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 Church of Scotland Ministers A

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byJane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper
CommentList of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia, extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae

Section  Bengal    
Volume No.  1    
Page No.  30    
Surname  Williamson    
Christian Name(s)  James    
Wife 1 Surname  Wallace    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Agnes    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  James Gordon, Elizabeth Wallace, Mary Gordon,    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Wallace    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  Robert    
Wife 2 Surname  Donaldson    
Wife 2 Christian name(s)  Isabella Agnes Jane    
Father-in-law 2 Surname  Donaldson    
Father-in-law 2 Christian name(s)  John    
Father-in-law remarks  D.D. Minister of St. Michael's, Dumfries. Minister of Kirkconnel    
Body of text  JAMES WILLIAMSON, born Kirkcudbright, 26th June 1833, son of James W. and Janet Gordon; educated at Kirkcudbright Academy and Glasgow University; M.A. (25th April 1854); licensed by Presbytery of Kirkcudbright 9th June 1858; assistant at Kirkmabreck and St Michael's, Dumfries; ordained 22nd June 1859, as chaplain of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment; inducted 26th June 1879; convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Indian Churches from 1881; D.D. (Glasgow 1905). Married (1) 4th November, 1861, Agnes (died 24th March 1870), daughter of Robert Wallace, D.D. minister of St. Michael's, Dumfries, and had issue, James Gordon, M.B., Gateshead, born 28th October 1862; Elizabeth Wallace, born 31st January 1864, died 22nd November 1884: (2) 1st November, 1875, Isabella Agnes Jane, daughter of John Donaldson, minister of Kirkconnel, and has issue, Mary Gordon, MA, born 14th June, 1877, authoress of Edinburgh (Series of ""Acient Cities"").    
Note top of page  Synod Of Lothian and Tweeddale Presbytery of Edinburgh Parish Of Dean (Q.S.)    
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List of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae
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