MORISON, Sarahbell 3
- Baptised: 14 August 1733, Deskford parish, Banffshire, Scotland 3
- Marriage (1): GORDON, Harry Minister of Ardersier parish, Chaplain at Fort George, Reverend Mr on 21 December 1754 in Deskford parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1 2
- Marriage (2): CHALMERS, Walter Minister of Deskford parish, Reverend Mr on 13 June 1785 1
- Died: 3 January 1811 1
Other names for Sarahbell were MORISON, Sarabell 2 and MORISON, Sarabella.1
User ID: W926.
General Notes:
"MORISON
SARAHBELL
WALTER MORISON/ELIZABETH KER
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14/08/1733
151/ 10 180
Deskford"
from Births and Baptisms 3
Sarahbell married Reverend Mr Harry GORDON Minister of Ardersier parish, Chaplain at Fort George, son of Reverend Mr George GORDON Minister at Boharm, then of Alves Parish and Agnes BRODY, on 21 December 1754 in Deskford parish, Banffshire, Scotland.1 2 (Reverend Mr Harry GORDON Minister of Ardersier parish, Chaplain at Fort George was born on 3 June 1730 1 and was baptised on 8 June 1730 in Alves parish, Moray, Scotland 3 4.)
Marriage Notes:
"GORDON
HARRIE
SARABELL MORISON/
21/12/1754
151/ 20 97
Deskford"
from Index of Marriages
(at Ardersier in 1757)
"Harry Gordon, born 3rd June 1730, son of George G., min. of Alves ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Fordyce 23rd Nov. 1753 ; ord. 5th April 1757 ; died 15th March 1764. He was chaplain to the garrison at Fort-George. He marr. 21st Dec. 1754, Sarabella (she marr. (2) Walter Chalmers, min. of Deskford, died 3rd Jan. 1811), daugh. of Walter Morrison, min. of Deskford, and had issue Alexander, M.A., planter in Tobago, died, aged 26; George, M.A., barrister, London ; Abercromby, min. of Banff, born 1758; Major Pryse Lockhart, N.B. Fusiliers, author of Personal Memoirs, or Reminiscences of Men and Manners at Home and Abroad (2 vols., London, 1830), born 23rd April 1762, died 2nd Sept. 1845. [His son, George Huntly Gordon, was amanuensis to Sir Walter Scott, and a licentiate of the Church. For him Scott wrote two discourses, afterwards published as Religious Discourses by a Layman (London, 1828). [Pryse L. Gordon's Memoirs; Lockhart's Scott [Edinburgh edition], viii. 196, ix. 172-6, 181 ; Acts of Ass., 1757, 1760.]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae< 1 2
Sarahbell next married Reverend Mr Walter CHALMERS Minister of Deskford parish on 13 June 1785.1 (Reverend Mr Walter CHALMERS Minister of Deskford parish was born about 1744 1 and died on 20 December 1828.)
Marriage Notes:
(at Deskford in 1780)
"Walter Chalmers, born 1744, son of Walter C., schoolmaster of Cairney; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1758-62 ; schoolmaster of Huntly, 1762-3 ; licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie 30th April 1766; app. 15th Oct. 1766, and ord. missionary at Cairney 6th April 1768 ; removed to Portsoy in 1770; pres. to Towie by George III. 2nd Sept. 1777, but not settled ; pres. by James, Earl of Findlater, in June, and adm. 6th Sept. 1780; died 20th Dec. 1828. He marr. 13th June 1785, Sarabella (died 3rd Jan. 1811), daugh. of Walter Morison, min. of this parish, and widow of Harry Gordon, min. of Ardersier. Publications The Duty of Obedience to the Laws (London, 1793) ; The Prevalent Disregard to Religion and Virtue, the Ruin of Individuals and of Nations (Edinburgh, 1794) ; Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., xiii.)."
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
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