Mary, born 20th Feb. 1848, died unmarr. ; Surgeon Rear-Admiral John Cassilis Birk- myre, C.B. (1917), Inspector-General of Fleets and Hospitals, present at bombard ment of Alexandria and in Egyptian campaign, born 28th Aug. 1849, died at Devonport Dec. 1925 ; Susan Isabella, born * Duncan Maclean, min. of Kilmodan (cf. Vol. IV., 82) had issue- Grace Campbell, born 1835 (marr. 1S5T, James M'Gregor, D.D., Professor of Systematic Theology, New College, Edinburgh, afterwards min. of Oamaru, New Zealand), died 1909 ; Catherine; Eliza, died 1901 ; George Campbell, insurance secretary, Edinburgh, born 2: Feb. 1840; Alexander, born 80th May 1841, died 7th Feb. 1876; Charlotte Brodie, born 1842 (marr. Charles M'Combie), died 1921; Susan, born 1844, died 1800 Duncan ; Mary, born 1848, died 1892 ; Georgina Campbell born 1850, died 1922. 19th Oct. 1853 (marr. - - Galbraith) ; Duncan Henry, born 13th July 1856, died 9th Feb. 1874 ; James Dymock, born 15th Aug. 1858, deceased. Publication— Editor of Missionary Record of the Church of Scotland, 1844-6. — [Gregg's Hist, of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 267-303.] WILLIAM WATSON, born 8th March 1843, son of David W., min. of Uig ; ' educated at Univ. of Edinburgh, where he was assistant to Professor of Mathematics; licen. by Presb. of Edin burgh ; assistant at May field, Edinburgh ; ord. 23rd Sept. 1875 ; died 13th July 1914. He marr. 22nd April 1886, Isabella, daugh. of Alexander Allan, tacksman of Drum- mond, and had issue — Allan, captain R.A.M.C., D.S.O., M.D., born 27th March 1887, died at Tembura, Northern Sudan, 18th Jan. 1920 ; Margaret Janet, born 9th June 1888 ; William Norman, M.B., C.M., M.C., captain R.A.M.C., 6th K.O.S.B., killed in France 29th May 1916 ; Stanley, D.S.O., B.Sc., M.C., acting lieut.-colonel 12th Cheshire Regiment, manufacturing chemist, Manchester, born 25th Feb. 1891. ALEXANDER FORBES BLACK, M.A., B.D. ; ord. 7th Jan. 1915; trans. ' to Rosebank, Dundee, 17th May 1920. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, born Kil- 1920 donan' Ei&g> 15tn Jan< 1883> son of James C. and Jessie Campbell ; educated at Eigg and Kingussie Schools and Inverness Royal Academy and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1904) ; licen. by Presb. of Skye April 1907 ; assistant at Beauly ; ord. to Lairg 1st Sept. 1908; trans, to Resolis 18th Jan. 1912; trans, and adm. 14th Oct. 1920. Marr. 17th Nov. 1908, Isabel, daugh. of Hugh Macdonald, Sea- view, Uig, and Helen Mackay, and has issue _ James Archibald Uisdean, born 28th Aug. 1910 ; Helen Mairi Iseabel, born 2nd Oct. 1913. DINGWALL] LEMLAIR— KINLOCHLUICHART 45 LEMLAIR. [The church was dedicated to St Mary. The parish was united to Kiltearn in the first half of the seventeenth century.] HENRY KINCAID, was parson of Lemlair at the Reformation, and retained the temporalities ; was still parson in 1584, and disposed of certain teinds to Munro of Fowlis in 1607. There is no evidence that he conformed to Pro testantism. DONALD MUNRO, min. of Kiltearn; 1574 held this charge in conjunction. JOHN MACKENZIE, min. of Dingwall ; pres. to the parsonage and vicarage ' by James VI. 1st July 1609. In 1614 Dingwall was also in his charge ; still min. in 1618. KINLOCHLUICHART (Q.S.). [In 1825 a parliamentary chapel was built at the upper end of Loch Luichart. On 16th March 1864 the parish of Kinloch- luichart was disjoined from Contin, Fod- derty, and Urray.] DAVID TULLOCH, born Thurso, brother of John Tulloch, LL.D., Professor of Mathematics, King's College, Aberdeen; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. schoolmaster of Kil- learnan in 1816 ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 30th Sept. 1823 ; pres. by George IV. 15th June, and ord. 27th Sept. 1827 . died 20th April 1841. He marr. and left a widow.— [Tombst.] ALEXANDER ANDERSON, born Elgin, 1802, son of Alexander A. 1842 baker, and Ann Falconer ; educatec at Univ. of Edinburgh ; pres. by Queer Victoria 9th Oct. 1841; adm. 16th Feb 1842. Joined the Free Church in 1843 min. of Gaelic Free Church, Rothesay 1844-66; died 1st Dec. 1866. He marr 1845, Margaret Maclean, who died 18th Oct. 1889, aged 62. DAVID WILLIAMSON, pres. by Queen 844 Victoria 25tl1 N°V- 1843J °rd- 21st March 1844; trans, to Assynt 12th Dec. 1848. DUNCAN SIMON MACKENZIE, pres. by Queen Victoria, and ord. 30th Aug. 1849 ; trans, to Gairloch 26th Sept. 1850. GREGOR STUART, pres. by Queen Victoria 3rd March, and ord. 13th 861 May 1851 ; trans, to Rogart 3rd May 1854. CHARLES MACLEAN, pres. by Queen Victoria 28th June, and ord. 27th 1 Sept. 1854; trans, to Ullapool 24th June 1856. EVAN MACKENZIE MASSON, pres. by Queen Victoria 17th Sept. 1856; 1857 ord. 8th Jan. 1857; trans, to Dull 28th Feb. 1861. JOHN MACGREGOR, missionary at Strathglass; pres. by Queen Victoria 9th April, and ord. 13th May 1861 ; trans, to Knockbain 24th Dec. 1868. ALEXANDER JOHN MACKICHAN, born 31st Dec. 1835, son of Dugald ' M., min. of Daviot ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th Jan., and adm. 6th May 1869 ; dem. 18th June 1874 ; adm. to Barney's River, Nova Scotia, 22nd Sept. 1874. He marr. 25th Aug. 1869, Christina Munro, daugh. of James Reid, min. of Auldearn, and had jssue — James Archibald, born 13th Sept. 1870 ; Isabella Christina, born 9th Jan. 1872; Mary Skene, born 31st Jan. 1873; Amelia Stirling, born 21st April 1874. KENNETH MACKENZIE, trans, from Kinlochbervie and adm. 6th Jan. 1 1876; trans, to Eddrachillis 5th March 1879. SIMON HALLY, born 1837, son of George H., writer, and Rebecca Murray ; educated at Univ. of Glas gow; M.A. (1871); ord. a min. in Presb. 46 KINLOCHLUICHART— URQUHART [PRESB. OF of St John, New Brunswick, 1873 ; missionary at Carnwath in 1875 ; adm. to Kinlochbervie 18th April 1877; trans, and adm. 18th July 1879 ; died 30th Oct. 1880. He marr. 4th June 1877, Mary Anne Taylor (died 12th April 1878), daugh. of James Steele, rope maker, and Janet Neill, and had issue — Mary Catherine Margaret, born 12th April 1878. DAVID FERGUSON, born 4th Feb. 1835, eldest son of Thomas F., farmer, Barr, Ayrshire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr 3rd Oct. 1860 ; assistant at Bunkle ; adm. 29th March 1881 ; dem. 5th Oct. 1904 ; died unmarr. at Alness Manse, 25th Jan. 1912. JOHN CAMPBELL McNAUGHT, M.A.,B.D.; ord. 19th Jan. 1905; trans. 1881 1905 to Kilmuir-Easter 21st July 1914. GEORGE BRUCE, born Errol, Perth shire, 12th March 1863, son of George B. and Eliza Rollo; educated at Errol and Dundee High Schools and Univ. of Edinburgh; MA. (1887); licen. by Presb. of Perth 15th May 1890; assistant at Fauldhouse ; ord. as missionary professor in the Scottish Churches' College at Calcutta 24th May 1891; adm. here 27th Oct. 1914. Marr. 6th Oct. 1893, Margaret Christina, daugh. of Thomas Learmonth and Janet Middlemas, and has issue — Theodora Janet Middlemas, nurse, born 23rd Aug. 1894 ; George Macdonald, lieut. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, born 18th Nov. 1897, died in Belgium 17th Feb. 1919 ; Marion Eliza Rollo, born 10th Sept. 1899, died in India 30th April 1903 ; James Douglas Ferrier, cadet, Henderson Line S.S., born 1st Oct. 1905. URQUHART, OR LOGAIDH FRAOICH, OR LOGIE-WESTER. [These two parishes were united in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Urquhart. — The prebend of Urquhart was held by the Treasurer of the Cathedral of Fortrose. The church was dedicated to St Malrubh, who was murdered by pirates at Ferintosh in 722. At Bridge of Conan, in this parish, there is a mission church.] 1574 JOHN ROBERTSON, was charged in the Assembly, 28th June 1565, with leaving his vocation and required to return thereto under pain of disobedience to the Kirk ; was app. by the Assembly, 5th June 1570, to assist the commissioner of Ross, who was not conversant with Gaelic ; was again commissioned to visit Caithness and Sutherland ; died 1597. — [Booke of the Kirk ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 551.] ROBERT MUNRO of Creichmor, third son of John M. of Coul and Katherine, daugh. of John Vass of Lochslinn ; pres. by James VI. to the vicarage in 1560; conformed to Protestantism before 1569, and was app. reader and ex- horter ; was min. in 1574 when Dingwall was added to the charge. He was pres. to the Treasury of Ross by James VI., 16th June 1597, and after being omitted in the assignations from 1588, he was restored in 1599. He granted a lease as vicar of Urquhart of the chanter's manse in the Chanonry of Ross in favour of Andrew Munro of Novar in 1604; was still min. 24th Feb. 1638. He marr. Christian Munro, and had issue — Margaret (marr. John, son of John Munro of Fyrish).— [Hist, of the Munros, 344 ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 551 ; Inverness Sas., i. 54, vi. 109.] GEORGE MUNRO, adm. before 4th Oct. 1642 ; trans, to Snizort before 1642 15th April 1656. ROBERT ROSS of Logie-Easter, MA. ; adm. Nov. 1657 ; trans, to Tain r before 18th April 1665. DONALD FRASER, born about 1620, son of William F., min. of Kiltarlity ; 5 educated at King's College, Aber deen; M.A. (1637); adm. to Kilmorack in 1641 ; pres. by John, Bishop of Ross, Dec. 1664 ; coll. 15th, and inst. Jan. 1665 ; died 8th Oct. 1684. He marr. (cont. 20th Nov. 1646), Katherine (died 17th Oct. 1672), daugh. of Hugh Fraser of Belladrum, and widow of Hector MAlister vie Eachan of Buntait, and had issue — William, min. of Kilmorack ; a daugh. (marr. Hugh Fraser of Aigas).— [Ing. Ret. Gen., 6658; Bella- drum Writs.] DINGWALL] URQUHART 47 ANDREW ROSS, educated at King's and Marischal Colleges, Aberdeen ; 1 adm. to Contin in 1684; pres. by James, Bishop of Ross, 2nd, and inst. 24th Sept. 1685; died Nov. 1712. He marr. Anna Gumming, and had issue — Andrew, served heir, 19th Aug. 1718. — [Deed of Inst. by Bishop of Ross at Kil- learnan ; Scot. Antiquary, v., 156 ; Services of Heirs.] ALEXANDER FRASER, trans, from Croy and pres. by John, Earl of 1715 Cromartie, 1714; adm. 21st April 1715 ; trans, to Second Charge, Inverness, 4th April 1727. ALEXANDER FALCONER, born about 1686; educated at King's College, * Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd May 1706); became schoolmaster of Cromarty ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry; ord. to Ardersier 10th June 1718; called 30th Sept. 1728; trans, and adm. 21st Jan. 1729 ; died 8th April 1756. He marr. (1) and had issue —William ; Elizabeth : (2) 6th July 1742, Jean Houston, who died 5th Jan. 1778, and had issue — Henrietta, born llth April 1743 ; Alexander, born 6th April 1745 ; Duncan, born 1746. DONALD FRASER, born 1706, son of William F., tacksman in Petty ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; became teacher in Grammar School of Inverness; app. schoolmaster of Killearnan, 10th Nov. 1728, and of Alness ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 15th Oct. 1734; app. missionary in Strathglass ; tutor to Master of Lovat in 1739 ; ord. to Killearnan 27th March 1744; summoned to London, Feb. 1747, to attend the trial of Simon, Lord Lovat, but not called to give evidence ; pres. by John Forbes of Culloden 31st July 1756 ; trans, and adm. 2nd June 1757 ; died 7th April 1773. He was a noted expositor of the Scriptures. There is a tradition which has been handed down that he left the parish of Killearnan through witchcraft. He marr. 8th June 1747, Jean (died 19th March 1791), daugh. of Alexander Fraser, min. of Inverness and had issue — Simon, born 4th April 1748 went to India, and died in Calcutta in 1770; Alexander, min. of Kirkhill, born 14th July 1749 ; Isabella, born 14th Jan. 1751 (marr. 15th March 1784, Alexander Sage, min. of Kildonan) ; Marjory, born 2nd April 1752 (marr. John Fraser, min. of Kiltarlity); Donald, born 10th Oct. 1756 ; Jane Forbes (Mrs Fraser), born June 1757— [Tombst.] CHARLES CALDER, born 1st Dec. 1748, son of James C., min. of Croy ; 1774 educated at King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (30th March 1767) ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness 28th Sept. 1773 ; ord. 12th May 1774; died 1st Oct. 1812. He marr. 8th July 1779, Margaret (died at Tain, 3rd March 1820, aged 77), daugh. of James Brodie of Spynie, advocate, and had issue — Emilia, born 19th May 1780 (marr. Alexander Stewart, D.D., min. of the Canongate, Edinburgh) ; Anne, born llth March 1781 (marr. Angus Mackintosh, D.D., min. of Tain); James, born 23rd Aug. 1784, went to India, died at sea in 1833. Publication— Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., v.).— [Ross Tests.; Findlater's Memoir of Findlater ; Stewart's Sermons ; Religious Life in Ross, 90-2.] JOHN MACDONALD, born Balnabein, Reay, 12th Nov. 1779, son of James 1818 M., or MacAdie, catechist, originally a weaver ; educated at Reay School and King's College, Aberdeen, where he was the most distinguished mathematical scholar of his time ; M.A. (30th March 1801) ; licen. by Presb. of Caithness 2nd July 1805; assistant at Kingussie ; ord. missionary at Berriedale 16th Sept. 1806 ; adm. to Gaelic Chapel, Edinburgh, 29th Jan. 1807 ; pres. by Duncan Forbes' of Culloden in 1812 ; trans, and adm. 1st Sept. 1813 ; D.D. (Univ. of New York, U.S.A., 1842). Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Ferintosh, 1843-9 ; Joint (Gaelic) Moderator of the Free Church Assembly in 1845; died 16th April 1849. He was known all over the Church as " The Apostle of the North," and was the most popular Gaelic preacher in the Highlands. He was so fond of itinerating that his conduct was at length brought before the General Assembly, 48 URQUHART [PRESB. OF which, 30th May 1818, issued a declara tion " that the conduct of any minister of the Church who exercises his pastoral functions in a vagrant manner, preaching during his journeys from place to place in the open air in other parishes than his own, or officiating in any meeting for religious exercises without the special invitation of the minister within whose parish it shall be held, is disorderly and unbecoming the character of a minister of this Church." He marr. (1) 6th Jan. 1806, Georgina (died 18th Aug. 1814), daugh. of Simon Ross of Gledfield, and had issue — John, missionary of the Church of Scot land in India, born 16th Feb. 1807, died 1837; Simon, born 23rd Sept. 1808, died abroad ; Margaret Henderson, born 12th Aug. 1810 (marr. Duncan Campbell, min. of Kiltearn) : (2) llth May 1818, Jessie (died 22nd June 1868), daugh. of Kenneth Mac kenzie of Millbank, and had issue — Anne, born 28th Aug. 1820; Agnes, born llth Aug. 1821 (marr. Alexander Falconer, Sheriff -substitute of Nairn), died 19th Jan. 1914 ; James, born 25th Aug. 1822 ; Kenneth, born 25th Sept. 1823 ; Divie Bethune, born 20th Oct. 1824 ; Duncan G. Forbes, born 9th Sept. 1825 ; Alexander, born 1st Nov. 1826, died 14th March 1827. Publications — The Righteousness of God manifested for the Justification of Sinners, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1825) ; Journal of his Visits to St Kilda in 1822, 1825, 1827, and 1830 ; Marbhrann air Maighster Eoin Robeson (Inverness, 1829); Daoine air an Comhairleachadh an Aghaidh bhi deanadh cron orra fein (the cholera sermon) (Inver ness, 1832); Dan Spioradail a rinneadh air Criosdaidh Araidh (Edinburgh, 1838) ; Marbhrann a rinneadh air Diadhairibh urramach nach mairionn (Edinburgh, 1848, 1858, 1868, 1890) ; Elegies on Eminent Ministers of the Church in Gaelic (Edin burgh, 1848) ; Speech in the General Assembly in the Case of Rev. Roderick Macleod (Edin burgh, 1869).— [Kay's Portraits, ii., 331; Edin. Christ. Inst. ; Scot. Mag., Ixxi.; The Apostle of the North, by John Kennedy, D.D. (Edin., 1886); Elegy on Dr Mac- donald (Glasgow, 1862) ; Typographia Scoto- Gadelica, 196-9 ; Diet. Nat. Jiiog.] PETER MACKENZIE, born 30th Nov. 1844 1818' son °^ J°nn M., min. of Loch- carron, and brother of Kenneth M., LL.D., min. of Kingussie ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1828) ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron ; ord. to Tongue 26th Sept. 1843; pres. by Arthur Forbes of Culloden ; trans, and adm. 29th March 1844; D.D. (Aberdeen, March 1875); elected Moderator of the General Assembly 22nd May 1884 ; died 12th Oct. 1913, "a cultured, shrewd, gentle manly man." He marr. 9th Jan. 1845, Margaret Mackintosh (died 13th Oct. 1913), daugh. of James Grant, min. of Nairn. — [Life of Dr Cameron Lees, 76.] ALEXANDER JOSEPH MAC- 1891 QUARRIE, born 1843, son of John M., Stornoway ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh, M.A. (1871); ord. to Dun- cansburgh 14th Nov. 1879 ; trans, to Kil- morack 21st Sept. 1883; trans, and adm. 19th May 1891 ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 1916) ; died at Aspatria, Cumberland, 4th May 1923. He marr. 1st Aug. 1871, Elizabeth Addison, who died 1st June 1922, and had issue— John, M.B., C.M., Carlisle, captain Royal Army Medical Corps ; Donald, died abroad. JOHN SELLAR,born Newtonmore 31st 1918 July 1884) son of Rol:)ert S- and Barbara Riach ; educated at Kin gussie School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1908) ; licen. by Presb. of Abernethy in 1910 ; assistant at Riccarton, Kilmar- nock ; ord. to Carnoch 1st May 1913; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 1st Oct. 1918. Marr. 29th July 1913, Isabelle Fisher, daugh. of George Mac- donald, Glasgow, and Charlotte Hamilton, and has issue — Isabel Mary, born 28th Aug. 1915 ; Andrew Gray, born 4th Jan. 1919. URRAY AND TARRADALE. [These parishes were united about 1600. Urray.— The church of Urray was dedi cated to St Constantine. The prebend of Urray was held by the subchantor of the Cathedral of Fortrose. DINGWALL] URRAY AND TARRADALE 49 Tarradale. — The old church of Tarradale, long a ruin, was re-roofed about fifty years ago. Like that of Kiltearn, it was dedicated to Our Lord. Therefore it is always called Gill Chriosd (the Church of Christ).] ALEXANDER PEDDER, vicar at the 1660 Reformation> but probably did not conform ; died 1569. ALEXANDER GRIERSON, pres. by James VI. in 1569; died that year. —\Qrig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 518.] DAVID ADAMSON, exhorter in 1567; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. in 1569 ; in that year the king pres. him, then an " instructer and teichar of the youth within the burgh of Dingwall," to the chaplainries of St Lawrence in Dingwall and Artafallie in Killearnan ; pres. to the parsonage in 1573 ; Contin, Kilchrist and Fodderty were in the charge in 1574; dem. in 1579; died 1591.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 518.] WILLIAM RITCHIE, pres. to the vicarage by James VI. in 1579.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 518.] JOHN MACKENZIE, min. in 1593; was denounced rebel 25th Dec. 1595 1 for not appearing to answer a charge at the instance of Alexander Bayne of Tulloch and Alexander Bayne of Logie " for his insolencies, oppin and manifest oppressions committed upon thame, as namelie by resett and huirding within his house of Johnne M'Gillichallum Rasa, ane commoun and notorious theiff and lymmair ... in the month of May last," John Macleod of Raasay had, it is alleged, come on set purpose to murder Hugh and Duncan, sons of the above-mentioned persons, aided and abetted by the minister, who after wards laid waste the complainer's lands of Urray. He was still min. in 1601.— [Pit- cairn's Grim. Trials, i.] JOHN MALCOLM [MACGILLIE- CALLUM], min. in 1605, was sub- ' chantor of Ross in 1608, and was a burgess of Dingwall ; was still min. 6th Feb. 1635. He marr., and had issue— Isa bel (marr. Alexander, natural son to Kenneth Mackenzie of Kilchrist).— [Orig. Charter in Antiq. Museum ; Orig. Charters by Bishops of Ross at Killearnan, 1605, 1608, 1635.] JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; adm. in 1636 ; dep. in 1639 for malignancy (opposition to the Covenant) and obliged to flee to England and latterly to Ireland, which he was compelled to leave on account of the rebellion. He was re- poned by the Synod in April 1643 and was adm. to Suddie in 1644. DONALD MACRAE, adm. before 21st Jan. 1645; app. chaplain to the ' regiment raised by the Earl of Seaforth for King Charles I.; was a member of Assembly in 1651 ; trans, to Kintail 20th July 1656. GEORGE CUMMING, born about 1627, son of Alexander C. of Tomnamoon, J and brother of Michael C., min. of Drainie ; educated at King's College, Aber deen; M.A. (1647); became schoolmaster of Elgin, where he was obtruded on the Grammar School without consulting the Presb. 19th July 1649 ; licen. by Presb. of Elgin 9th Oct. 1655; adm. 13th April 1658; died in 1705. In 1703 there is a sasine to him and Janet Dunbar his wife of the lands of Culbo and Badgrenan.— [Allangrange Writs; Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 22nd Sept. 1710.] JOHN MORISON, son of John M. of Bragar, judge of the Lewis; licen. by Presb. of Argyll (Inveraray) 30th June 1698; ord. to Glenelg, Sept. 1699; trans, to Boleskine 3rd Dec. 1706; trans, to Gairloch in 1711 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 29th Sept. 1716; trans, and adm. 16th Jan. 1717; died 1st July 1747. Being opposed by the heritors and the great majority of the parishioners, many of whom were Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, he had "no peace or satisfaction" during the whole of his incumbency. He marr. (1) Mary, daugh. of John Mackenzie of Gruinard and Christian Mackenzie, and had issue — Norman, min. of Uig; John, min. of Petty : (2) Christian (died 18th March 1770), daugh. of Alexander Munro VOL. VII. 50 URRAY AND TARRADALE [PRESB. OF of Kilchoan, and had issue— Alexander ; Christina. Publication — A Description of the Lewis (Spottiswoode Miscellany, II.).— {Religious Life in Ross, 98 ; Tombst.} PATRICK GBANT, born 1706; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 5th March 1734 ; ord. to Cawdor 7th July 1735 ; called 14th March 1748; trans, and adm. 27th May 1749 ; D.D. (King's College, Aber deen, 27th Sept. 1774) ; elected Moderator of the General Assembly 21st May 1778 ; died 14th April 1787. He marr. 10th March 1738, Anne Spence, who died at Forres 9th Sept. 1793. Publication— The Spirit of Moderation in Religion recommended, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1779).— [Tombst.] JOHN DOWNIE, born Aberdeen 1727 ; educated at King's College, Aber- deen ; M.A. (2nd April 1752) ; ord. to Gairloch 27th Sept. 1758; trans, to Stornoway 22nd July 1773; chaplain to 78th Highlanders 6th June 1778; pres. by John, Lord Macleod, in Sept. 1787; trans, and adm. 25th Sept. 1788 ; died 3rd Oct. 1811. He marr. 1st Jan. 1762, Charlotte (died 14th Sept. 1815), daugh. of Alexander Mackenzie of Tollie, provost of Dingwall, and Annabella, eldest daugh. of Sir Donald Bayne of Tulloch, and had issue _ Margaret, born 26th Sept. 1762 ; Annabel, born 16th Feb. 1764; Alexander, min. of Lochalsh, born 6th July 1765; Donald, born 4th, and died 9th Oct. 1766 ; Catherine, born 29th Aug. 1767; Murdoch, born 7th Nov. 1768; Donald, born 25th Dec. 1769, died 4th March 1770; Charles, born 22nd Nov. 1770 ; Jean, born 8th Aug 1772 ; Ann, born 15th Sept. 1774, died 12th Feb. 1775; John, bom 22nd Sept. 1775: Anne, born 27th Nov. 1776 (marr. Neil Kennedy, min. of Logie-Easter) ; Hector born 19th Jan. 1778 ; George (twin), born 19th Jan. 1778; Charlotte, born 30th July 1779; Mary, born 7th May 1781 Hector, born 4th April 1783. Publications — The Substance of a Speech addressed tc the Very Rev. the Synod of Ross (Inverness 1810) ; Lash to the Old Seceder, merited bj his Remarks (Inverness, 1812); Account o the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., viii.).— [Macrae's Dingivall, 110; Tombst.] DONALD MACDONALD, born 1756; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 10th 8 July 1784 ; ord. missionary at 'orridon, and Kishorn, Applecross, April 785 ; adm. to Barvas 6th May 1790 ; pres. »y the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Oromartie in Jan., trans, and adm. 16th April 1812; died 17th Dec. 1835. He narr. 23rd Aug. 1794, Anne Macdonald, who died 27th Oct. 1838, and had issue — Margaret, born 5th Oct. 1795 (marr. 8th Oct. 1821, Alexander Mackenzie of Kinna- haird); Donald, born 5th March 1798; Mary, born 15th Nov. 1799 ; Anne, born th April 1802 ; Johanna Simpson, born 14th Sept. 1803 ; James, min. of this parish ; Janet, born 20th May 1806 ; Francis Proby, born 20th Oct. 1807; Williamina, born Aug. 1814. Publication — Account of Barvas (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xix.). JAMES MACDONALD, born 1st Oct. 1804, son of preceding; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1821-5 ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 15th Dec. 1829 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Sept., and ord. (assistant and successor) 18th Nov. 1830. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Urray, 1843-82; died 14th Feb. 1882. He took a leading part in the Skye revival, 1841-2. He marr. 23rd April 1840, Mary (died 1st Sept. 1885), daugh. of John Kennedy, min. of Killearnan, and had issue— John Kennedy, born llth Jan. 1841; Donald, born 13th June 1842; Janet, died 17th May 1917 ; Kenneth Mackenzie, born 1847, died 8th Dec. 1923. DONALD MACINTOSH, trans, from 1844 Pictou' Nova Scotia; pres. by the : Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; adm. 29th Feb. 1844 ; trans, to Edderton 23rd Nov. 1854. WILLIAM MACDONALD, born Urray, 1823; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1840-6; licen. by Presb. of Abertarff; app. missionary at Fort Augustus in 1854 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; adm. 1st May 1856 ; died 15th Oct. 1860. DINGWALL] URRAY AND TARRADALE— MARYBURGH f.I JOHN ADAM MACFARLANE, born 1861 Glas&ow> 3rd Feb' 1832> second son of Andrew M., wright, and Jean Mac- Ewan ; educated at Univs. of Glasgow and St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Skye in 1856; ord. to Kinlochbervie 4th Sept. 1856 ; trans, and adm. 8th Aug. 1861 ; died 3rd Oct. 1915. He marr. 28th Oct. 1873, Agnes Goodsir (died 8th May 1923), daugh. of James Macfarlane, D.D., min. of Duddingston, and had issue— Agnes Jane, born 10th Aug. 1874 ; Andrew, D.D., D.S.O., chaplain 42nd Highlanders, senior chaplain Bombay, born 28th Oct. 1875; Helen Muriel, born 31st Jan. 1877 ; James, superintending engineer, born 23rd Feb. 1878; Eliza Alexandra, born 28th May 1879; John Adam, born 14th Feb. 1883; Walter Malcolm, born 18th Nov. 1885; Margaret Alice, born 28th Oct. 1887 (marr. llth Sept. 1917, Cyril Ernest Barber, of H.M. Customs) ; Mary Christie (marr. 5th March 1918, Thomas Cheeseborough, H.M. Customs). SAMUEL KNOX JOHNSTON, born Magherafelt, co. Derry, 4th Feb. 1875, son of James J., J.P., and Sarah Davidson; educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and Royal University of Ireland ; B.A. (1896), and Univ. of Edin burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1899 ; assistant at Rosemount, Aberdeen, Ayr, and Dean Parish, Edinburgh ; ord. to Stromness llth Jan. 1906 ; trans, and adm. 18th May 1916. Marr. 13th Sept. 1907, Margaret Mary, daugh. of John Geddie, sub- editor of Scotsman, Edinburgh, and Isabella Young, and has issue— Isabella Hulda, born 20th March 1909. TARRADALE OR CILL CHRIOSD (KILCHRIST). ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, reader at 1669 Kilchrist and at Killearnan in 1569. DONALD ADAMSON, min. in 1574.— 1674 [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 523.] DONALD DOW FRASER, min. in 1579, 1579 with other churches in his charge ; still min. in 1589. MARYBURGH. [A church built here in 1841 was retained by the Free Church in 1843.] GEORGE M'LEOD, born Latheron 10th June 1803, son of Neil M., farmer, and Janet Mitchell ; was engaged in business until his twenty-eighth year, when coming under strong religious influences, he resolved to study for the ministry; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh, during which period he was employed as an agent of the City Mission; licen. by Presb. of Dunoon Nov. 1839; ord. in 1841. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Maryburgh, that year; adm. to Free Church, Lochbroom, 18th July 1844 ; died at his son's manse, Newport, Fife, 2nd May 1871. During Disruption times he travelled upwards of 9000 miles mostly in open boats. He marr. Janet M'Leod, and had issue— Neil, D.D., min. of Free Church, Newport, born 1827, died 1895. — [Disruption Worthies of the Highlands (portrait), 187-95.] PEESBYTERY OF TAIN [This Court was erected by the General Assembly on llth Dec. 1706. The Presbytery Register begins at 31st Dec. 1706. There is a gap in its record from 28th Sept. 1785 to 15th April 1786.] CROICK (Q.S.). [A parliamentary church was built here in 1827. The parish of Croick was disjoined from Kincardine on 4th March 1846.] EGBERT WILLIAMSON, pres. by 1828 GeorSe IV- 9tl1 April, and ord. 25th Sept. 1828 ; trans, to St Andrew's Church, Pictou, Nova Scotia, and adm. 24th Sept. 1840 ; returned to Scotland and adm. to Knockbain 14th Dec. 1843. GUSTAVUS AIRD, born 29th June 1813, son of Gustavus A., tacksman of Heathfield, Kilmuir-Easter, and Anne, daugh. of John Grant, tacksman of Polnicol ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (April 1830) ; Keen, by Presb. of Tain 27th Jan. 1841. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Croick, that year; trans, to Free Church, Creich, 16th Aug. 1843; D.D. (Aberdeen 1885) ; elected Moderator of the Free Church General Assembly held at Inverness, May 1888 ; dem. 1896 ; died at Sale, Manchester, 20th Dec. 1898. He was one of the best known of Highland ministers. He collected much valuable material bearing upon religious life in the counties of Ross and Sutherland, part of which has been pub lished. He marr. 16th Jan. 1861, Mary, daugh. of William Sim, Scotsburn. Publi cations — Searmon a rinneadh leis an ure (Glasgow, 1889); Farewell Gaelic and English Sermons preached in Creich Free Church, 15th Nov. 1896 (portrait) (Inver ness, 1897) ; Sermon (Dingwall, n.d.) ; Sermon (Edinburgh, 1916) ; Bondage and Liberty (Edinburgh, 1917).— [Macrae's Life of Gustavus Aird, D.D. (Stirling, 1907); MacNeilPs An-t-urr Gustavus Aird (Glas gow, 1896) ; Beaton's Bibliography of Gaelic Books, 7.] JOHN MACDONALD, ord. 23rd July 1844 1844 ; trans, to Rogart 29th Jan. 1858. ALEXANDER MACLEAN, pres. by 1858 Queen Victoria 23rd April, and adm. 14th May 1858; trans, to Halkirk 1st June 1865. JOHN WALKER MACINTYRE, pres. 1865 ky Queen Victoria 3rd July, and ord. 28th Sept. 1865 ; trans, to Kinloch- Rannoch 15th April 1869. ALEXANDER EDWARD MURRAY 1869 McCONNACHIE, born 31st May 1835, son of Donald M., min. of Glen Urquhart ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; app. missionary at Tighna- bruaich ; pres. by Queen Victoria 23rd April, and adm. 28th Sept. 1869; dem. 16th May 1871. JAMES BARNETT, born Resolis, 1825, 1871 son °^ James B., farmer, and Ann Logan ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; pres. by Queen Victoria 24th June, and ord. 21st Sept. 1871; died unmarr. 25th Aug. 1888. JOHN CAMPBELL MACKINNON, born Cape Breton, Canada, 1848, son of Donald M., schoolmaster, and Christina Campbell ; educated at Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh ; adm. to Knoydart 2nd May 1883; trans, and adm. 9th May 1889 ; died unmarr. 5th Nov. 1897. PRESB. OF TAINj CROICK— EDDERTON 53 JAMES WALLACE MACDONALD, , 1898 ' Durness 7th May 1918. JOHN COUTTS, born Nigg, Kincardine- 1919 shire' 2nd Aug> 1856) S0n °f William C. and Margaret Grassick ; educated at Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1889) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in 1902 ; assistant at Turriff, Keith, Markinch, Culsalmond, and Alvah ; ord. 28th Jan. 1919; B.Sc., D.Sc. (1923). EDDERTON. [The incumbent was formerly sub-dean of Ross.] SIR JOHN ROSS, vicar in 1550, but there is no evidence that he con- 1560 formed at the Reformation. FARQUHAR REID, exhorter in 1567 1567. WILLIAM STRACHAN, vicar in 1568 ; 1568 died in 1583. DONALD SIMSON, reader, 1576 to 1580; pres. by James VI. 26th Oct. 1583.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 414.] ROBERT MUNRO, min. in 1607.— 1607 [Munro of Allan Writs.] HECTOR MUNRO of Daan, second son of William M., min. of Culli- cudden; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1610); adm. in 1614; was a member of the Glasgow Assembly in 1638; still min. 28th Aug. 1655; died before 10th Feb. 1665. He acquired the estate of Meikle Daan in 1626. He marr. (1) Euphemia, daugh. of William Ross of Invercharron, son of Sir David R. of Balnagowan, and had issue — William, died unmarr. in London ; Alexander of Meikle Daan ; John : (2) Isabel, daugh. of James Davidson, provost of Dundee, and widow of Thomas M'Culloch of Kindeace.— \Geneal. of the Mackenzies ; Hist, of the Munros, 384 ; Scot. Antiquary, xii., 171 ; P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., ii., 24.] WILLIAM ROSS, educated at Univ. of 1665 St Andrews J M-A- (13th Mav 1653) > licen. by Presb. of Forres 14th Nov. 1657 ; adm. in 1665 ; proposed for Auld- earn in 1671 and Stirling in 1676; died April 1679, aged about 46. He marr. (cont. 30th June 1660), Isobel, daugh. of Andrew M'Culloch of Glastullich (she marr. (2) Hugh Ross, writer, Inverness). ARTHUR SUTHERLAND, educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (14th July 1674) ; adm. about 1680 ; died April 1708, aged about 54. He marr. Janet (died 17th April 1748), daugh. of Alexander Ross of Easterfearn, and had issue — John, min. of Tain ; David ; William, dyer in Ord ; Robert, square- wright, Tain ; Mary.— [Services of Heirs ; Reg. of Deeds, Mack., clxxxv., pt. i., 18th March 1759.] HECTOR FRASER, licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow ; ord. to Kincardine 25th April 1699; called 17th Oct. 1708; trans, and adm. 4th May 1709 ; died 17th May 1729. He marr. Margaret Ross (died 1752), widow of John Robertson, min. of Lairg. ROBERT ROBERTSON, born 1692, son of Colin R. of Kindeace and Rebecca, daugh. of Sir Robert Munro, Bart., of Fowlis ; educated at Univ. of Edin burgh ; M.A. (13th April 1710); licen. by Presb. of Peebles 16th March 1720 ; ord. to Loth 10th May 1721 ; trans, and .adm. 29th July 1730; died 18th Dec. 1740.— [Macdonald's MS. Diary; Douglasses of Mulderg.] JOSEPH MUNRO, born 1714, son of Robert M., min. of Kincardine ; edu cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 5th March 1739 ; pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, 2nd June 1741, but not ord. till 16th Sept. 1742, in consequence of a competing call. A con siderable number of parishioners opposed to his settlement, seceded and joined a Secession congregation at Nigg ; died 16th March 1785. He marr. 20th Nov. 1746, Barbara (died 17th Aug. 1789, aged 71), 1730 54 EDDERTON [PRESB. OF daugh. of Walter Boss, D.D., min. of Tongue, and had issue — Annabella Stewart, born 16th Nov. 1747 (marr. George Douglas, min. of Tain); Walter Koss, born 23rd Oct. 1748 ; Elizabeth, born 26th Oct. 1749 ; Kobert, born 30th Jan. 1750 ; Joseph Drew, born 24th Jan. 1752 ; Janet Mary, born 13th May 1753 (marr. Angus Bethune, min. of Alness) ; Helen Lilias, born 25th Sept. 1754, died 15th April 1755 ; Barbara Margaret, born 23rd Feb. 1756 (marr. John Bethune, min. of Dornoch) ; Matthew William Charles, born 23rd March 1760.— [Hist, of the Munros.] ALEXANDEK MUNKO, born . Ferintosh, 1756 ; educated at King's ' College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March 1777) ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 29th Sept. 1784 ; pres. by John, Lord Macleod, in July, and ord. 28th Sept. 1785; died 30th Oct. 1820. He encountered consider able opposition from the majority of his parishioners, being inducted without their concurrence, but a high character for piety, amiability, and diligence eventually secured for him their affection and esteem. He marr. 22nd June 1781, Margaret Cooper, who died 24th July 1797, and had issue- Hugh, merchant, Lisbon, born 10th Aug. 1782; Mary: (2) 24th Oct. 1798, Simona (died 9th Dec. 1834), daugh. of Simon Mackenzie of Scotsburn, and had issue — Margaret Mackenzie, born 6th Aug. 1799 ; John, born 18th Sept. 1804 ; Vere Menzies, medical practitioner, born 15th Dec. 1806. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xi.). ALEXANDER CAMERON, born Ardersier, 1793; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (25th March 1814) ; app. rector of Tain Academy llth May 1817 ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 12th Aug. 1818 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; ord. 13th Sept. 1821 ; died 5th Sept. 1835. He was an able preacher and much loved by his parishioners. He marr. 4th Aug. 1819, Katherine (died Nov. 1843), daugh. of Robert Irvine, merchant, London, and had issue — Martha Isabella, born 8th Sept. 1820 (marr. William Cameron, min. of Lochbroom) ; Isabella, born 16th Nov 1821 ; William, born 3rd June 1823 ; Alex ander Robert Irvine, born 17th Oct. 1827, died 24th March 1830. DONALD GORDON, born Strathaven, 1796; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1819), and Univ. of Glasgow ; became schoolmaster of Farr 14th May 1817 ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue 28th Nov. 1822 ; ord. (assistant) to Eddrachilis same day ; trans, to Stoer 2nd Sept. 1829; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie 5th Dec. 1835 ; trans, and adm. 7th April 1836. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Edderton, that year; died 30th Aug. 1847. He marr. 24th Sept. 1833, Donaldina Ross, Scourie, who died 7th Feb. 1902, and had issue— John, born 20th Sept. 1834 ; Charles, born llth July 1836 ; Mary, born 21st Dec. 1837 ; Janet Helen, born 15th Dec. 1839 ; Donella, born 12th Feb. 1843. JOHN CAMERON, born Inverness- shire, 1799; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1818); licen. by Presb. of Inverness 1st July 1823; ord. to Stornoway 18th Aug. 1825; trans, and adm. 28th March 1844; died 30th May 1854. He marr. 26th Oct. 1825, Margaret Bruce, Dumfries, who died 29th Sept. 1888, and had issue — James Bruce, born 20th Dec. 1827; Margaret Bruce, born 7th Sept. 1829 (marr. Adam Smith, Ballarat, Victoria); Emily Mac kenzie, born 19th Feb. 1832 ; Eliza, born 22nd March 1835; Alexander, born 12th May 1837 ; Joanna, born 20th April 1839 ; John William, born 8th July 1841, died 7th Dec. 1854; Murdo, born 12th Sept. 1845. Publication — Account of the Parish of Stornoway (New Stat. Ace., xiv.). DONALD MACINTOSH, born 1800, son of Alexander M., farmer, Killear- nan, and Isabel Noble ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1817-25 ; ord. by Presb. of Lochcarron to West River, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1833; trans, to Urray 29th Feb. 1844; trans, and adm. 23rd Nov. TAIN] EDDERTON— FEARN 55 1854 ; died 2nd July 1859. He raarr. 10th April 1839, Jane Lydiard, who died 22nd Feb. 1896, and had issue — Lydiard, born 3rd May 1840, died 9th April 1849 ; Edward, engineer, Burmah, born 6th May 1843; Howard Lydiard, born 15th June 1845 ; Flora Downie, born 6th Oct. 1846 ; Mary Charlotte, born 19th July 1848; Lydiard, born 20th May 1850 ; Charles Downie, born 25th Sept. 1852.— [Gregg's Hist, of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 335.] JAMES MAXWELL JOASS, M.A. ; adm. from Brae Lochaber Mission 24th Nov. 1859; trans, to Golspie 25th Oct. 1866. EWEN MACE WEN, born near Loch- 1867 earnhead, 1822, son of John M., farmer, and Janet Maclaren; edu cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; ord. missionary at Amulree 28th March 1854; trans, to Kenmore (assistant) Jan. 1862 ; trans, and adm. 18th April 1867 ; died 14th June 1889. He marr. Ellen (died at Forres, 19th Jan. 1924, aged 99), daugh. of Owen Elliot, farmer, and Helen Brydon. NEIL MACLEOD, ord. 24th Oct. 1889 ; 188g dem. 6th Dec. 1901 [afterwards min. of Lochranza]. DONALD MACRAE, born Aviemore, 1002 10tn Jan> 1864) son of Donald M- ' and Helen Riddock ; educated at Raining's School, Inverness, and Univs. of St Andrews, M.A. (1887), and Aberdeen, B.D. (1890) ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch ; missionary at Ardgour ; ord. to Lairg 29th Sept. 1890 ; trans, and adm. 18th Feb. 1902; clerk of Presb., 1915-23; died at Inverness, 5th Sept. 1923. He marr. (1) 15th Jan. 1891, Anne, daugh. of William Stephen, farmer, Culrain, and Annie Stephen, and had issue — Donald Alastair, lieut. 5th Seaforths and Machine Gun Corps, born 26th Oct. 1891, died of pneu monia at Tournai, 16th Nov. 1918 ; Ronald Stephen Bruce, Toronto, born 15th March 1893 ; Colin Frederick, lance-corporal 4th Seaforths, born 19th Feb. 1895, died at St Omer, 21st Dec. 1914 ; Charles Eric, lieut. 4th Seaforths and R.A.F., born 16th Feb. 1897, killed in air fight at St Omer, 10th Nov. 1916 ; James Douglas, wireless tele graph officer, H.M.S. Salient, born 3rd July 1899 ; William Edwin, born 26th Feb. 1902 ; Isabel Helen, born 1st June 1903 (marr. Peter Robertson of Castlecraig, Nigg) : (2) 23rd Nov. 1916, Margaret, daugh. of Dun can Cameron, banker, Tain, and Barbara Mathieson. Publications — Notes on the History of the Parish of Lairg (Wick, 1898) ; Latin Articles in Latin Journals Vox Urbis and Alma Roma, 1895-1922. FINLAY McNICOL McKINNON,M.A.; trans, from Weem (q.v.} and adm. 1924 14th Feb. 1924. FEARN, on SGIR NA MANACHAINN (" The Parish of the Monastery ") [The parish of Fearn was disjoined from that of Tarbat in or about 1628, but the erection of the new parish was not carried through until 1640. Within the bounds assigned to it stood the disused Premonstratensian Abbey of St Ninian at Fearn, and the Abbey Church was restored for the use of the parish. The monastery of Fearn had been first founded in 1227 by Farquhar, first Earl of Ross, at Fearn in Edderton. Patrick Hamilton, Abbot of Fearn, who was burned as a heretic at St Andrews on 28th Feb. 1527, was Superior of this monastery. He was not, however, a monk, but held the Abbey in commendam. On 10th October 1742, during service, the church was struck by lightning, the roof of the ancient Abbey gave way and fell in upon the worshippers. Forty- two were killed and many were badly injured. James Robertson, min. of Loch- broom, the preacher that day, placed his shoulder under the lintel of one of the doors which was giving way, and so helped to prevent its fall till the greater number of the people escaped. He was known there after as An ministear ladair — " the strong minister." The fine fabric was much damaged. It has been but partially re stored. There is a Well of Our Lady at Fearn.] 56 FEARN 1590 GEORGE MUNRO, min. of Fearn and Tarbat in 1590; trans, to Suddie about 1594, but still min. in 1616. THOMAS ROSS, min. of Fearn ; was recommended in 1630 by Robert Ross, min. of Alness, as his successor, but he was not settled there. WILLIAM ROSS of Shandwick, born 1593, son of Robert R. of Kinloch, min. of Alness ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1614; adm. to Kincar dine before 1624 ; trans, to Nigg 13th April 1633 ; pres. by Presb. of Tain ; trans, and adm. in 1644 ; suspended and the sentence approved by the General Assembly in July 1649, but he was still in the charge 3rd April 1660 ; died at Shandwick 20th April 1663. He marr. (1) Elizabeth, daugh. of William Campbell of Delnies, Nairn, and had issue — David, murdered at Invereshie in 1651 ; Andrew, sixth of Shandwick, died Oct. 1675 ; Alexander ; Katherine (marr. Jarues Fraser of Pitcalzean) : (2) (cont. llth Nov. 1639) Isobel, daugh. of Hector Douglas of Mulderg (she marr. (2) Andrew Fraser, portioner of Pitcalzean), and had issue— Janet, marr. (cont. 7th Nov. 1666) Donald Ross, Dean of Guild and merchant, Tain ; Isobel (marr. 1680, Alexander Munro of Teannaird) ; Elizabeth, marr. (cont. 8th Dec. 1680) William Ross in Shandwick.— [Dingwall Presb. Reg. ; Reid's Geneal. of the ALEXANDER ROSS of Nether Pit- 167o kerrie, son of Thomas R., min. of Kincardine ; adm. about 1670 ; died before 4th Oct. 1700, when his widow had sasine of part of Pitkerrie. He marr. Janet, daugh. of George Munro of Pitlundie (she marr. (2) Duncan Davidson), and had issue — Alexander of Nether Pitkerrie ; Charles. DONALD MACLENNAN, son of Allan 1677 M., min. of Glenelg; pres. by John, Bishop of Ross, and inst. in 1677 ; had escheat of his father from the King 1st Aug. 1683 ; died March 1689. KENNETH MACKENZIE of Ranitries ; educated at King's Col lege, Aberdeen; M.A. (4th July 1682); adm. to Kincardine before 21st Aug. 1686; trans, and adm. in 1689; dep. for " quarrelling " in 1691 ; was alive in 1701. He marr. Jean, daugh. of Donald Mac kenzie of Meddat, and had issue — George ; Isobel. HUGH DUFF, born Ross-shire, recom mended by the General Assembly 18th Jan. 1697 to pass trials before Presb. of Dalkeith by which he was licen. 13th July that year; sent north by the Assembly to supply vacant churches ; called in May, and ord. 29th Dec. 1698 ; died 3rd July 1739. "He displayed great energy and zeal in the discharge of his duties." He marr., and had issue — William, Professor of Philosophy, Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1727-38 ; Hugh, farmer, Fearn. DONALD ROSS, born 1692 ; licen. by 1742 Presb. of St Andrews 24th Oct. 1730 ; ord. to Lochbroom llth Aug. 1731 ; trans, and adm. 27th March 1742. He was seriously injured by the falling of the Abbey roof (see above) but recovered ; died 2nd Sept. 1775. He marr. 6th Oct. 1733, Elizabeth Ross of Glend field, who died in 1783, and had issue— Ann, born 27th July 1734 (marr. John Sutherland, min. of Tain). JOHN URQUHART of Mounteagle; 17?1 educated at Marischal College, Aber deen ; pres. by George III. in April, and ord. (assistant and successor) 12th June 1771 ; died 27th Sept. 1800. He marr. 2nd Jan. 1779, Katherine (died 24th Feb. 1836), daugh. of Alexander Houston, provost of Fortrose, and had issue — John, born llth May 1783 ; Alexander, born 21st May 1784 ; Janet, born 14th July 1785, died 26th June 1816; Elizabeth Baillie, born 10th July 1786; Mary, born 28th June 1787; Katherine, born 16th June 1788; George Roderick, lieut. 33rd Foot, born 26th May 1790; Charles Farquharson, major 54th Bengal Light Infantry, born 10th Aug. 1792, died 17th Feb, 1856; Alexandrina Sophia, born 8th Sept. 1793; Christina, born 27th Sept. 1794, died 24th Nov. 1854 ; Joan, born 14th July 1798. Publication- Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iv.). TAIN] FEARN 57 WILLIAM SIMPSON, born Ross-shire 1802 ab°ut 1>761 ; educated at King's ' College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (27th March 1783); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 4th May 1784; assistant at Kilmuir - Wester ; ord. missionary at Kincardine and Creich 23rd Nov. 1790 ; trans, to Gaelic Chapel, Paisley, in 1796 ; pres. by George III. Dec. 1800, but owing to opposition to his settlement not admitted till 7th July 1802 ; died 17th Aug. 1808. He marr. 17th Sept. 1798, Katherine (died 4th Sept. 1801), daugh. of Alexander Baillie of Little Tarrel, and had issue— Katherine, born 4th Aug. 1800 (marr. Lewis Rose, min. of Tain) ; Jean, born 2nd Sept. 1801. HUGH ROSS, born 1760, son of Robert R. in Tarbat ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (28th March 1782); licen. by Presb. of Tain 22nd May 1788; ord. missionary at Fort Augustus July 1799; trans, to Gaelic Chapel, Cromarty, 13th April 1800 ; pres. by George III. 24th Aug. 1808 ; trans, and adm. 13th April 1809. A determined spirit of opposition followed his ministry throughout, the great bulk of his parishioners refusing to accept his services. He died 30th April 1844. He marr. 6th Feb. 1818, Ann (died 4th Aug. 1846), daugh. of Hugh Ross of Tarlogie, and had issue — Catherine, born 3rd Nov. 1821 (marr. Hugh Macleod, min. of Logie- Easter). Publications— Accounts of Evie and of Fearn [with William Mackenzie, min. of Tongue] (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii. ; New Stat. Ace., xiv.). DONALD MACKINNON, pres. by Queen Victoria 20th Oct. 1844 ; ord. ' 7th Aug. 1845 ; trans, to Strath 12th Aug. 1856. DONALD FRASER, born 1822, son of James F., teacher, and Sarah Scott ; educated at King's College, Aber deen; app. missionary at Glengarry in 1855; pres. by Queen Victoria 5th Nov. 1856 ; adm. 12th March 1857 ; died 4th Feb. 1869. He marr. 7th June 1857, Sophia (died 2nd Feb. 1900), daugh. of George Gillanders, Inspector of Poor, and Sophia M'Kid, and had issue— James Alexander, born 29th Dec. 1864. HUGH FRASER, born 1835, son of Thomas F., caretaker of the Bridge of Oich, and Jessie Robertson ; edu cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; ord. in 1860 ; adm. to Berriedale 31st March 1864 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 1st June, trans, and adm. 23rd Sept. 1869; died 22nd Nov. 1894. He marr. 15th June 1865, Mary M'Nab (died 29th Oct. 1912), daugh. of Hugh M'Calman, min. of Latheron, and had issue — Hugh, born 2nd Aug. 1866; Alexander M'Calman, born 27th Nov. 1867; Ursula Gilmour, born 1st April 1869; Janet Isabella, born 29th June 1871 ; Julia Gilmour, born 9th Aug. 1872 ; John M'Calman, born 26th April 1874; Andrew Robertson, born 6th Oct. 1879. CHARLES ROBERTSON, born Kirk- michael, Perthshire, 1st July 1856, ' son of Charles R., and Jane Robert son ; educated at Kirkmichael and Black burn schools and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1874), B.D. (1884) ; was for sometime a teacher ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh, April 1884; assistant at St Andrew's Church, Buenos Aires, and at Govan ; missionary at Winchburgh llth July 1886 to Dec. 1888 ; ord. to Assynt 3rd Jan. 1889 ; trans, and adm. 5th Nov. 1895; died 15th Jan. 1925. He took an active interest in edu cational affairs and was chairman of County Education Authority. He marr. 17th June 1915, Agnes Shaw Cameron, s.p., daugh. of Finlay Munro of Rockfield and Elizabeth Durie. JACKSON LOUDON M'FADDEN, born llth Nov. 1890, son of Jackson ' M., min. of Badony Presbyterian Church, Newton Stewart, Ireland; edu cated at Royal Academical Institution, Belfast; Trinity College, Dublin; B.A. (1912), M.A. (1919) and Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Perth in 1917 ; assistant at St Michael's, Dumfries, and Greenside, Edinburgh ; ord. to Kirkmaiden 7th April 1921; trans, and adm. 2nd June 1925. 58 KILMUIR-EASTER [PRESB. OF 1585 KILMUIR-EASTER. [The church of this parish was dedicated to St Mary. There was a. prebend of Kil- muir in the Chapter of Fortrose Cathedral. At Delny in the parish there was a chapel of St Mary. At Balnagowan also there was a chapel.] 1560 GEORGE DUNBAE, vicar in 1560. WILLIAM ROSS, pres. by James VI. in 1S^ 1569, dem. in 1575. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 459.] 1572 DONALD REID, reader in 1572. NEIL MUNRO, reader in 1574; pres. 1576 by James VI. in 1575 ; dep. in 1585 for non-residence and not serving the cure.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 459.] JOHN MUNRO of Pitlundie, pres. by James VI. in 1585. He marr. Finguala, daugh. of Alexander Ross of Cuilich, and had issue— Hugh ; Alex ander; John, min. of Reay : David, rain, of Latheron ; Hector of Nonikill. JOHN ROSS of Little Tarrel, trans. 158g from Logie-Easter ; was a member of Assembly 10th May 1 586 ; returned to Logie-Easter before 1604. ALEXANDER HOSSACK, adin. before 1618 1618 ; still min. in 1639. He marr. Isobel Ross, and had issue— William; David. — [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum ; Reg. of Deeds ( Warrants') 6th Jan. 1647 ; Scot. Antiquary, v., 156.] JAMES MACCULLOCH, educated at 1658 Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1628) ; adm. before 15th Dec. 1653; still min. 25th Jan. 1671.