alexander_forrester – The Reformation

ALEXANDER FORRESTER

Fasti Ecclesiae
Scoticanae, H Scott (1915) vol 2 p 221 St Mungos 1631

 

Born 1611, son of Duncan F. and Margaret Ramsay; MA  (St Andrews 1631); he had been “ane conformist in Ireland, preached three quarters of a year in Edinburgh, and been two years with the armie”; was proposed for the parish of Livingston in 1646; was settled in this charge in 1650. Refusing to conform to Episcopacy in 1662, he was confined to the parish. He was apprehended for holding a conventicle. He acted as clerk to a General Meeting of Presbyterian mins. in Edinburgh, 24th May1676; was examined by the Privy Council 8th Feb. 1677; sent to the Bass 3rd Aug. 1677. Having been liberated, he died at Edinburgh, 28th May 1686. He marr. Christian, daugh. of Torquil Macneil, and had issue Alexander John, min. of Stirling; James, advocate, died 1705; William, W.S., died 1st Oct. 1701; Elizabeth; Barbara, died aged 18; Christian (marr. 12th Jan. 1693, George Murray of

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