BLACKBURN, Archibald Minister in St Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Reverend Mr ¹

  General Notes:

(at St Nicholas parish West Charge in 1601)
"ARCHIBALD BLACKBURN, son of Peter B., Bishop of Aberdeen, called M.A. (but his name is not found in any Univ. list); reader at Baldernock in 1588, min. there that year; trans, to Dairy, Ayrshire, in 1593; trans, and adm. in 1601; was a member of the Assembly in 1602 and one of those who constituted the Assembly at Aberdeen, 2nd July 1605, in opposition to the King's wishes, for which he was denounced by the Privy Council, 18th July, and summoned to appear before it 3rd Oct. following. Having done so, and declared that he was persuaded the said Assembly was not lawful, he was ordered to return to his charge. He was a member of the Assembly in 1610, and still min. 29th Jan. 1623. [Melvill's Autob., 561, 573; Calderwood s Hist., vi., 284.]

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹

  Research Notes:

RELATIONSHIP

Fasti Ecclesiae put forward this man as brother of the Bishop of Aberdeen, Peter Blackburn, but Archibald Blackburn's dates do not allow him to be the son of the marriage of Peter Blackburn and Isabel Johnston. He may be a natural son, a son of an earlier marriage, or a brother or half-brother of the bishop. Moreover, if he had been his son, Peter and William would have been older brothers since they were served heir, the first to his father in 1616, the second to his brother in 1619, and Archibald was alive, according to Fasti, in 1623. ¹