— [Logie-Easter Sess. Record.] WILLIAM DENOON, min. 5th May 1684 1684' w^en ke witnessed a deed at Tarbat by Sir George Mackenzie, afterwards Earl of Cromartie. DONALD FORBES, educated at King's 1687 College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (llth July 1676) ; passed trials before the Presb. of Dingwall and had a testimonial for licence 6th April 1686; adm. about 1687; dep. by the Presb., June 1700, for immorality, sabbath-breaking "to a most scandalous degree," and other misdemeanours, which sentence was confirmed by the Commission of Assembly at Tain 19th July 1700. He appears as a bailie in a sasine, July 1702. DANIEL M'KILLICAN, called 21st 1701 Julv> an<* ord- 25tn Sept. 1701. Owing to differences with his .heritors as to the temporalities, he accepted a call to Alness, and was admitted there 24th Sept. 1714. WALTER ROSS, born 1678, son of 1715 Alexander R. of Torranlish, sheriff- clerk of Ross ; educated at Maris- chal College, Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 14th Dec. 1714 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 29th March, and ord. 15th Sept. 1715 ; died 29th Dec. 1733. He found the parish in a rude and unruly state, but by a severe discipline and his own firm example he reduced it in a large degree to order and decorum. He marr. 14th Aug. 1726, Catherine, daugh. of James Wilson, Edinburgh (she marr. (2) Daniel Bethune, min. of Rosskeen.— [Scot. Antiquary, iv., 1733.] JOHN PORTEOUS, born Inverness, 1704, said to be a relative of Beilby P., Bishop of London, and a grandson of one of Cromwell's English soldiers who settled in Inverness, and brother of William P., min. of Rafford ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1720); licen. by Presb. of Elgin 24th Oct. 1727 ; pres. to Daviot and Dunlichity in 1729, but when he went to preach his trial sermon at Dunlichity he was stoned and driven out of the parish by a band of women ; called 8th Aug., and adm. 27th Nov. 1734 ; he was compelled to reside at Halmadary in Kildonan owing to his Hanoverian sympathies, during the rebel lion of 1745-6; died 7th Jan. 1775. He was eminently popular, was reckoned a preacher of great eloquence and power and a man of deep piety. His personal appear ance was striking, unusually tall and erect in his figure, light in his step, he was very unlike the picture a southron would be dis posed to draw of the highland ministers of that period. He marr. Jane Innes, who died llth Dec. , aged ^.—[The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire (1895), 39-45 ; Tombst.] TAIN] KILMUIR-EASTER 59 1814 JOHN MATHESON, born Strathpeffer, 1 747 ; became schoolmaster of the 1 parish ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 9th Aug. 1769; ord. missionary at Kincardine and Creich 2nd Oct. 1771 ; pres. by George III. in May, and adm. 22nd Sept. 1775 ; died 19th April 1814. He marr. 20th Aug. 1778, Anne (died 12th June 1823), daugh. of John Montgomery, merchant in Milntown, and had issue— Margaret, born 4th Jan. 1785; Charles Koss, min. of this parish ; Anne Helen, born 13th Dec. 1790 ; Joanna, born 22nd Feb., died 28th Sept. 1793; John, born 8th March 1794; David, born 1st June 1795 ; Magdalene, born 23rd Feb. 1798. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vi.). CHARLES BOSS MATHESON, born 22nd Sept. 1786, son of preceding; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March 1804); licen. by Presb. of Tain 18th May 1809 ; ord. (assistant) here 5th Feb. 1812; adm. to Gaelic and English Chapel, Edinburgh, 29th July 1813; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in July, trans, and adm. 22nd Sept. 1814. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Kilmuir, 1843-66; died 14th May 1866. He marr. 19th Aug. 1817, Caroline (died 22nd Aug. 1830), daugh. of Colin Shaw of Culblair, and had issue— Jean, born 6th June 1818; John, rain, of Free Church, Forgue and at Hampstead, London, born 3rd Sept. 1819, died 1893; Colin Shaw, born 13th March 1821 ; Charles Shaw, born 19th Sept. 1822, died 2nd June 1825 ; William Francis, born 25th Feb. 1824 ; Edward Hay Mackenzie, banker, Tain, born 19th Oct. 1825 ; Anne Montgomerie, born 2nd Feb. 1827 (marr. Hector Fraser, min. of Free Church, Halkirk) ; George, born 16th Aug. 1829. DANIEL MACBPJDE, adm. 21st Sept. 1843. He marr. 18th Sept. 1845, Anna, daugh. of Donald Stewart, Balure, Argyllshire (c/. Vol. IV., 159); trans, to Little Dunkeld 27th Feb. 1851. WILLIAM MACPHERSON, born 1822, 1851 S°n °f JameS M"> farmer> Kirk' michael, Banff, and Penuel Grant ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. 1843 (March 1845); ord. llth Sept. 1851; died 1st Jan. 1866. He marr. 5th June 1854, Catherine (died llth July 1904), daugh. of John Duncan, solicitor, London, and grand- daugh. of Captain David Ross of Milncraig and Shandwick, and had issue — Sir Duncan James, C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, born 14th May 1855 ; John Ross, born 15th Aug. 1856, died -- ; Major-General Sir William Grant, Deputy Director General, Medical Staff, European War, K.C.M.G.,C.B.,LL.D., editor of The Official Medical History of the War, author of other works on military medical subjects, born 27th Jan. 1858, died 15th Oct. 1927 ; Charles Edward Walker, C.A., Collector of Ministers' Widows' Fund, born 19th April 1860 ; Katherine Penuel, born 26th May 1863. DONALD STUART, born Cromdale, 1840, son of Robert S., educated at ' Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1861); licen. by Presb. of Abernethy; pres. by Duchess of Sutherland ; ord. 20th Sept. 1866 ; dem. 25th Jan. 1900 ; died 7th Jan. 1914. He marr. 6th April 1869, Elizabeth (died 2nd July 1916), youngest daugh. of James Macdonald, Aberdeen, and had issue — William Laing,born 16th June 1871 ; Robert James, born 13th Aug. 1872 ; Elizabeth Jane, born 12th June 1874, died 26th July 1875 ; John Macdonald, born 19th May 1877. HENRY REID CHALMERS, trans. 1900 ; trans, to Duffus 4th Jan. 1907. DUGALD M'CALLUM, M.A., ord. 14th May 1907; trans, to First Charge, Campbeltown, 13th Feb. 1914. JOHN CAMPBELL McNAUGHT, born Glasgow, 29th Jan. 1871, son of James M., D.D., min. of Abbotsford, Glasgow ; educated at High School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1892), B.D. (1895) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 6th Nov. 1895 ; missionary at Brae Lochaber, Ford of Lochawe, and Kiltinan ; ord. to Kinloch- luichart 19th Jan. 1905 ; trans, and adm. 21st July 1914. Publication— The Celtic Church and the See of Peter (Oxford, 1927.) 60 KINCARDINE [PRESB. OP KINCARDINE. [The church of Kincardine was dedicated to St Columba. In the Chapter of Fortrose Cathedral there was a prebend of Kin cardine. Within the bounds was a Well of St Mary.] FARQUHAR REID, exhorter in 1567 1567. ALEXANDER LESLIE, pres. to the 1578 vicarage before 1566 by Queen Mary ; became parson before 1573.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 411; M 'Gill's Old fioss- shire, 20.] HUGH ROSS, reader at Rosskeen in 15?8 1576; adm. in 1578; still min. in 1607. JAMES ROSS, adm. in 1616.— [Orig. 1616 Charter Soc. of Antiq.] WILLIAM ROSS, adm. before 1624; 1624 trans, to Nigg 18th April 1633. HECTOR MUNRO, educated at Univ. 1634 °^ Glasgow ; adm. in 1634 ; was a member of Assembly in 1638 ; dep. for malignancy in 1651. In 1652 he received help for himself and "his poore indigent familie" from the stipend of Lochbroom ; re-adm. in 1662; died 18th March 1670, aged about 59. THOMAS ROSS of Nether Pitkerrie, 1655 born about 1614, son of George R. of Nether Pitkerrie ; adm. before 28th Aug. 1655; deprived by Act of Parliament and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662, and went to Tain, where he made himself useful in the work of the Gospel. He was in Moray in 1669 where he was accused of keeping conventicles, and was imprisoned in 1675 in the Tolbooth of Nairn. In 1676 he was removed to the prison of Tain and confined till 9th Oct. 1677, when he was liberated on finding caution for 2000 merks to appear when called upon. He died in his own house in Tain 13th Jan. 1679. James Fraser of Brea dedicated his Memoirs to him as a "singularly pious minister." He marr. Lilias Dunbar, and had issue — Alexander of Nether Pitkerrie, min. of Fearn ; George, min. of this parish. — [Wodrow's Hist.,'\. 324, iii. 437 ; The Bass Rock, 97, 105 ; Brodie's Diary ; Crichton's Life of Blackader ; Memoirs of Mrs Boss, 33.] HECTOR MUNRO, above men- 1662 tioned. GEORGE ROSS, son of Thomas R., 1fil71 min. of this parish ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; MA. (19th July 1666) ; adm. about 1671 ; died Feb. 1683, aged about 47. He marr. Katherine Ross, and had issue — David, min. of Tarbat. — [Scot. Antiquary, iv., 105.] KENNETH MACKENZIE, MA. ; adm. 1686 kef°re 21st Aug. 1686 ; trans, to Fearn in 1689. WALTER ROSS, born Ross-shire about 16 1657 ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; MA. (13th July 1675); adm. before the Revolution. Refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance, he dem. 26th Sept. 1695. He was summoned by the Presb., 28th July 1700, for intrusion and baptising irregularly ; died before 12th April 1705. He marr. Ellen (died before 1704), daugh. of William Munro of Culcraggie, and had fourteen children, for whom charitable contributions were recommended in the Synods of Lothian and Tweeddale, Glasgow and Ayr, and Fife, by the General Assembly, 30th March 1704.— [Scot. Antiquary, v., 156.] HECTOR FRASER, ord. 25th April 1699; trans, to Edderton 4th May 1709. ROBERT MUNRO, third son of George 1711 ^'' sheriff-depute and commissary of Ross, and brother of Hugh M., min. of Tain ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; recommended by the Assembly, 13th April 1706, to the Synod of Fife for a bursary ; Keen, by the Presb. of Tain 1st Dec. 1708 ; called 31st Oct. 1709, but (from difficulties regarding a sufficient stipend) not ord. till 29th March 1711; died 10th Feb. 1741. He marr. Janet (died 5th Jan. 1771), daugh. of Robert Pirrie, merchant, Glasgow, and had issue — Joseph, min. of Edderton ; William, student at Edinburgh Univ. TAIN] KINCARDINE 61 DAVID ROSS, born about 1711, nephew of David R., min. of Tarbat ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ; had a bursary from the Synod of Fife 26th Sept. 1728 ; was schoolmaster at Nigg and Tarbat ; licen. by the Presb. of Tain 2nd July 1740; pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, 6th Aug. 1741 ; ord. 7th April 1742 ; died llth May that year, having survived his ordination four weeks. GILBERT ROBERTSON, born 15th 1742 Sept. 1>702> son °f George R., farmer, Balconie, Kiltearn, and grandson of Gilbert R. of Kindeace ; became tutor to Sir Harry Munro of Fowlis, whom he accompanied to the academy of Dr Philip Doddridge at Northampton, under whom he studied theology ; licen. by the classis of Presbyterian dissenters in that place 22nd Aug. 1737; ord. 7th June 1739; called to Dingwall by the Presb. jure devoluto in 1740, but the Commission of Assembly reversed the appointment ; called to Edderton in 1741, but the Synod preferred another, 7th April 1742. On a petition by the whole parish, he was pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, 10th July, and adm. 31st Aug. 1742 ; called to Tarbat in 1750, which was not sustained. He was obliged to leave his parish in the spring of 1746 on account of the number of Jacobites encamping near his manse. To disguise himself he donned the Highland garb, and during this period preached under cover of the high broom then growing in profusion between Ardgay and Bonar Bridge. He died at Creich Manse 17th March 1774, "one of the most faithful of Highland ministers." He marr. 13th Oct. 1747, Christian (died 12th Sept. 1767), daugh. of John Bayne, min. of Dingwall, and had issue— Harry, min. of Kiltearn, born 2nd Nov. 1748 ; Anne, born 2nd March 1750 (marr. 12th Nov. 1772, George Rainy, min. of Creich) ; John, born 24th Nov. 1751, died in Tobago ; George, born 16th Nov. 1756, died in Demerara 1799. ANDREW GALLIE, born Tarbat about .,_,_. 1730 ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (3rd April 1750); licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th Nov. 1753; ord. missionary at Fort Augustus 27th July 1756; trans, to Laggan 6th Sept. 1758; pres. by George III. in Aug., trans, and adm. llth Sept. 1774; died 15th May 1803. He was an intimate friend of James Macpherson and his defender during the Ossian Controversy. lie marr. 19th Jan. 1760, Christian, daugh. of Thomas Ross of Calrossie, and had issue— Isobel, born 27th July 1762 (marr. James Ross, merchant, Tain), died in London 7th July 1845 ; Katherine, born 24th April 1766 ; Barbara, born 24th Dec. 1767 ; Alexandrina, born 1st June 1769 (marr. Donald Mackenzie, officer of Excise, (Panbride) ; Gordon, born 25th Nov. 1770; Elizabeth, born 25th April 1772; Helen, born 26th March 1775; John Lockhart, born llth Jan. 1781 ; Alexander, born 10th Oct. 1783. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii.). ALEXANDER MACBEAN, born 18Q4 Inverness, 1774, son of Alexander M. ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1790-4; was schoolmaster at Fearn and Cromarty ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 1st Oct. 1799; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie May 1803 ; ord. 25th April 1804 ; died 21st Aug. 1820. He marr. (1) Margaret Ross, who died 23rd Nov. 1816, and had issue — William, writer, Edinburgh, born 9th July 1794 ; Charles Munro, born llth June 1797, went to South America : (2) 8th May 1817. Helen (marr. (2) 2nd Aug. 1822), daugh. of William Murray, banker, Tain, and had issue — Alexander, born 4th March 1818; Christina, born 28th Feb. 1819 ; Margaret, born 14th Aug. 1820. HECTOR ALLAN, born Alness, 1790, son of Donald A., land steward to Sir Hector Munro of Novar; edu cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1810) ; ord. missionary at Fort William 15th June 1819; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Feb., trans, and adm. 12th April 1821. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Kincardine, 1843-53; died 9th Dec. 1853. He marr. 8th Aug. 1821, Catherine (died 13th Jan. 1836), daugh. of Alexander Stewart, D.D., min. of the Canongate, 1821 62 KING ARDINE— LOGIE-E A STER [PRESB. OF 1843 Edinburgh, and had issue — Alexander Stewart, major-general H.E.I.C.S., author of Statistical Accounts of Kincardine and Edderton, born 19th Aug. 1822 ; Catherine Louisa, born 24th Dec. 1835. LEWIS ROSE, trans, from Gaelic Chapel, Duke Street, Glasgow, and adm. 20th Sept. 1843 ; trans, to Tain llth April 1844. DONALD M'INTYRE, born 1814, third son of John M., farmer, Kilmalie ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. missionary in Lochaber in 1839 ; assistant at Creich ; adm. here 28th Aug. 1844 ; died 21st Dec. 1869. He marr. 28th Nov. 1844, Catherine (died 7th Oct. 1873), daugh. of Alexander Clark, C.E., Corpach, Fort William, and had issue — Catherine Mar garet, born 20th June 1846 ; John Dugald, born 6th May 1848 ; Alexander Clark, born 26th Oct. 1851 ; Jessie Macdonald, born 25th June 1853; Donald Archibald, born 24th Feb. 1855 ; Thomas Clark, born 10th July 1857. ALEXANDER MACLEOD, born Gildermory, Alness, 22nd April 1829, } son of Roderick M. and Catherine Macdonald ; educated at Kincardine Parish School and Univ. of Glasgow ; became tutor in the family of Norman Macleod, D.D. ; Keen, by Presb. of Glasgow in 1866 ; assist ant at Monkton and Newton-upon-Ayr, and missionary at St John's, Perth ; pres. by Anne, Duchess of Sutherland ; ord. 28th Aug. 1870 ; died 16th Jan. 1920. He marr. 5th Oct. 1876, Margaret (died 17th June 1919), daugh. of John Mitchell and Christian Walker, and had issue — John Roderick, private London Scottish, born llth May 1881, killed in action at Bullecourt, France, 29th Aug. 1918 ; Ada Catherine, born 13th Dec. 1885. HUGH FRASER M'NEILL, born 19ig Tongue, Sutherland, 15th Dec. 1861, son of Archibald M., schoolmaster, and Mary Fraser; educated at Tongue School and Univs. of St Andrews and Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness in 1890 j assistant at Stroma, Canisbay, and Blair Atholl ; ord. to Foss 28th June 1899 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 17th Dec. 1919. LOGIE-EASTER. [In the Chapter of Fortrose Cathedral there was a prebend of Logie-Easter.] 1560 SIR THOMAS HAY, rector in 1560. SIR DONALD REID, vicar before the 15?2 Reformation ; conformed and was reader 1572 to 1586. JOHN ROSS of Little Tarrel, son of 1581 Alexander R. of Little Tarrel and Sarah, daugh. of Thomas Ross of Greenhill ; was min. of Kilmuir- Wester in 1573; trans, to Tain in 1580; pres. by James VI. 25th April 1581. He was appointed by the General Assembly in that month as one " who best knew the bounds of the country" for selecting the number of Presbyteries, with the kirks of each, for Ross ; was trans, to Kilmuir- Wester before 1585, but returned here about 1589, and was appointed by the Assembly in 1606 constant Moderator of the Presbytery, who were charged by the Privy Council, 17th Jan. 1607, to receive him as such within twenty-four hours after notice under pain of rebellion; died 22nd Oct. 1616. He marr. Christian, daugh. of Hugh Monro of Assynt in Easter Ross, and had issue- Hugh, fourth of Little Tarrel, served heir 21st Jan. 1617; Marion (marr. David Munro of Allan) ; David ; Alexander, first of Pitkerrie, died 1st Feb. 1649; George of Nether Pitkerrie; Nicolas, burgess of Tain; William.— [Booke of the Kirk; Feme MSS. ; Inq. Ret. Ross, 46 ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 466.] DAVID ROSS, born about 1591, son of 1624 R°kert R-> nain. of Alness ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (27th July 1609) ; called min. in 1624 ; signed a charter of the Bishop of Ross, 6th Feb. 1633, as min. of Logie; was a member of Assembly in 1639, and still in the charge 28th Aug. 1655. He marr. (1) before 1638, Margaret Morrison, and had issue— Robert, min. of Tain; Andrew; Margaret (marr. John Munro of Logie); Ellen (marr. William Munro of Culcraggie) : (2) (cont. 18th April 1655), Janet, daugh. of Andrew TAIN] LOGIE-EASTER 63 Munro of Lemlair, and widow of Alexander Boss of Pitkerrie.— [Reid's Geneal. of the Rosses ; Hist, of the Munros, 485 ; Reg. Ma</. Sig., ix., 1943.] A. DUNDAS, adm. before 8th Feb. 1630; still min. in 1634.— [Charter 1680 ly David, Bishop of Ross, at Kil- learnan ; Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum.] KENNETH MACKENZIE, brother of j^- David M. of Meddat ; pres. by Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, and adm. 19th Feb. 1665. He had an adjudica tion of the lands of Dunskeath and Cubine, 26th March 1680, and his name appears on the list of heritors in Ross in 1685 as of Little Reynie. He sought admission to the Presbyterian Church in 1708, but was found unqualified by a committee appointed to examine him; died 20th March 1715. He marr. Katherine Douglas, and had issue — John, farmer, Achoylie, Kilmuir- Easter [father of William M., min. of Tongue] ; Daniel, min. of Third Charge, Inverness ; George. - — [Inverness Sas., vi. 481, vii. 94.] JOHN BALFOUR, called by the Presb. 1716 Jure aevo^uto 13th Sept., and adm. 27th Nov. 1716 ; trans, to Nigg 26th March 1729. JOHN M'ARTHUR, licen. by Presb. of 1730 ^nanonry 16tn Dec. 1718; ord. to Killearnan 26th March 1719 ; pres. by George, Lord Tarbat, Sept. 1729, and by the Presb. jure devoluto 14th Jan., trans. and adm. 25th March 1730; died 23rd March 1744. He marr. Katherine (died 3rd Jan. 1785), daugh. of John Fraser of Pitcalzean, min. of Alness. After her husband's death she resided at Pitcalzean. PATRICK GRANT, educated at King's 1744 College, Aberdeen, 1728-32 ; licen. by Presb. of Abertarff 12th April 1738 ; ord. missionary at Fort Augustus and Glenmoriston 1st Aug. 1739 ; pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, 3rd July, and adm. 25th Sept. 1744 ; died 19th July 1778. He marr. 30th Oct. 1746, Anne (died 3rd Sept. 1799), daugh. of Colonel Lewis Grant, fifth son of Ludovic Grant of Grant, and had issue — Margaret, born 17th Sept. 1747 (marr. William Mac kenzie, min. of Assynt) ; Anne, born 25th Sept. 1748; Ludovic, born 3rd Dec. 1749, died 24th April 1750 ; Christina, born 12th Jan. 1750, died 27th March 1751 ; Christina, born 18th Feb., died 26th May 1752; James, born 20th Aug. 1753 ; John, born 6th Jan. 1755 ; Marion, born 24th Sept. 1761 (marr. George Goldie, Cromarty). JOHN ROSS, pres. by George III. in 77 March, and adm. 22nd Sept. 1779; trans, to Rosskeen 16th June 1813. NEIL KENNEDY, born Sept. 1778, son of Donald K., farmer, Kishorn, Lochcarron, and Mary Matheson, and brother of John K., min. of Killearnan ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1793-7 ; became tutor in the family of Mac kenzie of Dundonnell, and schoolmaster of Contin ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 23rd Dec. 1800; ord. by Presb. of Ding- wall as missionary at Strathconan 23rd Dec. 1801 ; adm. min. of Gaelic Chapel, Aberdeen, 20th Dec. 1804 ; locum tenens at Killearnan in 1811 ; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in July, and adm. 19th Aug. 1813; died 29th April 1836. He was one of the best known ministers in the North, a man of great pulpit power and apostolic zeal. He marr. 15th July 1806, Anne (died 17th June 1832), daugh. of John Downie, min. of Urray, and had issue — Charles Downie, born 19th May 1807, died 10th Oct. 1814 ; Donald, born 16th May 1808, min. of this parish ; Elizabeth Forbes, born 1st Nov. 1809 (marr. John Noble, min. of Fodderty) ; John Downie, missionary at Rosehall, 1834-43, and min. of the Free Church there (father of Neil John Downie K., K.C., LL.D., Lord K., chairman of the Scottish Land Court), born 7th Jan. 1811, died 1873; George, born 20th July 1812; Mary (twin), born 20th July 1812 ; Charlotte Downie, born 4th April 1814 ; Cnarles Downie, born 23rd Aug. 1815, died 10th May 1816 ; Anne Isabella, bora 16th Dec. 1817. Publication— Account of the Parish {New Stat. Ace., xiv.). 64 LOGIE-EASTER [PRESB. OF DONALD KENNEDY, born 16th May 1836 1808) son °^ Preceding; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1825); licen. by Presb. of Tain 2nd Sept. 1829; ord. to Helmsdale in 1835 ; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in July, and adm. 22nd Sept. 1836; dep. 30th Nov. 1836, for an alleged " heinous crime committed with his sister," of which he was afterwards found to be inno cent. He went to America and died in 1840. HUGH MACLEOD, born Tongue, 23rd 1839 April 1803; educated at Tongue School and King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (3rd March 1826) ; app. school master of Tongue in 1827 ; licen. by Presb. there 30th Nov. 1831 ; ord. missionary at Melness and Eriboll 28th Nov. 1833 ; adm. to Gaelic Chapel, Edinburgh, 10th Nov. 1837 ; trans, and adm. 19th Sept. 1839. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min, of Free Chxirch, Logie-Easter, 1843-50; visited Canada in 1845 and 1848, as deputy of the Free Church, chiefly to the highland settlers in the Eastern Province; adm. min. of Free Church, Mira Ferry (now Albert Bridge), Cape Breton, 2nd Oct. 1850; D.D. (1857); Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in 1877; died 23rd Jan. 1894. His congregation covered half the county of Cape Breton, and he did more for the advancement of his people, spiritually and materially, than anyone who could be named in the whole history of the Canadian Church. He marr. 6th April 1841, Catherine, daugh. of Hugh Ross, min. of Fearn, and had issue —Hugh, born 18th Nov. 1842 ; Barbara, born 19th Oct. 1844, died 30th June 1847 ; George, born 5th Oct. 1846 ; Anne, born 10th Nov. 1849 ; Barbara, born at Sydney, Cape Breton, 21st Oct. 1851; William Mackenzie, born 4th July 1854 ; Anne, born 10th May 1857 ; Catherine, born 6th Jan. I860.— [Murray's Hist, of the Presby terian Church in Cape Breton (portrait), 68-70; The Presbyterian Witness, 27th Jan. 1894.] ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, born 1843 1809> son of Alexander M., farmer, and Margaret Morrison ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Tain ; pres. by the Hon. John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; ord. 21st Sept. 1843; M.A. (King's College, Aber deen, 1859) ; died 7th June 1880. He marr. 2nd March 1852, Helen (died 30th May 1891), daugh. of Andrew Scott, Kildary, factor on the Cromartie estates, and had issue — Alexander William (M.A.) 1874, M.B., C.M. (1876), lieut.-colonel I.M.S. (Bengal), born 23rd Oct. 1853; Helen Graham, born 6th Feb. 1856; Andrew, born 2nd June 1857 ; Mary, born 13th June 1859 ; John Hay, born 2nd June 1860 ; George, born 27th Oct. 1862. ARCHIBALD MACDONALD, trans. 1881 ^rom Stornoway and adm. 4th March 1881 ; trans, to Gaelic parish, Greenock, 19th Nov. 1885. JAMES MUNRO, son of Alexander M., 1886 sh°emaker, and Isabella Mackie; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1880) ; ord. missionary at Glen- moriston in 1883 ; trans, and adm. 19th April 1886; died 9th Sept. 1915. He marr. 10th April 1895, Christina (died at Inverness, 8th Dec. 1924), eldest daugh. of George Millie, St Mary's, Cupar, Fife, and had issue — Alexander, private 4th Seaforth Highlanders, born 13th Aug. 1896, killed in action at Arras, 7th Sept. 1917; Mary Christina, born 25th Oct. 1898 ; George Millie, born 24th March 1900 ; James. DUGALD MACDONALD, born Car- Igl6 noch, Glencoe, 29th May 1864, son of James M. and Christina Macdonald ; educated at Ballachulish School and Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 6th May 1903; ord. to Poolewe 16th Sept. that year; trans, to Lochcarron 20th Jan. 1911; trans, and adm. 22nd Feb. 1916; died 3rd March 1924. He marr. 3rd Nov. 1904, Isabel, daugh. of Alexander Eunson and Isabel Eunson, and had issue — Elizabeth, TAIN] LOGIE-EASTER— NIGG 65 born 20th July 1905, died llth March 1909 ; Christina (twin), born 20th July 1905 ; Isabel, born 3rd May 1911. JOHN ROBERTSON FORBES, born 1924 Belting, Shetland, 28th Oct. 1875, son of James F., min. of St Mary's, South Ronaldshay, and Mary Tough ; edu cated at Academy, St Margaret's Hope, Banff Academy, and Univ. of Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall 12th April 1898; ord. to Deerness 27th Dec. that year ; trans, to Canisbay 26th Feb. 1902 ; trans, and adm. 30th July 1924. Marr. 4th March 1910, Alice Margaret, daugh. of the Rev. William Duffus, Swatow, China, and Margaret Webster, and has issue — Margaret Robertson, born 5th April 1911 ; Mary Elizabeth, born 4th Aug. 1914 ; John Seivwright, born llth Dec. 1915. NIGG. [The church of Nigg was a men sal kirk of the Bishop of Ross. In the parish there were chapels at Culliss and Shandwick. Also within the bounds were two holy Wells, Tobar Chormaig and Tobar Eoin Bhaiste, dedicated respectively to St Cormac and St John the Baptist. Nigg Cross is considered the best specimen of the ancient sculptured stones of Scotland.] FINLAY MANSON, son of Sir Alex ander M., a priest; app. reader at Nigg, Beltein, 1568; pres. to chap laincy of Tollie by James VI. 19th June 1569 ; became exhorter in Nov. that year ; pres. to vicarage there by James VI. 31st Dec. that year ; reader at Kincardine ; adm. to Tain in 1574 ; trans, and adm. in 1578; died at Nigg 1612. He marr. a daugh. of William Munro of Allan. — \0rig. Paroch. Scot., ii. 454 ; Booke of the Kirk.'] WILLIAM PAPE [or POPE], brother of 1613 Charles P. of Meikle Reny ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1587) ; app. schoolmaster of Dornoch in 1585 ; adm. to Dornoch in 1588; was commissioner for Sutherland from 1593-99; pres. by James VI. to Chantory of Caithness 22nd Nov. 1599 ; app. by the General VOL. VII. 1614 1653 Assembly constant Moderator of Presbytery in 1606. In endeavouring to quell a riot with his two younger brothers in June 1607, he and Thomas P., min. of Rogart, were badly wounded, while Charles P., sheriff- clerk of Sutherland, was killed; was a member of Assembly in 1610; trans, and adm. about 1613. He marr. Christian Mony penny.