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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.  702    
Surname  Mitchell    
Christian Name(s)  James    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Margaret    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  William Kinnaird    
Wife 2 Surname  Shaw    
Wife 2 Christian name(s)  Margaret    
Body of text  MITCHELL, JAMES, born St Ninians, Stirlingshire, 1800; educated at University of Edinburgh; ordained agent of the Scottish Missionary Society August 1822, and stationed at Bankote; transferred to the Church of Scotland Mission August 1835. Joined the Free Church in 1843, and laboured in the Poona district; died on the heights of Matheran 28th March 1866, having been a missionary for forty-three years. His sphere of service was unusually difficult, but he won many converts, and the native congregation ""looked on him emphatically as a father."" He married (1) Margaret (died at Dhapuli 17th January 1832), and had issue - William Kinnaird, ordained missionary at Poona 10th August 1852 [afterwards minister of Free Church, Cluny], born 1827, died 1876 : (2) 1842, Margaret Shaw [appointed in 1841 missionary at Poona under the Ladies' Association of the Church of Scotland], and had issue. [Hunter's Hist. of Free Church Missions, 275.]    
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