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 Church of Scotland Ministers B

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byPeter Schofield
CommentList of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India and South Asia extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae

Section  India    
Volume No.  7    
Page No.  707    
Surname  Sheriff    
Christian Name(s)  James    
Wife 1 Surname  Thompson    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Jane    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  William; Peter James; Thomas; James Grant; Mary Anne    
Body of text  SHERIFF, JAMES, born Belford, Northumberland, 1812, son of William S; educated in England; sometime a teacher at Lowick; appointed teacher at Madras in 1844; ordained missionary there 1854; transferred to Bombay in 1858; invalided home 1861; died at Ratho 10th May 1870. He married 1834, Jane Thompson, Belford, and had issue - William, MD, died at Juniper Green 18th April 1875, aged 40; Peter James, died at Edinburgh 10th November 1860 when about to be licensed as a preacher, aged 24; Thomas, MD, died at Williamstown, Australia, 21st November 1890; James Grant, died at Coquimbo, Chile, S America, 10th July 1901; Mary Anne, born 24th September 1850 (married 10th July 1888, David Lindsay), died at Edinburgh 29th June 1925.    
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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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