— [P. C. Reg., viii., 189; Reg. Mag. Sig. ix., 1967 ; Gordon's Hist, of House of Sutherland, 256, 257.] GEORGE CORBET, educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1610) ; adm. in 1614 ; died in 1633.— [Reg. Mag. Sig., vii., 1786.] WILLIAM ROSS, trans, from Kin- 1633 cardine and inst. 13th April 1633; trans, to Fearn in 1644. WILLIAM HOSACK, min. about 1650 1650. JAMES MACKENZIE, born about 1630, fourth son of John M. of Inverlaul, Archdeacon of Ross and min. of Killearnan ; adm. before 1653 ; died in April 1701. He marr. about 1670, Jean, daugh. of John Rose of Braidley, a cadet of Kilravock, and is said to have had twenty children—Kenneth in government service ; Thomas, writer ; Alexander in Captain Conyngham's regiment; William, lieutenant in army ; George of Beechhill, chamberlain to the Earl of Cromartie ; James, army chaplain in Flanders ; Henry, lieutenant in Edinburgh Castle, and others. Among his descendants were Hugh Miller, Cromarty, Henry Mackenzie, " The Man of Feeling," and Joshua Henry Mackenzie, senator of the College of Justice.— [Geneal. of the Mackenzies ; Family of Kilravock ; Inverness Sas., v., 534 ; G. R. Sas., 2nd ser., xv., 406.] GEORGE MUNRO of Culcraggie, second son of William M. of Culcraggie and Ellen, daugh. of David Ross, min. of Logie-Easter ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1704; app. by Assembly that year to go to Sutherland ; adm. here in 1706 ; declined a presentation by John, Earl of Cromartie, to Suddie 25th Oct. 1714 ; died at Edin burgh in 1728. He succeeded his father in Culcraggie. He marr. (1) July 1706, 1706 NIGG [PRESB. OF Catherine, daugh. of Alexander Burnet, Tain, and had issue — William of Culcraggie, merchant, Glasgow : (2) Katherine, daugh. of Robert Munro of Pittonachy, and had issue — Anna (marr. John Ross, Tain); Catherine (marr. 16th Sept. 1730, John More, coal-viewer, Prestonpans). He is represented in the male line by Sir Thomas Munro of Lindertis, Bart. — \Edin. Tests. ; Hist, of the Munros, 364.] JOHN BALFOUR, licen. by Presb. of 1729 Caithness 2nd Nov. 1715 ; ord. to Logie-Easter 27th Nov. 1716 ; called 30th Dec. 1728 ; trans, and adm. 26th March 1729. In 1739-41 a remarkable revival took place under his ministry. He was a singularly notable minister and was known as Maighstir Balfour Mor. A number of his sermons are extant in MS. He died 6th Feb. 1752. He marr. 17th July 1714, Isabella Dow, who died 1st Feb. 1754, and had issue — George, min. of Tarbat : Christian; Jean; Elizabeth, born 17th Jan. 1730 (marr. Hector Macphail, min. of Resolis); John, bapt. 16th Nov. 1731. Publication— Sermon (on Mai. iii., 16). He left in MS. " A Treatise on the Scriptural Authority for, and the advantage arising from, Christian Conference." — [Macfarlane on Revivals; Gillies's Historical Collections, 453 ; Religious Life in Ross, 163.] PATRICK GRANT, born Cromdale, about 1756 1715, son of James G. ; ord. to Duthil 3rd Dec. 1740; pres. by George II. 13th May 1752, but his settlement being opposed he was inducted only after four years' tedious litigation on 27th July 1756. The parishioners seceded in a body and joined the Antiburger denomination, a congregation now represented by Nigg United Free Church. He died 19th Jan. 1788. He marr. (1) 27th Dec. 1740, Isabella (died 27th June 1745), daugh. of Andrew Ker, min. of Rathven, and had issue — Elizabeth, born 1st Jan. 1742 ; Andrew, born 27th Feb. 1743, died 27th Aug. 1762 ; John, born 27th June 1744 : (2) 3rd April 1753, Ann (born 14th March 1729, died 29th Dec. 1771), daugh. of George Grant, min. of Kirkmichael, and had issue — James, born 19th April 1756 ; Jean, born 14th March 1758; Anne, born 9th Aug. 1759; Isobel, born 10th April 1762 (marr. William Keith, min. of Golspie); Sophia, born 3rd Nov. 1763 (marr. 15th Dec. 1780, John Forsyth of Deanhaugh, merchant, Elgin) ; William, lieut. H.E.I.C.S., Madras, born 21st March 1765 ; Lewis, born 19th March 1766 ; Patrick, born 19th Oct. 1767, died 19th Feb. 1768 ; Margaret, born 10th Feb. 1769, died 30th April 1784; Grizel, born 17th Oct. 1771, died Aug. 1830; a daugh. (marr. 12th Jan. 1784, William Forsyth, merchant, Cromarty). Publica tion — A Pastoral Apology for a Flock in Ross-shire (1757). ALEXANDER MACADAM, born 1749, 11788 son of William M., farmer, Auldearn ; educated at King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (30th March 1769) ; became schoolmaster of Cromarty ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 4th May 1779 ; supplied the Little Kirk, Elgin ; app. to Gaelic Chapel, Cromarty, 25th Sept. 1782 ; pres. by George III. 13th Feb., trans, and adm. 23rd Oct. 1788; died 8th June 1817. He was a learned theologian. He marr. Isobel (died 16th Aug. 1802), daugh. of John Macleod, merchant, Cromarty, and had issue — Elizabeth, born 5th Dec. 1784; Margaret, born 30th June 1786, died 5th Sept. 1811 ; William, H.M. Attorney, Tobago. Publica tion — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xiii.).— [Tombst.] LEWIS ROSE, pres. by George, Prince 1818 Regent, 4th July, and adm. 24th Sept. 1818 ; trans, to Gaelic Chapel, Duke Street, Glasgow, 21st Jan. 1836. JOHN MACALISTER, born Kilpatrick, 1837 Arran, 1789, fourth son of Donald M., farmer, and Isabella M'Kinnon ; educated at Kilmarnock and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in 1824; assistant at Anderston ; ord. to Glenlyon 9th Sept. 1824 ; trans, to Gaelic Church, Edinburgh, 1st Dec. 1831 ; pres. by William IV. 3rd Feb., trans, and adm. 20th April 1837. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Nigg, 1843-4 ; adm. to Free Church, Brodick, 29th May 1844 ; died at Glasgow from the effects of a gig accident at Inveraray, 17th Dec. that TAIN] NIGG— ROSSKEEN 67 year, and was buried at Shiskine. He marr. 9th Dec. 1829, Margaret (died 2nd July 1873), eldest daugh. of John Cuthbertson of Over Carswell, Neilston, merchant in Glasgow, and had issue — John Cuthbertson, born 17th Aug. 1830 ; Donald Mackinnon, min. of Buccleuch Free Church, Edinburgh, born 28th Aug. 1832, died 23rd Sept. 1909. Publication — Gaelic and English Sermons, with Memoir (portrait) (Inverness, 1896). — [Disruption Worthies, 169.] DAVID FRASER, born Moulin, 25th 1844 Sept. 1^94, son of Peter F., carpenter, and Elizabeth Munro ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (31st March 1815); licen. by Presb. of Nairn 17th July 1820 ; ord. to Rothesay Chapel 16th Oct. 1821 ; trans, to Dores 25th Sept. 1823; pres. by Queen Victoria 10th Jan., trans, and adm. 29th March 1844 ; died 8th June 1865. He marr. 17th Aug. 1824, Katherine (died 25th March 1863), third daugh. of James Stormonth, min. of Airlie, and had issue — Isabella Wedderburn, born 6th Jan. 1828 ; John of Parkburn, Kilsyth, M.D., born 7th April 1831 ; Peter James, Glasgow, born 17th Oct. 1833, died 22nd Aug. 1892 ; David, died March 1843. JOHN FRASER, born Kiltarlity ; edu- 1865 cated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1840-4 ; became schoolmaster of Kiltarlity; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th June, and ord. 19th Oct. 1865 ; died 10th Dec. 1900. He marr. 19th April 1866, Anne Mackay (died 6th Nov. 1909), and had issue— Simona Annie, born 15th May 1867 ; Barbara Alice, born 23rd Aug. 1868 (marr. John Ross, tacksman of Pitcalnie). NORMAN DONALD MACKAY, born 1901 Cross, Lewis, 28th Dec. 1871, son of Donald M., min. of Knock ; educated at Garnethill School and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Lewis in 1899 ; assistant at Acharacle and Newtonmore ; ord. 4th April 1 901. Marr. 24th Oct. 1912, Gertrude, daugh. of Jabez Garsed, Elland, Yorkshire, and Mary Alice Noble, and has issue — Mary Flora Macdonald, born 3rd Sept. 1913 ; Eileen Gertrude, born 14th April 1917 ; Catherine Yvonne (twin), born 14th April 1917. ROSSKEEN. [The church was dedicated to St Ninian and was a prebend in the Chapter of Fortrose Cathedral.] JAMES HERING, pres. to the parsonage 1672 and vicarage, but not settled. WILLIAM ROSS, son of Thomas R. 1572 °^ Logiej was exhorter at Logie- Easter and Kilmuir in 1567 ; pres. to the parsonage and vicarage by James VI. 14th March 1572. In 1574 Newynkill, Kin cardine, Kilmuir-Easter, and Logie-Easter were also in the charge; died Nov. 1592. He marr. Margaret Munro, and had issue — Alexander of Logie ; Elizabeth (marr. John Munro of Aldie).— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 469 ; Scot. Antiquary, iv., 172.] JOHN FRASER, eldest brother of William F., min. of Kiltarlity ; min. ' in 1595; died in 1606. He marr. Catherine Finlayson— [ Wardlaw MS., 120 ; M'Gill's Old Church Times, 32.] DAVID MUNRO, son of John M. of 17 Coul and Katherine, daugh. of John Vass of Lochslinn ; pres. by James VI., 7th Feb. 1607 ; died in 1614.— [Hist. of the Munros, 347.] ROBERT MUNRO, son of Hector M. the charge in 1655. He marr., and had issue— Hector ; Robert.— [Charter of John, Bishop of Ross, at Killearnan ; Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum ; P. C. Reg., viii., 750.] WILLIAM MACKENZIE, son of . Murdoch M. of Kildun ; adm. before ' 9th Aug. 1665 ; died 14th March 1714. He marr. 1665, Elspet, daugh. of Hugh Fraser of Belladrum, and had issue — John ; Colin, farmer, Achintoul, Rosskeen. — [Geneal.ofthe Mackenzie?, ; Inverness Sas., iv., 359.] DANIEL BETHUNE, known as Am Beutanach Beag, born 1679, eldest son of Kenneth B. of Skeabost; educated at Grammar School and Mariscbal College, Aberdeen, 1703-7 ; licen. by Presb. 68 ROSSKEEN [PIIESB. OF of Aberdeen 1711 ; ord. to Ardersier 24th Sept. 1713 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 24th Jan., trans, and adm. 25th April 1717 ; found dead in his bed at Newmore while on a visit 15th March 1754. He succeeded in putting an end to shinty playing on Sunday by making the leader of the shinty players an elder. In 1742 and 1743 a remarkable revival of religion occurred in the parish. He marr. (1) Grizell (died 28th Nov. 1732), daugh. of James Eussell, chamberlain to the Earl of Moray, and had issue— Isobel (marr. Adam Rose, min. of Dingwall) ; Anne (marr. Thomas Whyte, min. of Liberton); Janet (marr. (1) John Bethune, min. of this parish : (2) David Denoon, min. of Killearnan) ; Margaret ; James; Peter; James; William; Eliza beth ; Kenneth, which last seven all died before 1732 : (2) llth May 1735 Katherine (died 13th Dec. 1757), daugh. of James Wilson, merchant, Edinburgh, and widow of Walter Ross, min. of Kilmuir-Easter. — [GeneaL of the Bethunes, 21 ; Tombst.] JOHN BETHUNE, born 1725, son of 1754 Farquhar B., min. of Croy, and nephew of preceding; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1738-42, and Univs. of St Andrews and Edin burgh ; became tutor in the family of Carruthers of Holmains, Dumfriesshire; licen. by Presb. of Lochmaben 6th March 1750; called 18th Sept., and ord. 2nd Oct. 1754; D.D., F.R.S.; died 15th April 1774. He marr. 16th Dec. 1755, his cousin Janet, daugh. of Daniel Bethune, min. of this parish, and had issue— Grizell ; Margaret; Mary, who all predeceased their father. Publications — A Short View of the Human Faculties and Passions (1766, 2nd ed. 1771) ; Essays and Dissertations on various Subjects relating to Human Life and Happiness, 2 vols. (London, 1771) ; Discourses and Poems. —[GeneaL of the Bethunes, 17 ; Tombst.} JOHN CALDER, born 25th Nov. 1743, 1775 eldest son of James C., min. of Croy ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd April 1764) ; licen. by Presb. of Ellon 23rd Feb. 1757 ; ord. to Weem 26th June 1770 ; pres. by George III. Oct. 1774 ; trans, and adm. 21st Sept. 1775 ; died on Sunday morning, 1st June 1783. He marr. 8th May 1773, Marjory (died 18th Dec. 1835), daugh. of William Shaw of Craig- field, Culblair, and had issue— James, born 3rd March 1774, died at Nassau, New Providence, 27th Feb. 1818 ; William, born 12th May 1777 ; Mary, born 9th Feb. 1781 ; John, born 27th June 1783.— [Diary of Lady Glenorchy.} THOMAS URQUHART, born 16th Dec. 1?84 1752, second son of Thomas U. of Kin- beachie, Resolis, and Isobel Macleod ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (Feb. 1775); ord. by Presb. of Tain missionary at Kincardine and' Creich 3rd May 1780 ; pres. by George III. 13th June 1783 ; adm. 1st Sept. 1784 ; died 16th May 1812. His settlement was much opposed but he proved himself a faithful and zealous minister. He marr. 3rd Nov. 1777. Johanna (died 17th Jan. 1837, aged 78), daugh. of John Clunes, tacksman of Crakaig, and had issue— Thomas, born 7th July 1781 ; Isabella Macleod, born 23rd: Aug. 1782 (marr. John M'Innes of Auchenfroe) ; John Clunes, went to Dominique, born 17th Jan. 1784, died 1st Sept. 1799 ; Crawford, born 31st March 1785, died 20th March 1786; Crawford, born 4th Aug. 1786, died 20th March 1787 ; Gordon, lieut. 96th Regiment, born 23rd Feb. 1788, died at St Croix, West Indies, 5th Sept. 1808 ; Donald, born 16th March 1789 ; Colin, born 19th March 1793 ; James, went to Grenada, born 18th Aug. 1794, died 8th April 1823 ; Alexander, min. of Newburn, born 28th May 1797; Janet (marr. (1) 2nd April 1812, John Maclean of Carriacou) : (2) Captain Field. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xiv.). JOHN ROSS, born 1750, son of Alex- 1813 anc^er R-> burgess of Tain, and Helen Ross ; licen. by Presb. of North Isles 28th Oct. 1772; ord. (assistant) at Lady; app. missionary at Kincardine and Creich in 1776; adm. to Logie-Easter 22nd Sept. 1779; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie Aug. 1812 ; trans, and adm. 16th June 1813; died 8th Feb. 1824. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of William Smith, tacksman of Brugh, Westray, and TAIN] ROSSKEEN 69 had issue— Sibilla, born 9th Jan. 1771, died 30th July 1808 ; Alexander, born llth May 1772; Helen, born 31st May 1775; Katherine, born 27th April 1777, died 14th April 1795; Elizabeth, born 25th April 1779; David, lieut. Royal Marines, born 27th Dec. 1780, died in London, 14th Oct. 1809; Marjory, born llth Oct. 1782, died in Gibraltar, 1813; John, captain Grenadier Company Portuguese Infantry, born 23rd July 1784, killed on Heights of Mayo, 31st Aug. 1830 ; Margaret, born 26th Jan. 1787. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iv.). DAVID GARMENT, born Keiss, 28th Sept. 1772, son of James C., school master (a native of Irongray, where his father was baptised in the hills by John Welsh, the Covenanter) ; educated at Canisbay School and King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (1745) ; became tutor in the family of George Monro, min. of South Uist, 1792 • was schoolmaster of Strath, Skye, 1795-9 ; licen. by Presb. of Skye 4th April 1799; became tutor in the family of Macdonald, tacksman of Scalpa ; assistant at Croy, 1803-10; ord. by Presb. of Nairn 27th Feb., and adm. to Gaelic Chapel, Duke Street, Glasgow, 25th April 1810; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie llth Dec. 1821 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 14th March 1822. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Rosskeen, 1843-56 ; died 26th May 1856. He was a ready, frequent, and humorous speaker in Church courts — a man of large bodily presence and of almost herculean strength. He marr. 30th May 1815, Margaret (died 24th Oct. 1874), daugh. of James Stormonth of Kinclune, min. of Airlie, and had issue — James, min. of Comrie, born 23rd March 1816 ; John, LL.D., S.S.C., Edinburgh, born 5th Aug. 1817, died 10th Dec. 1901 ; David, born 19th March 1819, died 12th June 1839; Isabella, born 28th Jan. 1821, died 9th March 1835 ; Elizabeth, born 21st Sept. 1823, died 21st Dec. 1873; Samuel, born 10th Aug. 1825, died 8th Feb. 1834; Malcolm, born 22nd Dec. 1827, died 29th Sept. 1842 ; Margaret, born 25th May 1830, died 13th April 1834; Joseph, born 23rd Jan. 1832 ; Jane, .born 27th July 1834. Publications — The Fiery Cross (Edinburgh, 1 842) ; Moderatism and Evanyelicism Con trasted ; Sermon CV. (Free Church Pulpit) ; Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.). — {The Wedderburn Book, i., 324; Disruption Worthies in the Highlands (portrait) 31-6.] JOHN MACKENZIE, educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. 1 (March 1822); licen. by Presb. of Ding wall 27th Aug. 1828; ord. to the Gaelic Chapel, Cromarty, 25th Dec. 1833 ; pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; adm. 19th Sept. 1843 ; died 25th Feb. 1845. JOHN ROSE, born 1815, son of Hugh R., farmer, and Jane Macnishie ; ' pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; ord. 26th Dec. 1845 ; died 9th July 1869. He marr. 29th April 1864, Margaret Janet (died 30th Dec. 1886), daugh. of Alexander Maclean, D.D., min. of Kiltearn, and had issue — Janet, born 27th May 1865 ; Margaret Cassilis, born 7th Nov. 1866 ; Mary Mackenzie, born 27th Jan. 1868; Christina, born 10th April 1869. GEORGE MACDONALD, born Crom- dale, 25th Jan. 1838, son of Donald 1870 M. and Margaret Grant; educated at Cromdale Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1861), B.D. (1870); licen. in 1867 ; ord. to Eddrachillis 15th Jan. 1868 ; trans, and adm. 9th Aug. 1870 ; died 8th Oct. 1919. He marr. 1st Oct. 1878, Catherine, daugh. of William Rae of Gateslack and Catherine Kinnear, and had issue — William Rae, C.A., Edinburgh, born llth Sept. 1880; Margaret Grant, born 17th May 1882 ; Katherine Kinnear, born 22nd April 1883 ; Margaret Grant, born 13th June 1884 (marr. John Robertson, bank-agent, Invergordon); George, M.B., Ch.B., London, captain R.A.M.C., born 14th Dec. 1885; Mary Brown, born 15th Feb. 1888 ; Donald James, farmer, New Zealand, trooper 9th Squadron Wellington Mounted Rifles, born 25th July 1889. 70 ROSSKEEN— TAIN AND MORINNIS [PRESB. OF DUGALD M'CALLUM, born Killean, 1918 Kintyre, 15th Feb. 1875, son of Donald M. and Janet Stewart ; educated at Hutcheson's Grammar School and Univ. of Glasgow ; MA. (1904) ; licen. by Presb. of Lewis 2nd May 1906 ; assistant at Beauly; ord. to Kilmuir-Easter 14th May 1907 ; trans, to Campbeltown 13th Feb. 1914 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 1st March 1918. Marr. 19th Aug. 1914, Mary Gillies, daugh. of Captain Archibald Baxter and Catherine Cameron, and has issue— Catriona Cameron, born 4th Oct. 1915 ; Aenea Janet, born 15th June 1918. TAIN AND MORINNIS. [These two parishes were united before the end of the sixteenth century. Tain.— The church of Tain, which has been well restored, and is kept with worthy care, was dedicated to St Duthac. In it the Saint's relics were kept, and thither many pilgrims came to see them. Hence comes the Gaelic name of the place, Baile Dhudich (Dnthac's town). A collegiate foundation was given to this parish, on 12th September 1487, by Thomas, Bishop of Ross. In the Cathedral Chapter at Fortrose there was a prebend of Tain, held by the sub-chantor of the Cathedral. Tain was a highly privileged sanctuary, and to it many refugees fled. Thus, when an English army laid siege to Kildrummy Castle, Queen Isobel, the wife of Robert I., eluded the English forces, and came, with her young daughter Marjorie, to Tain. The sacred place, however, failed to save them. They were taken from the sanctuary by William, Earl of Ross, and were sent prisoners to England. Many visitors also were drawn to Tain by the fame of St Duthac's relics. To see them, James IV. made repeated pilgrimages. His last visit was in 1513, when he was about to set forth on his fatal invasion of England. In 1527 James V. too came as a pilgrim to Tain. At Tarlogie, in this parish, there was a chapel of St Talorgan. Fairs were held at Tain at Midsummer, Lammas, and Michaelmas, as well as on the feasts of St Duthac, St Berchan, and St Cor mac. Near the church was a Well of Our Lady. Morinnis.—Iu. the Chapter of Fortrose Cathedral there was a prebend of Morinnis.] NICOLAS ROSS, provost of the collegiate 1560 church, who voted in Parliament for the abolition of Popery and the adoption of the Protestant confession, was probably the first Protestant min. of the parish ; died 1 1th Sept. 1569. He purchased the estate of Geanies from Balnagowan for his three sons, for whom he obtained letters of legitimation.— [Taylor's Tain, 80.] THOMAS FERGUSON, reader from 1568 1568 to 1574. FINLAY MANSON, reader at Kin- 1574 car(*ineJ promoted to Tain, with Edderton, Nigg, and Tarbat in the charge ; trans, to Nigg in 1578. WILLIAM MACQUEEN, of Corry- brough, parson of Assynt; pres. to the sub-deanery of Ross by James VI. 8th Jan. 1577-8 ; dep. 2nd Oct. 1594 by Synodical Assembly of Ross for plurality of livings and adultery. He marr. Margaret Gourlay.— [Munro of Allan Writs.] JOHN ROSS of Little Tarrel; trans, from Kilmuir-Wester in 1580; was a member of Assembly in 1581 ; trans, to Logie-Easter in 1581. WALTER ROSS, raised a process against Alexander Ross of Balnagowan for payment of stipend Dec. 1582. — [Balnagowan Writs.] JAMES ROBERTSON, min. in 1586, having Edderton also in charge, was a member of Assembly 6th Aug. 1588, and on the leet for Moderator ; in that year he was commissioner of the Kirks of Ross; died in 1597, when the stipend for that year was assigned to his wife and bairns. — \_Excheq. Book.'] JOHN MUNRO, born about 1569, third son of Hugh M. of Assynt and nephew of Robert Mor Munro, first Protestant baron of Fowlis; educated at 1580 1586 TAIN] TAIN AND MORINNIS 71 Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1590) ; adm. early in 1599 ; was a member of Assembly in March that year. As sub-dean of Boss he was one of nineteen ministers who constituted a General Assembly at Aberdeen in 1605, contrary to the King's wish, and was on a leet of three for the Moderatorship. When summoned before the Privy Council he (with six others) maintained that the said Assembly was a "very lawful" one. He was accordingly sentenced to banish ment and was imprisoned within Doune Castle, Perthshire, his ultimate destination being a remote part of Kintyre. From Doune he escaped with the connivance of the constable of the Castle, and finding his way back to his parish resumed his ministry, his stipend, paid through the Crown authorities, being withheld. A Privy Council letter, 24th May 1610, ordered the magistrates to "keep him prisoner in some chalmer of your toune quhil he purge himself of his rebellion." What followed does not appear, no burgh records of the period being extant. He died shortly after 1st June 1630. He marr. Helen, eighth daugh. of Andrew Monro of Milntown, but had no issue.— [Taylor's Tain, 69 ; Laing's Original Letters, i., 425 ; Hist, of the Munros, 466.] GILBERT MURRAY, educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (28th July ' 1610) ; adra. before Sept. 1622 ; was a member of the Glasgow Assembly in 1638 and that of 1639; died 29th Nov. 1644, aged about 54. He marr. and had issue— a daugh. (marr. Alexander Munro of Daan).— [Orig. Charters Antiq. Museum ; Bannatyne Miscell., iii. ; Feme MSS.] JOHN DALLAS of Budzet; adm. before 4th July 1649, when he was a member of Commission of Assembly; trans, to Ardersier before 18th April 1665. ANDREW ROSS, educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1654) ; deprived by ' Act of Parliament, llth June, and Decreet of Privy Council, 1st Oct. 1662, for refusing to conform, and attending Dio cesan Synod.— [Wodrow's Hist., i., 329.] JAMES MACKENZIE, a native of Aberdeenshire ; educated at King's ' College in 1660; adra. before 19th Feb. 1665. ROBERT ROSS of Ballon, son of David R., min. of Logie-Easter ; educated ' at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1652) ; adm. to Urquhart and Logie-Wester in 1657 ; trans, and adm. before 18th April 1665 ; dep. by the Presb., 28th June 1699, for refusing to acknowledge its authority, etc. He marr. Barbara, daugh. of George Munro, chancellor of Ross, and had issue- Robert, writer, Edinburgh ; James ; Alex ander, merchant, Tain ; Jean (marr. Walter Ross, town clerk and provost of Dornoch) ; Hannah (marr. Andrew Munro of Lemlair family).— [G. R. Inhib., 9th March 1663.] HUGH MUNRO, son of Andrew M. of Teanaird ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (19th Nov. 1695); ord. to Tarbat 27th April 1699 ; trans, and adm. 27th Aug. 1701 ; died 16th May 1744, aged about 69. He marr. (1) Jean, daugh. of James Thomson, merchant, Inverness, and had issue— Jean : (2) 19th April 1715, Christina (died 1st Jan. 1770), daugh. of John Ross of Achnacloich, sheriff of Ross, and had issue— Alexander ; Robert ; Christina, marr. (pro. 9th June 1751), James Tait, mason, Edinburgh; Mary; John, born April 1721, died in infancy; John, born 20th Sept. 1722 ; Anna, born 23rd Sept. 1723; Andrew, born 7th Dec. 1724 ; Hugh, born 8th July 1726 ; Margaret (marr. Alexander Ross of Aldie, sheriff- clerk of Ross) ; Janet (marr. William Munro of Teanaird) ; Duncan. His widow became the first annuitant on the Ministers' Widows' Fund.