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386 FENCAITLAND [PRESB. OF 1st Oct. of tbc same year. He was admitted as an " indulged minister " to this parish 2nd Sept. 1669, and died (buried 6th) Feb. 1674. "No man," it was said, " contributed more to the Restoration, and received less benefit from it." He marr. (1) Margaret Kirkaldy, and had issue —James, of Earnslaw {Fife Sets., xii., 289) ; Thomas, who died before 1667, when Alex- ander is called second son (G. R. Inhib., 12th March 1680); Janet ; Alexander, min. of Logie ; Patrick, bapt. 28th Jan. 1642 (marr. Margaret Lothian), died before 1673 (G. R. Inhib., 26th Jan. 1674): Elizabeth, bapt. 3rd Jan. 1643; Archi- bald, bapt. 8th Jan. 1644; Robert: (2) 20th Aug. 1646, Margaret Boyd, who sur- vived him, and was buried 13th July 1692, and had issue—Eobert; Margaret, bapt. 18th July 1658. Publications — The Diary of Mr Robert Douglas when with the Scottish Army in England (1644); The Sermon preached at Scone, January the first, 1651, at the Coronation of Charles II. (1651); Master Douglas, his Sermon preached at the Down Sitting of the last Parliament of Scotland (1661).— [Kirk- ton's, Burnet's, and Wodrow's Hists. ; Law's Memorials, Guthrey's Memoirs; Notes and Queries (1st series), iv., 299, (2nd series), vi., 50-1 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.] JAMESCOCKBURN, trans, fromAbbey St Bathans; coll. after 21st May 1674 1674 . dem> after 21st Aug> 1684 . died April 1687.—[Fountainhall's Diary, and Dec, i.] WILLIAM DENUNE,born 1656, second son of Norman D., representative of 1685 the family of Catbole; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; MA. (1675) ; ord. to Second Charge, Haddington, 1683; pres. by Robert, Viscount Oxenfoord, and trans, and inst. 9th March 1685; died 27th Jan. 1704. He marr. Jan. 1688, Isabella, daugh. of Dr George Hepburn of Monk- rigg, and had issue—George ; John ; Helen ; William ; Christian ; Isobel ; Marianne (marr. 1706, Sir John Bruce Hope, Bart.).— [Tombst. ; MS. Ace. ofMin., 1689 ; Archceul. Scot., i. ; Douglas's Baronage, p. 453 ; Rule's Sec. Vindication.'] 1705 MATTHEW S1MSON, born 7th March 1673, third son of Patrick S., min. of Renfrew ; studied at the Univ. of Glasgow ; called 25th June, and ord. 10th Sept. 1705; died 20th May 1756. He marr. (1) 23rd Oct. 1707, Katherine, daugh. of Robert Wallwood, merchant: (2) 12th April 1710, Alison (died 24th Feb. 1736, aged 50), daugh. of Andrew Drummond of Megginch, and had issue—Alison, died aged 26 ; Katherine, died aged 20 ; Patrick, min. of Fala and Clunie ; Adam ; Helen (marr. David Plenderleath, min. of Dal- keith) ; Janet (who, in a year of great scarcity, 1740, superintended the spinning set on foot by the Kirk-session for employ- ing the poor, and received "the cordial thanks of the Kirk-session for the great attention and trouble she had been at in her philanthropic exertions ") ; James ; Colin, surgeon, perished in the Black Hole of Calcutta, 1756.— [Tombst., Wodrow's Anal., Carlyle's Autob., Edin. Mar. Reg.] GEORGEANDERSON, chaplain in the family of Inveraray ; licen. by Presb. of Perth 25th Dec. 1743; ord. to Tulliallan 7th April 1745 ; pres. by Alex- ander Hamilton of Pencaitland ; trans, and adm. 7th June 1757 ; died 4th June 1793, in 73rd year. He marr. 26th Dec. 1746, Margaret Williamson, Torryburn, who died 1st April 1802.—[Tombst., Sinclair's Stat. Ace] DAVID PYPER, born Nairn, 6th April 7 1760, son of John P. and Marjory Bremner ; master of the Charity Workhouse, St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, 1786; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th April 1788 ; ord. by the Presbyterian Classis at Newcastle 23rd June 1790; min. of a congregation at Alnwick; pres. by Mrs Mary Hamilton of Belhaven, and adm. 12th Dec. 1793 ; died 23rd Dec. 1813. He marr. 9th Sept. 1790, Elizabeth (died 28th June 1812), daugh. of William Berry, and had issue—Elizabeth, born 20th Nov. 1794, died 1821 ; Hamilton, advocate, Edinburgh, born 9th Feb. 1796, died 8th March 1868 ; Agnes (marr. Robert Dryborough Menzies), died 30th April 1828 ; Christiana,born 24th May 1798, died 15th Sept. 1805 ; Jemima, 1757

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