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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.  712    
Surname  Youngson    
Christian Name(s)  John Forbes    
Wife 1 Surname  Mair    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Helen    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  Alexander; Helen; William; John; Margaret; James; Elizabeth; Robert; Ernest; Mary;    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Mair    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  William    
Body of text  YOUNGSON, JOHN FORBES WHITE, born Pitsligo, 6th March 1852, son of Alexander Y and Helen Chapman; educated at Pitsligo and Skene Schools, Old Grammar School, and University of Aberdeen; MA, (1873), BD (1884); ordained missionary to the Panjab December 1875; DD (Aberdeen, 1893); Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of India 1905-6; retired in 1907 but returned to India, where he served till his death 27th June 1920. Youngsonabad was named in his honour. He married 19th August 1875, Helen, daughter of William Mair, and had issue - Alexander, CE, born 3rd July 1876; Helen, born 5th June 1878 (married Dr Alexander Brown); William, engineer, born 14th May 1880; John, born 28th March 1882, wounded and reported missing in 1917 ; Margaret, born 26th February 1884 (married Dr John Clark Wilson); James, sometime minister at Nairobi, born 29th January 1887; Elizabeth (twin), born 29th January 1887, died 1918 ; Robert, in Canadian Civil Service, born 27th February 1889; Ernest, born 10th September 1891; Mary, born 29th March 1896 (married James Macgillivray, minister of Lochcarron). Publications - Haqiqi Qurbani [The True Sacrifice]; Qawaid-i- Yunani [Greek Grammar]; The Sat Gur, or Letters to the Sikhs; The History of the Churhas; Forty Years of the Panjab Mission (portrait) (Edinburgh, 1896).    
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