WILSON, John Minister of Premnay, Reverend Mr 1
- Born: 1793, Clatt parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1 3
- Marriage (1): NICHOLSON, Jean on 28 February 1828 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland 1 2
- Marriage (2): EMSLIE, Mary on 6 May 1848 in Rayne parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1 2
- Died: 10 January 1878 1
General Notes:
(at Premnay in 1824)
'JOHN WILSON, born 1793, son of James W., farmer and factor, and Isobel Gordon; was trained as a farmer and began to study late in life on the recommendation of his father's laird; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1818); licen. by Presb. of Alford 27th March 1822; pres. by General Alexander Leith Hay of Rannes Dec. 1823; ord. 10th June 1824; died 10th Jan. 1878. Dr Davidson says that "he lived for more than half a century in the most old-world and decayed manse in the Presbytery, for which the heritors, glad not to be pressed to rebuild, made the easily content incumbent an annual allowance." He marr. (1) 28th Feb. 1828, Jane (died 19th Dec. 1840, aged 34), only daugh. of Peter Nicolson, provost and merchant, Elgin, and had issue Peter, born 9th Oct. 1829, died 28th Sept. 1854; James, born 5th June 1831; John, LL.D.,
rector of Banff Academy, born 27th Aug. 1834, died 16th March 1915; Alexander Hay, born 29th March 1837; Jane Anne,
born 3rd Dec. 1840 (marr. 1862, James Gammack, M.A., LL.D. (Aberdeen, 1887), Episcopal clergyman and author, served
in various charges in Scotland, Canada and U.S.A., born at Turriff 1837, died 1923), died 11th June 1914 : (2) 6th May 1848 Mary Emslie, who died 19th Sept. 1895), and had issue Mary Hannah, born 1st Nov. 1851; Marjory Margaret, born 13th Sept. 1855. [Old Aberdeenshire Ministers, 32 ; Scot. Notes and Queries, xii., 167.]'
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
John married Jean NICHOLSON, daughter of Peter NICHOLSON Merchant and Provost of Elgin, Grocer and Unknown, on 28 February 1828 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland.1 2 (Jean NICHOLSON was born about 1806 and died on 19 December 1840 1.)
John next married Mary EMSLIE on 6 May 1848 in Rayne parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 2 (Mary EMSLIE was born about 1821 in Aberdeen, Scotland 3 and died on 19 September 1895 1.)
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