256 LIBBERTON—QUOTHQUAN [PRESB. OF and Coatbridge), died 12th June 1904 ; William Scott, merchant, Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, born 4th July 1828, died 22nd May 1904. Publications— A Letter to John Brown, min. of the Assoc. Congreg., Biggar (Edinburgh, 1820), which called forth A Letter ofCongrat illation, by Robert Johnstone, elder, Biggar ; Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace, vi.) ; Sermon XV. (Ch. of Scotiaml Pulpit, i.).—[Vide Edin- burgh Christian Lnstructor, xix., 1820.] 1857 JOHN LAWRIE, born Annan, son of Thomas L. and Mary Allan ; educated at Dalkeith and Univ. of Glasgow ; Keen, by Presb. of Glasgow ; assistant at Barony, Glasgow ; ord. 3rd July 1857 ; res. 16th May 1882; died 20th Aug. 1908. He marr. 25th Feb. 1862, Isabella, daugh. of James Stark, M.D., of Huntfield, Lanark- shire, and Isabel, daugh. of Adam Black, M.P., and had issue—Isabella, born 18th Feb. 1863 (marr. Robert John Harvey- Gibson, M.A., F.L.S., Professor of Botany, Univ. of Liverpool); Thomas Henry, accountant, California, born 21st June 1864; James Stark, rancher, U.S.A., born 12th Aug. 1865 ; Mary Allan, born 1st Oct. 1866 (marr. Thomas Parker) ; Emma Lyon, born 21st Oct. 1867 (deceased); John Howard, farmer, born 11th Dec. 1868; Francis Allan, Royal Insurance Co., Cal- cutta, born 18th Aug. 1877. JAMES ROBERTSON SABISTON, B.D. ; ord. 12th Jan. 1883; trans, to1883 Abbey Parish, Edinburgh, 16th Oct. 1889. JOHN PICKEN, born Stewarton, Ayr- shire, 20th Nov. 1860, son of James P. and Janet Latta ; educated at Ayr and Kilmarnock Academies, St Andrews and Glasgow Univs. ; MA. (Glasgow 1883) ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr 1885; assistant at Galston and Campsie ; ord. 27th March 1890. Marr. 26th June 1894, Catherine Campbell, daugh. of Andrew Morrison Brown, B.D., St Andrew's U.F. Church, Kirkintilloch, and has issue — James Craigie, born 13th April 1895; Andrew Maurice, born 13th May 1899 ; Mary Binnie Robertson, born 7th July 1904. 1890 QUOTHQUAN. [United to Libberton in 1648, and dis- joined 3rd Feb. 1649. The disjunction was recalled, 27th Jan. 1669.] GEORGEALEXANDER, exhorter(Acts 1567 and Decreets, xli., 4). JAMES HAMILTON, adm. May , _-_ 1569 ; removed to Libberton 1574. Quothquan again in his charge in 1585. THOMAS KING, exhorter in Carnwath in 1567 ; trans, and adm. 1588 ; con- tinued in 1593. — [Beg. Assig.] THOMAS SOMERVELL, mentioned as 1594 min. in 1594 (Beg. of Deeds, xlviii., 244). THOMAS MAXWELL, son of John 15qt_ M., of Pottarhill, descended from the Maxwells of Braidiland ; MA. (Glasgow 1583) ; min. of Carnwath 1588 ; trans, and adm. 1597 ; died before 13th March 1605. He marr. Margaret Livingston, who survived him, and had issue—Alexander, MA. — [Beg. Assig., Test. Beg. (Lan. and Glasg.).~\ JOHN CHIESLIE [CHIESLEY] of 1617 Kersewell, son of John C, farmer in the parish; MA. (Edinburgh, 22nd Feb. 1602); adm. 1617; died 6th April 1635, aged about 53. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Walter Carmichael of Park (marr. (2), cont. 21st to 23rd Jan. 1636, John Muir of Anniston : Beg. of Deeds, dliv., 343). She had sasine of the lands of Anniston, etc., 11th Feb. 1636, and had issue—Sir John, served heir to his father, and knighted by Charles I. ; William of Cockburn, W.S. ; Walter, apprenticed 2nd May 1638 to James Nasmith, Edinburgh, a merchant and brewer, marr. a daugh. of Lord Provost Archibald Tod of Edinburgh, purchased the lands of Dairy, near Edinburgh, and had a son, John C, notorious as the assassin of Lord President Lockhart, 31st March 1689 ; Samuel, apprenticed to Andrew Brown, surgeon, 28th Dec. 1653 ; Janet, who marr. John Muir, younger, of