210 FAULDHOUSE—KERSE [PRESB. OF adm. 20th June 1882; died 18th Sept. 1897. He marr. 24th Sept. 1884, Jessie Brown!ie, daugh. of Dr John Craig, Strath - aven, and had issue—Janet King, born 18th July 1885 ; Mary Hamilton, born 5th Jan. 1887 ; Annie Margaret, born 24th Sept. 1889 ; William, M.A., probationer, born 26th April 1891; John, born 23rd Nov. 1892 ; Gavin, born 20th Nov. 1896. THOMAS WATT MANDREW, born 1898 Glasgow, 29th Sept. 1864, son of Peter M'A. and Annie Picken ; educated at Glasgow schools and Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow June 1893 ; assistant in Renfrew Parish 1893-8 ; ord. 15th March 1898. Marr. 27th April 1898, Christina Mackie, daugh. of Lyon Wilson, Glasgow, and has issue — Margaret Craig Wilson, born 6th Feb. 1899 ; Peter Douglas, born 15th Jan. 1901. GRAHAMSTON (Q.S.). [Disjoined from Falkirk and erected into a parish quoad sacra by Court of Teinds, 6th Dec. 1875.] DUNCAN CAMPBELL, M.A., B.D. ; trans, from Keig, and adm. 3rd Feb. 1876; res. 29th Nov. 1880, on app- as chaplain of the Scots Church, Paris. ANDREW ROSS TAYLOR, born Aber- la81 deen, 9th July 1852, son of James Stirling T., schoolmaster, Watten, Caithness ; educated at Watten, and Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1874) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 7th May 1878 ; ord. 13th April 1881. Marr. 28th Sept. 1881, Margaret, daugh. of Alex- ander Walker, Aberdeen. GRANGEMOUTH (Q.S.). [Declared a parish quoad sacra by the General Assembly, 29th May 1837. Dis- joined from Falkirk and erected a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court of Teinds, 7th June 1880. Church built in 1866.] JAMES WILLIAM TAYLOR, ord. 7th 183g May 1839 ; trans, to Flisk 14th April 1843. 1876 1880 WILLIAM PURDIE DICKSON, served 1846 as ProDationer from 1846 till his ad- mission to Cameron 9th Sept. 1851 ; [afterwards Professor of Divinity, Univ. of Glasgow.] WILLIAM HOLDOM, born Athelstane- ford, 9th July 1816, son of Richard H. and Janet Reid ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 14th Feb. 1848 ; ord. to the Mission Station, Grangemouth, 7th Oct. 1856 ; first min. of the parish 1880 ; died 8th June 1884. Marr. 5th July 1859, Martha (died 24th May 1908), daugh. of James Marshall. GEORGE MILES THOMSON, born 1884 Clasgow, 18th June 1854, son of William T. ; educated at Glasgow, and Kingston Univ., Canada ; B.A. (1878) ; licen. 1882 ; ord. 7th April 1884 ; adm. to this charge 8th Dec. following ; died 5th Dec. 1908. Marr. 3rd April 1889, Catherine Mathie, daugh. of Alexander Macnie, writer, Glasgow, andhad issue—William Alexander Miles, born 27th July 1890 ; George Miles, born 9th July 1891 ; Camilla Macnie, born 12th Sept. 1892 ; Mary Miles, born 16th Nov. 1893; Catherine Mathie, born 4th Jan. 1895 ; John Somerville Miles, born 2nd Feb. 1896, died 18th Dec. 1896 ; Daniel Macnie, born 2nd May 1897 ; Robert Macnie, born 18th Jan. 1899 ; Oswy Miles, born 29th April 1900 ; Jean Marjorie, born 13th Sept. 1901 ; Jemima Anne Harrison, born 11th Feb. 1904. WILLIAM REID WISEMAN, M.A., 1909 B.D. ; ord. 26th April 1909; trans, to Gladsmuir 5th Feb. 1914. ALEXANDER MACPHERSON, born Aberdeen, 7th Feb. 1873 ; educated at Gordon's College and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1895), B.D. (1903) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 1903 ; assistant at Irvine, and Abbey Parish, Edinburgh ; ord. 8th May 1914. KERSE (Q.S.). [Disjoined from Falkirk and erected into a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court of Teinds, 13th July 1906. Church and halls built in 1899.]