— {Beg. of Deeds, Dal., 27th Nov. 1728.] DANIEL MUNRO, educated at Mari- schal College, Aberdeen; licen. by ' Presb. of Edinburgh 20th March 1734 ; ord. to Auldearn 23rd Sept. 1736 ; called 12th Dec. 1744; trans, and adm. 13th June 1745 ; died 10th Nov. 1748. He marr. 7th Nov. 1739, Margaret Spence, and had issue — Anne, born 27th Aug. 1740; Andrew, born 31st Jan. 1742 ; James, born 72 TAIN AND MORINNIS [PRESB. OF 5th Dec. 1743 ; Katherine, born 4th May 1745 ; Eobert, born 8th March 1747, died 2nd March 1748 ; John, merchant, Glasgow, born 17th Sept. 1748. JOHN SUTHERLAND, son of Arthur S., min. of Edderton ; ord. to Golspie J 30th April 1731 ; called 22nd April, trans, and adm. 29th July 1752 ; died 25th Nov. 1769. He encouraged opposition to the settlement of ministers who had not the popular voice in their favour, and gave ordinances to such as withdrew from their regular pastors. For disobeying the in structions of the General Assembly in reference to the settlement at Nigg, he and four others were rebuked at the bar of the Assembly, 27th May 1756. In the pulpit he used considerable freedom of speech and stories are still related of some of his sallies. He marr. (1) 7th May 1734, Christina Ross (died 26th Oct. 1752), and had issue — Elizabeth, born 3rd Jan. 1735 (marr. John Sutherland, min. of Dornoch); Margaret Janet, born 14th May 1736 (marr. Hugh MacCulloch, writer, Dornoch); William, min. of Wick, born 27th Jan. 1738 ; David, born llth May 1742 ; John, born 21st April 1744, died 30th July 1745; Walter, born 1st Nov. 1746, died 12th Oct. 1755: (2) 26th Dec. 1755, Ann (died 14th March 1780), daugh. of Donald Ross, min. of Fearn, and had issue— Sybilla, born 30th Nov. 1756; Donald, born 3rd May 1758; Janet, born 16th Feb. 1763; George, born 31st Jan. 1765 ; Simon, born llth Jan., died 28th April 1767 ; Anne, born 26th July 1768. HUGH ROSE, born Easter Ross, 1730 ; 1770 educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1750) ; schoolmaster at Inver- gordon ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 10th July 1754 ; ord. missionary at Fort William 15th April 1757 ; removed to mission at Creich and Kincardine May 1758 ; adm. to Creich 26th Sept. 1759 ; pres. by George III. in Feb., trans, and adm. 27th June 1770; died 23rd Sept. 1774. His people were deeply attached to him for his general character and pulpit gifts. He marr. 22nd June 1758, Mary (died 17th Dec. 1793), daugh. of David M'Culloch of Glastullich, and had issue — George Mackay, born 24th Aug. 1759 ; David, born 7th Dec. 1761 ; James, writer and depute-clerk of Session, Edinburgh, born 29th Dec. 1763, died 25th Jan. 1821 ; Roderick, born 13th Nov. 1766 ; Hugh (made a fortune in the West Indies, purchased the estates of Cal- rossie, Glastullich, Arabella, Tarlogie, Mor- angie, and others in Easter Ross, succeeded to the Cromarty estates on his marriage with Miss Munro of Culcairn, and was represented by Brig.-General Sir Walter Charteris Ross of Cromarty), born 31st Oct. 1767; Christian Macleod, born 13th Oct. 1768, died 18th Nov. 1770 ; William Baillie, afterwards of Rhynie,born 7th Oct. 1771.— [Weekly Mag., xxvi., etc. ; Tombst.] GEORGE DOUGLAS, born 1740, son w of Robert D. of Balconie, Kiltearn ; ' ord. to Second Charge, Kirkwall, 5th April 1769 ; pres. by George III. in March, trans, and adm. 6th Sept. 1775 ; died 3rd Oct. 1794. He marr. 19th Feb. 1779, Anna- bella Stewart (died 12th Oct. 1823), daugh. of Joseph Munro, min. of Edderton, and had issue — Barbara, born 6th May 1780 ; Janet, born 13th Sept. 1781 ; Elizabeth, born 30th Oct. 1782 (marr. 22nd July 1802, Joseph Julian Labalmondiere) ; Annabella, born 5th Dec. 1783; Robert, born 26th April 1786, died 5th April 1826 ; Mary, born 16th March 1789, died 9th May 1864 ; Joseph, barrister, London, born 18th Jan. 1790, died 1849. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. ylcc.,iii.).— [Tombst.] ANGUS MACKINTOSH, born Strathdearn, 1763 ; educated at Fortrose Academy and King's Col lege, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1784) ; became tutor at Balnagowan .and Scotsburn, and schoolmaster at Alness ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 23rd Sept. 1789; ord. to Gaelic Chapel-of-Ease, Glasgow, 18th Oct. 1792; pres. (after a dispute as to right of patronage between the Crown and Mackenzie of Cromartie) by both ; trans, and adm. llth May 1797 ; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen, 19th April 1823); died 3rd Oct. 1831. He was one of. the originators and secretary to the Northern Missionary Society. A man of eminence in the Church in the North, he was a powerful and eloquent preacher ; TAIN] TAIN AND MORINNIS 73 his voice was like the sound of a silver trumpet arresting the^attention and holding spell-bound his immense audiences in the church and in the open air. One of his sermons continued for decades to be spoken of as Bord na trocair (" The table of mercy ;;). He marr. 6th June 1800, Anne (died 23rd Jan. 1857), daugh. of Charles Calder, min. of Ferintosh (Urquhart), and had issue- Margaret Isabella, born 8th March 1801, died 2nd April 1810; James, born 1st Sept. 1802, died in Calcutta 15th Aug. 1829; Elizabeth Baillie, born 12th July 1804 (marr. John Dallas) ; Charles Calder, min. of this parish; Alexander Brodie, born 27th July 1809 ; Margaret Isabella, born 6th Sept. 1811 (marr. Simon Fraser M'Lauchlan, min. of Cawdor) ; Angus, born 1st Feb. 1814 ; Jemima Calder, born 24th Jan. 1818; John, born 26th Feb. 1822. Publications — The Importance of Christian Knowledge, a sermon (London 1815).— [Findlater's Memoir of Findlater.] CHARLES CALDER MACKINTOSH, born 5th Oct. 1828, son of preceding ; educated at Tain Academy and Univ. of Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th Nov. 1827; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; ord. (assistant and successor) 19th June 1828. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Tain, 1843-54 ; D.D. (Union Col lege, Shenactady, Sept. 1850) ; min. of Free Church, Dunoon, 1854-68; died at Pau, France, 24th Nov. 1868. He marr. 8th Sept. 1847, Anne (died 9th July 1899), daugh. of Robert Brown, min. of Free Church, Fairlie, Ayrshire, and had issue — Anne, born 25th June 1848 ; Jane Brown, born 18th May 1850 (marr. - - Miller, Glasgow) ; Jemima Helen, born 13th Aug. 1852; Elizabeth Gordon, born 16tb Oct. 1853 (marr. Dr Bannerman, Glasgow) ; Eneas, min., born 13th Dec. 1855 ; Robert, Congregational min. in Dumfriesshire, born 23rd May 1858; Alexandra, born 20th March 1863 (marr. 1890, Robert Stephenson Simpson, D.D., min. of Free High Church, Edinburgh).— [Memorials of the Life and Ministry by Rev. William Taylor, M.A., Stirling (Edinburgh 1870).] 1844 LEWIS ROSE, born 10th Dec. 1791, son of Alexander R., tacksman, Auld- earn, and Janet M'Adam ; educated at Nairn School and King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (30th March 1810) ; became schoolmaster of Pencaitland in 1812 ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 20th Dec. 1814; ord. missionary at Kincardine and Creich 26th Feb. 1817 ; trans, to Nigg 24th Sept. 1818 ; trans, to Gaelic Chapel, Duke Street, Glasgow, 21st Jan. 1835; trans, to Kin cardine 20th Sept. 1843; trans, and adm. llth April 1844 ; died 6th Nov. 1876. He marr. 15th May 1820, Katherine (died 29th Jan. 1877), daugh. of William Simpson, min. of Fearn, and had issue — William Simpson, born 5th March 1821, died abroad; Alexander M'Adam, born 15th June, died 17th Dec. 1822; Lewis, born 23rd June 1823, went to America; Hugh, born 2nd Oct. 1824, died 19th Oct. 1825 ; Katherine, born 3rd March 1826, died in Inverness; Mary, born 27th Oct. 1827, died young ; David, min. of Ferryport-on- Craig, born 5th Aug. 1829; Janetta, born 5th May 1831 (marr. 2nd Oct. 1856, William Moffat, procurator fiscal, Dingwall), died 10th Feb. 1885; Margaret Baillie, born 18th July 1833 (marr. 31st July 1861, Donald Archibald Macleod, C.E., Ding- wall), died in Australia ; Baillie, born 6th Sept. 1834, died 7th Jan. 1835 ; John, born 7th June 1836, died young; George Duff, born 23rd June 1843. Publications— Two Synodical Sermons (Glasgow, 1838, Edin burgh, 1845); A Humble Attempt to put an End to the Present Divisions of the Church of Scotland and to Promote her Usefulness (Glasgow, 1840); Account of Nigg (New Stat. Ace., xiv.). LACHLAN MACLACHLAN, trans, from Third Charge, Inverness, and adm. 20th July 1877; trans, to St Columba's, Glasgow, 5th Oct. 1882. COLIN MACNAUGHTON, born Knocksapplebeg, Southend, Argyll, 14th Sept. 1838, son of Neil M., farmer, and Mary Macmillan ; educated at Southend School, Campbeltown Grammar School, and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Kin tyre 26th Sept. 1867 ; assistant 74 TAIN AND MORINNIS— TARBAT [PEESB. OF at Lochgilphead and West St Giles's, Edinburgh; ord. to Killearn 16th March 1871 ; trans, and adm. 25th April 1883 ; clerk of Presb. 1899-1915; died 6th Dec. 1924. He marr. llth Aug. 1886, Mary, daugh. of William Robertson, ship owner, Stornoway, and Elizabeth Lindsay, and had issue — Ethel Mary, born 3rd June 1887 (niarr. 31st March 1916, H. M'Ewen Grant, captain R.G.A.); Clare, born 9th March 1890 (marr. 30th Dec. — , Arnold Welby); Ian Alister, lieut. R.N.R., born 2nd Jan. 1892 ; Blanche Jane, born 3rd Nov. 1894 (marr. 14th May 1918, Henry Mordaunt of Barings, London); Colin, born 23rd June 1903. Publication — Church Life in Ross and Sutherland, 1688-1914 (Inverness, 1915). GEORGE THOMAS THOMSON, born 1920 Edinburgh, 8th March 1887, son of James T., C.E., and Jane Haswell Smith ; educated at Daniel Stewart's College and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A. (1909), B.D. (1915), and Oxford, BA. (1912) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh Nov. 1915 ; assistant at South Leith and Peebles ; ord. 25th March 1920; trans, to St Boswells, llth June 1924; served as captain in the Royal Scots in France and as interpreter in Arabic in Palestine in European War; app. to Chair of Systematic Theology, Aber deen, Jan. 1928. Marr. 4th July 1918, Chris tian Isabel, daugh. of Thomas Martin, D.D., min. of Peebles, and has issue— Hugh Haldane, born 30th May 1920. JOHN MACECHERN, born 28th Aug. 1924 1869> son of Charles M., min. of Third Charge, Inverness; educated at schools in Canada, High School, and Raining's School, Inverness, and Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Inverness in 1892 ; assistant at Kilberry, Dalwhinnie, Beauly, and Dingwall, locum tenens Kinloss in 1897; ord. to Bower llth May 1899; trans, to Kinloss 12th Feb. 1908 ; trans, to Moy and Dalarossie 26th March 1915 ; trans, and adm. 18th Dec. 1924 ; chaplain 1st Vol. Batt. Cameron Highlanders ; Huts Superintendent in France, Belgium, and Germany in European War. Marr. 3rd Dec. 1910, Margaret, fourth daugh. of Gilbert Black, Tiretigan, Kilberry, and has issue— Margaret Lorna, born 17th Oct. 1912 ; Charles Gilbert, born 12th Jan. 1916. Publication—" With the Scottish Churches' Huts Overseas " (The Sword of the North, 113-125) (Inverness, 1923). TARBAT. [The vicarage of Tarbat belonged to the Abbey of Fearn. The parish church was dedicated to St Colmog. Not far from it were Wells of St Colmog and St Mary. Near the church too is the harbour of Portmahomack (Port Mo Cholmoig = St Colmog's Haven). At Alltansallach stood a chapel of St Bride. Other chapels and shrines in this parish were dedicated to St Colmog, St Kiaran, St Finn Barr, and St John the Baptist.] ALEXANDER URQUHART, entered 1572 at Beltein in 1572 [afterwards min. of Kilmuir- Wester]. GEORGE MUNRO, trans, from Suddie, 1590 W^ Fearn also in the charge in 1590; was chancellor of Ross in 1586. On 25th April 1593 he was ap pointed with others to visit the Presb. of Moray ; trans, to Suddie about 1594. JOHN MUNRO of Feme, son of Andrew 1593 M. of Newmore, "of convenient age to enter on the study of gramer," was pres. to chaplaincy of St Monan at Balconie, Kiltearn, for seven years, by King James VI. 30th July 1577, and also to parsonage and vicarage of Tarbat, March 1593. He was several times a member of Assembly and in that of 25th June 1595, was appointed one of four "because of their weakness to proceed with the Presb. of Inverness." In 1602 he had a conversion of his stipend ratified. In July 1624 the Privy Council wrote to Patrick, Bishop of Ross, requesting him to admonish M. " for his contemptuous rebellion and disobedi ence and failing his purging himself of the scandal he has given to the Church, to sus pend him from the ministry." He died 18th March 1626. He marr. Isabel, daugh. of Lachlan M6r Mackintosh of that ilk, widow of George Ross of Balnagowan, TAIN] TARBAT 75 and had issue — Christian (marr. Malcolm Mackintosh of Brin).— [Reg. Mag. Sig., vi. 1115, viii. 613 et. seq. ; Feme MSS. Test. Reg.; Mackintoshes and Clan Chattan, 191.] 1627 DAVID MUNIIO, adm. before 1627. THOMAS MACKENZIE, adm. in 1633 ; 1683 was a mem^er °f ^e Court of High Commission 21st Oct. 1634. His parishioners having opposed his setting up of the Liturgy, he deserted his charge in 1635 and went to Ireland. He was adm. to Killearnan in 1638. WILLIAM MACKENZIE, son of Hector 1638 ^'' son °^ R0"6 M°r M. of Achiltie ; educated at King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. ; adm. to Kilmorack about 1624 ; trans, to Killearnan in 1633 ; trans, and adm. before 21st Nov. 1638 ; was a member of Assembly that year; died 29th Sept. 1642. He marr. a daugh. of Murdoch Mackenzie of Redcastle, and had issue— Alexander, died in Skye, Oct. 1669 ; John, min. of Fodderty ; Margaret (marr. Peter, son of John Grant of Corrimony), died Feb. 1664 ; Mary (marr. John, son of Hector Munro, min. of Edderton). — [Hist, of the Mackenzies, 537 ; Feme MSS. ; Douglas's Baronage; Tombst.] JOHN MACKENZIE, trans, from 1645 Buddie and adm. in 1645. He declared before the Presb., June 1646, that he would not intimate to his congregation the declaration made by the Commission of Assembly, Dec. 1645, against the Remonstrance, unless the Assembly ordered him, the said declaration being against his Chief, George, Earl of Seaforth. He was dep. between 1st Dec. 1649 and 19th Feb. 1650 for immoral conduct, but was reponed in 1660 ; was awarded £166, 3s. 4d. as damages, and became min. of Fodderty. ANDREW ROSS, son of Alexander R. of Pitkerrie; educated at King's J College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1647); adm. Oct. 1652; died in 1692, aged about 65. He marr. Elizabeth Bruce, widow of Gilbert Anderson, min. of Cromarty, and had issue— Alexander ; Benjamin, third of Pitkerrie.— [Scot. Antiquary, iv., 104.] JOHN MACKENZIE, formerly of Inver- chaolain ; was summoned before the Presb. of Ross 26th Sept. 1695 to answer for his intrusion to the vacant parish of Tarbat, and not appearing, was enjoined not to preach any more in the church there. He became min. of Kingussie. HUGH MUNRO, M.A. ; ord. 27th April 1699 1699 ; trans, to Tain 27th Aug. 1701. DAVID ROSS, born 1673, son of George 17 7 R., min. of Kincardine ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (22nd July 1693) ; became schoolmaster of Tain ; ord. 25th Sept. 1707; died 18th Oct. 1748. He marr. Margaret (died llth Jan. 1730), daugh. of Alexander Ross of Pitkerrie. — [Tombst.] GEORGE BALFOUR, born 1724, son of 1?K) John B., min. of Nigg ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ; was apprenticed to William Tod, merchant, Edinburgh, May 1741 ; Keen, by Presb. of Tain 1st Aug. 1749 ; called 18th Jan., and ord. 16th Sept. 1750 ; died 18th Oct. 1798. He marr. 20th June 1770, Barbara (died 21st March 1806), daugh. of William Rose, min. of Loth, and had issue — Chalmers, born 12th. Jan. 1772; Isobel, born 25th July 1773, died 4th Nov. 1822 ; John, born 1st Oct. 1775 ; Jean, born 3rd Aug. 1777 (marr. the Rev. John Mackechnie, Glasgow) ; Katherine, born 8th April 1779 (marr. George Mackenzie Ross of Aldie). Pub lication—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vi.). WILLIAM FORBES, born Avoch, 1767, 1800 son °^ William F., factor for Sir Roderick Mackenzie, Bart., of Scat- well ; educated at Fortrose Academy and Univs. of Edinburgh and Aberdeen ; be came tutor in the family of Rose of Kil- ravock ; licen. by Presb. of Nairn 29th Aug. 1791 ; assistant at Croy and Strachur ; ord. to Gaelic Chapel, Aberdeen, 5th Nov. 1798 ; pres. by Mrs Henrietta Gordon of Newhall (on a unanimous petition by the congregation) ; adm. 24th April 1800 ; died 12th May 1838. He marr. 26th Nov. 1813, Jane (died at Edinburgh 29th Dec. 1852), daugh. of Alexander Sage, min. of Kildonan, 76 TARBAT [PRESB. OF TAIN and had issue — William, born 14th Feb. 1815, died while a student at King's College, Aberdeen; Alexander, born 1816, died while a student at King's College, Aberdeen; Isabella, born 4th May 1818; Jane, born 16th Aug. 1820; Margaret Macleod, born 30th July 1823; Elizabeth Hose, born 30th Oct. 1824. DAVID CAMPBELL, born Glenlyon, 1838 1^99' son °^ Duncan C., farmer, and Ellen Campbell ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. to Glenlyon 24th July 1832; trans, to East Church, Inverness, 17th Nov. 1836; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th May, trans, and adm. 20th Sept. 1838. There was a revival in the parish in 1840. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church at Tarbat 1843-55, of the Free Church at Lawers 1855-77; died 25th Jan. 1877. He marr. 20th Nov. 1833, Margaret, daugh. of D. Macbean, Kilmalie. GEORGE CAMPBELL, born 1815, son °^ James ^-' farmer ', 01>d- to Cawdor 21st Dec. 1843; trans, and adm. 1st May 1845 ; dem. 23rd Dec. 1884 ; died at Perth 5th Dec. 1888. He marr. 18th Dec. 1843, Isabella Clark, Leuchars, Fife, who died 1st Jan. 1891, and had issue —Isabella, born 27th Aug. 1845 (marr. P. M. Campbell, brewer, Greenock), died at Moffat, June 1880 ; Georgina Murray, born 1st Sept. 1851 ; Margaret, born 4th June 1855 (marr. Alexander Patrick Munro of Rockfield) ; James, born 21st Aug. 1856 ; William, born 1st May 1859. DONALD MACLEOD, born Cromore, Lewis, 9th Oct. 1855 ; son of Murdo M., and Annabella Smith ; educated at Cromore School and Glasgow Normal 1845 College and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Kintyre in 1884 ; assistant at Greenock ; ord. to Gaelic Chapel, Cromarty, 30th April 1885 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 19th May 1885. Marr. 23rd July 1885, Kate, daugh. of John Rodger and Jean Isles, and has issue — Murdo Smith, born 30th May 1886, died 6th April 1890 ; Jean Annabella, born 17th Feb. 1888; Katherine Mary, born 13th Jan. 1890 (marr. 22nd April 1916, Archibald Kenneth Maclean, lieut. South African Rifles, Windhoek, South Africa) ; Donald Stanley (twin) lieut. R.N., born 13th Jan. 1890; Murdo, officer, mercantile marine, born 24th Feb. 1891, wounded at Gallipoli ; Lizzie, born 19th Feb. 1893; Hector Ian, South African Scottish, born 16th Jan. 1895, killed in action at Butte de Warlencourt, Oct. 1916 ; Isabella, born 10th Nov. 1896; Barabel, born 9th July 1898, died 7th Nov. 1923 ; Norman, student in medicine, born 10th Jan. 1900, wounded in France, May 1918 ; Margaret (twin), born 10th Jan. 1900; Roderick Callum, engineer, born 30th Aug. 1902. JAMES MACMORLAND, M.A., B.D. ; 1920 trans- from Kirkmaiden (q.v.) and adm. (assistant and successor) llth Nov. 1920; trans, to Cowdenbeath 24th March 1927. He has issue (cf. Vol. II., 342)— Marion Paton Inglis, born 5th May 1916 ; Agnes Bethia, born 14th July 1923. MURDO MACLEOD, trans, (assistant ^ and successor) from Uig (q.v.) 20th 1 July 1927. SYNOD OF SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS THIS Court was not fully organised till towards the middle of the seventeenth century. On 15th June 1646 the General Assembly annexed the Presbytery of Orkney and Shetland to this Synod. In 1725 the parishes of Orkney were incorporated as a separate Synod. Those of Shetland had been severed from Sutherland and Caithness in 1715. After that date they were several times transferred from one jurisdiction to another. It was only in 1830 that the Synod of Shetland was erected. The Eegister of the Synod of Sutherland and Caithness begins at 6th August 1656. This Court now holds its meetings at Wick. PKESBYTERY OF DOENOCH [As early as 1581 the General Assembly had in view the erection of a local Church Court at Dornoch. We do not, however, come upon any mention of the actual existence of this Presbytery until 21st November 1638. From 1690 to 1726 the Presbytery of Dornoch was under the jurisdiction of the Synod of Eoss. On llth May 1726 this Presbytery was again assigned to the Synod of Sutherland and Caithness. The Presbytery Kegister begins in 1707. There is a blank between 16th April 1719 and 28th Aug. 1732.] ASSYNT (LOCHINVER). [In the Cathedral of Dornoch there was a prebend of Assynt. When the Presb. of Tongue was founded, llth May 1726, this parish was taken from the Presb. of Dornoch and annexed to the new Court at Tongue. On 19th May 1736 the parish of Assynt was disjoined from the Presb. of Tongue and placed again under the jurisdiction of the Presb. of Dornoch. The old church stood at Inchnadamph, east end of Loch Assynt.] WILLIAM GRAY, removed from Rogart 1576 in 1576, having that parish, Lairg and Kilmalie also in his charge ; still min. in 1589. — \0rig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 693.] ALEXANDER ROSS, mentioned as 1599 min. in 1599. 1618 1638 RODERICK MACLEOD, brother to Angus M. ; had his stipend assigned by the commissioners 5th June 1618 ; trans, to Alvie after 1627. JAMES THOMSON, min. of Lairg 6th May 1627; trans, to Loth before 1635 ; trans, and adm. about 1638, in which year he intromitted with the vacant stipend ; petitioned the Synod, 22nd Oct. 1662, for extracts of his deposition by Presb. of Sutherland. JOHN GRAY, ord. 8th Oct. 1668 ; dep. 1668 ky the bishop and Synod before 7th June 1676. — [Inverness Pres. JReg.] ALEXANDER GRAY, a native of the district ; educated at Marischal Col lege, Aberdeen ; being an eminent classical scholar and linguist, was selected as tutor to John, Lord Strathnaver, and made a tour of Europe with him ; adm. 1682 78 ASSYNT [PRESB. OF before 13th July 1682. At a visitation of the parish on 7th Aug. 1718, the Presb. required him to give in his demission, "seeing by reason of his age and indis position of body he is rendered incapable to go about his duties." This he undertook to do (chiefly at the solicitation of John Mackay, min. of Lairg) at Martinmas that year, provided the Presb. gave him security for 300 merks payable Martinmas 1719. When about to sign the agreement, he was forcibly prevented by his wife and children, who refused to allow him to do so. The only duties he performed latterly were solemnizing marriages and baptising in bed. He died after 18th May 1727. He marr. and had issue— Christian died aged 100 or upwards ; and others.— [Macrae's Lairg, 22.] WILLIAM SCOBIE, licen. by Presb. of 1728 Strathbogie 22nd Feb. 1727; app. missionary in the parish ; called by Presb. of Dornoch jure devoluto 7th Aug., and ord. 12th Sept. 1728 ; died 24th Nov. 1763. He marr. 3rd March 1731, Jane (died 19th Feb. 1762), fifth daugh. of John Mackay of Kirtomy, and had issue — Kenneth of Achimore, born 17th April 1732; John of Melness, major Reay Fencibles, born 26th Nov. 1733; James, min. of Wick, born 25th Sept. 1735 ; Elizabeth, born 13th Oct. 1738 ; Janet, born 23rd Nov. 1740 ; William, born 1st May 1744, died 9th June 1745; Katherine, born 2nd Aug., died 1st Nov. 1745 ; George, born 2nd May 1747, died 4th March 1748.— [Book of Mackay, 319.] WILLIAM MACKENZIE, born 1734 ; 17Q5 M.A. (Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1755); was schoolmaster of Storno- way ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 13th Aug. 1761, and preached his first sermon in the pulpit of Hugh Blair, D.D. ; ord. to Harris 13th Aug. 1762 ; pres. by William, Earl of Sutherland, in May 1764 ; trans, and adm. 13th Feb. 1765 ; died 27th Nov. 1816. He marr. 19th June 1765, Margaret (died 29th May 1785), daugh. of Patrick Grant, min. of Logie-Easter, and had issue — Wilhelmina Maxwell, born 2nd Aug. 1766 (marr. 20th Jan 1788, Eoderick Mackenzie, tacksman of Ledmore, Assynt) ; Anna, born 16th March 1768, died 15th May 1769 ; John, born 8th June 1769, died 8th Sept. 1770; Patrick, born 8th Dec. 1771, died 8th May 1799 ; Eobson, born 12th March 1773 ; John, born 4th June 1775, died 12th June 1778 ; Alexander, born 10th Oct. 1778 ; Jean Young (twin), born 10th Oct. 1778 (marr. 25th April 1812, John Campbell in Balnoe, Creich) ; Elizabeth, born llth Feb. 1782, died 27th April 1806; Colin, born 2nd July 1783, died llth March 1805; Joseph, born 9th May 1785. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xvi.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 52.] DUNCAN M'GILLIVRAY, M.A. ; pres. 1818 kv George, Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, 28th April, and adm. (assistant and successor) 24th Aug. 1813. The people desired the appoint ment of John Kennedy [afterwards min. of Killearnan], then assistant in the parish. At M.'s settlement there was a riot and assault for which three parishioners were tried before the Circuit Court of Justiciary at Inverness 17th Sept 1813, and sent to prison for nine months ; trans, to Lairg 12th Aug. 1817. HUGH MACKENZIE, M.A. ; pres. by 1817 George, Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, in Aug., trans, from Eriboll and adm. 24th Sept. 1817 ; trans, to Clyne 3rd Aug. 1825. CHARLES GORDON, born 24th July 1825 1799> son of George G., min. of Loth ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1815-19, and Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 25th Nov. 1823 ; pres. by George, Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford; ord. 22nd Sept. 1825. