JAFFREY, John Minister of Monquhitter, Reverend Mr

  General Notes:

"educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1635; adm. before 21st Oct. 1651 ; declined a presentation from Gilbert, Earl of Errol, on the establishment of Episcopacy, yet was declared min. of this parish by the Bishop and Synod 24th Oct. 1662; trans, to Kirkcudbright in 1663 (cf. Vol. III., 52). He marr. Marie, daugh. of Thomas Mitchell, min. of Turriff."

from Fasti Ecclesiae

John married Marie MITCHELL, daughter of Reverend Mr Thomas MITCHELL of Gask, Minister of Udny, Logie-Buchan, & Turriff and Barbara MELDRUM. (Marie MITCHELL was born about 1629.)