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Scotland / Re: Presbyterian Ministers
« on: Tuesday 05 March 19 11:13 GMT (UK) »
Do you know for certain that he was ordained in Scotland rather than in Ireland? I don't know anything about the Presbyterian churches in Ireland but in Scotland most of them seem to have published lists - often called "Fasti" - a bit of Latin meaning list. At the time you mention, if he was in Scotland he might have been a minister of the Church of Scotland, of the Relief Church, of the Associate Presbyterian or possibly the Cameronians or Reformed Presbyterian Church. The information about the Relief Church and the Associate Presbyterian church is held in a large 2 volume set called The History of the United Presbyterian Church (these 2 churches came together to form the UP Church.
I know that published information about the ministers of these churches is available in the Edinburgh Central Library and I would normally offer to check for you but I am unlikely to be going there within the next few weeks.
Regards
Jessden
I know that this is a long time after the original post, but there is a resource for researching Scottish Presbyterian ministers that has recently become available.
There is a website ecclegen.com which gives information about Free Church ministers, 1843-1900, but which also contains an index with the names of Presbyterian ministers of all denominations – Church of Scotland, Seceders, Free Church, Reformed Presbyterian – with links to digital resouces containing basic biographical information. For example, the John Millar that these posts are all about is actually recorded as John Miller and there are 4 references to him in two different books. OK, these don’t add anything much to what is now known about him. The point I’m making is that such information is readily available now in the General Index of Scottish Presbyterian Ministers at http://ecclegen.com/general-index-general-index/
I thought this might be of interest to people interested in researching in Scottish ministers' lists.