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Assynt, 1843-73 ; died 26th Sept. 1873. He marr. 6th Sept. 1826, Sarah (died 5th Sept. 1843), daugh. of David Tyre, farmer, Newton, Edinkillie, and had issue— George, born 23rd July 1827 ; David Tyre, born 8th May 1829 ; John, born 2nd Feb. 1831 ; Isabella Margaret, born 18th Jan. 1834; Sarah Rose, born llth April 1838 ; Hugh William, M.A., licentiate of the Church of Scotland, ord. min. of Bolton Presbyterian Church, Lancashire, 13th June DORNOCH] ASSYNT— CLYNE 79 1872, born 6th Feb. 1843, died 6th July 1873. Publication — Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.). DUNCAN ST GLAIR, adm. 18th Jan. 1844 1844 ; trans, to Loth 14th March 1848. DAVID WILLIAMSON, born 1799, son 1848 of Robert W., farmer, and Lilias Ross ; ord. to Kinlochluichart 21st March 1844 ; trans, and adm. 12th Dec. 1848 ; dem. 16th. May 1888 ; died unmarr. at Tain 24th Sept. that year. CHARLES ROBERTSON, M.A., B.D. ; 1889 ord> 3rd Jan< 1889 > trans> to Fearn 5th Nov. 1895. PETER MACGREGOR, M.A.; trans, from Glencoe, and adm. 16th April 1896; trans, to Tobermory 17th March 1898. JOHN RUGGAN, M.A. ; ord. 8th June . 1898; trans, to Logie-Colstone 7th ' March 1902. JOHN MACCALLUM, ord. 23rd July 1902; trans, to Kintail 10th May 1902 1917. DONALD MACASKILL BEGBIE, 1917 trans, from the Free Church, Lairg, and adm. 5th Sept. 1917; trans, to Freuchie 4th April 1919. DONALD MACKINNON, ord. to 1919 Stornoway 14th July 1897; trans, to Glengarry 30th Sept. 1903 ; trans, to Kilninian and Kilmore 6th July 1909; trans, to Milton, Glasgow, 18th May 1914 ; trans, and adm. 13th Aug. 1919. CLYNE. [Clyne.— The church at Clyne was dedi cated to St Aloyne. A prebend of Clyne in the Cathedral of Dornoch was held by the Dean of Caithness. In this parish there were at least four chapels : St Columba's, at Killcholumkill on the east side of Loch Brora ; St Machan's, at Kill- machain near Doll ; St John the Evangelist's, at Killiain ; and St Peter's at Kilpheadair. At Inverbrora, near the church, various fairs were held. They included trysts of St Aloyne and St Peter, a Lady Day Fair in December, a Lammas Fair, and one at Michaelmas. There is a mission chapel in this parish at Inverbrora.] WILLIAM HEPBURN, dean of Caith ness in 1557 ; died after 1562. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 617.] GAVIN BORTHWICK, son of Michael 1566 B. of Glengelt, Channelkirk ; coll. by the bishop to the deanery 1st June 1566 ; res. about 1607.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 617 ; Craven's Diocese of Caith ness, 28.] ANDREW ANDERSON, exhorter at 1574 Loth in 1567, min. here in 1574, with Loth and Kildonan also in his charge ; returned to Loth in 1590. JOHN GRAY, third son of Gilbert G. of 1608 Suardell aQd Christian, daugh. of Robert Munro of Foulis; pres. to the deanery by James VI. 15th Jan. 1608 ; trans, to Dornoch before 1614 ; min. again about 1621. JAMES GRAY, trans, from Creich in 1614 1614, but probably not settled. JOHN GRAY, above noticed ; re-trans. 1621 ^rom Dornoch about 1621 ; died 21st Jan. 1638. He marr. (1) Barbara, daugh. of John Keith of Ludquharn, min. of Duffus, and had issue — Robert of Auchinloynge, provost of Dornoch ; Gilbert ; Christian (marr. Patrick Dunbar of Sidera) : (2) Elizabeth, daugh. of Douglas of Spynie, widow of Patrick Dunbar, min. of Duffus. — [Gordon's Hist, of Sutherland ; Inq. Ret. Sutherland, 8 ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 617 ; Reg. of Deeds, dxxx., 24th July 1641.] WILLIAM GRAY, son of James G., 1638 min. of Lairg ; adm. before 21st Nov. 1638; still min. in 1673. He marr. (cont. 3rd April 1640) Catherine, daugh. of Oliver Gordon of Drumoy, and had issue— James.— {Reg. of Deeds, dxli., 44; Inverness Sas., iv., 200; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 622.] 80 CLYNE [PRESB. OF JAMES GRAY, M.A. (St Andrews, 27th July 1667); adm. before 13th July 1 1682 ; dep. after 4th July 1688 for charming and swearing. He marr. Christian M'lvor, and had issue— Catherine, marr. (cont. 9th May 1705) George, son to James Hay, min. of Kildonan).— [G. R. Inhib., xxxix., 31st Jan. 1706.] EYE MACKAY of Pettifine, eldest son of William M., min. of Rogart, passed part of his trials before Presb. of Moray ; licen. by Presb. of Ross 18th Nov. 1696; called in Feb., and ord. 18th Aug. 1697; dep. for adultery and incest 3rd Sept. 1701. He marr. (cont. 6th July 1693, Katherine, daugh. of Patrick Dunbar of Ledderlay (1 Sidera), and had issue— Hugh, sergeant in Lord Balgonie's Company in General Handyside's Regiment of Foot in Flanders ; Patrick, served heir to his father and grandfather 14th Jan. 1730; Helen (marr. Captain- Patrick Mackay of Borley). — [Edin. Test., 16th March 1747 ; Inverness Sas., vi., 241.] ROBERT THOMSON, called by the Presb. jure devoluto 10th, and ord. 1 24th Sept. 1713; trans, to Kirkhill 22nd April 1717. FRANCIS ROBERTSON, son of Francis R. in Balcony and Helen, daugh. of Hugh Ross of Easter Fearn ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (3rd May 1710) ; became schoolmaster of Tain ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 17th Dec. 1718 ; pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto 20th Jan., and ord. 7th May 1719. Having suffered serious losses from fire and expenses of law-suits, a contribution on his behalf was recommended by the General Assembly, 23rd May 1737, to be made in all the parishes of Scotland. He died 14th May 1763. He marr. Jan. 1723, Jane (died 14th May 1776), daugh. of Sutherland of Gills, and had issue — Francis, died in England June 1749; Gilbert, born 1727; Charles, licentiate, died 15th June 1752 ; James, born 26th July 1733, died 10th Jan. 1749; Margaret, born 15th March 1738; Mary, born 17th April 1740 (marr. John Thomson, min. of Durness) ; Janet, bore 8th Aug. 1742 ; Jean, born 13th June 1744 (marr. Captain George Sutherland of Mid- gartly) ; Henrietta, born 22nd Sept. 1748. GEORGE GORDON, son of George G., Gartly, spent all his patrimony on his education and at college; was recommended by Presb. of Tongue, 30th July 1759, to the Synod for supply ; licen. by that Presb. 7th July 1763; pres. by William, Earl of Sutherland, Nov. that year ; ord. 10th April 1764, died 2nd Sept. 1770. He marr. 18th May 1764, Eliza beth (died June 1784), daugh. of George Graham of Drynie, and had issue— Anne, born 24th May 1765, died 19th May 1768; Robert, born 3rd April 1767 ; Anne, born 1st Feb. 1769. HARRY ROBERTSON, M.A. ; pres. by the tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, Oct. 1770 ; ord. 8th May 1771 ; trans, to Kiltearn 9th May 1776. WALTER ROSS, M.A. (Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1771); licen. by Presb. of Tain 1st May 1776 ; pres. by the tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, Oct. 1776. The presentation was so unpopular it is stated, 9th Feb. 1777, that "he probably would have been murdered, had he not been protected and rescued by the gentlemen, as even the elders instigated and countenanced it"; ord. 7th May 1777 ; died 14th May 1825, aged about 74. He marr. 16th Feb. 1787, Elizabeth (died 30th June 1804), daugh. of Captain John Sutherland, tenant of Clyneleish, and had issue— William Baillie, physician, Tain, born 21st Feb. 1790; Janet, born 27th May, died 15th July 1793. Publica tion—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's StaL Ace., x.).— [Memorabilia Domestica, 54, 109, 138.] HUGH MACKENZIE, M.A. ; trans. from Assynt; pres. by George, ' Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, in June, and adm. 3rd Aug. 1825; trans, to Killin 26th June 1828. DORNOCH] CLYNE— CREICH GEORGE MACKAY, born 1796, son of 1828 Alexander M., Reay ; appointed schoolmaster of Loth in 1819; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 5th April 1825 ; assistant at Tain Nov. 1827 ; pros, by Elizabeth, Marchioness, and George, Marquess of Stafford, in April, and ord. 3rd Sept. 1828. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. .of Free Church, Clyne, 1843-5; min. of Free North Church, Inverness, 1845-86 ; D.D. (Aberdeen 1878) ; died 27th June 1886. He marr. (1) 28th April 1831, Louisa (died 1845), daugh. of Gabriel Reid, Gordonbush, and had issue— Gabriel, born 12th May 1832 ; Alexander, born 24th Dec. 1833; Alexandrina, born 22nd Oct. 1835, died 24th May 1837; George, born 23rd Oct. 1837: (2) 9th Oct. 1847, Catherine (died 6th Feb. 1885), daugh. of Thomas Fraser, min. at Inverness. — [Disruption Worthies of the Highlands (portrait), 238-53.] HECTOR MACKENZIE, adm. 7th Dec. 1843; trans, to Moy 25th July 1844. DUGALD M'KELLAR, only son of 1844 ^ugald M., Argyllshire; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; adm. 18th Sept. 1844; dep. 28th May 1863; died at Glasgow 16th Nov. 1878. PETER CALDER, born 1829, son of 1864 J°nn C-i farmer, and Janet Fergu son; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.(Marchl854); schoolmaster of Grantown ; ord. to Fort Augustus in 1860; adm. to Kinlochbervie 10th April 1862 ; trans, and adm. 14th Jan. 1864; died 30th Sept. 1870. He marr. 2nd June 1857, Jessie M'Gregor, who died 25th Nov. 1877, and had issue — James M'Gregor, born 21st Aug. 1858 ; Jessie Louisa, born 4th March 1860 ; John Gregor, born 24th Oct. 1861 ; Margaret Ann, born 12th May 1863 ; Partick, born 26th Aug. 1865, died 3rd July 1870. ANDREW MELDRUM, ord. 20th June 1871 18^ > trans- to Logierait 7th Nov. 1876. VOL. VII. DONALD GRANT, ord. 22nd March ^ 1877; trans, to Dornoch 30th Jan. 1878. JAMES DUNCAN MACRAE, trans. 18?8 from Burghead and adm. 12th Sept. 1 878 ; trans, to Contin 24th Dec. 1884. ROBERT LAMONT RITCHIE, ord. 1st July 1885 ; trans, to Creich 19th ' Oct. 1887. JOHN SPARK, born Montrose 26th 1880 Jan. 1849, son of Archibald S. and Barbara Reith ; educated at Ythan Wells School, Old Grammar School, Aber deen, and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1874) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow May 1876; assistant at Airth ; ord. to St James's, Kirkcaldy, 18th Oct. 1877; trans, and adm. 13th Aug. 1889 ; died 1st July 1926. He marr. 4th Feb. 1890, Christina, youngest daugh. of Charles Fyfe, Glasgow, and had issue — John Archibald, lieut. 19th Punjabis, Indian Army, born 31st Jan. 1891 ; Christina Mary, born 5th April 1892 ; Anna Caroline, nurse, born 2nd Aug. 1894 (marr. 10th June 1924, Sydney Brown, London) ; Charles Frederick, engineer, R.A.F., born 24th March 1896; Barbara Wilhelmina, student of medicine, born 29th Dec. 1898 ; Alexander EdwardRonald,engineer,born6thSept.l901. JOHN FAULDS, trans, from Milton of 1926 Balgonie (q.v.) 1926; trans, to Sea- field, 18th May 1927. HECTOR WILLIAM MACKAY, M.A., l 2? B.D., trans, from Snizort, 23rd Nov. 1927. CREICH. [The church of Creich was dedicated to St Deavanach. A prebend of Creich was held by the Chantor of the Cathedral of Dornoch. There were chapels in this parish at Knockan and Achness. A mission chapel within the bounds was built at Rosehall in 1891.] WILLIAM GRAY, min. of Dornoch, had 1569 charge also here. DONALD LOGAN, reader here and in 1688 the Gaelic tongue at Moy in 1569; adm. chantor of Caithness about 1583; still min. in 1597.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot, ii., 618.] CREICH [PRESB. OF JAMES GRAY, trans, from Lairg in | WALTER ROSS, ord. 14th Jan. 1714; 1607 1607 ; trans, to Clyne in 1614. 1714 trans, to Tongue llth June 1730. ALEXANDER DUFF, adm. before 28th Nov. 1616 ; dem. 13th Aug. 1623 through not having the Gaelic tongue, and adm. to Kilmalie [Golspie]," where there are some who have the Scottish tongue." ROBERT MONRO [alias M'FER- SOUN] of Creich, son of Hugh M. of Assynt, and grandson of Robert M. of Foulis ; min. of Dornoch and Creich in 1623. He had issue— Christian (marr. Donald Mackay of Borley).— [Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 203 ; Mackenzie's Hist, of the Munros, 469.] JOHN HOSACK, M.A. (King's _ College, Aberdeen 1619) ; suspended by General Assembly in July 1649 ; dep. before 16th Aug. 1656 when parish was declared vacant. He continued to marry and baptise notwithstanding. — [Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 203.] JOHN DEMPSTER, adm. before 20th 1664 April 1664 > trans, to Lairg before 7th Oct. 1668. JOHN ALEXANDER, licen. by George, Bishop of Edinburgh, 21st May 1666 ; ord. 16th Jan. 1668; trans, to Kil- drummy 28th May 1682. HUGH ROSE, son of Alexander R., Morayshire ; adm. before 13th July 1682 ; was summoned before Privy Council, 7th Nov. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, etc., but the charge was not proceeded with ; afterwards dep. but continued to preach, celebrate marriages and baptisms, for which he was highly censured by the Presb. in 1699 ; died at an advanced age after 1726. He marr. Margaret Sutherland, Pronsie, and had issue — Angus, miller at Invershin. — [Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i.. 203.] ANDREW MUNRO, son of John M., 17 ^ Lemlair; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews llth Oct. 1704; ord. 6th May 1707 ; died 1712.— [Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 203.] JAMES SMITH, born 1684 ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 20th Oct. 1 7 19 ; ord. (at Dingwall) to Gairloch llth May 1721 ; trans, and adm. 29th April 1731 ; died 17th Nov. 1758. He marr. 25th Feb. 1724, Katherine Munro, who died llth Dec. 1758, and had issue — Christian ; Katherine ; George, born 20th April 1729; John, born 18th Feb. 1733; Elizabeth, born 28th Nov. 1735; Isobel, born 17th April 1737. HUGH ROSE, M.A. ; pres. by George II. llth April, and adm. '26th Sept. 1759 ; trans, to Tain 27th June 1770. GEORGE RAINY, born Aberdeen- 1771 shire, 1734, son of John R. (originally Rennie),farmer,Turriff (a Hanoverian who suffered for his anti-Jacobitism during the '45) ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 19th July 1763 ; ord. by Presb. of Tain as mission ary in Creich and Kincardine 8th May 1766; pres. by George III. 14th Feb. and 20th Nov. 1770, and by tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland ; adm. 2nd April 1771 ; died 23rd Oct. 1810. He marr. 17th Nov. 1772, Anne (died 13th Aug. 1833), daugh. of Gilbert Robert son, min. of Kincardine, and had issue — Margaret and two others who all died young ; Margaret, born 16th April 1774 (marr. 7th Dec. 1797 Charles Stewart Parker of Blochairn), died 17th Jan. 1844 ; Christina, born 13th June 1776 (marr. 9th Nov. 1804, Hugh Tennant of Wellpark, manufacturer, Glasgow) ; Isabella, born 18th Dec. 1780 (marr. Angus Kennedy, min. of Dornoch); Gilbert, born 14th Oct. 1782, died of fever at Demerara, June 1808 ; Anne, born 17th March 1787 (marr. 30th March 1820, Robert Brown of Fairlie, merchant, Glasgow), died 1872 ; George of Raasay, merchant, Demerara, born 6th June 1790, died 9th June 1863 ; Harry, M.D., professor of Forensic Medicine, Glasgow (father of Robert R., D.D., LL.D., Principal of the U.F. College, Edinburgh), born 21st Oct. 1792, died 6th Aug. 1876. Publication DORNOCH] CREICH— DORNOCH 83 — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., viii.). — [The Life of Principal Rainy, i., 4, 13; Memorabilia Domestica, 51, 124.] MURDOCH CAMERON, born Ross- shire ; educated at King's College, L Aberdeen ; M.A. (29th March 1787) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 2nd July 1799; ord. missionary at Strathglass 2nd Sept. 1799; res. 1st May 1805; assistant in this parish till May 1810; assistant at Croy Aug. that year ; pres. by George, Prince Regent, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, 15th Feb., and adm. 25th Sept. 1811 (under protection of the military, when a riot ensued in which Captain Kenneth Mackay of Torboll, who commanded, had his sword shivered to pieces by stones thrown at him by an old woman of seventy); died unmarr.,13th Dec. 1853. Publication— Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 206.] NEIL MACKINNON, born about 1819, 1855 son °^ ^r Farquhar M., Kyleakin ; educated at King's College, Aber deen, 1831-5 ; ord. to Bracadale 22nd Sept. 1843 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th June, trans, and adm. 27th Sept. 1855 ; died 27th Oct. 1886. He marr. 30th April 1850, Elizabeth Flora Ann (died 20th Nov. 1896), daugh. of James Thomas Macdonald of Balranald, and had issue— Catherine, born 10th Feb. 1851 (marr. James Ross of Polio, Ross-shire); Farquhar, born 31st May 1853; Jane, born 31st Oct. 1855 ; Jemima Alex- andrina, born 4th July 1859 (marr. James Ross, distiller, Easter Ross); James Donald, born 25th Nov. 1861 ; Christina, born 5th Dec. 1863. ROBERT LAMONT RITCHIE, born Tobermory, 13th March 1859, son of Captain George R., lona, and Mary Lamont ; educated at Parish School, Ayr Academy, and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 13th May 1884 ; assistant at Killearn ; ord. to Clyne 1st July 1885; trans, and adm. 19th Oct. 1887. Publication— Some Unpublished Gaelic Songs by Angus Lamont, Bard of Mull (Inverness, p.p., 1899). — [Trans. Gaelic Soc. Inverness, xxiv., 66.] DORNOCH. [The ancient parish church of Dornoch was dedicated to St Finn Barr. In Dornoch stood also St Gilbert's, the Cathedral church of Caithness. In the later years of the sixteenth century St Gilbert's was made the church of the parish. It took its name from St Gilbert, Bishop of Caith ness, its founder. He was buried in the Cathedral in 1245. There was within it a chapel of St James. St Gilbert's Cathedral was burned down in 1570. In 1605 it was greatly ruined by a very violent storm. In 1835 the restoration of the venerable building was begun by Elizabeth, Duchess of Sutherland, and the work went on for a number of years. In 1924 on the occasion of the Septcentenary of the founding of Dornoch Cathedral, a mural tablet was erected in memory of St Gilbert. A convent of the Red Friars was founded at Dornoch in 1271. Fairs of St Finn Barr and St Gilbert were held in the town.] WILLIAM GRAY, exhorter in the 156g Gaelic language in 1567, and in 1569 supplied Creich by ministration of the sacraments ; trans, to Lairg in 1580. WILLIAM PAPE [or POPE], M.A., min. in 1588 ; trans, to Nigg about ! 1613. [In the Dunrobin Museum there is an old stone with coat-of-arms and initials, M. W. P. and C. M., probably those of P. and his wife (see p. 65).].— {Illustration in jBentinck's "Dornoch,'1 174.] JOHN GRAY, trans, from Clyne before 1614 1614 ; re-trans, to Clyne about 1621. ROBERT MONRO, called min. of Creich I62g and Dornoch in 1623.— [Reg. of Deeds, ccc., Ixi., sup. 333.] JOHN GRAY, app. Justice of the Peace 168. in 1634.— [P. C. Reg., 2nd ser., v., 388.] 84 DORNOCH [PRESB. OF 1648 ALEXANDER MONRO, son of John M. of Pittonachy; min. of Golspie 18th 1639 Sept. 1634 ; trans, and adm. in 1639 ; was a member of Assembly that year ; had a gift of 300 merks yearly from Charles I., 12th Nov. 1641, and of 800 merks or eight chalders of victual in augmentation of his stipend, on condition of giving 300 merks yearly to uphold the Church and 200 merks to the master of the Grammar School ; this was ratified by Parliament 17th Nov. that year. He was dep. for intemperance and the sentence approved by the Assembly July 1649. He marr. a 'daugh. of Alex ander Ross of Balblair. — [Reg. Sec. Sig.; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 616.] GEORGE GRAY, son of James G., min. of Lairg; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1646); was a member of Commission of Assembly llth Aug. 1648 ; obtained a warrant from English commissioners at -Leith, July 1655, for drawing his bygone stipend ; died 18th April 1662, aged about 36. He marr. Elspeth Monypenny, and had issue — Robert, apprenticed to George Child, saddler, Edinburgh, 23rd Sept. 1668.— [Lament's Diary, 90, 148 ;. Feme MSS.~] JOHN ROSS, a native of Moray ; edu cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (27th April 1663); adm. to Latheron before 5th Feb. 1668 ; trans, and adm. in 1680 ; summoned before the Privy Council, 7th Nov. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates and not pray ing in terms thereof, but having shown that he had no scruple to read it and had prayed for William and Mary, he was acquitted ; dem. in 1691. WILLIAM MACKAY, entered at Martinmas 1690 ; trans, to Crom- 90 dale after 17th April 1694. [HUGH DUFF had calls to Dornoch and Fearn, but, 23rd Dec. 1698, declared " he could not think of settling in Dornoch without violence to his conscience."— [Bentick's Dornoch, 249.] ] ARCHIBALD BOWIE, ord. in 1702 17Q2 after a vacancy of eight years ; trans to Monzie 7th Sept. 1710. 1680 ROBERT KIRK, born about 1690, son of Robert K., min. of Aberfoyle ; 718 educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (15th June 1710); licen. by Presb. f Haddington 27th May 1712 ; pres. to VIorham Sept. that year, but was called ;o this parish by Presb. of Dornoch jure ievoluto 28th July, and ord. 23rd Sept. 1713; died 27th Feb. 1758. He lodged lohn, Earl of Loudoun, during the Rebel- ion in 1745-6, was noted for his piety, diligence, and zeal, and is stated to have Deen "an Israelite indeed, in whom was 10 guile." He marr. (1) 3rd Dec. 1714, Lilias (died 19th May 1746), daugh. of Alexander Sutherland of Pronsie, and had issue — Christian (marr. llth Feb. 1738, Hugh Macdonald, sheriff-clerk of Suther land); Margaret; Robert, M.A. (1747), died 19th Aug. 1750 ; Alexander, born 19th Sept. 1731 : (2) 9th April 1747, Jean (died 14th July 1800), daugh. of George Ross of Pitkerrie, and had issue— George, born 1st Aug. 1751, died Oct. 1752; Ann, born 21st July 1753 ; Jean, born 6th Dec. 1754 (marr. 1782, Colonel Duncan Munro of Culcairn). — [Reid's Earls of Ross, 40.] JOHN SUTHERLAND, born Dornoch, 1731, son of William S. ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1752) ; licen. by Presb. of Perth 28th Jan. 1756; ord. as missionary at Moidart 18th Nov. that year ; trans, to Kilmalie llth May 1758 ; pres. by William, Earl of Sutherland, Nov. that year ; trans, and adm. 22nd Feb. 1759 ; died 10th Sept. 1777. He marr. 22nd March 1759, Elizabeth (died 3rd May 1812), daugh. of John Sutherland, min. of Tain, and had issue — William, born llth Oct. 1760 ; Maxwell, born 24th April 1762 ; James Colquhoun, born 22nd Sept. 1763, died 22nd March 1764 ; Christian, born 4th Jan. 1765 (marr. Sheriff Hugh MacCulloch) ; John, born 12th April 1767, died 17th May 1768; Mary Macdonald, born 18th Feb. 1770 ; yEneas, born 24th Aug. 1772 ; Eliza beth Wemyss Matilda, born 10th Aug. 1775 ; John, lieut. 85th Foot, born 24th April 1778, died in Jamaica llth Oct. 1806. DORNOCH] DORNOCH 85 JOHN BETHUNE, born 1746, son of John B., min. of Glenshiel ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1764); licen. by Presb. of Gairloch 4th April 1770 ; ord. to Harris 13th May 1772; pres. by the trustees and tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Suther land, in March, trans, and adm. 16th Sept. 1778; D.D. (Aberdeen, 15th Aug. 1812); died 8th Oct. 1816. He was an eloquent classical scholar, and has been described as "one of the most finished gentlemen" of his time. He had piercing black eyes and a cocked nose which gave a strong expression of good humour to his face. He marr. 19th Feb. 1779, Barbara Margaret (died 7th March 1835), daugh. of Joseph Monro, min. of Edderton, and had issue — Christina, born 16th May 1780 (marr. 7th Nov. 1801, Captain Robert Sutherland of the Royal Invalids, Tower of London) ; Joseph, captain 78th Foot, born 21st Dec. 1781 ; John, born 17th Aug. 1783, died at Berbice, 5th July 1804; Barbara, born llth Aug. 1785 (marr. 7th June 1817, Lieut.-Colonel John Ross of Strathgarvie, 2nd West Indian Regiment) ; Walter, born 6th Nov. 1787, died 6th March 1838; Janet, born 1st June 1789, died unmarr. at Inverness ; Matthew Townsend, surgeon, Inverness, born 26th Feb. 1792, died 1820; Walter Angus of Dunrobin, Tasmania, born 22nd July 1795; Robert, farmer in the Black Isle, and afterwards in America, born 16th Dec. 1796. Publication— Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., viii.).— [Memor abilia Domestica, 52, 115, 120.] ANGUS KENNEDY, born Lochcarron, 1817 1769, son of Donald K., farmer, Kishorn, Applecross, Ross-shire, and Mary, daugh. of ^Eneas Sage ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (29th March, 1798); schoolmaster at Lochalsh ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 18th June 1801 ; assistant at Lairg that year ; ord. (assistant and successor) to Lairg 23rd Nov. 1802 ; pres. by George, Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, in May, trans, and adm. 3rd July 1817. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Dornoch, 1843-55 ; died 22nd June 1855. He marr. 16th Jan. 1806, Isabella (died 22nd Jan. 1860), daugh. of George Rainy, min. of Creich, and had issue — Georgiana Robertson, born 15th April 1807 (marr. 29th April 1835, John Mackenzie, min. of Carnoch) ; Donald, born 9th March 1811, died 10th March 1829 ; George Rainy, min. of this parish ; yEneas Sage, went to Canada, born 12th Feb. 1815; Charles Stewart Parker, merchant, Kingston, Canada, born 18th April 1819, died before 1865 ; John Alexander, born 8th July 1823, died 19th Feb. 1825. Publication— Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.)— [Memorabilia Domestica, 13, 213.] GEORGE RAINY KENNEDY, born 3rd 1Ro»7 Nov. 1812, second son of preceding ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 26th Nov. 1834; assistant at Kildonan ; pres. by Elizabeth, Duchess of Sutherland, in Oct., and ord. (assistant and successor) 23rd Nov. 1837. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Dornoch, 1843-80 ; died 29th June 1899. He marr. 1848, Ann Eliza (died 12th Aug. 1865), daugh. of Hugh Tennant of Wellpark, Glasgow, s.p. : (2) Aug. 1865, Mary Margaret (daugh. of Hugh M'Intyre, and had issue — Harry Angus Alexander, D.D., D.Sc., professor of New Testament language, literature, and theology, New College, Edinburgh, born 4th July 1866 ; George Rainy born 15th Dec. 1867. ALEXANDER M'lVER, born 1801, 1848 son °^ Colin M., min. of Glenelg ; educated at King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (30th March 1816); app. schoolmaster of Glenelg 29th May 1816; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 21st July 1820; ord. missionary at Arnisdale and Knoydart llth Dec. 1821 ; missionary at Glenmoriston, 1824-6 ; adm. to Sleat 26th April 1826 ; trans, and adm. 22nd Nov. 1843 ; died 5th Aug. 1852. He marr. 20th Nov. 1833, Alexa Hume (died 26th Sept. 1875), daugh. of Kenneth Campbell of Stroud, Harris, and had issue- — Anne Mary, born 28th Aug. 1834 (marr. Thomas Stephen, min. of Kinloss) ; Kenneth, born 16th Oct. 1836. Publication — Account of Parish of Sleat (New Stat. Ace., xiv.). 