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 Church of Scotland Ministers A

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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  Bengal    
Volume No.  3    
Page No.  65    
Surname  Preston    
Christian Name(s)  Berry    
Wife 1 Surname  Russell    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Jessie Capie    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  Russell    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Thomas    
Father-in-law remarks  Schoolmaster Busby    
Body of text  BERRY PRESTON, born Springburn, 3rd December, 1881, son of William P and Martha Hall; certified teacher in Whifflet Public School, Coatbridge, 1906-7; educated at Univeristy of Glasgow; MA (1906), BD (1910); licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow March 1910; assistant at Stevenston April 1910 to February 1911; locum tenens Calcutta Jute Mills and Steamers Presbyterian Mission February 1911 to August 1912; assistant at Springburn 3rd April, 1913; translated and admitted 24th October, 1917. Married 7th September, 1915 Jessie Capie, MB, ChB, daughter of Thomas Russell, schoolmaster, Busby, and Janet Brockett Capie, and had issue - William Berry, born 11th July, 1916; Janet Capie, born 20th April, 1918.    
Note top of page  Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, Presbytery of Ayr, Parish of Riccarton    
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