HAY, John elder, of Inchnock and Gayne, Minister at New Monkland, Reverend Mr ^{1 2 3 4}

   Another name for John was HAY, John of Inchnoch, Mr..⁵

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  General Notes:

(at New Monkland in 1689)
"John Hay of Inchnock and Gayne, in the parish, born 1654, eldest son of Andrew H. of Inchnock [son of John H., rector of Renfrew] and Mary Hutcheson; educated at |Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1670); adm. minister of Yester 10th Aug. 1676; dep. 29th July 1680; reponed 27th Jan. 1681; trans. to Dunlop that year; trans. and adm. about 1689; outed soon afterwards. On 3rd July 1692 the Kirk session wrote him to Inchnock, requesting the return of a baptismal basin and the Session registers. The former was restored to the church but in 1694 a process was instituted against H. before the Commissary of Hamilton for the return of the registers. He was still alive when William Hamilton of Wishaw wrote his Description of Lanark and Renfrew in 1710, but was dead before 7th Jan. 1720."

from Fasti Ecclesiae




"Hay
John
29/4/1731
of Inchnoch, parish of New Monkland
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Hamilton & Campsie Commissary Court
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John married Anne GRAHAM, daughter of John GRAHAM of Dougalston, Writer in Glasgow and Unknown.¹ (Anne GRAHAM was born about 1663.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (John Hay) marr. Anne, daughter of John Graham of Dougalston, and had issue - John of Inchnock and Gayne, served heir 7th Jan. 1720; Margaret (marr. 12th May 1728 John White, writer, Edinburgh) died 1770; Christian (marr. Andrew Stalker, bookseller, Glasgow); Rebecca (marr. John Spreull of Milton)..."

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