86 DORNOCH— GOLSPIE [PEESB. OF WILLIAM FORSYTE, M.A. ; trans. 1853 from Ardersier, and adm. 27th April 1853 ; trans, to Abernethy and Kin cardine 24th April 1863. DONALD MACLEOD, pres. by Duke of Sutherland, and adm. 14th Aug. 1863 ; trans, to Greyfriars' Church, Dumfries, 1st Feb. 1866. DUNCAN STEWART, trans, from Golspie, and adm. 19th June 1866; trans, to Elgin 21st Aug. 1873. CHARLES M'GREGOR, trans, from Ardoch, and adm. 12th March 1874 ; trans, to East Church, Aberdeen, 9th Aug. 1877. DONALD GRANT, born 1848, son 1878 of Donald G., clothier, and Jane Rattray ; educated at Univ. of Edin burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Abernethy 8th June 1875 ; ord. to Clyne 22nd March 1877; trans, and adm. 30th Jan. 1878; D.D. (St Andrews 1903) ; died 20th Nov. 1906. He marr. 14th Feb. 1889, Henrietta Phillipina, daugh. of James Hall of Evelix, formerly of Jamaica, and had issue — Mary Georgina Jane, born 26th Nov. 1893 (marr. 19th Feb. 1919, George Hunter Morrison, captain Canadian Forestry Corps) ; Donald James, M.C., captain A. & S. Highlanders, born 2nd April 1896. Publication— Dornoch in the Eighteenth Century (Trans. Inver ness Field Club, iv., 339-55). CHARLES DONALD BENTINCK, 1907 k°rn Kingussie, 24th Jan. 1866, son of John Henry B. and Flora Wilson ; educated at Kingussie School, George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A. (1886), and St Andrews, B.D. (1888) ; licen. by Presb. of Abernethy June 1888 ; assistant at St Columba's Church, Glasgow; ord. to Kirkhill llth July 1889 ; trans, and adm. 7th June 1907 ; D.D. (St Andrews, 26th June 1925). Marr. 15th Sept. 1891, Helen Green, daugh. of James Fraser, min. of Erchless, and has issue — Henry James Fraser, lieut. Sea- forth Highlanders), born 4th Oct. 1892; George Alexander, M.C., captain 9th Royal Scots, born 19th Sept. 1893 ; Flora Eliza beth, born 2nd Oct. 1894 (marr. 2nd Oct. 1917, Finlay William Nugent Finlayson, lieut. Gordon Highlanders) ; Catherine Frances Letitia, born 25th April 1898 (marr. 2nd Oct. 1918, Major W. Eric Hugh Gardner, 129th Canadian Forestry Corps) ; Marjory Isabel Elspeth, born 16th Feb. 1902 (marr. 25th Jan. 1921, Robert Balfour Kerr, Barney Mains, Haddington shire) ; Charles Macpherson, born 26th Dec. 1905 ; Evelyn Helen, born 14th July 1907 ; Eliza beth Hoyes, born 3rd Sept. 1910 ; Gilbert Evan, born 7th June 1913. Publications — "Wardlaw Church and Clergy" (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxv., 273-96), " Letters of a Jacobite Chief [Simon, Lord Lovat] and a Loyalist Lady" (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxvi., 157-82) ; " The Bishops and Clergy of the Diocese of Caithness " (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness) ; Dornoch Cathedral and Parish (Inverness, 1926). GOLSPIE, OF OLD KILMALIE. [The ancient church of this parish, which stood at Kilmalie, was dedicated to St Maliew. It belonged to the Bishop of Caithness. That church having fallen out of repair, the parish church was removed from Kilmalie to the chapel of St Andrew at Golspie, in another part of the parish, and St Andrew's was fitted up of new for that purpose. At Golspie a fair of St Andrew was held. At Dunrobin, within the bounds, there was a Well of St John.] ROBERT FERNE, a curate under the Roman Church in 1546 ; exhorter and reader from 1567 to 1585.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 649.] WILLIAM GRAY, min. of Assynt ; had 1574 charge here in 1574. ALEXANDER DUFF, adm. to Creich 1628 before 28th Nov. 1616; dem. 13th Aug. 1623, and adm. here ; ratified his promise, 19th April 1626, to marry Jean, daugh. of John Douglas, burgess of Elgin, but in 1626 for failing to implement the same, his horse was seized and he was ordered to be warded if found within Elgin. — [The Book of the Duffs, ii., 532 ; Reg. of Deeds, dl., 374 ; Elgin Sess. Rec.~] 1567 DORNOCH] GOLSPIE 87 1656 1682 1690 ALEXANDER MONRO, min. here 18th Sept. 1634, when he was app. a Justice of the Peace for Sutherland ; trans, to Dornoch before 12th Aug. 1639. JOHN MACCULLOCH, born Ross- shire, son of John M., educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1652); adm. before 16th Aug. 1656; died before llth Dec. 1671. He marr. Beatrix Gray, who survived him, and had issue — John, student, King's College, Aberdeen, 1676 ; George ; Barbara. — [G. R. Homings, 13th Dec. 1678 and 12th July 1687 ; G. R. Inhib., llth Dec. 1671.] HUGH ROSE, M.A. (King's College, Aberdeen, 1670); adm. before 13th July 1682 ; dem. before 1689. WALTER DENUNE, M.A. (King's Col lege, Aberdeen, 1650) ; app. by Bishop of Ross to enter on trials before Presb. of Dingwall 21st Nov. 1677; entered on ministry between llth April and 13th July 1678 ; was accused of keeping conventicles in Culbin with Lemlair's widow, though prohibited by the Earl of Seaforth and complained against to Bishop Paterson. He was arrested, 12th Feb. 1679, and ordered to be taken to the Tol- booth of Edinburgh, but was rescued at the South Ferry of Dundee, preached at Dup- plin Mill, 30th May that year, and con tinued to hold conventicles, but no further proceedings taken against him. He was adm. here about 1690 and died March 1729, aged about 100. By his will, dated llth Nov. 1725, he left 1000 merks Scots to provide a bursary in the New College of Aberdeen for a relative or other student. — [Brodie's Diary ; Wodrow's Hist., iii., 38 ; Anal., iv., 4 ; Arbroath Sess. Reg.'} JOHN SUTHERLAND, ord. 30th April 1731 1731 ; trans, to Tain 29th July 1752. MARTIN MACPHERSON, born 1723, son of John M., schoolmaster at Orbost ; Keen, by Presb. of Skye 2nd March 1748; assistant at Rothesay and missionary at Badenoch and Lochaber ; adm. to Glenelg 18th Dec. 1751 ; pres. by commissioners for William, Earl of Suther land, 5th and 22nd Jan., trans, and adm. 1754 1st May 1754 ; died 10th Sept. 1773. He marr. 3rd Nov. 1755, Elizabeth (died 3rd May 1807), daugh. of Hugh Gordon of Carrol, and had issue— Lucy, born 16th Dec. 1756 ; Jean, born 3rd Feb. 1758 ; Margaret, born 30th June 1759 ; Ann, born 15th March 1761 ; Barbara, born 23rd May 1762 ; John, born 27th Nov. 1763, died 5th May 1771 ; Elizabeth, born 15th June 1765 ; Hugh, M.D., Sub-Principal, Professor of Greek, and sometime Professor of Hebrew, King's College, Aberdeen, born 12th Aug. 1767, died 12th March 1854 ; William, born 17th July 1769 ; John, born 30th April 1771; Norman, born 20th July 1772; Martina, born 14th May 1774. Publication — " A Letter to the Author of the Treatise on the Second Sight " (Miscell. Scot., iii.).— [Anderson's King's College, 43.] JOHN CAMPBELL, licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld in 1772 ; pres. by tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Suther land; ord. 27th Sept. 1774; dem. 14th Dec. 1775 and lived in retirement at Dunkeld. WILLIAM GUNN, son of Adam G., tacksman of Milbuie, Dunbeath ; educated at King's College, Aber deen; M.A. (28th March 1771); school master of Tongue ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue 25th Oct. 1774; pres. by tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, in Feb., and ord. 15th Aug. 1776 ; died 28th Dec. 1785, aged about 34, one of the most popular preachers in the North. He marr. 9th July 1779, Anne (died senior annuitant of Ministers' Widows' Fund 3rd July 1841), daugh. of David Henderson of Stemster, and had issue — Cecilia, born 16th June 1780, died 14th Nov. 1785; Adam, born 18th Jan. 1782 ; Mary, born 14th Nov. 1784. WILLIAM KEITH, born Easter Ross, 1741 ; educated at Univs. of Aber deen and Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 6th May 1767; became schoolmaster of Creich and afterwards tutor in family of Mrs Rose at Daan ; assistant at Fearn ; ord. (assistant) to Kilbrandon 9th Feb. 1773 ; trans, to Kildonan 23rd April 88 GOLSPIE [PRESS. OF 1776; pres. by Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, and her husband, June 1786 ; trans, and adm. 5th April 1787 ; died llth June 1816. He marr. 13th Feb. 1779, Isa bella (died 5th June 1811), daugh. of Patrick Grant, min. of Nigg, and had issue —Patrick, born 27th June 1780, died at Berbice 10th Aug. 1805; Margaret, born 9th March 1783 (marr. 14th Nov. 1814, Evan Evelyn Arthur, merchant, London), died 25th May 1845 ; William, born 26th July 1784, died in Bengal 24th Aug. 1803 ; Sutherland, born 19th Jan. 1787 ; George, born 3rd Sept. 1788, died 6th May 1808 : Elizabeth Forsyth, born 21st Sept. 1792 (marr. 16th Sept. 1815, Charles Sutherland, merchant, Golspie) ; Anne, bom 25th April, died 25th Oct. 1793 ; James, born 14th Feb. 1795 ; Sophia, born 27th Nov. 1798 ; Lewis, born 5th July 1802. Publication— Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace. ix., xxi). —[Memorabilia Domestica, 53.] ALEXANDEK MACPHERSON, born Gairloch, 1782, son of Kenneth M., 1 farmer, and Christian Ross ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (28th March 1803) ; licen. by Presb. of Fordoun 25th March 1812 ; became rector of Tain Academy in 1814; pres. by George, Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, Nov. 1816; ord. 5th March 1817 Seized with melancholy and conceiving he had offended his patrons and could no1 fulfil the duties of his charge, he resigned 23rd Nov. 1819, but on steps being taker to fill the vacancy, he withdrew his resigna tion, and the Presbytery refusing to ac quiesce, he appealed to the General As sembly, which on 23rd May 1820, declared him to be still minister. D.D. (King's Col lege, Aberdeen, 10th Feb. 1849) ; died 6th Aug. 1861. He marr. (1) 26th July 1814 Harriet (died 1816), second daugh. o Captain Donald Matheson of Shinness, an< had issue — Christina, born 13th July 181 (marr. 14th Sept. 1837, Hugh Mathesor merchant, Liverpool) : (2) 7th July 182J Agnes (died 30th Jan. 1870), daugh. c Robert Young, writer, Edinburgh, and ha issue_Agnes, born 6th June 1824 (mar: 19th Aug. 1852, Patrick Plenderleath, so f Patrick Sellar of Ardtornish) ; Catherine Uexandrina, born 26th March 1826 ; Jane, orn 26th Feb. 1828 ; Kenneth Hector, born 3rd March, died April 1830; Robert leorge, born 27th July 1832; Kenneth Donald, born 27th Oct. 1834, died at Tacna, 'eru, 17th Feb. 1858. Publications— On he Perspicuity, Perfection, and Power of he Holy Scriptures, a sermon (Edinburgh, .836); Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 206.] [DONALD ROSS, M.A. ; min. of Kil- muir, Skye; pres. by George, Marquess, ind Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, n Jan., and adm. 26th April 1820, but this was annulled by General Assembly J3rd May that year, as above mentioned.] DUNCAN STEWART, B.A.; trans, from Third Charge, Inverness, and 1862 adm. 20th March 1862; trans, to Dornoch 19th June 1866. JAMES MAXWELL JOASS, born Tain, 8th April 1830, son of John J., guard 1866 of mail coach between Aberdeen and Inverness; educated at Inverness Royal Academy, Grammar School, and King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1850); tutor in family of Mr Scott, Tullich, Loch- carron ; app. missionary at Kilmonivaig (Brae Lochaber) in 1855 ; ord. to Edderton 24th Nov. 1859 ; pres. by Duchess of Sutherland; trans, and adm. 25th Oct. 1866; (LL.D., Aberdeen, 1875); died unmarr. 8th June 1914. Publications— Two Days' Diggings in Sutherland (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., v., 242-7, Edinburgh, 1865); Notes on Ancient Dwellings in Sutherland (Anthropological Review, ii., iii., London) ; Notice of a Cist in Edderton (ibid., v., 311-15, Edinburgh, 1865) ; Notes of various objects of Antiquity in Strathnaver (ibid., v., 357-60, Edinburgh, 1865); Notes of Various Antiquities in Koss and Sutherland (ibid., vi., 327, Edinburgh, 1868) ; Notes on Some Northern Antiquities (ibid., vi., 386-8, Edinburgh, 1868); Notice of the Discovery of Cists ... a* Torran Dubh, near Tain (ibid., vi., 418-19, Edinburgh 1868) ; Notes on the Sutherland Goldfield (Quart. Journ. Geol. Science, xxv., 314-26, DORNOCIl] GOLSPIE— KILDONAN 89 1913 London, 1869) ; Note of Five Kists found iiinlcr a '/''tiii) H/ it* on the Glebe of Edderton, fioss (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vii., 268-9, Edinburgh, 1870) ; Notes of the Discovery of a Necklace of Beads, etc. . . . at Torrish Kildonan (ibid., viii., 408-11, Edinburgh, 1871) ; The Brochs or Pictish Towers of Ginn-Trolla, Carn-Liath, and Craig Carrel in Sutherland (Archcelog. Scotica, v., 95-130, Edinburgh, 1874 : Inverness Scientific Soc. and Field Club, llth Dec. 1917); Note on Cup-marked Stones in Sutherlandshire (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., v., 240-1, Edin burgh, 1881); Notes on the Curach and Ammir in Ross-shire (ibid., xv., 179-80, Edinburgh, 1881); Dunrobin (Old Lore Misc., ii., 199-201, London, 1909).— [Nichol son's Golspie and its Folk-lore (London, 1897).] DAVID LYNEDOCH CATTANACH, born 22nd June 1882, son of Peter Lorimer C., advocate, Edinburgh, and Jane Bladworth Hardie, and brother of Joseph Hardie C., min. of Kirkurd ; educated at George Watson's College and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1904); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1911 ; assistant at Park Parish, Glasgow; ord. (assistant and successor) 20th June 1913; served as a gunner and as 2nd lieut. R.F.A. in European War; trans, to Hobkirk 8th March 1922. Marr. 29th April 1914, Dorothy Agnes, youngest daugh. of John A. Leechman, Edinburgh, and has issue— Isobel Mary Lorimer, born 29th May 1915 ; Dorothy Joan, born 4th May 1921. JOHN" TAYLOR, born Glasgow, 22nd 1922 June 1891) son °f JoJin T' and Margaret Wallace ; educated at John Street Higher Grade and Albert Schools, and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1916) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 25th June 1919; assistant at Peebles ; ord. 20th June 1922 ; trans, to Collessie 10th Dec. 1925. Marr. 22nd Aug. 1922, Margaret, only daugh. of Joseph Strathern, schoolhouse, Edderton, and has issue — a child born 7th Dec. 1927. DAVID HEDLEY GILL AN, born - Meerut, India, 20th Dec. 1869, son of George Green G., D.D., min. of Carmunnock ; educated at Ayr Academy and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1890), B.D. (1893) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 7th Sept. 1892 ; assistant at Hamilton ; ord. to Indian chaplaincy 14th July 1897; app. chaplain Royal Air Force (Cranwell) 1st April 1920 ; adm. here 7th April 1926. Marr. 20th Jan. 1906, Helen, daugh. of James Drummond and Christina Cameron, and has issue— John Woodburn, born 4th July 1907; Agnes Christian, born 20th July 1908; David Hedley Drummond, born 23rd Jan. 1912. KILDONAN (HELMSDALE). [The church of Kildonan was dedicated to St Donan. In the Cathedral of Dornoch there was a prebend of Kildonan. When the Presb. of Tongue was erected, on llth May 1726, the parish of Kildonan was taken from the jurisdiction of Dornoch, and assigned to that of Tongue. On 18th May 1727, the General Assembly again annexed Kildonan to the Presb. of Dor noch. There were two chapels within the bounds, St Peter's at Kilpheadair, and St Mary's at Kilmuir. A fair of St Donan was held at Kildonan. There was in the parish a Well of St John the Baptist. There are two mission chapels in this parish, that of St Donan at the Kirkton of Kildonan in Strathuilie, and the other at Kinbrace. At the time of the Sutherland Clearances many Kildonan people emigrated to the Selkirk colony at Manitoba, where they named their settlement Kildonan, and erected a church, a replica of that in which they had worshipped at home. [See " Kildonan in Manitoba," by W. S. Crockett, Life and Work, Dec. 1909.]] ANDREW BAIN, reader.— [Orir/. 1567 Paroch. Scot., ii., 736.] ANDREW ANDERSON, min. of Clyne ; 1674 had charge here in 1574. PHILIP ANDERSON, reader in 1574 1574. GEORGE RUTHVEN, pres. to parson- ivrj age and vicarage by James VI. in 1577, but probably not settled. 90 KILDONAN [PRESB. OF WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, pres. by 1584 James VI. 28th Dec. 1584. WALTER ANDERSON, rain, in 1602 1602 and 28th May 1615.—[0rt0r. Paroch. ' Scot., ii., 736 ; P. C. Reg., viii., 700.] GABRIEL MAXWELL, min. in 1641.— 1641 [G. R. So*., I, 97.] ANDREW ANDERSON, M.A. 1656 ^ Andrews 1621); adm. before 6th Aug. 1656, then sick and unable to travel ; still min. 20th April 1664. JAMES HAY, a native of Moray ; edu- 1673 cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (19th July 1666); ord. 22nd Oct. 1673; died Aug. 1705. He marr., and had issue — George.— [Thurso Sess. Reg. ; G. R. Inhib., Ixxxix., 30th Jan. 1706.] ALEXANDER BRODIE, called 21st 1712 July> and ord< 18tt Sept> 1712> trans, to Reay 14th May 1723. WILLIAM ROSE, ord. 31st March 1725 ; 1725 trans, to Loth 5th Sept. 1739. HUGH SUTHERLAND, pres. by 1740 William> Earl of Sutherland, Oct. 1739; ord. 23rd April 1740; trans, to Rogart 12th Sept. 1753. HUGH ROSS, born about 1720, son 1755 °^ J°hn R-5 overseer in Craigroy, Edderton; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (April 1736); licen. by Presb. of Tain 21st March 1744 ; pres. by commissioners for William, Earl of Sutherland, 7th Feb. 1754; ord. 28th May 1755; died 2nd Feb. 1761. He marr. 18th Aug. 1759, Ann, daugh of Hugh Houstoun in Ferrytown, Dornoch, and had issue— Elizabeth Kerr, born Oct. 1760. His widow marr. (2) 8th Oct. 1779. JOHN ROSS, born 1733, son of James 1761 R., Mill of Hole, and nephew of Walter R., min. of Tongue; became schoolmaster of Drummond ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 26th March 1755; ord. missionary at Farr 26th Sept. 1759; pres. by William, Earl of Sutherland, in July, and adm. 18th Nov. 1761 ; died 28th March 1775. He marr. 7th Sept. 1770, Ann (died 28th Feb. 1793), daugh. of William Rose, min. of Loth, and widow of Captain Alexander Gunn, tacksman of Badenloch, and had issue — David, a soldier and after wards miller, Cloggan, Strathbeg, born 12th June 1771 ; Katherine, born 12th June 1773 (marr. David Gunn), died 1827. WILLIAM KEITH, adm. from Kil- i 77ft brandon ; pres. by tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, in 1775 ; adm. 23rd April 1776; trans, to Golspie 5th April 1787. ALEXANDER SAGE, born 2nd July 178? 1753, youngest son of ^Eneas S., min. of Lochcarron ; educated at Cromarty School (where his teacher was John Russel — the " Black Russel " of Burns [afterwards min. of Stirling]) and King's College, Aber deen ; M.A. (31st March 1772); became schoolmaster of Tongue; licen. by Presb. of Tongue 2nd April 1779; assistant at Reay, 1779-82; ord. missionary at Dirlot and officiated in the higher parts of Latheron and Halkirk, 1784-7; pres. by Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, and George, Lord Gower, in April, and adm. 10th May 1787 ; died 14th April 1824. He marr. (1) 19th March 1784, Isabella (born 14th Jan. 1751, died 27th Nov. 1792), eldest daugh. of Donald Fraser, min. of Urquhart, and had issue— Elizabeth, born 7th Dec. 1785 (marr. Finlay Cook, min. of Reay); Jane, born 21st March 1787 (marr. William Forbes, min. of Tarbat) ; ^Eneas, born 31st Aug. 1788 ; Donald, min. of Resolis, born 20th Oct. 1789 ; and two others died young : (2) llth Dec. 1794, Jean (died s.p. 25th June 1819), third daugh. of Major George Sutherland of Mid Garty, second son of Sutherland of Langwell. Publications — Ossianic Fragments (known as the Sage- Pope Collections) ; in Reliquiae Celticce, i., 371-99 [edited by Alexander Cameron, LL.D.'J (Inverness, 1892-4) ; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii., xxi.). —[Memorabilia Domestica, 23, 42, 77 et seq. ; Beaton's Bibliography of Gaelic Books of Caithness and Sutherland, 10.] DORNOCH] KILDONAN 91 JAMES CAMPBELL, born Creich 1782, tutor in family of Mr Munro of Tigh- na-aonich, Alness ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 10th Feb. 1819; assistant at Rogart ; pres. by Elizabeth, Marchioness, and George, Marquess of Stafford; ord. 15th Sept. 1824; dem. 18th June 1845; died at Pictou, Nova Scotia, 7th June 1859. He marr. 22nd March 1821, Johanna Poison, youngest daugh. of Alexander Urquhart, min. of Rogart, and had issue — Alexandria, born 21st March 1822 ; Isabella, bom 27th Sept. 1825 ; George, born 5th May 1827 ; a daugh., marr. Sutherland. WILLIAM M'KILLICAN, born Banff, about 1802 ; educated at King's ' College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1822); licen. by Presb. of Nairn; ord. to West Gwillimburg, Canada, 1834; trans, to St Thomas in 1840; dem. in 1842; adm. here 24th Sept. 1845; died 24th June 1847. He marr. 21st May 1834, Margaret Anderson, Nairn (died 19th March 1855), and had issue— William, born 27th April 1839, died 8th Aug. 1854. ALEXANDER MACDONALD, born Mull, 6th Feb. 1814, son of John M. and Mary Macf arlane ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Inveraray in 1844 ; assistant at Lochgilp- head; ord. 7th Sept. 1848, died 28th Jan. 1866. He marr. 2nd July 1844, Jessie (died 1st March 1908), daugh. of John M'Vean, Ardrishaig, and had issue— John, min. of Bucklyvie, born 15th Aug. 1845 ; Norman, Episcopal clergyman, Auchter- muchty, born 31st July 1847 ; Mary Alice, born 15th Aug. 1849 (marr. Peter Strang, Sydney, Australia) ; Alexander, merchant, Winnipeg, born 20th May 1851 ; Flora Margaret, born 9th July 1853 (marr. Robert Barr Dickson, min. of Stair); George William, born 24th Nov. 1855, died 29th April 1863; Eliza Ellen, born 13th July 1858, died 22nd Oct. 1867; Jessie, born 25th June 1861 (marr. William Moncrieff Taylor, min. of Aberfoyle) ; Georgina, born 10th July 1863, died 23rd Feb. 1915. JAMES MACPHERSON, trans, from Lybster, and adm. 6th Sept. 1866; trans, to Canisbay llth July 1867. PATRICK THOMAS CLARK, trans, from Tighnabruaich, and adm. 3rd Oct. 1867 ; trans, to Gamrie 2nd Sept. 1875. DANIEL ERASER, bornNairn,1818;edu- cated at King's College, Aberdeen; ' M.A. (1838); ord. to Free Church, Scone, 1844; trans, to Free Church, Ler- wick, 1846. Joined the Church of Scotland in 1872 ; missionary in Strathglass ; adm. to this parish 30th Dec. 1875; died at Southampton, 3rd Sept. 1900. He marr. 5th April 1849, Margaret Affleck (died 12th Jan. 1897, aged 76), daugh. of James Bain, Lerwick, and had issue— Gilberta Wilhelmina, born 24th Nov. 1850 (marr. Alexander Dallas, M.D., Bayonne, New Jersey), died 20th April 1898 ; Daniel, born 9th Dec. 1851 ; Robert Bain, born 1st July 1853 ; Donald Ballantyne, born llth Sept. 1854 ; George Charles Hay, born 10th Dec. 1855; William Goodsman, born 2nd Jan. 1857; James Bain, born 8th April 1858; Margaret Affleck, born 1st June 1859, died 23rd May 1875 ; Whampo, born 23rd Nov. 1860; Philadelphia Bain, born 13th Jan. 1862 ; Isabella Bain, born 24th Dec. 1866 (marr. J. D. Basset, Southampton), died 12th April 1918. ARCHIBALD BLACK SCOTT, born Turriff, 21st Dec. 1864, son of Alex ander Milne S., and Mary, daugh. of Archibald Black, merchant, Glasgow; educated at Turriff School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1889) ; B.D. (1892) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 18th July 1892; assistant at St Mungo's, Glasgow; ord. (assistant and successor) 5th April 1894 ; chaplain colonel 5th Seaforth Highlanders, brigade chaplain to the Forces, 1914-19, T.D. Publications— Rdgnvald, Earl of Orkney (Celtic Monthly, x., 1902); Nynia in Northern Pictland (Scot. Hist. Review, ii;, 1905); Saint Donnan the Great and his Muinntir (Aberdeen, 1906); Saint Maol- rubha (Scot. Hist. Review, vi., 3, 1909); 92 LAIRG [PRESS. OF Saint Moluag of Bangor and Lismore : His Work and Influence (Aberdeen, 1912) ; The Pictish Nation : Its People and Its Church (Edinburgh, 1918) ; Saint Ninian, Apostle of the Britons and Picts: a Research Study of the First Founding of the Church in Britain (London, 1916, 1918)] Saint Columba (Columcille) the Gaidheal : His Relations with the Picts (Trans, of Gaelic Society of Inverness, xxviii., 1918); The Celtic Monastery and Roman Abbey of Fearn, Ross (ibid.); Salute the Sacred Dead, a sermon preached at Dundee on day of public intercession (Dundee, 1918) ; Columbanus of Luxenil and Bobbio (Trans, of Gaelic Society of Inverness, xxix., 1920) ; numerous articles on educational, historical, and literary subjects in newspapers and periodicals. LAIRG. [The church of Lairg was dedicated to St Malrubh, and a fair of St Malrubh was held beside it. A prebend of Lairg was held by the treasurer of the Cathedral of Dornoch.] DONALD WILLIAMSON, reader in 1565; died Nov. 1568.— [Acts and ' Dec., xxxiv., 236.] 1574 HEW POLSON, reader in 1574. THOMAS MURRAY, reader from 1578 1578 to 1580. WILLIAM GRAY, son of Thomas G., 1574 sub-chantor of Ross; exhorter at Dornoch in 1567 ; min. here in 1574, with Rogart and Kilmalie (Golspie) also in the charge; pres. by James VI. 29th July 1580; dem. before 16th June 1606 on appointment to Creich, but apparently did not go there, being still min. here in 1615. He marr. Elizabeth, co-heiress of John Wishart, indweller in Kirkwall, she survived him, and had issue — James, his successor. — [Excheq. Book ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 620; Reg. Mag. Sig., x., 602.] JAMES GRAY, son of preceding ; pres. 1607 by James VI- 16th June 1607 > trans- to Creich that year, also to Clyne in 1614, but probably not settled. He was min. here and treasurer of Caithness in 1625 and 1638; still min. in 1649; died about 1652. He marr. (1) Janet M'Culloch, and had issue — George, min. of Dornoch ; William, min. of Clyne ; John ; Janet (marr. Thomas Manson, provost of Dornoch); Barbara (marr. David Munro, min. of this parish) ; Margaret (marr. John Dempster of Bishopfield, burgess of Dornoch) : (2) Isabella M'Gill.