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Minsters

JOHN McGHIE: died before 1564
1567       JOHN FINING: reader
1627       JOSEPH CLELLAND
1662       ALEXANDER ROSS, M. A. : from Dalrioch, Colmonell; deprived after a complaint to the Privy Council on 21+ February, 1663; later accused of holding conventicles and baptizing in private.

1666       JOHN SOMERVILLE, M. A. : to Glasserton, 1667
1667       JAMES LEIPER, M. A. : to Roberton, 1682
1689       ALEXANDER JAPHRAY: from Wigtown Grammar School; outed in died before 31 July, 1712, St. Ninian’s, Stirling.
1689       ALEXANDER GORDON, M.A.: from Rathfriland, Ireland; to Sorbie
1693       PATRICK DUNLOP: preacher from Ireland; returned to Ireland to die.
1701       HUGH DUNLOP: licensed 1700; ordained 1701; died, Edinburgh, 1705.    
1706       JAMES MURDOCH
1719       JAMES McCLELLAN, M.A.
1744       ROBERT HUNTER: chaplain to John McDowall, Logan.                                                     
1783       JOHN DICKSON: born 1748, third son of Adam Dickson of Kiladam in the parish; wrote for Old Statistical Account .                                                                
1799       ANTHONY STEWART, M. 9. : mother a Dickson of Kiladam; wrote for New Statistical Account
1844       JOHN THOMSON: son of a Stranraer merchant
1849       JAMES CHARLES: minister of St. Andrews Church, Calcutta, 1832—1847. Died 26 November, 1882
1883       BENJAMIN DENOON
1886       ANDREW FALLAS MITCHELL
1905       JOHN MUIR, M.A., B.D.: to High Kirk, Paisley, 1910
1910       JOSEPH LOGAN AYRE: from County Antrim
1916       HUGH THOMAS SUTHERLAND MORRISON, M. A. , B.D.
1926       LEWIS HERBERT WATSON
1929       GAVIN WARNOCK
1932       JOHN WELSH
1937       HUGH TOLLAND


1971       R.L. JOHNSTONE
1977       QUINTON FINDLAY          
1982       P. L. MAJCHER: left to become Army Chaplain,