BISSET, Alexander Minister of Melrose, Reverend Mr ¹

  General Notes:

(at Melrose in 1665)
"ALEXANDER BTSSET, M.A. (St Andrews, 28th July 1656); licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 5th June 1661; ord. to Tynninghame 20th Nov. 1663; pres. by John, Earl of Haddington; adm. before 14th Dec. 1665; died in 1689, aged about 53. He marr. (cont. 20th Jan. and 10th Feb. 1664), Margaret, daugh. of Robert Lauder, min. of Whitekirk, and had issue Christian, bapt. 23rd Feb. 1666; Robert, bapt, 28th May 1668; Agnes, bapt. 11th June 1670; Alexander, bapt. 27th Feb. 1674; George, bapt, 10th Sept.
1676; Marion, bapt. 2nd May 1678 ; James, bapt. 29th July 1681; Giles, bapt. 8th May 1685."

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹

Alexander married Margaret LAUDER, daughter of Reverend Mr Robert LAUDER Minister of Whitekirk and Unknown, in 1664.¹ (Margaret LAUDER was born about 1640.)