Reverend Mr. Robert Murray, Minister of the Gospel at Strathmiglo

REVEREND MR. ROBERT MURRAY

Minister of the Gospel at Strathmiglo in Fife

ROBERT MURRAY, sixth son of Dean Patrick M. of Woodend, son of Anthony M. of Dollary ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1606); adm. to Strathmiglo in 1610 ; trans, and adm. in 1615 ; subscribed the Protestation for the Liberties of the Kirk, with fifty-four other ministers, 27th June 1617; was a member of Assembly in 1638; is not mentioned after 1648, when he probably died. He marr. 22nd May 1616, Elizabeth, daugh. of John Melvill of Raith, and sister of John, third Lord Melville, and had issue — John, his successor in the parish; Margaret (marr. George Gillespie, min. of St Giles, Edinburgh) ; Anna (marr. Alexander Moncreiff, min. at Scoonie) ; Mary (marr. John Bonar of Greigstoun) ; Agnes ; Elizabeth (marr. John Malloch of Cardneys). Fasti IV: 222

Genealogy

Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. IV, page 222