CHALMERS, George Minister of Rhynie, Reverend Mr

  General Notes:

"GEORGE CHALMERS, born 1616, third son of George C., min. of Kinnoir and Dunbennan [Huntly]; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1632); schoolmaster of Inveraven, 1634-5; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen and had a testimonial from that Presb. 22nd April 1642; prcs. by George, Marquess of Huntly, in Aug. 1642; ord. (assistant and successor) Feb. 1643; died 3rd April 1660. He marr. in 1646, Jean Gordon of Thomastown, in Drumblade, who died at Elgin 25th July 1691, and had issue Hugh, min. of Marnoch; George, min. of Drumblade; Jean (marr. 8th July 1671, Thomas Spens of Inchstellie), died 22nd Feb. 1687; Margaret (marr. John Grant, merchant, Elgin). [Chalmers and Trail Ancestry, 31, 139; Monteith's Theatre of Mortality, 250; Moray Tests."

from Fasti Ecclesiae

George married Jean GORDON of Thomastown, in Drumblade in 1646. (Jean GORDON of Thomastown, in Drumblade was born about 1625 and died on 25 July 1691 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland.)