Duncan Mearns, Min. of Tarves

Biographical Summary

"Duncan Mearns, born 28th Aug. 1779, son of Alexander M., min. of Cluny ; educated at Marischal College; M.A. (1795); licen. by Presb. of Kincardine O'Neil 27th June 1799; ord. to Tarves 13th Nov. same year ; trans, and adm. to Chair 7th Dec. 1816 ; elected Moderator of General Assembly 17th May 1821 ; app. chaplain to George IV. in 1823; Murray Lecturer, 1824-5; died 2nd March 1852. He marr. 11th Aug. 1808, Elizabeth (died 16th Sept. 1830), daugh. of William Forsyth, Huntly, and had issue —

• Anne, born 29th April 1809 (marr. Robert Macpherson, D.D., her father's successor)
• Jane, born 24th Aug. 1810 (marr. 12th May 1829, Hercules Scott, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College, Aberdeen), died 9th July 1845
• Alexander, born 16th Jan. 1812
• Isobel, born 13th June 1813, died 28th April 1814
• William, D.D., min. of Kinneff, born 21st July 1814
• Isobella, born 13th Feb. 1816 (marr. William Ross, min. of Kintore)
• Marianne, born 15th Nov. 1817, died 8th June 1818
• Margaret, born 12th March 1820, died 19th Oct. 1846
• Elizabeth, born 3rd March 1822 (marr. 17th Oct. 1854, Malcolm Munro Ross, min. of Woodside and Indian chaplain)
• Marianne, born 29th March 1826 (marr. 7th Nov. 1844, John Yeats of Kincorth, advocate, Aberdeen), died 15th Nov. 1853."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 373