Reverend Mr. John Dunlop, Minister of the Gospel at East Calder

REVEREND MR. JOHN DUNLOP

Minister of the Gospel at East Calder

The Reverend Mr. John Dunlop, here treated, is the son of the Reverend Mr. John Dunlop. Minister of the Gospel at Ratho, and his wife Elizabeth Black. The Fasti of the Church of Scotland I: p. 182

Biographical Summary from the Fasti of the Church of Scotland

JOHN DUNLOP, born 1617, son of John D., min. of Ratho ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1636) ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 24th Oct. 1639; adm. 13th Oct. 1642; died 29th May 1648. He marr. 14th Sept. 1643, Elizabeth, daugh. of Alexander Barbour, writer, Edinburgh, and had issue — John ; Alexander, apprenticed 17th Dec. 1662, to George Meyne, merchant, Edinburgh. Fasti of the Church of Scotland I: 175

His Last Will and Testament

Confirmation was granted on 19 December 1649. [National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh Commissary Court, Testament Testamentar and Inventory of John Dunlope, minister at Caldercleir, reference CC8/8/64]

Evidence from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh

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17 December 1662: Alexander Dunlop, son to Mr. John D., minister at Caldercleir, with George Meyne, merchant. Register of Edinburgh Apprentices 1583-1666: 58

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2 June 1669: Alexr. Dunlop, B. and G., mt., as p. to George Maine, mt., B. and G. (17 Dec. 1662) . Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses 1406-1700: 166

Genealogy

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae. The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. By Hew Scott, D.D. New Edition. Volume I. Synod of Lothian and Tweedale (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1915), 452 pp. including indexes