BELL, James Minister of Kirkcolm parish, Reverend Mr ^{1 2}

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James married Helen GARTSHORE, daughter of John GARTSHORE of that Ilk and Barbara STARK.¹ (Helen GARTSHORE was born about 1619 and died before 1 September 1673 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

The 1673 testament and inventory of Barbara Star, wife of the late John Gartshore of that Ilk and mother of John Gartshore of that Ilk, refers to a daughter of the couple as "umq^ll Helen Gartshore" and to Helen's husband as "Mr James Bell min^r att Kirkcumb". ¹

James next married Mary KENNEDY.² (Mary KENNEDY was born about 1645.)

  Marriage Notes:

(at Kirkcolm in 1643)

"JAMES BELL, M.A. (Glasgow 1637); chaplain of Colonel Campbell s Regi ment ; pres. by Alexander, Earl of Galloway, Oct. 1643; adm. 3rd Jan. 1644. He refused to conform to Episcopacy, and was deprived, 24th Nov. 1663. He de clined the parish of Ardrossan under indulgence in 1672, and went to live in Glasgow. In 1684 he was residing in Stranraer, and in 1689 he returned to this parish. [Wodrow's Hist., i., 327.]"

(Three ministers were incumbent between these two stays by James Bell)

(at Kirkcolm in 1689)

"JAMES BELL, M.A. ; above noticed; returned before 29th Oct. 1689 ; was restored by Act of Parliament 25th April 1690 ; died 30th July 1698, aged 80. He marr. Mary Kennedy, who marr. 2ndly, 9th July 1699, Captain John M Culloch. [Edin. Reg. (Marr,); Rule s /Sec. Vindication.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae ²