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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  India    
Volume No.  7    
Page No.  578    
Surname  Middleton    
Christian Name(s)  William    
Wife 1 Surname  Middleton    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Jessie    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  William Robert Colvin; John Connon; Alice Mary; Charles James    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Middleton    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  James    
Father-in-law remarks  James Middleton, tallow-chandler, Aberdeen    
Body of text  MIDDLETON, WILLIAM, born Mid Strath, Birse, Aberdeenshire, 26th January 1832, son of John M, farmer, and Mary Harper; educated at Birse School, Grammar School, and Marischal College, Aberdeen; MA (1851); appointed teacher to Windlesham School, Bagshot, Surrey, 1851 ; missionary at East Parish, Aberdeen, 1855; schoolmaster at Cluny in 1856; licensed by Presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil 2nd August 1859; appointed to Roslin Chapel-of-Ease in 1860; appointed chaplain on Indian Establishment 1861; ordained (by Presbytery of Edinburgh) 9th May 1861; stationed at Bombay 1861-3, Karachi 1863-71, where he built a church; died at Hyderabad, Sind, 22nd November 1871. He married 16th July 1861, Jessie (died 20th November 1899, aged 68), daughter of James Middleton, tallow-chandler, Aberdeen, and Jessie Strachan, and had issue - William Robert Colvin, MA, MD, DPH, medical officer of health, Singapore, born 3rd August 1863, died at Bexhill 8th December 1921; John Connon, banker, British Vice-Consul at Monterey, Mexico (1893-7), born 23rd February 1865, died at New York 8th September 1918; Alice Mary, secretary, Overseas Nursing Association, London, born 1867, died 30th October 1920; Charles James, born 1868, died at Totness 1st January 1916.    
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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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