Chronicles of Strathearn Part 20

1741-1762--JOHN M'CLEISH, 12th March.

1763-1765--ALEX. COLVILL, tr. to Ormiston.

1766-1798--DAVID KEMP, A.M., died 22nd February.

1798-1802--PATRICK M'ISAAC, tr. to Comrie.

1803-1815--CHARLES ANDERSON, tr. to Closeburn.

1815-1822--ROBERT JOHN ROBERTSON, tr. to Forteviot. Father of Right Hon. J. P. B. Robertson, Lord President of Court of Session.

1823-1852--THOMAS YOUNG, died 5th September.

1853-????--JAMES MARTIN.

GLENDEVON

1588-1589--ADAM MARSCh.e.l.l. Deposed 26th August as "ignorant of the Holy Scriptures and without knowledge of the grounds of religion."

1591-1640--ANDREW KIRK, A.M.

1639-1652--ANDREW KIRK, junr., A.M., died in November. Son of previous minister.

1655-1660--JAMES GRAHAME.

1660-1663--MUNGO WEMYSS, A.M., tr. to Aberdalgie.

1664-1679--WILLIAM SPENCE, A.M., deposed by Bishop and Synod for "disowning the present Government." (See pp. 107-108, 195-207.)

1680-1681--ROBERT STIRLING, A.M. Probably resigned on account of Test.

1682-1688--THOMAS HALL, A.M., tr. to St. Madoes.

1688-1689--ALEX. MELDRUM. Ousted at Revolution.

1690-1691--WM. SPENCE, A.M., tr. to Fossoway. Old minister returned.

1694-1709--GILBERT MELVILLE. Resigned on account of indisposition, and also of the improbability of his having any success by his ministry among that people though he were in health.

1710-1718--ALEX. TURCAN, A.M., tr. to Fowlis-Wester.

1720-1751--DAVID STEVENSON, died 6th February.

1751-1756--JAMES REID, A.M., tr. to Trinity-Gask.

1757-1759--DAVID M'GIBBON, A.M., tr. to Buchanan.

1760-1764--JOHN ANDERSON. Deposed 18th October for brawling, immoderate anger, drunkenness, and indecent behaviour. By one vote of the a.s.sembly, 1765, sentence affirmed as against suspension. Died in Stirling in 1794.

1765-1775--Parish vacant. Patrick Crichton was presented, but Presbytery found there was no call. A new call in 1769 was signed neither by heritor, elder, or head of family. Presbytery were ordered by a.s.sembly to proceed with settlement, but ultimately Mr Crichton gave up the presentation.

1775-1789--ROBERT MATHIE, died 29th March.

1790-1838--JOHN BROWN, died 16th November. Was for many years Clerk of Presbytery, and also Clerk to Synod of Perth and Stirling.

1839-1881--JOHN CUNNINGHAM, died 31st March. In his earlier days Mr Cunningham was celebrated as a tent preacher.

1881-????--EBENEZER BROWN SPEIRS, B.D. Translator of Hegel's "Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: together with a work on the Proofs of the Existence of G.o.d."

MADDERTY

1595-????--ROBERT SINCLAIR, A.M.

1620-1657--JOHN FREEBAIRN, A.M.

1659-1682--JAMES GRAHAME, A.M.

1681-1689--JAMES GRAHAME, jun., A.M. Ousted at Revolution. Son of previous minister. Requested by Kirk-Session in 1707 to give up Communion cups and tokens.

1701-1736--ANDREW BRUGH, A.M., died 14th July.

1736-1741--Parish vacant. Mr George Blaikie was presented, but had his license taken from him by the Synod for "misrepresenting and impugning the principles of the Church anent Patronage." Reponed by a.s.sembly in 1738. Lord Dupplin was asked to waive his right of presentation "for the relief of the church in this strait," but refused. Ultimately Mr Blaikie got an appointment in America, and the difficulty was solved.

1741-1783--ANDREW RAMSAY, died 19th October.

1784-1816--JAMES RAMSAY, died 3rd October. Son of previous minister.

Discovered pit of marl in his glebe; was interdicted by the heritors from working it, but received authority to do so from Court of Session.

Constructed also a machine for raising sit-fast stones from the ground.

1817-1829--JOHN EDWARD TOUCH, tr. to Kinnoull.

1830-1890--WILLIAM STODDART, D.D., died 2nd December. Lived to the great age of 97: and preached until within a few weeks of his death.

1891-????--JAMES BROWN, M.A.

MONZIE

1593-????--JOHN CLERK, A.M., tr. to Auchterarder.

1595-1601--PATRICK M'QUEINE. Deprived. "Sustained great trouble from certain broken men and evil-disposed persons who burnt and destroyed his house, gave him divers and sundry b.l.o.o.d.y wounds to the great effusion of his blood, and leaving him for dead, so that he is now altogether unable to use his ordinary calling of the ministry within the kirk."

1599-????--JOHN CLERK, A.M.