— [Inverness Sas., iii., 119, 9th April 1649; Reg. of Deeds, dxxvii., 310.] JAMES THOMSON, min. at 6th May 1627; trans, to Loth before 18th Sept. 1634. [Parish vacant 1652-8.] ROBERT ROSS, M.A.; adm. before 16th June 1658; trans, to Logie- 1658 _ Easter. DAVID MUNRO, fourth son of John M. of Pitlundie ; min. of Kilmuir- Easter; adm. to Latheron before 18th Sept. 1634; dep. in 1649 for sub scribing Montrose's articles ; petitioned the Synod, 21st Oct. 1662, to be recommended to some place in the diocese ; adm. here before 7th May 1663. He marr. (cont. 7th June 1638, Barbara, daugh. of James Gray, min. of Lairg.— [Hist, of the Munros, 506 ; Reg. of Deeds, dxxvii., 310.] WILLIAM MACKAY of Golvall, eldest son of Eye M. of Golvall and Margaret Gordon; adm. to Rogart before 21st Oct. 1662; trans, and adm. before 7th Oct. 1668. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of David Sutherland of Morvich, and had issue— Eye, min. of Clyne; David of Pitfure ; William of Forsinain, died 1720; Jane (marr. (1) Alexander Suther land of Morvich : (2) Alexander Suther land of Braegrudie); Angus; Mary.— [The Book of Mackay, 309.] DORNOCH] LAIRG 93 JOHN DEMPSTER, adm. to Creich before 20th April 1664 ; trans, and adm. before 7th Oct. 1668 ; deprived by Privy Council 7th Nov. 1689 for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates and for praying for King James, but he continued minister ; died about 1705. JOHN ROBERTSON, app. by the 17Q6 General Assembly 4th April 1705 to supply vacancies in Sutherland for one year, settled here in 1706 ; clerk of Presb. in 1707; died between 2nd July, when he had gone to Peterhead Well, and 2nd Sept. 1712. He marr. Margaret Ross, (who survived him and marr. (2) Hector Fraser of Edderton) and had issue — William, student of divinity at Aberdeen.— [Macrae's Lairg, 24-33.] [THOMAS CHISHOLM, min. of Kil- morack; was called llth Feb. 1713, but after consultation with the Synod, the Presb. decided that he "be not trans ported," 30th May 1713.] JOHN MACKAY, born 1680, second 1714 son of CaPtain William M- of Borley of the Scourie family, and Elizabeth Corbet; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh M.A. (13th March 1701) and at Utrecht; licen. in 1706; ord. to Durness 14th March 1707 ; called by the Presb. of Dornoch jure devoluto (the people petitioning in his favour) 28th July 1713 ; trans, and adm. 2nd March 1714; died 23rd Feb. 1753. He possessed a herculean bodily frame and corresponding vigour of mind which gained for him the name of Am Ministear Laidir, and enabled him to reform the parish from the disorderly habits and immorality pre vailing on his coming thereto. He was given authority by John, Earl of Suther land, as sheriff, to inflict corporal punish ment wherever necessary. He marr. (cont. 29th Aug. 1709) Catherine (died 1724), eldest daugh. of John Mackay of Kirtomy (de scended from Lady Jean Mackay of Farr, daugh. of Alexander, eleventh Earl of Sutherland), and had issue— Thomas, min. of this parish ; John, died young ; Eliza beth, born 20th Sept. 1710 (marr., cout. 19th July 1728, jEneas Sage, min. of Lochcarron); Janet (marr. John Poison of Navidale) ; Barbara (marr. George Munro, min. of Farr).— [Book of Mackay, 294 ; Memorabilia Domestica, 7, 9 ; Macrae's Lairg, 36-67 ; Tombst.] 1749 THOMAS MACKAY, born 2nd Aug. 1717, son of preceding; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1735-9 licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in 1744 ; called 12th Dec. 1748; ord. (assistant and suc cessor) 15th Nov. 1749 ; died 28th Aug. 1803. Father and son had thus been 96 years ministers, 89 of these in this parish. He marr. 10th June 1758, his cousin Margaret (died 9th Nov. 1773), daugh. of John Montgomery, mason, Drummond, Kiltearn, and had issue — Katherine, born 27th March 1759, died 7th April 1760 ; Katherine, born 7th June 1760 (marr. 13th June 1783, Captain Donald Matheson of Shinness, and was mother of Sir James M., Bart., of The Lewis) ; John of Rockfield, one of the clerks to the Commissioners of Affairs in India and author of Life of Lieut. -General Hugh Mackay of Scoury, born 7th Oct. 1761, died at Edinburgh 8th April 1841 [he left £400 to the parish, part being used for the support of needy blind persons, the donor himself having lost his sight] ; Hugh, captain 4th Regt. Madras Native Cavalry, born 27th Sept. 1763, killed at Assaye 23rd Sept. 1803 [he left £500 for the poor of the parish] ; Joseph, born 21st Oct. 1764, died 24th April 1765 ; William, born 15th Nov., died 7th Dec. 1765; Harriet, born 29th Nov. 1766 (marr. 29th Oct. 1798, George Gordon, min. of Loth); Anna, born 21st Dec. 1767, died young; a daugh. born 1st Oct. 1769, died in infancy ; William, H.E.I.C.S., second officer of the Juno, author of a " Narrative of the Wreck (1795) of the Juno on the coast of Aracan " (London, 1798) [used by Byron in depict ing a scene in Don Juan], born 6th Feb. 1771, died at Calcutta 27th March 1804. — [Hook of Mackay, 295 ; Memorabilia Domestica, 8, 50; Macrae's Lairg, 67-70; " A Monument in a Highland Churchyard " (in reprint (Edin. 1892) of Narrative of the " Juno '') ; Tombst.] 94 LAIRG 1804 ANGUS KENNEDY, M.A. ; ord. assistant 23rd N°V- 1802> PreS< by George, Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, in March, and adm. 24th April 1804 j trans, to Dornoch 3rd July 1817. 1817 DUNCAN MACGILLIVRAY, born Banchor Uan Strathdearns, May 1764, son of Finlay M. and Elizabeth Mackintosh of Kyllachie family ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (27th March 1795) ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 7th May 1800 ; ord. missionary at Achness 2nd April 1801 ; transferred to Berriedale in 1807, returning to Achness in six months ; adm. to Assynt 24th Aug. 1813; pres. by George, Marquess, and Elizabeth, Mar chioness of Stafford, in July, trans, and adm. 12th Aug. 1817. Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free Church, Lairg, 1843-9; died llth Feb. 1849. He marr. 14th May 1802, Jean (died 31st Aug. 1816), daugh. of Robert Gordon, farmer, Achness, and Elizabeth, granddaugh. of John Mackay of Kirtomy, and had issue- Elizabeth, born 22nd April 1803; Angus Mackintosh, min. of Dairsie, born 8th Jan. 1805 ; Christian, born 16th June 1806 (marr. Dr Henderson, Dingwall), died 1860 ; Philip, born 9th Sept. 1809, went to Jamaica, died 1850; Robert, licentiate of the Church of Scotland, born 27th Aug. 1811, died 1839 ; Janet, born 5th March 1813 (marr. Duncan Macpherson, Tasmania), died 1879 ; Alexander Gordon, D.D., min. of Roseburn Free Church, Edinburgh, born 18th Dec. 1814, died llth May 1889 ; Jean, born 9th Aug. 1816, died 1860. Publica tion—Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 193 ; Wreck of the " Juno " (1892) 71-95.] FARQUHAR MATHESON, born 1810, third son of John M. of Attadale and 18 Margaret, daugh. of Captain Donald Matheson of Shinness ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1824-8 ; ord. 31st Aug. 1843 ; dem. 16th May 1888 ; died unmarr. at Inverness 20th March 1894.— [Hist, of the Mathesons, 69.] ROBERT ROBERTSON, born 1845, son of John R., farmer, and Ann Paton ; ord. to Mossgreen 2nd June 1870; dem. 23rd Aug. 1876 ; adm. (assistant and successor) 15th Jan. 1879; died 13th July 1883. He marr. Mary Simpson. DAVID MACKENZIE, born 1836, son of Donald M., saw-miller; ord. to St Kiaran's, Govan, 22nd Aug. 1872 ; trans, to Gaelic Church, Cromarty, 12th May 1875 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 23rd Jan. 1884; died 3rd March 1888. He marr. Elizabeth Grant, and had issue — a son, Inspector of Poor, Fort- William. JOHN MACNAUGHTON, born 28th 1888 Jan- 1858) SOD of Alexander M-' farmer, Remony, Kenmore ; educated at Grammar School and Univs. of Aberdeen M.A. (1881), Cambridge, Heidelberg and Berlin ; assistant at Spott ; ord. 25th Sept. 1888 ; dem. 16th May 1890 ; app. Professor of Greek, Kingston College, Canada, 1889 ; Professor of Classics, M'Gill University, Canada, 1903. Marr. Jean Reikie. DONALD MACRAE, M.A., B.D. ; ord. 29th Sept. 1890; trans, to Edderton 18th Feb. 1902. JOHN KENNETH MACLEAN, M.A., 1902 trans- from Farr, and adm. 24th June ' 1902 ; trans, to Morven 14th April 1908. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, M.A., adm. 1Qn_ 1st Sept. 1908 ; trans, to Resolis 18th Jan. 1912. JOHN MACKECHNIE, trans, from Stronsay, and adm. 2nd Aug. 1912 ; 4 trans, to Edrom 22nd May 1916. WALTER SHAW, adm. from Robertson Mission Church, Edinburgh, 23rd Aug. 1916; trans, to Barrowfield, Glasgow, 8th Jan. 1919. JOHN CUNNINGHAM MOORE, born Donagheady, Co. Tyrone, 4th June 1857, son of Turbitt M. and Dorcas Pollock ; educated at Sandville School and Magee College; licen. by Presb. of Glendermott 5th May 1891 ; DORNOCH] LOTH 95 ord. at Virginia, Co. Cavan, 8th July 1891 ; adm. min. of Scone Free Church, 1905-14; adm. to South Yell 16th Feb. 1915; trans, to Delting 1st Feb. 1916; trans, and adm. 3rd July 1919. He marr. 2nd Aug. 1893, Marguerite Maxwell Lowry, daugh. of Hugh Hunter Patterson and Esther Lowry, and has issue — Cora Muriel Cunningham, born 4th Aug. 1894 (marr. (1) 8th Jan. 1920, Major Andrew Mowat, M.B., Ch.B., R.A.M.C. : (2) 1st Feb. 1928, E. D. R. Maconachie, M.B., F.R.C.S., Edin.) ; Louis Lowry Patterson Cunningham, fruit farmer, West Australia, born 8th Jan. 1896 ; Bille Esther Dorcas Althea Cunningham, born 26th Aug. 1897 ; Irene Marguerite Edgar Macgregor Cunningham, born 20th Oct. 1898; Kenneth Hugh Turbitt Cunningham, clerical assistant, Chief Engineer's Depart ment, London County Council, born 15th April 1900 ; Stephen Maxwell Cunningham, clerk, London, born 17th Jan. 1906. LOTH. [The church of Loth was dedicated to St Curadan. It belonged to the Bishop of Caithness. At Helemsdale, in the north end of the parish, there was a Hospital of St John the Baptist. Within the bounds there were at least three chapels, St Tridwal's at Kintradwell, St Inan's at Easter Garty, and the chapel at Navidale, which was probably dedicated to St Naomhan. A fair of St Curadan was held at Loth. In 1927 Loth was sup pressed as a separate charge and united with Kildonan and Clyne.] ANDREW ANDERSON, exhorter in 15_,_ 1567, which office he afterwards held with Clyne ; was min. here in 1574, with Clyne and Kildonan in the charge ; returned here in 1590 ; pres. to the vicarage by James VI. in 1595 ; still min. in 1618, when he signed a deed with his mark, as "I cannot wreitt myself," probably from age. WILLIAM CUMMING, M.A. (King's 1627 College Aberdeen 1622), was com plained against to the Synod of Moray, 13th April 1624, for marrying a couple irregularly at Inverness; min. here 12th May 1627.— [Taxations Miscell. Papers, 1606-1714.] JAMES THOMSON, trans, from Lairg 1634 ab°ut 1634, when he was app. a Justice of the Peace for Sutherland ; trans, to Assynt about 1638. — [Inverness Sas., vi., 70.] HECTOR MUNRO,son of Hector M. of 1640 Milntown of Katewell, and Margaret Baillie, and grandson of Hugh M. of Ferrytown of Obsdale, min. here about 1640. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of Sir Hector Munro of Foulis, and had issue — Lieut. Hector, killed at Philiphaugh, 13th Sept. 1645 ; John, min. of Lochgoilhead and Rothesay. — [Douglas's JSaronage, 84 ; Hist. of the Munros, 390.] JOHN ROSE, M.A. (King's College, 165Q Aberdeen, 1638); adm. before 6th Aug. 1656 ; still min. 20th April 1664. GEORGE GRAY, ord. 7th April 1669 ; 1Qeg died before 1674. He marr. 1670, Katherine, daugh. of John Murray of Pennyland. She marr. (2) William Cuming, min. of Falkirk. HECTOR PAIP [POPE], educated at 1682 Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1672) ; adm. before 13th July 1682 ; died 15th Jan. 1719. He was the last parish min. who appeared in the pulpit clothed in a surplice. He marr., and had issue — Alex ander, min. of Reay. ROBERT ROBERTSON, ord. 10th May 1721 1721 ; trans, to Edderton 29th July 1730. During his ministry the last witch from this parish was burnt at Dornoch. JAMES GILCHRIST, trans, from 1*732 Kilmalie ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto and adm. 10th Feb. 1732; trans, to Thurso 8th Aug. 1738. WILLIAM HOSE,-licen. by Presb. of 17 Aberdeen 6th March 1723; ord. to Kildonan 31st March 1725; called 5th June, trans, and adm. 5th Sept. 1739; 96 LOTH [PKESB. OF died 12th Feb. 1755. He marr. 6th June 1727, Jean Anderson, who died 2nd Oct. 1778, and had issue — Catherine, born 5th June 1730; Ann, born 12th Sept. 1733 (marr. (1) Captain Alexander Gunn, tacks- man of Badenloch : (2) John Ross, min. of Kildonan) ; Jean, born 8th March 1736, died 6th Aug. 1745; Barbara, born 14th May 1738 (marr. George Balfour, min. of Tarbat); William, born 27th Aug. 1740. GEORGE M'CULLOCH, born about 1728, a native of the Black Isle, Ross-shire ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1744-8 ; became school master of Golspie ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 26th May 1754 ; pres. by the commissioners for William, Earl of Suther land, 2nd July 1755 ; ord. 19th May 1756 ; was for some years chaplain to 2nd Sutherland Fencibles; died 27th Dec. 1800. His sermons were intensely con troversial ; " his Calvinistic antagonist stood continually in his mind's eye like a phantom." He marr. 16th Nov. 1758, Elizabeth (died 5th April 1814), daugh. of William Forbes, gardener to the Earl of Sutherland at Dunrobin, and had issue —Anne, born 15th Sept. 1759; William, born 21st March 1761, died 28th April 1763; Isobel, born 29th March 1763; Elizabeth, bom 4th Jan. 1765; Katherine, born 13th May, died 22nd Aug. 1766; William, born 7th May 1767, died llth Sept. 1769 ; Grizel, born 15th June, died 22nd Dec. 1769 ; George, surgeon, Berwick shire Militia, born 27th Oct. 1770 ; David, born 30th April 1772 ; Thomas, born 1st June 1774; Duncan, born 29th May 1776, died 16th March 1790; Susannah, born 18th June 1778; William, born 24th Jan. 1780. Publication — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace,, vi.).— [Memorabilia Domestica, 54, 98.] GEORGE GORDON, eldest son 1802 of Adara G-> tacksman of Binavie, Strathnaver, and nephew of Charles G.of Pulrossie; tutor in the family of Gordon of Carroll ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue ; ord. by Presb. of Tongue, 30th Nov. 1796, as missionary at Achness ; assistant at Lairg, Oct. 1797 ; pres. by Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, 1801 ; adm. 9th Feb. 1802 ; died 27th Oct. 1822. He marr. 12th Oct. 1798, Harriet (died 30th Nov. 1848), daugh. of Thomas Mackay, min. of Lairg, and had issue— Charles, min. of Assynt, born 24th July 1799 ; Margaret (twin), born 24th July, died 8th Sept. 1799; Adam, born 15th Dec. 1800, died 28th March 1811 ; John, lieut. Madras Infantry, born 16th Jan. 1802; Margaret, born 5th Nov. 1803 (marr. 24th July 1821, James Anderson, surgeon, Brora); Isabella, born 5th March 1806; Thomas, born 5th Jan. 1808.— [The House of Mackay, 566 ; Memorabilia Domestica, 105, 150; Tombst.] DONALD ROSS, M.A. (King's College, Aberdeen, 30th March 1801 ) ; licen. by 1828 Presb. of Dingwall 1st May 1805 ; ord. assistant at Dyke 16th April 1807; trans, and adm. to Kilmuir 12th July 1809; trans, to Golspie (q.v.) 26th April 1820, but settle ment set aside by the General Assembly 23rd May that year ; trans, to Rogart 7th May 1822; pres. by Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, in March, and adm. 18th June 1823; died 12th Nov. 1847. He marr. 24th Aug. 1810, Rose (died 31st Aug. 1850), daugh. of Angus Bethune, min. of Alness, and had issue— Angus Bethune, born 10th Dec. 1811; Andrew, born 28th July 1813; Catherine Monro, born 27th Aug. 1814 (marr. 20th Aug. 1834, William Ross, Isle of Grenada); Duncan Monro, born llth Sept. 1815 ; Alexander Macleod ; Helen (marr. 21st Feb. 1845, William Donaldson, Nairn). DUNCAN ST GLAIR, born 1814, eldest son of Archibald St C., Argyllshire; 1848 educated at Univ. of Glasgow; ord. to Assynt 18th Jan. 1844 ; trans, and adm. 14th March 1848; died 29th Dec. 1860. He marr. 7th Oct. 1844, Susan, third daugh. of Captain John Young, Montrose, and had issue— John Suther land Campbell, born 9th Nov. 1845; Archi bald William Alexander, born 18th July 1848; William Wallace, born 26th June 1850, died 4th July 1852; Rachel Jane, DORNOCH] LOTH— ROGART 97 born 6th March 1852; Henry Eobert Young, born 30th Nov. 1853; Anne Stafford, born 3rd Nov. 1855 ; Duncan Charles Colin Campbell, born 1st Feb. 1858. GILBERT MACMILLAN, born 1826, son of John M., blacksmith, Kil- 1861 muir and Mary M'Intyre ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; ord. to Berriedale 26th Sept. 1850 ; trans, and adm. 29th Aug. 1861 ; dem. 1st Oct. 1902 ; died at Hunter's Quay, 28th Sept. 1908.' He marr. 19th Oct. 1858, Agnes (died 12th March 1912), daugh. of John Macfarlane, farmer, Dunoon, and Janet Forrester. Publications — Reminis cences of the North; Kildonan; Donald Mbhr ; The Stag Fight ; The Apparition ; Ignis-fatuus ; The Electric Cloud; "The Men " ; Sandy Gair (Inverness, 1905). JAMES SINCLAIR M'lVOR MOWAT, born 9th June 1870, son of Alex- 1903 ander M. and Violet Bruce M'lvor ; educated at Pulteneytown Academy and Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th Sept. 1899 ; assistant at Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, Wallacetown, Dundee, and Canongate ; ord. 24th Feb. 1903; died 8th July 1921. He marr. 27th Feb. 1903, Mary Knox, second daugh. of James Philip, Invergarry, and had issue— Mary Violet Katherine, born 20th Nov. 1903 ; Alastair M'lvor, born 10th April 1906 ; James Philip, born 2nd Sept. 1907 ; Josephine Farquharson, born 27th Sept. 1910 ; Ian M'lvor, born 23rd Jan. 1914. ROBERT LAMOND MACNIE, born 23rd Nov. 1869, son of Alexander 1922 and Camilla M. ; educated at High School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1890), B.D. (1894) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in 1892 ; assistant at Rutherglen and Paisley Abbey ; ord. to St Mary's, British Guiana, 20th Dec. 1896; trans, to St Andrew's there, 27th Oct. 1909; trans, and adm. 29th March 1922 ; trans, and adm. to Lundie and Fowlis 1st Dec. 1926. Marr. 19th Jan. 1897, Susan, daugh. of William H. Carswell, and has issue — William Alexander, officer British Guiana VOL. VII. Police, born 2nd April 1899 ; Mona Hardie, born 23rd Nov. 1900; Donald Lamond, born 28th July 1906. [Parish suppressed in 1927 and divided between Kildonan and Clyne.] ROGART. [The church of Rogart was dedicated to St Colin. There was a prebend of Rogart in the Cathedral Chapter of Dornoch. A fair of St Colin was held at Rogart.] WILLIAM GRAY (elder), exhorter at Creich in the Irish tongue in 1567, 1568 and in this parish in 1568 ; min. here in 1574, with Lairg and Kilmalie also in the charge ; removed to Assynt in 1576. GEORGE SINCLAIR of Mey, third son of George, fourth Earl of Caith- 1572 ness ; app. Chancellor of Caithness in 1572; "being charged for the whole fruits of the Chancellarie for non-residence upon allegeance of deidlie feid," obtained decreet of absolvitor in 1574 ; was accused at the Assembly, Aug. 1575, of not serving his cure ; still min. in 1585 ; died in 1616. He marr. before 1583, Margaret, sixth daugh. of William, seventh Lord Forbes, and had issue — Sir William of Mey, who as a boy attending the High School of Edinburgh shot John M'Moran, one of the bailies of Edinburgh, during a disturbance among the scholars 15th Sept. 1595 ; Sir John of Geanies and Dunbeatb, Bart. ; James, died young ; Alexander of Latheron, ancestor of the Sinclairs of Barrock and Brabster ; Janet (marr. Walter Innes of Inverbrakie ; Margaret (marr. 1608, Alexander Sinclair of Forss) ; Barbara (marr. 1610, Alexander Keith of Pittendrum); Elizabeth (marr. William Dunbar of Hempriggs); Anne.— [Steven's High School, 23; Pitcairn's Grim. Trials, L, 349 ; Scots Peerage, ii., 351 ; Henderson's Caithness Families, 60.] THOMAS POPE [or PAPE], min. in 1590 ; trans, to Cullicudden about 1614. 98 ROGART [PRESB. OF JOHN SUTHERLAND, son of James S., min. ; adm. about 1614 ; still min. 1614 in 1634. He marr. Margaret Munro. —{Reg. of Deeds, Hay, 14th Aug. 1638, dliv., 198.] GEORGE SUTHERLAND, member of Assembly 12th Aug. 1639 [possibly a ' mistake for preceding].— [Peterkin's Records.] THOMAS ROSS, M.A. (King's College, Aberdeen, 1651); adm. before 6th J Aug. 1656 ; dem. or died before 16th June 1658. WILLIAM MACKAY, adm. 21st Oct. 1662 : trans, to Lairg before 7th Oct. 1662 1668. WALTER ROSE, born Ross-shire, about 1661 ; educated at King's College, 1683 Aberdeen • M.A. (1681) ; adm. before llth July 1683; summoned before the Privy Council, 7th Nov. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of Estates and still praying for King James, but case not proceeded with; died in or after 1720. He marr. and had issue — William of Kintraid ; Katherine (marr. John, son of Thomas Sutherland of Brora). — {Services of Heirs ; Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 28th Aug. 1751.] JOHN MONRO, son of Hugh M. ; ord. 21st April 1725; died 3rd Feb. 1753. 1725 He marr. llth Dec. 1729, Elizabeth (died 3rd Feb. 1756), daugh. of George Monro of Culrain, "a very wicked woman and thorn in his side," and had issue — Ann, born 1st Nov. 1730; George, born 13th Nov. 1734; Gustavus, born 13th Oct. 1735. —{Hist, of the Munros, 382.] HUGH SUTHERLAND, born Rogart, of the family of Braegrudie ; Keen. { by Presb. of Dornoch 17th April 1734 ; ord. to Kildonan 23rd April 1740 ; pres. by commissioners for William, Earl of Sutherland, in July, trans, and adm. 12th Sept. 1753; died 8th April 1773. He marr. 23rd April 1740, Janet Maclean, who died 6th March 1783, and had issue- Lieut. William, born 6th Aug. 1741 ; Alex ander, born 28th Nov. 1743. ANGUS MACLEOD, born about 1744. son of Norman M. ("Tormaid Ban "), 1 author of the song " Cabar Feidh " and other pieces, and brother of Hugh M.. D.D., Professor of Church History, Univ. of Glasgow ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1764) ; licen. by Presb. of Caithness 3rd Oct. 1769 ; pres. by tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Suther land, Aug. 1773 ; ord. 4th May 1774 ; was sometime chaplain to 2nd Batt. 73rd Foot ; died 18th May 1794. A man of consider able erudition and brilliant parts. He was an intimate of the poet Rob Donn, from whose recital he prepared the manu script for the edition of the poems edited in 1829 by Dr Mackay. He marr. 21st April 1780, Jane (died 19th Dec. 1838), daugh. of William Mackay at Morvich, and had issue — Donald Crawford, born 5th March 1781; William, born 22nd Oct. 1782; Esther, born 15th May 1784; Jane Forbes, born 19th Jan. 1786 ; Hugh, born 8th Sept. 1787; James, born 30th Sept. 1789; Elizabeth Baillie, born 1st Aug. 1791 ; Wemyss, born 2nd April 1793. Pub lication—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii.). — {Memorabilia Domestica, 51 ; Celtic Monthly, xiii., 178.] ALEXANDER URQUHART, 1>7g5 born about 1750; M.A. (Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1771) ; became schoolmaster of Tarbat ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 6th March 1776; ord. missionary at Farr 12th June 1781 ; pres. by Eliza beth, Countess of Sutherland, Aug. 1794 ; adm. llth June 1795 ; died 27th Aug. 1812. He marr. 29th March 1786, Wilhelmina (died 2nd Feb. 1838), daugh. of John Poison, tacksrnan of Navidale, and had issue— Janet Katherine, born 14th June 1787 ; George, min. of this parish ; Alice Gregory, born 16th March 1792 ; Johanna Poison, born 28th Oct. 1793, died young ; Elizabeth Sutherland, born 4th Aug. 1795 ; Johanna Poison, born 7th March 1801 (marr. James Campbell, min. of Kildonan.) GEORGE URQUHART, born 20th Nov. 1813 ^90) son °^ Precec^ng > educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1st April 1809) ; pres. by George, Marquess, DORNOCH] ROGART— STOER 99 and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, in Feb., and ord. 22nd Sept. 1813; died in Florence, where he had gone for the benefit of his health, 3rd May 1821. DONALD ROSS, M.A. ; trans, from Kil- 1822 muir' Skve; Pres> by George, Mar quess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, Nov. 1821 ; adm. 7th May 1822 ; trans, to Loth 18th June 1823. JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; pres. by George, Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, in July, and adm. 17th Sept. 1823 ; trans, to Resolis 28th Sept. 1843. DUNCAN M'ARTHUR, ord. 8th May 1844 1844> died 24th Augl 1853- He marr. 8th May 1838, Janet (died 30th April 1865), daugh. of William Mitchell, Gordonhall, Kingussie, and had issue — Alexander, born 8th May 1840; William, born 16th Sept. 1841 ; Peter, born 13th Jan. 1843; James, Inveran, born 7th Dec. 1845, died 22nd Aug. 1919. GKEGOR STUART, trans, from 1854 Kinlochluichart, and adm. 3rd May 1854 ; trans, to Kingussie 24th Sept. 1857. JOHN MACDONALD, born Inverness- 185 shire, 1802, son of Donald M., tenant, and Jane Mackay; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1826); ord. to Croick 23rd July 1844 ; trans, and adm. 25th Feb. 1858; died unmarr. 23rd Oct. 1872. COLIN MACDONALD, born 1845, 1878 son of Murdo M., schoolmaster, and Anne Mackenzie ; ord. to Knock 7th Sept. 1870; trans, and adm. 24th July 1873 ; died 6th Nov. 1918. He marr. 30th March 1875, Isabella Janet (died 25th Nov. 1877), only daugh. of Andrew Hall of Calrossie, Ross-shire, and had issue- Andrew Hall, born 16th Dec. 1876. Publi cation — The Chronicles of Stratheden, a Highland Parish of To-day [by A Resident] (Edinburgh, 1881). ALLAN MACKENZIE, born Poolewe, 1919 16t^ Feb. 1857 ; son of Alexander M. and Margaret Mackenzie ; edu cated at Free Church School, Inverasdale, New College and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Free Presbyterian Presb. 14th Aug. 1893 ; ord. to Free Presbyterian Church, Inverness, 22nd Nov. 1898; adm. by the General Assembly as an ordained min. May 1900 ; adm. min. of Fraser Street Church, Inverness, that year ; adm. to Uig 7th Feb. 1906 ; trans, and adm. 17th July 1919; trans, to Tiree 16th Sept. 1925; died at Uig Manse 15th June 1926. He marr. (1) 17th Oct. 1883, May (died 13th