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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 | Bengal  | | | Volume No. | 1 | | | Page No. | 30 | | | Surname | Williamson | | | Christian Name(s) | James | | | Wife 1 Surname | Wallace | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Agnes | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | James Gordon, Elizabeth Wallace, Mary Gordon, | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Wallace | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | Robert | | | Wife 2 Surname | Donaldson | | | Wife 2 Christian name(s) | Isabella Agnes Jane | | | Father-in-law 2 Surname | Donaldson | | | Father-in-law 2 Christian name(s) | John | | | Father-in-law remarks | D.D. Minister of St. Michael's, Dumfries. Minister of Kirkconnel | | | Body of text | JAMES WILLIAMSON, born Kirkcudbright, 26th June 1833, son of James W. and Janet Gordon; educated at Kirkcudbright Academy and Glasgow University; M.A. (25th April 1854); licensed by Presbytery of Kirkcudbright 9th June 1858; assistant at Kirkmabreck and St Michael's, Dumfries; ordained 22nd June 1859, as chaplain of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment; inducted 26th June 1879; convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Indian Churches from 1881; D.D. (Glasgow 1905). Married (1) 4th November, 1861, Agnes (died 24th March 1870), daughter of Robert Wallace, D.D. minister of St. Michael's, Dumfries, and had issue, James Gordon, M.B., Gateshead, born 28th October 1862; Elizabeth Wallace, born 31st January 1864, died 22nd November 1884: (2) 1st November, 1875, Isabella Agnes Jane, daughter of John Donaldson, minister of Kirkconnel, and has issue, Mary Gordon, MA, born 14th June, 1877, authoress of Edinburgh (Series of "Acient Cities"). | | | Note top of page | Synod Of Lothian and Tweeddale Presbytery of Edinburgh Parish Of Dean (Q.S.) |
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