SLATER, Margaret 2
- Born: About 1798
- Marriage (1): QUIGLEY, William on 9 February 1821 in Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland 1
- Died: Between July and September 1840, Liverpool, England 3
Other names for Margaret were QUIGLEY, Margaret 4 and SLATER, Margt.5
Margaret married William QUIGLEY, son of William QUIGLY Sawyer and Mary McVAE, on 9 February 1821 in Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.1 (William QUIGLEY was born about 1798 in Scotland 6.)
Marriage Notes:
Old Parish Register
Kells Parish Kirkcudbrightshire
Marriages
"1821
Feby 9
John Edgar in parish of Dalton was married at New Galloway by Mr Gillespie to Janet McCaw of that place
Same day & place Wm Tweedlie an Irishman was married to Margt Slater also from the same country"
Note: The above reference cannot necessarily be taken to mean that William was actually born in Ireland, although he may have been. Other sources note his place of birth as Scotland. The form of the reference suggests that he certainly came from an Irish family background. The period of the 1790s when he was born was a time of great displacement of Irish people, many of whom crossed for refuge to Scotland. In this context 'Irishman' would have been a general descriptive term but not necessarily a comment on his actual place of birth, though it would suggest other members of his family were Irish born.
MR GILLESPIE
"GILLESPIE, WILLIAM (1776-1825), poet, was the eldest son of the Rev. John Gillespie (1730-1806), minister of Kells in Galloway. He was baptised 18 Feb. 1776. He attended the parish school, and also received private instruction from the schoolmaster, who lived in the manse. In 1792 he entered Edinburgh University,where he studied theology and also, as a secondary subject, medicine. From early years he had been devoted to painting, poetry, and music...At the end of his university course he was licensed as preacher by the presbytery of Kirkcudbright (1 Aug. 1798), and on 7 Aug. 1800 was ordained assistant and successor to his father. On 29 April 1806 his father died, after having been minister of Kells for forty-two years, and he became sole minister. In 1820 he was chaplain to the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright yeomanry cavalry...On 26 July 1825 he married Charlotte Hoggan; but while on his wedding tour he was attacked by erysipelas, and died on 15 Oct. in the fiftieth year of his age. He was long remembered "in his parish for the refinement of his tastes, his hospitality, and his kindness to students."
from the Dictionary of National Biography
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