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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.


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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. 

I know this is belated but perhaps someone will find it useful.

There is an Index of Scottish Presbyterian Ministers embracing Church of Scotland, Free Church. United Presbyterian etc ministers. Look here: http://ecclegen.com/general-index-mac1-2/#MacEwen,%20James Scroll down and you will find James M’Fadyen: 1851, Catrine, and a reference where a little is said about his ministry.

I am interested on any info re Moscrip family Greenock.Religous family as have discovered two were Minister one in Glasgow other in Greenock.I have all info from IGI.  Fiona

I know this is belated but perhaps someone will find it useful.

There is an Index of Scottish Presbyterian ministers embracing Church of Scotland, Free Church etc ministers. Look here: http://ecclegen.com/general-index-m/#Morton,%20John Scroll down and you will find some Moscrips. Click the links and there is a fair bit of information about them.

Hi, does anyone have informtion about a church or cemetary in Maketerston. An ancester of mine was the minister there many many yaers ago.

thanks
Lisa
NZ

I know this is belated but perhaps someone will find it useful.

There is a web-site which has indexes of Scottish Presbyterian Ministers of various denominations and also of some of their congregations. Here is a link for Makerstoun Free Church: http://ecclegen.com/congregations-2/#_Hlk377368628

And here is one which provides a link to information on the Church of Scotland there: http://ecclegen.com/searching-by-congregations/#M.

Quote from: Fransmoi on Thursday 20 January 11 14:27 GMT (UK)

His dad was Andrew Neil Sutherland - Free Church minister who married a Christina Purves on 27 March 1883 at Maxweltown and that is as far as I can go without Free Church records.

If you are interested in going back from Andrew Neil Sutherland, there is a web-site which specialises in Free Church ministers and although it doesn't have much in this case, you might be interested in looking at it: http://ecclegen.com/ministers-s/#SUTHERLAND%20ANDREW%20NEIL