278 KIRKURD [PRESB. OF
years at Barbados, was a member of the
Assembly there, and Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, and having made a hand-
some fortune, was about to return to Scot-
land, when he died in London, 19th Sept.
1749 ; Marion, born 9th Jan. 1681 ;
Margaret, born 13th Oct. 1686; Rachel
(marr. 16th Aug. 1724, her cousin, John
Clelland, merchant, Edinburgh, whose
daugh. Margaret was mother of John
Jamieson, D.D., author of the Scottish
Dictionary), who was buried in Greyfriars,
11th Jan. 1765 (Scots Peerage, I, 549).—
[Edin. Counc. Beg. ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689 ; Scots Mag., xi. ; Chambers's Peebles-
shire, Life in Jamieson's Scottish Diet.]
ALEXANDER WALKER of Slipper-
1694 ^e^' chaplain to Lord President
Lockhart ; schoolmaster, clerk, and
precentor at West Linton 22nd May 1692
;
licen. by Presb. of Peebles 7th Dec. 1692
;
pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto 22nd Aug.,
and ord. 2nd Nov. 1694; res. 13th Feb.
1740, when he retired to his estate, where
he died soon afterwards. He marr. Agnes
Younger (G. R. Sas., xciii., 45), and had
issue—John ; William, min. of Makers-
toun ; and two daughs., one of whom marr.
a merchant in Newcastle.—[Pennecuik's
Works, Arnot's Cr. Trials.]
THOMAS GIBSON, licen. by Presb. of
1742 Peekles 3r(* Mardi 1736 ; pres. by
James Geddes of Rachan 30th July
1740 ; ord. 27th Oct. 1742 ; died 27th Jan.
1787, in his 76th year. He marr. 14th June
1754, Elizabeth Brown, who died at Hare-
hope, May 1794, and had one child, George,
born 19th Feb. 1758, W.S. apprentice 1774.
— [Sinclair's Stat. Ace., x. ; Chalmers's
Caled., ii.]
DAVID ANDERSON, born 15th Aug.
i"787
1>760
» son °f William A., min. of
Manor ; licen. by Presb. of Peebles
7th Dec. 1785 ; pres. by John, Earl of
Hyndford, 3rd July, called 20th Sept.,
and ord. 7th Nov. 1787; died 16th Dec.
1836, in 77th year. He marr. 23rd Jan.
1788, Janet Burn, who died 20th Feb.
1827, and had issue—Janet and William
(twins), born 1st Feb. 1799 ; David, min.
of Walls and Flotta, born 23rd April 1800 ;
Marion, born 22nd March 1803 ; Isabella,
born 8th May 1806 ; Walter and Alexander
(twins), born 3rd Nov. 1808. Publications
—Accounts of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace, x., and Neiv Stat. Ace., iii.)
1837
1843
WALTER PATERSON, born 1790,
second son of Walter P., stone-
engraver at the Holm of Balma-
clellan, and Mary Locke ; educated at
Edinburgh Univ. ; Professor of English
at Jena, Germany ; pres. by Sir Thomas
Carmichael of Skirling, Bart. ; ord. 9th
Aug. 1837. Joined the Free Church ; min.
of Free Church, Kirkurd, 1843; died
unmarr. 22nd June 1849. Publication
—
The Legend of Iona, with other Poems
(Edinburgh, 1814).—[Trotter's East Gallo-
ivay Sketches.]
THOMAS GRAY, M.A., born Nor-
thumberland ; ord. (at Aberdeen)
min. of the West Presbyterian
Church, Wooler, 6th Oct. 1835; pres. by
Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, Bart., 2nd
Sept. 1843 ; called 15th Sept., and adm.
28th Sept. 1843; res. 14th June 1865 ; died
in England 2nd Aug. 1874. He marr. 2nd
Nov. 1849, Harriet Barbara Burrell, of
Broompark, Alnwick, who died 16th May
1905, and had issue—George Burrell, born
7th Feb. 1851 ; Henry Peareth Burrell,
born 16th May 1853, died 17th May 1853.
Publication
—
On the Death of the Patriarch
Josejih (Edinburgh, 1845).
ROBERT HENDERSON, pres. by the
Rev. Sir William H. Gibson Car-
1865 michael, Bart., 20th Sept. 1865;
called 20th Oct., and ord. 10th Nov. 1865;
trans, to Old Kilpatrick 5th May 1870.
JOHN MILNE, M.A. ; pres. by the Rev.
Sir William H. Gibson Carmichael,
Bart., 29th June 1870; called 4th
August, ord. 15th Sept. 1870; trans, to
Greenside, Edinburgh, 12th Aug. 1880.
THOMAS DUNCAN MILLER, born
Perth, 13th July 1851, son of Thomas
1880 M., LL.D., rector of Perth Academy,
and Anne Buchanan, Glasgow ; educated at
1870