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 Church of Scotland Ministers A
| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Jane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper | | Comment | List 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. | 693 | | | Surname | Edwards | | | Christian Name(s) | James | | | Wife 1 Surname | Sutherland | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Elsie | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Rose Elsie; Jessie Mitchell; Isobel Sutherland; Jean; James Sutherland; | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Sutherland | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | James | | | Wife 2 Surname | Niven | | | Wife 2 Christian name(s) | Margaret | | | Children to 2nd Wife | Alexander Niven; Margaret Main; Dorothy Agnes; Cosmo Grant Niven | | | Father-in-law 2 Surname | Niven | | | Father-in-law 2 Christian name(s) | Alexander Thomas | | | Father-in-law remarks | Alexander Thomas Niven, C.A., Edinburgh | | | Body of text | EDWARDS, JAMES, born Lossiemouth, 1Oth August 1842, son of George E and Janet Mitchell; educated at Lossiemouth School, University of Aberdeen, MA (1868), and UP Theological Hall, Edinburgh; licentiate of UP Church; admitted a licentiate of the Church of Scotland by General Assembly 27th May 1874; ordained (by Presbytery of Glasgow) 28th August that year; appointed to Bombay; transferred to Calcutta 18th July 1876; appointed missionary Professor in the General Assembly's Institution; died at Perth, 26th September 1918. He married (1) September 1874, Elsie, daughter of James Sutherland and Elspeth Watson, and had issue Rose Elsie, born 12th November 1875 (married Henry Cecil Duncan, missionary at Darjeeling); Jessie Mitchell, born 19th August 1877 (married 1904, Dr John Lyell, Perth); Isobel Sutherland, missionary at Poona, born 12th December 1880; Jean, born 31st March 1882 (married 1903 David Chisholm Simpson of North British Mercantile Insurance); James Sutherland, born 4th February 1884: (2) February 1890, Margaret, daughter of Alexander Thomas Niven, CA, Edinburgh, and Agnes Ballantine, and had issue - Alexander Niven, born 24th February 1891; Margaret Main, born 15th October 1892; Dorothy Agnes, born 6th December 1893; Cosmo Grant Niven, Political Service, India, born 13th August 1896. |
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