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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  Bombay    
Volume No.  2    
Page No.  142    
Surname  Colvin    
Christian Name(s)  Robert Francis    
Wife 1 Surname  Brown    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Helen    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  Alice Mary, Annie Edith, Robert Francis, Constance Helen, Marion, William    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Brown    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  James    
Body of text  ROBERT FRANCIS COLVIN, born 30th November, 1827, youngest son of Robert C, DD minister of Johnstone in Annandale; educated at University of Glasgow ; ordained to Johnstone 19th March, 1852; resigned 2nd October, 1854; chaplain at Bombay, 1854-8; admitted to Kirkpatrick Juxta 13th October, 1865; resigned 26th October, 1876; resident of Edinburgh without a charge, 1876-84; admitted to this parish 5th September, 1884; resigned 6th January, 1887; died in Edinburgh, 5th January, 1888. He married 16th September, 1859, Helen (died 26th September, 1873), second daughter of James Brown, CA, Edinburgh, and Ann M'Kerrell and had issue - Alice Mary, born 23rd August, 1860; Annie Edith, sometime missionary of the Free Church at Calcutta, born 18th December, 1862; Robert Francis, born 23rd June, 1864, died 22nd May, 1902; Constance Helen, born 29th July 1865, died unmarried 25th August, 1884; Marion, born 4th November, 1867 (married 15th April, 1891, Colonel Charles Robert Dyer, Middlesex Regiment); William, born 14th November,1868, died 12th May, 1899.    
Note top of page  Synod of Merse and Teviotdale Presbytery of Jedburgh Parish of Teviothead    
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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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