Reverend Mr. John Hay of Renfield, Minister of the Gospel at Renfrew

REVEREND MR. JOHN HAY OF RENFIELD

Minister of the Gospel at Mearns,1588-88; Recor of the University of Glasgow, 1594-6, 1599, 1600, 1603-22, and 1613; Minister of the Gospel at Renfrew, 1593-1627

Biographical Summary

"John Hay of Renfield, born 1566, 1593 eldest son of preceding ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1582) ; ord. to Mearns in 1588 ; trans, and adm. to this charge in 1593 ; rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1594-6, 1599, 1600, 1603-11, and 1613 ; was named by Privy Council on 12th Dec. 1605 constant Moderator of Presb., the members of which were charged to receive him as such under pain of rebellion ; died Dec. 1627. He marr.

(1) Margaret (died Oct. 1601), daugh. of Claud Hamilton of Cochno and Margaret Beaton, and had issue —

• John, min. of this parish
• Andrew of Inchnoch, M.A.
• William :

(2) cont., 6th Aug. 1602, Agnes, eldest daugh. of John Somerville of Tarbrax (she survived him, and marr. (2) Matthew Wallace of Dundonald), and had issue —

• George
• Janet (marr. cont., 6th April 1625, William Noble, younger of Ardardan)
• Jean (marr. cont., 14th Oct. 1629, James, eldest son of Matthew Wallace of Dundonald)
• Margaret."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. III, page 185