Reverend Mathew Selkirke

MATHEW SELKRIG [SELCRAIG, SELKIRK], 1690 M.A. (Glasgow 1662); bursar in philosophy; licentiate in 1678; was rudely assaulted for his supposed favour to the Indulgence ; called by a number of the parishioners of Crichton, Cranstoun, Ormiston, and Humbie, after toleration was granted, and ord. at Steel's Mains, by mins. within the Synod, Nov. 1687; the call being homologated 10th Aug., he was adm. 18th Sept. 1690; died 30th Nov. 1728, aged about 86. He marr. (name unknown), and had issue—Mathew, died 1698; Robert, merchant, Edinburgh; and a daugh. (marr. James Grierson, min. of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh).—[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Wodrow's Hist., Beg. Gen. Ass., S. Presb. Eloq., New Stat. Ace]

MATTHEW SELKIRK, 1690 marr. Agnes, daugh. of George Cunningham, merchant burgess, Edinburgh; his son, James, apprentice to Robert Geddes, surgeon apothecary, Edinburgh, 2nd Nov . 1709 ; his daughs .— Janet (marr. John Cleghom, min . of Wemyss); Agnes (marr. Charles Wright, portioner of Newbigging); Laurence — [Edin. Burgess Roll, 14th June 1695.]

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