William Welsh

Notes

From Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox and of the Family of Knox By Charles Rogers link

Walter Welsh of Lochquareit was probably a son of William Welsh, a parishioner of Newbattle, whose name appears in the kirk-session records of that parish in 1655, and who seems to have been a son of the minister of Templekirk. Walter Welsh, son of William, named his eldest son Josias, probably after the minister of Templepatrick. As a Christian name, Josias was then in Scotland altogether rare.
If Mr Josias Welsh left several children, they were certainly unprovided for, since he died young ; and his wife's lineage being unrecorded, the belief may be hazarded that she was the reverse of opulent. She does not seem to have long survived her husband — more probably she pre- deceased him. One of her sons, we have adduced some evidence for believing, made a settlement in Ireland. Probably the future minister of Irongray was educated by friends or relatives in the west of Scotland. If William Welsh was one of the children, he may have found an early home under the roof-tree of William Knox, a probable relative of the Reformer, and who appears in Newbattle parish in 1662 as a householder and the father of a family.