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JOHN THOMSON, M.A.; called 25th
1713 June> and or(^- lltn Sept. 1713;
trans, to Libberton and Quothquan
14th May 1717.
JAMES WILSON, licen. by Presb. of
?1 Lanark 6th Sept. 1704; pres. by
Lockhart of Carnwath in 1717 ; ord.
2nd May 1718. He preached at the ordina-
tion of George Sinclair, min. of Balfron
(a settlement effected by a committee of
Assembly, under protection of the military)
in 1729 ; made himself obnoxious to his
parishioners by reading the Porteous paper
in 1737, and died at Spitalhaugh, on his
return from the General Assembly, 3rd
June 1743. He was buried at West Linton.
He marr. 30th Nov. 1735, Catherine, daugh.
of Thomas Linning, min. of Walston.
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JOHN BROWN, pres. by Alex. Lock-
1744 hart, advocate, with consent of Geo.
Lockhart of Carnwath ; ord. 17th
Sept. 1744 ; trans, to Coulter 23rd Oct. 1750.
JOHN M'CAUL, M.A. ; pres. by Alex.
ll751 Lockhart of Craighouse, advocate
;
ord. 15th Aug. 1751 ; trans, to Tron
Parish, Glasgow, 14th Nov. 1782.
JAMESFINLAYSON, trans, from Sand-
1783 stm&; pres. by Gen. James Lock-
hart of Carnwath, and adm. 8th May
1783 ; trans, to Carstairs 14th Aug. 1794.
ROBERT ANDERSON, pres.by Charles
17 Lockhart-Wishart, with consent of
his curators, 28th Nov. 1794 ; ord.
23rd April 1795; trans, to Eastwood 5th
July 1798.
1799
JAMES SOMERVILLE, pres. by the
Commissioners for Chas. Lockhart-
Wishart of Lee and Carnwath 6th
Dec. 1798; ord. 13th March 1799; trans.
to Drumelzier 1st Feb. 1810.
1810
JOHN EDGAR, pres. by Sir Alex.
Macdonald Lockhart of Lee and
Carnwath, Bart., 8th Feb., and ord.
26th April 1810 ; trans, to Foulden 24th
June 1813.
1813
JOHN SMITH, born Douglas, son of
William S. ; app. schoolmaster of
Libberton ; licen. by the Presb. 5th
Dec. 1797 ; app. schoolmaster of Carnwath
in 1808 ; pres. by Sir Alex. Macdonald
Lockhart of Lee and Carnwarth, Bart.,
27th Sept., and ord. 5th Nov. 1813 ; died
21st Feb. 1834. He marr. Jean (died 9th
May 1840), daugh. of John Stodart, Bank-
head, and had issue—Mary, born 13th April
1801 (marr. John Kay, schoolmaster, Leith),
died 1870 ; Janet, born 27th Dec. 1803, died
28th Feb. 1823 ; Catherine, born 3rd June
1805 (marr. Thomas Smith, farmer), died
1892 ; William, farmer, born 13th July
1807, died 5th Oct. 1878; John, farmer,
born 1st Aug. 1809, died 22nd March 1880
;
Alison, born 18th Sept. 1811, died 25th
July 1820; Jean Bertram, born 29th Aug.
1814, died 22nd Sept. 1879 ; Thomas, D.D.,
LL.D., missionary of the Church of Scot-
land at Calcutta, afterwards Professor in
the Free Church College, Edinburgh, and
Moderator of the Free Church Assembly
1891, born 8th July 1817, died 26th May
1906 ; Grace,born 14thNov. 1819, died 1868
;
Hugh Stodart, born 4th Aug. 1822, died
17th April 1823.
ALEXANDER HUGH M'LEAN, pres.
1834 ky his brother-in-law, Sir Norman
Macdonald Lockhart of Lee and
Carnwath, Bart., 17th May 1834, and ord.
26th Sept. same year; trans, to Carnwath
5th Dec. 1839.
JOHN FORBES, born Aberfeldy, 1804,
son of Daniel F. ; educated at Perth
Grammar School, St Andrews and
Edinburgh Univs. ; licen. by Presb. of
Weem ; ord. 3rd April 1840; died as he
was preparing to go to church on Sunday
morning, 4th July 1880. He marr. 1st
Feb. 1846, Elizabeth (died 30th Jan. 1890),
daugh. of Robert Thomson, Covington, and
had issue—Daniel Walker, born 5th March
1847, died 1st April 1911 ; Robert Thom-
son, M.B., CM., born 24th March 1849,
died 31st Jan. 1907; Elizabeth Isabella,
born 2nd April 1852 (marr. J. Murray
Bell, architect, Edinburgh); Margaret
Matilda, born 23rd Nov. 1856.