BIGGAR] COULTER 247
[Baillie] Dundas of Lamington, and adra.
23rd Oct. 1750; died 13th June 1771. He
marr. 30th Sept. 1747, Anne (died 11th Oct.
1797), daugh. of William Bertram of Nisbet
and Kersewell, and Cecilia Kennedy of
Auchtifardle, and had issue—Cecilia, born
30th Sept. 1748 ; Anne, born 9th June
1750; Helenore, born 7th Jan. 1752, died
1st May 1767; Euphemia, born 11th Sept.
1755; William, a student, born 16th Sept.
1756, died 11th June 1771; Mainie, born
5th Jan. 1759; Archibald, born 11th Feb.
1761, died 9th June 1761 ; John of Coulter-
mains, born 6th Dec. 1762.—[Browns of
Coidtermains, Hunter's Biggar.]
WILLIAM LOCKHART, pres. by Dame
1772 Elizabeth [Baillie] Ross of Laming-
ton and Balnagown ; ord. 2nd Sept.
1772 ; trans, to St Andrew's, Glasgow, 18th
Nov. 1784.
WILLIAM STRACHAN, born 1748;
17 5 licen. by Presb. of Lanark 13th May
1778 ; pres. by Sir John Lockhart
Ross of Balnagown, Bart., and ord. 22nd
Sept. 1785 ; died 28th July 1826. He marr.
Elizabeth Howison, who died 5th Aug.
1823, and had issue—Alexander, of London,
born 22nd July 1778 ; William, born 12th
March 1781, died 24th Nov. 1801 ; James,
min. of Cavers ; John, surgeon, Barbados,
born 1st Dec. 1784; Margaret, born 2nd
July 1786; Robert, of London, born 26th
April 1788 ; George, lieut. in the Rifle
Corps, born 31st March 1790. Publication
—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace, vi., xxi.).
JAMES PROUDFOOT, born Skirling,
20th April 1796, son of Alexander P.
and Janet Glover ; schoolmaster of
Skirling 1817 ; educated at Univ. of Edin-
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Biggar 7th Dec.
1824 ; pres. by John Dickson of Hartree,
and adm. 25th April 1827. Joined the
Free Church ; min. of Coulter Free Church
1843 ; died at Lower Norwood, London,
15th Nov. 1876. He marr. 16th Dec. 1828,
Janet (died 14th Aug. 1866, aged 67),
daugh. of John Gibson, farmer, Symington
Mains, and had issue— Mary Dickson,
born 16th Oct. 1829, died at Mildura,
Victoria, 30th Oct. 1900; Alexander, a
clergyman, born 5th Jan. 1831, died at
Rockhampton, Australia, 11th April 1873;
Jane, born 6th Aug. 1832, died 12th Jan.
1861 ; John Gibson, born 10th March
1834 ; Janet, born 6th Sept. 1835, died
10th May 1858; George, born 31st March
1837, died at Camperdown, Australia, 25th
Aug. 1864 ; Elizabeth, born 6th May 1838,
died at Mildura, Victoria, 17th Sept. 1901
;
James, born 24th July 1842 ; died 30th
May 1880. Publications— Verses on the
Highland Soldiers who Fell at Quatre
Bras and Waterloo; Occasional Poems
(privately printed, 1863) ; Account of the
Parish {New Stat. Ace, vi.).
1843
JAMES GRANT RIACH, born Aber-
deen, 9th June 1819, son of John
R. and Mary Dawson ; educated at
Grammar School, Aberdeen, Marischal Col-
legeand Univ.; M.A. (1836) ; licen.by Presb.
of Garioch 18th July 1842 ; schoolmaster of
Monymusk 1841-3 ; ord. 22nd Sept. 1843
;
died 16th Sept. 1862. He marr. 1st Nov.
1859, Elizabeth Scott, daugh. of John
Roger, merchant, Greenock, and had issue
—John James, merchant, America, born
8th Oct. 1860; Agnes Bain, born 27th
March 1862. (His widow marr. again
12th Aug. 1869.)
1863
JOHN ANDERSON, born Muckkart,
10th May 1821, son of John A. and
Cecilia Fraser ; educated at Muck-
hart, Dollar, and Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A.
(1842); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May
1846; ord. 12th Oct. 1846 as missionary
to Calcutta ; adm. to Dalkeith (West) 9th
Jan. 1857 ; trans, and adm. 27th March
1863; res. 14th Dec. 1907; Father of the
Church of Scotland (1914). Marr. 18th
March 1851, Ann Petrie, missionary at
Calcutta (died 8th July 1884), daugh. of
David Savile, min. of New Street Chapel,
Edinburgh. (She was the only foreign
missionary of the Church of Scotland who
did not join the Free Church in 1843.)